A Stamp in Thyme

Love Letters

2012-01-13T11:48:00.000-08:00

And it's a little late but here's January's kit! Love Letters. This was a HUGE kit. It had $95 worth of stuff for only $35. It even had a stamp set. Here's a kit pic and the video. There's a part I & a part II for the video... I was having fun making the mini book but the video got a bit long and the two page spread had to move to a new video. I LOVED the pages I made. They were really simple but they look fancy :) Hope you enjoy!

January 2012 - Part I

January 2012 - Part II

Going Card Happy

2012-01-13T11:37:00.000-08:00

I haven't really stamped in ages, so this card was really fun. This set (Like it a Latte, Retired) is one of my absolute favourites :) I was browsing the Stampin' Up! catalogue and saw a card with a layout similar to this and loved the way another card had used white embossing on a Crumb Cake background. The ribbon is from a candle but I loved it so much it got added to my scrap stash :) This card was for my boarder's 21st birthday.

This is the birthday card I made for my neice's 3rd birthday. It was such a great idea in my head but it took ages before it started to look the way it did in my head! This card was mostly made from Sweet and Leafy leftovers with the addition of a Stampin' Up! stamp, ribbon and some punches.

These two cards were the matching boy/girl baby cards I made for the new babies in my life :) Toni had an adorable baby girl, Sophia and my sister-in-law just had a little boy, Noland. I'm very excited to see him but he's on the other side of the country :( Both of these cards were made with Alphabet Soup leftovers.

This card, made for my nephew's 6th birthday, really cracked me up. It was super fast and easy because the front is mostly just a die cut. The inside says "Somebody heard you had cake..." The googly eye and chomp out the side really tickle me. This card was made with leftovers again... "Stomp"

And last but not least... an anniversary card. My aunt and uncle were married 25 years at the beginning of January. This card was made from My Mind's Eye "Oh, la, la" collection. The flourish template along the bottom is my favourite stitching template! I have plans to do a class at "Scrap for Heart" in February, making a mini book with different stitching techniques. This template will have to be part of it for sure.

Hope you've enjoyed these projects... Happy Scrappin'!

Boxing Day Sale @ Created with Paper

2011-12-26T07:50:00.001-08:00

Don't miss it! There's a 40% off sale at www.createdwithpaper.com Kits are only $21 each!!

Another Et Cetera Page

2011-12-06T20:30:00.000-08:00

I LOVE the Et Cetera kit even more than I thought I would. Vintage is my thing but I've had soooo much fun making these pages! Here's another page from Evan's adorable baby stage :) This page was such a happy one!

Et Cetera Video

2011-12-04T20:40:00.001-08:00

Here's my fun transparency video... Hope you like it.

Stuff from a Scrap Day

2011-12-04T20:22:00.001-08:00

After much sweat and hard work, we have finished some of our renovations and finally, for the first time in 8 years, I have my own scrapbook room! It's still a disaster but I can hardly believe I can claim it for myself! Here's a couple things that I've created this week :)

This first image is a two page 8x8 spread from my travel album.

This second picture is a card for one of Evan's little friends. He wanted to give her a "fairy" card so we took the chipboard girl from the Alphabet Soup collection and added some wings made from a butterfly. I love how this card turned out :) The inside says "wishing you a fairy happy birthday"

Et Cetera - December 2011

2011-11-30T21:22:00.001-08:00

Phew! I can't believe it's December already!! This month's kit is a great collection called Et Cetera by BoBunny. Totally a vintage kit. I was suprised how easy it was to make kid layouts though. My pages went together quite easily. In the video I made a great page with a painted transparency. I'll post the video in the next day or so...Here's a peek at the kit :)

Christmas Stuff Already :)

2011-11-01T19:48:00.000-07:00

Well, the latest kit is out!! Lost & Found Christmas by My Mind's Eye. Again, I'm really liking the Lost & Found lines. The colours are all so rich & exciting. Here's the video... Enjoy!

This kit turned out a lot of two page spreads for me :)

More "Little Boy Blue"

2011-10-11T09:22:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite pictures of my sister & I as little girls. We always had our picture taken on the cradle my grandpa made when I was born. It would flip over into a bench and the mattress became a bench cushion. The green damask paper in the "Little Boy Blue" kit was a perfect match for my mom's curtains, LOL! I added some pink flowers, some blue prima pearl swirls and some Maya Road animal rub ons. This was another page I made during the St John Scrap-a-thon. Love how it turned out :)

I Love Owls

2011-10-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

This month's kit is called Little Boy Blue by My Mind's Eye. This kit makes me happy :) I LOVE owls & the tree embellishments rock! I still haven't used my owl paper because it MUST be saved for the perfect thing.... LOL! I only gave myself half a kit this month & still managed to make 6 pages. I have left overs. (see sentence above about owls, hee hee) Here's a look at the kit.

Here's the two page spread from the video...

Hattie Card

2011-09-29T09:43:00.001-07:00

I needed a quick card this month so I whipped up this little number with the left overs of my Stella & Rose - Hattie collection :) Hope you like it.

The flower was made with two scallop circle punch outs. I just creased the circle between each bump to the center and then folded them accordian style. Then I glued each of the ends together to form a flower. Super quick & easy. Can't wait to use it in November's video, LOL!

St John's Scrap

2011-09-24T17:04:00.000-07:00

On September 9 & 10 St John's Ambulance hosted a fundraising crop. It was awesome!! Not only did we raise money for a great cause but we had a load of fun too! Every ticket included a mini kit of your choice, a Tim Horton's gift card & some great swag :) I chose the Halloween kit
"Blackbird" by My Mind's Eye. Here's the page I made with it:

I had the store set up in a corner booth during the event & I was so excited to see everything out on display :) Normally everything is tucked away - it so much fun seeing all the colours and textures out on show. Here's a couple pics of the booth:

Hattie Pages

2011-09-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

I've started a school scrapbook for both boys and I used the Stella & Rose - Hattie collection for Brody's SK pictures. The pages turned out great! I made a pocket in the back of the second page to keep his report cards & a couple special art projects.

I used the "Doodle It Borders - ABC 123" on the journaling tag & the top of the second page. Love these things!! This is the second package I've used from the store... I just seem to use them on everything! http://www.createdwithpaper.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=71_82&products_id=712

Rhonda has been designer for the store for a few months now & always comes up with gorgeous pages but I think she's outdone herself this time! I LOVE these baby pages of her daughter. Aren't they great?

Stella & Rose - Hattie Is HERE!!!

2011-09-07T06:49:00.000-07:00

I've been dying to use this kit. I've had it ready & waiting for a while and now it's finally September's kit!! I LOVE navy blue (well, really any blue) and the awesome ledger paper and flowered paper in this kit are to die for! Here's a peek at the kit :)

I seemed to have been on a flower theme while I was putting this together so the add-on kit is very "rosey" (hee hee)

And last but not least the Solids Pack. I love how much extra flexibility I have now that there's a range of solid colours to go with each kit. It seemed like there was always just one solid colour missing before. Now there a how range to choose from that still match the kit :) My pages just seem to keep going together faster!

Hope you love this kit as much as I do!!

More Miscellaneous Layouts

2011-08-28T17:27:00.000-07:00

These were some cute photos taken one of the first times Brody ever when crazy on a leftover container of chips. Almost all the papers, ribbons, etc are just miscellaneous things from my piles of scrapbooking stuff. I saw a layout on http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/ that was similar the first page so I expanded it into a two page spead.

More Random Photos

2011-08-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Since I've continued to work through the pile of random photos, I found this adorable batch of Evan and Brad :) I used an old K & Company paper pad I'd gotten from Michael's a couple years ago. The blue went perfectly with the sleeper.

I got to use my big scallop die (kinda hard to see - near the bottom) and my cool new boarder punch "footlights". This page went together pretty fast because I had so many coordinating pieces from this collection. It was almost like working from the kits. There was a great layout in one of my magazines similar to this so I switched it up a bit and made it into a two page spread. Every time I cut a picture in half for a two page spread I remember the pain of the very first picture I every trimmed... LOL!

Jack & Jill is Here!!

2011-08-02T00:25:00.000-07:00

So August's kit is called Jack & Jill and it is totally PACKED with stuff. This may be the biggest kit I've sold so far. I made tons of pages and I think the video is pretty cute too :) Check it out...

Here's one of the other pages I made with it...

Random Pages

2011-07-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm almost getting around to one year since I took over the online store... My statsh of leftovers is also quite large so I've been trying to use them up. Here's an extra pages I made from leftovers :)

Almost everything for this page is from the Sweet & Leafy Collection but I added the buttons and the big "GROW" letters from my own statsh. The tag is from a really old collection called Cotton Candy. I love this picture with my boys' little heads poking out :) I can't get both of them on my lap anymore!! They're getting big faster than I ever thought was possible. When they were little, everyone told me it would go so fast & all I could feel was "Whew... I hope so!!" Now I'm sad that I don't have little babies to cuddle :) However, they are becoming such facinating people. It's amazing to me that they are so tall (even if Brody complains about how short he is... *genetics*) and so capable!

When Brody was little, he LOVED the camera! Brad would follow him around taking pictures and Brody would always try to grab the camera to "See Bodie!" It was funny when Brad's mom used an old film camera. He couldn't understand a camera that didn't show you the photo as soon as it was taken :) These funny face shots were from a camera grabbing session. Also, these papers and stickers were part of a free kit from My Mind's Eye (still LOVE free stuff!). This page was a breeze to put together! It only took about 20 minutes!

Barefoot & Bliss Page

2011-07-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

Here's yet another page I made with the Barefoot & Bliss collection. I got myself a whole bunch of new Sissix dies and am uber excited about them all (hee hee...) I'm totally in love with my new huge scallop border die and keep using it on everything. To make the big holes in each scallop I used a 1" circle punch. Because it's kinda hard to see where you're punching, I made a pencil dot in the center of each scallop and then lined to dot up in the middle of my circle punch to make sure my circles were centered in the scallop. The large label die I used for journaling is new too. I made the white oval shape by first cutting a rectangle and then sliding each end into a 1 3/4" circle punch to round off the ends. You can cut only one end of a piece of paper by turning the punch over, then sliding your paper in from the punch area. Maybe I'll have to make a video featuring that one of these days :)

Barefoot & Bliss is Here!

2011-07-01T06:39:00.001-07:00

This month's collection features all that fun beachy stuff :) BoBunny's Barefoot & Bliss Collection.

And here's this month's video as well. The shakers on the first layout were fun :) I loved the idea of saving some sand from the beach.

Teacher Gifts

2011-06-29T10:14:00.001-07:00

So it's the end of a school year again... Time to break out my creativity and come up with some teacher/bus driver gifts. Both my boys have two teachers this year and they have two bus drivers... Here's what I came up with :)

Main Classroom Teacher:

Classroom Helper/English Teacher:

With a lovely plant - a reddish rose coloured double begonia.

Bus Drivers:

With a Tim Horton's gift card :)

What a year!! Happy summer everyone!

Diaper Cake

2011-06-08T07:07:00.001-07:00

So, one of the girls at work had a baby and I decided that what she really needed was diapers. One of the previous Created with Paper designers, Tammy, had made some really cute diaper cakes, so I looked up the old post on her blog. (Here)

Here's my version!

June's Collection - Sweet & Leafy

2011-06-06T10:44:00.000-07:00

As usual, I've been having a fabulous time working on kit layouts instead of doing housework :) I think my laundry pile may have reached critical mass so I don't think I can avoid it any longer. Regardless, I've got more layouts!! Wanna see? Check out this month's video too!

Scrap Happy Lunatic...

2011-05-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

So I've been avoiding all my work in favor of scrapbooking... while that's great for my scrapbooks my house looks like a bomb went off :) There's a baby shower here on Saturday too! *sigh* Too bad house work doesn't do itself!!

So enough moping! Wanna see what I made?

More Alphabet Soup Leftovers

2011-05-24T10:25:00.000-07:00

This has really been my favorite kit so far. I just can't seem to stop making pages with it :) Even layouts that don't start with this kit seem to get a few bits of it added in.... Here's my latest layouts with it.

And just a little more Stomp

2011-05-24T10:17:00.001-07:00

I've also been continuing my attack on the leftover kits pile. Here's a couple more Stomp pages :)

I even wrote my own mini poem :) Yay me! "Wandering together, let me hold your hand. Each moment precious, before the hourglass' sand." LOVE the picture of Brody & my mom walking on the path.

Sweetest Pics!

2011-05-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

I love how babies look when they're sleeping... The perfect, innocent, little bundles. Baby pics are sooo fun to scrapbook. Here's my perfect baby :)

I'm so excited to use this paper too. It's Conservatory by 7 Gypsies. There's something about those old pictures of eggs all lined up that I totally love. It reminds me of my Grandpa for some reason. He loved everything about gardens and nature. Chickens and eggs are also a permanent part of my memories of him :)

Next Batch of Pages :)

2011-05-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

One of the other projects I've started for myself is an album of school photos, report cards, etc for the boys. I finished Brody's JK & SK pages so far...

The SK page uses the September Stella & Rose Collection from My Mind's Eye so SHHHH! Sneak Peek!

Wha-Hoo! Sleeping Giant Scrapbook Weekend

2011-05-24T09:54:00.000-07:00

This last week-end was the Sleeping Giant Scrapbook Retreat. It was fab!! Have tons of new pages to show off :) Wanna see?

I've continued to flop back and forth between my old photos and my new ones :) These are old Canada Day photos from when Evan was a baby...

Stomp Collection - May 2011

2011-05-01T18:37:00.000-07:00

This month's collection is "Stomp" from My Mind Eye's Abbey Road collection. This kit is jam packed with embellishments and the paper is my favorite blues and greens. I just kept making layouts. Here's the pictures of the kit and this month's video. Enjoy!

8x8 Album - Using up kit Leftovers

2011-04-16T18:48:00.000-07:00

Although, sadly, it has been several years (5!!!) since our trip to Florida, I have not finished the scrapbook of the trip... I got just over half way through the photos and then was diverted to other projects :) My accumulation of kit leftovers is also growing so I thought I would put all those leftovers to use and finish an album too! Lookie what I made :)

This first kit was made using the leftovers from the Alphabet Soup collection and (how perfect is this??) the chipboard sheet of embellishments included a monkey! The orangutan in the show was very cute & funny and I loved how these pictures went with the kit.

Next I attacked my Timepiece left overs to come up with a two page spread for photos of the streets of Universal Studios. The feeling of real streets was so cool. Each street was like steping into another time and place... Cool! I loved how all the brick coordinated with the colours in this kit.

Timepiece Projects

2011-04-06T09:52:00.001-07:00

April's kit is "Timepiece" by Bo Bunny and since clocks are one of the passions I seem to have inhereited from my mother, this kit was instantly on my list :) I still haven't used the big clock die cut sheet because every time I think about cutting it, I'm sad... It will have be to the perfect page before I can actually use it. LOL!

The add-on kit includes the chipboard clocks, so again... big hit with me :)

Here are a couple layouts I made after finishing the video...

Timepiece - April's Collection

2011-04-01T20:42:00.000-07:00

Well, here's a couple projects that went together, just tickety-boo. Is that a bad pun or what!? Anyway, hope you enjoy the video for April!

Alphabet Soup

2011-03-07T20:14:00.000-08:00

I have been dying to work with this kit... It was boxed up on my shelf waiting for March to come along and every time I'd look at it, I would think "Ohhh, I can't wait to play with that!!" Now I've finally got my chance! Wanna see what I made?

This layout makes me realize how much my boys have grown & changed... They both LOVED this tricycle.

And all of us have been waiting for the phone to ring... there's going to be a new neice/cousin arriving any day. Here's the baby card I made for her.

Alphabet Soup - March Video

2011-03-01T20:38:00.000-08:00

Another Month, Another Kit!!

2011-02-01T08:05:00.000-08:00

Here is February's kit... Just when winter was getting me down (it's been really, really cold here) I am suddenly enthused about taking pictures of my kids playing outside! Is it a sudden change of body temperature? Is it an miracle change of attitude?... No, just the new Midnight Frost collection :) It has my most favorite colour in it... BLUE! Many colours of blue... from a pale blue called Frost to a Navy blue called Dark Denim. Gorgeous!

So anyway, enough rambling... Here's February's Midnight Frost collection and the associated video. Enjoy!

Also, here's the Add-On kit:

Union Square

2011-01-01T21:55:00.000-08:00

I've been holding on to this one for quite a while!! I had a $1.99 cookie sheet for a loooooong time just waiting for me to have time for this project. January's Union Square collection seemed like just the right one :) This kit is soo me. I love all the vintage touches and who doesn't like glitter?

Hope you enjoy.

Olivia Video

2010-12-10T08:50:00.001-08:00

Here's the video of my mini album... it was pretty long so it has two parts. Hope you enjoy!

Olivia Collection - December 2010

2010-12-01T10:40:00.000-08:00

This month's kit is great if you want to make a special project as a Christmas gift or just want to whip up a mini book quickly!

I love chipboard mini-albums but usually it takes me a while, cause I'm fussy :) My last mini album took about 10 hours to make... this month's book only took me about 2 - 3 hours, including picking out my pictures.

My favorite thing about this set is that the pad of paper is die cut to match the mini album.

Check out this great Olivia collection from BoBunny.

And here's the add-on kit. I totally LOVE adhesive chipboard stuff. It gives texture and depth to my project without me having to do anything :) The BoBunny Journaling stamps are a fave too. Anything with swirls...

Watch for a video post comming soon! (well probably tomorrow, but anyway...)

November's "Very Merry" Kit

2010-11-01T15:52:00.000-07:00

November's collection is "Very Merry" from October Afternoon. As soon as I saw the gingerbread men, I was sold!! I found these adorable gingerbreadmen brads from Doodlebug & got so excited I could barely contain myself, LOL! Once I started making projects, the ideas just kept comming. The colours seemed to just work with all my Christmas pictures from last year & the cards... soooo many ideas! Tammy & Toni both came up with some gorgeous cards that are listed in the gallery at www.createdwithpaper.com.

Another special new thing I've decided to start is an "Add-On Kit" for each monthly collection. There's always soooo much stuff I want to put into the kits I have trouble knowing where to stop, so for $10 this kit contains more goodies to enhance each kit! Love, love love the wild cards with this collection :)

And finally, hope you enjoy another video!! I've decided to offer a 40% off coupon to every subscriber to my youtube channel. If you have signed up yet, go on over & get your 40% coupon emailed to you when you subscribe!

Spider's Web - October's Kit

2010-10-01T16:28:00.001-07:00

My first collection as the new owner of Created with Paper!! This kit was fun to work with... I love glitter embossing powder because, unlike ordinary glitter, the embossing powder keeps the glitter stuck to the paper!

Check out my latest video & please visit the new store!!
http://www.createdwithpaper.com/

September Video

2010-09-03T05:51:00.000-07:00

The "Flirty" collection from My Mind's Eye is such a pretty collection! It has soooo many items in the kit!

This time I thought this would be the perfect kit for some sweet pictures of my grandma. Hope you enjoy

Next month will be the my first Created With Paper collection as the owner!! I'm so excited! I can't wait! Watch out for special deals & our new owner opening...

Thomas the Tank Engine

2010-08-16T18:01:00.000-07:00

My nephew is a huge Thomas fan so this was his birthday card this year :) I think it turned out super cute!
Ingredients:

Brilliant Blue, Basic Black, Ruby Red, Whipser White, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!), Sugar Dot (BoBunny), Night Light "Jack" (October Afternoon) - paper; "Thomas" dimensional stickers (EK Success), gold brads (Stampin' Up!) - accessories;

August Video - Free Bird

2010-08-01T18:17:00.000-07:00

This month's kit from http://www.createdwithpaper.com/ is "Free Bird" from My Mind's Eye. This kit has sooooo many fun pieces!! I can't believe how many die cuts come with this one! The chunky chip letter are also one of my favorites. I totally love the bird in this set, so both projects ended up with the bird :)
The card will be a baby card for my old neighbour & the 12 x 12 layout goes into Evan's baby book.

Hope you enjoy the video!

End of Year Teacher Gifts Part II

2010-07-11T22:33:00.000-07:00

These are the cards I made to go with the calendars I posted last time. All the daycare people got the flower card and the teachers got the blackboard cards. They both turned out so cute!

I saw the blackboard ideas in one of my old Stampin' Sucess magazines. I altered it & added my own twist to it :)

Ingredients:

Basic Black, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red, Whipser White, Chocolate Chip - paper; VersaMark, Creamy Caramel - ink; First Day - stamp set; Corner rounder, White embossing powder, Ruby Red 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Round Tab punch, Stampin' Up Billboard Sizzlit strip die - accessories;

To make the red tops of the apple, I punched out a tab in ruby red paper then slid the tab back into the punch from the bottom so that only the top 1/4" was inside the punch. Next I punched again to get just the little sliver of red. The stem & the seeds were just cut with sissors. Both the edges of the black board & the edges of the apples were inked with Creamy Caramel.

This card was also inspired by a card I saw in Stampin' Success.

Ingredients:

Not Quite Navy, Whipser White, Green Tea DSP - paper; Not Quite Navy (craft), Old Olive (craft), Baja Breeze - ink; En Francais, Botanical Blooms - stamp set; Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, rhinestone jewel, Old Olive ribbon, clear embossing powder, distressing kit - accessories;

To get the glossy look to the flowers I stamped them with craft ink & then embossed them with clear embossing powder. I love the way it looks on the handwriting background.

End of Year Teacher Gifts Part I

2010-07-11T22:21:00.000-07:00

My oldest son had three teachers last year, my younger son had both a teacher & multiple daycare caregivers & they have a bus driver. Thank you gifts were a bit complicated this year :)

In an attempt to keep the price down as well as give a nice gift, I decided I would make "school year" calanders that started in July and ended in June. I wasn't sure what to use as a calendar base but I found some great 12 x 12 cork tiles at Wal-Mart. I could slice them down the middle with an exacto knife & have perfect 12 x 6 bases for my calenders. I also made cards but I'll share those in another post :)

Here's the calendar

I think it turned out great & even with all the embellishments, I think they cost around $10 each. I printed the month tags from Word & then stamped the month name, some decorative stamps & distress ink on each tag. It's a little difficult to see but 10 of the tags have white circle "reinforcements" around the hole at the top. I really think this little added bit, with the distress ink, made the tags. The big flower to the right was made by punching a scalloped circle, poking a hole to mark the center & then snipping down from each side of the scallops towards the poked center.

July Kit

2010-07-11T22:12:00.000-07:00

As usual, I had a lot of fun with this month's kit. I'm always amazed at how much stuff is in one kit! I made a little boy's birthday card and four 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook pages with this kit. Of course, this means I still have lots of paper left so I'll have to get busy & print more pictures :)
The July kit is Cosmo Cricket's Girl Friday from www.createdwithpaper.com.

June Kit

2010-05-31T18:57:00.000-07:00

June's kit from www.createdwithpaper.com is BoBunny's Roughin' It Kit. This kit is so cute! The tree paper (In the Woods) is my absolute favorite. I think I've used it on every page I've made with this kit so far :) I was still sorting through old photos (as I've been doing for almost a year now) and decided to try and 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook about a camping trip we went on with my sister & my brother-in-law. Serendipitiously, I got June's kit just after I'd finished the title page for my new album. The video includes two of the pages I made for that album & I'll post a few more after the video. Enjoy!

Mama-razzi - May Kit

2010-05-03T19:22:00.000-07:00

May's kit was BoBunny's Mama-razzi from www.createdwithpaper.com. I was super excited when I saw this kit in the catalogue!! You all know how much I love vintage stuff & all the old cameras really got my creative juices flowing. The colours are great for little boys, so no worries about finding the perfect picture & paper combination! I think the new blackboard chipboard from Cosmo Cricket is really cool. The photobox in the video was really quick & easy to make! Enjoy...

Old Posts :)

2010-03-30T16:41:00.000-07:00

This was a birthday card for my sister last fall! I really love how it turned out! This black & white paper from Stampin' Up! was soooo great! The Autumn Harvest set is also one of my most favorite.

Ingredients:

Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Whisper White, Night and Day DSP, Pumpking Pie Prints DSP - paper; Basic Black - ink; Autumn Harvest, Baroque Motif - stamp sets; Corner rounder, black & white ribbon, Stampin' Pastels - accessories;

Mother's Day Card

2010-03-30T13:06:00.000-07:00

I was going through a folder of old projects a little while ago & found this Mother's Day card. Isn't it great?

Ingredients:

Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Rose Re, Whipser White, Regal Rose Prints DSP - paper; Regal Rose, Certainly Celery - ink; Baroque Mofits - stamp set; Pretties Kit (half pearls), Certainly Celery ribbon, white rub-ons, Swirly Sizzlits - accessories;

April's Kit - 3 Layouts!!

2010-03-29T16:24:00.000-07:00

This was BoBunny's Sophie collection from www.createdwithpaper.com. I wasn't crazy about the purple in the kit when I first saw it but this turned out to be a fun kit! I made three layouts in a flash... I've been trying to finish up the photos from some of the older album's I've started, so the 8x8 layouts were for my Florida trip album. I really like how they turned out.

March's Kit - One year anniversary!!

2010-02-27T22:27:00.001-08:00

Well, here's March's kit from www.createdwithpaper.com. It's called Hip Hip Hooray. It's full of all kinds of party stuff & bright colours. This video one year since I started monthly kit video! Hope you enjoy!

Mom's Valentine

2010-02-27T19:09:00.000-08:00

Using the Romance kit featured in January's video I made this valentine's card for my mom. The huge flower was added from my stash.

Vintage Layouts

2010-02-25T18:55:00.000-08:00

I love vintage things!! Any vintage scrapbooking product immediately draws my attention. However, I hardly ever make vintage pages. Since I've been going through some of my older photos & trying to finish up the boys baby books, I found the studio photos from 2005 of the boys. I love these photos. I think this was the cutest my boys ever were! These photos were perfect for vintage layouts. I poured everything vintage I wanted into these pages. Hope you like them!

February Kit

2010-02-03T19:52:00.000-08:00

Febuary's kit from www.createdwithpaper.com was perfect for the beautiful marina & the Sleeping Giant. Pretty & sparkly.

2010-02-03T19:19:00.000-08:00

I've been working through a bunch of older photos & found this ultra adorable pic of my son at 1 1/2. I had tons of fun working on this one.

Island Mist Double Dot(BoBunny), Very Vanilla card stock (SU!), Bingo cards (Jenni Bowlin), Flourishes (Bazzill In Stitchz), Cream Leg Warmer felt thickers (American Crafts), brown embroidery floss, Hambly Screen Prints journaling Rub On

January Kit - Slightly Early

2009-12-23T12:15:00.000-08:00

This kit from www.createdwithpaper.com is a great way to get a head start on Valentine's Day. I totally love all the cupcakes!! I already posted the cupcake card I made with this paper.
I really like the tag on the card in the video. It turned out so cool!

Check out Created With Paper Kits! http://www.createdwithpaper.com/

Cards for Little People

2009-12-19T16:47:00.000-08:00

December and January have a lot of card occasions for me, so I've started another card spree. Thought I would share the first one.

The first is a 2nd Birthday card for my friend's little girl. It's also a little sneak peak at the January kit :) The cupcake is cut & chalked from some of the kit paper.

Ingredients:

SU! Chocolate Chip, SU! Pixie Pink, October Afternoon "Ducks in a Row", American Crafts "Forbidden Love"- paper; Scallop Edge Punch, Bazzill In Stitchz "Formal Flourish", green embroidery floss, circle cutter, corner rounder, Stampin' Pastels

To make the cupcake, I cut the cupcake out of the Forbidden Love paper in three colours (brown, dark pink & light pink). I cut the whole cupcake in brown, the topper & icing in the light pink & just the icing in the dark pink. I chalked each section with the matching colour & put them all together with pop-up dots.

Digital Scrapbooking

2009-12-15T17:19:00.000-08:00

Despite being a big techie, I've mostly avoided digital scrapbooking. It seemed to remove most of the fun of feeling & looking at all my scrapbook papers & embellishments. Well, every year I make "year" scrapbooks as family Christmas presents. Reality has caught up with me. Reproductions is MUCH easier with digital. So I decided to make my "year" scrapbook digitally and reproduce many copies. Apparently, it still takes a while to design pages digitally too. It turned out to be quite a bit of fun after all. I think I still like "real" scrapbooking better but there's some really cool things you can do digitally. For the title of my digital scrapbook I used a free kit from http://www.shabbyprincess.com/

It turned out pretty nice, don't ya think?

Still Shots of the Week Book

2009-12-07T16:52:00.001-08:00

I thought I'd also post still shots of each page in the week book.

December Kit Time!!

2009-12-01T19:52:00.001-08:00

This month's kit from www.createdwithpaper.com is pretty cool. It's a whole minibook in one kit. I managed to squish the whole project into just under 11 minutes :) Hope you enjoy it. Although the kit is for a recipe book featuring BoBunny's Kitchen Spice, I though I'd "spice it up a little" and make a differnt type of book from the same kit. I saw an idea quite a while ago, for a "week in our life" book. Our routine has changed so many times over the last few years that I thought a current life snapshot would be cool. It was a fun project. I took photos of our ordinary life for one week & then turn them into a book. By using pockets, tags and envelopes I managed to squeeze quite a few pictures into my book. Enjoy!

Bonus Video - Jolly by Golly

2009-11-01T19:25:00.000-08:00

This month I had so much fun with the kit, I ended up recording 4 different projects!! Here's a single 12x12 family page & a non-traditional Christmas card made from the kit! www.createdwithpaper.com

90th Birthday Card

2009-11-01T19:13:00.000-08:00

This card was lots of fun to make :) Although I'm not very good at it yet, I'm really enjoying the collage technique. I love vintage stuff & collage always gives me that feeling. This was made for the sweetest lady's 90th birthday party.

Ingredients:

Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Confetti Cream - paper; Buckaroo Blue, Vintage Violet, Chocolate Chip, VersaMark - ink; Friends 24-7, French Script, Frames with a Flourish - stamp sets; Queen & Co. blue pearls, American Crafts Thickers Darling Accents, white gel pen, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Doodlebug white candy shoppe mini rubons, white embossing powder, clear embossing powder - accessories;

I'm not sure if you can see it well in the picture or not but the background stamping has the damask stamp embossed in white & the bird is stamped with craft ink & embossed with clear powder.

November's Kit Video - Cosmo Cricket's "Jolly By Golly"

2009-10-28T16:10:00.000-07:00

I had so much fun with the November kit from www.createdwithpaper.com that I ended up with 4 different projects to make videos from. Here's the first one :) Almost done the second so I should be posting that one in the next day or two. Hope you like them!!!

More Autumn Cards :)

2009-10-26T13:09:00.000-07:00

Seems there's a lot of cards to be made in the fall!! I've been working with my leaf stamps again. This was my aunt's birthday card.

Ingredients:

Mellow Moss, BoBunny Mint Dot, BoBunny Plaid, Confetti Cream - paper; Chocolate Chip - ink; Autumn Leaf Prints, Wonderful Words - stamp set; American Crafts Carrot buttons, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, linen thread, Watercolour pencil crayons, blender pen, corner rounder, machine stitching, clear embossing powder, stampin' dimensionals - accessories;

I had this plaid paper in a scrapbooking kit from last year & thought it would be great for a leaf card. I machine stitched all around the background, embossed the "Celebrate" with clear embossing powder and stamped, cut out & coloured the leaves.

October's Video

2009-09-28T17:03:00.000-07:00

With the October kit from www.createdwithpaper.com I managed to feature two 12 x 12 layouts that take only minutes to make. Because I used the die cut sheet for the majority of the embelishments, the pages go together in a snap. Also, I made a cute Hallowe'en treat package with jelly beans. This treat bag is super easy to make too :) Hope you all enjoy it!

Fall Watercolouring

2009-09-24T11:42:00.000-07:00

Watercoloured cards look so pretty!! Fall pictures just seem to beg me to watercolour them! Here are three of my watercoloured cards. I've used an aqua painter & reinkers on all three of them. You always want to use watercolour paper with the aqua painter so that your paper doesn't curl up as it dries. To do the actual watercolouring, I brush the water from the aqua painter over the area I want to colour. Next I drop ink into the wells of my palet (or a plastic lid would work). I dip the aqua painter into the ink & touch it to the wet area of the paper. The ink will run throughout the water you've brushed there, colouring your picture.

This first card was my father-in-law's birthday card. The Lovely as a Tree set remains lovely no matter how long I've had it. I love the way the card fold had the circle cut in it.

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Watercolour paper, Very Vanilla - paper; Brown StazOn - ink; Lovely As a Tree, All Holiday - stamp sets; Circle cutter, vintage brads, aqua painter, Old Olive reinker, More Mustard reinker, Pumpkin Pie reinker, Ruby Red reinker, Bashful Blue reinker - accessories;

This second card was my father's birthday card. The masking takes a little time but I like the scene I created.

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Watercolour paper - paper; Brown StazOn, Chocolate Chip - ink; Autumn Harvest, Fun & Fast Notes - stamp sets; Chocolate Chip Corduroy buttons, Earth Elements brads, Aqua painter, machine sewing, Pumpkin Pie reinker, More Mustard reinker, Garden Green reinker, Old Olive reinker, Ruby Red reinker, Chocolate Chip reinker, Really Rust reinker, Creamy Caramel reinker, Cool Caribbean reinker - accessories;

This final card really has little watercolouring on it but it was such a fun card. I used it for a little boy's birthday.

Ingredients:

Kraft, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip - paper; Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Basic Black - ink; Bugs & Kisses, Sanded - stamp sets; Old Olive ribbon, circle cutter, crimper, aqua painter, Old Olive marker, Bashful Blue reinker, Chocolate Chip reinker - accessories;

Finally, a Card!!

2009-09-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

This little confection is for my friend's new baby. I've been having fun with texture lately. If you look closely at the photo you can sort of see the strip texture on the white background and the waffle weave on the pink strip. The white strip effect was made by gluing 1/4" strips of white onto a white background. The waffle weave was made by running the paper through the crimper in both directions.

Ingredients:

Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Fun & Fast Notes - Stamp set; VersaMarker, Stampin Pastels, sponge dauber, paper piercer, Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon, Latte button, crimper, eyelet edge punch - accessories

September Video

2009-09-08T18:43:00.000-07:00

And here is the fabulous September kit from www.createdwithpaper.com :) This video features two 12 x 12 layouts that are quite different. I loved making the pink page. With two little boys to scrapbook I rarely go whole hog on the pink thing! This picture is one of my favorites. It reminds me of all my good childhood memories. My mom hates this picture because she looks weird in it :)

Bonus Video - Card

2009-08-19T20:42:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone :) I decided to make a thank you basket & card with the leftovers of my August kit from www.createdwithpaper.com. Here's the video of the card.

August's Kit - Calypsicle

2009-07-30T20:20:00.000-07:00

The August kit from www.createdwithpaper.com is here! These were fun pages to make :) So totally different! I'm also working on a bonus video from the same kit. It's a 3-D item & card and it looks completely different too!
Hope you enjoy the video!!

Another Masculine Card

2009-07-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

I'm totally in love with this card. The idea for it just popped into my head & turned itself into a card. I love it when that happens!!

Ingredients:

Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red, River Rock, Soft Sky, Whisper White , DSP- paper; River Rock, Not Quite Navy - ink; Time, All Holiday - stamp sets; Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware, Ruby Red ribbon, new circle cutter, corner rounder - accessories;

Daddy's Card

2009-07-07T18:02:00.000-07:00

This was my dad's Father's Day card. I printed the words on the computer and built the card around it. The card layout came from the back of one of the promotional flyers from last fall :)

Ingredients:

Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White - paper; Kiwi Kiss - ink; Puns from the Past - stamp set; Riding Hood Red striped ribbon, spiral punch, paper piercer - accessories;

July's Video

2009-07-01T01:18:00.000-07:00

Here's my gorgeous layout made with the July Kit "Blue Boutique" from Created with Paper (http://www.createdwithpaper.com/) I added the "powder - Rainboots" Thickers to the kit & I can't believe how well they match with the paper! Totally in love with all the "Rainboots" Thickers!!

Father's Day

2009-06-30T16:31:00.001-07:00

Well, it's a little after Father's Day but I thought I'd still share the cards I made for all the fathers in my life. I haven't been very good about uploading my stuff lately, so I'm going to space out my Father's Day card :D sorry... one at a time...

This card is for my husband who's a big coffee fan :) I embossed the cup & the beans with ultra thick embossing powder & popped the cup up on dimensionals. I think it turned out very cute!

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel - paper; Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel - ink; Like it a Latte, Everyday Flexible Phrases - stamp sets; Ultra-Thick Embossing powder, Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, crimper, Chocolate Chip felt ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, 1/2" circle punch - accessories;

The June Kit!!

2009-06-02T13:43:00.000-07:00

Created with Paper's June kit (www.createdwithpaper.com) includes these awsome little birds. I had so much fun with them. I'm still saving my little bird brad for just the right thing but check out what I did make with the kit:)

Ingredients:

Created with Paper June Kit - We R Memory Keepers Nonsense Line
Sassifrass Lass Starry Night

A Girly Baby Card

2009-05-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

Oh goody, goody, goody!! Another chance to make a girl baby card!! This one was quick & fun!

Ingredients:

Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Whiper White, Bella Rose DSP - paper; Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette - ink; Goody-goody Gumdrops - stamp set; Eyelet punch, scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch

More Mother's Day

2009-05-10T06:51:00.000-07:00

This was my mom's Mother's Day card, I really wanted to try out all my new dies. The flower is one of the dies that embosses & cuts and I just love the leaf die! The whole card came together very quickly because I already had the flower/leaf layout in my head. I've also been having a lot of fun with my eyelet punch lately :)

Ingedients:

Rose Red, Old Olive, Cameo Coral, Whipser White, Raspberry Tart DSP - paper; Rose Red - ink; En Francais - stamp set; Eyelet punch, green rhinestone brads, Stampin' Up! Simple Flower Sissix die, Stampin' Up! Little Leaves Sissix die - accessories;

College Card

2009-05-07T20:01:00.001-07:00

This was my first attempt at a College card. I'm sure there's a more technical description, but basically a college card is stamping as many background layers as you can with one focal image on top. I think I managed to use 6 different stamp sets and four types of embelishments for this one card . I think it turned out really cool.

Ingredients:

Baja Breeze, Confetti Cream, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip - paper; Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip - ink; Friends 24-7, Music Score (non-SU), En Francias, Aged to Perfection, Stamp of Authenticity, Winter Post - stamp sets; Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, mini library clips, linen thread, Button Boquet, Button Latte, Stampin' dimensionals, blender pen, Stampin' Pastels - accessories;

Mother's Day

2009-05-03T16:14:00.000-07:00

As spring FINALLY stretches out her hand... (occasionally) it's time for that thoughtful day... Mother's Day! Time for me to get busy! Here's the cards I've been working on.

I love the colours of this first one! Celery & Guava. This card was a lot of cutting! After stamping and cutting out the frame, I cut the mat free hand. I think this one's going to be for my grandma.

Ingredients:

Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla - paper; Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava - ink; Bella Toile, Botanical Blooms (SAB), Frames with a Florish, All Holiday - stamp sets; cream half pearls (Pretties Kit), Certainly Celery marker, Stampin' Dimensionals - accessories;

This card was fun because I love office themed items and tags are so much fun. You can hardly tell in the photo, but there's a reinforcement on the circle punched in the tag. I think that's my favorite item on the whole card :)
I ripped the edges of my Pink Pirouette & then moistened them. After it was adhered, I rolled up the edges all the way around. The flowers on the tag were paper pieced, which means I stamped the image in green onto the tag & then stamped it again in Rose Red on Pink Pirouette paper. Next I cut out just the flower parts & glued them over the original stamped image.

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla - paper; Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Old Olive - ink; Friends 24-7, All Holiday - stamp sets; piercing template, pink embroidery floss, Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, Crop-a-Dile, 1/2" circle punch, Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, blender pen - accessories;

May Videos!!

2009-05-01T07:29:00.000-07:00

This month is special because I've made two videos :) This first is two 8x8 layouts with the regular monthly kit from www.createdwithpaper.com. This month the kit contains items from the "Abbey Road" collecion by BoBunny. Such pretty colours!!

As a special addition for this month is a card kit. It contains supplies for at least three cards :) Here's my three.

I Love Fifth Ave. Floral

2009-04-30T13:24:00.000-07:00

So my "little" cousin turned 18 on Monday. She's a good 6" taller than me and not so little any more. Here's the birthday card I made for her. I'm totally crazy about Fifth Avenue Floral!! It so pretty & classy at the same time.

Ingredients:

Urban Oasis DSP, Kraft, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze - paper; Basic Black - ink; Fifth Avenue Floral - stamp set; Designer Hardware Soho, Stampin' Dimensionals - accessories;

To make the flowers I just stamped with black ink on the colored card stock & cut them out. I popped up one of the Baja Breeze flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals. This card was really quick & easy to make - about 20 minutes.

Decor Elements

2009-04-20T07:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I picked the "Home is Love" Decor Elements for my Level 2 hostess item a little while ago. Then there's this tree. As soon as I saw this tree I was in love! I order the large tree in chocolate to go with my "Home is Love" and went to work on my fireplace. This is just above the fireplace mantle. I love how it turned out! The tree comes in several pieces and must be put together. My little boys "helped" cut out the pieces and put it up.

Aren't Cards Fun?

2009-04-09T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a really old Father's Day card I really like. I find the seaside set a very reasonable set to use for masculine cards. To created the striped background paper, I took three different colors of the same patterned paper and cut them into strips. By mixing up the width & the order of the paper, I made my own multi coloured background paper.

Ingredients:

Bashful Blue Prints DSP, Real Red Prints DSP, Brilliant Blue Prints DSP, Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue, Whisper White - paper; Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue - ink; Seaside, Everyday Flexible Phrases - stamp sets; Brilliant Blue brads, linen thread - accessories;

This is a birthday card for one of the girls in my son's class. I used some the April kit "Fawnd of You" from http://www.createdwithpaper.com/

Ingredients:
Almond Dot (BoBunny), Bouquet of Bliss (Sassafrass Lass), Chai tea (Sassafrass Lass), Girl's Best Friend (Sassafrass Lass)- paper; Chocolate Holly Doodle stickers (Pink Paislee), Happy Pal Around - chipboard sticker shapes (Sassafrass Lass), Textured Corduroy Blossoms (Maya Road) - accessories;

Card Bonanza!

2009-04-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

So I got all excited the other day & made three cards. It's my mom's birthday today so two of the cards were for her. I'm crazy about the two flower ones & was pleased with the ice cream sundae one.

I was helping Mom with a card a week or so ago & was suddenly struck by the idea that the white flowers from the Pretties kit would make the best daisies if I added Summer Sun corduroy buttons. This card has almost no stamping *gasp* but I thought it turned out great!

Ingredients:

Summer Sun textured cardstock, Whisper White - paper; Summer Sun - ink; All Holidays - stamp set; Summer Sun corduroy buttons, Pretties Kit, Styled Silver hodgepodge hardware, small oval punch, ticket corner punch, Laughter & Love white rub ons - accessories;

This next beauty uses my current favorite set: Fifth Avenue Floral!! The card was pretty but after I added the Stickles on the rose petals, the whole card came to life!

Ingredients:

Parisian Breeze Speciality paper, Baja Breeze textured cardstock, Whipser White - paper; Chocolate Chip - ink; Fifth Avenue Floral, Circle of Friendship - stamp sets; Eyelet Boarder punch, Organza ribbon, Stickles, 1" circle punch, Button Bouquet, Button Latte - accessories;

And last but not least...
Ingedients:

Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red, Whipser White, Pink Pirouette, Candy Lane DSP - paper; Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette - ink; Sassy Suzy, Goody, Goody Gumdrops - stamp sets: Button Bouquet, scallop circle, Stickles, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Close to Cocoa velvet ribbon, paper piercing template, pop-up dots, Stampin Pastels, blender pen - accessories;

Very Pretty Anniversary Card

2009-03-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

I LOVE how this card turned out!! I made this for my parents' anniversary. The Red & White is so my thing... usually it's blue & white with me but I'm really into this one too.
To make the castle part, I stamped in vellum with StazOn black ink. Next I painted the back of the image with white acrylic paint. Finally, I used a blender pen & Riding Hood Red ink pad to color the red bits on the front of the vellum.

Ingredients:

Riding Hood Red, Whipser White, Vellum - paper; Black StazOn, Riding Hood Red - ink; Bella Toile, Wonderful Words I, Provencal (hostess) - stamp sets; Organza Ribbon, white half pearls (Pretties Kit), white acrylic paint, blender pen - accessories;

April's Kit VIdeo

2009-03-29T18:46:00.000-07:00

And it's time for another fabulous video featuring the April 2009 kit from Created with Paper (http://www.createdwithpaper.com). The kit doesn't come out until Wednesday but I'll let you have a sneek peak!

http://www.createdwithpaper.com/
Here are the still shots of the final layout.

I've been Tagged!

2009-03-24T07:06:00.001-07:00

Today I was tagged by my artistic friend Tammy to take part in a fun little blog tag.
Here is the instructions:
1. Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.
2. Go to the 6th Folder, then pick the 6th picture in that folder.
3. Post that picture on your blog and the story that goes along with the picture.
4. Tag 6 other people that you know or don’t know to do the same thing and leave a commenton their blog or an e-mail letting them know you chose them.
So I went into My Pictures and chose the 6th folder and the sixth photo . . . . . .and here it is.
My boys climbing a tree at Marina Park last September. They totally love that park & it's close enough to our house to walk. I have a whole group of great photos of them at the park. These photos will be part of my new video featuring April's "Fawnd of You" kit from www.createdwithpaper.com

And now to tag 6 others... I tag:

Cindy Major

http://cindymajor.typepad.com/encre_papier_ciseaux/

Brenda Weaver

http://sweetpapertreats.wordpress.com/

Tara Kieninger

http://www.firefliesandflutterbyes.com/fireflies_and_flutterbyes/

Chris Twing

http://www.forloveofpaper.com/for_love_of_paper/

Jacqueline Bayliff

http://stampinaddict.blogspot.com/

Jamie Sears

http://stampingmommyof4.com/

Baja Breeze & Kiwi Kiss

2009-03-18T06:51:00.000-07:00

It seems Baja Breeze & Kiwi Kiss were a favorite color combo one evening :) Here's some samples in blue & green.

This first card was CASE'd from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1180888?cat=14668. I changed the patterned paper & the colors.

Ingredients:

Bella Rose DSP, Urban Garden DSP, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Navy, Basic Grey, Whisper White - paper; Basic Grey, Baja Breeze - ink; Puns from the Past - stamp set; corner rounder, clear buttons, Kiwi Kiss striped grosgrain ribbon, piercing template, cyrstal effects, white crochet cotton - accessories;

The fall/winter 2008 catalogue had these cute cookie wrapers in the hostess section. When I got my new Sale-a-bration Yummy set, I thought it would be perfect. Here's my version of the cookie wrapper.

Ingredients:

Baja Breeze Patterns DSP, Whipser White, parchment baking paper - paper; Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy - ink; Yummy - stamp set; corner rounder, scallop edge punch, Baja Breeze striped grosgrain ribbon - accessories;

Unfortunately this next card is blurry & I'm too busy (read lazy) to take another picture of it :) It's a really quick card that showcases heat embossing. I think it's very simple & pretty.

Ingredients:

Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Whisper White - paper; Not Quite Navy, Versa Mark - ink; Upsy Daisy, Close as a Memory - stamp sets; White embossing powder - accessories;

And last but not least my Botanical Blooms card. This one was copied right from the Sale-a-bration mini catalogue. It's not actually Kiwi & Baja, it's Bashful Blue & Certainly Celery. Still pretty, I think.

Ingredients:

Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Whisper White - paper; Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Certainly Celery, Old Olive - ink; Botanical Blooms - stamp set; Pretties Kit, Chateau Bella Rub Ons, scallop edge punch, paper piercing template, Bashful Blue taffeta ribbon - accessories;

Easter Treats

2009-03-02T07:48:00.001-08:00

There was a Splitcoaststampers challenge using these round top boxes and I loved all the samples I was seeing! I decided to download the pattern and use the box for my last party.

I love how it turned out :) It was really quick & easy.

Ingredients:

Certainly Celery, Delicate Dots DSP (SAB), Very Vanilla - paper; Bashful Blue - ink; Yummy (SAB) - stamp set; Vanilla hodgepodge hardware, 3/4" circle punch, circle cutter - accessories;

Here's a link to the pattern. I just printed this .pdf onto my card stock by replacing my regular paper with Certainly Celery in the printer tray and then cut it out.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=419606 Click on the attached file "Round Top Box.pdf"

Another quick post

2009-03-01T21:16:00.001-08:00

Just in case anyone has been missing out... My Stampin' Up! site is:
http://www.rosemary.stampinup.net/

Check it out! There's project instuctions and videos as well as a gallery. Also, there's currently a great promotion that gives you a FREE CATALOGUE if you place an online order. See site for more details!

The promised layouts

2009-02-27T06:46:00.000-08:00

So I've still been lagging behind in my postings, so here's a bunch of pictures to help make up for it :)

I've become a member of the design team for Created with Paper. These are the layouts that go with the video in the last post. Check out http://www.createdwithpaper/ .com

And now onto cards!! This card was the Valentine's card I made for my husband. I'd gone to visit my sister (8 hour drive away) during the Valentine's week-end & he suprised me by showing up on Valentine's day. I AM bananas about him :)

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink, Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery Prints DSP, Whisper White - paper; Chocolate Chip, Barely Banana - ink; Sock Monkey, Euphoria mini alphabet - stamp sets; Heart to Heart punch, 1/4" square punch - accessories;

Me??? In the movies???

2009-02-24T06:28:00.000-08:00

Well, not exactly in the movies. I do have a bit of a taste for over dramatics. I'm made my first YouTube video featuring a monthly kit from http://www.createdwithpaper.com/.

I'll add photos of the layouts in a couple days.
Cheers!

A Cherry on Top

2009-02-05T07:02:00.000-08:00

One of the hostess stamp sets I got from the new catalogue was the Goody-Goody Gumdrops set. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with this one. I really liked the sample I saw here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1187438?cat=15691 on splitcoast. This card was my version of it :)

Ingredients:

Riding Hood Red, Close to Cococa, Whipser White, Pretty in Pink, Riding Hood Red DSP - paper; Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip - ink; Goody-Goody Gumdrops - stamp set; Heart to Heart punch, crystal effects, Stampin' Pastels, blender pen, Swirls Cuttlebug folder - accessories;

I have a NEICE!!

2009-02-02T08:16:00.001-08:00

This beautiful baby is my neice Kaitlyn. There are so many boys in our family & we're all delighted to welcome our first girl. Two more weeks until I get to meet her :)

This is the name frame I made for her. I'm so totally thrilled with it!! So cool that I can actually make a pink and flowery thing!! The flower embellishments were made by stamping & embossing the flower from Delight in Life (SAB) and cutting them out. Some were stamped on two different colours of paper and the flower cut from one color & the center cut from another colour. Three have the half pearls for centers.

Ingredients:

Barely Banana textured, Whipser White, Regal Rose, Simply Scrappin' Just Delightful (SAB), So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Loves Me DSP - paper; VersaMark, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana - ink; Delight in Life, Alphabet - stamp sets; Styled Silver Hodgepodge, white embossing powder, Pretties kit 1/2 pearls, Old Olive marker, organza ribbon, Stampin' dimensionals - accessories;

Pretty, pretty, pretty!

2009-01-29T07:16:00.000-08:00

This is my most favorite new card. I made this with the samples for my Open House last Friday. I saw the Embosslit used to make this flower on another card @ splitcoast and loved it. I also loved this paper as soon as I saw it. It's such HAPPY paper :) To make this flower I ran two Regal Rose pieces of paper throught the Big Shot with the new Stampin' Up! Sweetest Stem Embosslit and one piece of Kiwi Kiss. I snipped the ends off the pink pieces and ink them with Regal Rose ink. Finally I glued them in layers behind the Kiwi Kiss piece. I think the faux stitiching down the side really adds to the quilted look made by the squares of patterned paper.

Ingredients:

Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Whisper White, Raspberry Tart DSP - paper; Regal Rose, Rose Red - ink; All Holidays - stamp set; Big Shot, Sweetest Stem Embosslit, white gel pen, piercing template, ticket corner punch - accessories;

Love You Much

2009-01-24T19:16:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone... Sorry I haven't been posting lately! Hope this will start to make up for it :) I had my Open House party for the new catalogue (www.rosemary.stampinup.net) and everything turned out great! The Make & Takes for the party were all from the "Love You Much" Bundle

(promotion ends Jan. 31) Here's the projects and some of the samples.

This little pillow box of candies was my thank you gift to each person attending the Open House. I think they're soooo cute!!

Ingredients:

Transparencies, Regal Rose, Whisper White - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Love You Much - stamp set; 5/8" Real Red grosgrain ribbon, scallop punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, white gel pen, Regal Rose marker, Real Red marker, crochet cotton, Pillow Box Sissix Bigz Die - accessories;

This mini pizza box & two 3x3 cards were the Make & Take. The card fit inside the box or you could use the box for chocolate & give it with one of the cards :)

Ingredients:

Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, Candy Lane DSP (Designer Series Paper) - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Love You Much - stamp set; white gel pen, Coluzzle, Scallop circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, paper piercer, Wide Oval punch, scallop edge punch, 1/16" punch, 1" circle punch, Word Window punch, Heart to Heart punch - accessories;

Here's a close up of just the mini pizza box.

And a couple samples from the party...

Ingredients:

Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red, Candy Lane DSP, Very Vanilla - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Love you Much - stamp set; Heart to Heart punch, Flower Fusion Too, gold brads, Sissix Naturally Serif sizzlet decorative strip die, Stampin' deminsionals - accessories;

And last but not least...

Ingredients:

Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Candy Lane DSP, Very Vanilla - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Love you Much - stamp set; Heart to Heart punch, button bouquet, Word Window punch, scallop edge punch, 1/16" punch - accessories;

Sorry... have been very lazy...

2009-01-21T09:35:00.000-08:00

I had a lovely Christmas vacation & sorted a lot of my house. Now I'm busy getting ready for my Open House and am busily making samples I'll share with you next week :)

Here's some older samples I've never posted. These were menus we created for a friend's parent's anniversary party. I love how they turned out.

Ingredients:

Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Whipser White, Old Olive DSP - paper; Old Olive, VersaMark - ink; Baroque Motif, Taffy Alphabet - stamp set; Gold Embossing Powder, piecring template - accessories;

Last Year's Scrapbook

2008-12-18T11:54:00.000-08:00

After finishing my baby book, I thought I'd share my file folder scrapbook from last year. I made three of these for Christmas presents. I used the Simply Scrappin' kit Creative License to make two of them.

And here are the close ups of each month. Sorry they're fuzzy but you can see the layout of each.