Scrapbook and Gifts Update

Just wanted to update and let everyone know my taxes I mean the Scrapbook is done...

What a relief.
I have taken a ton of Pictures, but I hesitate to show them all.  I want my Daughter to enjoy them first.
When I get back from delivering it I will post more pictures. For now though I will just upload a few, of the less exciting pages...
The first is the Layout from buying the dress.... I forgot my camera this day but luckily I had my iPod in my purse and captured these images. It surprised me how nice they looked when I printed them up as photos....

These albums always turn into a first year of marriage thing in order to fill them up. The second layout is really boring, but I have about 6 pages that either have a place name, or "memories", "sites" and "Adventures" on it.  I do not have images from the study abroad that her and her husband did together last fall.  She will have to finish these pages herself...hopefully she will.

The last layout page is for their anniversary...
again they will have to take pictures for this and add them after it occurs. I am doing my best to remember to bring the anniversary cake to  them when I bring the album.  The last wedding we had I for got the cake top and had to mail it.   It made for a great blog post and a funny memory for my other daughter and her husband, at least I hope it is funny to them.

I also finished up some Birthday Gift items for  two of my other daughters that I will be delivering. I scheduled a post so they will appear after I deliver them...
Until later ....Happy Stamping!

Supplies:  DCWV, Cricut, Gypsy
 SU the only new items used not mentioned on the previous post  is the  5 point Flower punch.  I used the same ones I used to make their wedding announcements....

Chocolate Cake Card!

This last week was very busy..I worked on getting a few odds and ends projects out of the way that I have been meaning to do for awhile.

When the F4A101 challenge was posted last Friday on SCS I imediately thought of chocolate roses and chocolate frosting on a Chocolate cake.  one day I will get to have some again but right now I am dieting and trying my best to get all the unhealthy excess fat off my body, so I guess a paper cake would have to do.  I also wanted to do the sketch challenge, SC367,  so I combined the two...imagine if you will  the center chocolate chip card sotck strip as the chocolate cake!

Still loving my Big Shot, I used my Musical Flourish, and Swiss Dots Cuttlebug EF's for the base pieces.  The roses were made using my SU Scalloped Circle Punch, and spiral cutting it, then rolling it up and tweaking it until it looked like a rose.
Since I was having glue dot issues I used 5mm sticker pearls by The Paper Studio in the centers.
the very vanilla Seam binding ribbon was the perfect touch to finish off the card.  The SU Designer Label punch was used twice once with Crumb Cake and once in Chocolate Chip to add the little shadow at the bottom, and since I made 2  the other side was used for a duplicate card.  The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations  a long time SU favorite.
the embossed background  card stock is SU Crumb Cake, with  my base a Staple's Cream cover stock.

I hope you enjoyed it!...until later Happy Stamping!

Some Cricut Safari Fun

I made 2 of these cards for my little great nieces…one just had her first birthday. 

I have been wanting to make them ever since I saw this card on Wendy’s Blog months ago. 

  I have been trying to make time to make it forever. Today I was tired of working on the Wedding invites everyday so I decided to work on the Birthday cards I need the next few months.

I used DP from a K& Company, 10x10 paper pack called, “Itsy Bitsy Baby Boy”, I picked up  for a baby scrapbook album a few years ago.   I thought the blue and green dots would be perfect echoing the green grass and adding a bit of blue for sky.  I cut all the pieces out after laying them out on my Gypsy.  The two carts I used were Celebrate with Flourish and Create a Critter.  I need to use them both more. Colors of cardstock…Embassy Black, GP White, SU… Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, Early Espresso…the orange is from the stash scraps so I am not sure the color. I used th eSu Sweet button Embosslet for the center.  The ribbon you might recognize is from the first wedding  3 yrs ago., again using the stash, and  blue for the sky!

The layout was all Wendy.   I basically copied her card other than the grass, and using Designer paper.  I could have worked on the grass and merged and worked on it a bit, but all the home interruptions were just way to much today.  The sentiment is from SU’s… Up, Up, and Away set.   I am grateful Wendy did all the leg work on this card because I have been way too busy to design my own.  I just love  her Creativeness.   I am just happy to have something to blog about and glad to have time to make some cards. I was back at creasing all the lines I have been scoring the last few days.  I have another 200 to crease but I am making progress…Until later… Happy Stamping!

Inspired By Love Card

I started this card yesterday and finished it this morning...Its been one busy day. I have an event tonight that I am making decorations and food for and it has taken  up some of my time this week.  When I saw the IC318 Challenge I found this Frame that inspired me! (Shocking I know!)  However I didn't have anytime Sat to make the card.  Yesterday I looked at the Color Challenge CC357 and decided to combine the two Challenges and this is the card I came up with...I think it turned out cute.  I used several Embossing folders and Punches...I like the dimension and layers.  the fist thing I did was emboss the GP White card stock , and then trimmed it to the width of 5X5 heart blocks. then I got 2 Scraps of riding hood red and embossed the top and fifth row of the folder again. Then I trimmed the 1st and 5th hearts on each piece. Next I measured the inside square and trimmed another piece of card stock  to roughly 2 1/4" x 2 1/8". Embossed with QuicKuts Circles EF. I then matted it with Blushing Bride card stock and trimmed to roughly 1/16". Next I punched and embossed with SU Scallop trim border punch a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" piece of Baja Breeze.  After punching I line the inside flat edge on my paper cutter where the Black plastic is covers so It gets about a 1/16" edge. then I applied Adhesive to the edge of the BB matting and trimmed  trying to follow the Dots.  then I used 1/16" dimensionals to adhere the framed art to the White embossed backing and then adhered the Red hearts on dimensionals also.  the last mat piece of Baja Breeze was  Cut  1/2" wider on each edge than the white Heart Block embossed piece.  I then punched with SU Scalloped Trim Corner punch then lined up the border piece for the top and sides.. The top almost matched up perfectly. The suides however would not so I centered the Border on the piece of card stock then, used my 1/4" hand punch to double punch close to the rings on each side creating the little dip then used sciccors to trim out the little excess in between. I was going to use some brads in the dips but decided it looked nice with out. The last thing I assembled was the red Riding Hood Heart embossed with SU Embosslit Scalloped Heart to Heart. I used SU silver elastic cord to tie on the SU Tiny Tags love tag..First stamped in background of Baja Breeze ink and then using StazOn Jet Balk ink to stamp the *Love*. After I punched it out using SU Tiny Tag punch. The finished card is 4 1/4" BY 5" What  do you think??
Until Later...Happy Stamping!

SCS Challenge Cards

 I decided I need to make  cards more often so I decided to "Make" time for them everyday. Lately I am afraid the cards have been on the bottom of the list. they didn't make it all the way to the top but they are higher up on my list for sure.  I have decided following the challenges at SCS is a sure fire way to get me creating. Today I managed to work in 3 challenge cards.  This first one was the Sketch challenge posted last week...SC365. When I saw the pieces I knew I needed to use up some of my scrap stash  of Spice cake paper. It worked perfectly when I look a the completed card now I think I should have used my sewing machine and stiched it. Maybe next time.  I used SU: Triple Treat Flower.
Early Espresso, and More Mustard Ink
Pool Party, More Mustard, Old Olive and early Espresso card stock...I added a little Hero Art gem stone to the Embossed flower for a fancy corner small embossing folder that I punched out with a 1/2" circle punch.  The Espresso piece was embossed with Musical Flourish.

 My second card was for the CAS152 Challenge of Die Cuts. I pulled out an old Cuttlebug Die Cut of a flat tips 5 petal flower.  I used the scrap stash again  in dark and a light purple, and Certainly Celery, and cut out several times until I had a nice pile of flowers to work with and enough leaves. I think 5 times each color.  I drew a circle on the card added small glue dots along the line and started sticking down flowers to form the wreath. then I punched out a scrap of Barely Banana with my 1/4" hand punch. and added them to the centers. Melon Mambo scrap was used with the small Martha Stewart Monarch butterfly  Punch and then a bow was tied with the old wedding ribbon. the sentiment is stamped with Timber Brown StazOn ink using Celebrate Everything. I really like how this turned out.

The last card was for TLC359, which was titled "Best of 2011", so I had to choose a previous TLC challenge  for last year...I choose Follow the EdgeTLC318. basically  you cut away the front of the card to follow your stamped image.
I used SU: Fabulous Florettes to stamp the card. I used Daffodil Delight ink on the stamp and then used my Pumpkin Pie Marker to trace the outlines and then stamped them on the card front. then I masked them, and stamped the  leaf stems with Old Olive. making sure to wipe away the stems and part of the flower on it.
 Then after removing the mask I drew the straight stem part with an Old Olive marker. I used a scrap of old olive that was quite big but had something punched out of it. trimmed it to the size of the Card front and then followed the edge with my old shape cutting scissors.  I haven't used them in years.  They worked perfectly for this job. Lastly I tied the bow of dotted Orange organza and stuck it on with a large glue dot.

Hope you enjoy seeing more cards from me. I had fun making them.
Until later...Happy Stamping!

My Christmas Cards

I have been so busy making  my Christmas cards.  I made 200  of them I started having flash backs to making 400 Wedding announcements. I enjoyed making them I hope that the receivers love them too.  I bought the Ruby Red and Certainly Celery Paper to use a few years a go and then was side tracked by Wedding announcements...that actually happened the next year also.
Last year I had a genius idea to make a DVD.  This year I decided I had the time and the supplies to make the Cards so finally they happened.  I used Christmas Money to buy this cute Stamp Set from SU called, "Beautiful Season" I stamped  in Early Espresso.
I used the  Bright and beautiful Sentiment on th einside of the card, but after getting them all assembeled I felt I needed a sentiment on the outside too so I used this one from the SU "Best Yet" set. I used SU  large oval and punched the sentiment out, and used my Martha Stewart punch to make the green boughs and attached them behind.  I loved using the Gem stone Ribbon I got a Micheal's for the  Holly Berries...they are Recollections 1 Yard  of Ribbon, bling on a roll. They are staggered 2 deep so it was easy to cut them in triangles and attach them.  I used about 1 and 1/2 yards to make 200 cards so I still have some to play with on some other odds and ends.

For the image I used my Water Color Wonder Crayons and painted using Lucky Limeade and Ruby Red. I used Lime aid because it is very close to Certainly Celery and paints just a bit darker.
I matted with Certainly Celery, and punched the corners using EK double corner punch. I embossed the Ruby Red using Cuttle Bug snowflake form a set of Christmas Cuttlebug folders. and then mounted the image on top with glue dots.  The card base is 4 1/4' x 4 1/4".  I used the ribbon stash making these cards.  2 different Chocolate Organza, some of the green Satin form the wedding some  Chocolate and white gingham , and so red and green gingham.  I think I used up 6 different  used spools and they all look great...but being the only difference I choose the 1/2" dark brown Organza bought on a trip out west at a Roberts probably over 5 years ago. I used scraps for all the branch punches and sentiments...and a lot of the image matting.  I like that I am still using the stash.  There is an old saying I love, " use it up, ware it out, make it do, or do with out." I thin k sometimes we get to caught up in having all the newest colors and items and I am glad I was able to use all my old out of stock colored cardstock and ribbon scraps.

...Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Turkey Nut Boxes

Every year for Thanksgiving we have nut cups at each persons table setting. This year after seeing these cute boxes on my friend Wendys Blog ...and this post by my friend Kelly  I decided to combine the two and make some Turkey Nut Boxes...

I got the DP card stock at Michaels...the turkeys are both made form the same paper...I filled them with GV Indulgent Trail Mix from Walmart...Its one of my favorites with Cashew, Almonds, Peanuts, White and Dark Chocolate Chip's,  Golden raisins and Dried Cranberries in it.  Of course, I doctored it up and added an extra can of Cashews to it... My Husband loves Cashews.

My turkeys were made using the following SU punches...and colors
five petal flower...beak and feathers... SU Yo Yo Yellow and Only Orange
scalloped circle ... backing..................SU Early Espresso
1 1/8 Circle ..........facing....................."     "
1/2" circle.............eyes........................GP White
1/4" circle.............pupils......................Embassy Black

  I used mostly scraps from my scrap box to make the Turkeys, and I punched eyes because I was trying to "Use the Stash";  Kelly's use of Wiggly Eyes would be fun. 
I also closed my boxes different  than Wendy. I just cut a square at about 1 1/2" and then folded it in half and slipped it between the edges.. it appears to be holding.  I used, Close to Cocoa , Chocolate Chip and other Brown scraps from my Scrap box.   I think My Nieces and Nephews will love them...

Happy Thanksgiving...  I hope yours is Great!

I am madly working on finishing up my Christmas Cards.. I think I will be able to post them next week.   Until Later..... Happy Stamping!

My Other VSN unposted card

I really like how this turned out...I also got it in th email late but hopefully my Friend will forgive me I am sure it has arrived by now.  I love the look of a quilted background. and I like how these colors went together. I used several Embossing folders Once Upon  Princess, Tartan Plaid and Dots all Cuttlebug.  SU "You're a Gem" was used for the Sentiment.. ..need to use this set more. I used my oval punches to accent the sentiment...and for cardstock I used SU Certainly  Celerly, a Bulk Kraft and a Turquiose from my stash probably both from Michaels.  SU Early Espresso was used for Cardstock and ink. The ribbon is from my Stash green from last junes wedding the turquoise and Brown are Offray Purchased at Walmart.

Karissa and Ryans Invites

Every once in a while it is nice to help someone out with the skills I have; so this week I helped out a friend by making some wedding invites for  her son and his fiance. They moved their date up by a few months and have not had the opportunity to get enough money together.  My firend asked if I could help out. I used Photoshop amd a free brush set I downloaded called DecorativeFloral Brushes:by Pixels and Ice Cream:   I get the brushes and other decorative features for using in Photoshop at Brusheezy, and Fonts at Dafont...English was used for these announcements.  I love having a computer and a nice printer when a friend needs something with a quick turn around.  I also used my stash to punch all the Scalloped ovals. Using up scraps from the wedding invites I made last year for my DD is  areal bonus. I dont know if I have any scraps of CC left...:) which hasnt been the case in over a year. I used SU Punches,  CB Swiss Dots Embosiing folder and  RGB codes for Certainly Celery and Mambo Melon. The lime ribbon is an inexpesive Offray satin .50 cents a roll with an Organza Strawberry ribbon 2.89 for 25 yards on sale.  SU Certainly Celery was used to mat the image..  The Postacrds and Registration cards were designed using an image designed in photoshop from the same floral brush set and  English font. The return address is printed on the reverse to help cut down mailing cost for the RSVPs.  I'ld like to say these were fun to make but when you make 200 of something a little bit of the fun wears off, but it was fun to come up with a design and produce the first few!

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Spots and Dots Birthday Card

well finally after 3 attempts.

I made my CC318 Color Challenge Card for SCS.

 I have failed miserably 2 times because I used either Peach Parfait or Melon Mambo on the last two...

I used my Cuttlebug Spots and Dots EF. I Havent used it in ages..I forget I have it. Tonight my husband asked me as I was putting this card together. "How do you remeber what you own?"...I said," I dont!"...so today this was like using a brand new folder.. Well thats my story and  I am sticking to it...;) I used scrap roses and leaves from my last card.  for other details please ask!
Until Later...Happy Stamping!

"Keep Dreaming"

This week I had a fullfillment of a dream I had for my Children. My Daughter graduated from college with a degree in Mathmatics Education.  Her Husband also graduated in Latin American Studies. I am so proud of both of them.  What an accomplishment!  I mad ethem this card. I thought of using congratulations or Celebrate on th eCard but decided that Dream worked great.. because of the fullfillment of a Dream and the  Dreams yet to come in their life.

I hope they like the card. I used Pear Pizzazz, and Melon Mambo.  I havent got my Melon Mambo stamp pad yet, so, I sponged with Pink Passion, and Certainly Celery using the SU Decor stencil  set, "Faux Flowers". The ribbon is stash form th ewedding last June and I used the sentiment form fabulosr Phrases. I lov ethis style of card every time I make them. Hope you do to.
Until later...Happy Stamping!

Embossed Sketch Birthday

SOmetimes you try to make a card and you have a definate look in your head of what it is going to look like and then you make it and it transforms into something else. Such is this card...

When I saw the sketch challegne I used onthis card I invisioned a mostly white card using jsut color for the borders. but that Changed as I began to assemble the card. neccesity called for more color.
I lov eth e Cup Cake Punch for Brithday cards. I also like the EF I used on the front panel Darice Circles.  I also used the Once Upon a Time EF set for the cupcakes in the back panel for the first time.  I love the texture...
For all the Ingredients of this card please Check out my Card in my SCS gallery.  I have been typing blog post for a week and I think I am finally caught up to the cards I have made so everything should start being more current.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Butterflies and Petals

nothing like buying some new stuff to get hte old Mojo Flowing. This  last week I had to run to a town about an hour away from where I live to do some prom dress shopping. Well I cant go to this place with out stopping at my favorite Craft Store. I also cant go tot my favorite craft store without finding something I *need*.
This trip I found some Darice Embossing folders  so I used one of them on this card..Its called Large Petals lov ethe little dotted swirls and hearts withthe flowers embossed on to SU Melon Mambo.  I also bought a lattice border punch by EK Success.  I used them both on this card. I liked how it turned out.  The light pink is GP Pastle's Pink for the butterflies SU Sizzlet.  Certainly Celery for the leaves SU Sizzix die, Embassy Black. This card is definately a using th eStash Card. The flower gemstone I have had for 2 years, finally used it!  have more I need to use.
Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

VSN & CCrak Challenge #12 "Embossed Birthday Card"

This is th elast of my CCrak and VSN Challenge Cards.
It could have been posted with the other tile cards but I Like how it turned out and figured it was worthy to stand on its own.  Maybe its a little frilly but I mad eit for my Nephew.  I liked turning the tiles so they were diamonds and punching the broders.  The straight strip down th ecenter is one of thise strips you get when you punch some borders out so this card used  lots of Scraps and Stash, left over tfrom allt he other cards I made for all these Challenges.  The double Embossing Folder background really turned out well and I will use it again.  Victoria and  Birthday Words really added to this card, I need to use this style more often.  Thanks for being patient while I caught up on all my VSN Post.  Now I can catch up on the Challenge Cards for last week.  I should be all caught up before I head out of town for a few days...LOL! Deets from SCS gallery.
Until Later... Happy Stamping!

VSN & CCrak Challenge #4 "Can I Have This Dance"

Sorry about being so behind...I inteneded to finish posting these while on vacation and uploaded the pictures to my ipod so I could.  Well sickness struck and I didnt get it done, by the time I was where I felt up to posting them I didnt have internet access handy.  I did enjoy making this card during VSN it went together really quickly. I loved the challenge to do a card with a Wedding dance them.  I thought of this image and "Can I Have This Dance" immediatly. The only difficulty I had was in gettting the image to print up solidly.  I used a SU bella DP , and Night of Navy Ink to stamp the image and sentiment. The stamps are from a clear Inkadoo set called wedding/marriage,  I bought  it because I loved this image and several word sentiment phrases in it..

The ribbon is an organza from the excess stash from my DD wedding 2 years ago. I punched the flower images using a die cuand then added the pearls because what's a wedding with out pearls right.
Until Later...  Happy Stamping!

VSN & CCrak Challenge #3 Welcome baby Card

Another VSN card. I actually made a couple of these.
I thought they turned out cute. Made it with a fiskars baby clear stamp set. I used timber brown stazOn for th eink stamped it on the old SU DP I had laying around.  Used the Music Cuttlebbug EMbossing foolder on the bottom and the lacy Doiley for the border. added a few gems for the tires...opunched the designer label punch twice cut the Pumpkin Pie strip in half to add some length to the word sentiment(SU:something to Celebrate).
It was fun easy and quick.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

baby Mailbox tin and Gift boxes.

I have finally caught up on all my Birthday, Baby, and Thank You Projects. One of the baby projects I am actually got done before the twin babies are born.

I was originally going to decorate stamp T shirts but I just couldnt come up with what I wanted to stamp on them. I found these mailboxes on clearance at Target so I bought 3, and purchased Gift cards and a set of T shirts to divide among them.  I still need to make 2 more cards but I made  3 gift boxes withthe Sizzix Scallop scorecard Box with flowers. I used various DP. I decorated with scrap ribbon also. The  oragne and Sheer Blue ribbons are  from weddings. If you have a question  just ask and I wil ltry to get teh exact info. 

Hope you like them, it's older DP, SU ones.  I cant remember the name I spilt packages with my friend. You could say I used alot of Stash on these projects.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Another Day, Another Card!

I know it seems unbelievable...but I made another card.. nothing totally new I just was looking at my stuff and I had some pieces of card stuff that were not used so I decided to make a card withthe scraps..even the base is scrap since it was a piece that didnt fully emboss to the end..something shifted when I was embossing.

   There are only a few new things used for this card. One was the embosslit butterflies from SU.  I have used them before and I love them.

 I did add an Embassy Black to the cardstock colors but other wise the colors are the same as on the daisy cards I posted a week or so ago.  I also used the SU scallop border punch on this card.  I also used the Happy Birthday Stamp again on the inside of the card. Now I am down to about 10 Birthday cards in the rears! I hope you like the card.
Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Winged Anniversary

I started working on Anniversary Cards...I took the wedding Idea I had this weekend and made this Anniversary card. I started out with a card base I had stamped over a year ago and stuck in a drawer because it didnt work for what I was doing. I didnt like it so I sat it aside..to surface today when I was creating. I believe I stamped it with Regal Rose on Apricot Appeal. I used. Certinly Celery, Apricot Appeal, And Melon Mambo Cardstock to make the card.

Love the SU sizzlets butterfly die. They made this project easy.

I hope you like it.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

punches; MS: Arched lattice border

SU: small, large, and Scalloped Oval, and Scalloped border, Beautiful Wings Sizzlet

Cuttlebug folder: Victoria

Images: SU; canvas background, taggers Dozen

Adhesives: ATG, Fiskars mini thin glue dots, EK square Dimensionals 1/8

Cricut Layout Tutorial and Recipe Pages

I have been waiting to share this tutorial for awhile now. I made these pages over a month ago and I felt that a mini tutorial might be helpful to show how to get themost use from your Gypsy and your mat. I knew I would be making several copies of these pages so I layout the pages all on one 12x12 mat.

I love how I can take my Gypsy anywhere and work on a design why I am waiting for a kids dental appointment, etc.

I first decided what I was going to cut from assorted carts after placing them on the mat and adjusting my Gypsy looked like this

Following the guides on the side of the mat I trimmed and laid out the paper for the cuts...this picture shows you how the mat looked. it allows me to use a lot of my scrap paper pieces.

Then I attached my Gypsy to my Cricut and cut the mat I had a series of 3 mats loading and cutting so I could cut it out 6 times.

After Cutting the pieces all of the smaller pieces I feed through my Xyron X sticker maker and add adhesive to the backs of all thesmaller pieces....theie were quite a lot of small pieces.

I made the following pages...

They are some of my family favorites

I didnt get a picture of my finished bio page, because at the time I took all the pictures I hadn't finished it yet.

Creating pages for the recipies was pretty simple.

The hardest thing for me to do was write my bio. I sure loved reading everyone elses.

I will take an updated picture of my Bio page and share it soon.

I love my cookbook my friends all did a wonderful job on there pages and I would highly recommend this as a project for any small group of friends. It will really enrich your life and your friendships.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!