Prom!

More scrapbooking today!

I took the "official" (ha!) pictures, so I have them, which is the best part, haha! This was the last dance from my daughter's time in high school, so I included all the candid selfies (friends!) she got while on the date too.  

Supplies: 

Stamps: Alphabest (retiring!), Artistic Etchings (retired)

Ink: Island Indigo (retired), Tempting Turquoise (retired)

Paper: Basic White & Tahitian Tide card stock (retiring!), Bali Breeze DP (retired)

Accessories: Paper Pumpkin blue dots (retired), Paper Pumpkin sequins (retired)

This DP was actually purchased by my MIL, but I have had it for at least five years now. It is from 2007, haha, but it goes so well with her dress!! The inks do not match, and neither does the bit of added card stock, but I think it still worked very well. 

The boys in her group were most of her closest friends, which is why I included the pic of the boys on the bridge and not the girls. In fact we had to look up two of the girls names! She laughed at a few photos I chose to print, but she already hasn't seen some of these people since graduation, so it mattered then, didn't it? 

A Valentines Page

Today I have a scrapbook page for you.
This one used up some "mistakes" I made back in January for THIS card. I even state in the post that I tried three times, haha! I kept those mistakes and then die cut a bunch of hearts out for my page today. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Alphabet Appeal Lower (retired), Skinny Mini Alphabet (retired)

Ink: Sweet Sorbet (retiring!)

Paper: Very Vanilla card stock

Accessories: Resin Hearts (retired), Heart framelit dies (retired), big shot (retired)

And as a reminder, haha, everything here is retired because my retired stash IS for my scrapbooks. Altho that ink is still available if you're interested!! 

Paper full of flowers!

Hello again! Today I have the stamp set from the bundle mentioned yesterday. I used the TGIF Challenge for a card front covered in something - in my case, flowers! And that makes it a perfect match for the Paper Players challenge of spring flowers! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Layers of Beauty

Ink: Memento Black, Flirty Flamingo
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Flirty Flamingo, Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light & Dark Old Olive, Dark Daffodil Delight 

Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Basic White card stocks

A set of Masks!

Happy Tuesday! Today I have an upcoming product for you! In the new catalog there is a bundle of a stamp set, dies, and coordinating masks, and I decided this would be something fun.

For my first go, I used the color combo from the As You See It Challenge altho I did add a bit of green ink too. It also works perfectly with the Inspire.Create.Challenge to use something new. And! this card goes with the leaves and flowers part of Just Add Ink's challenge! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Layers of Beauty
Ink: Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Bubble Bath, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight.
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Dimensionals, Blending Brushes 

I have to add, I love the tools that get the men stamping. When I held workshops, my husband, my dad, and other people's husbands always got a big kick out of the paper crimper and the heat tool. Today my son was super interested in the Blending Brush to get this look, and asked to help! He did the bigger layer of Granny Apple Green leaves. I love that! 

Thankful Wreath

Today I have new stamps, new DP and new In Colors for you!!
And I played with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches and Festive Friday (orange, green, enamel dots and thread) to create this! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Encircled in Nature

Ink: Shy Shamrock, Peach Pie and Pebbled Path

Paper: Basic White card stock, Unbounded Beauty DP

Accessories: 2024-26 In Color Resin Dots, White Bakers Twine, Encircled In Nature dies, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, big shot (retired)

The stamp and die bundle actually come from the Online Exclusives. I see a lot of potential with this one! This is not at all how I thought I'd start with it, but I think it worked nicely anyway. 

Happy Daisies!

I'm so glad I finally got these daisies AND I'm glad they're sticking around another year!!
Today I have two cards that are almost identical, other than color combinations. And that the top daisy is different.... In both cases I used Blending Brushes to add the third color to the background of the card.

Altho I'm too late, I still used this sketch from Just Add Ink, and then this card uses the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments: 

Supplies:

Stamps: Cheerful Daisies
Ink: Petal Pink, Pretty Peacock, Garden Green

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Cheerful Daisies dies, Dimensionals, Blending Brush, big shot (retired) 

while this card uses the color challenge from Global Design Project. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Cheerful Daisies
Ink: Fresh Freesia, Lemon Lolly, Balmy Blue

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Cheerful Daisies dies, Dimensionals, Blending Brush, big shot (retired) 

Something x6

I had seen this sketch from TGIF Challenges floating around social media and wondered what on earth I would use for those six "things" at the bottom.... and then I had two ideas! ha! 

First I made this fun kid card using the color combo from The Paper Players. Well, almost... I swapped out Lost Lagoon for Bermuda Bay because my display board was wiped completely clean with the new catalog, and this card is going on the board- so that's how I kept it all 'current'. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around

Ink: Lost Lagoon

Paper: Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo card stocks

Accessories: Kiddin' Around dies, Glue Dots 

Then I made this autumny birthday card, with a brand new leaf die. This is part of a fun new bundle in the upcoming catalog. I sponged the inks onto the card stock, then randomly placed the leaf die to get different shades. Then I decided I liked the swishy ink at the edge of where I had sponged, so I kept that for the rectangle strip on the card sketch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Simply Said
Ink: Copper Clay, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wheat
Paper: Cajun Craze & Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Layers of Beauty dies, Stampin Sponges (retired), big shot (retired)

And I must say, I love how you can use one sketch and get completely different cards!! 

Butterfly Birthday

Happy Monday! Ready for a new week?
I told you I needed birthday cards right now, haha, because here's another one for the SUO Challenge! This time I used the great sketch from Inspire.Create.Challenges and dug into the WABAC for a whole lotta retired supplies. One ink and the card stock is all that's current. But I needed some soft blues and a pretty butterfly, and this worked great. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Happiness Abounds, Strength & Hope (both retired)

Ink: Pool Party, Soft Suede (retired)
Paper: Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Every Day Enchantment DP (retired)

Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Twine (retired)

Bonus Flowers, round 3

Here is the final (for now anyway) of these flowered cards. This is actually what I envisioned as soon as I saw the big daisies. I used the Blending Brushes for the colored strip and then just stamped it right on top! Quick, easy, and pretty!
And because I like how it turned out, I'm going to put it in with the current SUO Challenge to make birthday cards! 

Supplies:
Stamps: March 2024 Paper Pumpkin extra stamps, Beside Me
Ink: Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight, Mossy Meadow
Paper: Misty Moonlight & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Tinsel Gems 3-Pack, Blending Brushes

Bonus Flowers, round 2

Happy Friday! Maybe we made it...! 

Today I've got my second card with this flower image. This time I used the latest from CAS Colours & Sketches. I also tried the "Spotlight Technique", altho I didn't like the result til I used a Blending Brush to add the Soft Seafoam ink, which creates the "spotlight". I also used the words that came in the same Paper Pumpkin kit. 

Supplies:

Stamps: March 2024 Paper Pumpkin and extra stamps

Ink: Early Espresso, Soft Seafoam, Flirty Flamingo

Paper: Soft Seafoam & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils II, Blending Brush

Bonus Flowers, round 1

March is Paper Pumpkin's anniversary month, so to celebrate, I think they have sent out a bonus stamp set, in addition to a monthly subscription, every single year! I really liked the flowers included this round and I really wanted to play with them, once I finally got some crafting time. That means I have a few posts with the same happy flowers coming up! 

This first one uses the latest from Freshly Made Sketches, as well as the latest from Color Throwdown. It also works great for the SUO Challenges, and I am in need of some birthday cards!  

I had originally made it a single layer card, but decided it really needed more than that, so I trimmed it down and placed it on a Melon Mambo card base. 

Supplies:

Stamps: March 2024 Paper Pumpkin extra stamps, Kiddin' Around 

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green

Paper: Melon Mambo & Basic White card stock

4th of July!

We're on Spring Break this week, and I haven't made anything new in a little while, so here's a layout I made digitally in December.
I love doing this because how else can I fit this many photos on a single layout?? That, and I only had to design it once, print it four times and now everyone has our 4th of July! I added a typed up square of journaling to the bottom right corner. 

Supplies:

MDS, Pocket card download from Persnickety Prints

Dance Recital!

Happy Monday and happy Spring Break around here! 

Today I'm going to share a scrapbook layout that is an interesting kind of hybrid project. Since this was for dance, I knew I wanted a glimmery kind of purple for the background, but I didn't have anything that was right. I knew I had "Glimmer Paper" in MDS... so I changed the Gold Glimmer paper to Elegant Eggplant and then I just printed those two sheets, hahaha!! Then I glued the photos and the circles down and I always tape the ribbon. So the layout was made traditionally, on Digital paper I digitally altered, ha! 

Supplies:
Paper: Basic Black card stock, Gold Glimmer paper recolored to Elegant Eggplant in MDS (retired!) 

Accessories: Crochet Ribbon, Circle dies, Big Shot (all retired)