Create JOY

I just purchased the stamp set "Creative Elements" from Stampin Up! and had a wonderful time using it in this scrap book layout. The pics of Kate were taken this past 4th of July weekend at my Dad and Polly's house. I love the vibrant colors in her top and used several of those colors when putting together this lay out.

I used chip board letters that I painted with yellow acrylic paint to create the "JOY". The "Create" stamp was the perfect companion for JOY for the title of "Create Joy"

I  chose 2 of my favorite hand stamped cards to share that I made at an event at my friend Krista's house called "Stamp a stack". Krista is my Stampin Up! consultant and I made 2 each of these lovely cards. The above card is my absolute favorite! I love the lively spring colors.

This too is a beautiful card. The colors and style are very victorian, soft and elegant. It's nice to have a few new cards for my card box. I love making and giving hand made cards and feel so fortunate to have found Krista who teaches classes, clubs and workshops for Stampin Up! I'm enjoying being a part of a group of women who love to paper craft.

Valentine's stamp projects and home decor

When we moved to our new city back in July I started looking for a Stampin Up! or Close to my Heart representative. Since I've been in clubs through both companies and love the stamps, paper and crafting accessories from both companies, I was open to either. My goal was to join a card or scrap book club so that I could meet new friends and have fun making new projects too.  I literally could not find any reps for either company in my city. I pretty much gave up on the idea when in December at my church Women's dinner and boutique I met Krista J with Stampin Up! She was there selling many fun Christmas gifts she had made and of course to advertise her business. I knew within a few moments of meeting Krista that I had met someone really special. I was so excited to get started stamping with her. I joined a scrap book club that meets at her house one Friday a month. We make two lay outs that she has pre-designed and cut the paper for. She also has frequent classes and I recently attended her Valentine's craft class as well. Krista is SUPER creative and buys a ton of the newest products to share and work with so it's a special treat to attend her classes and club. Below is what I made at the Valentine Craft Class.

This darling "cup" can be used to hold pencils or candy or whatever else you can think of. It is now sitting on my desk full of pencils and pens.

                                       Here is a valentine card I made.
                                          I love the dimensional heart.

This hanging 3-D project was my favorite thing that we made. We started with making the large "rosette" using a scoring board and then assembled the rest using several die cut hearts etc. I think it looks great hanging on the door in our home.

Below is a Valentine themed scrap book layout that I did at scrap book club this past week. Additionally we made a winter themed layout that I will show in a separate post.  

I love the whimsical nature of this layout. We used these darling stamps with gnomes! This layout will be perfect for some pictures from one of Kate's valentine parties as an elementary school student.

I love the little "gnome" sayings like, "to gnome you is to love you".  I will show these pages again once I get the pictures on them.

 Valentine's Day is such a fun holiday. Those who know me well know that I am totally in LOVE with love and romance. So naturally I'm one that decorates for this holiday. My iron corner standing shelf unit is the best place to display my decorations.

I made the piece of art in the frame a few years back using scrap book paper, stickers and accessories. The angel is from my willow creek angel collection that is out all year round and the heart was made by my Mom.

I made these "be mine" blocks several years back from a kit I purchased at a scrap book store in Las Vegas.

                                      The book and tin were gifts from my Mom years ago.

                                            These heart shaped boxes were made by my Mom.

The love hanging was purchased at Michael's a few years ago.

I made all the heart ornaments on this little "Valentine tree"  several years ago as well.

May you and yours have a very happy Valentine's Day. May it be spent with someone you love!

Live Life "Lucky" Layout

This is a layout that we created at our team meeting a couple of weeks ago. We used the Lucky Workshop on the go kit and pretty much everything that comes in the kit. My favorite part of the entire layout was using the Bingo acrylic stamp set. I love the set because you can change the letters to name your bingo card whatever you want as well as put whatever numbers you want. It is so versatile and Bingo cards are very popular right now to add to your layouts.  I love our Workshop on the Go kits because they have everything you need including instructions, to create a layout and some cards.

I used some "vintage" pictures on this layout of Kate and Kyle back in 2002. Kate is almost 13 here and Kyle is 7. They were climbing in a huge tree near our house. Aren't they cute!? I started seriously scrap booking in 2004 and have a family scrap book for each year since. Now however, I'm going back further and scrap booking the years prior to 2004. So I will be sharing lots of these fun pics of the kids when they were little going forward.

Don't you just love this paper? The colors really lend themselves to masculine layouts and cards or in this case, two kids is a tree!

There are two different ways you can get it.

1. Purchase the paper packet HERE

2. Purchase the entire Lucky Workshop on the Go Kit HERE

3. Purchase the Bingo acrylic stamp set HERE

Gift Scrapbook for Baby

Here is a chipboard album I made for a friend in celebration of the birth of her fifth child. I know she will cherish the little album and put the baby's pictures in place so that he can have it to treasure always. My favorite part is the "Watch me Grow" pages with little die cut frames where you put a picture of the baby each month until his first birthday. I love vintage syle and used vintage baby images and papers in this book. In the past few years I have enjoyed making little books like these and giving them as gifts. They have always been well received, and my friend was delighted with this little book for her baby.