Avonlea Happy Birthday Card

I wanted to show this card as a variation of the cards from the Avonlea Cardmaking Kit.  I used the stamp set from the kit and some of the leftover paper for this card.  The stamp set has a lace border stamp with I stamped about an inch up on the card base.  I then trimmed along the edge of the stamped image and placed patterned paper behind it on the inside of the card.  The Happy Birthday stamp is from the stamp set For Every Occasion.  

Avonlea Card Workshop

Since I was MIA from the craft world for a couple of weeks I decided to ease back into things with a Close to My Heart Workshop on the Go.  In a couple of hours I had completed 15 cards with the Avonelea paper.  I made a couple more cards with the stamp set that is included in the workshop and I will be showing them in the coming days!

Do You Ever Get Stuck?

     These past couple of weeks I have been in a creative funk,  which explains my lack of posts!  It seemed like every time I would sit down to work on some paper crafting, I could not get inspired or something else would demanded my attention.  It seems like having a little one with an ear infection and then getting a bug myself can make a couple of weeks pass quickly without any thing getting accomplished. I think the loads of laundry piled in the laundry room are evidence enough!

     On a positive note we did accomplish something big over the last couple of weeks .... Catherine is riding her bike without training wheels!

As I have caught up around the house I have had some time for paper crafting so I promise I will have some blog posts this week with some of the cards that I have created!

Hello Life!

I've been playing with the stamp set It's Your Day which is the special this month from Close to My Heart.  One of my favorite stamps in the set is the bicycle and I embossed it with black embossing powder because who doesn't love a shiny bicycle!  

Another fun thing I did with this card is I mixed a couple of paper packs, I used Moonlight and Flirty.  I love the brightness the pink B&T from Flirty brings the Moonlight paper pack.  I love that you can totally change up a paper pack by adding in other colors and B&T paper!  It is a great way to challenge yourself when you are working on a project and I think you should give it a try!  

It's Your Day

September is National Stamping Month and to celebrate Close to My Heart has a great campaign going on right now.  If you spend $35 dollars you can buy the stamp set below for only $5.  It is 2 D  sized stamps in one envelope and its retail value is $35.90.  This stamp set has lots of great images and saying and it is truly a awesome deal!

I have been able to play with the stamp set a little bit and the card I made was inspired by a card on Pintrest.  I used the polk-a-dot stamp with Slate pigment ink on top of black card stock and I have to say that pigment ink is really a great product.  

I will definitely be using this stamp set on more projects since I have only used a few of the 50 imagines available.  This stamp set is only available through September 30th so make sure to visit my website if you are interested.

Halloween Layout

At the annual Close to My Heart convention we had a wonderful keynote speaker named Stacy Julian, she has online classes called Big Picture Classes.  One of the most important lessons I took away from her was to do this for ME!  Scrapbooks don't have to be done in order and not every event needs to be scrap-booked, scrap-booking is about the MEMORIES!  Here are some of the memories that I remembered while putting this layout together. Sophia was a little over a week old and her sisters where so excited hold her for the pictures (Hint: look at Maddie's face when she is NOT the one holding her and then when she is!) and it really reminds me of that sweet newborn stage mostly since Sophia is crawling and walking around the furniture now!

I scrapbook because I enjoy it and I've been enjoying it even more since I took the pressure off of myself that I don't have every picture and every event scrap-booked.  I encourage you to take the pressure off yourself and let's scrapbook MEMORIES!    

Clementine Layout #2

In my previous post I had a layout made with the Clementine paper pack and pictures from a birthday party at a horse farm, well here is another layout made with the same papers and more pictures from the party.  There are also some new embellishments such as canvas shapes, which can be ink or stamped on and paper flowers.    

I'm on a mission to get layouts made and pictures on those layouts, so in future I hope to post more of those layouts.  Some of them may be from retired product or even a mix of new and old, but I'm trying to do my best and use the supplies I have because it isn't about the products used it is about the memories that are put into scrapbooks!