I can't believe it's Christmas time. This year has flown incredibly too fast. Needless to say, this is all I've gotten done for x-mas cards. That's right, four cards...
I used Stampin' Up Polar Bears and Holiday Hedgehogs.
All four are box cards and use the new A*Muse shiny paper and Martha Stewart snowflake glitter... love it! Happy Holidays!!!
Happy Turkey to everyone! Here are some fun Thanksgiving cards I put together this week, I did three different designs and just created multiples of each.
Here's another picture from a different angle:
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Below is a 'Passport to Alaska' that I created for a trip we took this fall. We traveled for about 2 weeks from the top of Alaska down to Vancouver and then home. It was an amazing trip, a long trip, but a ton of fun.
Much to my surprise, this was a relatively quick project. I bought all of the supplies at PaperTales (of course) on a Saturday, late afternoon, and had the book done before dinner on Sunday. The cover is from 7-gypsies and was altered with all kinds of rub-ons, stamps and adhesive letters, I also distressed the cover to give it a little more of a vintage feel. (I'm always amazed at what I can do with a nail file.)
Now, for a picture of what it really looked like when we were traveling...
As you can see, I added elastic to the back cover via some large eyelets so that you could close the book without losing your goods!! The next few pages are some of the inside sheets I created. All of the paper is October Afternoon, Road Map collection. I absolutely love the entire collection and you will notice some of the Road Map rub-ons and other accents as well.
The pages below are pretty self-explanatory, I added lots of pockets and enclosures so that I could keep all the hotel, car, train, plain and boat info separate.
So while most of the pictures I've posted have been with empty pockets so you can see the actual book, I wanted to show you at least one page of what it really looked like.
And so you have it, my Passport to Alaska. The beauty of the project is that after the trip was done and the "passport" had officially done its duty, I turned it into the trip scrapbook. By adding some of the pictures, receipts, and journaling our memories, it was the quickest vacation/scrapbook turnaround I've ever had. (this coming from the girl who still hasn't finished her honeymoon scrapbook...)
Happy travels!!!
I know it's a few days early, but I'm just preparing you all... Here is a scary card that I made last weekend. The large spider cupcake is from a stamp of 3 halloween cupcakes that I actually found in Alaska of all places. I just cropped the spidey-cake out. The spider paper is from a year or so ago and I found it in my holiday 'treasure' pile (lol)... but they worked together very well.
Long live my friend the Scor-Pal and I also got to use some vintage buttons that I've been playing with for quite some time now. The black and white twine is fastened to the vintage button on the right and when you close the card, you just wrap the twine around vintage button left.
Happy Halloween!!!
I am happy to say that this is second to the last of the birthday cards for this year - I can't believe it but that means Christmas is just around the corner. (yikes!) Anyway, this card was simple and fun to do. This time of year I'm buried in black, orange and purple, so it was a nice change of pace to switch gears.
Nothing crazy or tricky here, just a lot of color and glossy accents to bring my scuba monkey to life. The sentiment inside says:
s.c.u.b.a.
super creative unexpected Birthday acknowledgement
And both the scuba monkey and saying are by Stampendous! Super cute and super fun!!!
So I know I've already said this, and you'll probably here it another ten times but I LOVE fall... I love Halloween, pumpkins, cool weather, etc. So I was super excited to see Paper Garden Projects' World Card Making Day Challenge where all you have to do is make a card inspired by fall. I think it's safe to say that my card is self explanatory with the pumpkins front and center in this Lockhart Stamp. I really like to use Lockhart Stamps because I love to color and they are great stamps to color in.
Happy WCMD and thanks to PGP for a awesome challenge!!!
As a side note, please take me back to Kindergarten where coloring is an acceptable day-long activity!
Well, where do all of the candy wrappers go when we're done with them anyway? Sketchy Thursdays is hosting a Second Chance Challenge with one winner receiving an awesome kit from Scrapbook Kit Club.
The challenge was to use their sketch and combine it with Halloween Candy. Soooo easy, so fun!!! While this sketch is intended for scrapbookers, I turned it into a Halloween card to aid in the celebration of World Card Making Day which was Saturday.
I cut mini tombstones from card stock and wrapped it in candy wrappers (thanks in part to my husband and a batch of Peanut Butter Kiss cookies). There was lots of paper cutting to make the sky, hills and stickles moon in addition to the Martha Stewart fence and graveyard punch. The Hershey Kiss papers were decorated with some bling after the 'got candy' sentiment to complete the card.
(The green background was photoshopped in by me, the actual card ends with the white/black polka-dot paper.)
Happy Haunting!!!
I just can't believe it's August already... We've had a very hot/humid summer this year and while I'm totally okay with moving on from that, I'm just amazed at how quickly the year has been going.
I always start out with the best of intentions but for some reason, 9 times out of 10 I'm behind the eight ball. Especially during July, it's 'family' birthday month for me. So here is the card that I'm sending off to my dad this year. His birthday was actually back on the 4th... Have no fear, however, the gift actually arrived early so at least I was partially on time...
