Bear Christmas

ok last one, this is for my DD. I had a heck of time figure what to do for her, so tonight I asked her if she could meet anyone in the world who would it be? She sid Bear in the big blue house. Why didnt I ask her sooner lol. Id share the cut file for this but its AWFUL!!!! didnt cut nice at all, so I wont bother.

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xoxo

Brandilynn

and a Merry Christmas to ALL!!!

Frosty Christmas

XOXO
Brandilynn

Sonic christmas

For my DS needed to mix things up a little we have been stuck on spiderman for 4yrs, he gave a small show of liking for sonic so I ran with it :) you can get my sonic file free HERE it doesnt include the wreath thought it would be more useful for others with out it ENJOY!!!

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xoxo
Brandilynn

Precious Christmas

Here is the card I made today, this for dakotas kindergarden teacher, I tried to come up with something teachery but I got NOTHING, time is running out school is out on friday and lots of things happening before then so this is what she gets. I really like how it turned out tho :D

Hope Ya'll are staying warm....I am not lol

Oh and I almost forgot if you would like this file to cut with SCAL you can find it HERE

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xoxo

Brandilynn

Hope your Christmas Rocks!!!

I donteven know how to explain this one just know I needed this for someone lol. I designed the skeleton/candy canes with??? you guessed it scal. It was looking a lil plain so I cut the background paper up added eyelets and tied it up with leather I had in my stash, I thought it suited the goth style to this card :D Its had to tell from the pic but the background is embossed with fiskar snowflakes template and then scored several times.

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Hot Dog!!!!

 WOW I made a girl layout with "boy" embellishments, but I love it!!!!
This layout of my daughter eating a 24 inch hotdog at a famous beach side hamburg stand a few years ago. My daughter is a big eater (and yet so tiny) so when I saw this on the menu and the scrapbooker that I am I had to order it for her just for the pictures. Shes loves hotdogs wish I caught a pic of her when she saw this baby lol. No she didnt eatthe WHOLE thing, gosh things we do to get THAT picture huh? lol
I just love how Pluto is  "looking at the pics" he is done in SCAL. PLUTO <---free file for you ENJOY!!!

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XOXO
Brandilynn

Single Mom Christmas

ok so those that know me, know I had fun with this one......I found this sil online but it had a dad and another child, welp this card is for a sngle mom of two and I wanted it personal so I went to work my magic eraser and deleted the dad HAHAHAHA!!!! and cropped out the other child :( Sorry!!!

I love it I can so relate :)

Holidays are hard on the single moms whose families dont often feel complete, please give em a hug :D

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Girls Christmas 2

Todays card is for the hannah montanna lovers out there. Card base is embossed with fiskars snowflakes, Hannah is designed by me with SCAL free for you HERE

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xoxo

Brandilynn

Girls Christmas

Here is a christmas card I made for a lil girl....the ballet slippers spin :) I love it, the tag reads : its the most wonderful time of the year.

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xoxo
Brandilynn

ELF Christmas

Heres the LO I have been working on today and last night, simple enough so why did it take so long???? Well I started only known I wanted to use these elves didnt even have pic in mind to use. I wish I could take better pics of my work cause this looks so much better than it appears here :( No title no journalling what the heck??? I am just letting the pics and embellishments tell the story on this one.

cardstock is ctmh splattered with acrylic paint

Elves are my own SCAL creations

Tag is scal with a digi stamp

patterned paper is ???? folded repeated for that crimped look

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Practical Scrappers Sewing

This weeks challenge over at practical scrappers was to use stitching on our project.I dont have a sewing machine yet aaahhhheeeemmmm santa ;) so I choose to keep my stitching to the bare min and only use it to break up the white space of this Layout. This was my babes on valentines day 2006, they are much bigger and louder now aww the sweet memories :)

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xoxo

brandilynn

Pigtail Twins

Here a LO I did for  Design Dollies both their element challenge and their sketch challenge all wrapped up into one.
 At christmas 2 years ago I found a cabbage patch doll that looked like my dd they even had the same outfit so of course I had to get it for her. She was so cute walking around with her matching cabbage patch doll in their matching outfits.

I designed the cabbage patch doll with SCAL and I am offering it to you. If you own scal and would like this cut downloaded it here : Brandilynn's Cabbage Patch Kid for free!!!!
Font is a free font called Love letters, it cuts beautifully with SCAL
Various papers used
"pearls" for Prima centers adhered with elemers 3d pearl paints

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XOXO
Brandilynn

Blue Holiday

For the life of me last night I could not sleep because I had the design for this card on my mind. It took a little longer to come together than I thought, but I am very happy with the results.

I used SCAL the snowflake is actually a negative in the top layer of this card, digital stamp for the sentiment.

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Warm wishes for the coming holiday to you and yours

Brandilynn

Design Dollies

I created this card for the sketch challenge over at design dollies. I am so LOVING the bingo cards I see on layouts and cards, the new "in thing" or I have been under a rock and its just new to me, could be that too.

This card is acrylic although one could hardly tell seeing as it is mostly covered.
The bingo card and sentiment are computer generated or digital stamping whatever you prefer to call it.
Everything else is from my stash.
I am pretty sure the stickled snowflake has to go I am just not feeling it.

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xoxo
brandilynn

Practical Scrappers - Core Cardstock

This week at Practical Scrappers we were asked to use up that core cardstock. Everyone can up with brilliant ideas on how to use this paper, I choose to emboss my ctmh cardstock with a fiskar texture plate then to sand it so the snowflakes really pop. I used SCAL and bazzil cardstock for the reindeer, his bow is dollar store find ribbon, stamp studio g and skittles that were inked to match for a lil something extra.

Thanks for visiting, Please stop by practical scrappers to see the other DT members creations this week.

XOXO

Brandilynn

Stamptacular SPOOKtacular Challenge/ Spook Fest

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where has my mojo been hidding? I have been on a roll & lovin' it!!!!!! This is my entry to the SPOOKtacular challenge over at http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/ This week we were asked to make something spooky didnt matter what just as long as it was spooky and had stamping somewhere on it, so vola!!!!!!!!!!! This my 1st entry @ stamptacular I just found out about them looks like a great challenge blog for those of us who have been looking for our mojo & everyone else too :D

This ALSO my entry for cute card thursday another challenge blog I stumbled across http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ come out and play everyone.

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XOXO
Brandilynn

Puppy Christmas

So its that time of year again to start our christmas cards, here is my first and I dont really know if I could beat it, isnt that puppy just sooooooooooooo cute!!!! Yeah I thought so too, so I had to make him into a shaped card for Xmas. Once again all the magic of SCAL.

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XOXO
Brandilynn

soccer bday

Apple for Teacher

Wow did this one ever come together quickly...... so not like me. I created this apple shaped card last min for my son's kindergarden teacher, he starts school tomorrow :(. Not uaually a card giver that Iam I didnt think I was even making her anything but I saw apple cards on others blogs and had to try. So I created this with SCAL!!! No idea as to what someone would write in a teacher card (can ya'll tell this is my first yr being a school mom? lol) I simply put the class year 2009-2010 on the front and wrote have a grat year on the inside. Gasp I do not have any school stamps. Hope you likey!!!

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Wedding Congrats

Heres a simple (looking) wedding card I designed with scal. I love simple cards love love love em'. I hope you like it too.

XOXO
Brandilynn

Stinkin' Cute

Wow feels good to be catching up on some scrapping and actually feeling good about my own work YAY!!!! For this Layout I used CTMH papers, stamps, inks & Exclusive markers. Yup I used my own writting on a Layout impressed arnt you? ok I am :D. I also created the skunk with SCAL you may recognise her as Flower in Bambi ;). If you are interested in purchasing the products seen here please just drop me a line I am always happy to help.

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Little Fire Fighters

Heres a LO I did for an event we went to this summer where the kids got to complete a fire fighter training course. It was too cute. I know I am so far behind in scrapping but I had the idea in my head and just had to skip ahead and get it done.

Background Paper is either Autum Leaves or TLC (really not sure)

Font is Hot Rod Gang BV http://www.fontspace.com/blue-vinyl/hot-rod-gang-bv

Ladder/fire/dalmation I created with SCAL

Stamps are fiskar

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XOXO

Brandilynn

Birthday Invites

The birthday invites are FINALLY done :D not exactly what I had in mind, I wanted a ant instead of a watermelon, but mom said it didnt look like an ant WHATEVER :p So this is what we got. Come rain or shine we are having a picnic themed bday this year even if we gotta through the red checkered blacket on the living room floor instead of the lawn. I got this all figured out ;)

XOXO

~Brandilynn

Freezer T

No LOs or cards for you today, just another freezer T. Can you tell I am having fun with these???? When I am finding the time, its "summer" here now and of course my space is upstairs where I can not craft when the kids are running amuck in the hood. Today however its raining so I got to spend the morning playing :D Hopefully tonight I'll get to those birthday invites that GOT to get done. Stay tuned for those.

XOXO
~Brandilynn

Freezer T

Just another freezer t to share again today, this one if for a little girl I know. Someday I will get back to scrappin' in the mean time I having lots of fun with these.

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XOXO
~Brandilynn

More freezer Paper

After showing the last shirt I had made with freezer paper I had some people want to order them so I have been busy designing and here is the first of many to come that I have sold. I am still so excited about this technique. I hope you like this one as much as the last I had so many nice comments on that one I was kinda afraid to post more. Dont mess with something that aint broke theory.

Have a great day everyone

XOXO

~Brandilynn

Freezer Paper T

This is my version of a Freezer paper T-shirt. This is my first try at this and WONT be my last. I made this one for my soon to be 5yr old. He LOVES IT!!!! and I do too. I used SCAL for the entire thing, have I mentioned how much I love SCAL??????? Tis is only one of many reasons why.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day
X0X0 ~Brandilynn

Mind Your own business

I did it!!! I managed to sneak off to my room on NSBD, this is the only LO I have gotten completed so far. I am hoping I will have energy after kids bedtime to get some more done. Even if not for challenges but for me :D. I cant believe how LONG it takes me to complete anything YIKES I had no chance of keeping up with all the challenges.

The basis of this LO are that people are constantly judging me on my age of being a mother based solely on appearance, (I an not nor was I ever a teen mom) as well as being a single mother.
So here is my LO for;
GutterGirlz "Mind your own buisness" for the title, used the file folder & "I'll do what I want" in my journalling.
Pink Stampers color challenge using brown and pastel
Scrapbook.coms me challenge
and finally
the sketch for this LO comes from 52 sketches

I am not thinking this is a fav of mine but it will "do"
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XOXO
~Brandilynn

Tranquility

I did it!!!! I found time to scrap :D This is my 1st entry to 52 sketches. Havent heard of them? click the blinky to the right. I have decided in order to get myself motivated to get things done rather than just shop that I am going to start joining some of these challenges online. So far so good lol. Hopefully if I keep at this at LEAST one challenge a week I might be caught up by 3009 :S. Anyways engough jibber jabber back to the LO. This is one of my fav pics/memories of my dd chasing pigeons down grand beach, such a beautiful innocent site. I am so happy with how this turn out, what do you think???? Cuts and font (black rose) are all scal, pp is mostly autum leaves and I believe the stamps are fiskar. Look at that I even journalled IN MY OWN WRITTING!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by xoxo ~Brandilynn

Birthday Card for Grandma

This had no plan just fell together as I went, for instance the skittle on the date. I spilt my skittles over top of the calendar and when I was picking them up I seen that the skittles magnify the print. I didnt know that and think thats totally cool, why didnt anyone tell me??? :P So yeah this is the result of a great big mess, and I got to use up some of my "ugly" paper :D I think this may be my fav card I have made :D Deffinately seeing progress in my work since I started scrapbooking/cardmaking anyways.