Here's a card made with project leftovers from two different scrapbook pages and stamps and stuff in the top of my bins.
Hope you are having a great day! Stay cool.
Ingredients: DSP: Pear Pizzazz from Stampin' Up!; Fancy Pants Daily Grind; October Afternoon (yellow); orange from Echo Park
Button: Papertrey Ink Stamps: Perspectives Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday Cardstock: Naturals White from SU!
Do you have a leaf punch? I bet you do. It may be way back in your punch drawer or basket. Mine are at least 10 years old and have been used and used!
This week, I'm using my leaf punch and some scrap designer paper to create a holiday card. I've also used a wood grain stamp or you could use wood grain designer paper.
Ingredients: Stamps: Woodgrain by Hero Arts; Four the Holidays by Stampin' Up! Cardstock: Crumb Cake Ink: Close to Cocoa; Vintage photo by Ranger Brad: Antique Brads by Stampin' Up!
Lenny loves rhubarb pie. With multiple recipes in Martha Stewart's Pies and Tarts cookbook I got for my birthday, I've been doing a little baking. His birthday "pie" was rhubarb and raspberry. He's been experimenting with tame raspberries and blackberries to see what varieties he likes. I just had to take a photo of the mixture before baking because I loved the red, green and almost black colors mixed together. I used that photo as the basis for the layout color scheme. What a treat to use all those October Afternoon papers I love so much! Do you have papers you love but have trouble fitting them into your layouts? That is me with October Afternoon.
The layout is from Shimelle's sketch of the week over at her blog:
Shimelle also has a new class called "Explore" that I'm seriously thinking of taking. The timing is good and I think I need a kick start in my own life right now - need to look at things from a different perspective. Sounds like the class may offer that opportunity. I'm always better when I have a project to be accountable.
On Tuesday, I'll have another Holiday Card project. Happy days!
Ingredients for the layout, not the pie :-) DSP: October Afternoon 6x6 paper pads for Fly a Kite,Farm Fresh, and Thrift Shop, Fly a Kite Ice Cream My Mind's Eye So Sophie red petite floral paper Chipboard: Basic Grey undressed for "pie" and American Crafts Nutmeg for "day" Ribbon and slide: Stampin' Up!
Over the 4th, I continued my seemingly endless painting project by painting my husband's workshop door red. He is doing all the mulching and weeding this year so a little painting is the easy job. The color is called "sealed with a kiss" from Sherwin Williams and it is actually a bit darker in person. That was his one request - he wanted a red door. I don't know why, but he loves it.
See the little window off to the side. It is the building's only window and I've wanted for years to add shutters and a window box. Now wouldn't black shutters and a red window box look great? My hubby won't hear of it, even when my Mother tried to persuade him and he usually sides with her. "It's not a dollhouse!" Oh well, the red door does look spiffy.
As I'm starting Christmas cards early this year, I want to use up some of the things I had leftover from 2010. Though I fell in love with these items in last year's SU! mini catalog, this Cute Christmas stamp set and the coordinating paper is, well, a little too cute for me. I used it for some of my cards last year but it doesn't really work for the cards I make for my Mother and my aunt. It still makes attractive cards that I know will be perfect for others. So these are headed for the Operation Write Home box. I love the colors in this collection - Baja, Blushing Bride, and Real Red. I've added some Ocean Tides from Papertrey Ink.
One of the challenges I had with this set was only one greeting and it says "Have a Cute Christmas." So for this card I used a tag stamp and tucked it behind the colored image.
The layout is for this week's Splitcoaststampers card sketch challenge.
I'm nearly out of Martha Stewart red and white baker's twine - Yikes! I need to see if it is still available. It is the best size I've found.
It was such a generous offer. Our California friends loaned us a car for our drive north so we didn't need to rent one. And not just any car! A convertible sports car! My husband loves small convertibles. He has owned a few before we got together. That was - hum - many years and many pounds ago. So we wondered - we, being everyone but him - how he would manage with such a small car. He had no doubts and easily folded himself into the tiny car. I used to drive a sports car and I have to admit my joints are a bit creakier getting in and out now. It was a fun vacation option!
For the pages, I did Nichol Majourik's challenge this month in her Scrapbook Stamping class. We are to stamp our own designer paper. I used Circles and Dots from Inkadinkado and colors that matched my photos. No hunting through my stash for just the right paper.
Since all my white stamping cardstock is 8 1/2 x 11 and I really needed to fill a 12" page, I cut the paper into three 3 1/2 x 8 1/2" strips and then cut one strip again to fill the page. The "seams" became pockets for some extra photos. Lots of machine stitching tied all this together - literally.
Other project notes:
The embellishments were cut with the Cricut and the Accent Essentials cartridge. Some SU! brads I picked up on clearance filled in these 'wheel' looking embellishments.
To finish the edge of the curved cardstock, I brushed on white acrylic paint.
The letters are another dollar store find from Making Memories.
Ingredients: Not mentioned above are designer papers from My Mind's Eye Little Robots collection and October Afternoon Cherry Hill. Baker's Twine from Papertrey Ink
Hope you had a great holiday (for those in the US and Canada) weekend! I spent the 4th alternating between leisurely working on a two page layout and reading a thriller my husband selected at the library. I started reading before he had finished so for a couple of days it was "have you seen the book?" around here. Ha!
Also, I decided to replace TIPsy Tuesday for this month with another series - holiday cards! For me, holidays mean Christmas. I may make a couple of Valentine's or Easter cards but I make a ton of Christmas cards. I'd make even more if I got an earlier start. I never seem to meet the Operation Write Home deadline as I'm still getting my act together in the early fall. So this year, I thought I'd get an early start and share a few of my ideas with you.
For this first week, I've taken an inventory of what I had left from last year. Poke around your papercrafting storage and see what designer papers you have left and what stamps are geared toward the Christmas season. (For purposes of this series, I'll use the word Christmas but the cards could usually be used for any winter religious holiday or secular observance of Christmas. I don't want to use Holiday and get it confused with Halloween or Thanksgiving.)
I found some paper I won as blog candy too late to use for last year's cards. I also had an unmounted stamp set I had picked from Stampin Up! for Sale-a-bration that was themed around the winter holidays. There are many other things I've used parts and pieces of and we will get to those later on. Also in this series, I want to do some cards using non-Christmas papers and stamps.
So let's get started. For this card, you need a wintery paper preferably with snowflakes and snowflake stamps. Coordinate some ribbon and cardstock and you are set.
Today is a sunny Sunday and it promises to be just as hot as Easter Sunday was when we visited the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. I'm glad it is sunny today as I've just added the second coat of red paint to the door to my husband's workshop. Red was his choice (he wanted it very bright but I got him toned down just a little). It seems like an appropriate 4th of July project.
Continuing with Shimelle's class for Two Peas using 4x6 photos, this month we are up to 6 photos which was a bit of a challenge for me. The photos needed to be all portrait and I have discovered I don't take as many of those. I hadn't printed the photos from one of our garden visits earlier in the year so I cropped a couple of them in portrait orientation and sent them off to Walmart for printing.
I have this thing about appropriate embellishments. I seldom use flowers or butterflies or whatever unless it relates. It is one of many hang ups I wish I didn't have, but there you go. Finally, butterflies fit in for me as I took several shots that day of this one tree that the butterflies loved. It was my favorite tree, too.
The layout was very simple to put together. I used a bunch of Pear Pizzazz papers from a 6x6 Stampin' Up! paper pad. The butterflies were cut on the Cricut and embellished with rhinestones. Loved Shimelle's idea of gluing baker's twine in flourshes around the page. I also did my journaling in strips as she did on one of her layouts figuring the little tidbits would be enough to jog my memory of the day. You can see her layout and class on her blog or at Two Peas - 4x6 Photo Love June
Next month will need 7 photos and so on through the year!
Please join me this Tuesday for a special July series on holiday cards. More details later on...
Hope you are having a great and safe holiday weekend. Thanks for visiting.
Ingredients: Stamps: Stitches by Hot off the Press Ink: Tattered Rose and Tea Dye by Ranger DSP: Garden Gala and Pear Pizzazz by SU!; a little rosy colored paper from Crate Paper Rhinestones by Kaiser Baker's Twine by Martha Stewart Fabric brad from Basic Grey
