Little Birdie Card

I made this card for a friend of mine that is recovering from surgery.  I wanted a sweet bird to put on the card, and found one in the Cupcake Wrappers cartridge.  I used a stamp from My Pink Stamper.  The paper and ribbon are from Stampin' Up.  I wanted to use patterned paper on the bird, so I chose a piece from the SU set "Beyond the Garden".  By the way, SU is running a great special on patterned paper right now.  It's buy 3, get one FREE!  I took advantage of this during my monthly stamp club.  So, I hope to test out my new patterns with more projects soon!

I hope my friend does get better soon!    

Butterfly Pedi!

Wow!  Has it been a busy week?!?  Two of the three children started back to school last week.  The youngest doesn't start for a few more weeks, so he and I have been getting use to the new routine with the older two at school!  Early mornings!!

The week before school started, Emilee and I went for pedicures.  We wanted to have black and white zebra print for our toes!  Emilee even got to have them on her fingernails as well.  It was fun!  Emilee sat in the special butterfly chair.

So now for a card to match our fun day.  I chose a butterfly from the Cupcake Wrapper cartridge.  This will make a cute cupcake topper in the future, but for now it works on my card.  We also had to use pink and the black and white zebra print in honor of our pedis!  For the top portion of the card, I used an embossing plate with polka dots and my Big Shot.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper.  Hope you like!

My Pinkalicious Blog Hop

I am participating in My Pink Stamper's Pinkalicious Blog Hop!  The challenge is to show your style by making your favorite thing.  I decide to decorate a gift bag because I love getting gifts ready for others. 

I used some of my favorite paper and ribbon colors --- zebra print --- and a cupcake!  I used the My Pink Stamper "Sweetest Cupcakes" stamp set.  The punch used along the bottom is from Stampin' Up.  I cut the cupcake and the tags from the Celebrations cartridge. 

My daughter has a birthday party to go to soon, and the birthday girl is turning 7, so that's the reason for the "7" on the tag.  I'll add her name on the other tag later.  Thanks so much for looking!

August Stamp Club Projects

I am part of a Stamp Club that meets once a month.  Our leader is a Stampin' Up demonstrator, and she is GREAT!  We learn so much, and get to do fun projects.  Plus, once a month, one of us gets to be a hostess and get great benefits from Stampin' Up!  I am going to share some of our projects with you.  None of these are my own designs, but I have made them from her instruction.  I'm not sharing all of the projects yet because I will probably be using some for gifts!!  Let me know if you are interested in Stampin' Up and I will be happy to hook you up with my demonstrator.

Here's the first project...

Can you believe there is not a single stamp on this project?!??!  We used an embossing folding to make the flowers, and then added color with pastels.  Really easy.  Something else that I liked on this project was the baker's twine.  They sell this for like $2.95 a pack, and you get quite alot.  I will be getting some for myself soon!

Christmas for the second card...





We made this card with a Christmas stamp set and stamped on the card and envelope.  You can't tell from this picture, but we used dimensionals on the hat and the snowball at the bottom.  I liked using the 4 different types of paper around the edge of the stamped image.  This was a fun card to make!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Let's Eat Cake!

My daughter and I love to watch Cake Boss.  We dream of one day being able to decorate cakes like Buddy and his crew.  In the meantime, we gave Emilee a Girl Gourmet cake decorating set for Easter.  It comes with the cake and fondant mixes.  She attempted one several months back, but wasn't too pleased with it.  We got the kit out the other day and tried again.  It was a success.  She was very proud of her cake, and I was too!

So of course, we need a card or something to match.  I decided to use my Big Shot and try out a new Sizzix die I got a few months ago from Stampin' Up.  It's called Bigz Two Tags, and, like the name, cuts out two different tags.  I always need tags for gifts -- at the last minute.  These were easy to cut, and fun to make with the different stamp sets.  I love the Melon Mambo color as well.

Materials (all from Stampin' Up!)

• Melon Mambo Designer Series Paper 
• Melon Mambo ink
• White cardstock
• Cute by the Inch stamp set
• 1 1/4" Square punch (use with stamp)
• Corner Rounder punch
• White ribbon (Really wish I had Melon Mambo, but don't have right now)

See how the card opens up.  You can write your message here.  There is a little slit cut up near the ribbon where you tuck the tag closed.

Below is a picture of the second tag.  You could also use this to make little bookmarks.  The die cuts out a scallop at the top, so when I was looking for a stamp to use and came across the So Many Scallops set, I thought it just might work.  And it did!  

 Materials

• Melon Mambo Designer Series Paper 
• Melon Mambo ink
• White cardstock
• So Many Scallops stamp set
• Scallop punch
• Pop Dots

So now, I'm up by two on my tags.  By the way, that has been one of my goals every January... make tags (for Christmas, birthdays, etc.) to have on hand whenever I need them.  I'm so far behind!  



New Blog Design!

What do you think of my new blog design?!?!  I have found a great website for those that want to design their blog more on their own.  It's www.makincuteblogs.com.  There are all sorts of tutorials that step you through everything from creating your own backgrounds and headers and everything in between.  There is so much out there that I want to explore, so I will probably be experimenting and making little changes as I learn more.  Now, just to have the time to fit all the blog design in with paper crafting!  Plus, I have another blog that I plan to start up soon that I will share about in the near future.

Hope to post a card and special project tomorrow!