Finally Finished page

Do you ever do this?  Get new supplies and get really excited and just make something....anything.....and then it just sits there.....for months.  I'm sure you never do that!  Unfortunately, it happens to me sometimes.  In the fall, I got this new paper and I just loved the whole color combination for fall pages.  I loved the addition of Taken with Teal to brighten up those pages.  So....I decided to make a lovely scrapbook page.   I used my new shimmer paint to make my own shiny paint for the title, I made shimmer mist to spray the vanilla cardstock, I added a journaling spot under the photo mat - I was very pleased with it.   And, then.....there it sat....looking lovely and lonely.  It's not that I didn't have pictures for it....they just never made it to the page!  Until now....

Enter The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge - to take a former page and make it over.  Now, I realize that many people were taking old layouts from years ago and making them over, but I decided to do something different (no surprise there...I know....I'm always doing something different!)  I decided that for this challenge, I would make over this layout and actually finish it!   Thus, I came up with this second page based on a sketch from Sketches 4 All website, where I am on the design team. 

Using the same paper and colors, I added a few leaves and several cropped 4X6 photos to the layout.

I took a little popsicle stick that says Savor the Moment and added it and really cropped down one 4X6 to fit in a little metal frame and finished it off with the same buttons and ribbon from the first page. 

And here it is....the finished layout with pictures!  Finally....:)

OOPS!

Here's a quick post for today.  I made this page recently of us playing at the park on a lazy summer day.  I liked the exotic flowers with the layout and really liked adding a little different journaling and paper piercing....that is....until I realized I pierced right through to the other page, too!  OOPS!  Hmmm...What to do with the second page now...?

Pretty Peacock

Here's a card I made last night using the stamp set Very Thankful.  I decided to create my own color combo for this card - I used Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, and Old Olive for the color scheme - a bit different, but I really like the way it turned out.  I colored the stamp using my stampin' write markers and then stamped it onto watercolor paper.  I used the air spritzer tool to add a mist of melon mambo onto the main image also.  I used up a few more scraps for the patterned paper spots and finished off with my usual bling - a few rhinestones - a combination of green and pink and a bit of crystal effects with dazzling diamonds on the peacocks circles and head feathers (not that you can see that!).  It's really pretty in person - pictures never do sparkles any kind of justice!

New baby cousin

Well, I've had this page finished for quite some time now.  I just haven't managed to figure out how to easily take pictures of layouts with my iPhone and upload to the blog.....ah the life of a non-techie....

Anyway, the other side of this layout is even prettier - it includes a few different and very beautiful pictures of my in-laws baby girl.  One of these days I'll get around to posting it, too.....

I used the Walk in the Park paper from last year's summer mini on this layout. 

Brotherly birthday

Here is a birthday card I made for my brother's birthday.  I tried to make it nice and boyish again.  I first made a Sahara Sand backround card and layered Always Artichoke for the back layer.  I added an argyle texture with the texturz plates for the Sizzix machine.  I had some old Designer Series Paper scraps, so I used the argyle pattern again to cut the left side up just for interest.  I stamped Birthday Bliss in Always Artichoke and lightly colored the edges with my Sahara Sand marker.  To finish it off, I added a distressed Baja Breeze oval behind the stamped image and some Baja Breeze and Always Artichoke ribbon across the front.  Hope he likes is - even if it is a few days late!

Pirate Party

Here is a card from the inside out that I created for my husband's best friend's birthday...his friend is turning 40, so we're having a surprise pirate party for him! 

So, here's the envelope....we went all out - even got a Captain James Thompson stamp for him!  (Captain JimPat just didn't sound very pirate-y!)

So here's the front of the card - I tried to get as distressed and boy'ish looking as I could! I used White, black, red, and so saffron for the colors - all scraps, of course.  I distressed most of the edges and used the Pirate Party set for the image on the front.  The only other addition is some paper piercing and a little linen thread that added a boat feel.

And here's the inside of the card - just a few more scraps to finish off the 40th birthday card! 

Quick and easy Easter card

Well, here is my first sketch I made using My Digital Studio. And here are the cards I made based on my sketch.

I've made these cards to use in a workshop I'm doing tomorrow. The ladies wanted an Easter card for the make and take, so I thought I would let them make the top card to take home with them. I made the second card to show how you could step up the card and make it even more beautiful with just a tiny bit of extra effort and supplies.

Ink: Lovely Lilac, Old Olive

Stamps: Eggcoutrements, Well Scripted

Paper: Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Lovely Lilac, Shades of Spring

Accessories: 3 flower punch, wide oval punch, 1" and 1 3/4" circle punches, scalloped edge punch, bird punch, purple ultrafine glitter, uniball signo gel pen, distressing tool, vanilla hodgepodge hardware