Collage of things

This page was made with My Digital Studio software and is totally inspired by a scrapbook page in the demonstrator magazine. You know, the starter kit is available for a discount thru Sale-A-Bration, which ends tomorrow! One of the fun perks of being an independent demonstrator is the magazine they send each month full of crafting ideas as well as business tips.
Also, since its the end of Sale-A-Bration, don't forget that if you purchase the MDS software, you'll get the SAB add-on disk FREE!

Have a birthday!

My daughter went to a birthday party and didn't want to make the card herself. This is the card I put together, using a sketch I found on splitcoaststampers.com. I was having issues getting the ice cream scoops and cone to line up right, but after three tries remembered this card is for a 6 year old and it really, really doesn't matter! LOL! The greeting ended up smudging too, darnit.

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweet Scoops (retired)
Ink: Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake
Paper: Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Black grosgrain ribbon, retired buttons


A few years ago I was more involved on Splitcoast and participated in the birthday card sending. I haven't done that in quite a while, but I got this one in the mail from someone anyway! It was funny becuase I had just claimed my favorite color was red, and it was the kind of day that this card was exactly what I needed....

Supplies:
Stamps: Morning Cup
Ink: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red?
Paper: Whisper White, Riding Hood Red? Patterns DP
Accessories: Ribbon Thread Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, White grosgrain

Birthday Butterfly

This happy card uses Julee's Mojo Monday sketch for the week. I love this striking color combination! purple, yellow and a shot of red!

Supplies:
Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Real Red, So Saffron
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, So Saffron, Whisper White & Real Red card stocks
Accessories: Wide Oval Punch, Red taffeta ribbon

Completed pages!

These are the pages I demonstrated at my workshop last week. I just completed it this afternoon. I was inspired by the scrapbook page in the current Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog on page 104, but I used Upsy Daisy instead.

Demo'd Card

Here's the card I showed to feature clear mount stamps, watercoloring, tone-on-tone stamping and a couple accessories.

I'm not completely sure if the square works with two torn edges but that's okay. *smile

You know what's great about gathering with crafty women? Teaching each other! Of course I hope to teach someone something new at each of my events, but the people who attend teach me too! For example, I have been having problems getting my clear-mount stamps to stick to the block. I don't know why...so I mentioned that it seems no one else is, but I am. One of the ladies there suggested windex because that's what she uses with her kids! Great!

ETA: I forgot to include the supplies incase you were interested!
Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, More Mustard
Paper: Crumb Cake, More Mustard, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Crochet Lace, Vintage Trinkets, Mat Pack

Spring-SAB Make & Take!

Here's the card we made at my workshop this weekend. We used the Sale-A-Bration ribbon and buttons, plus the fun bird punch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Melon Mambo
Paper: Old Olive, Whisper White, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight card stocks
Accessories: Bird Punch, Ice Cream Parlor Buttons (SAB only!), Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon (SAB only!)

Card Class!

Yesterday's card class was almost forgotten, I've been so busy!! But I had people coming and threw together a few ideas they hadn't made yet, even if you've already seen them here, lol!

I picked a birthday theme because March is my birthday and there's not a major holiday. (As fun as St Patrick's Day is, if you want to make cards for it, you'll have to buy your own supplies...!) and because birthday cards are always good to have on hand!

Stamps: Birthday Bakery
Ink: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Blushing Bride marker, Pear Pizazz marker, Poppy Parade marker, Chocolate Chip marker
Paper: Pear Pizazz, Chocolate Chip & Whisper White card stock, hostess In Color DP stack
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, tiny punch...

Stamps: Pick A Petal, Occasional Quotes hostess level 3
Ink: Real Red, Elegant Eggplant marker
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Accessories: Mat Pack, Brights Buttons, Mini Glue Dot

Stamps: Pun Fun

Ink: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise

Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie & Whisper White card stock

Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens, Spiral Edge Punch, White grosgrain ribbon

Stamps: Sock Monkey
Ink: Basic Black, Old Olive
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive & Whisper White card stocks, Wicked Fun DP
Accessories: 1 3/8 inch Circle Punch, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

Stamps: Nature Walk

Ink: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron

Paper: Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Naturals White card stocks

Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding

Playtime!

one more digi page for the week...

feels about a million years ago...my little girl was learning to walk and my son was entertaining her. *smile!

Digital Christmas!

of course I can post Christmas pages! lol! These are much older than last Christmas anyway...! But here's some more I was able to get done this weekend!

DIGI-Scrap!

YEAAAAY! Its been a very, very busy week but I got a new laptop for my birthday and got to play with my MDS again! So here are two facing pages I managed to do today. The photos are only um...5 years old? lol!

 

Hopefully I'll have more things to post next week. I've managed to post all those things I had for you!

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