Anniversary Scrapbook pages

I finally did some scrapbooking.  It was from last October (2009).  We went to Morton's Steak house in Boston with 3 other couples to celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary.  We had a great time and even got a serenade by the 1 and only chef at the end of our meal.  He sounded like an opera singer.  It was fantastic!  Well here it goes...Hope you like it.

Card Club August

I've been asked if I would do another Brayering class.  I'm going to do a card club on August 9th at 7pm.  It's a Monday night.  Friday's are very busy for me during the summer so I won't be going back to Fridays until September.  We'll be going back over the basics but we will be doing some new styles of brayering that we didn't cover in June.  We will be doing some masking and do the jumping brayer like in the last post I just did.  I had a full class last month so if you are interested in coming on Aug. 9th, please let me know as soon as possible.  I have very limited space.

Bouncing Brayer Birthday Card

I was almost afraid to try it but it turned out great on the first try.  I wanted to and catch up on some scrapbooking but there are so many birthdays this month that I can't stop making cards (not a bad thing).  I brayered the cardstock in Marina mist by SU then bounced the brayer with Night of Navy by SU.  I used a sponge with frost white ink by Colorbox to add a highlight behind the skateboarder.  I cut the skateboarder using my Sure Cuts alot.  I found the image on the internet and saved it to my computer and then my cricut did the rest.  Isn't he so cool.  It's hard to think of a card to make for a 12 year old boy and I love the way this one came out.

Brayered Thank you

Can you tell that I LOVE the brayering technique.  It is so pretty and different.  I really love the look of natural sunlight when taking a picture so I took this about 8am this morning before going to work.  It's never as nice as seeing it in person but it's better then not sharing.  I used the Inspired by nature (LOVE IT) stamp set by stampin up and the colors used were night of navy, marina mist and summer sun.  The martha stewart latice punch was used on the edge and the sentiment was from the watercolor trio stamp set by SU.  Hope you like it!

Aloha...Alex is turning 9

My middle daughter Alex is turning 9 so we planned for her to have some of her friends over for a little hawaiian Luau.  I saw a cute idea in this month's parents magazine about making an invitation shaped like a flip flop.  I changed it a little bit and found a perfect svg file online that I cut with my Sure cuts alot and cricut.  I used some tropical paper that I had in my craft room made by Me and My Big Ideas.  I cut it a 2nd time with kraft cardstock by paper trey ink and glued it to the back to give it some weight.  I used green ribbon for the straps and just any layered flowers that I had on my computer and also cut that with my SCAL.  I thought that it was adorable and hopefully her friends will too.

Mojo Monday sketch challenge 146

It's been so long since I've done a mojo card.  I need to get my mojo back and find time to enter my cards more often.  I liked this weeks sketch and used some embellished papers that I already had made in my craft room.  I had embossed some paper with my cuttlebug and then brayered it with rich razzleberry.  I love trying to make my own patterned paper and come up with something different.  The flower was made with a 2 scallops that were scored and folded to create this 3D design.  I wouldn't dare put it in the mail because I am pretty sure that it wouldn't fit in the envelope too well but it's perfect to give with a gift.

Flower pot card

I can still remember your faces when I showed everyone at cardclub that we were making this card.  It's perfect for so many occasions.  I already know who this one is going to and I need to make another one for someone else. 

Brayered Card

Hello Everyone.  I just got back from Cape Cod and had a wonderful time in the sun with my family.  Before I left,  We had one last cardclub before summer and we all had a great time trying the brayer for the first time.  Everyone's cards came out so beautiful!  I can't believe that it was everyone's first time doing that technique.  I hope you all play with it some more at home, I'd love to see what you come up with.  Here's a card that I made right before I left on vacation.  I'm really happy with how it came out.  I tried some masking with the moon.  The ink colors I used were crushed curry, summer sun, rich razzleberry and bravo burgandy.  The tree stamp is so old that I don't remember who makes it.  They were stamped in basic black.

Teacher's thank you cards

My youngest daughter Ava just graduated from preschool last Friday.  I made these cards for her 2 teachers to say Thank you for a wonderful year.  I used a SU set called Happy Moments and used my blender pen to color in the flowers.  I also used some glossy accents to the flower petals to give them some dimension and shine.  It's a nice addition to a card if you have the time to let it dry.    It's a very simple layout but I loved the way they came out.  Sometimes simple is all you need.

Card Club for June / Brayer technique

I have been so out of the loop when it comes to my blog lately.  The end of the school year is coming and there seems to be tons of things to do everyday.  My little girl turned 5 on Wednesday and she graduated from preschool today.  2 of my girls have their gymnastics show tonight and after next Wednesday's 3rd grade bbq, I should be out of the woods.  I am planning this month's cardclub on Friday June 25th.  We will be learning a brayer technique like the one shown in this card and also including some other fun types of card that we haven't done before.  I have limited space so please let me know if you will be attending as soon as possible.

Mark & Lucy's Wedding card

I am so glad that I'm able to finally post a picture of my brother and new sister-in-laws wedding card.  They got married last Friday night.  The wedding was beautiful and the Bride and Groom looked fabulous.  You could see all over their faces exactly how much in love they really were.  The brides maids were a deep chocolate brown and the ushers had hot pink vests on.  I know it sounds a little funny thinking of the guys in pink but it was all picture perfect.  On their card, I used the Tie the knot cricut cartridge and I cut the image of the bride and groom out of silver shimmer paper by reflections.  I cut the window from another cartridge but I can't remember which one that was.  I embossed the back layer with my cuttlebug to add some dimension.  I also popped up the bride and groom with some SU dimensional.  My layers were in brown and pink and the sentiment was by paper trey ink's Mega mixed message.  Hope you like it!

Monogramed Birthday cards

Last weekend my daughter Alex had so many Birthday parties to go to.  One was a slumber party for her twin friends Hannah & Sarrah.  It's sometimes hard to get some inspiration for a card but to have to create 2 at a time seems impossible.  I decided to create some monogrammed cards but with the same layout.  I create these top note  die cuts with my sure cuts alot and embossed them with the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder. I cut the letters out with the storybook cartridge of my cricut expression.  I used a fiskars border punch but I can't seem to remember what the name of it is.  I think it's one of the newer designs though.  The sentiment is from SU's newest stamp set watercolor trio.  It just became available on May 1st and it was stamped with SU's night of navy ink.  I know I don't usually list all my materials but if anyone ever wonders what I use, just let me know.  Have a great day!

Father's day cards

Friday's cardclub was great!  We made these adorable father's day cards that were so easy to make.  Any kind of striped or plaid paper would make a great shirt card. 

I also had my nephew Luke's 2nd Birthday party yesterday.  The theme was dinosaurs so I incorporated a dinosaur into his card.  I did a faux silk technique that my friend Jen just told me about over at her blog ICREATE.  It gave it a nice aged effect.  My sister Patty loved it.

Sure Cuts Alot

I wanted to get the word out that I have a brand new sealed copy of the Sure Cuts Alot2 program.   If anyone is interested in purchasing it, please contact me for prices or shipping.  I ordered an extra copy by mistake when I purchased one for someone else.

Another item for sale

I was doing some cleaning in my scraproom today.  I'm always moving things around and reorganizing so I decided to store my spools of ribbon in a different way, which brings me to my item for sale.  It's a ribbon organizer made of wood that sits on a lazy susan with 3 different height dowels measuring 9 1/8, 11 1/4 & 13 1/8.  I had 28 spools of ribbon on it and still had plenty of room for more.  If you are interested, I'm selling it for $10.  If you need shipping costs, just click contact me.

Card Club update

Hi Girls,
Just a last minute reminder for everyone to let me know if they will be coming to this Friday's card club.  I will need to hear from you by Sunday night so that I can cut our supplies.  I will be sending out a supply list on Monday to those of you who replied that you are coming.  Can you please confirm back to me once you get your list so that I get an accurate counts.   Thanks and I'll see you Friday!  Have a Wonderful Mother's day! 

Bingo Card

I just wanted to share this cute Bingo card that my friend Margaret made.  I'm not sure where she got the idea but she did a great job!  It looks like she worked really hard on this one.  I'm sure that the recipient  was very grateful.

May Card Club

Hi Girls,
I just want to start off by saying CONGRATULATIONS to 2 of our regular cardclubers Vicky & Djenica.  They both gave birth to 2 beautiful baby boys this past weekend.

Now on to next month's cardclub.  May is a very busy month since I have my little brother's wedding, my nephews birthday and my nieces First Communion and let's not forget Mother's day.  I hate to pack too many things into one weekend so May 14th will have to due.  We will meet at our usual time of 7pm and please let me know no later then May 9th if you'll be attending.  I will send out a confirmation email along with your supply list to those of you that will be attending on May 10th.   If you don't get your confirm email, please let me know right away because I may not have you down as coming.  See you then!

Card Club Cards

We had a great turnout at this month's card club.  We did 3 different techniques that I think everyone enjoyed.  The first card that we did was an easel card.  We used the pocket silhouette stamp set by stampin up.  This card would be great for Mother's day coming up next month.

We did a cracked glass technique with the next card.  I can't even tell you how hot it was in my scrap room with all of those heat guns all going on at the same time.

Simple Sweet Birthday

My daughter Alex had a Birthday party to go to last Friday.  I had such a busy Friday that I totally forgot to make her a card to go with her gift.  I didn't have much time but with this simple design, I only needed about 5 minutes and my Doodlecharm Cricut cartridge.  I used a crimper on the cupcake cup and I added some diamond stickles to the top.  Some ribbon and a sweet sentiment stamp and I was done.  Sometimes you need to just have a quick card layout ready and this was one of those times.  I'll have some great cards to show you this weekend after Friday night's card club.  Have a great rest of the week.