And another Happy Birthday...

A more masculine card this time...

Ink is from papertrey ink (kraft).  Cardstock, paper, tapestry rubon and bling are all from close to my heart.

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Cindy

Happy Birthday...

My husband keeps reminding me that I need to make more birthday cards.  I was completely out the last time he raided my card stash for birthdays.  So I'll be making a few of those for the upcoming days. 


It gave me the perfect opportunity to try out some stamps that just arrived from a new stamp company, Uniko Studio.  Never heard of them?  Doesn't surprise me, they are VERY new, have 2 stamp sets available right now, and just released a digital designer paper pack.  Check out their store here, and their blog here.


They are located in the UK, but I had quick shipping and the best service so far.


Today's card uses the flower stamp that is repeated in three different sizes, and in some of the clock faces of the Time stamp set.  (BTW, this little flower coordinates with the filigree border die from papertrey so beautifully.  I cannot wait to pair those up on a card or layout!)

The stamps are from Time (Uniko Studio).  Inks are from papertrey ink (hawaiian shores, simply chartreuse, aqua mist, and spring moss) and memento (tuxedo black).  The ribbon and cardstock are hawaiian shores from papertrey.  The white daisy cardstock and bling brad are from close to my heart. 


I love these stamps and can't wait to use more of them!  I also can't wait to see what else Uniko Studio puts out in the months ahead!!


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Cindy

Random Card

I have to admit, this card was just a random desire on my part to use my Waltzingmouse Stamps Free Spirit set. 




The green ink is clover meadow from Close to My Heart. The cardstock, remaining ink, and "you're" stamp are from Papertrey Ink. The background, skater dude, and "awesome" stamp are from Waltzingmouse Stamps. After inking the background stamp with summer sunrise, orange zest, pure poppy, and clover meadow inks, I spritzed the ink with water to get the colors to run a bit.


I'm rather happy with the way it turned out.  I think I need to a pink/purple color scheme for a female version.  That could be interesting.

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Cindy

Back!

Well I'm back!  We'll see how long I manage this time around.  Today I have a couple of cards using a dimensional banner which was featured in a recent Make It Monday.


The paper is from Dreamin' paper pack, the colonial white cardstock for the banner, and the background stamps (Intrinsic Backgrounds D1335) are from Close to My Heart. The summer sunrise cardstock, ink (enchanted evening and summer sunrise), and sentiment stamps are from Papertrey Ink.  The bling is orange from KaiserCrafts.


Hope you are having a wonderful month and I should be back again tomorrow!


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Cindy

Make It Monday #15 Part II

Okay I couldn't resist. I'm having so much fun with the spray mists! And later this week I might even have a scrapbook page or two using them as well. :)
For this card I did something a little different. Instead of spraying the background I sprayed the stamped image keeping the olive green (Close To My Heart) toward the bottom with the leaves and the sweet blush (Papertrey Ink) and plum pudding (Papertrey Ink) up toward the top by the flowers. I stamped the larkspur from Year of Flowers: Larkspur (Papertrey Ink) on watercolor paper with archival black ink (Close To My Heart). Heat set the ink, then sprayed the mists. I took a waterpen and added a little plum pudding to the flowers to darken them up a little. Then I mounted the panel on plum pudding cardstock, inked the edges with fresh snow ink and mounted it on the card front. I also rounded all the corners. That's it. I kept trying to add something more to the card and decided the main panel was visually interesting enough.

It's really hard to get a good picture of the sheen on this card, so the colors in this photo are really funky, but the sparkles are there to show you how the main panel just shines.

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Make It Monday #15

Papertrey Ink has released a new Make It Monday video and it's make your own spray mist. I love doing this!

I chose to get a head start on my Christmas cards this year. The base is Enchanted Evening cardstock spritzed with a mist of water, alcohol, enchanted evening reinker and CTMH pearl create-a-shade paint to give it that shimmery backing. I also used shimmer silver cardstock and ribbon from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the snowflake (from Papertrey's snowflake serenade stamps set) and happy holidays (from holiday button bits stamp set) with versamark ink, added silver embossing powder and heat embossed. Easy peasy.

Here's a closer look to see the shimmery background:

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Make It Monday at Papertrey

I thought I would jump back in by doing this week's Make It Monday over at Papertrey Ink. It was so much fun playing with the embossing plates and dies.

So here is my card:



The cardstock is Sweet Blush and White (Papertrey Ink), Grey Wool (Close to my Heart). The ink is Grey Wool and Hollyhock (Close to my heart). And the ribbon is hollyhock (Close to My Heart). Stamps are from Mat Stack #3 (Papertrey Ink) and Bon Appetit (Close to My Heart). The embossing folder is from Cuttlebug and the frame is the Mat Stack 3 die from Papertrey Ink. I also used a shimmer mist made from Close to My Heart's pearl create a shade paint and a mixture of rubbing alcohol and water on the sweet blush cardstock. Doesn't show well in the photo but gives a very nice shimmer to the cardstock.

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4th Birthday

Have I mentioned I'm terrible when it comes to the big event layouts? Yeah.

So I'm just now doing my son's 4th birthday layout. He turned 5 almost 3 months ago. And no, I haven't done the 5th birthday layout yet.




Anyway, I used Close to My Heart's flip flap pockets to add more pictures to the layout (both the pic of my son and the pic of the birthday cake have more pictures underneath them). Pretty much everything except the felt, the scooby doo, and the "4" are from Close to My Heart. The felt (stars and border) is from Fancy Pants, the scooby doo was from an extra invitation (that I made into a card for his presents), and the 4 is using a die cut from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Valentine's Day!!

Took a nice long weekend with the family. Mostly hung out and cleaned house, but that was nice too, in its own way. LOL.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I hope you are enjoying this find Monday. I have the valentines I made for my family to share today.

This first one is completely cased from Janelle's blog. She received the highlight from Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday Challenge and I knew I had to do this for my husband's valentine.
I used my cricut (the heart from Lacy Labels) to make my heart mask. The sentiments are from Papertrey Ink stamps (Borders & Corners: Hearts and Heart Prints) and one from Little Yellow Bicycle ([all you need is love] stamp from their Love Letters line). Inks (black and cranberry) and the love medallion are from Close to My Heart. The ribbon is also from Little Yellow Bicycle's Love Letters line. What do you think? I love it, and can't wait to try it with some other themes, particularly Christmas.

These are the valentines for the kids. Totally inspired by Nichole Heady's blog here.

The cards are actually luggage tags again cut with my cricut (fabulous finds cartridge). I then covered the front in strips of ribbon and cut with scissors.


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37th Birthday

This is a birthday card I made recently for a friend's birthday. I was a bit apprehensive about making a cupcake birthday card for an adult, but I think she liked it. The cupcake and numbers dies are from Papertrey Ink, as well as the stamp set (Big Birthday Wishes), the paper (Wings) and ink are from Close to My Heart. I placed the numbers through my xyron sticker maker upside down and then covered them with prisma glitter.

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A Love of Reading...

Here is the most recent layout I've done of my kids. My daughter has started reading chapter books to herself, and I was excited to get this photo of her reading to her little brother. The book is one of the Frannie K. Stein books. My kids love those books!




These pages are from the Lucky Workshop on the Go kit. I rotated the pages 90 degrees and altered them a bit to fit my photos. The round reading stamps are from Papertrey Ink (All Booked Up), the alphabet stamp is Old World Alphabet from Close to My Heart.

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Jumping right in again...

No talking about that long absence. Really. I'm not going to apologize or anything. These things happen. Homeschooling has taken a lot more of my free time than I had even imagined. But now, I think things are settled in. I'm happy with the way our curriculum is going. Daily school is going smoother. So I hope to return to blogging more frequently.

Hope.

So here are a few cards I made using the Wings Workshop on the Go from Close to My Heart. I did alter them a bit, added some glitter etc.



I'm really rather excited about the spray pens that Close to My Heart are now carrying. :)

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Smile

This is another layout from my scrapbooking weekend in June. These were pictures left over from the Grandma's visit, but there just wasn't enough room for them. It's rare I can catch his smile so many times in one day. Usually he spends his time making funny faces or rolling his eyes at me. Yes, literally rolling his eyes. He is only four. :)



Supplies are all Close to my Heart. Clover Meadow CS, ink, Tinkerin' pp and title stickers. I inked the base page, the strips of pp and the photos with clover meadow ink.

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A Visit with Grandma

My mother-in-law visited us for a short weekend in May. We did all the typical grandma visit stuff that weekend. This is another layout I finished at my scrapbooking weekend in June.





Supplies:
Paper: Close to my Heart
Letters and heart flourish cut with cricut

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Brother Sister Friends

At the end of June, I joined some internet friends for a scrapbook retreat in WI. We had a great time. And I actually got some layouts done! Win/Win. :)

This is one of my favorites. A couple of random photos left over from other layouts, often these end up being my favorite layouts.

Paper, ink, letter stickers are all CTMH. Used Tim Holtz Die cut for the heart, wings and crown. Used some stickles and a fiskar border punch and called it good. :)

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1st day of preschool layout

Yes, I know this one is really late. My daughter was 3.5 years old in this picture. She is now 6. But those big event, typical scrapbooking pages have never been my thing. I like the little stories that go with everyday life much better. Did I ever mention that my son's 1st year album isn't done yet? Yeah. And he's 4 now. My daughter's 1st year album is ALMOST complete. Just lack the first birthday layout to finish it up. You see a pattern here? :)

Anyway, on to the more interesting aspect of this layout. That flourishy heart. I knew I wanted something flourishy in that corner. I grapped the first thing in my blank chipboard/grungeboard drawer and this is what I withdrew (this is the picture after I applied black copics and fruit punch stickles that is):


And this is the beauty of grungeboard. I can use my copics to color it, then apply stickles to it. Then after all is dried, bend it into any shape my heart desires. Even a heart! :) Here's a close up of the heart:


Papers are close to my heart (notebook), grungeboard from Tim Holtz, chipboard "1" from Heidi Swapp, fruit punch stickles from Ranger. That's it, as easy as could be.
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Stamping Layout

The forum I participate in was having a scrap olympics for the month of March. Of course I signed up for way too many events! LOL. One of the events was Stamping on a layout. So here is my layout:





I had a great time making this layout. The papers are from Close To My Heart. The stamps are from Close to my Heart and Papertrey Ink. And the ribbon is from Close to my Heart and Papertrey Ink. Lots of little things on this page including more of the flip flap photo protectors from CTMH. Truly a great little invention that makes it so much easier to include more photos on your layouts. Remember you can click on a photo to get a better view. Oh yeah, dh reminded me to tell everyone that this layout took 2nd. :)

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Hawaii

Okay, I'm lumping all of my Hawaii layouts into one post. Just easier for me that way.

There are multiples of some pages, because I used Close to my Heart's flip flap memory protectors. These are 4x6 photo protectors that have a flap and adhesive so that you can put several together and make a little flip book. Adhere it right to your page and voila! Lots of pictures on your standard 12 x 12 layout. Sorry for the glare but they are difficult to photograph when they are in the protectors. And the layouts for all three of these pages are from the Moon Doggie Workshop on the Go.

The second page has the flip flaps protectors (2 of them for an additional 4 photos):



Here again, the second page has the flip flap protectors (another 2 for an additional 4 photos on the page)



On this one, the first page has one protector, the second page has 2 protectors.




Supplies:
Paper: Close to my Heart (Moon Doggie)
Ribbon: maya road
Stamps & bling: Close to my Heart

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