This week's challenge is: "BEARY Special" - create a project that includes a bear.
In honor of 'back to school' time, I decided to create a card which may also be used as a mini-album out of a brown paper bag. My scan doesn't let you see that so well but my family thought it was cute. I wish my children all the best as they return to school on Monday.
Supplies ~
brown paper bag: Wal-Mart
black cardstock: American Crafts
speckled cream cardstock: Stampin' Up
textured red cardstock: Bazzill (Textured Red Devil)
handcut heart: by Nessa
green speckled paper: Wallies
bear stamp: PSX designs (Personal Stamp Xchange)
Hello! Stamp Set: Stampin' Up
watercolor pencils: Stampin' Up
inks: ColorBox gold pigment, Stampin' Up black craft, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tea Dye, VersaColor ink pad cube evergreen
ribbon: Garden Ridge Holiday Trimmings
red brads: unknown from a brad soup
basic round hole punch: Fiskars
This was a very fun project!
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (3) #20
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge(3) # 19
The theme for this week's challenge is called:
"3-2-1"
For this week’s challenge I created a card that uses THREE brads, TWO different pattern papers, and ONE flower.
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (2) #18
This is my second time doing the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. I'm sure I'll do better with time and practice. So, this time the theme is "Child's Play" and I decided to do a birthday card for a child. I made one earlier for a birthday party that my son went to for his friend who was turning 7. Since the card was well received there, I improved upon it and thought I'd post it here for this challenge. I'm glad to participate!
Supplies:
cream, blue, light green, white and yellow cardstock - unknown source from my scrap pile
Classic Alphabet Stamps - Stampin' Up
Line Design Stamp - Close to My Heart
Watercolor pencils - Stampin' Up
circlular punchie - Fiskars
Stamp Ink - ColorBox tangerine, scarlet and VersaColor indigo
Light Pink shine - Pearl X brush pigment
One toothpick - helps the wick to stand up on its own
Adhesive - Scotch tape, Elmer's school glue
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge
Challenge #17
Theme: Inside-Outside
Inside: first picture 
Outside: second picture
This is my first attempt at joining the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. I finished today! The theme is "Inside-Out" which means that I needed to create a project where I decorated both the inside and the outside. I chose to create a card, of course. I was excited to be able to go to Scrapbook Haus with my cousin, Jen, and they had the idea for this amazing bluebonnet card. I couldn't resist making it as well! So, the picture above shows what I did with it.
A list of my supplies include:
Cream/Sage green kraft cardstock - unknown source
Bluebonnet stamp - Deadbeat Designs
Friend and floral stamps - Stampin' Up
Ink used for bluebonnets - Stampin' Up brush markers
Ink used for two of the flowers and edging - ColorBox pigment royal blue and ColorBox cats eye chalks in blues and brown combination pack
Ink used for one of the flowers - Encore! Metallic light blue
Flocking on bluebonnets - Flower Flock/Crushed Velvet Flock (?) in Delphinium Blue
Adhesive used - Scotch photo and craft glue
This is my first time using a type of crushed velvet flock (I'll track down the brand and update this when I can find it) and I'm so happy with the result! It was so fun and I love how it came out although it really does look better in real life!
For the love of making cards
I've been up to making a few more cards from ones I designed a while ago. I thought I've needed to start building up a better card stash again in order to have them on hand as I need them. So today, I went to a couple of different card stores, like Hallmark and Carlton Cards, to get some ideas from the ones that are being sold and it was fun. I like to do that from time to time in order to get my creative juices flowing again.
Anyway, take a peek at my cards.
Feels like Spring with Green cards:
- Celery green cardstock from Stampin' Up
- Lemon yellow cardstock from Bazzill used for flower punches
- Flower punch by Fiskars
- Rob & Bob Studio patterned paper from Provo Craft
- Prima small blue flowers in their milk bottle line
- Making Memories silver brads
- light blue ribbon is from an unknown source
- White ink along edges is Stampin' Up Craft White Ink
Warms the Heart card:
- tan and brown cardstock from American Crafts
- red cardstock is from an unknown source
- Gold pigment ink is from ColorBox
- Red pigment ink is Scarlet from ColorBox
- Chocolate Brown ink is from Stampin' Up
- Edging ink is from Tim Holtz Ranger Industries
- Watercolor pencils/Chalks from Stampin' Up
- Star brad is from Making Memories
- Heart Stamp and saying is from Stampin' Up
Mother's day Scrapbook Pages
Recently, I was asked to help the Activity Day girls in our ward to create a scrapbook page for their Mom's for Mother's Day. I created this example titled "For My Mother."
My daughter, Nessa, was there and here's her page that she created for me!
One thing I learned is that I need to be taking more photo's of me and my mom as well as more of me with Nessa! I had a hard time finding any at all. Why hadn't I ever realized this before? I hope I will remember this now and take those pictures! I'd love to have a new tradition of creating a page for Mother's Day. I really enjoyed it. I've heard that the Activity Day girls fun creating their pages and I think they turned out nice!
Supplies we used include: American Crafts medium purple cardstock(12x12), patterned paper and stickers by The Paper Studio, silver ink by Stampabilties, white craft ink by Stampin' Up, Making Memories bright colored flower brads, Flower stamps by Stampabilities. All items were purchased from Hobby Lobby.
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