Baby Card for Twins

Well I had a wonderful day doing a stamp crop with some of the people I stamp with all the time.  We all left feeling as if we had accomplished so much.  And, they made much more than I did, but I worked on My Digital Studio.  Which got a lot accomplished, but did not leave with the cards or scrapbook pages they had in hand.  But this one card I did for my granddaughter's teacher who is having twins and will be leaving next week.  So she wanted to give her a card.

This card was inspired by the stamping 411 sketch challenge today!  I actually used 3 different stamps for it and also added the "X2" on the middle circle.  I didn't know what else to do and I think it looks fine.  When my 1st grade granddaughter saw it, she just smiled which made me happy because that meant she really liked it.

Here is a side view of the card!

Yes, these little twins are just adorable aren't they!  Thanks for looking!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Baby Talk (retired), Cuddles and Tickles (retired), Bear Hugs

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Nursery Nest

3/8" Pink Pirouette Pleated Satin Ribbon

1" punch, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, 2 1/2" Circle Punch

Blog Candy Winner

Hello all, I just wanted to do a quick post to tell you who won the blog Candy from last weeks post which you can find here!  I had 5 people who answered the question that I asked and then numbered them 1 through 5.  Here are the 5 names in order of post - Glennis, Natalie, Luane, NickelNook, Anonymous - Debra.  And the random org generated # 2 which was Natalie!  Yea Natalie and here is what you won!

Natalie, I will get in touch with you via e-mail to get the information I need!  It is so much fun giving stuff away.  I want to thank Nancy from NickelNook for getting me started with this!  Now I will have another post ready here shortly, but for now hope you all have a wonderful evening!  Blessings to all!

January Workshop

Hello all and welcome to my January Workshop!  Well at least to the items we made at our workshop.  First of all I would like to share with you the original layout for the workshop and then it grew to 11 people and I had to rethink the colors I was going to use as I did not have 11 12X12 daffodil delight card stock.  So anyway, I went ahead and decorated this page with the photos from the Taylor Swift concert I went to with my two Daughters and two granddaughters!  I really wanted a wow page since it was for Morgan's birthday and Taylor Swift is a WOW performer, so I did add some bling to it.  So here is the page!  So hard to get a good photo on a 12X12 layout.

So now here is the actual page we did at the workshop with the colors I had enough of!

My dear husband seemed to like these colors better than the yellow!  But that is a man for you! lol

So once we finished with the scrapbook page we went on to make a simple card! Now I did make one change and that was to use Textured Card Stock instead of the plain for the workshop.

Here is a side view of this card!  Still got to do the inside!

Will still need to finish the inside at some point this weekend, but I do love it and love those new framelits.

And, last but not least is the hostess gift.  It is a little bright, but what I was doing was showing the group all the different sizes that come with the Labels framelits.  So I used a color family group to do this.  Also she can use these again, as I added very little adhesive.  Inside the envelopes are some of the new items in the occasions mini that I thought she would enjoy.  4 of the Paper Doily (sizzix large die) the blossoms punch flowers, and the new hearts embosslits. 

Thanks so much for looking and hope you enjoy your evening!

Footprints - Watercoloring

I got this stamp set for Christmas and had not used it yet and was so excited to be able to use it today!  I would love to create a canvas with it and that is one of the reasons for purchasing it, but have not gotten around to that as of yet.  With this one, I was inspired by the shining the light challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs Blog which was to create a card or project using three items, tools or embellishments beginning with three of the letters in the word "W-I-N-T-E-R-" So mine was W-Watercolor, I-Ink, N-New Stamp Set, T-tearing.  And, it was so easy to do!  I was so excited when it was finished.

Here is a close up of the words and the tearing and sponging!

Here is the inside of the card!

And a close up of the poem, Footprints!

Decided since I had started the tearing and sponging on the outside, I would continue on the inside!

Thanks so much for looking today and hope you have a great day!

Items used are:

Stamp Set: ODBD Footprints in the Sand

Card Stock: (all SU) Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla

Classic Ink:SU Chocolate Chip

SU Water Color Paper

SU Water Color Pencils

SU Aqua Painter

My Portion/ A different style!

Wow is what I thought when I finished this card!  This is usually not my style, but I do love the look of it.  This month over at Our Daily Bread Designs Forum our Featured Artist of the Month is Sabrina Jackson and what a talented person she is.  So what I did was look at her gallery and then I just put quite a few things together and kind of show-cased her style.  I sure hope that I accomplished just a little of what her gallery over at ODBD looks like, just beautiful.  Sabrina loves to use Rhinestones, flowers and stick pens, so that is what I used.  And, I think I did OK.

Also another inspiration for this card was the shining the light challenge and the Stepping in Time Challenge with Betty for this week and last at Our Daily Bread Designs Blog!  First of all the Stepping in Time Challenge was to use the 2012, 2 of something, 0 of something, 1 of something and 2 of something.  So, I used two Roses, 0 embossing, 1 stamp set, and 2 items were sponged or 2 colors of Card Stock.  The Shining the light challenge was to create a card or project using three items, tools or embellishments beginning with three of the letters in the word "W-I-N-T-E-R-"  So for this card, I used I-Ink, N-Nestabilities, R-Roses or Rhinestones.

Here is a side view of the card!

And a close up of the front!

Thanks for looking!

Stamp Set: ODBD Scripture Collection #5

Card Stock: SU Concord Crush, Very Vanilla

Designer Paper: Webster's Pages petite papers (won as part of blog candy)

Rose Ribbon given to me as a gift from a very dear friend (unsure of who made it)

Stick Pin - Made it with a hat pin and added some pearl beads I had on hand

Spellbinders Nestabilities Fleur De Lis Rectangles

SU Jewels Pearls

Recollection Rhinestones

SU LateNightStampers Challenge/Shape Up

Good Monday morning to all of you!  As you know we have our weekly challenge starting today over at SULateNightStampers and this week it is to make a card using a different shape than typical rectangle or square.  How great is that and especially now that we have the new framelits.  So this is the card I for today's challenge. This is another inspiration from Stamping 411 sketch that I used this week!  Just made it portrait instead of landscape!

I actually cut the base of the card out using very vanilla card stock as you will see in a few with the side view.  I then cut the same size again with the pool party card stock, ran it through the bigshot with the perfect polkadots embossing folder and adhered it to the front over the very vanilla so you would not see the little bit of square at the top to make sure you have your fold.  Hope you understand what I just said!  lol  Actually as you can see I used 3 different sizes of the framelits to make this card!

Here is the side view of the card!

I even used two sizes on the inside and sponged the edge of the smaller one.  Just seemed to add a little more support to the backside of the card!

Hope you like this and if you would like to join us this week, just pop on over to our SULateNightStampers site and check us out.

Items used for today's card are all Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Lean On Me

Card Stock: Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Daffodil Delight for the butterflies

Designer Series Paper: Attic Boutique

Classic Ink: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight and pool Party for sponging

1/4" daffodil delight grosgrain ribbon

Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die

Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

Markers for coloring

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!

Ain't Love Grand/Surprise Blog Candy

Isn't this just the cutest card?  But first let's start with what inspired this card, the Stamping 411 Sketch!  Just love checking out their site each week to see what new and interesting sketch is available.  And, of course this week was no different.  Also, my son-in-law is in Afghanistan and of all things his birthday is also Valentine's day.  So I wanted a card that I could possibly sent him that would go with birthday and Valentine's day!  Or I may just send him two cards!  I do have a little time to decide!

This is the front view!

And, this is the inside!  And, I am thinking my daughter may want to give it to him, so where it has "i" I have not changed it to we.  I always do that on the cards.  Just makes it more personable!  Also was going to do the Happy Birthday stamp and Happy Valentine's on the inside, but decided to wait and see if she does want to send it to him.

Now don't you just love the inside?  Am I bragging on my own card?  Yes, there are times you just have to say, this turned out just as I wanted it too! lol

OK, now on to the Surprise Blog Candy I have to offer today!  I have been planning on doing this for quite some time, but just seemed to always have something else come up and then I just decided it is time to do this.  In October I won blog candy from Nancy, blog name The Nickel Nook!  I just love going over to her site and seeing all of her pretty designs.  You can see some of the items I got from her by going to my post here!  So today, I am putting up blog candy and to be eligible to win, you will have to tell me by leaving a comment what you think of this card and if I should send as a Valentine only or a Birthday and Valentine, that is if my dear daughter doesn't take it first!  I don't have a photo of the goodies yet, but a stamp set called darling dots and some valentine rub-ons will be part of the blog candy along with some ribbon and other goodies.  As soon as I get it all together, I will make a post showing you the goodies!  Now you will have to comment by Friday, January 20th to win and check back here on Saturday, January 21st for the winner!  And if you are anonymous, make sure to leave your name!

Items used on this card are all Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Ain't Love Grand

Card Stock: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Big Top Birthday

Classic Ink: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise and Daffodil Delight for sponging

Markers for coloring

1/4" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon

Thanks for looking and cannot wait to see who wins!  Have a great weekend!

Family Christmas Scrapbook Page

Good evening everyone!  This has been one of those weeks and I am just now getting to post this double page layout that I finally finished yesterday.  It has really been busy at work and I am also trying to get the samples ready of the two projects I will be sharing next week at our Stampin' Up! workshop.  So I think I have the samples ready as of just a few minutes ago.  That means I will just have to do the cutting out this weekend and then back to my normal stamping for a little while.

Anyway, what inspired this dual page was a sketch I saw during the 12 days of Christmas at Got Sketch, # 123.  I just loved the sketch and had to play with it.

Here is the first page!

And now here is the second page!

I love putting these pages together. It is memories for years to come.

Items used were from My Digital Studio!

Thanks for stopping by and this weekend please check out my blog as I may have some exciting news for you!

Tooty Fruity/ LateNightStampers Challenge

Just want to thank all of you who have been lifting me up in prayer during this episode with my back.  I am feeling much better today, not 100% but much better!  Thanks for all the comments you have left.

Now to share with you our SU LateNightStampers challenge this week!  This week we are to make a project using fruit.  It can be an image, paper or embellishment as long as there is fruit on the project you make.  Well I think I fullfilled the fruit part on this "loud" (as my husband called it) card!  There are sometimes I should not ask him what he thinks! lol  But actually I like this "loud" card!  And, I also used the sketch from the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog!  So here is my "loud" card!

Actually my daughter colored the image as she was visiting with me today.  She doesn't think it is loud and loved the paper and the image.  (Do I sound a little miffed with my husband?) 

Here is another angle of the card!

I love the side views of cards and try to take one as often as possible.

I am also enjoying doing the inside of the cards with designer paper and made sure I used another peice of this paper on the inside.

Love this paper!

Here are the items I used to create this thank you card! 

Stamp Sets: Cherish Friendship, God's Blessings (inside)

Card Stock: Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Berry Blossoms

Classic Ink: Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso

Markers for coloring

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch

Word Window Punch

Modern Label Punch

Labels Collection Framelits Dies

Rhinestone Jewels

Thanks for looking and please join us for our SULateNightStampers Challenge this week!  I am sure you have something with a cherry on top!

Sprinkled Expression/Fashionable Hearts Embosslits

How cute is this card and it was inspired by the sketch over at Stamping 411.  You must check out their sketches as they are fabulous!  I try to play as often as possible and since this was a rather simple sketch and I am still have some back problems I thought,"I'll just whip it up right quick."  Is anything ever quick when you actually sit down to work on a card or scrapbook page. I don't think so! lol  Anyway, it was actually fairly simple to do and if I would have stopped with the outside would have been simpler.  But I have to put the insides together.  Actually used 4 stamps in putting this total card together.  Even though I am using hearts, this would be a great card for any friend, your mom or husband anytime of year.  That is why I like it so much.

Here is a side view of the card!

and of course an up close shot of the dimension on the front as I popped everything up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

And as always, you cannot forget to do the inside of the card, which is where the other stamps come into play!

Actually the top of the inside was a last minute decision once I decided to send this to my mom!  I knew she would love this and I wanted it centered someway and all of a sudden my most favorite item of all came into play on this card.  The top note die!  I use it so much and for so many things!  Did it not frame the top of the card perfectly.

Items used are all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted!  Sale-a-bration items are available January 24th - March 31st!

Stamp Sets: Sprinkled Expressions (sale-a-bration), Fresh Vintage - inside (sale-a-bration), Messages to Mom - inside, ODBD Scripture Collection 6 - inside

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla

Designer Series Paper: Beau Chateau

Classic Ink: Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette - inside

Pink Pirouette Marker

Fashionable Hearts Embosslits Die

Top Note Bigz Die

Pink Pirouette 1 1/4" grosgrain ribbon retired

Thanks for looking today and hope your weekend is filled with many blessings!

Christmas Layout/MDS

This is one of those moments that you really want to share with others.  I had a few of those this Christmas and am working on some other pages I will share with you in the near future.  But we have to start somewhere, and I thought I would start here!

This page was actually inspired by two different blogs!  The first was from Got Sketch.  I love their sketches and have used them quite often!  You can find the sketch I used here!  My second inspiration came from Our Daily Bread Designs Scrapbook Challenge where they had an inspiration color challenge and I just loved the colors.  So I used their stamp "Christmas Verses" to incorporate the layout into their challenge.  I did the whole page digitally and then I stamped just the part I wanted by using my markers and actually added a "s" onto the bring.  I just love the stamp set Christmas Verses because you can also use them at different times of the year.

Here is a close up of the stamped image after I printed the page!

Looks a little blurred here, but the page is beautiful!

Thanks for looking today and hope your day is filled with Joy!

Paper Doily/ Blessings from Heaven

Wow, I was beginning to think there would be no more stamping for me for a while.  My back is really giving me fits and I can not sit for extended periods of time.  So my job is not really working for me now as I sit at a computer most of the day.  But, I found out tonight that if I stand up for a little while, then lay back down on the floor flat for a little bit (gets boring but is really the only position that doesn't hurt) eventually, I will get a card done.

So this card was inspired by this weeks Stampin Queen's Sketch!  As soon as I saw the sketch, I knew what I wanted to do and it turned out just as I hoped it would.  I will be sending this card to a dear friend of mine from church who is having a hard time right now.  I know she will love it.

Here is another angle of the card!

And of course I am loving using the designer paper on the inside of the cards!

Not very happy with this photo, but you get the idea of what it looks like!  Isn't this paper just wonderful and it is part of the sale-a-bration book!  Can't wait to share this with my stamp club!

Here are the items I used to make this card!

Stamp Set: Blessings from Heaven

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral

Designer Series Paper: Everyday Enchantment (sale-a-bration)

Classic Ink: Calypso Coral, Pool Party

Paper Doily Sizzix Die (Occasions Mini)

1 3/4" round punch, 2 3/8" round punch

Baha Breeze 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon

Square Lattice Embossing Folder

Thanks for looking today and now it is time to go lay back down on the floor!  I might could get better if I could just rest!  Have a great evening.

Hymn and Scripture Challenge #1 - Amazing Grace

Well Sunday started a new Scripture Challenge over at Triple the Scraps with Patter.  I did the one for 2010, but did not do last year and I really missed it.  So I am starting this one and hoping to keep us as I learned so much in 2010 and really still look back at the pages I did.  I have not created my album cover yet as I am uncertain of how I will display this years, but I did decide to do 6 X 6 pages again.  They just seem to work for me and they are a great size.  To learn more about the challenge you can go to this post by Patter!  And to keep up with the challenges, you can go to this post!  And for her post for the first challenge, you can read it here!  Patter is such a talented writer and loves the Lord!

For the first challenge the Hymn that Patter chose was Amazing Grace.  So to start my page I went to google and looked for the song Amazing Grace in jpeg format.  When I saw the one below in a cross, I just had to use it and I thought it just seemed to match the paper I was using just beautifully.  After finding that there was not much else you could do to the page other than add a few scriptures which finished it off perfectly for me.

I actually did most of the page digitally except for the main verse you see which is John 1:16 and I chose that verse because I had the ODBD stamp set on hand and really liked it and the way it looked and thought it would just add so much to the page.  So I did all of it including the box to stamp the scripture in using My Digital Studio and then printed off.  I then chose the ink color Cajun Craze to stamp the scripture in as it was the color that seemed to match the rest of the page.  Aren't you so thankful for the grace of our Lord and Savior that allows us to receive one blessing after another.  If not for the sacrifice of Jesus, we would not have the blessings of life as we know it now.  And I also chose another scripture of Romans 5:20.  So thankful that through Jesus and His grace we are forgiven.  Grace abounds much more! 

Hope you have enjoyed my page and I hope to see you every other week as I continue this challenge!

Items used:

My Digital Studio

Designer Series Paper: Well Worn (MDS)

jpeg from Internet

Scallop Trim Border Punch (MDS)

Square Punch (MDS)

ODBD Scripture Series Two stamp set

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Masculine Card Hybrid!

Good Morning dear friends.  This card was inspired by this weeks Stamping 411 Sketch and also today starts our first challenge of the year for SULatenight stampers, but definitely not the first challenge as we are now at challenge 154.  But this week was to use planes, trains or automobiles.  And since I do not have a current stamp with any of those, I decided that my digital studio would work just fine as they are always current.  So I used the MDS stamp set Sentimental Journey for the plane and lightened it by putting the opacity at 50% and then over it I used the MDS stamp set Daring Adventure.  I used the square punch in MDS to make it the size I need and made the color of the punched image crumb cake.  The background is also the MDS Daring adventure and I did it using the crumb cake on whisper white.  I made that big enough for the background and printed it out on 8 1/2 X 11 whisper white card stock, cut both of them out and attached it to the card base.  Of course you can see that I added some hemp twine, natural and black (black is now retired, but I had some left) and attached the button by running the twine through it.  I am really happy with my hybrid card and the fact that I now have a masculine birthday card.  I thought this was perfect for a birthday card!

Here is another view of the card!

And a view of the inside of the card!

I used what I have left of the paper I had printed out and added the stamped image from the stamp set, Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Hope you liked what you have seen today and here is a supply list:

Stamp Sets: Daring Adventure (MDS), Sentimental Journey (MDS), Happiest Birthday Wishes (Hostess)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Crumb Cake

Classic Ink: Basic Black, Crumb Cake

Large Button (retired)

Hemp Twine Natural, Hemp Twine Black (retired)

Attic Boutique spotlight!

Happy New Year everyone!  What a great day for the New Year to start, Sunday!  Went to church this morning and what a great message.  I am so very blessed to have a wonderful church and wonderful church family.

Today I am sharing with you another card using the new paper "Attic Boutique."  I am loving that paper and using it inside and outside on my cards.  What inspired me to use the Spotlight technique that I used above is the sketch over at Stampin Queen's Sketch blog!  I thought it was the perfect sketch to highlight all the cute little items on this beautiful paper!  Also, by using the 3/4" round punch and the 1" round punch, I can also use this for the SUO challenge which is feeling a bit punchy!  I love using my punches.

Here is the inside of this card and also shows off the paper I used even more!

Isn't it just the best?  Hope you enjoyed your visit today and now here is what I used to make this card!

Stamp Sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Happiest Birthday (hostess)

Card Stock: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight

Classic Ink: Soft Suede

Designer Series Paper: Attic Boutique

3/4" round punch, 1" round punch

5/8" daffodil delight satin ribbon

Thanks for looking and I also have something for you tomorrow!  So please come back and check it out!