Summer Scrapbooking

I love scrapbooking Spring and Summer Photos. I guess I just love the brighter colors the flowery papers. I'm actually more caught up on my scrapbooking than I've been in a long time. The fact that these pictures are even on pages is a testiment to that.

For this layout I compiled some photos from a couple of play dates that we've had at the local parks earlier this summer.

Here's the recipe:

Stamps: Short & Sweet (little flowers), Best Friends Alphabet, Unfrogettable (dragonfly)

Paper: Certainly Celery, Purely Pomegranate, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Cutie Pie DS Paper

Ink: Rose Red, Black, Certainly Celery, White Gel Pen

Accessories: Photo Corner Punch, Scallop Punch, Purely Pomegranate Double Stitched Ribbon

Double Doodle Challenges

I felt like doing some challenges tonight so I tried Splitcoast's Color Challenge for today (CC127, Blue Bayou, Sahara Sand, and Chocolate Chip), and I combined this with Beate's Fresh & Fun weekend challenge which is due tomorrow.
I love it when I can create a whole project using just one stamp set. This time I pulled out a set that I got at last year's Regional Conference, "Double Line Doodles." I haven't used this set much, but I just love the long paisley stamp. It's hard to tell but I adhered the scalloped "I just love you" piece with dimensionals to help it "pop out" a bit, and the circles around the bayou piece are doodled by hand with a chocolate chip marker. Here's the recipe:


Stamps: Double Line Doodles
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Not Quite Navy
Papers: Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou
Accessories: Double Stitched Bayou Ribbon, Scallop Punch, 1.25 inch circle punch, brown brad


I felt like making just one more card tonight before calling it quits, so here's what I came up with:

I guess I was in the "doodling" mood tonight because I used another doodle style set and did more doodling by hand arond the bottom of the focal image. Here's the recipe:

Stamps: Doodle This, Short & Sweet
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Not Quite Navy
Papers: Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou
Accessories: Double Stitched Bayou Ribbon, brown brad

Friday Night Stamping

This Friday I hosted a small card class...I just felt like making a bunch of cards and it was fun to make them with some company. We made an assortment of 5 pretty cards, most using lots of bright summer colors. Most were inspired by samples in the Fall/Winter Collection Catalog, I keep finding more and more cool ideas!

This seemed to be one of the favorites for the evening. It could be used as a thank you card or a baby card. The base of the card was Wild Wasabi, and the floweres and greeting were stamped with Garden Green ink using the "Short & Sweet" stamp set. I then layered a rectangle of Garden Green and on top of that som Bashful Blue textured card stock. The elephant was stamped on Whisper White with Bashful Blue ink and I masked his trunk before stamping the flower which I inked using my Pumpkin Pie and Garden Green markers. The elephant piece was framed with some Wild Wasabi, and then I folded some Orang Grosgrain and Stitched Wild Wasabi ribbons and adhered them to the back. I attached this whole piece to the card using dimensionals.

These card classes are fun, I think my next one is going to be in the fall and we'll be making Holiday cards.

Thank you Cindy!

Cindy Vernon sent me this cool RAK as a thank you for the blog candy that she won a little while ago. She's got a cool blog too, you can check it out at http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com/. It looks like she gives out lots of Blog Candy, so don't miss out!

Thanks Cindy, it's been a while since I've received a RAK, you made my day!

The Chipboard Queen

I have to share with you this beautiful desk set that my friend Mary Jane made recently. She uploaded lots of pictures of this to Splitcoast (see links below). She says that this is her first attempt with Chipboard....you wouldn't know that by all the beautiful ways she's used it in this project. She told me that this was something she donated for a raffle, this makes a fantastic gift!

To see more pictures of the various pieces in this desk set follow the links below. Thanks so much Mary Jane for sharing!! If you'd like to see more of Mary Jane's Gallery, her Splitcoast name is MJSTAMPS.

Gift Box
Journal
Date Book
Paper Clip Book Mark
Post-it-note holder