Watermelon Watercolor Wings

The pretty stamped and die cut butterfly created using the Watercolor Wings stamp set and coordinating Bold Butterfly Framelits takes center stage on this quick and easy card.

I played with this set, having fun stamping all all sorts of color combos...so I am not entirely sure what colors I used here....but I'm guessing Watercolor Wonder, Rich Razzleberry and maybe Calypso Coral.

The Watercolor Wonder Dotted Lace Trim and some Basic Rhinestones add the finishing touches.

Thanks for visiting today.

Stippled Blackberry Birthday Blossoms

I cannot get enough of the gorgeous new In Colors! Here's a make & take card that my local customers got to create at my recent catalog pick up event. It uses each and every one of the five new colors.

The biggest blossom was stamped in Blackberry Bliss (stamped off the first time and full strength for the detailed image) the smaller flowers in Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist, the leaves in Mossy Meadow and then the edges were sponged with Lost Lagoon. The make & take card was pretty and detailed just as shown above, but if you want to make it even more special you could step it up with some added details like this...

Embossing the Blackberry Bliss layer with the Fancy Fan EF and adding some piercing along the edges adds more detail with not a whole lot more effort. I made this card for a dear "old" friend who turned the big 5-0 on Monday. So I used the Endless Birthday setto stamp a background of dots and words to describe the excitement of turning 50. ;-) Yes...I'm being a little sarcastic here...I can share my friends "enthusiasm" & "excitement" over turning 50...because today is my 50th. I still cannot believe we're 50...we are way too young too be that "old"!

Here's a look at both cards...

To celebrate my milestone birthday, my hubby and I took a road trip. We are with family in NC now, but on way down from Michigan we stopped at whatever caught our (my) ;-) interest. Here's a photo of us on top of Natural Bridge in Kentucky.

As you can see, the view was amazing! Here's to the next 50...

Lovin' (Project) Life!

I'm excited to share my very first Project Life scrapbook pages today!  Let me start by saying that I've been a traditional 12 x 12 scrapbooker for quite some time. While I love to scrap, I take a long time to complete a page. Since I have a ton of photos, I like layouts that use several photos...so I think Project Life will be a nice change of pace. I plan to incorporate my Project Life pages along with my traditional pages.

After a recent trip to Universal Studios in Orlando I have a big stack of bright, fun photos to scrap...the Everyday Adventure Card Collection is perfect for these photos...

I used a #5 Pocket Page from the Variety Pack (the pack comes with 12 pages...2 of each style) I used 3 of the 3x4 cards. They are all double sided...so here's the flip side of that page.

The Journaling Pens are really nice...I used the finer point pen for easy journaling on the grid patterned cards. I added some die cuts using the On Film Framelits and added some detail by stamping the arrows with Gorgeous Grunge and adding a Black Glimmer Brad to the little camera diecut. This next page uses a #3  Pocket Page from the Variety Pack.

Here's a closer look at the 4 x 4 card I created using some Crushed Curry cardstock, the Honeycomb Embossing Folder and Hexagon punch. Until now I hadn't realized that the Simpson's skintone is such a good match to Crushed Curry!

I wanted to pull a little red into the layout since there was so much red in the photos. I even used a new Photopolymer stamp set...Endless Birthday Wishes to stamp my title..."awesome day". Here's the two pages together as they'll look in my album...

The Everyday Adventure Card Collection comes in a nice sturdy storage box with lid, made to sit on your desk...there is even extra little compartment to hold your journaling pens and space to store a few photos you may plan to use later. Here's a closer look at some of my favorite designs in the 3 x 4 cards. Notice that the ones that have writing on them come  in both landscape & portrait format so they will fit a variety of layouts.

Here are some of the 4 x 4 cards...

and a few of the 4 x 6 cards...

Normally it would take me quite a bit longer than a few hours to finish 3 pages...and I wouldn't have been able to use so many photos either, so I think I'm really going to like the Project Life way of scrapbooking!

Enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend...but don't forget to remember those who gave their life for our freedom.