Ellie's Birthday Invitations

Once again it has been a while since I've posted on here. We are gearing up for our move and the craziness is beginning but in the meantime we are having a little get together for our daughter's first birthday this weekend! I wanted to make something girlie and fun and I found a great card design on split coast that I knew I wanted to duplicate. Click here to see the original design I liked. I also knew I wanted to use the Berry Bliss patterned paper and here's what I came up with:


Here is a close up of the flower on the band:I used the scallop punch, cut out the flower from "One of a Kind" and used a build a brad for the center. Let me know what you think! I will say I'm totally loving the Purely Pomegranate and will be sad to see it go!

Yes, I'm Here!

It's been a while since I posted anything because I've been a little busy trying to get my taxes together to send my mom (who works for H&R Block and can do mine for free). I think I've about got that done so I took some time yesterday to play. Because I do have a baby, I have lots of baby food jars and I hated just throwing them away (for some strange reason they don't recycle glass here) so I finally had the thought to save them and make them into little gifts to give my bunco pals at our last bunco (coming up in May). So, yesterday I put one together. This is what I came up with:

What do you think? I like the play on words "little things" because I'm probably going to fill them with "little" candy like mini m&m's or something like that. Plus, it's a little jar. Post a comment and tell me what you think! I doubt I'll make them all the same but this one came together pretty easily. Yes, I'm still loving the scallop circle punch - what's not to love about it?!

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!

A Special Offering!!!

Since our move, it's been quite hard getting business going and we'll be moving again in a few months so it's even harder to pick things up now. So, I'm offering a special to anyone who views my blog and would like to take advantage of a great deal!!! As most of you know, Sale-a-bration is going on now (see previous post to find out more) and with every $50 you spend, you are eligible to pick a set from our Sale-a-bration mini-catalog absolutely FREE!! Well, from now until Sale-a-bration ends (March 17, 2008) I am offering in addition to that, a FREE ink pad of your color choice (we have 48 exclusive colors PLUS our In Color colors to choose from) PLUS any of the following retired sets I have ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!
The sets are:
Alpha Shadows, Burst into Bloom, Delightful Doodles, Festive Four, Fresh Fillers, Fun Filled, Holiday Blocks, Hung Up on the Holidays, In the Sky, Itty Bitty Borders, Made from Scratch, Mini Messages, Mostly Flowers, Pocket Full of Posies, Quick & Cute, Simple Wishes, Stars & Swirls, Teeny Tinies, The Fine Print, Very Merry and Very Punny.
If you are unsure as to what some of these look like, you can see most of them here. If there's one you don't see a picture of and would like to see one, please let me know! You can email me at lewisfam4af@comcast.net or by leaving a comment. I look forward to hearing from you!!

Personalized Cards

I was browsing through Splitcoaststampers the other day and came across a card I loved (click here to see the card on this person's blog) and knew I had to CASE (copy) it. I changed the colors a little and made four of them since I was on a role. Here's a picture of all four:

Yes, I'm still into Baroque Motifs! {smile} I think these look really classy and you can use them as thank you, thinking of you, or just about anything cards! There are three different cards and two of them are the same, can you find them? I really love the Groovy Guava - it's one of our "In Color" colors this year and it's pretty groovy! I hope you are able to sit and create some cards for yourself!

Baroque Motif cards

Well, I'm a little behind getting these posted but thought I'd share with you some cards I stamped a week ago. I finally got out Baroque Motif and did some playing with it. You'll have to let me know what you think!