Home Decor for Fall

I've been working on decorating my house for fall. I was at Michael's and found some cute little frames I really liked. I thought it would be fun to make something fall-ish to put inside. I just got a couple of new things from Stampin' Up! (R) I was looking forward to playing with, too, so it worked out perfectly! The first one I made was this little owl frame.The owl is a punch - yep, a punch! I punched out two different owls. One in the patterned paper and another in the black. It's fun playing with it and figuring out which pieces to use. I really like how it turned out.Here's the frame with my decorations. What do you think? Yes, my dog decided she was part of the decorations and to make it official we put her pumpkin costume on her.

The second project I knew I wanted to do involved a new stamp set I got called "Greeting Card Kids". Such a cute set! All I did was stamp it, color it with my watercolor colored pencils, use my blender pen and it was done. So simple and Oh, so cute!

Happy Fall!

Bundle of Joy

I've had quite a few friends having babies lately and I'm OUT of baby cards SO for my last rotating hostess meeting (this past Sunday) I decided one of the projects would be...you guessed it - a baby card! While I was skimming through blogs one day I came across a fun project using the Medallion stamp to make "lace" on Patty's Stamping Spot. I decided I had to try it! Knowing those two things, I came up with this project.

The ladies seemed to really like it - even though it is a little more time - intense! Here's a close up:

Some of the ladies told me they really thought it was lace or ribbon when they first saw the project so I know it really accomplishes its design!

Attempt at an Easel Card

I can't believe it's almost the end of February already! I guess I haven't been doing a whole lot of stamping lately. I did have my rotating hostess club this past weekend so that gave me something to stamp for! (Or, at least motivated me to do something about!!) I have been looking around at blogs and such and kept seeing cute easel cards everywhere so I finally decided I needed to make one. They are pretty easy to make (not a lot of cutting, folding,etc which I like - I'm kind of a simple gal, can you tell?!) and I was pleased with the way this one came together. Yet once again I let the DSP be my background (just makes life way more simple) and I used the new flower punch as my focal point SO not a lot of actual stampin' on this card! The one extra little "bling" was that I used heat and stick powder on a clear button and added some gold glitter to give the center of the flower that extra "wow"!

It's funny (sad, actually) but even though I'm in the card making business, I have a bad habit of letting people's birthday's slip by so this one was appropriate (as long as I mail it on time!) Happy Stampin'!

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack Cards

Here are the projects we will be making for my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack. It is happening this Saturday - December 5th and you can make 10 cards for $15 or 20 cards for $25. You must RSVP to me ASAP!!! Every year I try to make each card different from the others so that you're walking away with 5 different unique designs. This year is no exception!


The first card design is completely CASE'd from my friend Amy. She sent me it a couple of years ago and I really like the colors.

The second card uses a color combination inspired by some of our current Christmas designer series paper and uses our new stamp set Delightful Decorations with its coordinating punch.The next card uses a unique color combination that comes from the designer series paper used in it. I also used a little bit of glitter to jazz this one up even more.The next card I CASE'd but can't remember from where. I just love the deer transformed into Rudolph! This card gets jazzed up with an embossed background and bright, fun ribbon. The last card is one I've been wanting to try and finally took the plunge - using acetate (window sheets). I love how this is a simple card but looks like so much more because of the clear sheet! Too fun!







I do hope to see you this Saturday! If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact me!

Josh's Grad party Favors

Well, graduation was a month ago but I realized I never posted pictures of the party favors we (Colleen, Josh, my mom and I) worked so hard on. I still have a few left over so that's what I took the picture of. We made almost 60 total. Josh's school colors were maroon, black and silver so that's what colors we used - of course!

Josh designed the labels using his school's mascot.

Eliana's Banner

June 12th of this year was my daughter's 2nd birthday. Because life had been so crazy with my oldest's graduation from high school, I didn't make invitations to her birthday party BUT I did borrow my friend Robyn's alphabet and pennant die cuts so I could at least make a banner. I'm not sure the pictures do it justice, see what you think!

The colors I used matched the plates she "picked" out that was kind of tropical. I used Pink Passion, So Saffron and Gable Green - very bright and girly!

Scrapbooking

In order to get rid of some "dead weight" for our upcoming move I'm going through back issues of Creating Keepsakes dating all the way back to 1999!! What I've been doing is tearing out pages of layouts I like, making notes as to why I like them and then just putting all those pages in a folder. Then, I'm able to throw away the magazine. I'm now up to 2003 and have another years worth of magazines to go through and then I should be done! Anyway, because I do have stacks of ideas piling up, I really wanted to scrapbook over the weekend. I haven't done any since a couple of weeks ago when I did Ellie's opening page. We just had Ellie's pictures done around Valentine's Day and I have some really cute pictures of her PLUS I found a cute title from one of the tearout title things Creating Keepsakes used to do so I did a layout. It's only one sided right now because I can't decide which pictures to put on the opposite pages: other pictures of her in her Valentine sweater OR one of the other pictures from her photo shoot. If you have a suggestion, let me know. Here's the page:

I'm inspired to Scrapbook!

YAY! I haven't scrapbooked in so long and my friend, Amy, was in a mood to scrapbook over the weekend and posted some of her pages on her blog. After looking at them I was inspired! So, last night I actually sat down and created Ellie's title page for her scrapbook. Until Friday I didn't even have an album for her but I saw one at Hobby Lobby and knew it was the one:

Notice the brown and pink theme, right? Plus, I love paisleys - I think I get that from my husband! {smile} I haven't replaced the picture on the front yet so obviously that's not Ellie! It's on my to do list - I have to find just the right picture! So, here is the title page I created. You will notice it's quite simple but that's okay. I used the 8x10 hospital picture (that I don't really care for) and since it's 8x10 there's not a whole lot else you can do... (Did you notice my continuing love of the scallop circle punch? Plus the pink and brown - not sure if all the pages will be pink and brown, though, because I have some other beautiful patterned paper and colors to use!) I'm already working on the next page but have to wait for a couple of pictures to come in before I can completely finish it. I'll post it when I have it done. I'm just excited to be at it again!