Card Crazy, Finally!

Alas!  I found some time and made some cards.  Some of the photos turned out nice and some of them turned out a little yellowed with the color of the room.  I'm STILL working on finding a good way to take photos... so you get what you get! lol

Anyway... here's a bunch of my latest cards...

Smile!  This card is bright and can be used I guess for a get well type card....

This card looks terribly crooked, I don't know what is wrong with my photography skills AND my stamping skills that I can't make anything straight!  The word Celebrate is heat embossed crooked.

A Friends Forever card.... err.... looks a bit drab but I think it's cuter in person than it is in this photo.

Err... I think this is my first attempt at making a little 'window' in a card...

This is colorful but looks kind of amateur. 

I like this card.  I used the sewing machine to stitch around and it looks mighty pretty!

Cards

This one is not so bad either.

This card looks better in person again....

A very sparkly love card!

A very sparkly CUTE card... which might be nice for a baby boy!

I like this card too a little better in person.

This is the first time I folded paper up to make it look ragged and like ribbon sort-of.

That's all... *sigh* :) 

Big Brother

Half the time I'm restraining myself from leaping over the table and strangling my oldest son like Homer Simpson does with Bart.  However, there are many sweet moments, and I need to remind myself of these times, even after he's pushed my very last button. *Serenity Now... Serenity Now...*

So here's a one page scrap layout.  I rarely use one page to show my stories, but I really only had this one picture to work with. There's a little slip of paper that comes out from under the side of the photo that tells the story about how much his sisters love him.  This layout was inspired by Marion Smith on her U-Stream channel Piece of Craft on  6/15/10.

Errr... enjoy!?  I made a special project I can't wait to show you, but it's a gift, so it will have to wait until later!

Back In To The Swing Of Things!

So I made a few things!  Please, forgive the yellow everything.  I have no lighting! lol  Now, the first two images are a double layout.  Quite literally, the pictures were yellowed because the lightning in the basement always turns out warm.  So I found a background with dark red, medium red and orange.   It looks much prettier in person.

The letters FAMOUS were baby pink glitter, so I heat embossed gold over the top, but if you look closely, you can still see some of that fantastic pink peeking from underneath.  The flowers are Prima.  The red ones came that way, but the pale colored flowers were misted with a touch of Lemongrass Glimmer Mist, heavy on the Tuscan Sun Glimmer Mist.  The centers of the flowers are little black pearl halves.  After watching a video of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer during one of her Prima Classes on Ustream.com, I felt confident enough to just freehand 'On The Red Carpet'.

On the second half of the layout the page was very basic.  A butterfly charm with a matching background color is hanging by a cream satin ribbon in the center of the page.  With some journaling.

So I had a lot of fun with this... I really do love it!

Now for something different.  A friend of mine, Nikki, is celebrating her 21st birthday with us... and I made her a pretty card.  She'll get it tomorrow, so I had to grab it quick and snap a photo.

The flowers are Prima.  The pink came that way, but the brown flower is Chocolate Covered Cherries Glimmer Mist.  Nikki loves brown, pink and white.  The gem in the middle is an e-line Prima pink gem.  Very  nice! 

I went out and bought a Martha Stewart Scoring Board and made an envelope to go with it!  I used the same pink paper for the main envelope and a pretty striped pink/brown/green liner!  I am so excited to be able to make my custom envelopes without any problems!!

I hope you've enjoyed my latest few projects.  More to come!

Memories Mini Album

Hi Everyone!  It's been a while since I blogged.  It's been a busy week!  I've been fiddling around with some mini album ideas and trying out making different tags.  On Mother's Day, my husband bought me supplies!!!  I'm thrilled.  I got several different colors of Glimmer Mist, Mod Podge, E-Line Pearls and Jewels, and a really nice emboss punch.

Anyway, so I made a paper bag album for a friend of mine and took some pictures before I give it to her.  I'm still a mini-album novice and the only original idea I have is my cover art... so enjoy!  Oh... and keep in mind, it looks MUCH BETTER in person! haha

The paper for this album cover is fiber paper.  Once bright green and pale pink, are now distressed looking and browned with Chocolate Covered Cherries Glimmer Mist.  The flowers are Prima and sprayed with the GM too.  The title is foam and gold and the little key is just a metal finding.  The stamps however are old and original.  Old stamps are one of my favorite items to scrapbook with.  I'm always keeping a keen eye out for people's old collections.

The pages on the inside have pockets and flowers and tags for journaling.  On the butterfly page, you can see an embossed white butterfly.  In each of the pockets are tags, nothing very special. :P

These pages have flowers, feathers and fibers!  Heh

Here you can see a pocket with three different tags in it, and on the right there is a pretty page with flowers and feathers. You can also see tags sticking out from the pockets.  I didn't photograph those.

This is the last set of pages, with room for journaling and another photo.  The Togetherness text is a metal die-cut. 

That's it... hehe.  One of these days I'll find a good way to photograph my art!

Quick Cards for Any Occasion

I subscribe to Scrapbooks Etc and the latest magazine had some excellent card ideas.... I tried to duplicate a couple of them.  Erm... I don't know why my cards are always crooked when I scan them! lol

Tell me what you think!?

For the Ones I Love!

Mothers' Day is fast approaching.  Time for me to whip up a card.  However I can't show you... since my mother reads this blog.  Boo hiss right?  Well I made another card for my Great Aunt to arrive right around the big day, and I can show you that!

The scan of the card turned out much lighter than the regular product.  The paper I chose was a medium teal.  I used a watermarking technique to stamp the butterflies.  The FAMILY tag is a metal finding and the flowers are Prima.  I wish the card would have turned out more vibrant!  I really need to find a better way to photograph or scan these pictures so they come out looking close to what I create!

I also realize that the word is slightly off kilter, but its stuck down there so good, there's no nope for change now!!

Anyway, it's a pretty card, and I just wanted to share!

The Cast Book Mini Album

I'm always looking for ideas and often I am intimidated to start a project based on the skill level of the teacher!  Marion Smith makes it look SO EASY.  Twice a week Marion produces a two hour long online segment with different crafting projects, techniques, etc.  She inspired me and for once I wasn't intimidated.  That project really did look as easy as it seemed!

Marion made a heart shaped mini book, you can see it here.

So as a result, I zipped down to my craft area and put together a Cast Book Mini Album!  It documents my daughters broken leg this last year.  It was made for her and geared towards her taste.

I do not have a lot of experience making mini albums, so please consider I'm a novice!!!

The papers used for this project were Wild Raspberry from K&C Company.  Glittery, pink, pretty papers that suits my daughters personality.

The flowers are Prima and came white.  I tried to color them myself using inks and glitter, but I'd really like to get my hands on some of that Glimmer Mist!

There's also a pretty tag I picked up somewhere that adds a little extra to that front page.

I had purchased some stickers for this broken leg several weeks back and were planning on using them for a 12x12 scrap page.  Not to let them go to waste, I used them as filler for the mini book.  A picture of my daughter in pain (aren't I a nice mother?) and below, a sparkly butterfly and more flowers.

On the other side a sticker of a doctors clipboard with detailed information on the event... and below, some journaling.

We didn't have many pictures for the book, but I also didn't want the book to only be two pages either.  So to add a little more, there are two pages that feature only stickers and flowers.  On the left, you see what I mean.

On the right page, another sticker, and below it an actual photo of my daughters broken bone.

On the left, you can see a close up photo of the cast with Daddy's signature... he's the king!  Below, some more stickers and another flower.

On the right was the second page of 'filler' which included a pair of crutches, some word stickers and another flower...

On the left, one of the favorite pages.  A yellow flower on the top and below, a clear photo of the casts.  This is so that my daughter can look at her cast photos and see the signatures clearly.  That way she doesn't have to hold on to a stinky cast for years and years.

On the other page, a picture of her second cast and some journaling, along with a sparkly butterfly.

You can see the casts better this way.  I mounted them with pop dots to bring them up off the page nicely.  It was tricky finding a way to take the picture and cut them out so my hand wasn't in the way. :)

The back of the album was unimpressive and just had some additional journaling on it to finish the story.

My daughter loves her mini book and I'm excited to do another one soon!

I hope you've enjoyed this project!  Stay tuned for more perhaps!?