Baby Boys!

Happy Thursday everyone!

I know of two people who recently had baby boys, so it made it easy on me when making this card - thanks you two!

SU -Oh My word and Riveting - retired

C/S - White, certainly celery, barely banana, brocade blue, and DSP: Sarah - retired.

Ribbon: French blue grosgrain

Ink: Brocade blue

One of the cards uses the Riveting set. The other card uses the charm "it's a boy" that was on her baby shower favors. I instantly knew when I saw this charm I could "recycle" it and use it on her baby card I was planning on sending her. I wonder if she will notice? But, I am quite pleased with myself!

Happy Birthday

Hello everyone,

A coworker recently had a birthday, so I am glad I could pull something together quickly. I plan on giving this to her on Monday. The inspiration for this card came from Kristina Werner's Blog. You can see the card here:http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/images/0308/032408-macm2.html Kristina did a survey about whether people prefered their scrapbook paper double sided or not. I voted for double sided - but one side being the pattern and the other side the coordinating color. Takes the guess work out of matching things for me. And there are many times that I need that help!

Have a good week!

Petal Prints

Another day towards getting over the hoarding habit. I picked the ribbon up at Micheal's some time ago. I picked up this pattern of ribbon in differnt colors. I sometimes will pick up ribbon because of the colors used in it. It helps me put colors together and I figured if the colors are pleasing to my eyes, I could use the colors to match cardstock and inks with. I made several of this cards since they were easy to do.

I used the retired Petal Prints, Autumn Leaves - Rhonna Ferrar flourishes,

and Papertrey's - Thanks with appreciation - from the Faux Ribbon set. Inks: Bashful blue, Chocolate chip, Creamy Caramel. I used the small and large window punch from SU! I made a get well card as well.

Found a new color scheme from Real Simple magazine. I will be working on that next -at least that is my plan!

Hey...

I keep wanting to buy those "Thickers" from American Crafts. I have seen projects made with them and I think they look great. Now, this card I case'd from Kristina Werner which can be found here: http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/images/0308/031708-macm2.html.

Instead of purchasing the "Thickers" I used my Cricut Cutter. That was one reason why I bought the cutter - so I would not buy stickers. I have alphabet stamps from SU! so I think I am doing okay with variety. Stay tuned to see if I continue to fight that desire to purchase the "Thickers". I eye them when I go up and down that particular aisle.

I am still working on my hoarding habit. I used prima flowers, a brown brad and this pretty chocolate and pink ribbed ribbon. Here is what else I used: On the Spot background stamp with Close To Cocoa ink. I used the following papers; Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa, Love me - DSP SU!, and Taken with Teal.

I ran into two people I have not seen in a long time, so I thought I would send a card to let them know it was nice to run into them.

A little out of the color comfort zone.

Well, you know how I said in my previous post how I was not comfortable with mixing colors? I found a color challenge in one of my scrapbook magazines. Here are the colors: teal, pink and coral. Okay, I used a retired SU! stamp set for the images. I used Cameo Coral ink for the floral stamp and stamped it on white. I layered that on Taken with Teal. Then I tried to layer it on Pretty in Pink, but thought the pink was too light. I picked a darker color - maybe a Purely Pomegranate. I don't actually own Purely Pomegranate - yet - but I am going to be ordering me some! I stamped the retired Floral background in Rose Red. I liked how it turned out. The flowers look a little two dimensional because of how the colors work together. I hope that comes through on this post. I needed a birthday card for my niece whose birthday is tomorrow. So the Birthday Wishes is stamped in Basic Brown. I originally pulled out the Basic Black, but wanted to try something different, so out came the brown. I am pleased with it. The ribbon is out of my stash. Again, one of those embellishments I have been hoarding. I think the three colors turned out pretty well together. So join the challenge - coral, pink and teal!

Playing around

I am enjoying making 3x3 cards. I used SU! Pretty in Pink cardstock for a base.

The first image I used my Basic Grey paper! I am sorry, I cannot remeber what the name of the collection is. I have been hoarding my Basic Grey paper and finally decided what am I saving this for? I know I am in good company with hoarding items. We all have something we really like, but don't want to use it as then it will be gone. So you have to ask yourself...why am I saving this? What do I want to do with it? And here is a biggee...What purpose does it have just sitting on a shelf? With those questions I asked myself, I decided that others should enjoy the papers and embellishments I have. I bought these embellishments wanting to create something to bring joy to the receiver. Wow!! Okay, so back to the first image. I used Basic Grey for the inner pink square. I sponged SU! chocolate chip on the edges. Then I adhered the patterned paper (Basic Grey -and yes the first cut can be the hardest). I then finally used Prima Flowers that I have been hoarding. Just a simple card that can be used for any event.

The next two images also used Basic Grey papers. I picked up these three dimensional purse stickers by K&Co. Since I had not been stamping in a while, I thought I would try and use these to help get me jump started. But I have to be honest. I became a little frustrated. It is ingrained in me not to mix patterns, and colors have to be close. I am in awe when I see others use different patterened paper and mix colors. I get inspiration, but when I get to my table..I freeze and don't commit :). Okay, so I didn't think I did too bad, but still kept the color scheme safe. The pinks had to match somehow. I wasn't willing to go out of my comfort zone.

I stamped the border with a Magenta brand stamp and then added glitter here and there. Some glitter is on the border, some glitter is on the purse, scarf, flower. Currently, they are blank inside so I can use it for a couple different occasions.

I will be using one of these today. I mailed out my Niece's birthday card and forgot to enclose the check. I was so focused on beating the mail man to the mail box, that I forgot to include the check. My niece is heading to college in the fall. She knows far better than I do what she needs to head out on her own! For the inside I will include a saying about shopping.

Since these are 3x3 cards and cannot be mailed in a 3x3 envelope, I am planning on sending it in an A2 size envelope.

Starting to come around.

As you can seeI have not been to my stamp table in a while. Or maybe I have been to my stamp table, but haven't been motivated to get things organized. Well, after I took these pictures, I tackled the space. I found things that have been MIA and put things back where they were to go. Now I am feeling I can go down and stamp any time I can. As you can see, my son added his skillet to the stamp table. Maybe he thought that was where he was to pile everything!