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

It's 83 degrees, and snowing in here!

I had a wonderful time attending a scrapbook weekend put on by a local church and stocked by our local store the Saranac Scrapbook Garden.  It gave me some time to get a few layouts done and meet a whole bunch of great gals.  I wasn't able to attend the entire event, but here is a taste of what I did in the time I had.  

So, as I mentioned a little bit ago, I have more layouts to share using the papers from Close to My Heart called Wonderland.  (These are the last of them, I swear!)  I really had a fun time with just using the blues and grays in the paper and adding my own pop of pink.  

I was really struggling with the title, because I lot of time I have long quotes or saying that I fall in love with, and one word titles just doesn't express the overall feeling of the layout.  Then I got a tip from Jeanette Lynton's Blog about using hand stitching for titles, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  Don't be afraid to mix up your typography and use up random alpha stickers.  You'll love the results and get more out of your stamps and stickers.

 The stamp set is from the Wonderland Work Shop on the Go, and the snowflakes are from Martha Stewart Crafts 3in felt snowflake ribbon.  I didn't like how three inches wide of snowflakes overpowered my soft layout so, I cut them apart and added some bling.  Bling makes all things better!

 This "brr..." layout is from the WOTG template.  I loved how it looked, but I wasn't feeling the title.  My son didn't like the snow and so the trepidation on his face is genuine.  I wanted to capture that in the title and used a hodge podge of chipboard, rubons, and epoxy alphas.

The folded paper gives great texture and a ribbon like feel.  It was such a fun and easy technique to do that I incorporated it into my companion layout.

Whenever I create more than one layout for the same event I always try to be consistent with colors and techniques.  It makes them cohesive and complete.

Now to create some fun stuff for the 80 degree weather in March we are experiencing...wonders never cease.

P.A.R.T.Y.!!!

It's a shipping party over at Webster's Pages!  Go check it out and their fabulous new lines, In Love, Palm Beach, Game On, Everyday Poetry, and Sunday Picnic.  They are fabulous.