Friendship Cards

Here are a few cards I just made for a few friends that I got to meet off Scrapbook.com. They are from the thread that we are a group on called the Eiffel Tower Group. One of them lives in Tenn., two in Ohio and one in Sweden. We all met at Achievers in Columbus, Ohio back in August. We had a lot of fun and I hope we can do it again sometime. I made them each a card after we met. They all came bearing gifts and me nothing... I kind of felt like a dweeb, but oh well, what do you do? So, I decided to make them each an cute card and send them a thank you. These are the cards I made them.

Halloween ATC's

These are some ATC's I made to swap... I decided to make inchies. they are always a lot of fun to make, both inches and ATC's!

Birthday ATC

This is not a great pic, but this is a birthday ATC I made my friend for her birthday instead of a card.

This layout was a challenge of not using any storebought embellishments at all.. it had to be all cardstock with everything being made.

This is a layout of my oldest daughter and her best friend this past Halloween. ok.. so I did want to lock them in their rooms and not let them go to this party, but then you just have to let them grow up! This layout was a layout where I made my own paper. Everything here had to be made from card stock using paint, chalk or whatever you just had to create it yourself. I had seen some paper that I really liked so I tried my hand at recreating it. I started off with a black piece of card stock and added some blue and white paint in the middle and then blended it with a sponge brush until I got it to the blend I wanted. let it dry drew my grid with a white charcoal pencil and then I stamped my flowers with foam stamps and then outlined them with my white pencil. I cut and outlined my arrowed with my white uniball pen. Punched out my stars and outlined them too. The circles are actually just a really thin piece of card stock twisted and shaped and stuck on the paper. I added a punch of red to match the girl's lips and then there is hidden journaling when you lift the picture. I thought this turned out grand.

It's more than a name - It's ME

This layout was done for a challenge we were suppose to use adjectives for each letter of our name to describe ourselves. So the whole layout had to revolve around our name somehow. I chose to use a picture of myself when I was about 5 years old. I also did a lot of white space which is hard for me sometimes. This is simple and clean and I really love it. I find it hard to scrap myself and now with this thread I am on I am starting to make pages for a BOM for myself, which I just love and would probably not have done it on my own. And for those of you who do not know what a BOM is, it is a "Book About Me". I think most scrappers scrap other and not themselves so this has been a real out of my box for me and I am really loving the pages that I am starting to turn out because of these challenges! My adjectives were: Nutty, Inquisitive, Naughty and Authentic and above my pic has the meaning of my name.

I love this layout! This came to me because I could not for the world of me get this song out of my head for what seemed like weeks. The more I sang it the more I kept thinking of this layout. So, I finally found time to put in on paper and then the song went away too! LOL.. thank goodness! I cut this pocket out of a pair of black jeans that we getting ready to go to goodwill and then I stitched the word sunshine on the pocket. I actually created my pattern paper you see in the sun with stamping and heat embossing. I wanted it to be swirly and sunshiny so I decided to make my own and I loved how it turned out. I cut the pattern paper at the bottom out of some K&Company's paper I got in a big box and of course I just had to add some stickles. I added that yellow felt flowers to add some pop to the bottom and isn't Millie dog awe soo cute there and lookie there, she is smiling too! hehehe The pictures are of my family and they certainly are my pocket full of sunshine! The little laser cut butterflies I received from my friend Laura from Sweden and I just love them!

Puppy Love

This is just a cute pic of my youngest daughter that I scrapped....

Right Here Right Now

OK.. This is a kind of off the wall kind of crazy page for me, but this is how I was feeling back at the end of June going into July. This was done for a challenge on a thread that I am on regularly. We were suppose to do a page reflecting "right here right now". So, let me fill you in which might explain why I have not been around for June and July. So, back in June I go to have my first mammogram ever... and let me tell you ladies, don't put this off, if you haven't had your exam, please do it. So, with that said, I truly had a friend that would not stop bugging me about going to get this done and being 47 and never having one I finally took her seriously and did it. Well, needless to say something came back and it was an extremely stressful process. Not only did I have my breast exam I also had my yearly girly exam which I had put off a couple years too, which I normally always did yearly. Needless to say both exams required more testing and weeks of waiting for results and scheduled appointments. My girly exam required an ultrasound which in the end showed that everything was just fine, thank goodness... but the waiting was stressful crazy. The breast exam revealed that I had a lump in my breast. For this being my first exam it was really scary and worrisome. Needless to say I was scheduled for another x-ray and with that it was confirmed there was something there. Then I had to schedule another appointment to have the lump aspirated and wait for those results to come back. So... may layout here is about the craziness I felt at that time and how crazy I feel at time with all the running around of children and their schedules let alone just the day in and day out things in life. I felt scattered, felt stressed and truly tried not to think of the what ifs. But my time seems to fly soo quickly these days with 4 children and sometimes I just feel like I am being pulled in all these directions. Well, I must say all this testing ended with great results and my lump was just a cyst that needed to be emptied, but can and might come back. Needless to say I will not be missing anymore yearly exams. I have for the most part always been healthy and to be looking at being sick in a very serious way sure wakes you up and truly makes you cherish all the craziness around you. OK.. enough about all that... yep, kind of a crazy layout, but I truly love it!

Millie Dog

Haven't done too many layouts of my little dog Millie. She has this under bite that always makes her look like she is smiling or some think it makes her look mean. I personally think it makes her unique. I love this picture of her and she is soo pretty her with her bright eyes, perky ears and of course her lovly smile. Eric and I have had so many conversation about if a pet smiles or not. I think they do, he thinks they don't. Well, as you can see, Millie does! If that is not a smile, I don't know what it is! LOL These papers are from the DCWV pet stack. I totally feel in love with them and they were perfect for Millie's coloring. This was a pretty simple and quick layout, but I loved how it turned out!

Note Card Box with Cards

This is the little note card box I made my mom for her birthday. She was soo cute and told me she wasn't going to give them away! I told her she had to otherwise what was the purpose of having them! LOL.... I could tell she really enjoyed them and of course that just thrilled me. She told me if she had to give them away they were to only going to extra special people... I received one as a thank you!! LOL.... gotta love your moms!

I also made one for my friend Laura from Sweden, but I failed to take a pic of them... it was just as cute.

Note Card Box with Cards

This is the little 4x4 notecard box and cards I made my girlfriend for her birthday. I found this project at split coast stamping under their resource tab. Thiers was 3x3 and I wanted mine just a little bigger. The link to the site in on the right side of my blog if you are interested in making one. I also made little envelopes to go with each card.

Assortment of Cards

Ok... Even though I have been absent from my blog for the last 3 months I have not been absent from creating things. Instead of listing all these cards individually and explaining some of them in detail I am just going to post them for viewing. Some of them are tri-fold cards and some are pop-up cards and some are just cards! LOL.... so enjoy!

Holly Berry House - Precocious Medallion

This is the precocious medallion and I just love all these stamps. I only own 3 and this is the first medallion I made with this stamp. I used a pink, yellow and green card stock to creat this. It is 9 layers. It almost looks like a confection you could eat; it is soo yummy looking, if you ask me! I added stickles in 4 different colors... gotta love those stickles! This is actually a card I made a friend. These are truly more beautiful in real life if you can believe that!

Holly Berry House Celtic Cross

I am loving these stamps!! This cross was my first Holly Berry Stamp that I bought and I loved how it turned out. It is made so you can cut it out and layer it into many layers and it becomes this beautiful 3D piece of art. I used 3 different colors of card stock here although it be hard to see that because they are close in color. I heat embossed each of 9 layers with silver embossing powder and then I cut each layer out and then added stickles to certain parts of the cross where I wanted it. Let it all dry and they I placed each layer on pop dots and added the square rhinestone in the center to finish it off. I think this is absolutely beautiful and more so in real life!!

Love our little boy Avery

Here is a layout I did of Avery with Coco the bear. It's kind of a quickie and one I did months ago. The thing I love about this layout is the stitching around the heart and down the picture. Stitching always adds a touch of interest and texture and really does not take much time to do so I encourage you to do some if you have never done it before.