Tulips & Windmills

Happy Monday! 

Yep, still have lots of projects to share with you! Just a quick reminder that TODAY is the last day of Sale-A-Bration, so you'll want to place your order now! 

Today's card uses this gorgeous Tulip Fields stamp set, partnered with the Inspired Thoughts stamp set. This is also going to be part of my upcoming class.

Supplies:

Stamps: Tulip Fields, Inspired Thoughts

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Cinnamon Cider, Smoky Slate

Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Basic White

Accessories: Dimensionals

And here's a tip on lining up that top row of tulips to then better line up the rest of them. For me, I used the grid scratch paper, which right now we sell in four varieties! Anyway, I line up the bottom of my paper with the grid, then I hold a scrap paper across, lined up with the grid, to place the windmill. Then I line the top of the tulip stamp, so that it lines up with the grid too. I promise it does, even if the picture doesn't look like it.

Clear as mud? haha.... Give it a try. 

Then I center the bottom row of tulips, then I stamp the others in to fill it in. I think I need a hair more practice to space them a bit better, but either way, good results! 

Scrappy Saturday!

The most amazing part of this past month and me vanishing is that we went on a much-needed family vacation! It was our longest and most "checked out" vacation ever, and it was amazing! We went to Disneyland (first time for two of us) and the beach (first time for three of us) and had such a great time!!! And since everyone is anxious to hurry back, hahaha, I am scrapping our adventures as quickly as I can so that at least we can savor the memories in a book...or two! And I'm so excited about this project, I've gotten 15 pages done already! 

As you should know well, lol, I use retired product in my scrapping. A lot of this album will be made digitally, but some is going to be made traditionally. Here's one of the first pages I made after we got home, and this was made with the long retired MDS. It's a pretty simple page, but the MDS software is so old, it no longer recognizes additional fonts, so I created the page in MDS, then had to put it thru Publisher to add the text in the Mickey font! So it took longer than I'd hoped, but I love how it turned out!

Supplies:
MDS

Colors: Poppy Parade, Gold Glimmer, Wisteria Wonder mats
Font: Mickey

I'm back!

It has been almost a exactly month since I've had anything to blog, and what. a month. it has been. Holy cow. Some really hard things, some really amazing things. Yesterday I was finally cranking out the stamped projects, so I have some stuff to share!!! 

First, I want to start with this cute little girl again. She is only available until Monday, Feb 28, so if you love this stamp set, don't miss out!! Hurry and get your order placed! If you ordered exactly these supplies, you'd qualify to get that sweet stamp set for FREE! If you already have some of these supplies, you can choose other fun things! 

I think we're going to make this one at an upcoming card class, so if you love something else from our Sale-A-Bration selection, that's okay too! You can come to my class and make this! This time I colored her with Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens. And I think it's the first time I made her blonde. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Catching Butterflies
Ink: Stazon Black
Paper: Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon, Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens

Today's Plan:

Today I have a less obvious birthday card, but that's what it's being sent out for. This card uses the sketch from The Paper Players, and some cozy colors and textures.

I have a friend going thru a lot of struggles right now, so I hope for her birthday she gets to enjoy some good treats, 

and then on the inside, a bit of encouragement to keep going, because she IS awesome. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Nothing's Better Than
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Paper: Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla card stocks, In Good Taste DP
Accessories: Heart & Home Doilies, Linen Thread, Love You More Than dies, Dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue Pen, big shot (retired) 

And a close up on the detail - I stamped and die cut the chocolates on Espresso and Vanilla card stock, and then fussy cut out a "white" chocolate to mix it up.

More Santa Scrapping!

Happy Monday to you!
I haven't had a chance to make anything new for a few days - it's been a little crazy around here lately. But I have lots of un-shared scrapbook pages that I could post to inspire your crafting! Here is the second Santa layout I made this month, for the same kiddo. And I have 2021 Santa photos printed, waiting for me! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Letterpress Alphabet, unknown scripty letter stamps

Ink: Mossy Meadow

Paper: Very Vanilla & Pool Party card stocks, Home For Christmas DP

Accessories: various buttons
Journaling font: cinnamon cake

I hope you have some crafty time scheduled this week! Make something that makes you happy! 

Another Windmill!

Let's hop back to the windmills!
Today I have the large die cut mill, plus a bunch of die cut rows of tulips! This was fun, even if it was a bit tedious to cut. I know tulips come in allllll colors because my dad used to get little catalogs of all sorts of flowers, but mostly tulips- in every color you could think of! That's perfect because Stampin' Up! has a huge variety of colors to play with! haha! So this time I used the Brights pack, and eight different shades! How fun is that?! I used two shades of brown for the wood windmill, and sponged a hint of blue on the sky.

Supplies:
Ink: Balmy Blue
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape, Poppy Parade, Flirty Flamingo, Bermuda Bay, Mango Melody, Early Espresso, Soft Suede
Accessories: Metallic Pearls, Windmill Fields Dies, Dimensionals, sponge, big shot

Butterfly Girl 3

Happy Wednesday to you!

Today we're back to this cute girl for another birthday card! This time I colored her with Stampin' Blends! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Catching Butterflies, Sunny Sentiments

Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Blackberry Bliss, Dark & Light Daffodil Delight, Light Old Olive, Dark Basic Black, Ivory

Paper: Basic White, Rich Razzleberry card stocks

Accessories: Baker's Twine, Dimensionals 

Don't forget, this set is only available as a FREE choice with your $50 purchase, and only until Feb 28th!

And hopefully I'll get to play a lot more with these adorable stamps very soon! 

Windmills

I don't know why, but for as long as I can remember, I have loved windmills. I don't know if I've ever even seen one that looks like this, but two towns over has a row of much less beautiful and much less story-book-ish wind turbine things. That doesn't really count tho, haha. Anyway, you can probably imagine how fast I placed the order for the bundle that includes a stamp and two dies for a lovely, old windmill! Seriously, I saw the cover of the new mini and knew what was coming first, regardless of what else might be inside! 

This card is going to someone special in just a few weeks. Rows of tulips heading to a windmill? Yep, that's about perfect. So to give you a quick break in between little girls chasing butterflies, here's today's card: 

Supplies:
Stamps: Tulip Fields, Inspired Thoughts
Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Cinnamon Cider, Smoky Slate
Paper: Gorgeous Grape & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, Dimensionals

Butterfly Girl 2

Good morning and happy Monday to you! 

I have another of this cute girl and the very same birthday greeting for you today! This time I used the Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens.

Supplies:

Stamps: Catching Butterflies, Sunny Sentiments

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo

Paper: Basic White, Melon Mambo, So Saffron

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pen, Dimensionals

Remember, this adorable set is only available as a FREE choice with your $50 purchase, and only until Feb 28th!

I hope you get time to create this week! 

Catching Butterflies!

Happy Friday! Altho it feels like a Saturday at my house... 

Today I wanted to color, and I really wanted to play with this sweet Sale-a-Bration stamp set! So I did, three times, haha! And I've decided to share each card separately. 

On this first card, I colored the girl and butterfly with our regular Stampin' Write Markers. I used the color challenge from Global Design Project, combined with the theme from Just Add Ink. Looks summery to me!! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Catching Butterflies, Sunny Sentiments

Ink: Memento Black
Markers: Pool Party, Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, Soft Suede, Blushing Bride

Paper: Basic White, Pool Party card stocks

Accessories: Pale Papaya & White woven ribbon, Dimensionals

The greeting is a bit wonky because I forgot to stamp it before I put Dimensionals on the back... This is what happens when you're trying to do too many things at once...! But, it will be for a little girl's birthday and I promise she won't notice, haha, so it worked out okay. 

Have you made anything fun this week? 

Paper Pumpkin for Birthdays!

Well, I don't know how your month is going, but I am feeling pretty darn good about working on the goals I set for myself! I have managed to walk every week day, I have read every week day, and I'm doing great with my papercrafting goals too! 

Today, in fact, I'm showing off a very old Paper Pumpkin kit I still haven't used all the bits from, hahaha! This was from June of 2015, and this is what I made this past weekend:

Supplies:

Stamps: Party Wishes, Perfect Pennants, Sending You Thoughts
Ink: memento Black, Bermuda Bay, Just Jade
Paper: basic white card stock
Accessories: Happy Thoughts Paper Pumpkin kit (June 2015)

That's six more birthday cards!! And I've selected exactly who three are going to!
And this is what is still left over! But I called it quits, haha.... 

The DP was all supposed to be envelope liners. The top of the wood bits made the center bottom card. Fun, huh? I am pretty excited. The buttons are in my button jar, the twine is with my other embellishments, and the rest are all flat and fit nicely in my over-full book of bits.

Maybe one of these days I'll get my craft room done and show you what I'm talking about. hahaha... don't hold your breath.... I have other things to do!

Santa Scrapping!

I got some scrapping done last week too! Hooray for taking time to do things *I want to do!
So here's the trip to visit Santa in 2019. I love how sweet these photos turned out- she was SO excited to see him! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taffy Alphabet

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Whisper White & Garden Green card stock, Peaceful Prints DP

Accessories: Garden Green 1/8 striped ribbon
journaling font: Felix Titling

I use a lot of retired supplies for my scrapping, and this time is no different. The DP is all from one pack from last year, the ribbon was from a few Christmas's before, and the stamp set is super old.