SASCRAP37 Sketch Pine Grove Park

I will be designing the Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge for the next 3 months over on Stampin' Addicts and this is the first one! Go check it out here.

This is my completed page. As you can see, I used my page from the recent Summer Mini Blog Hop and finally am posting the finished page. I wanted to use some different photos, but this was what I had handy. There are just a few more I wanted to include, so I guess this means I need to make a companion page!

 Here is a close up of the strip of photos on the bottom.

 And of the journaling. It was a really windy day outside when I was taking pictures of the page, so please excuse the slightly blurry quality. 
And for my club ladies, this is the page we were going to make for April Club :)

• Stamps: Recess
• Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Marine Mist, Certainly Celery, Peach Parfait, Naturals White
• Ink: Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie
• Other: Large Star punch, Brights Buttons, Certainly Celery Striped ribbon, Peach Parfait Poly Stitched ribbon, Marina Mist 1/8" taffeta ribbon, Sticky Strip, Metallic eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Signo white gel pen
  

A Box of Flowers For Mother's Day

I have been saving this project for a special occasion, and I think that Mother's Day qualifies! I was totally inspired to create this project after seeing a box of purple flowers as part of a table centerpiece. LOVED it and had just gotten the Fun Flowers die :)

I used the Fancy Favor box die cut out in Naturals White and stamped Crumb Cake with the Woodgrain BG stamp. I also sponged all of the edges with Crumb Cake. Then I took a piece of the plasticy foam stuff that came in the packaging for one of the SU scrapbooks I bought and trimmed it down to fit in the bottom of the box. This way I had something to poke the bamboo skewers the flowers were mounted on into and they would stay in place. Think floral foam :)

The flowers themselves are lots of layers of Fun Flowers diecuts in Rich Razzleberry sponged with Rich Razzleberry and curled with a Bone Folder, then adhered to each other with Stampin' Dimensionals. Rhinestones add an awesome touch to the centers, but I think buttons and rhinestones and Antique Brads would all look amazing too! I poked a hole in the base of each assembled flower carefully with a paper piercer, then stuck a Sticky Strip covered bamboo skewer flat end first into the hole. Some of the skewers were placed straight in, some at an angle to create the bouquet.

See the angled ones? The leaves were diecut also with the Leaves #2 die out of Old Olive and curled. Then I adhered them to the inside of the box with Sticky Strip.

I thinks this whole project took me about 90 minutes to complete, from inspiration, planning, hunting for stuff, assembling, to completion. I love it when things turn out as envisioned :) I hope I inspire you to give this a try!

Happy Mother's Day everybody!!

Peachy Mom's Day

More Mom's Day stuff! I am not sure if I like this one yet, but someone did because I don't have ANY Mother's Day cards left to send to my moms. They all got sold at work :)

I love how this butterfly stamp looks as a background and the style goes so well with the crochet trim. I also used my square punches for their intended purpose for once, lol! 

• Stamps: Strength & Hope, Messages for Mom
• Paper: Peach Parfait, Soft Suede, Naturals White
• Ink: Peach Parfait, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
• Other: 1¼" Square punch, 1-3/8" Square punch, Scallop Trim border punch, Scallop border punch, Signo white gel pen, Stampin Dimensionals, Victoria crochet trim, Rhinestone and Pearl Basic Jewels

 I combined the butterfly and the word block along the bottom. I really like the words used in this word block. I know they were chosen to represent cancer survivors, but they really work for moms too. And the sentiments alone in the Messages for Mom make this set a winner! Each line is an individual stamp so you can combine them anyway you want.

As part of our Making a Difference program, Stampin' Up! is proud to partner with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in the Strength & Hope Campaign.

Throughout the 2011 Summer Mini Catalog sales period, Stampin' Up! will donate $2* from the sale of each Strength & Hope set and Strength & Hope digital kit to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). BCRF is dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding clinical and translational research worldwide. For more information about BCRF, visit www.bcrfcure.org. 

Don't miss your opportunity to get a great stamp set and make a difference! You can order any and all of these supplies anytime through my demonstrator website.

Paisley Mother's Day

Another Mother's Day card as promised. This is a dressed up version of the card we made for March Club. Now I am wishing I had bought more of this fabulous paper before the sneak peek special ended....

I added some crochet trim, another layer of cardstock, and the dragonfly brads (which I have had in my stash for YEARS). I brought this one to work yesterday and got several requests for it :)

• Stamps: Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Paisley Prints DSP
• Ink: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
• Other: Dotted Ribbon punch, Designer Label punch, Modern Label punch, Word Window punch, Victoria crochet trim, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin Dimensionals, Signo white gel pen

 So what do you think? Should I have stayed up from 12:45am to 3:00am to make more of these? ;)

Bold Blossoms Mother's Day

Time to get things in high gear for Mother's Day! It's this weekend if you had forgotten :) I will be mailing out my cards Friday morning so they will arrive on Saturday. There will be a different Mother's Day card posted each day for the next three days, so be sure to come back for more.

 This card came together rather quickly. I decided I better make a pile of cards to take to work as I am sure I will get asked for some cards this week, lol! Lots of spring attitude in this card. Don't you love how fresh these colors feel together?!

• Stamps: Bold Blossoms, Message For Mom
• Paper: Blushing Bride, Naturals Ivory, Rose Red, Perfect Plum
• Ink: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red, Perfect Plum, Soft Suede
• Other: Big Shot with Beautiful Wings embosslit, Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding ribbon, Signo white gel pen, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

 I even added some rhinestones to the inside. I love the stitched look to these stems, very homey looking.

I hope this inspires you to get your Mother's Day stamps out and get stampin!

Spring Jar

This is a little peek at one of the stamp sets that will be coming out on May 1st called On the Grow. I love the simple country feel of this image. I have made many a bouquet with a quart jar as a vase. There is such a simple charm to this that it is impossible not to love it!

The striped paper is from the hostess pack in Pear Pizzazz and I used Rich Razzleberry as an accent color. It really makes me wish for weather that is warm enough to go plant my flower beds and containers. This year I plan on putting in some raised beds for vegetables so that they will actually produce something! My vegetable gardens in this pure sugar sand have not had enough nutrients or water to mature... I miss those fat juicy tomatoes and crisp, cool cucumbers from the garden. Oh, and sweet corn and squash, sweet peas, green peppers, onions, beans, and carrots, rhutabegas.... OK can you tell I grew up with a HUGE garden ;) Alrighty then, back to the card, lol!

Inside I used a scrap of the DSP and stamped the floral image in Crumb Cake. Pretty simple, but there are a few layers.

• Stamps: On the Grow
• Paper: Naturals Ivory, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Rich Razzleberry, Pear Pizzazz DSP
• Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Rich Razzleberry, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso
• Other: Scallop Oval punch, Large Oval punch, Modern Label punch, Word Window punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Pearls Basic Jewels,  Blender Pen

 And you may have noticed this is a slightly different shape...well I pulled the cardstock from my scrap file and the cardbase is 4¼"x5" oops!! It's still cute though, don't you think?

And be sure to tune in next weekend for the next FABULOUS StampinAddicts Blog Hop featuring the new Summer Mini!

Natural Suede

Again, I have been missing from my blog for far too long. With spring finally starting here, there are just so many things to do that keep me away from my stamping. I know, I know. How can I let something like sunshine and fresh air get in the way of my beloved stampin fun... Let's just say winters are VERY long here :)

Nature Walk is one of those sets that has a classic appeal to it and I am so glad I got it right away. I have used it quite a bit and will continue to use it after it retires the end of this month. Yes, this little lovely will only be available until April 30th.  It works really well for men and women! I used the Designer Label punch for the tabs under the main image by changing the length of each piece.

Here is the inside of the card. Lots of room to write whatever you want. I really think that little bee is adorable!

• Stamps: Nature Walk, Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Paper: Soft Suede, Naturals Ivory, Crumb Cake
• Ink: Soft Suede
• Other: Designer Label punch, Signo white gel pen, Big Shot with Sweet Buttons embosslit, Stampin' Dimensionals

I took some scraps of the paper I had stamped the collage of images on and made some buttons with the Sweet Buttons embosslit to add to the tabs. And isn't awesome how the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes fits so perfectly on the last tab!!

So, if you don't have this set yet, go straight to my demo website and order it!! ;)