Sara Turns 1

I couldn't believe it when my cousin's little baby Sara was turning 1.  It seems like she was just born and now she is starting to walk and talk and having her very first birthday bash.  I had to make an extra special card for her.  I used one of the new edgelits die from Stampin Up! across the bottom of the top layer and I took the monkey from the stamp set Fox and Friends since she has a monkey theme in her room.  I made the flowers with the Boho blossom punch and the sentiment came from one of the Sale-a-bration items available right now called Elementary Elegance.  This promotion goes until March 31 and with every $50 purchase, you can pick an item from the sale-a-bration catalog.  Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping!

Need for Speed

Hello Everyone,


Remember me.  I haven't posted anything in a month and it's because I'm always on my iphone and never on my computer anymore.  I have to break that habit.  I spent last night in my scrap room with my bestest friend Margaret.  I made my nephew Jake's birthday card with the stamp set called Need for Speed by Stampin Up!.  It's a great set for boys and since I have 5 nephews, I figured that it would be a smart buy.  

I think that this is perfect for an 8 year old.  The paper I used was crumb cake, old olive ds, chocolate chip and very vanilla.  Added some silver liquid pearls (they look like metal)  and the sentiment is for the Happiest Birthday Wishes (hostess) set.

Card Club date for January

I think that I have finally recovered from the holidays and I can't wait to get back in my scrapbook. We are having a Valentines themed card club on 1/20 at 7pm. Let me know if you are planning on attending.

Single Layer Card and Some Card News

Almost Happy New Year Everyone!  I wanted to start off with some stamp news first, In December we finished our 2nd Stamp Club and If anyone is interested in starting up again I will need to know as soon as possible.  We are looking for 6 people to do $25 per month for 6 months and each month someone new will be the hostess and getting the hostess benefits  OR we can do 3 people to do $50 per month for 3 months or every other month and receive hostess benefits.  Please let me know as soon as you can so that we can start in January.  Other news,  On January 4th Stampin Up! will be starting their Occasions Mini promotion.  The new catalogs will be online and if you would like to get a hard copy, let me know and I'll mail you one.

Now on with the card.  The feather stamp used in this card is from the Natures Nest stamp set.  I like to take an image and turn it into something else and this is what I came up with.  This is a single layer card that probably took about 10 minutes to make from beginning to end.  

Time for Holiday Cards

I'm so happy that it's time to make my favorite type of cards.  We made some great cards at last weeks card club and I just realized that I forgot to post the photos. 

stamps-young vermillion, lovely as a tree

ink-cherry cobbler, soft suede, certainly celery

accessories-stamp a majig, rhinestones, nestabilites, top note die

stamps-jolliest time of the year, curly cute

ink-soft suede, lucky limeade, wisteria wonder, pool party, black

paper-pool party, wisteria wonder

accessories- sweet treet cups, 1 3/4 circle punch, 2 3/8 scallop punch, snowflake embossing folder

stamps-lovely as a tree

ink-old olive

paper-old olive, white

accessories-black gingham ribbon, versa mark, dazzling diamonds, heat n stick powder

Online Extravaganza (Very Limited Time)

Starting today, Stampin Up! is having a very limited time Extravaganza!  It's only available until November 30th. There are a number of items that range from 20-60% off.  You can check it all out HERE.  You can place your order directly here and It will get shipped to your house.  

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Post It note Holder for the fridge (great teacher gift)

Last night we had card club and I gave away this adorable post it note holder that also has a magnet on back so you can keep it on the fridge.  I wrapped chipboard in some holiday paper and added the red ribbon.  I also wrapped the binder clip in the same paper and the paper is also inside of the rsvp pen.  It always looks nicer when everything coordinates.  Last night's cards should be posted by tomorrow.
                                          Happy Stamping!

November Card Club

HelloEveryone

I just wanted to announce that November's card club will be held on Friday the 18th.  It's going to be Christmas themed.  This is always my favorite card club because I love making Holiday items.  So much fun and looks so great around the house.  Hope you can make it!  Please let me know as soon as possible because I already got some rsvp's for this night and I limited space.  

Happy Stamping!

What we made at Card Club last night

Hello Everyone,

Last night I had a Halloween themed card club.  Here are photos of what we made.  I hope you all had fun!

Masculine Card with my Scraps

This is a card that I made for my Husband's Birthday.  I'm always saying that it's a challenge to make a masculine card because I don't get to use any of my pretty flowers and butterflies but I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out.  I used the mosaic embossing folder on the piece of Night of Navy and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  The leaves used is from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set from Stampin Up!.  All of the other papers are just scraps,  Card base-river rock, Top layer Misc. designer paper, and banner is certainly Celery.  The sentiment came from one of our newest hostess sets called Birthday Wishes (I think???) and I added a little liquid pearls. 

October Card Club

Now that it's officially October,  I figured that I would send out a reminder for this month's card club.  It's going to be a Halloween/Fall theme.  We'll do 1 home decor project and 2 cards.  It's on 10/14/11 at 7pm.  Please let me know if you'll be attending since my space is limited.  Thanks

Happy Stamping!

Happy Birthday Zoe!

My best friend's daughter Zoe had her 8th birthday party yesterday.  She looked so cute with her princess outfit on that I wanted to share.  I asked her if I could borrow it when she was done with it but she said "no way....I'm going to wear this forever".  Can you blame her.  Here's a photo of her and the card that I made for her.

supplies used:
stamps-happiest birthday wishes, dot dot dot
paper-rich razzleberry, whisper white, vellum, silver
ink-rich razzleberry
accessories-ticket punch, build a blossom punch, round tab punch, ribbon, silver liquid pearls, dot embossing folder, rhinestones

Card Club Updates and Stamp Club orders

Unfortunately, I will not be having a card club this month because of some Friday commitments that I already have but I thought that I would give you a heads up on October's card club.  Friday October 14th we will be having a Halloween themed card club at our usual 7pm.  I will re post this date at a later date as a reminder since it's a month away still. 


Another note,  Our Stamp Club order is going in on the 15th (Thursday) so if anyone wants to be included on this group order, please email me by Thursday morning.  

Got Birthdays

My daughter Hayley is going to a double Birthday party tomorrow for her friends Lilly & Liz.  I just had to use my new birthday stamp set again called Happiest Birthday Wishes.  This set comes with so many different stamps that is comes in 2 dvd cases.  Unfortunately you can't just buy it because it's a hostess set but if your order reaches $150.00 or more, you have a choice of free Hostess or regular catalog stamp sets.

 

 Stamps-Happiest Birthday wishes

paper-rich razzleberry, river rock, whisper white, rich razzleberry dsp

accessories-1 3/4 circle punch, 2 in scallop punch

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes

paper-whisper white, old olive, daffodil delight dsp, melon mambo

accessories-little leaves sizzlet, beautiful wings embosslit

Happy Stamping!

No Power, Yes Scrapbooking

Well, What else can you do when a bad storm takes away your power, internet and water.  SCRAPBOOK!!
Here are some pages that I got done yesterday during the hours of daylight.  No way could I ever do it with candlelight.  Mind you, I didn't have my cricut to work with so I just used what I had including stamps. 

Language of Friendship

This little bird is so cute.  I love using stamp sets with coordinating punches.  It makes it so easy and quick to make a card.  We also made this one at last Friday's card club.  We all enjoyed using some of Stampin Up's new stamp sets from this new catalog.  My wish list is still very long but I managed to get my hands on a handful of new sets so far.  I'm actually creating this post on Saturday the 27th because we are due to get hurricane Irene tomorrow and I'm sure that there won't be any power for a little while so I figured that I would set this up ahead of time. 

Supplies used:

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes, language of friendship, frame it

ink-soft suede, bravo burgandy

accessories-ribbon punch, 2 step bird punch, corner rounder punch

paper-soft suede, whisper white, patterned paper

Happy Stamping!

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

I love using recyclable items in my cards.  I use a page from an old Hardy Boys book behind this piece of vellum in this card.  It was a real simple card and very easy to make at our card club.  The ladies found it very easy to color in these flower from the old fast and fabulous stamp set using Q tips. 

Supplies used:

stamps-fast and fabulous

paper-wisteria wonder, black, recycled book paper, whisper white, basic black

Ink-wisteria wonder, certainly celery

Faith in Nature

I thought that I would take my mind off of the upcoming hurricane and do a post today.  Here's one of the cards that we made at Friday's card club.  I've been wanting to do a lot of texture lately and I just love using these warm earth tones.  We did some dry embossing with the ms scoring board for our background piece of crushed curry and crimped this piece of pumpkin pie for the center.  This image is from one of the new hostess stamp sets in the Stampin Up! catalog.  It's called Faith in Nature.  Any order of $150.00 or more qualifies you for $25 worth of hostess sets or any other catalog item of your choice.

August Card Club

Hello Ladies,


This month's card club is going to take place on Tuesday August 23rd at 7pm.   We are going to be playing with some new stamp sets.  If you are interested in coming, please let me know as soon as possible. 

Happy Stamping!

So Many Birthday Parties

We had back to back parties this weekend.  My daughter Alex had her twin friends Hannah and Sarah's party on Friday night and then we had my 2 oldest daughters Hayley & Alex's party on Saturday.  I remembered to take a photo of Sarah's card but not Hannah's.  Oh well.  Here it is.  It features that cute little owl.  We had so much fun playing with that punch at one of my card clubs that I wanted to bring it out again.   The photo isn't the greatest but you get the idea. 

Supplies used:
paper-pink pirouette, whisper white, old olive chocolate chip
Stamps-dot dot dot
Ink-old olive
Accessories-owl punch, little leaves sizzlet,ticket corner punch, rhinestones, white gel pen