Welcome Emma Jane!

I have a new niece, and as you can see, she's just gorgeous.  I can't wait to meet her! Meanwhile, I am sure I will have fun making some baby layouts!

I made this card for her: 

Not sure what patterned paper that is, I used some scraps I had.  The cardstock is Die Cuts With A View.  And I used the Fleur De Lis dies from Spellbinders through my new Grand Calibur for the mats.  Sentiment is from My Mind's Eye, lost and found collection. 

Happy New Year!

I saw this line by Graphic 45 and I KNEW I had to make a calendar with it!  "A Place In Time" is just like all of Graphic 45's other lines...gorgeous.  I'm so in love with that company. If someone offered me a job there I'd be over the moon!!!  Hey, I'd be the cleaning lady there if it meant I'd get a discount on their beautiful products! 

I have January and February completed so far.  

January:

I used images from the Graphic 45 paper and coordinating cardstock from Coordinations.  I used a Spellbinder's die for the matting behind the calendar, Fleur de Lis frames. I got a Grand Calibur for Christmas and am loving how easy it is to use.  I made the snowflakes using my Silhouette electronic cutter, inked them with Versamark ink and added generic rhinestones.  The small snowflakes are from Joleee's and the swirly silver brad on the tag is from Recollections.  Not sure if you can see it in the photo but I also used a Sakura glitter pen on the snowflakes around the "J" in January.

 



 

 

 

I used some generic buttons, twine from The Twinery.  I inked the twine a little bit with Tim Holtz "antique linen" distress ink so the white would look a little aged.  Silver charms are from Recollections, paper flower from Prima.  

 

 

 

I made this heart and the mat behind it with Spellbinders dies.  The mat is Fleur De Lis, and the heart is a die called "Timeless Heritage".  I sanded the surface of the coordinations cardstock to make the embossing on the heart stand out, then I used UTEE on the whole thing, making it shiny. 

 

 

March is up next!

Birthday and sympathy cards

I have quite a few friends and family who are celebrating birthdays in late December and January.  I designed this card for them.  I used a card base from Studio G, stamps from Stephanie Bernard's Stamps of Life, versamark ink, Crayola glitter paper, and Die Cuts with a View cardstock.  The patterned paper here is some leftover wrapping paper.  It was too pretty to throw away!

I also used this design to make a condolence card for the families of Newtown, Ct.  I thought the snowflake was appropriate because the lives of those lost were unique, beautiful, pure and fleeting.  I hope that the cards and letters help comfort the families a little.

Christmas Time!

For the past few years I have joined in with my "scrapbook home on the web" Creative Chaos friends and had a Christmas card swap.  Here's my card for this year. 

 

 

This technique is really useful for using up scraps.  I cut different papers into one inch squares, ran them through the Xyron X machine and laid them on the diagonal.  K and Company die cuts of cardinals and snowmen were perfect for this.  I used the sentiments from Stephanie Bernard's  Stamps of Life.  The eyelet paper is a dollar store find from a few years ago. 

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

 

Guest Designer for June at Scrapping Everyday Miracles

I have the honor of being the Guest Designer for June at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.  I'm happy to be among the company of such wonderful and inspiring designers! 

http://scrappingeverydaymiracles.blogspot.com/

A new little one is on the way...

This is a baby card I did for my sister-in-law who is expecting her first baby.  How exciting! :)  I got the onesie stamp from Denami Designs.  They have such cute images, and specialize in little stamps.  They have some completely adorable little chick stamps!  Paper is from Echo Park, and oval was cut using Spellbinder's dies and the Wizard.  Sentiment stamps are from Stephanie Bernard and ink is from Clearsnap. 

http://denamidesign.com/

Happy Birthday Mary and Grace!

Mary's birthday is on May 30 and Grace's is on May 29, so we always have their parties together.  When I was expecting Mary, Grace had asked me if I could please have the baby on her birthday so she could have a "birthday buddy."  I told her no, that wasn't going to happen because the baby wasn't due until July.  Mary must have heard her sister's request because she came seven weeks early!  So birthday buddies it's been ever since. 

I made this card using the cute pops2eat, patterns4pops, and miniabc2stamp sets from Stephanie Bernard's Stamps of Life.  For the popcicles, I stamped off the pop background (inked the stamp, stamped on a scratch paper, then stamped the image so the ink was lighter) and then used the same ink full strength for the dots.