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Today’s card is simple but cute! I just love putting all those leaves on this tree!!!

I love the jumbo eyelet used to look like a tire swing! Fun!!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Season of Friendship, Great Friend

Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Ruby Red

Other: Jump eyelet, linen thread

 

I fell in love with the stamp set Season of Frienship from the Occassions Mini this past winter. But I never got a chance to order it : (  So I was super excited when I saw that it is in the new catalog that starts on July 1st!!! And even more excited when a friend loaned me her set!!!!! Yay!!! In fact I was so excited that I whipped up 6 cards in a couple of hours!!! I haven’t stamped like that in ages!!! It felt good!!! So this week I have a whole series of posts for you using the set Season of Friendship. By the end of the week- you will be wanting the set too!!!!

Here is my first one…..

This card was inspired by several that I saw in the Splitcoast gallery. But I had to add my favorite half back pearls!!! Gosh I just love those things!!!! The color combo is Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip. I LOVE the combo and must use it again soon!

I will have another one for you tomorrow!

I am the family photographer. I can almost always be found behind the camera. But I am trying very hard to remember to pass the camera to my hubby so that I am in some pictures too! And then I have to try even harder to put them in the scrapbook!!! My kids will want to know about me too. So today I have a layout about some goals that I have for myself. It’s a simple layout- but I like the way it turned out.

Even though I made my layout digi- this could easily be made with paper!!! The kit I used is called Strawberry Hill and I bought it as part of the Digi Files 5. I paid $5 for 8 different kits!!! You only have until the end of the month to grab it!!!

I am making it my goal to have a scrapbook layout to show you every Saturday!!! This will keep me scrapping!!! I am gonna warn you that at this moment most of my scrapping is digi. I may do some paper scrapping in the future. But it is so much cheaper and faster to do digi scrapping so I am really drawn to it. But you paper scrappers can always get some inspiration from the layouts anyway!

This week’s page uses a photo that I took on Father’s Day of my kids and my hubby.

I don’t know why but I have been butterfly happy lately!!!! I LOVE the butterfly die for the big shot from Stampin’ Up!. I have used that a lot. But I am also loving the stamp set Great Friend. That is one of the sets that I used for today’s card. And I paired it with the words from the set Flight of the Butterfly.

Gosh I sure do love those half back pearls from the Pretties kit!!!! Does anyone know where I can just buy a whole package of them??!!!!

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend! I am off to the movies with the kids!!!

I NEVER make one layer cards! And I am always amazed by those stampers who can make one layer cards look so beautiful. But I was browsing through the new catalog and suddenly had an idea for a card! The layout was not really inspired by anything in the catalog. But the color combo for this first card was inspired from the new Decor Elements catalog. The front cover is so bright and cheerful. I love it!!! And I almost never stamp with bright colors. So I decided I needed to give it a try. The color combo is Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Tempting Torquoise, and So Saffron. Here is what I came up with….

Since the colors were so bright- I decided to leave lots of white space to the eyes had a place to reast. So what do you think???

I really like it. Am I allowed to say that about my own card? Oh well. I did! So I decided to make the same card and use some of my favorite colors: Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Old Olive.

I kinda like them both! They were both quite a bit out of my comfort zone. It is fun to stretch yourself when stamping from time to time!

I am in a bit of a hurry and since I already gave you the color combos- I am just going to let you know the stamp sets used. The flowers are from the set Petal Pizazz and the words are from Stem Sayings.

Have a great Thursday!

My Mother-In-Law is celebrating her birthday tomorrow. But as a family, we got together and celebrated last weekend. We got her a very pretty necklace and earling set and I wanted to make a bag to put it in and a matching card. But at the time, I wasn’t feeling well so I knew I needed to keep it very simple. Here is what I came up with….

Here is a close-up of the card:

And the little gift bag:

This bag was made by attaching 2 top notes to a small lunch bag (I purchased at Target in the gift bag area) and cuttig the bag down to be shorter. Then I punched a little handle and used ribbon to tie it shut.

Here is a side view:

I used the same supplies on both projects.

Recipe:

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly

Paper: Sweet Slumber Specialty DSP, Kraft, Baja Breeze

Ink:Chocolate Chip

Other: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Butterfly Die, Top Note Die, Ridinghood Red Taffeta, Button Bouquet, Word Window Punch, Eyelet Punch, SMall bags

I lovethis card by Kristina Werner. I knew that it would make for the perfect card for my husband for Fathers Day. My husband isn’t into golf, or grilling, or tools. He doesn’t wear ties. So I was stumped on his card. But, duh!!!! He loves his kids! So their cute faces need to be on the front of the card. What do you think?

The paper I used is from Making Memories, Noteworthy line. The chipboard is from Stampin’ Up! and I inked it up with Chocolate Chip ink. I punched a hole in the card and tied the card shut with some chocolate Chip ribbon. The finished card size is 4×4.

I LOVE to make smple cards. But I always struggle with making masculine cards. Almost all of my stamps are floral sets and I am addicted to ribbon and buttons! So making Father’s Day cards is always a huge challenge for me.

This is a super simple card that I made for my Father-In-Law using the set Boys Will Be Boys by Taylored Expressions. I just stamped the image on Kraft cardstock and colored it with my Copic markers. The white layer on the card was run through my Big Shot with one of the texture plates from Stampin’ Up!

I am taking a picture of the card I made for my hubby right now. I will schedule it for tomorrow. Promise!!!!

Today the kids have swim lessons, then swimming in the back yard. In the afternoon we are going to do a craft together and hopefully work on writing their names. I am so happy to have my hubby home today. Maybe I will be able to sneak a little stamping time in! Have a great Monday!!!

I didn’t get a chance to photograph the card that I made for my hubby : (   But I will take a picture in the morning so I can share it with you tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a couple pics I took today of my sweetie and his babies….

I feel so very blessed! I love them all!

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