Guest designer call...

Well, Peeps...it's been a while! whew. I have no kiddos this week as they have been off camping (and eating hot dogs and marshmellows until they POP!) with Grandma and Grandpa. We have talked to them frequently and they don't really want to come back home. I, however, have been scrapping and reading and enjoying the quiet. That quiet will end this afternoon. Then later, I will be off to work. Teaching a class of 16 women how to do new techniques (spotlighting, ink resist and Glimmermist...all in one class and 2 1/2 hours) is exhausting. However, I will muster up the strength to pass on my stamping knowledge! Hee-hee.

Just wanted to tell you that Terry, over at Creative Cuts and More, is looking for a few good scrappers, rubber stampers, papercrafters and card makers to be guest designers. You can find all the info here. She is planning on choosing TWELVE designers. She is glorious to work with, so if you love to work with die cuts...hop on over there to check it out!

Okay. I am getting a really late start today, but am off to scrapbook a bit before my cute lil' kiddos return. Hope you have a great week!!!

12x12 pages? What are those??

Well, it has really been a long, long time since I have done any 12x12 pages. But, my husband has bulletin board dividers around his desk at his office and instead of just handing over some family photos for him to pin up there...I did what any scrapbooker would do. I made him some pages!!! So here they are. I am thinking that when he gets tired of them, I can just add them to my scrapbook and make him some more.

These were take last fall. (yes, by me. And the trusty tripod.) I have used them on some other projects...but never a 12x12 layout. I punched all those circles for the tree using Nestabilities circle dies and an EK Success Whale of a Punch. The bird stamps are from Basic Grey "Lime Rickey" line and the letters from the word "tree" are Doodlebug letter stickers. The word family was printed out on my computer and I colored and shaded it with Prismacolor pencils.

I have been enjoying the start to my summer. I have done some scrapbooking (just look at the evidence above!!!) and it is truly amazing how much easier it is to do household chores when you aren't trying to schedule them between math, science and language arts! I have some projects to finish that are on my scrapbooking desk and am planning on completing a lot of new ones!!! So keep checking back for those! Have a great week!

Holy Cow!

Well, Peeps. Looks like I took an extended vacation from this blog. I assure you, it was totally unintentional. I was trying to get my kiddos through the last weeks of school. We are done and have been for a few days. Whew. Now I am hoping to get a lot of projects finished and more started and completed this summer. So, rest assured, there will be more photos to come.

This photo is a window card and in the window, I adhered an ATC transparency from Prickley Pear Stamps. They have some fantastic NEW transparencies!! You really need to check them out. They are very versatile. I did some spot color on mine. I used Twinkling H2O's. Then after stamping the front of the card with Prickley Pear Rubber stamps, I adhered the transparency in the window!

The transparencies would be beautiful colored with Copics, Alcohol inks or Shimmerz. Hummm...maybe that is another project all together!

Anywho....hope you check back for more projects. I am tellin' ya'...my creative flow must have flown somewhere else, because I sure have had trouble finding it!!! Hopefully, it will come back soon, because I could sure use it. If you see my creativity around...could ya' send it back?

Hope you have a great start to your week! Thanks for stopping by.

Blog hop happening now!!

Welcome to the Creative Cuts and More Blog hop!! Thanks for hopping on over from Diecut Diva!! I told you in my last post that something new and fun and exciting would be happening here today!!!

The photos you see here are from a fabulous new Mix-n-Match mini album that is from Creative Cuts and More. I had the pages die cut in chipboard, and then also in Bronze Ore Curious Metallic cardstock to cover the chipboard pages. I then had each style of page die cut out of Doublemates Terra Cotta cardstock and inserted them between the chipboard pages. The fabulous thing about Doublemates is that each side is a different coordinating color. It saves time when you don't have to cover those chipboard pages and can coordinate all the album covers!!

The above pages have been stamped with Basic Grey stamps and then cut out and adhered to the pages. I also added some Doodlebug rhinestones to some of the trees. I added a hint of color to the trees with Pearlized colored chalk. (by Pebbles.)


This page was first stamped with Fancy Pants "In the Garden" stamps in Versamark and then colored with chalk. I also stamped the dragonfly image in the right corner with brown chalk ink. The dragonfly image is from the Basic Grey "Wisteria" line. I placed a bracket frame (from CC&M) over the top and added a vellum tag from Stampin' up. On top of that I added a leaf die cut (out of Doublemates cardstock) and added some American Crafts ribbon. The word stamps are from Impression Obsession, stamped with Stayz On Timber Brown ink.

This page uses a scalloped frame (from CC&M) with a punched circle stamped with a Basic Grey "Wisteria" stamp. The word "silly" is a rub-on.

The page on the left was stamped with Basic Grey acrylic stamps. Then I added the tag (Doublemates Terra Cotta reverse side) with a Basic Grey stamp. I colored it with Pixie Dust Shimmerz. Then added a die cut leaf cut from Felt. The right-hand page uses a bracket frame with the butterfly stamped (Basic Grey Wisteria) and hand cut. It was embossed with Zing brown embossing powder from American Crafts. The word on this page is also a rub on.

These pages were stamped with Versamark and chalk brushed over the top of the design. The leaves are die cuts out of metallic cardstock, velvet paper and felt. To add some color I used Pearlized Chalk by Pebbles. The word "smile" was colored with Brilliance (in Rocket Red) and distressed on the edges with brown Chalk ink. The letters are chipboard letters by Basic Grey.

I loved working with this album. You can order the kit with all the different styled pages, or you can order each page seperately. I loved the different shaped pages, but am now thinking I might try an album of pages that are all the same shape. I am also anxious to get some pages die cut from felt...just to try and rise to the challenge of working with that!!!

Hope you have a great day and hop on over to Carla's blog to see what she has going on there!! Also, be sure to spend some time at Creative Cuts and More to check out all the fabulous products you can find there!

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope all you Mom's out there have a lovely day!!! Here is a little peak at one of the cards I made for someone on Mother's Day.

The butterfly stamp is from the Basic Grey "Wisteria" line and the flourish is from Fancy Pants "In the Garden" stamp set. The butterfly is embossed with brown "Zing" embossing powder from American Crafts and the flourish is embossed with ultra fine gold from Ranger.

Enjoy your day, ladies, and check back tomorrow for something fun and exciting!!

Party gift

My DD had a couple of birthday parties last weekend. And to be truthful, I just didn't have cash to buy gifts. However, what I did have was some old jeans. And a sewing machine. (That every time we move, my husband asks me if we can get rid of...) And stamps. And Stayz-On ink. Not to mention, I had some rhinestones and a little heat applicator. What does that mean? This.....






This is only one of the fancy little denim purses I made. I made the purse out of one of the legs of some old jeans. Afer that I stamped the image with Stayz-on ink. (this dragonfly image is from Basic Grey out of their Wisteria line. yum!) I then used a little heat applicator wand to apply all those nail heads and rhinestones. My DD got to pick the stamps for each of the gifts she gave. Of course, she also talked Mommy into making her one too! Now, as soon as I can hook up with some more old jeans, I am going to make myself one. Mine, however, will have to be a bit bigger. Of course, that has nothing at all to do with the fact that I have to carry all my junk and everyone else's too. In that case...maybe I ought to make mine about the size of a suitcase. Just think of all the stamping I would have room for!

Teeny tiny album

Hey Peeps! Yep...I finally got those photos taken!!! If you want to check out the details on this tiny little album (it is an accordian album that fits inside a candy tin), go on over the Diecut Diva and find out what you want to know. This album is smaller than I normally work, but it was fast and FUN!!! Check it out...it would make a GREAT Mother's Day gift!