Joys of the Season Arrved Today ~ Festive BDay Card

Wooohooo Joys of the Season arrived today. I always thought having Christmas Cheer was good enough but I guess the sale price of $29.99 changes everything. I confess, I did like some of the cuts on this cart and the mittens is one of my favorites. So today after I came home from work I got busy making a festive birthday card for my friend's upcoming birthday.

The border was cut out using a Martha Stewart punch. Reminds me a lot of the famous threading water punch.

Bella Birthday Card

Mom's birthday is coming up and today I worked on her card. I took out my new Bella stamp and colored away. Hopefully she will like it.

Princess Ariel Personalized Birthday Card

This one was easier to do than the bottom Jasmine card. This is for a girl who loves Ariel and her middle name is Arielle. :-)

The font is Cuttlebug's Curl & Swirls alphabet dies (my favorite font). I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to emboss the flower and bra top.

My First Bind It All Photo Album ~ Easter

This is my very first bind-it-all photo album. I used 1" wires.

The paper is all from DCWV's Spring Stack except the pink strip on the left of the cover (it's Bazzill Bling)

The butterfly is chipboard from DCWV's Blossoms & Butterflies.

"Easter" was cut out with a Cuttlebug alphabet die.

I used Bazzill In-stitchz In the Garden template for the stitching


close up of stitching

more close-ups

and one more...

close up of stitching (Bazzill In-Stitchz template)

I used Martha Stewart's Ribbon Threader Punch & Ribbon from M's.

I found the these thin ribbons to work perfectly with this punch.

close up of ribbon threaded through paper

a cute little dragonfly brad

M Michael's ribbon with a small Prima flower dotted with pink stickles

Ribbon from Michael's. Used Martha Stewart's pop up punch and accented it with a crysal brad

Stamp is from Michael's $1 bin (wood mounted type)

I heat embossed it with Adirondack lettuce embossing powder.

It was my first time using this brand and I love it!

You'll notice that it leaves a nice shiny raised finish whereas the Stampendous brand I've been using leaves a flat dull image (you'll see it used below on the flourishes).

Here I used the Stampendous embossing powder brand. I added stickles (crystal) for a little bit of bling.

The stamp is by Fancy Pants.

This stamp is one of those Studio G clear stamps. I also added stickles (crystal) for some bling.

Isn't this flourish great? It's by Fancy Pants. I can't recall if it's the Fresh MOD or the Pollen Dust set as I have both. I added stickles (crystal) for bling. The flower is a Prima flower with stickles (crysal) and a clear skittle.

Now look at this flourish - aren't they amazing? It's also by Pollen Dust.

Again stickled (crystal) for some bling.

accented this page with tiny buttons as centers of flowers

Ribbon is from Michael's

Bazzill In-Stichz Temlate

Bazzill In-stitchz templates

I used my Fiskars threading water punch as the stem of the flower (cut on bazzill bling paper)

The flower is a Prima flower that came in my grab bag from CafePrima.

In the center are skittles.

Back Cover

I Used to be Little but now I'm Going to School Layout

Materials Used:

Paper from DCWV's Grade School Stack

Dyed Skittles (bronze) w/ Pearl Ex & Tim Holtz's Mixatives (Pearl)

October Stamp - Studio G

Ribbon - Target's $1 bin

Hand Doodling - Marvy Uchida Brown Pen

Stickles - Copper & Lime Green

Summer Reading School Project

Do your kids have summer reading to complete?

One of DD's books was Junie B. Jones is (almost) a Flower Girl.

One of the projects is to make a movie poster for one of the books she reads.

So here it is, her poster.

We used Cricut's Paper Dolls cartridge to do all the dolls.

Bella ~ Baby Boy Card

My friend is due in two weeks with a baby boy and I made this card for her. Hope she likes it.

(We are experiencing a heat wave...it was 98 degrees today. Yesterday I took this image out in the backyard and colored away. It was like many say "therapeutic".)

Materials Used for this Project:

DCWV Spring Paper Stack

Stamping Bella Stamp

Prismacolor Pencils (Gamsol Technique)

Stickles (Crystal)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder (feet)

Ribbon

Skittle (Decorative Accent)

Brads

Autumn Layout

I love the style of the cuts on Cricut's Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. I received this cart for Christmas from my husband. He has good taste, ey? LOL

The font is Cricut's Pooh Font. It's one of my new favorite fonts. My 3 top favorite Cricut fonts are Pooh Font, Cuttin Up, and All Mixed Up.

I also used skittles. I actually couldn't find them in purple and someone from the Cricut MB RAK'd me some.

Playground Layout

the lettering came out really nice and sparkly (the paper is glittered) but you can't really see it in the photo

.....remember the long awaited DCWV's Blossoms & Butterflies stack?

I recall seeing the advertisement in Scrapbooks etc. and I knew right away that this was one stack I had to have.

I used a Cuttlebug alphabet die for "playground" cut on chipboard and then covered with patterned paper. I added skittles to the centers of the flowers. I used Martha Stewart's butterfly punch - I set the butterflies on pop dots. I stitched the flowers with Bazzill-in-stitchz.

I Love Blueberries Layout

I used Cricut Cuttin Up for the letters, scribbles for the dots in the centers, skittle dipped in Pearl Ex (heat setted it with heat embosser), and Bazzill In Stitchz template. I also added Pearl Ex to the journaling strip (it gave it a nice touch).

.....and would you believe the hearts are a Martha Stewart punch which some found it being sold on ebay for $100??? Yes, it's true!

Another Layout Using Skittles

A super simple and pretty layout using the bronze skittles I dyed. The paper is also from K&Company Wild Saffron (thanks to Okieladybug).