Scrapbook and Cards Today Blog Post and Giveaway!

Happy Monday!! I was a guest blogger for the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog over the weekend. I was super excited to create a project for them.

Be sure to head over to their blog for a chance to win the Project Life Hello Lovely Card Kit and Accessory Pack. You have until the end of the month to leave a comment on the post on their blog and win this great prize!

Hello friends! I’m Jennifer, a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and 2017 Artisan Design team member from New Jersey. I am excited to share some fun projects with you this month.

I had some cute pictures of my kids that I wanted to frame. So instead of simply putting them in a frame, I wanted to jazz them up a little bit. I knew that Project Life would be perfect for this! The kit that I used was the Hello Lovely Project Life Card Collection and the Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack. The colors in this kit are fabulous!

Both of these scrapbook pages are 8 x 10 so they will fit nicely in a frame. I am not much of a scrapbooker but I like to make single pages that I can frame (my house is full of gallery walls)! The Project Life kits make this so easy since everything coordinates and the embellishments give it that extra touch.

For this page of my daughter, I used several of the cards from the Hello Lovely Project Life Card Collection. I layered them on top of Peekaboo Peach cardstock. If you notice on the top and bottom corner, I also used one of the sayings from the All Things Thanks stamp set. It’s great to be able to combine stamping with scrapbooking. A fun little touch was using one of the acetate specialty cards as an overlay for the picture. You can see below where I lifted it up.

Then the finishing touches were some sequins and other embellishments from the Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack. I also added a pretty bow using Whisper White Thick Baker’s Twine.

For my son’s page, I again used several of the cards. This time I took two of the black and white crosses cards and two of the stripe cards to cover more of the Pool Party cardstock. By gluing them next to each other they each look like one big card. I added some stamping on this page as well with the All Things Thanks stamp set. The finishing touches were more embellishments from the Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack.

Since I was really enjoying this kit, I wanted to make cards as well since card making is what I do most. This kit is great for cards because you just need a few extra items to make some beautiful cards.

For all of the cards I used the All Things Thanks stamp set and the stamps included in the Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack. All the cards used Pool Party cardstock as the base.

For this card, I used the super pretty floral card in the background and layered another smaller card on top. The middle layer is actually the part that I cut off from the black floral card. Since the Project Life cards are 4 x 6, they are a little too long for my cards. So I reused that extra ¾ of an inch piece in the center of the card. Can’t let anything go to waste!! I stamped the sentiment on Peekaboo Peach cardstock that was die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. I added more embellishments and a bow with Basic Black Solid Baker’s Twine.

This card uses many of the same techniques that I used on the first card. Since there are so many fun patterned cards to choose from, each card looks different but uses many of the same techniques to put it together. This makes card making super simple!!

For the final card, I again used several of the cards from the kit. The So Sweet card is found in the Accessory Pack. How cute it that! The “hello” stamp is found in the accessory pack. Since the full stamp says “Hello Lovely” and I only wanted to use hello, I used my Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker to only color “hello” to stamp, so I colored just the word with marker. I did this same technique with “you’re”. This word comes from the All Things Thanks stamp set. I finished it off with some sequins and a pretty bow.

I hope you enjoyed all of the fun projects you can make with a Project Life kit." ~ Jennifer

Thank you Jennifer for joining us and for sharing how you used the Project Life Hello Lovely kit to create all these sweet projects! We love them all! Here's another look at the Project Life kits Jennifer used...

We're thrilled that our friends at Stampin' Up! have offered to give away the Hello Lovely Project Life card kit and the accessory kit Jennifer used to one lucky reader! For an opportunity to win, be sure to leave a comment below by April 30th! Good luck!

Dragonfly Dreams Display samples- 8 & 9

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is having a lovely Tuesday. Mine is an extra coffee kind of day, haha! My 2 year old woke up twice last night and was having problems falling back asleep last night so I ended up sleeping in her bed, which was not the most comfortable sleep! Hopefully she will sleep better tonight. I am not in the mood to be dealing with newborn like wake ups again. So speaking of my 2 year old, today’s post shows the scrapbook pages that I did with her and my son. This picture of her makes her look so sweet and innocent but she’s a little spitfire as well. :) She is sweet but she sure is right in the middle of that fun stage called terrible twos!

I don’t do scrapbook pages too much but I really loved how this one came out. One of my favorite things in the ombre “Hello” at the top of the page. I glued 3 colors of cardstock to white cardstock and then ran the Hello you thinlit die through the big shot. I think this is a fun look for any of the word thinlits we have. I also used the Rich Razzleberry and Bermuda Bay ombre pads to stamp out “pretty girl”. I took the letters from the Labeler Alphabet stamp and stamped each letter in the separate colors of the ink pad, starting with the lightest color first. This is cool right? Then I added some banners from different dsp, cardstock and the foil acetate paper. After that I felt like the page still needed something so I die cut the small dragonflies in Tip Top Taupe to give the page a little something but not stand out too much. And once again, more enamel shapes. I told you I went crazy with them.


My second page is with my son. A fun detail on the Night of Navy cardstock is the embossed stripes. I used the Simply Scored board to make the stripes. I put the navy paper on an angle and scored every few lines. In between those scored lines I glued the Emerald Envy taffeta ribbon. All of that was added on top of the foil acetate (the gold side again!) which I stapled. I added a couple of bees for some color and to find a way to use this set for something more man-ish. And then you guessed it, more enamel shapes!! Love these things!

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects. I hope that maybe it will motivate you to try some scrapbooking. I’m hoping that I’ll try to do some more in the future.

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!

MDS Page

Happy Friday! I am so glad that the week is over. For some reason it felt like a long week and I just wasn't in the mood to be at work. But that's nothing new, I don't really ever feel like being at work, lol! I am looking forward to relaxing and not doing too much of anything this weekend. On to today's project. For this challenge, we were to make a vintage/steampunk scrapbook page based on this sketch. Now I've never done anything "steampunk" before. I actually never even heard of that word. So this was a bit of a challenge for me. I think this ended up more on the vintage side than steampunk but I think it came out ok. I decided to use My Digital Studio for this because I was able to use all of the elements that I wanted to. It was quicker than ordering some new stamps and papers. Plus I waited until the last minute to do this project since I had no idea where I was going with it, lol! I decided to scrapbook 2 pictures from our Costa Rica trip. We have a TON of pictures from that trip but I picked the 2 that I think captured the main point of the trip...us and the volcano. :) I may try to continue adding more pages and maybe actually get a whole book of our trip. Supplies are listed below. I will try to pop back in over the weekend with my other 2 projects. Have a great holiday weekend!

Stamps: World Tour, Extreme Elements, Letter It
Inks: Early Espresso
Paper: Botanical Gazette
Accessories: Modern label punch, Lots of Tags shape 1, stitching