Pink Paislee, Vintage Moon (OWL)

I know not everyone is loving the owls that seem to be so very popular right now but I LOVE them!!! This one is from the Pink Paislee set, Vintage Moon. My friend Melanie came over last week and we got to play for a while. She of course made a whole book while I made 2 cards but that's okay :) Can't hate a girl for being so dang talented! I honestly am not sure which paper I used for the background but it's one of those 2 sided ones that you can't decide which side you like best! hehe Anyway! I went with the brown polka dots and am happy with my choice. I stamped the limb which normally has these flourishy things on the ends but I stamped red hearts instead and covered them up so it would be more Valentine-ish. I stamped the owl twice and popped the top one up with foam squares and added some little googly eyes. Melanie had this stamp set with the journaling box so I stamped that and then stamped the sentiment (which I came up with... LOL) with my CTMH alphabet (well, one of my many!!!). I wanted the word eyes to be more prominent so I outlined it with a marker. Finally, I added the scalloped edge with ribbon along the bottom and stamped a border along the top with a stamp from a Technique Tuesday set that my friend had with her as well. Thanks, Melaine!!! hahaha

SU Kind Thoughts

Ok, so I'm a CTMH Consultant and lately I have been posting more SU and other stamped cards. Sometimes I just like to use different stuff but I still LOVE CTMH and our stamps ARE the best!!! I just had to get this set, Kind Thoughts, since I love butterflies! I had a pink card laying around so I went with that as my base. I used my Labels 1 Nestabilities and stamped the large image with a matching pink ink then colored in some of the flourish with a black marker and added some black and pink rhinestones. I had to trim the top off since it was too large to fit the card the way that I would like. I did trace around the inside with a black marker too and added a bit of ribbon for a little extra something. I stamped the butterfly 4 times and used 2 of them to layer underneath the other 2 so I could make them have some dimension by only gluing the center of their bodies down. I also added some pink rhinestones to their wings. I didn't stamp a sentiment inside because I'm not sure who I'll send this card to or for what purpose. It could be for anything!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I cleaned my room last night and thought I'd share it today before my table becomes cluttered with stuff again! My goal this year is to spend less time on the computer (shopping!) and more time scrapping. I haven't scrapped in a while since I drifted off into card making. I really have too many photos not to sooo we'll see how it goes. I didn't realize how fast the pictures went by so you can hardly read my descriptions of what you're looking at. I'll try to fix it if I can but you get the drift :) Enjoy and Happy Scrappin', Card Makin', Paper Craftin' and all that fun stuff!!!

My Scrap Room - Slideshow

Lizzie Anne Ornaments

TOOT TOOT! That's me tooting my own horn! LOL I absolutely love this card. YAY, go me! hehe For those of you that know me personally, I'm usually not that impressed with my own work. I'm a wicked perfectionist and always find the littlest things wrong but not with this one (except for maybe adding another layer of cardstock). OK, seeeee... I'm not going there! I embossed the background with the D'Vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder then stamped the ornaments from the Lizzie Anne Build a Bauble set in the baby blue to match the background. I adhered the pink cardstock and layered the ornaments on top of that. I embossed the ornament hangers in silver and added the silver cord to one of them. I used a piece from the Stylized Silver Hodgepodge set by SU to frame the Merry & Bright sentiment which is from CTMH's Christmas Melodies set. Of course none of my Christmas cards would be complete without a little bling :) Gotta love those little rhinestones!!!

Lizzie Anne Snow Globe

To post or not to post, that is the question :) This card is really quite simple and I wasn't that impressed with it but it was still cute so I figured why not. I honestly was in a rush and had to make 2 quick cards (this one and the previous post). I used Lizzie Anne's Build a Bauble set. I just purchased this one and one other before Christmas. I must say that I like the stamps a lot and love that they come in a CD case making them so easy to store. I don't remember what paper I used but surely it came from one of the mega packs I got at Michael's also from my before Christmas shopping sprees! haha I used Liquid Applique (who doesn't LOVE this stuff?) for the snow on the ground, a few snowflake punches and rhinestones, stamped the Let it Snow sentiment from a Hero Arts set (the one with the cute snowmen) and called it done!

SU Glorious Garlands

Well, what can I say? Never late than never!!! I had made a few last minute cards before Christmas and with cleaning and preparing for company, I never posted these to my blog. For this one, I used SU Glorious Garlands and went with traditional Christmas colors: red, white and green. It's nothing fancy but it looks pretty with the added ribbon (CTMH) throughout the tree. I cut the corners with the punch that's the opposite of a rounded corner (the name eludes me right now), added brads and used some gold letter stickers to put "Noel" down the side.