Kids Birthday Cards

Happy Friday! I have some fun birthday cards for you today. My son has a birthday party for twins from his class this weekend so I decided to make some fun cards. I try to make cards for as many as the parties as I can but sometimes, there are too many and not enough time! But I had a little bit of time today and these were pretty quick to put together. Score! Plus I wanted to use up some of my favorite items for the 2016 - 2017 catalog - Gorgeous Grunge and the Pop of Pink DSP. It's so funny because I didn't like the paper at first but I got it thinking I might use the black and white pieces. Which I did and basically the rest of the pack. I think this was my favorite DSP. It's so versatile. So if it's still there, grab it while you can.

The card was pretty simple to do. Stamp the splatter images in Pool Party ink. The larger one was stamped off first so it was a little lighter. I cut out the number 5 with the Large Number Framelits. These are also super versatile. The Lemon Lime Twist circle was die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits. The sentiment is curved but I didn't want it like that. So I tried to straighten it out as best as I could on the block and then I just cut out each of the words after stamping it on Bermuda Bay cardstock. Then I just finished it off with some enamel shapes.

Super fun for a 5 year old right!! Imagine the different color combinations you could do this in to. So cool!

Have a fabulous weekend!!

Yummy In My Tummy - GDP082

Happy Friday! It's been a bit since I've posted. I've been crafting up a storm but nothing I can share just yet. And I've been working on cleaning up and organizing my craft area so that's been real fun. Nope! Haha!! But I did have time to today to whip up this card real quick. Now that the retiring list is out, I need to use some of my favorites before I get all of the new goodies. Today I'm participating in the Global Design Project challenge again. Check it out HERE.  This week is a sketch challenge.

I chose to work with the super fun Yummy In My Tummy set. I LOVE this monster and I didn't get to use him enough. I wanted to use this monster for a fun birthday card so I combined this card with the Happy Celebrations set. I used the splatter image from the set to make the Lemon-Lime Twist background paper. I kind of made my own DSP and I think it looks a little camo-like. Then I used the Urban Underground DSP for the rest of the card. This chevron piece is my favorite from the bunch.

I stamped the monster on Bermuda Bay cardstock and cut him out. Then I stamped the Happy on to Pool Party ink and the Birthday To You on Peekaboo Peach cardstock. I like these colors together. Fun and bright. Then I just added a few enamel shapes for a little extra color. This card was fairly quick and simple but still looks so fun!

I hope you all play along with the challenge this week.

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Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

October Swap

Hello. I have a quick post for you today. I realized I never shared my October swap. The theme for October was to do a technique card. The technique I chose was to layer ink on the clear block and then stamp it on paper. I took my aquapainter and filled in any white spots with ink. It makes for a quick and easy background. This card is fallish but I think this would work great with some blues in the background and a green wreath for a winter card. Something I may have to try out!

I will be back tomorrow with my November swap. It's a cute one! And then I have to work on my December swap. So many things to do this month. At least my shopping is mostly done. Thank you Amazon Prime. Now I just need to find the time to wrap all of the gifts. It's hard with little kids around because I have to wait until everyone is definitely asleep so I don't get anyone peeking. But when that time rolls around, I'm ready for sleep myself! Oh well, it will get done at some point.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Wondrous Wreath, Floral Phrases
Paper: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Dapper Denim, Gold glimmer paper
Ink: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Dapper Denim
Accessories: Wonderful Wreath framelits, clear block, Aquapainter, Fancy Frost Sequins

Jar of Love - Christmas

Happy Thursday! So today is day 4 of the challenge and so far I'm doing good. :) Hopefully I can keep it up over the weekend. I have a cute project for you tomorrow that uses this month's Paper Pumpkin. It's such a fun kit this month. So for today's card I decided to use that same layout I did on the Jar of Love fall card and make it a christmas card. It would also work well for a winter birthday. If you look closely at the picture you can see I added some white snowflakes to the background. These were embossed with white embossing powder. I did them before stamping the green leaves but I now realize I should have stamped the leaves first then went around and did the snowflakes. But it worked out ok. I really love how you can use this set at any time of the year and still have a great looking card. At first glance you might just think it's for spring or summer but you really can make pretty cards for any time of year. Have I convinced you yet to get this set? This really is my favorite from the new catalog. And my other favorite on this card is the gold twine. This is like the best bow tying ribbon ever!!! This twine makes all of my bows look great! And one last thing to note is that the sentiment is from the Cookie Cutter Christmas set. The sentiment was really long but I just needed a small "merry christmas" so I used my black marker to color in merry christmas and stamped it on the red paper. So don't overlook those long sentiments, they may just have the couple of words you need.

See you soon!


Stamps: Jar of Love, Greetings from Santa (snowflakes), Cookie Cutter Christmas
Paper: Emerald Envy, Tip Top Taupe, Real Red, Serene Scenery DSP paper stack, Gold glimmer paper
Ink: Real Red, Emerald Envy, Versamark, Black
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, White embossing powder, Banner triple punch, Decorative dots embossing folder (retired), sequins (Paper Pumpkin kit), Baker's Twine trio pack (gold)

Jar of Love - Fall Birthday

Hello! Day 2 of the weekly InkBlg Academny facebook challenge. If you didn't see my post yesterday, I'm participating in a challenge on the InkBlg academy facebook page and my goal is to post on my blog every day for week. I had 2 cards made that I didn't get to share yet so that made these 2 posts easy. Let's hope I can get some crafty time in for the rest of the week to have more stuff to share with you guys. I actually have tons of stuff that I'm working on as a Display Stamper for the Onstage Convention in Secaucus in November but that's all a secret until after the convention!!! Any way, let's move on to today's card. I'm not sure I love this card. I really loved my card from the August swap HERE and I wanted to make a fall version of that. But I feel like this leans more towards christmas-y. Well it definitely did before I added the yellow and orange flowers and I'm not sure i like the colors I used for these flowers. BUT hopefully this will give you some inspiration to use this set for a Christmas card. I think if you changed out the flower colors to some light blue or made the flowers red and added green cardstock to the bottom, this card would be super cute. Hmmm maybe that's an idea for another card this week!

Thanks for stopping by!


Stamps: Jar of Love; Thoughtful Phrases
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Tip Top Taupe, Foil Designer Acetate, Crushed Curry
Ink: Crushed Curry, Delightful Dijon, Peekaboo Peach, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Soft Sky
Accessories: Woodgrain embossing folder, Everyday Jar framelits, Banner triple punch, Bakers twine trio pack (gold), In Color enamel shapes

Birthday Blooms - Rainbow watercolor card

Happy Monday! I have a bright pretty card to start off your week. I love how this came out. As I was doing this, it work how I originally thought it was going to but I was able to “make it work” and I loved how it turned out. I used my large clear block and added all of the ink with my aqua painter. When I pressed the block to my card stock, the color didn’t take everywhere I wanted it to. I think because I had embossed the flower image the block could get into all of those raised areas. So it was looking pretty blah. But then I took my aqua painter, dipped it into the corresponding colors and was able to fill in the white areas. That is why you see some darker areas (where the block pressed down) and some lighter areas that I brushed on. I just love this look of the white flower peeking through that pretty rainbow. Then I added the sentiment with the Labeler Alphabet set. Apparently I couldn’t find a thinking of you sentiment in any of my stamps so I turned to this set to make my own. I think this is my new favorite set. I love being able to make whatever sentiment I want. And I also like the look it gives too. I think it gives this card a funky edge. I wasn’t sure if I should got with something a little softer since I’m sending this to a friend that is going through a rough time but I think it works ok with the artsy/watercolor background. What do you think?? Oh and be sure to zoom in on the photo so you can see the sequins and pearls I added.

So this week, I’m participating in a challenge on the InkBlg Academy facebook page. (#weekonechallenge) I’ve made it my goal for this week to post on my blog every day. So let’s keep your fingers crossed that I can achieve this goal because then you’ll have fun stuff to look at each day! 

I'll see you tomorrow! :)


Stamps: Birthday Blooms, Labeler Alphabet
Paper: Smokey Slate, Shimmer white, Black
Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, Black, Versamark
Accessories: Black baker's twine, Aqua painter, Clear Block E, sequins, pearls, white embossing powder

September Swap

Happy Friday! Today I am sharing my swap for September. I guess this is the week of swaps, haha! After today I will be all caught up on sharing my swaps. Now I just need to get to work on my October swap. I had a lot of fun making these cards. Our theme for September was Fall/Halloween. I knew I wanted to do something with the cat image from Foxy Friends so I went with a Halloween card. How cute is that little cat!?!? My favorite part of the cat is the little bat she has on her ear. Can you see it? That bat is from the Home Sweet Home thinlits. I had quite a bit of die cutting on this card but it wasn't too bad. I saw a little trick to punch out the cat from scrap cardstock and use that as a template when stamping your images. That way you can punch everything out all at once. So that was definitely helpful in punching out those cats quickly.

As you can see I do have 2 slightly different cards here. My original one (on the right) uses the Fancy Frost sequins but as I was putting the swaps together I decided to go with the star sequins. I thought that gave it more of the effect of a nightime/Halloween card. Which one do you prefer?

I hope you enjoyed the week of swaps. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Timeless Textures, Sweet Home
Paper: Black, Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Archival Black, Smokey Slate, Pale Plum
Accessories: Home Sweet Home thinlits, Fox builder punch, metallic sequins, Crushed Curry bakers twine, Layering circle thinlits, Woodland embossing folder

August Swap

Hello! I am back with my swap for August. The theme for August was a color challenge: Night of Navy, Sweet Sugarplum and Soft Sky. I really liked Sweet Sugarplum when it first came out but I’ve struggled to use it. Purple is my jam so I figured this would be my go to but I haven’t used it as much as I would have liked. So since I was the swap host for August, I wanted to use it and see what everyone else could do with it. I received lots of great ideas from the other swappers.

My card features the Jars of Love set again. Since I didn’t really use too many of the flowers from the set for the swap in July, I wanted to use it again. I really love this set and I love how this card came out. It would look great in other colors. I was having fun making these swaps until I cut and stamped my background pieces and THEN realized that I used Pool Party and not Soft Sky, haha! It really wasn’t that big of a deal to fix it but sometimes I’m on limited time in my craft room while the kids are playing so I need to be efficient and that wasn’t helping. Oh well! One thing to note is that the one image from the flower was stamped off on paper before stamping it on the cardstock to make it a little lighter. Another thing I love about this card are those cute little enamel shape embellishments and the staple. They are so simple but such a cute touch!

I hope you are enjoying seeing my swaps each month. I would love for you to play along and make some cards using the different themes.

Have a nice day!

Stamps: Jars of Love, Woodgrain
Paper: Blooms and Blossoms DSP, Night of Navy, Soft Sky, Crumb Cake
Ink: Night of Navy, Sweet Sugarplum, Mint Macaroon, Soft Sky
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, In Color enamel shapes, stapler, Banner triple punch

July Swap

Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a nice weekend enjoying a wine festival at a local winery. Then the rest of the weekend was filled with boring household chores. I was able to sneak in some time to do some crafting. However, I can’t share any of that yet. I’ve actually been crafting up a storm lately and will be able to share it soon!! It’s some fun stuff. But in the meantime I will share some of the recent swaps I’ve done. I haven’t shared my swaps for July, August and September. We haven’t received ours for September yet so it will be a few days before I can share those. Today I will share the swaps for July. July’s theme was to CASE something from the catalog. My card was cased from page 74. I liked the idea of making a shaker card from the Everyday Jar framelits. I decided to use some of the Blooms and Blossoms DSP for the background where I cut out the mason jar. Then I just stamped and cut out a couple of flowers and leaves from the framelits. Since the rest of the card had minimal elements on it, I then cut out “you” from the Hello You thinlits. The sequins I used are from the June paper pumpkin kit. I loved the sequins in this kit (Of course)! I had ordered a couple of extra kits so I had LOTS of sequins!! YAY! One day my craft room is going to be completely decorated in sequins, haha!

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. Shaker cards are so much fun. They are a great way to make a simple card stand out. I hope you try to make some as well.

Stay tuned later in the week for August’s swap card. It is one of my favorites!

Take care!

Stamps: Jars of Love
Paper: Blooms and Blossoms DSP, Mint Macaroon, Flirty Flamingo
Ink: Archival Black, Flirty Flamingo, Tip Top Taupe, Emerald Envy
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, sequins (June 2016 Paper Pumpkin), Hello You thinlits

Kitty Birthday

Hello everyone! Today's card is a super cute card I made for my niece's 2nd birthday. My niece shares a birthday with me :) and is about 12 days younger than my daughter. It is so much fun to see them grow up together.

Here is a photo of the 3 of us.

(My daughter is in the middle).

Of course it's impossible to get them both to smile and stand still at the same time. And if I want any pictures of my daughter lately, I have to do them in selfie mode because she wants to see herself in the pictures all of the time, haha!!

So for the card, I wanted to use the Foxy Friends set to make a kitty card. My niece has a cat and we have cats so I've become a little cat obsessed lately. (Like I want all of the cat/kitten clothes for my daughter, haha!). And I wanted something cute and fun that she would like and I think I succeed. I think my favorite part is the pom pom trim around the oval or maybe all of the kitty faces in the background. The sequins on the card are from the new Holiday Catalog. Aren't they so pretty!

I hope you like today's card and if you have any questions on how I made it, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great day!

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Thoughtful Banners
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Smokey Slate, Black, (Bermuda Bay, Emerald Envy - water colored background)
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach, Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper, Shimmer paper, Pop of Pink DSP
Accessories: Pom Pom trim, Frost sequins, Oval framelits, Duet banner punch, Mini treat bag framelits (used on the glimmer paper), Fox punch, Banner punch, stapler, Banner triple punch

Jars of Love Card Class

Hello! Happy August!! Where oh where is the summer going??? I always have all these thoughts of things and places I want to do over the summer and every year, the same thing happens, summer whizzes by in a flash! And speaking of whizzing by, my little baby is going to be 2 next week!! How did that happen?? I feel like I was just pregnant.

Anywho, today's post is about my next card class. Finally!! I've been dying to get a class together with this set because it's oh so cute!!! And I'll let you in on a little secret.... there may be some coordinating items to go along with the Framelits in the upcoming holiday catalog... wink wink!! So there may be a fun holiday class coming up. :)

Details:
In this class we will use the super cute Jars of Love stamp set and Framelits. We will make 4 cards plus a fun little tag for the bag to package them in. Keep these cards for yourself to send out or give them as a gift. The recipient will love these!

Cost: $20 (includes supplies for 4 cards and the bag, plus envelopes)
$35 includes all of the supplies plus the stamp set

Date: August 24th, 7:00pm
August 26th 2:00pm

Location: Frenchtown, NJ

RSVP by August 20th.

If you are local to me, please join us!!
Can't make these dates. Contact me to set up a private class for you and your friends in your home.

June Swap

Hello everyone!
For today’s post I’m sharing my swap that I did for June. Our theme was “summer”. I knew right away that I had to use the pineapple for these cards. Then I decide to do some water coloring in some colors that mean summer to me. The background was watercolored with Tempting Turquoise, a little bit of Bermuda Bay and some Dapper Denim. I did this all on shimmer paper. For the pineapple and leaves I stamped them and added a darker color to each of them and then I dapped my aqua painter on it to give it a water color effect before stamping it onto the paper. Then I cut out all of these pineapples!! Luckily it was only 6 of them I had to cut out. I stamped one of the sentiments from Thoughtful Banners onto Flirty Flamingo cardstock. The finishing touch is sequins (of course!) and a cute bow clip.

I hope you enjoyed today’s card!

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Stamps: Pineapple, Thoughtful Banners
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Bermuda Bay, Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Emerald Envy
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Pool Party, Shimmer White
Accessories: Gold sequin trim, Bow clips, Aqua painter

Birthday Swap

Happy Monday! It's been a little quiet here on the blog the past week. That's because I've been super busy at home and work. We went to Atlantic City for a night for a quick getaway last Thursday. Then we had 2 birthday parties to attend this weekend. One was for one of my son's friends and the other was a 90th birthday party for my grandmother. 90 can you believe it! Our family got together at a local firehouse for some lunch. The kids had fun running around and they had an extra perk of checking out the fire trucks. My son loved it!

So my card today is a birthday card (not the one I sent to my grandmother, I sent her another one I already posted). Today's card is for a swap that I'm in with some local demos. Our theme for May was Father's Day or a masculine card. I went with a manly birthday card. I saw this layout on pinterest and thought it would work well for a guy card. You don't want to have too many frilly things on a guy card. :) I think my favorite part of this card is the paint splatters. I love this stamp from Gorgeous Grunge. I did have to do a bit of fussing cutting for this card (the candles and flames) but at least the candles are pretty easy to cut and I only had to do it for 5 cards. I also used some new in-colors on this card. I think the Dapper Denim and Emerald Envy look really nice together and look great with Smokey Slate.

I hope you like today's card. I am working on my swap for June and will have that to share in the next couple of weeks. I can't share it until all of the ladies receive it. :) But it's such a cute card, I can't wait to share it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Build a Birthday, Gorgeous Grunge, Timeless Textures, Sprinkles of Life (Happy Birthday)
Ink: Dapper Denim, Emerald Envy, Smokey Slate, Crushed Curry
Paper: Dapper Denim, Pop of Pink DSP, Vellum
Accessories: Circle framelits, Triple banner punch, staples, Black baker's twine

Dino-rrific birthday!

Happy first day of summer! Looks like it's going to be a hot one here today. I will be jumping into the pool after work today to cool off. Today's card is a CASE of one of my cards I did in the past. See that post HERE. That was such a fun card to make that I thought I needed a girl version of it. I did a couple of tweeks to it by adding and embossing the bones on the dinosaurs, used different dinosaurs, embossed the background and added a strip of DSP at the bottom. I did use the retired starburst framelits again but you could definitely use the new circle layer framelits. Another thing to note is that I used the paint brush stamp from the extra set in April's Paper Pumpkin kit to add a little extra color to the sentiment banners.

This is a short post for today but I hope you enjoyed the card!

Stay cool!

Stamps: No Bones About It, April Paper Pumpkin extra stamp set
Paper: Bermuda Bay, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper, Pop of Pink DSP
Ink: Sweet Sugarplum, Flirty Flamingo, Emerald Envy, Smokey Slate, White craft, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Black
Accessories: Sequins, Large polka dot embossing folder, Starburst Framelits (retired), Circles framelits (retired), white embossing powder

A little foxy

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We had a busy weekend here. We had a play date on Saturday, I did some Lularoe shopping on Sunday at my sister-in-law's house and then went to Sesame Place with the kids yesterday. They had a blast! It was our first time going with the kids and they loved it. Before the weekend, I finally got my order from the new catalog and had a tiny bit of time to make a card. I HAD to use the new fox set. This set is just the cutest. You can make several cute little critters from this set. First up I went with the fox. I can't wait to make some of the other animals. There are lots of different pieces to this set so you can make an animal sitting down on the tree stump or you can make him on the run!! Two things to note on this card that may be hard to see in the photo are that the background in the circle is watercolored with Pool Party ink and the woodgrain embossed background is sanded to rough it up a little bit.

I hope you like this cute guy! Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Thoughtful Banners
Paper: Early Espresso, Cucumber Crush, Flirty Flamingo, Tip Top Taupe
Ink: Cucumber Crush, Cajun Craze, Black, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe
Accessories: Woodgrain Embossing folder, In Color enamel shapes, Circles framelits, Aqua Painter, Banner triple punch, Fox builder punch

Graduation 2016

Happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. We slowly moved our furniture back into the house. The floors look awesome but I'm so afraid of putting anything down on them and messing them up! Here are some before and after shots.

Pretty awesome right! The before photos are from when we first moved in. We've done a bit of updating and painting since those original photos so the house hasn't looked as horrible, haha! But it such a large improvement.

So today's cards are ones that I did a few weeks back but didn't get a chance to post. Now that graduation season is among us, I thought I had better get them posted before it was over. I was just informed today that my little boy will be having a little "graduation" ceremony at his daycare on Friday. Sniff, sniff! I mean technically he's not going anywhere since he'll be in daycare all summer but they like to follow the school system and are just having a small little gathering to give him a certificate from pre-school and then he'll move on to pre-k in September. I cannot believe that he will only have 1 more year in daycare. (I'm almost crying just thinking about it)! It really is turn that time with your babies just flies on by!

Anywhooo, let's move on to the cards. The first card uses some stamps from the March (?) Paper Pumpkin kit. That's another great thing about these kits, they come with versatile stamp sets. Sometimes I don't always have graduation sentitments and things like that but the Paper Pumpkin kits always come with a great variety of stamps. The DSP is from the retired Going Global collection but any kind of DSP would work with this simple layout. I kept this simple thinking this would be a good card for a boy graduation.
The next card uses the Number Of Years stamp set and coordinating dies. I did a little bit of watercoloring in the background along with using the Gorgeous Grunge splatter image. This card would be great to match the school colors of the graduating individual. I did CASE this card from one I saw on pinterest by Erna Logtenberg. I just made a couple of tweaks by adding the grad cap and some candy dots. (LOVE those candy dots!!) I have new ones coming and I CANNOT wait to use them!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: March 2016 Paper Pumpkin, Number of Years, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Soft Suede, Smokey Slate, Island Indigo. Soft Sky
Paper: Soft Suede, Soft Sky, Lost Lagoon, Going Global DSP
Accessories: Large Numbers Framelits, Black glimmer paper, It's My Party candy dots, black rhinestones, Circle framelits, Starburst framelits

Display Stamper Application

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Ours was spent getting our house ready to have our floors refinished. Which means we need to move ALL of the furniture into the kitchen, laundry room or my son's room; the only rooms in the house not getting refinished. That was so much work and i'm so scared of the thought of moving it all back, haha!! But in between all of that work we did get to have fun and BBQ and go swimming. The kids had so much fun in the pool. This is the first year my daugher is using the puddle jumper so I wasn't sure if she was going to be scared in the pool. Nope, she's a natural, she loves it!!

Oh yeah and in between all of that I also worked on projects for the Display Stamper application. This year there will be an OnStage Event super close to me and Stampin' Up! is looking for display stampers for each event. I figured since I plan on going, I might as well give it a whirl and try out. I was really surprised I was able to get everything done before we had to be out of the house for 3 days!! Yikes! So without further ado, here are my projects! I'm going to keep the descriptions fairly short on these since there are a lot of pictures. But please feel free to contact me with any questions.

First up is my group of cards.

I will show you this card first because it's my favorite! I love how it came out. Isn't that pineapple adorable?? He can be all yours starting tomorrow! The DSP is also new and called Pop of Pink. The tag is punched on a fun new color called Flirty Flamingo. Swoon!

My next card uses elements from this month's Paper Pumpkin kit (the white lattice piece, Happy sticker and birthday stamp). First I water colored the white piece using Peekaboo Peach and Flirty Flamingo. Then I used one of the stamps from Gorgeous Grunge in those same colors and randomly stamped it on the front. I also added a candle from the Build a Birthday set which was stamped in Pool Party. I think this is a fun summer color combo.

The last card has more water coloring on it. I used the beautiful flower from Birthday Blooms. I love coloring in this flower. I used the aqua painter and Sweet Sugarplum and Emerald Envy ink to color it in. Aren't these new colors so pretty?!? The background was also water colored with Mint Macaroon ink. Then I added some splotches from Gorgeous Grunge in the mint ink. I finished it off with a couple of pearls and sequins from the February Paper Pumpkin kit. Sequins are so great for adding that last little something to a card!

Then we had to make 2 3-D items.

First, I used the Mini Treat Bag thinlits to make a little gift card holder. When you pull out the white card you can attach a gift card to the back using a glue dot or you can just add it inside the bag. Who wouldn't love to receive a gift card like this?? What do you think about the bow and curled DSP? I saw this fun idea on Stampin' Up!'s instagram page the other day and thought it was such a cute idea. I used more of the Pop of Pink Specialty DSP to make this curled "ribbon".

My second 3-D item using the Baker's Box thinlit with Sweet Sugarplum cardstock. The dotted image is from the Timeless Textures set. I brought out my trusty owl punch to make the cute owl for the box. I envision making little goodies bags for my kids parties using this thinlit. The girls will get the owls and the boys will get a super cute fox (an adorable fox is making an appearance in the new catalog tomorrow!!!).

And last but not least, is my scrapbook page. Of course I had to scrapbook pictures of my kids! :) Again, I used the Pop of Pink DSP for the background. I ran 2 of the butterfly framelits through the big shot to make a stencil (the smallest butterfly is the punch). I used these stencils and texture paste to add a little extra texture :) to the page. I added a bit of Flirty Flamingo ink to the paste to give it the light pink/peach color. After adding the pictures and the little banners, I added the word "Joy" from the Wonderful Wreath framelits. Then finished it off with more sequins and enamel dots.

Phew, that was a long but fun post!!! I hope you guys enjoyed all of these projects. Fingers crossed I get picked for the November event. Even if I don't, I had a blast making these projects.

Thanks for stopping by!