Mmmm...Cake

Since I wasn't happy with the colors that I picked for my last scrapbook page, I decided to go back to basics and use a DSP to help me with my color choices. Plus, I told my dear husband that I wouldn't buy anymore DSP until I had used up some of what I already had. The next day I got the holiday mini and fell in love with the new specialty papers. I stayed true to my word though and I didn't buy any. I'm planning to make several more pages like this one for wedding reception pictures and hopefully get through the pack of Sweet Always that's just been hanging around for 4 years :)

Also, you can't tell in the picture but when I cut the letters out with the big shot, I used some leftover chocolate chip card stock that had been embossed with the lattice square embossing folder. The letters look really cool with the pattern against the striped paper. I was afraid that it would be a little too much with all that was going on with the page but it really helps the letters stand up against all the patterns.

Virtual Scrapbook Club

Now that the weather's cooling down outside (it's a thousand degrees in my stamp room from the Colorado sun) I'm getting back into the stamping mood. Fortunately for me, this coincided with my friends stamp night. They live a million miles away though so we had to stamp via Skype. It was a lot of fun and I love the layout that Rae Anne came up with. I wasn't as in love with my final project though. I was trying to use up some retired paper and the colors just weren't quite right. Their pages looked terrific though and I can't wait until the next time we get to stamp "together."

Denver Zoo

Usually I don't have any trouble deciding on colors to use while scrapbooking. Sometimes though I want to do something a little different than what I would normally do so if the SU color coach isn't helping me, I'll check out the challenges at colourQ. They do challenges every week with colors inspired by everyday inspirations. One of the challenges they did early on was based on a peacock. I thought that was fitting for this page given that we ate lunch with a peacock on this trip to the zoo.

I hope you enjoy!

How far can you jump?

At the Denver Zoo they have a fun exhibit where you can do a broad jump. Derek, Jeremy, and I all attempted this (RP wouldn't, although it's good she didn't or I would've had too many pictures for the page). I jumped the farthest by far, even though my husband says I cheated. I think he's just jealous of my mad ups ;)

This page was a bit of a pain to make because I had 21 pictures to get on one page, along with a decently long title. I think it turned out super cute though and I love how the strips look like little movies and you can almost see the motion.

Fun with Friends

I know, I'm a lousy updater, I guess that's what happens when you have a one year old with separation anxiety issues :)

Anyway, I've got a million pictures to scrapbook so I set myself a goal to finish scrapping a packet of pictures we had developed last November. $17 worth of pictures later and I've met my goal!!

This layout was inspired, as most of my layouts are, by my good friend Rachel. She's a good demonstrator who actually updates her blog more than once every six months.

I hope you enjoy!

Merry Mini Christmas Part 2

Here's another picture of the merry mini card I made for my project kit along with the second card that I made.

Supplies
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Midnight Muse (IC)
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Accessories: Snail adhesive, SU! dimensionals, Merry Minis punch pack, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, snowburst impressions folder

Orchard Harvest - Part 3 - Scrapbook

If you're every having a hard time coming up with ideas, use google image search. I search for the name of the stamp set and get all kinds of cards, projects, and scrapbook pages. In the same Thanksgiving card search that led me to Rae Anne's birthday card, I found a scrapbook page that was made with the Orchard Harvest DSP. I used that page as my inspiration to create this page that I will use to scrapbook Elliott's first trip to the pumpkin patch. We took about sixty pictures that day so I'm going to crank out a few more of this design, while adding room for more pictures.

Now that I've gotten my Thanksgiving projects made, it's time to work on Christmas cards. I hope to make a few different designs and get them posted starting next week :)

Supplies
Stamps: Perfectly Preserved
Paper: Orchard Harvest DSP, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade (InColor), Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple (IC), Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Raspberry Ripple (IC), Lucky Limeade (IC)
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, SU! dimensionals, framelits cannery set, large oval punch, modern label punch, sweet buttons embosslit die

Orchard Harvest - Part 2 - Birthday

My upline RaeAnne celebrated a birthday in October and while I was looking for a Thanksgiving card, I came across a birthday card that was made using the perfectly preserved stamp set and cannery framelits. I decided to make a similar version and thought it would be perfect for Rae Anne's fall birthday.

Supplies
Stamps: Perfectly Preserved, Elements of Style, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Occasional Quotes
Paper: Orchard Harvest DSP, Cajun Craze, Island Indigo (InColor)
Ink: Island Indigo (InColor), Raspberry Ripple (IC), More Mustard, Early Espresso
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, SU! dimensionals, framelits cannery set, framelits bitty banners

Happy Thanksgiving

Today I am thankful for many things and one of them is that I have the ability to be a Stampin' UP! demonstrator.

This card was made using the Orchard Harvest Suite from the 2012 holiday mini catalog. Once again, my good friend Rachel inspired my card so I'm also thankful that she has a blog so I can copy all her good ideas :)

To cut the jar out of the card, I used the cannery framelits die. I had never used the framelits die before and I didn't know that when you cut out the image the die leaves a border on the paper you're cutting from. If you're cutting out a die to use as the die this doesn't matter but if you're going to use it to make a card like I did, then you'll want to turn the card over and cut out the die on the opposite side. That way, when the card is put together, the side with the border will be on the inside of the card, and in this case, covered by the window sheet.

You may notice that I made several different versions of this card. I didn't have enough Lucky Limeade cardstock to make all my cards so I decided to use More Mustard as my card base. I cut several different strips of Orchard Harvest DSP to make the jar lids and used the leftover scraps to layer on the Early Espresso cardstock. After making a card with the More Mustard I decided that since the pear on the inside was going to be More Mustard, it was too much yellow. Once all the cards were made though, I decided that the More Mustard card was my favorite of all the different versions that I made.

Supplies
Stamps: Perfectly Preserved, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Orchard Harvest DSP, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, More Mustard
Ink: Raspberry Ripple (InColor), Early Espresso, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade(IC)
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, SU! dimensionals, framelits cannery set, window sheets

Ain't Love Grand Get Well

While I was trying to find some ideas to make a wedding card for my friends Lauren and Andrew, I kept coming across this card. This card was featured at a Stampin' UP! event at Disney World. One of the best things about being a demonstrator is the ability to go to great events while also being inspired by all the creative demonstrators out there. As usual, I tweaked this card a little. Most of the ones I saw were on Pool Party card stock instead of Whisper White and they used buttons. I wanted to use white as my base card though so instead of using pool party as the backing, I decided to use all the rainbow colors that I previously used. It's hard to see in the picture but I stamped the umbrella top on a scrap, cut it out and glued it on top of the umbrella to give it some dimension. I also used crystal effects on the raindrops and puddles to give it the watery effect.

I love how this card turned out and the only negative I have to say about it is that (fortunately) I don't know anyone who needs to get well that I can send it to.

Supplies
Stamps: Ain't Love Grand (r,h)
Paper: Whisper White, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Real Red
Ink: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede, Stazon
Accessories: snail adhesive, crystal effects, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Ain't Love Grand

A few months ago my very good friends Lauren and Andrew finally tied the knot ;) Jeremy and I wish we could have been there but unfortunately traveling with a little one who hates sitting still for more than five minutes was not an option. They also went to London on their honeymoon and got to do the Harry Potter studio tour. I'm of course super jealous but I got to see all their pictures and they were really cool.

Since I'm a slacker it took me a little while to get their card made (only two months...haha) but I finally sat down and did it. I cased this card here but tweaked it for my tastes and supplies. Like the original poster, I stamped the card on brushed silver and then cut it out to layer over the white cardstock.

Stay tuned later in the week for my very first tutorial on how to create the layered look using the decorative label punch!

Supplies
Paper: Perfect Plum, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Brushed Silver
Ink: Stazon, Perfect Plum, Blushing Bride, Basic Gray
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, SU! dimensionals, perfect polka dots embossing folder, decorative label punch, pinking hearts border punch (r), 3/8" taffeta ribbon - basic gray

Scrapping Southlands

Last month we had some friends and family visit us for a couple of weeks. Our first visitors were our friends RP and Derek. We had a jam packed week with them and between our three cameras we took a TON of pictures. I think at one count we had over 1300 pictures. I've been trying to go through all of our pictures and narrow them down to a reasonable amount for scrapbooking. When we printed Elliott's Halloween picture I printed up pictures from just two days of our "staycation" and still ended up printing over 30 pictures.

Luckily for me, my good friend Rachel has been creating some great scrapbook pages with room for lots of pictures. I CASED this layout from her scrapbook club to make a page documenting our trip to this outdoor mall that's by our apartment. You might not be able to tell but I chose my colors based on my argyle purse that my mom and I made. You may also see that I've done some journaling. I never journal on my scrapbook pages; usually a title is enough words for me but since Rachel left a spot and the title wasn't self explanatory I decided that journaling would add a nice touch. I also thought I had the same number of pictures that Rachel used on her page but I had one less so I needed to fill up that space.

I hope that everyone is having a great weekend!

Supplies
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Raspberry Ripple (InColor), Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green (IC)
Ink: Raspberry Ripple (IC)
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, SU! dimensionals, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, 1/4" grosgrain ribbon - daffodil delight

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! I know that it has been FOREVER since I last posted and I do apologize for that. After having a baby and moving halfway across the country I haven't had as much time for stamping as I would have liked. I also have had to leave my awesome basement crafting area and now all my supplies are in boxes littering our smallish dining room. It takes a lot more planning and effort to stamp now so easier tasks/projects take precedence :) Oh, and I'm a dummy and didn't bring any of my printed pictures so scrapbooking has been out of the question. I don't know about you but I can't make scrapbook pages any more unless I have pictures; otherwise my pages never get done!

Anyway, I'm going to do better if for the only reason that I HAVE to send cards out to our friends and family to show Elliott's holiday pictures. So to start we have the Halloween cards that I made for this year. I wanted to do something simple and I love all the different punch art you can make just by using the owl punch. I was going to make a witch owl and a ghost owl but since my card back was white I decided to make a bat owl instead. I used the 1 3/8" circle punch cut in half and the oval scallop punch to make the bat wings. Even though I wanted something simple these cards ended up taking a lot of work, simply because there were so many pieces. Next year I'm only making one owl :)

I hope everyone has a safe and happy day!

Supplies
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Frightful Sight DSP (r), Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Basic Black, Old Olive
Ink: Old Olive
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, spiderweb embossing folder, petite pennant builder punch, scallop oval punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, owl punch

Beach Honeymoon Part 3

When I find a new technique or idea, and it's super easy, I tend to go a little nuts and want to use said idea on every card/scrapbook page I make. This happened after I saw a card which used a piece of DSP folded over and I used this technique not once, but twice on this scrapbook page :)

This page is the last of the already made projects that I have and while I hope to have some new projects up soon, with a new baby -- and jury duty (yuck), I don't know if my updates will be as frequent. Bear with me and as soon as I get back on a schedule I'm sure there will be a lot of bashful blue scrapbook pages in our future ;)

Supplies
Stamps: Tropical Party
Paper: Island Oasis DSP (r), So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
Ink: Rose Red, Old Olive
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die,

Beach Honeymoon Part 2

Here are some more pictures from our beach honeymoon. For this page, I used the DSP to cut out my letters which gives the page a more embellished look, without actually using embellishments.



Supplies
Paper: Island Oasis DSP (r), Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, island floral bigz die

The Cottage Wall DSP is one of my favorites and I was very excited when, after it retired, they came out with the Sunny Garden DSP. This DSP is just like Cottage Wall except for the colors are different.

I also really love the owl punch -- he is just so cute and you can do so much with the punch, more than just making an owl. You can't see it in the picture but each of my owls are "wearing" a different piece of DSP so they're not all the same.


Supplies
Paper: Sunny Garden DSP, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Whisper White
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, 2 step owl punch, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, 1/4" grosgrain ribbon - daffodil delight

Practice Makes Perfect Take 2

Like my rehearsal dinner pages, I had so many pictures from the actual rehearsal that I decided to use one layout for all the pictures.

Since I didn't have a title for this page, I decided to use some punches and extra ribbons to embellish the page.











**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, Cheerful Treat DSP (h), Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, scallop punch, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, itty bitty buttons, Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die, Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon, fancy flower punch, heart to heart punch

Practice Makes Perfect

One of the things that I love about scrapbooking is how you can take a layout and make it completely different to fit your needs. Rachel made this page for her scrapbook club but as I mentioned in a post a while ago, I don't have that many portrait pictures. I still really liked the page though so I rotated everything so I could use all my landscape pictures. The best thing too, is that if I ever do need a layout for portrait pictures, I can still CASE the original page the way it was meant to be :)

**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, Cheerful Treat DSP (h), Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, scallop punch, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, itty bitty buttons, Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die, Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon

Rehearsal Dinner Part 1

Shortly before we made this page, Rachel posted this card and showed us the technique to take the white (or vanilla) specialty bridal designer series paper and color it to customize it for any project. As an avid follower of her blog, I had seen the post and really wanted to do the same thing on a scrapbook page. She was kind enough to let me use her super special DSP to make this page.

To create the effect, you take the DSP and brayer your choice of ink over the paper until it reaches your preferred coverage. Then you just use a tissue to wipe the excess ink off the paper. This paper is specially made so that the embossed design will resist the color you put on, leaving the design white against your colored background.

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Ballet Blue (r), Green Galore (r), Lovely Lilac (r), Bride Specialty DSP (r)
Ink: Almost Amethyst (r)
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlits die, brayer

Meowy Christmas

Jeremy and I are a little nutty and we LOVE to dress our cats up in cute little outfits. For the kittens' 1st Christmas we got Mittens a Santa dress and a dapper sweater for Herbie. They hate being dressed up and Mittens is smart enough to actually take the dress off -- she also tries to help Herbie get out of the sweater but they haven't quite figured out how to get that done.

For this scrapbook page, to make the circles we used string, magnets and pencils to draw our circles and then cut them out with scissors...you may notice that my circles aren't perfectly round ;)



**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Merry Moments DSP (r)
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, timeless type junior alphabet die