Season's Greetings

Hi!!  It's been over 2 months since I've posted!  Yikes!!  It's not that I haven't been crafting, just got lazy about posting!!  And now blogger is all different, and I have to re-learn!!  Ugh. 

Anyway, I got a new (now retired) stamp set from Stampin' Up called "Scenic Season", and some heat and stick powder and was playing with it, and came up with these!! 


This one was a bit harder cause I had to mask it. The whole stamp would not fit on the card, but I made it work!!

This one was done with white embossing powder.  I just love the simplicity and elegance of these!!  I am going to make more of them, just need to get some more black glitter!!  :)

I saw so many gorgeous creations with this stamp set, I just had to have it when I found out it was retiring!! 

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Home

I have been on a crafty roll lately!!  After making all my Christmas cards I was burned out, but lately I've been wanting to create, so I've been back cruising all the blogs I follow, and finding some new ones!!  Love the inspiration and creativity!!

At Scrapbookers Anonymous they have a challenge called "Maps and Brads", and they are all about using your stash!! Now, I did not have a thing that had anything to do with a map. Enter Google!! I was able to find and print a map of BC, which is the province I live in, and the rest just fell into place!! About 4 years ago we had an aerial pic taken of our house, and it is framed and hanging on our wall, so I took a picture of it, which was quite challenging because it didn't seem to matter where I put it, I kept seeing a reflection of something! Anyway, I decided to do a page about our home, using the map. Here is my page:

I printed the map on vellum paper, so you are still able to see a bit of the background.  I took a piece of sand coloured paper and tore it to try and make it look like mountains, but that still looked boring so then I decided to stamp some trees and animals that you would for sure see in BC!!  Enter moose, deer, porcupine and rabbit!!  I used a small brad to "pin-point" where we are in BC.  A tag with a bit of journaling, a brad to hold it in place and it was done!!

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Happy Birthday

My mom's and my sister in laws birthdays are coming up, so I have to make them cards!!  I saw this sketch at Card Patterns, and there is also a challenge at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, girly but no pink, and at 2 Sisters Challenge Blog they have a flower challenge.  Sounds simple enough right??  Here is the sketch:

And here is my card:

The stamp is Newspaper Tulips from Hero Arts.  The tulip tips are So Saffron, and the rest is Real Red.  The sentiment, although it looks pink, is not!!  It is stamped in Real Red and I also sponged Real Red onto it.  I used my Stampin Up pearls for a bit of bling.  I used dimensionals to mount the background and the sentiment.  I will probably make a few of these!  It turned out very pretty and they are simple as well!!  :)

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Rub a Dub Dub...

I recently discovered the "sport continuous" setting on my camera.  It is so cool!!  I think I will be using it a lot!!  :)  Anyway, I used it taking pictures of my son playing in the tub.  In these pictures he is throwing a ball at the wall.  You can see the progression in the pics.  I saw this sketch at Sketches in Thyme and knew that I wanted to use these pics!!  It just worked out too perfectly!!  Here is the sketch I followed:

And here is my layout:

I used the Stampin Up Framelits for the title area.  The ducky is plastic and something I found in my stash of baby stickers.  Pretty simple!!  :)

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Hula Boy Hula Girl

So in March of 2008, hubby and I went to Hawaii and I brought home this cute little hula girl outfit for my daughter.  Fast forward 4 years and I dressed up my son in the same hula skirt and macadamia nut necklace, and here is the page I scrapbooked!!  I followed a sketch, but not sure what magazine it came from.  The background paper looked like sand, and I found two shades of blue that were kind of swirly and reminded me of water.  I also used a beach paper.  I found some chipboard letters and used those for the title.  I also have this little bag of die cuts, and found the palm trees and sun in that.  The pink hula skirt is actually a Barbie skirt that I "borrowed" from my daughter!!  I think it adds a fun touch!

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Happy Birthday

I wanted to try another roller skate card, and I have a few girls' birthdays coming up, so this will go to one of them.  I used some purple glimmer paper for the skate, the plain white one was just a little too, well, plain!!  I also used a bigger hole punch and some purple polka dot ribbon for the laces.  Green buttons for the wheels, and a tiny bling on the sentiment.  I am going to enter this card at Creative Inspirations where the challenge is a colour challenge: pastel purple, pastel blue and pastel green.  Here is my card:

It wasn't the best lighting, so the true colours don't show, but I think you get the idea!! 

Thanks for looking!!  :)

Baby Cards

I have been a mood to make cards lately and that is what I have been doing!!  Trying to build up my inventory!!  :)  I have some baby cards to show you.  I have tons of baby stickers and was trying to come up with a way to use them.  I'm not planning on having any more kids, and there are only so many baby pages you can do, so enter cards!  They are pretty basic. I used Baby Talk for the background, and Baby Firsts.


These are the boy cards...

And these are the girl cards...

Anybody want a card, $2.00 each!!  :)

Thanks for looking!