Mojo 84 sketch challenge

I made this card for my stamp club that is meeting this weekend and I used the mojo Monday sketch. I saw this glitter technique over on Paper Pleasing Ideas blog. She did a great tutorial that you can see here. I used the Friends 24-7 stamp for the flowers, and the pink and olive super fine glitter from Stampin' Up! The designer paper is from the occasions mini called A Walk in the Park. I wish you could see this card in person because the glitter is so pretty and sparkly. It looks sooo much better than the photo, trust me.

SASSSC Party

I am a member of a group of stampers known as the Sassy ladies. Our name stands for Simple and serious stampers swap club, Sassy for short. We meet each month and swap cards, eat, have a make and take, eat, learn tips and techniques, eat, and win door prizes. It is lots of fun. This month was our "Birthday Party" that we give to ourselves. Half of the members were on this committee. (I'm on the Christmas Party committee). This was our first one and these ladies really set the bar high! First we had a wonderful Mexican lunch with champagne/berry"tinis".
Then with the buzz, we had a make and take in which we made cute little party favors. We played SASSSC bingo and won marvelous bath products, and had our card swap. Just when I thought we were winding down, they pulled back a curtain to reveal the party set up in the dinning room. (They had said the curtain was hiding construction going on in that part of the house, but it was hiding this gorgeous birthday cake and table.

There were wrapped gifts at each place setting including this darling party hat box filled with embellishments.

Can you see how the box was covered with pretty paper and a really party had attached to the lid. Then the boa fluff was added. So clever!

But the main event was this yummy and beautiful cupcake cake made by one of the members.

Before

After.

But that wasn't all! They also had little cupcakes that were lemon, strawberry, and vanilla flavored. It was the Birthday Party that never ended. Anyway, these ladies were the BOMB!!!!

My Christmas committee has a high standard to meet in July!!!

Home Sweet Home layout

I had a wonderful time at the Creating Keepsakes convention in Houston this paswt weekend. Thursday night I attended a class in which eight different vendors taught a scrapbooking layout. This is one of my favorites. It is from Heartstrings, which is based in Utah.

Friday, I attended three classes and shopped the vendor floor. I mainly purchases embellishments and chipboard, BUT my big purchase was the Show Special: A Cricut!!! I had decided I needed one and since it was on special I knew my DH would want me to get it. (He can't pass up a bargain). Oh and I also won a door prize! A scrapbooking kit from Technique Tuesday! It was a wonderful day!

SASSSC Swap

My monthly Sassy group meets this weekend. It will be our first annual birthday party. Should be great fun. Here's my swap card. For this month, we all brought one of our favorite stamps, put them in a bag, then we each drew out someone else's stamp and had to make our cards with that stamp. I really liked the gal on this stamp She has attitude!!Sista! It was my first attempt at paper piecing. You may recognize the layout because I used the same layout on this card. I used my favorite Parisian Breeze for the background and Bella Birds for the dress.

BTW, I am going to the Creating Keepsakes convention that is in town this weekend. I will be doing a crop Thursday night, and other classes throughout the day on Friday, as well as shopping the vendor mall. Can't wait.

More Parisian Breeze

Remember I said I was doing a series of cards using the Parisian Breeze paper? Well here is another one of those cards. I used three different patterns on the card front and mounted them onto Chocolate chip. There is one more that I will post tomorrow night. Check back.
Thanks for all the wonderful comments you have been leaving about these cards. I have enjoyed making them. I've said it before and will say it again, this is the bast designer paper!!! The color combo just makes the prettiest cards. You almost don't have to stamp anything, lol!

Mojo Monday 83

I am having a blast with these challenges. But I've got to get busy tomorrow with club projects.
I used the Hostess set God's Beauty. The cardstock colors are Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, and Perfect Plum. The butterfly is colored with SU markers, cut out and popped up with dimensionals. Some stick on pearls finish off the body.

Another Challenge card

I found this challenge over at iheart to stamp and had to participate. Can you tell I have alot of free time this weekend. Doesn't happen often and I am taking advantage of it and stamping up a storm, and loving it too. This is from Friends 24-7 and I used the scalloped oval frame die for the Big Shot.

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

After I made this card I realized it qualifies for the Black, White, plus One more challenge at Stamptacular Sunday. I made this using Parisian Breeze specialty designer paper, as well as black and white cardstock all from SU. The sets are also SU: Fifth Avenue Floral, Soft Summer (sentiment only), and the butterfly from Great Friends. I stamped everything that is black with versamark first and then black embossed it. The words from the Friendly Words wheel are black embossed right on top of the specialty paper.The butterfly and flowers are baja breeze. The black ribbon is from the Valet ribbon collection from SU.

Bella's Friends 24-7

I am probably on of the few SU demonstrators who waited until just now got the Friends 24-7 set. I loved it from the start, but didn't think I needed another set with a bird in it. Alas, I was wrong. This is a very nice set and easy to use! For this card I used the Bella Birds dp (so pretty), basic gray cardstock for the base and mat, and pink pirouette cardstock that is embossed with a dotted swiss embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I tied it with my last piece of basic gray taffeta ribbon. The image is colored with pretty in pink and old olive markers, shadowed with mellow moss.

Mojo for Dad

I really like this sketch!!! I had to make one more tonight. Hope you like it.

Parisian Breeze Mojo

I saw this card that was done for the mojo sketch and fell in love with it. So of course I had to try it too. I am making a series of cards featuring the Parisian Breeze specialty designer paper (my favorite dp) and my new favorite stamp sets (at least new to me) Fifth Avenue Floral, Friends 24-7, Soft Summer, and Great Friend.

Tulips for Mom

I had fun making the first flowerpot card, but I thought the dimensions of it were rather small (3 1/2) so I wanted to try making one that was 4 1/4 wide. I also wanted to try out these punched tulips that Flowerbug's Inkspot posted on her blog. The tulips are really fast and look great. Once you pull out the pocket card, you can see the stems and leaves better.
I used Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirriouette again, and sponged the edges with rose red. Leaves and stems are hand cut from Old Olive.

Flowers for Mother

I love the flowerpot cards they are posting over at SCS. I just had to try one. My favorite was one made by lesarapp that had a shabby chic look and dimensional flowers. She made hers using a scalloped heart nestivities for the petals. I dont have them. What I do have is SU's Simple Flower Embosslits. So I made three flowers in Pink Pirroutte and one in Old Olive designer paper. I crumpled up the three pink flowers, sponged the edges with Chocolate chip ink, and stacked them on top of the green flower (which is acting like the leaves) and secured them to the pocket that goes into the pot with brads. I will be showing this at my May stamp club (fyi, ladies). I embossed the pot with the dotted swiss embossing folder and used the scalloped eyelet punch along the flowerpot rim. There is a great tutorial by Stephanie Luman on how to make these.

Top Note Box with Petal Party

Last night the ladies came over and made their layouts using the Petal Party Simply Scrapin' kits. Before they got here, I was looking for some paper to use to make this Top Note box from Stampin with Karin. I wanted something bright and cheery. That's when I spied two pieces of left over designer paper and stickers from the Petal Party kit. It made a nice companion piece to go with the layouts. I wonder what I'll put in it.

Last Petal Party layout

Two summers ago, my father planned a wonderful family trip to Disney World for all the kids, grand kids and great grand kids. It was a wonderful trip. While there, I purchased all these Mr. Potato Head pieces for different Disney characters. Last week when I was in DC, my grandson pulled them out and built all these cuties. I just had to take some pictures of his efforts. They were perfect for this last Petal Party layout.

Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a blessed Easter! My family enjoyed a wonderful service at our church and then we headed over to my son's house for a family dinner. Here's what the Easter Bunny left us!lol

Eric's Cowboy

My oldest son has a birthday coming up on Friday. I needed to make him a card so I can get his gift in the mail. He lives in Dallas, so I love to use cowboy themes for his cards. Last year I used the mustangs from Wanted. This year I chose the Bronc Buster. It looks great paired with the Parisian Blue designer paper from SU. I just love this color combo! Hope you do too.

More Petal Party layouts

This is the second layout I made using the Petal Party Simply Scrappin' Kit from Stampin' Up!
Once again I gained inspiration, this time from a layout I saw in the May 2009 issue of Creating Keepsakes, page 86 titled Look! It's me in a tree. I loved the simplicity of the layout and the use of many pictures without looking crowded. The added bonus for me was that I had these wonderful photos of the trees in DC in bloom. Although the day these photos were taken it was overcast and the cherry blossoms don't "pop" like they did in my precious layout. Hope you enjoy these layouts. I have one more to share later.

Sweet Allie

I haven't posted this week but only because I have been scrapbooking and the layout weren't ready yet. Plus I've been visiting the new baby when I could. They (my son and DIL) dropped by with him last night but he is always asleep when I see him. Maybe with the long weekend I will catch him awake.
Here's what I've been working on for my scrapbooking group...Petal Party.
Today's layout features pictures I took on my recent trip to DC to see the cherry blossoms. This is Allie getting a close-up view of the trees. They were so pretty and full over by the FRD Memorial. I based my layout from the photo on the package. It featured a 3 x 3 grid that was visually appealing to me. Then I used the photo next to it to create the matching page.
Colors are Pixi Pink, So Saffron, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie.

And here is the package that I used for inspiration.

And before I close here is another pic of Jaxon the day after he was born. I hope to get some better ones Easter Sunday.

He's here!

Jaxon Daniel arrived today at 2:20 in the afternoon. He timed it perfectly! He was due April 2nd, but I had stamp club to get ready for. Then Friday night and Saturday morning I was busy with the club. The last members left at 11:30. So my hubby and I went to lunch at TGIFriday and then over to the mall. What I didn't know was that my son had sent me a text message saying that they were on their way to the hospital at 12 noon. At 1:10 my cell phone rang and it's my son telling me that they were going to do an emergency c-section because the baby seemed to be experiencing some stress. That's when I found his text message from noon. So we headed over to the hospital which is right by the mall (wasn't that convenient!). At 2:15 Jaxon arrived. The stress was caused by the cord being wrapped around his neck four times! The stress was God's way of letting us know that Jaxon could not be delivered naturally. He is 6 lbs. 15 oz. and 20 inches long. I think we will keep him! He was very laid back while they were doing all the weighing and measuring and didn't cry when he got his shot! Hope he continues to be so content and laid back as he grows up. I thank God for the precious new life he has given us! And thank you Jaxon for waiting so I could be there when you were born.

Stamp club projects

I finally have a stamping post for you. You have seen the embossed vellum card already but can see it closer at the link posted below. I made the matchbox using the big shot die. I thought the die was for something completely different. It is very small and will hold a few nuggets or a small piece of jewelry. The bunny card uses the bunny from Eight Great Greetings and features the scalloped oval trim. You can look here for details on how to make it. I don't think you can see in the photo, but the white card stock behind the bunny has been embossed with the dotted swiss texturz plate. Well everyone will be arriving soon so better go get ready to greet them. Have a great weekend. The weather this weekend in Houston is supposed to be awesome.