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Hi stampers!!!

Guess what????  To honor National Scrapbook Month - I have several layouts lined up to share with you.  I didn't get to participate in the Create with Connie and Mary challenge last week - and boy did I miss it.  This week is a color challenge - and instantly I knew what I was going to do.  Wanna see the colors?

What came to your mind?



oh really????  This is what came to mine- instantly.  :)

Let's start with the left hand side:

Before we go any further - I want to explain.  The post it notes on my pages were intentional - I am super weird about my daughter's face being online - but I don't want that to stop me from sharing my pages and ideas with you.  Sorry if this offends any of you if this is yoru first time stopping by - but that is why there are bright colored squares all over my daughter's face.   lol

The title is chipboard that has been covered with whisper shite craft ink and embossed with iridescent ice embossing powder.  The chipboard is retired - still Stampin' Up!, but retired.  I have a package of the current chipboard alphabet - but alas, I couldn't find it.  argh....but that is another story ;)

Take a closer look at the blingage on this page:

Did you notice the wild wasabi satin ribbon???  I know!  We don't have that!  I took a piece of white organdy ribbon and used my wild wasabi stampin write marker and colored it - easy peasy, lemon squeezy (right from the mouth of my 5 year old :)  )  And then I adhered the ribbon pieces to the page with subtles glimmer brads - {luv} these!!

Now, let's move onto the right hand page......

Don't you think the little tag is so sweet peeking out from behind the pictures?  The butterfly was punched with the butterfly punch out of pale plum card stock.  I stamped the flourish from Easter Blossoms.  I sure hope this set makes it into the cattie.......please, pretty please with a cherry on top.........  The eggs and sentiment are also from this set.  I sprinkled the eggs through wild wasabi grass  :)  The polka dot paper is from the subtles designer series paper pack.  What a great way to get designer sheets from an entire color collection.  I hope it doesn't disqualify me for using retired stamps - I made these layouts last week when they were current...but wanted to save them for National Scrapbook Month - not thinking that the stamps wouldn't be current :(

I would love to know what you think of this 2 page spread.  I was so inspired by the color choices....and I hope in some way I have inspired you.

Happy Stampin'

Maybe the 5:00 mojo is what it is all about......

Hey everyone!  I got up again today at 5:00 to create some goodness to share.....I KNOW - what is up with this????

I want to start out by saying that I am definitely not the originator of the two ideas that I haev combined on my little beauty today.....but I did need to combine the two for an Easter card for someone who hasn't forgotten that it isn't all about the bunny.  Jesus is also the reason for this season.

Wanna see what I did today?  okay

Well, you like?

I was really pleased with the final outcome.  However - this card is not mailable....sorry post office :(  But I will definitely hand deliver this baby.

I cut the cross with my big shot ans the square lattice die.  A couple of snips and viola - a cross!  I adhered that to a piece of whisper white that had also met the big shot this morning through the vintage wall paper embossing folder....this is my favorite folder, for sure.  I did sponge some bashful blue on the raised ares to kind of give the feeling of sky with out being totally blue.

Wanna closer look at the flower swag that I attached to the cross?

I did actually construct this just like you would make a real swag....It was completely put together and the adhered as one piece to the cross.  The greenery was a combination of the little leaves sizzlet and the branch from the bird punch.  The calla lilies - can you give a guess where they may have come from????

If you guessed a circle punch - you are...........wrong :) 

They are punched out of the blossom petals punch.  I cut the pointy end off of the petal and rolled it up adhering a stamen....aka a sliver of daffodil delight....and a stem.....aka a sliver of old olive with mini glue dots.  Then I used a mini glue dot to adhere the flower together.

I adhered the flowers down onto the greenery and the made a bow from the 1/8th inch whisper white taffeta ribbon.  I adhered it to the card like it might be blowing in the breeze a bit......

It is hard to really see the dimension on this card...I realized that whiel I was typing up this post...so I whipped the card down on my computer and snapped a picture fo it laying down.....sorry for the poor quality ;)

The sentiment is from Easter Blossoms.   I punched it out with the wide oval punch and then just hand cut a daffodil delight mat for around it.

Well...how did I do?

Erin go Braugh???????

Naw!!!!!  

LOL!!

Are you wondering where this is going?  You probably should be....hehehe!!
This week's challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary is a theme challenge.....to go green.  There are many ways to interpret "go green," and it was a a challenge posted on St. Patty's day.......But - I didn't go the St. Patty's day route - since it is the 19th of March.....lol

I went with the obvious - green.  When I checked out this week's challenge - I immediately thought to use the hostess level one, "Because I Care."  I absolutely love hydrangeas.  And I think the white ones that have a tinge of green are so delicate looking....so what did I pair it with in color????  BLACK!  Do  you think I pulled it off?????

The designer series paper is from greenhouse gala - ironic to use "green"house paper on a "green" themed floral card.....get it greenhouse-flower......"green"house-go "green".  I am pulling at strings here people......lol!  And I just had to add a cluster of buttons....i {luv} the new buttons Stampin' Up! has brought out this year - sooooo pretty.  I colored the flowers with a blender pen and ink refills.  I also stamped the single flower stamp several times and colored them as well.  I cut them all out....can  you see the dimension here????

Some of the single blooms were adhered straight onto the cluster flower....and some were adhered with stampin dimensionals to give a third layer of blooming goodness.  The flower cluster as well as the single flowers were stamped onto watercolor paper with black staz on ink.

And......I couldn't leave the inside just plain old olive.......

I would love to know what you think about this goodness......did I pull off an delicate flowery Easter card with black accents?

Awash in my two step!!

what?????  I bet you have no idea where that came from!  lol!!

Well, I am about to show  you a brand new stamp set that will be available in the next idea book and catalog!!!  Torture, huh?  Well....Stampin' Up! is having a "Two-Step into Spring" campaign in April!!  You can either buy this GREAT set early, only in April, or you can earn it for FREE!!!!!  You can click on the sale flyer on my side bar to get the full details!

I was anxious to create my own designer series paper with this set since I ordered it last month (yeah....a major perk of demos - to preorder goodies!!).  Be sure to contact me if you are interested in becoming a demo. 

I also wanted to participate in this week's Paper Pals Art challenge - a color challenge to use Lovely Lilac, Barely Banana, and Certainly Celery.  I had to throw in so saffron and a smidge of basic black....I hope I am no stoned out of the challenge ;)

We went to see the Easter Bunny last weekend and my daughter ran right up to her and gave her a great big hug.....I have to admit, I was rather jealous of that great hug :)  Here is the double page spread:

I can not get a two page spread to look nice in a picture, no matter what I do....sorry about that!  But, not to fear.....I have taken pictures of them separately as well.  You figured, huh?  lol!!
Here is the left side:

Wanna close up of "my designer series paper?" 

I gotta tell you....I really like this color combo for spring :)  I wasn't sure I could love anything done with Lovely Lilac.....I am more of a pale plum kind of girl...lol!  But I love this!  Thanks PPA for pushing me into a new comfort zone!!!!  I used the billboard die and the big shot for my title.  sweet, huh? 

And I couldn't leave you hanging on the right hand page.....now, could I?

By the way...the designer series paper that I used was from Animal Stories and Sweat Pea....I need more of these....need, I say....NEED!

How about a close up of those accent flowers??

I absolutely LOVE this stamp set....it is a two step set that requires no "real" lining up.....it just looks better a little off, know what I mean?

Well.....Here i am, feeling all good that I have last weekend's scrapbooking done.  Too bad I wasn't caught up to here....LOL!!!!

Six Weeks until Spring?!?!?!?!?!?

Well.....not in my stamp room!!!

I pulled out the scs sketch challenge today and got busy making a springy card.  I have been wanting to use my new set, Abundant Hope, for a while now anyway.....I have alot of rubber that needs my attention!

As soon as I saw this set offered in the Occassions mini....I knew it had to be mine!  I have been waiting for a daffodil stamp set.  I have tons of flower stamps, but I still "needed" it.  lol!  Wanna see what I came up with?

The desigenr series paper here is Tall Tales.  I used my FREE sale a bration punch, Scallop Trim Border and it's mate, the Scallop Trim Border Corner punch that is available in the Occassions Mini.  The daffodils and setniment are stamped on watercolor paper.  The sentiment is from Well Scripted, also from the Occassions Mini.  I have been long negleting my grommets....so I pulled out a white one today and accented the center of it with a knot tied with chocoalte chip satin ribbon......YUMMO........

I even did up the inside :)

I would love to know what you think.....comments do make me feel warm and fuzzy inside :):)

Flutter up the Cottage Wall

Yeah.....you heard me right...lol!

I made this scrapbook page last week - when I should have been cleaning ;) Keep it our little secret and no one gets hurt!

I vowed to myself that I wasn't going to get so behind on my daughter's scrapbook this year if it meant that I would scrapbook out of chronological order.....gasp!!! Well....I can not bring myself to scrap dates here and there.....so here I am still showing you Easter stuff for scrapbooking....please forgive me!! {please}

Here is the two page spread:

The designer series is from Cottage Wall. The butterflies are cut with my big shot and the exclusive butterfly die from Stampin' Up!.

Here is the left page:

A few little details about this side....The title was stamped with my jumble alphabet in pale plum. "The Big" was stamped with the calendar alphabet and number set in certainly celery. The subtitle "Good Times" is from fundamental phrases and I stamped it repeatedly with my stamp a ma jig in rich razzleberry. I put little circles in between the phrases with my old olive stampin' write marker.

Also, I wanted to do a little ribbon detail around the photo mat of the vertical picture. I wrapped the rich razzleberry polka dot grosgrain ribbon around it and instead of knotting it I secured it with a pewter build a brad. See that little butterfly??? That was punched out of the designer series paper as well - it pays to save scraps :) I adhered that with a mini glue dot and then put the clear bubble sticker over it. Cute as pie, huh?

Here is the right hand side page:

Boy oh boy....I'm glad to have another page done! :)

I would love for you to leave me a comment telling me what you think.

A tisket, A tasket....I love my Blooms and Basket....

LOL!!! I get more and more clever every day, huh? hehehe!!!

It is actually the baskets and blooms XL die that is exclusive to Stampin" Up for the Big Shot....But it didn't rhyme that way! lol!

Isn't that stinkin' cute!??!??!? I will be giving this to my daughter for Easter.....then I will take it off of her immediately so she doesn't pick it apart...lol!

The card base is chocolate chip. All of the designer series paper here is from Candy Lane....it not only works for Valentine's day, but I think of big chocolate bunnies and eggs when I look at it. So I pulled it out for a "nontraditional colored" Easter card.

I cut the basket out with the baskets and blooms die and the big shot...but that is not all....I then ran it through my big shot with the squares texturz plate. Have I mentioned that I love my big shot yet today???? I made grass by cutting slivers of chocolate chip and wrinkling them up and adhering it to the inside of the basket with sticky strip. I stamped the three eggs from various papers from candy lane and cut them out. I adhered the basket down with sticky strip and left it puffy in the middle. I punched the sentiment out with the word window punch and tied that to the riding hood red taffeta ribbon with linen thread.

Oh yeah...the cute little chick at the bottom....she, as well as all of the stamps here, is from A Good Egg. I paper pieced her shell and mounted her onto the scalloped circle.

Here is a different angle of the dimension and hopefully the texture.

Well...really...what do you think? Did I pull off an Easter card using maybe not so traditional Easter colors????

I am still Sale A Brating my mojo in the Spring....

Hehehe!!.....that was quite a title, huh? Well...let me explain. I am still celebrating Sale a Bration for 2 more days. It isn't too late for you to get the FREE goodies that Stampin' Up! has to offer...they outdid themselves this year, I think. I pulled the sketch from this week's mojo monday sketch challenge. And I am going to submit this to Shelli's blog for her Spring challenge. So, there you have it...my run on title does have a meaning....LOL!!!!

I absolutely love the FREE delicate dots designer series paper that you can earn during this year's Sale A Bration!!! I will miss it when it is no longer current :(

I have to be terribly quick with the deets today...I am running around here like a one armed stamper that has lost her ink! I colored the chick with a blender pen and ink refills....her little egg was paper pieced.....my three little flowers are from a very neglected, quite often overlooked three for you punch. I absolutely love this punch...but I forget about it....argh!!!

The sentiment flower was made from two layers of the five petal punch...one celery and one saffron. I stamped the sentiment by inking one word at a time with the stamp a ma jig. I adhered this flower down with pop up glue dots....Look at the dimension of that little baby:

here is a close gander at those three little flowers. I punched the centers out with the larger hole in the crop a dile and adhered them down with tombo mono multi.

Ribbon is white taffeta. card stock colors are so saffron, whisper white, and sahara sand.

Let me know what you think of this....I love this little chick.....

Time to Sale A Brate Easter!

Hi Stampers! Boy did I have fun making this little sweetie!
It is hard to tell in the picture, but the card base is sahara sand. The background panel is from delicate dots designer series paper. This is a really nice set of designer series paper....it is excellent for anything spring or summer! I stamped the flourish only from the "something for you" stamp in the Yummy stamp set in basic grey. This particular stamp was designed to fit on the edge of the top note die...but doesn't it look wonderful on a card front? I then pulled out my all holidays set and grabbed the Easter Wishes stamp and stamped it in basic grey as well. I matted it in a thin layer of certainly celery and then onto the card base. I then tied a simple knot with the celery poly twill ribbon around the top. I love the poly twill ribbon...you would think it would be thick since it is twill...but it isn't...it is so smooth and shiny....LOVE it! The horizontal panel started with a layer of bashful blue, which I ran through my big shot using the dots texturz plate from the exclusive Stampin' Up texturz. I then layered that with a thin layer of certainly celery as well.

Now for those flower panels....did I pass these off as- sort of - kind of - maybe a - daffodil???? Probably not...but that was the inspiration I had since it was an Easter card....lol! Anyway, I stamped the celery leaves and outline from botanical blooms on the white squares and mounted those onto stampin' dimensionals along the blue panel. I then stamped the half flower and outline in so saffron, also from botanical blooms. I cut them out and mounted them on stampin' dimensionals as well.

Ok...so let's do a recap.

Delicate dots designer series paper - FREE

Yummy stamp set - FREE

Botanical Blooms stamp set - FREE

Certainly celery poly twill ribbon - FREE

So, everything on this card except the solid color card stock and the sentiment were, you guessed it - FREE!!!! {luv} that! :)

Here is a closer look at the dimension as well as a shot of the embossed dots on the bashful blue layer.

What do you think? I would love to know.....I am kind of a "comment junkie"....LOL!!!

Scrappin' Saturday 4

Wow....I am four 2 page layouts further in my daughter's scrapbook than I would have been if I weren't doing this challenge to myself!!! I couldn't get a good 2 page spread picture, so I will have to show it to you in left and right pages.

You know.....I am all over the place with my scrap booking lately. I used to scrap chronologically...ONLY....but lately...I scrap what ever I feel like. lol!! A lot of times when I transfer my memory cards to my computer, I usually get around 100 pictures printed out from various events. So needless to say...I have dates all over the place to scrap. I have resolved to myself not to get any more printed until I get the ones scrapped that I have printed out already.

How do you scrap?

You know...."they" say that if you are really behind, you should scrap current and then go back to the past as you have time. I should take that approach...but then that would go against my resolve....lol!!!

Anyway...with that off my chest...I come to you with Easter pages! Easter Egg hunt pages, actually....not even real Easter day pages!

Here is the left hand side:

The base is so saffron. The designer series paper is the same retired package I used on week 1, flowers for you. These papers are so girly that I have to use them for her scrapbook...that is why I bought them actually. Remember....I did say that I might use retired goodies here...but you can definitely substitute current papers for your layouts. This is the problem with not scrapping current....in the next catalog there will be heaps of springy things, I'm sure....that is why we have two catalogs per year....but I am a free spirit of sorts, so I make do! lol!!!

I matted all of the pictures with whisper white. The main picture on this side of the page also is matted with pixie pink. The designer series paper strips on both sides along the top is adorned with whisper white punched with the scallop edge punch. Along the bottom, between the two rows, I spaced out holes with my mat pack and piercer and adhered pixie pink flowers punched with the three for you punch with "altered brads." Remember when I told you how to make white brads...since Stampin' Up! doesn't sell them.....wonder why not???? Anyway....click here to learn how to make your own white brads.

See that adorable flower accent with the chick???

I pulled out the largest flower from the pretties kit and dyed it to match my project with lavender lace ink and a sponge dauber. I just pulled the dauber from the center outward. I wanted a flower that still had some white in it...not completely one color. I love this about the pretties kit flowers...we can totally customize them to our project. I adhered it to the page with a brad. The little chick is from A Good Egg. I jumped on this set right away because it is definitely a good one for card making and scrap booking.....cute!

I stamped the chick onto whisper white with jet black staz on. I colored in the egg shell with my pretty in pink stampin' write marker. The chick was colored with barely banana and his little beak was colored with apricot appeal. I cut him out with my hobby blade and cutting mat. Now the fun part....blinging him up!!! I used my 2 way glue pen and dazzling diamonds to spruce him up! He was adhered to the center of the flower with a pop up glue dot ( one of the thick gooey ones....) You like?

Now the title.

I was going to use my new sizzix dies but then decided to do something a little different. I pulled out more paper from that same pack and stamped the word "hunt" with versamark ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder and the heat tool. I then cut the letters out. It is hard to see in this picture, but it is a cool look in real life. I accented it with a little flower like the ones along the bottom of the pages.

I can see myself doing this type of stamping lots more in the future. It really adds visual interest to the usual solid color titles, don't you think?

Now onto the right hand side of the 2 page spread.

It is pretty much all the same as the other side color wise except one main photo is matted in pixie pink and one is matted with lavender lace.

This color scheme went so well with my daughter's dress even though there wasn't a bit of yellow in it.

See the egg accents? Those were so fun to create!!!

The stamp set has a large open image egg with lots of different stamps to adorn it with.

I stamped two eggs onto whisper white with jet

black staz on.

For the one, I stamped the zig zag band in the middle. For the other, I stamped the flower/open circle stamp multiple times. I colored them in with stampin' write markers - barely banana, pretty in pink and lavender lace. They had to be blinged up too! I used my 2 way glue pen on the lavender lace part of the right egg and covered it with dazzling diamonds. The left egg, I just put dazzling diamonds on the pink flowers. The lavender lace egg is mounted on stampin' dimensionals.

Boy....I type alot, huh??? I hope you are enjoying Scrappin' Saturdays. I sure am enjoying doing them. If you are behind in your scrap booking, I urge you to try to tackle it just like I am. One week at a time....one layout at a time. It is very liberating to be getting some pages done.

Now, Go Scrap!