♥ oa color challenge ♥

i'm sorry for the late post today, i received the dreaded school phone calls saying that my youngest "my crash" had tripped going down the stairs on the jungle gym playground and hit his head on the metal arm rail.  his eyes weren't dilating properly, he had a headache and the nurse wasn't real comfortable taking no actions since his eyes weren't dilating correctly.  i came, picked him up and away to the ER we went.  thank God he doesn't have a concussion (went through my first one of those with my daughter last year) and his eyes are starting to return to normal.  my little guy, he can make me swallow hard, real hard, just putting his arms around me, giving me a big kiss on the cheek and saying "i'm ok mama"....yep, almost lost it then.  we had lunch and it was the best cheeseburger he ever ate (so i believe)

today i was up with Mou on the OA blog.  she challenged us with a color challenge today and it was so inspiring and fun

 

Image from Design Seeds via Pinterest 

isn't that amazing?  love it, every last sprinkle of it.

i decided to create a card using the Woodland Park line, i love the colors and design of this line and was really excited to see what i could come up with using it.

i love all the chip and stick elements, the stickers, the patterns, the colors, it makes me truly happy

i hope you'll stop by the blog and see the adorable card that she created for this challenge

also, today was my last post for My Scrapbook Nook.  as you may have read, the 'Nook will be closing it's doors at the end of September.  pam and leah are ready for new adventures in their lives, adventures they have prayed over and prepared for during the last few months, and they will be retiring.  it is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to our "home away from home".  

so i decided to make my last monday CARDS challenge a sketchy one.  there are papers and elements in this kit that would work so well with the sketch and i hope it inspires all of you.

and here is my card using the August kit

 

i hope you'll stop by the 'Nook forum and see the other gorgeous cards the dt created

also!

we had our 2nd anniversay birthday blog hop over at Scraptastic Kit Club this weekend and what amazing comments, thank you ALL so much, i am honored and so humbled, thank you.

my winner of the washi tape is.......

 

#34 who is

beckyjuneAugust 25, 2012 9:50 AM

Danni, your cards are so gorgeous, as always! You work magic with paper every.single.time. I'd love to win some of that cute washi!

HUGE congratulations!!   please pm me your snail mail becky so i can get the info over to jessica, and she can send your washi tape out to you. 

thank you ALL for your sweet comments and your friendship, it means the world to me.

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥ sketchy stamping with oa ♥

Good morning.  Today is my day to post over at the OA Blog 

and today I shared a new card sketch.

I wanted to create a sketch that could be versatile for so many cards.  I chose to rotate my sketch 90* and cut my background paper into three blocks.

hi there card

I decided to create my own pattern paper using the new Woodland Park background stamp set.  I stamped some cardstock and then cut it into pieces for my background piece.  I then decided to play with that cute bicycle sticker for my focal and thought-bubble sticker for my sentiment.

I hope you will join me and create with the sketch, how fun.  Please post comments here on my blog so I can visit you and be inspired by your interpretation. 

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥ confetti pocket tutorial ♥

Hi!  Today is my day to post over on the OA Blog and it happens to be Tuesday which means....a tutorial!  I have shared a tutorial, and hopefully answered some of the questions I've received, about how to create the confetti pockets in some of my recent projects.

 

Here are some recent projects with the confetti pockets

birthday gift card/cash holders created with OA Cakewalk Here & Now pages and embellishments

  confetti pocket gift tag created with the new OA Midway line for CHA

confetti pockets from my recent Woodlank Park mini album

The pockets are really fun and you can fill them with anything you'd like for any kind of project.  I hope you'll stop by the OA Blog to see the tutorial and post your pockets.

happy creating♥

danni

♥ just sharing ♥

some cards created with OA Woodland Park today.  i needed a couple of cards and wanted to play with some more of the gorgeous Woodland Park.

i have been playing with flat-mailable designs this week, specifically for sending the cards through the mail, while still having the "handmade pop"

may wonderful things card

  and here you can see how "flat and mailable" this card is

 

and here is another flat-mailable card

unforgettable moment in time card

and then i decided to "play" with the peacock stamp in the Woodland Park line.  i thought it would be fun to die-cut some "stamps" from the various patterned papers



 paper stamps card






 i chose to add buttons to this card because i was hand-delivering it but you could certainly leave as-is so it, too, would be flat/mailable.

i hope you have a beautiful, blessed day.

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥ oa woodland park blog hop ♥

 welcome to the October Afternoon Woodland Park Blog Hop

the OA Woodland Park line is filled with fun papers and embellies for any-day scrapping or outdoor fun.  i love the gorgeous patterns and colors in the line and the "B" sides are just as gorgeous too.  The OA Woodland Park line has twelve double-sided pp, 8 x 8 pp pad, printed chip shapes, 12 x 12 shape stickers, printed chip shape (banner), word stickers, miscellany, label stickers, mini market stickers, 12 x 12 alpha stickers, sticky keys, journal cards, flower sacks, little flyers, tin pins, buttons, decorative brads, tid bits, here and now album & chapter pages, doo dads, sprinklers, washi tape, wrap pack and stamps.

 if you have stumbled upon the DT hop through my blog, you can start the hop on the OA Blog

October Afternoon Blog

Lexi
Danni   (you are here)
Jill
Amy
Wilna

make sure to leave comments on each of the blogs as the dt will be giving away prizes on their blogs.  and ONE GRAND PRIZE winner will be receiving an ENTIRE Woodland Park KIT..........looooove♥

 

as part of the hop, i will be giving away a set of OA Woodland Park Brads  pictured below.  to be eligible to win this set of brads, leave a comment on  this post.  Comments will be left open until Monday, July 16th.

the next step on the hop is the incredibly talented Jill


 

for my project today, i chose to create a mini album using the new Here and Now pages

 woodland park "play" album

i cut the butterflies straight from the pp

 

 you're gonna love these brads, they're absolutely beautiful

 

i wanted to stitch the word "play" negative on the front of the cover, so i traced, lightly, with pencil onto the page, then stitched the tracing, erased the pencil and added some dimension to the word.

 

and here are some of the inside pages of my album

page 1

  i love, love the stickers in this line, they are happy and for everyday life.  love the bike and that flower scallop trim sticker.....swoooon

 

 page 2

 

 i LOVE these bunnies

page 3

 washi tape

 and tidbits

page 4

 cute turtles too?

 

page 5

 it's fun to stitch a clear pocket over the journal tags and fill them with fun confetti of all kinds.  i also cut one of the journal tags in half and adhered the pieces to both sides of my picture.

 

 page 6

 the journal cards make fun picture mats too for the album-sized pics

 i love this pre-printed banner here and now page, was so fun to embellish

so IF you want a chance to win this collection, make sure to stop by the OA BLOG and leave a comment.

thank you so much for visiting me today and for your incredible notes♥

so much love to you!!

danni

• let's get sketchy with OA •

if you are looking for the 9 to 5 hop, please scroll down to previous post.

good morning everyone.  today is Sketchy Thursdays on the OA Blog.  I created a sketch I hope will inspire layouts and cards alike.


sketch by danni

although i created a lo sketch, i decided to create cards and demonstrate how easily you can scale down a lo sketch to fit a card scale.  successfully interpreting a layout sketch into a card usually lies in the scaling of the sketch. scaling it down to a card scale generally means omitting or layering elements.  for this sketch, the focal is the argyle background element, so i decided to make that the focal of all my cards and play with the various layering interpretations of it.

hello card
(click pics to enlarge)



i rotated my argyle element on this card and layered the elements in the center instead of above the argyle.  i stitched through the centers of the argyle elements as you generally find with argyle patterns.






on my second card, i decided to rotate the argyle elements vertically so as to create a taller card



best friends card

 i layered the argyle pattern once again instead of above it to scale for the card size

(see the chipboard corners?  do you ever have some of those leftover or don't like to use them on lo?  these are really fun on the argyle pattern)




 i stitched through the centers once again





and to show you how easily you could use circle elements, like the ones that come in the 9 to 5 line,
i created another secretary appreciation card for hubby to give to another of his secretaries.


what would i do without you? 




exchanging the argyle for circles, i stitched through the centers and then layered the elements in the corner

(love the 9 to 5) paper label too ;)

 and joining me in this challenge today is Becky.  to see her amazing layout and cuuuuute puppy, hop over to the OA BLOG to see it.

if you were inspired to give the sketch, argyle element or circle element backgrounds a shot, please link us up, we'd love to be inspired.

thank you for visiting me today.

hugs & love♥
danni