Awareness

I know this is off topic, but it is important. Today is World AIDS day. To learn more about the current stats on HIV/AIDS and World AIDS day, click here. Every 12 seconds someone contracts HIV. Every 16 seconds someone dies from AIDS. In the United States, there are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV. Education and prevention can help end the pandemic.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I've been on break and away from paper crafting! I had to re-prioritize. I had a chance to work on the Glue, Scissors, Paper challenge while I was travelling last week (alone board in the hotel room). I was in Boston for a conference and visited the cutest paper store while I was there--The Paper Source. I had to control myself. They have the CUTEST paper! Luckily we have one here in Atlanta, so I will be paying them a visit soon...

Anyway, here are a card and layout based on the same sketch. This is the challenge for this week at the GSP blog. Remember, if you enter the challenges this month you get entered into a drawing for the HSN exclusive Holiday/Winter Cuttlebug folders!

Win the new Cuttlebug Folders

Have you seen the new HSN exclusive holiday Cuttlebug folders? They are fabulous. There are a total of six. Three are the regular A2 size and three are bigger -- 5x7!! Glue, Scissors, Paper is doing a giveaway and you could win all SIX of the folders. Go check it out here. Good luck!

Design Team Call

As you already know, I'm on the Glue, Scissors, Paper design team. I love working with our team because the ladies are so super talented and constantly push me to keep up with their creativity and further develop my own. It's been a wonderful experience so far. I appreciate their honest feedback, generousity and friendship. That being said, we're looking to add two lucky papercrafters to our team. The details of the design team call are on the Glue, Scissors, Paper blog (here). Please go check it out. The deadline to apply is December 13th. Good luck!!

Nestabilities

This week's challenge on the Glue, Scissors, Paper blog is to create a Thanksgiving day card using Nestabilities die cuts or Stampin' Up!'s Top Note die cut or a similar cut from a Cricut cartridge. I tried Nestabilities for the first time and it was truly a challenge! The card I made has a base that I created by weaving pattered paper with the cardstock. The sentiment is stamped on a rectangle that I cut using the Nestabilities scalloped rectangle die cut. Hop on over to GSP's blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with.

Happy Halloween - 12 Tags!

If you haven't guessed already, I'm a Tim Holtz fan. His Halloween tags and 12 Tags of Christmas inspired me to create 12 Tags of Halloween using some wonderful paper from the Spider's Web line from My Mind's Eye, Ranger distress ink, Stickles, grunge board, fragments and Crackle Paint. Please check out the other wonderful projects made with My Mind's Eye paper at the Glue, Scissors, Paper challenge blog! Happy Halloween!

An Early Winter

This week's challenge on the Glue, Scissors, Paper blog is to create a layout, card or altered item with a winter wonderland theme. What's more fun in the snowy winter than making a snowman? But, you have to have snow right? So, let it snow! Here is a wooden plaque I bought at the dollar store that I altered with a let it snow them. I used Graphic 45's Christmas Past paper and the Cricut's A Child's Year, Accent Essentials and Home Decor cartridges.