Just thought I'd pop in and share a card I made for my nephew. He was named, "Rookie of the Year" of his track team :) Yay! So of course I had to send him a congratulations card. I looked through my massive stamp stash looking for a sneaker or track related stamp and found the stamp from MME- Boy Crazy. Not really a running sneaker but yes, a sneaker will do. Hope you guys like the clean and simple card :)
I am so excited to be participating in this month's YouTube Layout Hop :) I've been busy working on a process video of a layout I did for the hop. So excited about this that I'll post a sneak pic ;) Can you guess what the this month's theme is??
For those of you who haven't heard of the YouTube Layout Hop, it's a group of fun scrapbookers (about 10) who do YT videos each month on layouts based on a chosen theme. Sam & Zoe are the founders. They have a Facebook group where you can join and then sign up for whichever month (or all the months ;) ) you have time to participate. Each month they have a generous sponsor who donates a giveaway. All you have to do to enter in the giveaway is to watch each video in the hop, comment, and your name will be placed in a drawing. How fun is that?
This month, the hop will take place on June 29th, 2014. Be sure to stop by on my YT channel and follow the awesome line-up of ladies :) Be sure to check out the Facebook group as well- here.
I just found out that Paper Smooches is having a call for a guest designer for July and thought I'd give it a try :) you never know, right? I absolutely adore their super fun images, sentiments and adorable fonts. Here are some cards I created this past winter before I started blogging :)
Just popping in to share a card I made for my husband's co-worker. Wow. My husband asked ME to make a card ( and justify my crafty spending?). Uh oh.. pressure is on. How do I represent my {expensive} crafty hobby in just one card?
Honestly, I love making cards because you can make it personal. My husband said he often talks to his co-worker about sports and is a huge Atlanta Falcons fan. Ideas were filling my head. Hmm get well card for a sports fan? I remembered that I had purchased a stamp a while back and now was the perfect time to finally use it ( I knew it would come in handy one day..).
Here is the process video:
Here is the finished card:
Let me know what you think!
I hope I have inspired one of you to create something today :)
I know it's been a while since I posted on my blog. "Life" has taken over again. So I've been making memories more than documenting them these days- which is definitely a good thing. If you don't make memories, then how can you document them, right?
So what have I been up to lately? We celebrated Aiden's 4th birthday at the end of last month, and the following week we headed to New York City :) Super fun! My husband and I grew up in New York so it was nice to head back to see family and of course hit all the restaurants and eat all the yummy foods we've been craving.
I finally had a chance to print out my photos and do some pocket page style scrapbooking about our trip. Since I had so many photos, I used a lot of collage style photos and all I really needed was some embellishments.
Most of you know that I LOVE STAMPS. I use stamps for cards AND I love to use stamps on my layouts, especially my pocket style layouts. The pocket style has individual cards so it's like making a mini card for each pocket. So what better way to embellish than with stamps??
For my layout, I am using Create Indie Stamps. I responded to their Contributor Call and was chosen! Yipee! Since I already own most of their stamps and truly enjoy using them, I was delighted to be chosen to showcase them. I used a few of their stamps sets: Recipe, Flair it Up & City. They were all so appropriate for all my foodie and city shots. I inked them up with the Memento dew drop in Danube Blue and they all stamped out beautifully.
Be sure to snatch up the Flair it Up stamp set because it is now on sale and about to retire :(
My nephew's birthday is coming up so I made a card for him :) Birthday cards make up the majority of the cards that I make and send out. For me, masculine cards are difficult for me to create followed by teen cards. My nephew is turning 12!! Wow. So no more of those cutesy cards, huh? Well, it's hard not to make a cutesy card with funny puns. Anyway, I tried to keep it simple as always and cute but not too cute…
I can't believe 4 years ago, at 2:20am my water broke and a few hours later, Aiden came into my world. He has given me joy and he is my world. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday with his friends at the play gym. He had a Cars theme. So for his birthday, I wanted to make a Cars/ Lightning McQueen birthday card.
So… I dusted off my Imagine and I reluctantly dug out the Cars cartridge. For those of you that have these Disney theme carts know what I mean. They usually have so many intricate cuts and are such a pain to piece together. Honestly, in hindsight, I should have just printed off something from the computer and fussy cut it. Or printed an image off and colored it with my copics.
My Imagine was off calibration so I had to re-calibrate it after I already cut the image..ugh. Then the red I chose was more of an orange color so I decided to just use red card stock. It took me way longer than I had time for.
This is how it turned out:
I had to go in and color in spots where cuts were off. I also chose not to cut the itty bitty pieces and decided to use my copics instead. Not my best work at all. I chose to cut it at 4.5 which is pretty large but that's the only way I can deal with the small pieces.
What are your tips for cutting out these detailed intricate cuts?? I'd love to know :)
Thanks for stopping by!!
