End of the Meeting...

Here's the very last make & take from my upline meeting earlier this month. It's such a pretty card and not one I would have ever thought to put together on my own. Plus it involves a bow and I am really lousy at making bows look nice! This one is a cheat....only one half of the bow pulled thru and the other is just folded behind the knot part! haha!
If you look at the bottom right corner you might see some tiny flowers punched out of the text paper and sponged with a little ink. I thought that was a cute, subtle touch.

They even had us decorate the inside of the card! I never do that... lol!

Supplies:
Stamps: Easter Blossoms
Ink: Baja Breeze, Versamark
Paper: Rose Red, Very Vanilla card stocks, First Editions DP
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Vintage Flower Adornments, Very Vanilla seam binding,

Other green pages...

Well that was smooth. I mentioned a long time ago that I had tons to share...and I've been posting daily, except that I went thru and pre-wrote them. I wrote up this post the night I scrapped the pages and took the photos the next morning.......and never included the photos on this post! Then I went away for the weekend and came home to see that this post has been sitting all day photo-less. Rats. Well, its fixed now. Enjoy, lol!
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Remember the green-scrapbooking night I mentioned? Here's the other two. These are actually the same weekend, but the park pages are for my son's book and the Mother's Day page is for mine. Just funny to me that I was on such a green kick.

Supplies:
Stamps: Just Perfect Alphabet, retired: Lively Little Ones
Ink: Old Olive, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip marker
Paper: Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Accessories: retired buttons

With this page I started out by using a challenge and then I didn't follow thru half of it so I'm not counting it. But one part was to watercolor with markers- so glad I'd just learned how, LOL! I was super ambitious and thought yellow roses with pink streaks would be cool. Okay, it might be, but four roses later and its just exasperating. *smile
You should also know that cutting around roses on watercolor paper that is still slightly damp is super time-consuming and really hurt my hand, haha. This was a complicated-super-simple page!
I was glad the challenge included black & white photos tho because I had been hit by horrible hayfever the day before these pics were taken and my nose looked quite like a tomato from all the sneezing/blowing. Mother's Day needs moved to a prettier time of year for me, hee hee!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, retired: Taffy Alphabet
Ink: Basic Black craft ink, Regal Rose, Regal Rose & So Saffron markers
Paper: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Aquapainter

Hair Things!

Jill Olsen (whose blog is HERE) taught us one of the coolest things we learned at the meeting a couple weeks ago. She showed us how to turn this baggie of circles of fabric (cut with the Big Shot!) into a really fun and pretty flower!

The fabric was a sheer taffeta kind of fabric, and you melt the edges over the heat of a candle!

Then you use a glue gun and some kind of pretty little accessory (I used a rhinestone jewel) and turn it into this!!! Isn't that gorgeous??

Most of the women used them as pins on their blouses, but you could put it on a purse, or even a shoe!

My downline/friend and I chose to use them like this:

***LOVE***

New Technique!

Here are a couple more of the make & takes from my meeting. I've mentioned I had to make two sets...my downline friend was not feeling well and didn't want to make the trip up there sick. That's okay tho, I got to play with choices!

I learned something new with these cards. I have long wondered if you could watercolor with markers, but I've only tried blender pens and no, that doesn't work. However, if you use markers on watercolor paper, and you use an aquapainter- well check out those sewing machines! Those are watercolored with markers! Coooool!

All of these supplies are found in the Occasions Mini. I am looking forward to owning some of these for scrapbooking pages of my mom sewing clothes! Won't that be FUN?

Supplies:
Stamps: Sew Suite
Ink: Black Stazon, Regal Rose marker, Tempting Turquoise marker, Tangerine Tango marker, Daffodil Delight marker
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose & Tangerine Tango card stocks, Sweet Stitches DP, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Daffodil Delight taffeta ribbon, Sweet Buttons Embosslits die, Dimensionals, thread

Blue Bird

I am so in love with this card!!! The bird turned out fabulous and I think the colors rock together!

Supplies:
Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Night of Navy, Baja Breeze
Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pear Pizazz
Accessories: Bird Punch, SIlver Brads, Mat Pack

Star Struck!

I got to scrapbook some more the other night and the theme of *that* night was a green base. Three un-related events and all on a different shade of green base, haha.

These pictures are from last summer. These are the vehicles used in filming the Transformer movies. They stopped in our town of all places for a pit stop/night at a hotel and my husband happened to be driving past and called and told me to get the kids there NOW. So I did and tons of people were there checking it out. It was so funny and my son was SOOOO excited!!! So here's his page, finally.

Supplies:
Stamps: none
Ink: Poppy Parade marker
Paper: Wild Wasabi, retired Primary Colors simply scrappin' kit

Get "Whale"!

Get well cards are one type I don't make very many of. However, a friend of mine (who also works with me in cub scouts) recently had knee surgery that ended up worse than expected, so I thought this might cheer her up a little. I made the card and let the cub scouts write a note inside, hee hee.

Supplies:
Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: Basic Black, Poppy Parade
Paper: Marina Mist, Poppy Parade, Whisper White card stocks, Poppy Parade DP (hostess pack)
Accessories: Brads, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

Birthdays for everyone!

I was asked to make a stack of birthday cards so here's one for a young boy, a young girl or even a baby, and a teenager, and one for anyone at all!

Supplies:
Stamps: Pun Fun, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Basic Black, Bashful Blue
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pens, White grosgrain ribbon

Supplies:
Stamps: Grunge Rock
Ink: More Mustard, Basic Black
Paper: More Mustard, Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Stamping Sponges

Supplies:
Stamps: Sock Monkey
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Cajun Craze, Whisper White card stocks, Wicked Fun dp
Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

Stinky Pink!

haha! I made a card very similar to this one a long time ago, and thought it would be fun to make another. This follows the sketch from the Clean & Simple blog, sketch 127. Simple and cute!
And yes, I know my skunk stripe is black but that's easier than turning the whole critter black... lol!

Supplies:
Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Basic Black & Whisper White card stocks, Berry Bliss dp (retired)
Accessories: Watercolor pencils, Basic Black grosgrain ribbon

Green Birthday

So the other night I used the Mojo 178 sketch to make this card. Looks like a very nice masculine birthday card to me!
Do you ever design a card for someone waaaay in advance knowing perfectly well you'll either forget about *this* one, or make something better later? Well, this is one of those cards. I have someone in mind whose birthday is not for several months. Nice. LOL!

Supplies:
Stamps: Sense of Time, Occasional Quotes
Ink: Always Artichoke, Pear Pizazz
Paper: Very Vanilla, Pear Pizazz, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding, Vintage Trinkets, Mat Pack

Nature Walk

I love this new stamp set from the Occasions Mini!! I have played with it quite a bit, and here are the three main things I've made:

Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Paper: Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding, Stamping Sponge

Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk, Occasional Quotes, Upsy Daisy, Fresh Cuts
Ink: Pure Poppy, Always Artichoke
Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Red taffeta ribbon


Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk
Ink: Always Artichoke, So Saffron
Paper: So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding

Splash Pad!

I wasn't kidding about summer pictures. This page was so fun to make!! It was for a challenge to create tie-dye with your inks. I think this covers it! I did it on the Presto Patterns DP, which is so cool anyway!

Supplies:
Stamps: Taffy Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery & Melon Mambo
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo card stocks, Presto Patterns DP
Accessories: Stamping Sponges, Black grosgrain ribbon