"Fall Theme" Altered Frame & Birthday Card

With fall now upon us, I thought I would post this fall-themed frame and card I made for my dad for his birthday!

I used the Autumn Accents Bigz die and several embossing folders (Argyle, Lattice, Houndstooth, and Chevron) for the leaves on the frame: 

For the card, I used the coordinating stamp set, Wonderfall:

Basketball Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card I made for my niece (who loves Basketball) using the Chevron embossing folder and the Great Sport and Grunge Rock stamp sets! 

Swallowtail Birthday Card

I made this card for my BFF's birthday using the Swallowtail stamp.
I am in love with this stamp!

I stamped the butterfly in basic black craft ink and then embossed with black powder.

To color the butterfly, I first used my Stampin' write markers and then I filled my aqua painter with alcohol and blended the colors together. Once that dried (which was fast because of the alcohol), I painted a layer of Champagne Mist glimmer paint on top:

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June Club Projects with Tutorials

I never got around to posting the June club projects, so here they are now!

First was a birthday card using all of the new 2012-2014 in-colors: Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse, and Primrose Petals. We used the Patterned Party and Itty Bitty Banners stamp sets with the coordinating Bitty banners framelit die. We also used the Large Scallop Edgelit die:

Click here for the class tutorial in PDF format

For our second project, we used the Clear Mount Stamp Cases and created a notepad holder:

We used the Pleasant Poppies stamp set to create the design for the outside cover along with patterned paper from the Polka Dot Parade DSP and designer series paper patterns stacks. We punched our butterflies using the new Elegant Butterfly punch.

On the inside we created a handy pocket (perfect for coupons) and added a few more butterfly touches with the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder:

Click here for the class tutorial in PDF format

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July Club Projects

Hello, all! Well, I know it has been a very long time since I have posted, and I'm working on a solution to start blogging a lot more! I am currently testing out a few apps with my iPad (and this is one of them), so we will see how this goes!

So, to catch everyone up a bit... I recently started my monthly hostess club back up after taking a year off when my newest little man joined us. I have been so excited and happy to get back into the swing of things with all of my wonderful stampin' gals! This has also motivated me to get back into the world of blogging again! So, without any further ado... I will start things off with a post highlighting the projects for this month's club!

We did a great stamp-a-stack project using a single card design inspired by my upline, Alecia Connelly! So I took this layout and came up with 5 great cards using the 2011-2013 in-colors!  The layout is simple and clean, and yields beautiful results no matter how you spin it!  It utilizes the 3" x 3" scallop square from the Scallop Squares Duo Bigz Die centered at the top of a standard A2 card made from a 4.25 x 11" piece of card stock scored in half at 5.5".  Each element is popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Here they are with all the lovely details!  Click on any hyperlink to see full product details!

Stamps:  Mixed Bunch, Curly Cute

Colors:  Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Punches: Blossom, Blossom Petals Builder, 3/4" Circle

Die: Scallop Squares Duo Bigz (3" Square)

2.75" Square DSP in Wisteria Wonder from the 2011-2013 DSP Patterns Stack

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Stamps:  Betsy's Blossoms, Friendly Phrases

Colors:  Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White

Punches: Blossom, 1" Circle

Die: Scallop Squares Duo Bigz (3" Square)

Blossom Punched from Pool Party DSP from the 2011-2013 DSP Patterns Stack

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Stamps:  Papillon Potpourri, Itty Bitty Banners

Colors:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Whisper White

Punches: Elegant Butterfly

Die: Scallop Squares Duo Bigz (3" Square)

2.75" Square DSP in  Calypso Coral from the 2011-2013 DSP Patterns Stack

Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Bakers Twine in Island Indigo

Stamps:  Reason to Smile (promotional), Itty Bitty Banners

Colors:  Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Whisper White

Dies: Scallop Squares Duo Bigz (3" Square), Bitty Banners Framelits

3/8" Ruffled Ribbon in Pool Party

Scallop Square cut from Pool Party DSP from the 2011-2013 DSP Patterns Stack

Stamps:  My Friend (floral image stamped using baby wipe technique)

Colors:  Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Whisper White

Punches: Itty Bitty Shapes

Die: Scallop Squares Duo Bigz (3" Square)

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

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Saying goodbye...

Today is the last day to order from the Holiday Mini Catalog before the Occasions Mini goes live tomorrow!

Here's a few of my favorite products and projects from the holiday mini... and at the end of this post is a link to the products that will be carrying over!

I really had a blast making this wreath at a class my downline, Michelle Walker, held.  It was a lot of work, but well worth it in the end!  This is a wreath I will be proudly displaying for many Christmases to come!

At the class, we could choose which products we wanted to use, and I chose the Holly Berry Bouquet product suite from the Holiday Mini catalog.

The wreath featured a whole lot of fan fold flowers using the brand new Simply Scored tool as well as some Yoyo's made from the Designer Fabric!  

Here is a gorgeous wreath my upline, Alecia Connelly, made using the Spice Cake product suite:

And here's the one that started it all - made by the class instructor (and my downline AND BFF), Michelle Walker! :o)

Speaking of the Spice Cake product suite (which happened to be my favorite from the catalog) - I used it to make a Thanksgiving scrapbook page:

...and a lovely birthday card!:

Lastly, I made a witches hat with a hodge podge of products!

I featured a distressed banner using the Hand-Penned holidays stamp set from the Holiday mini:

For the loads of seam binding ribbon, I jut hand-dyed our very vanilla ribbon using the Cajun Craze and Concord Crush reinkers!  I think they turned out great! :o)

So.... if there's anything you fell in love with in the Holiday Mini catalog, get off your patootie and into my online store to get your order in before midnight MST!  And while you're there, don't forget to check out the clearance rack blitz still going on until January 5th!!!

Click here to view the holiday mini in PDF format.

Click here to see the carryover flyer for the holiday mini! (These are the products that will still be available to order after the 3rd).

"I want a Monster Truck Birthday, Mommy!"

When I asked my soon-to-be three year old son what kind of birthday party he wanted this year, he enthusiastically replied "Monster Truck Party!" And he has been reminding me of it ever since.

Well, we always end up combining whatever theme he has with a "Luau" theme to go with our Hawaiian-themed back yard (as well as the loads of Luau party supplies I've collected over the years), so here's what I came up with for his birthday invitations:

Of course, I had to use some smooch on the truck and the sand... it had a stunning effect!

I used lots of current and retired stamp sets: Tropical Party, Party This Way, All in the Family, Just Surfing, Introducing, and Beautiful Batik. I used Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Wild Wasabi as my color scheme.

Banner Birthday Card

Just a quick share on a birthday card I made today using the "Party this way" stamp set. I love this set and bought it specifically for doing mini-banners! (I've noticed they're all the rage in the paper crafting world right now) ;o).

The color scheme I used was Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist and Perfect Plum.

June Club Projects

I'm finally back from vacation so I can post the projects we made in club this month!

First, we made a card featuring the Watercolor Trio set from the summer mini, as well as the beautiful color combination of Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery. And what's that I spy??? *gasp!* It's a preview item from the next IBC!!! ;o)

The neat-o thing about THIS card is it has a tear-out bookmark in it! How cool is that?!? What a perfect card to give along with a book! :o)

You can find the tutorial for the bookmark card on SCS here!

Secondly, we made a Fourth of July Acetate Box using the Red, White and Blue jumbo wheel - also from the summer mini. An acetate box tutorial can be found on SCS here. I differed our version slightly by making it a bit taller and adding a "wrap-around" piece. For that piece, we rolled the jumbo wheel (using Real red ink) twice - once on Real Red Cardstock and again on whisper white. We used the Real red piece to wrap around the box, and then cut out phrases from the Whisper white piece and placed them over their matching phrases on the Real Red CS using stampin' dimensionals.

What a fun treat box! What would YOU fill it with for your 4th of July gathering? :o)

Magic Birthday Card

Just a quick post of a birthday card I made for my niece using "A Little Bit of Magic" stamp set and of course, lots of Smooch Spritz.:o)

One creative family!

I don't think I've ever heard of such a creative family, lol! I often post the amazing work by my favorite mother/daughter team, Lillie & Shanna, and last month I even posted a card Lillie's son (Jeremy) made. Well, now they've gone and done it again... the whole family dove in for Jeremy's birthday - even Dad!

Lillie's mom made this awesome card!:

Here's Lillie's gorgeous creation!:

Shanna's card is just absolutely stunning!:

And I just died when I saw the one from their dad... I guess a little background is in order. Jeremy and his dad are big gamers, so he took some screen shots of their characters playing their favorite zombie killer game and he came up with this:

That's just hilarious! :o)

Butterfly Birthday Card

Here's a quick birthday card I made recently using the Birthday Bliss and Butterfly Accent stamps. I used watercolor paper as my base, and I love how it turned out! :o)

Colors used: Elegant Eggplant, Bermuda Bay, Green Galore, Only Orange & Melon Mambo.

So Proud (again!) :o)

More beautiful work to brag about from my clubbie, Lillie... and her son!

She made this beautiful card for her daughter!

AND her son made this awesome card!:

(I think we need to sign him up for club!) :o)

So Proud! :o)

I love showing off the work that my club ladies do! Here are some beautiful creations by Lillie & Erin!