Celebrate Card

Good morning everyone!  I hope your weekend is going nicely!

I am popping in to share a birthday card I made with the It's Your Birthday collection from Pretty Little Studio.  This collection is so cute and the card came together so quickly and easily.

I began by gluing my patterned paper to my card my base, then topped it with a vellum doily.  After that, I mounted my die cut sentiment to a strip of patterned paper and glued it down.  I covered everything with the pink star acetate and then scatted around some phrase stickers.  My finishing touch was to fussy cut a party hat from one of the cute papers and add it to the top of the first "e" in "celebrate".

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a wonderful day!

Card base: K & Company; Staples: Tim Holtz; Everything Else: Pretty Little Studio

Easy Birthday Card || Pretty Little Studio

Hey everyone!  I am popping in to share a very simple birthday card I made for my mother-in-law and shared earlier today on the Pretty Little Studio blog.

Today is her birthday and all she asked for was a homemade card and pictures of Piper.  I decided to combine the two and make her a photo card:

Piper's shirt says "Mama & Sunshine & Peace & Naps & Love, but I took some painter's tape and alphas stickers so we could change it to say "Grammy" instead of "Mama".   We took a bunch of cute pictures and I then made a collage and printed it off and matted it on the cute paper from the "It's Your Birthday" collection.  Finally, I added some sentiment stickers and tags.  All-in-all, it was super simple and easy to do, but hopefully it will still make her feel special on her day!

Make a Wish || Jillibean Soup

Good morning everyone!  HAPPY WEEKEND!!  I wanted to pop in and share a layout that I had on the Jillibean Soup blog a few days ago.

We finally got to play with the fun new collections and I dove right in.  For this layout I used the new Souper Celebration collection.  I also tried something a little different (for me).  I don't do a lot of hand-stitching anymore since I like to get layouts done pretty quickly, but for this layout I couldn't resist adding some minor stitching details around the stars I had cut out for background.  I really like the effect.

Once I had my background done, I layered on my photos and minimal embellies and called it complete!  

The new collections should be available for purchase soon!

Cardstock: Bazzill; Mist: Heidi Swapp; Doily: SpiegelMom Scraps; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

Birthday Card || Pretty Little Studio

Good morning, all!  I am popping in to share a card that I have up on the Pretty Little Studio blog today!

I have a busy Summer planned, so while I still have a little bit of free time on my hands, I decided to get a jump start on some of my Summer cards, including making a birthday card for my Dad.  He is always looking for a new adventure, so I decided that mixing the Treasure Island and Let's Go collections for this card would be best.  I also added in some of the die cut sentiments from the Wonderland collection.  Just goes to show how well the PLS collections mix and match with one another!  Here is my card:

I love the fun color combo that I used here.  The bright yellow, turquoise and grey with pops of coral look so good together - masculine and fun!

Happy Sunday!

Cardstock: American Crafts; Everything Else: Pretty Little Studio

Giftwrap Goodness: Creative Gift Wrap

Hey, everyone!

I have something a little different to share with you this evening: a recent gift that I gave for a birthday.  I decided to be all creative-like in my gift-wrapping and do something a little more fun.  I have a whole Pinterest board full of gift wrap ideas, so I figured I should put it to good use :o)  Here is what I came up with:

 

What do ya think?  I can guarantee the gift wrapping is probably just a tad more exciting than the gift (a book).  It felt so good to be creative in this way...is it terrible that I am ready for Christmas now because I want to come up with more creative packaging ideas?!?!

Kraft Paper: Scotch; Patterned Paper, Ribbon, Twine, Diecuts: Jillibean Soup; Alphas: October Afternoon, Jillibean Soup; Doily: mypapershop

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to the most wonderful boy in the world! I love you!

Birthday layouts...

This past week my parents were in town visiting me. While they were here, we celebrated 2 birthdays: my Dad's, which was July 20th, and mine, which was last Wednesday. I decided to make a layout for each us that showed us blowing out our candles, and put the pages side-by-side in an album.

For the first layout, I dug into my scraps bin to play along with Amy Heller's summer scraps challenge:

For the layout about my Dad, I used the "Boogie Board" add-on kit from the August Studio Calico kit:

(My Dad loves making silly faces, which is why he looks a little funny in both of his pictures...haha!)

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Sunday!

Layout 1: Cardstock: Recollections; Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd; Alphas: American Crafts; Sequins: Doodlebug Designs; Journaling Spot: Jillibean Soup

Layout 2: Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye; Twine: My Mind's Eye; Alphas: Sassafras, October Afternoon; Stickers: My Mind's Eye; Paint: Apple Barrel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC!

I just want to quickly wish my Mr. Amazing a very happy 28th birthday. I'm not usually very mushy, but I do want him to know that he means the world to me...He's the star of many of my layouts, so if you read my blog occasionally, you should already know that he is crazy, goofy, silly and the most fun to be around. I have had the best time with him over the last 5 1/2 years and I'm looking forward to the future to make more fun (ridiculous?) memories. I am so, so, so lucky to have him in my life.

I already gave Eric a list this morning of 28 reasons why I love him and I made a special layout just for him with the list on it {Ha! Now he'll have to figure out what to do with it ;o)}:

Happy Birthday!!

Hey, all! I have a quick card that I would like to share with you. I made it using some scraps from my GIANT scrap bin. I almost feel like I need to go through the scrap bin and get rid of some paper from there. It's getting a bit overwhelming... :)
Isn't that felt star on the card awesome?? It's from the Etsy shop Perfectly Precocious. Go check it out...there are some really neat things there. I was lucky enough to win $20 worth of goodies from Tessa's shop for one of The Studio Challenges that I participated in...and now I keep checking her shop to see all the fun new things being added there. I definitely see a Perfectly Precocious purchase in my future :)

I hope everyone has a great day!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Hello!! I hope that everyone enjoyed Eric's lovely post and his great layout! Don't worry...he's not in trouble for the blog-jacking. He cracks me up too much to make me at all angry. :o)

I do have a new layout to share with you...it's one of my Dad and I. I figured this was perfect since my Dad's birthday is today. So...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!! This layout is also made with the newest Creative Scrappers sketch.

I've been splattering paint a little too much recently...it's a technique that I am addicted to. I think it's so much fun and it adds that extra something. Maybe I'll stop....and maybe I won't!

Have a nice week!!! Thanks for dropping by!

Oh Happy Days!

Hey, all...

So, recently, I have been a pitiful example of a crafty person. This weekend I sort of lost my "mojo" and it hasn't entirely returned to me yet. That hasn't stopped me from wanting to be creative, though. Luckily, I came across the perfect little project. I told you the other day that I happened upon the ScrapFIT blog and I just know it's going to be one of my new addicitons...Currently, they have a "mini workout" posted. For this "mini workout" all you have to do is make a tag. Here is mine:This was a fun little project that was quick, but may also help me get my "mojo" back on track. What do you do when you lose your creative "mojo?" I'd love some recommendations :)

Have a nice day!!

Birthday Card and Sketch

Hey, all! I hope that everyone is having a fun weekend. I have a birthday card to share with you that I made a few weeks ago. I used a sketch from Twisted Sketches to make it. It's for a July birthday, as you can tell...but I really liked the sketch, so I went ahead and made it and will just hold onto the card until July. The "twist" to the sketch was transparent, so I used some transparent stars on the right side of my card...

Also, I told you that I would be back with a sketch to share. Here is the sketch. I haven't made anything with it yet, but it's definitely on my to-do list:

Have a nice, krafty weekend!!

A new sketch...finally!

Hey, all! I have a new sketch to share with you...I know it's been awhile since I posted one...
And here is my take on it:

As always, if you use this sketch, I would LOVE to see what you do with it...just leave a link here!!

SOTB Challenge Time

Hey, all! The new challenge is up over at Scrap Outside the Box. This month the challenge is to use toothpicks on your layout. I struggled a bit at first...but that's why I love designing for this challenge blog...I'm ALWAYS forced to push the limits of my creativity. I finally opted to make little flags out of the toothpicks. Here is the result:Head on over to SOTB to see what the other fabulous ladies created!

New Year...New Goals

Hey, all!! I hope that everyone had a fabulous holiday season. I just got back from traveling for the last two weeks...I was literally all over the place. I had a great time and now I have a few new pictures to scrap as well!

I've been thinking about New Year's resolutions...I don't ever make them, but this year I have decided to set some crafty goals for myself:

1. I want to make 100 layouts that I am satisfied with...the key is *satisfied*. I make plenty of crappy layouts all the time...I really want to turn out some quality stuff this year. Plus, for me it will be hard to get 100. I'm pretty busy with work, but I think I can do it...

2. I want to try new scrapping techniques...I have been branching out a little bit recently with paint and such, but I'd like to keep branching out.

3. I want to start making cards. For some reason, I've had a very difficult time doing this. My cards always end up looking like a kindergarten project, but I'm gonna keep working at it.

4. Use some of those scrappy supplies that I have had lying around forever. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I have a horrible habit of buying patterned paper that I absolutely LOVE and then not using it because I don't want to use it up. So stupid...but I hoard the stuff. I'm going to try not to do that this year...haha!

Do YOU have any crafty goals for twenty-ten? I'd love to hear what they are.

I will leave with you a reminder of my challenge (there's still one week left to enter!) and a picture of my first layout of the year. I am pleased to say that I used a new technique...glimmer mist! I've never used it before...I like it. I know, I know...so not a big deal...but I'm branching out with baby steps...