Scrapbooking the Celebrations of Every Day Life Video

I hinted in my sidebar about the awesome double stamp set ($35.90 value...yours for only $5 with a $35 order) that Close to My Heart has created to celebrate National Stamping Month.  And YOU get to celebrate early!  This fun and funky double stamp set is available August 15th-September 30th with a qualifying purchase.  Check out some great ideas using the images in the video below and then go to my website to get your very own It's Your Day stamp set .

A Dakota Card 4U

The rustic country feel of the new Dakota collection from Close to My Heart is perfect for a manly birthday card.  A few black brads, baker's twine, and herringbone dimensional chipboard add to the masculine feel. Check out the Dakota collection and all the amazing new products in the 2012 Fall/Winter Idea Book on my website.

CTMH Supplies Used:

X7157B Dakota Paper Packet
Z1701 Neutral Assortment
Z1779 Houndstooth Alphabet
Z1393 Mini-Medley Black Collection

A Stella Thank You

Stella Card

Beautiful bright summery colors? Fun Canvas Stickers? Wonderful patterned papers by Close to My Heart? It must be the vibrantly beautiful Stella collection!  I love how easy this card came together with the help of the coordinating canvas stickers and my AP cricut cartridge.  I added a little faux stitching with a marker and I love the whimsy feel of the sentiment from the 4 My Friend stamp set.

This card is going out to my Mom's friend Siiri.  She and her husband helped me travel with my toddler on a three hour car ride, then a two hour plane ride, followed by another car ride over four hours.  Hmm, now that I type it out I may need to do more than just this card...:)

A Roxy Wedding Card

 This past weekend I had a funeral to go to for a very dear friend.  It was more of a celebration really.  She had been the mother of five grown children, the wife of her high school sweetheart for 63 years, and friend to countless lucky souls.  I knew more about her family from our daily long talks than any of them realized, and she would be so proud of how they handled everything.

Two days later found me in a church for a wedding celebration.  Another dear friend was getting married after losing a life partner and He the lose of his wife of many years.  With their families around them, two special people had found each other and the start of many years of happiness.  All after the young age of 75.

I'm amazed everyday at how God works in our lives.  You never know his plan, but with how he blesses us, do we really ever want to?

This card is from the Roxy collection from Close To My Heart.  I used the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to create the flower, label, and swirls.  The sentiment is from a retired stamp set.

Those Precious Few

You ever have those special pictures that you want to scrapbook, but your afraid you won't do it justice? So, they sit.  Collecting dust.  Away where no one can see how amazing they are.

That's me.

I have those few special pictures awaiting their turn to shine on a page full of just the perfect amount of embellishment and pop.  However, I'm not perfect at anything, and why should my scrapbooking be any different?  Sometimes you just have to do it, knowing it may not be perfect. Will I change or add something to this? Probably.  But that shouldn't stop me from starting.

This was taken while watching a waterskiing competition.  I had just come back from getting something from the car and was waiting for my son to notice I had returned.  There are few things that fill me with delight like seeing the expression on his face when he sees me again.  It doesn't have to be 5 hours or even 5 minutes apart, his reaction is always the same.  And so I'll always keep waiting...

 





Supplies:
Cardstock is Core'dinations Black Iris and Buttercup
B&T, Banner, camera are cuts from Echo Park
Jumbo Brads from Making Memories
Blue B&T cloud from Paper Adventures
SMILE alpha chipboard from Cosmo Cricket Snorkel Collection
Balloon Stamp, ink, bling, and Baker's twine from CTMH