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!

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.

Tile Coasters

Originally, I had wanted to make tile coasters for gifts for some of my friends at Christmas time but I decided on a few other projects instead like the tote bags, journals, calendars etc... Anyway, I wanted to let you see the tile coasters I made. They were so much fun and I love the way they turned out! Perhaps, at another time I'll make some up as presents. For now, I'm just enjoying using them at my house.