Vanilla Ice Cream Sundaes and Summer Sun.

I decided to take a baby card making break and play with one of my stamps sets that I had not mounted yet, Goody Goody Gumdrops! It's a lvl 3 hostess set in the Stampin' Up Catalogue.

I got inspiration for this card from one Heather did a little while ago on her blog. I changed it up a little bit though to personalize it more to my style.

I even got to use my nessies for this one, the small scallop circle and regular circle. I've had them for probably 6m now and this is th first time I've even used them! I've played around with them but whenever I did, what I wanted to do never turned out th way I expected, so I never ended up using it on the card. I think if I do this card again I'll use an oval nessie instead. The circle works well, but even with some bashful blue shading, it's still a bit too much 'white space'.

I'm not sure who this card is for, but with numerous birthdays coming up this year I'm sure it will make it's way to someone's home. :0)

Ingredients: Paper - Kraft, Real Red, Old Olive, Summer Picnic DSP, watercolour paper. Ink: SU Markers, Basic Black. Stamps: Goody Goody Gumdrops. Accessories: Circle and Scallop Circle Nessies.

PS. I'm slowly getting images re-loaded on my entries!

Congratulations2

This card is for a friend that is having twins! What fun eh? She's also a bit of a science geek so I thought it was totally cute to use the congratulations² greeting. Plus I've been dying to use the cute little onsie from By Ones, By Twos forever!

You are all probably wondering just how many friends I have that are pregnant and due soon. The answer is Five. :p Crazy eh? It's all friends that live locally as well, so our playdates are about to get really crazy this summer.

I have to say that I LOVE DSP, it's called "Sweet Slumber" and unfortunately I only had a tiny bit of it! I did a paper share that Heather was hosting bc I could not decide on what DSP to get from the current cattie. I thought if I went in on the share it would help me decide what to get. This DSP is definitely only the list now! I also need to order some Boquet Buttons, as I wanted to put 3 small flower buttons under the congratulations greeting. :0)


Ingredients: Paper: Baja Breeze, Sweet Slumber DSP, So Safron. Stamps: By Ones & By Twos. Ink: StazOn Black. Accessories: Word Window Punch, SAB So Safron Ribbon. Inspiration: Niki E. (Although in the end, it did not end up anything like this card. heh but it's the card that got me to work on this one)

Babies, Babies and more Babies

First, there are a lot of dead links on my blog right now for images. I did a little re-arranging/house cleaning a week ago to clean up my Flickr account. I'm working on getting things back in order but it's going to take some time.

There are a slew of babies being born as well as well as a ton of birthday parties that N will be attending over the next few months so I thought it might be a good time to get some of my creative juice flowing and start making some of the required cards for the occasion. This one is for my friend S. I'll be attending her baby shower this weekend. Since I've been on a mini-break from crafting for a while I decided what better way to jump back in then to do a little casing to get back into the swing of things. The layout for this card I saw over on Heather's blog and I pretty much cased it right down to the stamp used. The only thing I changed was the ribbon (mine is from SAB) and one pc of patterned paper (again SAB).


Paper: Kraft, SAB & Summer Picnic, Certainly Celery
Stamps: Bundle of Joy
Accessories: SAB Ribbon, Paper peircing kit, SU Markers
Inspiration: Stamping with Heather

Sale-A-Bration Time!

It's that time of year again! When you spend money on Stampin' Up product and receive free product! It's Sale-a-bration time!

Starting Feb. 1st, for every $60 you spend you will receive a free product! There are some lovely stamp sets and some Yummy ribbon and paper as well this year!

Customers:(this can be done online or you can email me) - You get to select any one of the Sale-a-bration items with a purchase of $60. AND there is no limit, so for every $60 you spend you get another item! Remember these are limited time Stampin' Up! supplies that are here only from Feb. 1 to March 31st

Hostesses - If you host a workshop and your sales are $350 you will also earn yet another Sale-a-bration item!

Feel free to email me if you'd like to host a party order for you. :0)

Another Scrapbook page

I *think* I'm almost done Natasha's 2nd Year Album. I finished up these two pages yesterday.

These pictures are from our Camping trip last summer at Dinosaur National Park. I have to admit that it was one of the hottest weekends ever! People at the campground were getting into their cars and driving around the grounds with their air conditioning on to cool off. There was not one bit of a breeze what-so-ever! Luckily once the sun set it cooled off and was not so bad the next day. :0)









I cased this layout from Heather's cmas page that she did. I made a few changes, using a horizontal pic on the 2nd page, only one pc of patterned paper and diff. embellishments and papers. :0) The stamp set I used is called "Happy Camper" and the Jumbo Wheel "Nature Hike" I love doing this page and it got me excited to go camping again this summer!

Hip Hip Hooray, It's a Gymboree Day!

When N was wee I took her to Gymboree. The first session we went to she was very young and I did not feel she got much out of it, so I waited until she was walking/running around and signed up for another one, which she got much more out of. :0)


There's a lot of buttons on this bc a) I thought they were fun with the Gymboree theme and plus I've had these buttons for ages so wanted to use some of them up.

Still Scrap'n away

Another page done for Natasha's scrapbook. I kept this one simple and clean. The husband gets all complainy when I show him a page that has too much embellishment. He prefers clean and simple and I tend to agree with him most times.

This is the last page in her album (but certainly not the last one I need to do to finish off the year!) with only 5 more months to do for the year.

I have double page layout done up, pics printed etc, I just need to glue down the photos/paper and add some embellishment. Hopefully I'll have that one to share later this week. Everyone in the house is sick this week, well not my husband, Mr. Immune to everything so I do not have much time to craft. Natasha is not feeling well and is super needy today. And being sick myself, I'm finding it a bit hard to be patient with her.