Halloween Spooktacular

I'm taking a break from all the Christmas card creating and focusing a little on the rest of the year.
I was going through my photos the other day trying to get my scrapbooks up-to-date and came across some pictures of the girls when they were little and out trick-or-treating at their grandmas. (yes, I'm that far behind on my scrapbooks. Don't judge me! ha!) It inspired me to create a Halloween page.

I love using purples and greens with the traditional orange, black and white. The title I used is for sale at Picture This and was the exact look I was going for. These sweet little ghost just finish off the page.

Fun in the Water Scrapbook Page

Sea Turtles and Star Fish, what could be cuter!! I'm totally in love with these sweet embellishments by Kaiser Craft - Rock Pool Collectables! Everything you need to put together an entire album full of cuteness!

We have doggy bags (Bags with papers and bit and pieces of left over projects) for sale in the store that have pieces of this collection inside. Hurry in to get yours before they are all gone!

C C Design Stamp 'Gone Fishing' and Copics

When this stamp came into the store I just had to buy it and try it out! 

This isn't the type of stamps I typically buy as I've always been intimidated by the amount of detail in them but I took it slowly and one element at a time and like how it turned out!

Here is a list of the Copics that I used to color this card.

E25, E35, E37, E84, E97, E99

YG03, YG05, YG07, YG61,YG93, YG95, YG97

BG0000, BG000, BG34, BG90, BG93, BG96, BG99

Y26

B41, B91, B93, B97, B99

C0, C2, C5

YR12

T0, T1, T4

R37

W1, W3, W5, W7

If you are like me and find stamps like this intimidating, I strongly urge you to give them a try. They aren't as hard as they look. They do take some amount of time, but really, you end up with a work of art that people will appreciate! I added an IO bird flying in the picture to give it a little added pow factor.

Simple Life Scrapbook Kit

I made this page using the Simple Life Scrapbook kit that was on sale for National Scrapbooking day at Picture This. I used coordinating card stock to make the embellishments. 

Banners are MFT Fishtail Banners with the holes punched with a Crop-a-dile. Flowers are Cheery Lynn Judy's Blooms, Daisy and Shasta Daisy Dies. I used the MFT Stiched scallop die to make the aqua border and a EK Tools punch to make the border on the flower paper. Candi dots and gems are used in the center of the flowers. I used twine to string together the banners. I placed a sticker from the kit under the left photo area. 

I think there are still some of the scrapbook kits left at Picture This. I like this page so much I'm going to buy another one! 

Christmas in July?

We were talking the other day about doing a Christmas in July event. As a result of our conversation I made up these cards using dies that I personally own. I love these IO puppy and kitty die sets!

Other dies used were Memory Box tree, Memory Box window die, IO trio of deer die (used large deer) and I also used the Martha Stewart twig punch to do the swag, but you could also use the Memory Box twig die! 

Cascading Mother's Day card

I'm a little behind on posting things to my blog. Okay, perhaps a lot behind. It's only July and Mother's Day was in May. Not too far behind. (Sheepish grin)

I made this card and matching A2 clear card box for a Mother's Day Card class. 

This is my most favorite card I've made to date. I just love it!

Here is a picture of the card in the card box. Snug as a bug in a rug! 

For this card I used an Eggplant colored cardstock for the base and used a coordinating floral paper. Then cut out Cheery Lynn flowers in matching card stock. I punched out leaves with the Marha Stewart punch in 2 different colors of green. I used Bubble gems for the centers of the flowers. 

Here is the card opened up and the card box. 

What better way to say Happy Mother's Day?

Exploding box card

My nephew Adam's little boy was baptized a couple of weeks ago. What a wonderful day to celebrate! For his special day, I decided to make an exploding box card. PaperCuts makes a great kit to get you started on your card. All the main pieces (base etc) are in the kit. All you need to do is add your papers and dies and assemble!

For this card I used blue Coordinations card stock, cut to size and embossed with an argyle embossing folder. Then I sanded the embossed to make it pop. 

I added coordinating papers to the flaps. I used the deer trio from IO, The tree trio from IO, clouds from Memory Box, hot air balloon from Memory Box, Baptism saying by Cheery Lynn. Acetate strips were used to float the clouds. 

You can pick up your box card starter kits at Picture This! What kind of card are you going to make?

March card classes

Each class is $12.

March 4 is a fun Cuttlebug class making these 4 sweet cards for any occasion. 

Then on March 18 I will be teaching another fun with Copics class using Great Impressions stamps! These 3 adorable will put a smile on your face! 

Contact Picture This if you are interested in taking either class!