Easter - Sending Springtime Smiles 2

Here is another one of my Easter cards. Due to the light paper colour, the photo wouldn't shoot any better than this in the daylight I had.

I used Kaiser Craft Lullaby Collection Bundle of Joy two sided patterned paper with Bazzill Phlox & White Prismatic cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Stampendous Light Purple Easter Egg Border Stickers and Petite Ovals Small & Petite Scalloped Ovals Large Nestabilities.

The sentiments are from Stampin' Up's Easter Blossoms stamp set and stamped with CTMH Petal ink.

Housework never killed anybody....

Here is a fun card! I love the sentiment on the front of this card, but I have never been able to come up with a practical use for it. Then this design hit me.

It all began when I designed my April Workshop Calendar Page. I used a baking line of paper for a non-baking layout. I had scraps leftover and decided to use this same line for a Birthday Card Workshop. Again, showing how you can use baking paper for a birthday card.

Well, the card design turned out to make more scraps from this line. So, I came up with this card and once I put all the pieces together, I will have 12 of these cards in my stash.

The patterned papers are from Little Yellow Bicycle's Savor Line: Kitchenware, Weathered Blue, Weathered Green & Medley and I used Bazzill Arroyo & Sugar Cream cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody "Like" Twine, Die Cuts with a View brads, Queen & Co. pearls and Baby Peach, Summer & Sweat Pea Flower Soft. I used a different flower soft on each of the cards above.

The stamps I used are Stampendous Cling Changito Vacuum, CC Designs Sassy Sentiments and Kraftin' Kimmie Coffee, Holiday & Everyday Sentiment stamp sets with Memento Black Ink & Stampin' Up Calypso Coral Ink.

Copic Markers used are: Brown - E44, W4 & W3; Cream - E50, YR30 & W1; Tongue - R14; Vacuum Bag - BG10, BG11 & C0; Vacuum - B52, B12 & C0.

Easter - So Much Chocolate, So Little Time!

Here is another Easter Card that I made.

The patterned papers are Basic Grey's Hopscotch Kick the Can/Hop & Echo Park Country Drive Clover/Big Sky with Suede Brown Medium & Sugar Cream cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Stampendous Gold Border Easter Egg Stickers, miscellaneous gold brads from my stash and Labels Four & Labels Four Small Nestabilities.

The stamps used on this card are from Stampin' Up's Eat Chocolate stamp set and CTMH's Say It In Style stamp set and stamped with Stampin' Up's Soft Suede Ink.

Easter - Sending Springtime Smiles

Here is one of my Easter cards.

I used My Mind's Eye Dolled Up "Living" Blooms Paper & Dolled Up "Favorite" Madras Paper with Rain & Straw Bazzill cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Stampendous Silver Easter Egg Border Stickers and Petite Ovals Small & Petite Scalloped Ovals Large Nestabilities.

The sentiments are from Stampin' Up's Easter Blossoms stamp set and stamped with Stampin' Up Ruby Red ink.

You Glow Girl!

Big pat on my back! I have bought 3 or 4 pregnancy stamps/stamp sets and I have never made the time to use them, but that changed this weekend.

My best friend's sister is pregnant and Shanna is very excited about becoming an Aunt again and I am excited for her and her sister as well. Shanna's parents and sister came to town this weekend and we all went to the Oliver Road Community Centre's Winter Carnival.

So, if I was going to make her a card, it had to be done for this weekend because it was the first time that I have seen her since she announced her pregnancy. I love how the card turned out, so I made one for my stash as well.

I used My Mind's Eye Vanity Fair 6 x 6 paper pack with Bazzill Fire Hearts cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Stampin' Up ribbon, the zig zag stitch on my sewing machine, an EK Success border punch, EK Success small corner rounder & Labels Fourteen Nestability.

The stamps used on this card are Kraftin' Kimmie's Caroline & Every Day Sentiments.

Copic Markers used: Hair - E35, E37 & E34; Skin - R000 & R0000

Valentine's Day Card 2012 - Final Instalment

Here is the last of my Valentine's Day cards.

I have been working on my workshops for my store. I was pulling papers from the store for my July calendar page workshop and I needed one more sheet of one of the papers. So, I thought that maybe I had kept some of this paper for myself.

I headed down to my disaster of a scrap room and couldn't find any papers from this particular line, but I was fed up. So, I began the 3 day long paper organizing project. My scrap room had turned into a disaster due to my pregnancy. I had been so sick that I was unable to do much in my room, but get what had to be done. So, remnants from workshops and new stuff that I wanted for myself had just piled up everywhere in my room.

With that said, my papers have never been properly organized since I opened my store 8 years ago. Now I have organized my 12 cubes of individual sheets of papers into appropriate categories. I must really like BoBunny because I have a cube and a half filled with BoBunny papers. I also cleaned up my space and put everything away.....well for now. There is still some more organizing to do, but I do need to get my workshops designed.

So, why am I telling you all of this....well, during my clean up I found the papers that I used on my Valentine's Day cards in this post.

It's an old Heidi Grace paper line and I was able to make 31 cards with what I had and I still have two sheets of papers left. The cardstock is Bazzill Passionate (appropriate for Valentine's Day) and Black Prismatic.

The brads are from my stash and I used one of EK Success' border punches to embellish the front of this card.

The front sentiment stamp is from CTMH's Thoughtful Tidings (February Stamp of the Month) stamp set and the inside sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmie's Holiday Sentiments stamp set.

The die-cut that the front sentiment is on was cut out from CTMH's Cricut Cartridge - Art Philosophy. On the stamp set it says to cut the label out at 1 inch, but I cut it out at 1.25 inches because I used one of the decorative layers.

Forty & Paws-itively Fabulous!

It was my girlfriend, Krista's, 40th Birthday earlier this month and my girlfriends and I got together for lunch & an afternoon of scrapbooking. We all went in on a birthday gift for her and this was the card I made her from all of us.

I used BoBunny Passion Fruit Double Dot paper with patterned papers from BoBunny's Sweet Tooth 6 x 6 paper pad. The cardstock is Rose Red from Stampin' Up and the pink glitter paper is from Best Creations.

To embellish the card, I used Stampin' Up Subtles Glimmer Brads & Pink Stickles. The die-cuts were cut out with Classic Ovals Large & Labels Eighteen Nestabilities and EK Success circle punches.

The main image & dog reference sentiments were from Kraftin' Kimmie's Canine Capers 1 & 2 stamp sets. The "FORTY" was stamped out with CTMH's Atomic Caps alphabet stamp set. The "&" sign was stamped with CTMH's Hodgepodge alphabet stamp set and the "Happy Birthday" stamp came from CTMH's Party Pennants stamp set. The sentiments were stamped with Stampin' Up's Purely Pomegranate ink.

Copic Markers used: Dog - YR0000; Dog's Nose - E57 & E55; Dark Pink - R85 & R81; Light Pink - R81; Background - R81 & RV21