September 2013 ~ Cupcake's Creations

Journey 31

Hi there! Hope you are having a great week! It's time for a new sketch to play with at Once Upon A Sketch. This month, we ask you to focus on the journaling theme: "Journey". Here's the fun sketch we will be playing with: I scrapped a trio of photos that were taken of the gorgeous historical Trevi Fountain while on our trip to Rome several years ago. I realized I had a typo in my journaling after the fact, but that is ok with me :) Peeking...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, September 29, 2013 @ 9:01 PM | Mixed Media , Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge , Tag

Hi there! Hope you had a great weekend! It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week we are all about saying it with our stamps! We are embracing all those letter, word and phrase sentiment stamps that we have and our sharing our creations with you! I was inspired to create a tag featuring an inspirational and encouraging sentiment from Stuff To Say: I love to have a tag on hand to share with a family...

Cherish 32

Mona Pendleton | @ 3:00 AM | LO , MFT , Mixed Media , MPD Distressed Background Blocks , My Favorite Things , Prima

Hi there! Hope you are enjoying the weekend! Today I have a layout to share with you featuring a photo of my son, Jerry and his sweet girlfriend, April. I pulled out the Prima Lyric Collection pad that has been sitting in my scrapping supplies for months just waiting to be opened! I fussy cut around one of the printed clocks and added a few blossoms that too, have been in my stash for a VERY long time! Using a fancy stencil, I...

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Mona Pendleton | Friday, September 27, 2013 @ 11:56 PM | Die-Namics , Layout , MFT , MFT MPD Collage Backgrounds , MFT MPD Distressed Background Blocks , Mixed Media , My Favorite Things

Hello there! Hope you are having a great weekend! I had some "me" time tonight so I made a layout featuring a photo of Scott and I standing in front of THE St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. I can't even begin to tell you how amazing the inside is! I made a trio of flowers using the following Die-namics: Large Royal Rose, Upsy-Daisy and a Mini Royal Roses die. I added a Fancy butterfly then for added interest to the background,...

with love 39

Mona Pendleton | Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 3:55 PM | MFT MPD Distressed Background Blocks , Mixed Media

Hi there! Hope all is well with you. I had a lot of fun with April while she was in town visiting. We completed all the wedding invitations over the weekend! Yahoo :) There wasn't any stamping involved other than on the envelopes so when all was said and done, the assembly took roughly 6 hours. April and I worked for 3 hours on Saturday then her Mom joined us on Sunday and we wrapped it up within 3 hours. Scott being my tech support 24/7, designed...

You make my heart sing... 39

Mona Pendleton | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 @ 9:55 AM | Die-Namics , Layout , MFT , Mixed Media , MPD Distressed Background Blocks , My Favorite Things

Hi there! I hope you are having a great week so far! Today I have a layout to share that I made just for fun featuring a photo of my sweet little four legged furry friend ~ Gretchen :) I white washed the background with Gesso then added design using various colors of paint along with the Petal Pattern stencil. I stamped the BINGO card using Document It - Bingo and adhered a trio of die cut hearts made using Die-namics Hearts a Plenty: I...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, September 22, 2013 @ 9:01 PM | Mixed Media , Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge , Tutorial

Hi there! Hope you had a great weekend! It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! In celebration of STAMPtember this week the DT is featuring a project made using a Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® ART JOURNALING KIT by SHARI CARROLL! The challenge for this week is to use ANY Simon Says Stamp exclusive product in a project. Using MANY fab items that I received in my kit, I got a little messy and inked up the journal...