Thank You Card

As promised, here's another new GCD Studios card for you. I made the whole card, but once it was done I realized I forgot to add a sentiment. Eek! So, I took some old rub-ons and turned the patterned paper into sentiment/patterned paper. I think it turned out pretty cute. I love a bright & happy card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supply List:

Weekend Fun - Country Charm

Sweet Floral - Country Charm

Candy Dot Crystals

Gathered Grosgrain Ribbon - Blush

Scalloped Border Punch

Miss You

 Well, it's time for me to say, "goodbye" to my year with GCD Studios. I had a hard time coming up with a final project, so I've actually made more than one! We'll start with this little ditty...

I had so much fun working with this bright & cheery paper. Stay tuned tomorrow for another card...

Supply List:

Sweet Floral - Country Charm

Weekend Fun - Country Charm

Strawberry Jam - Country Charm

Chevron Twill - Ballerina

Dear LIzzy Thickers

LBP - Lemonade Cardstock

Oh Happy Day

Check out this new collection coming this year...

You can see more over HERE.

I never got to post a project that I did for GCD Studios a month or two ago. It turns out we got the holidays off from designing, so I figured I'd share them with you instead of letting them go to waste.

Here's the inspiration I started with...

It's not my typical bright and cheery scheme, but it just added to my crafty challenge.

Here's what I came up with...

After I laid out all of my patterned papers, I ended up picking a sentiment sticker that I never would have chosen based on the inspiration photo. I think it just works though. It also turns the totally winter card into a love card. No bows, no pink, no glitter... I think I may have just made a man-card for the hubs. How about that! :-)

Supply List:

LBP - Lemonade Cardstock

Lovely Garden Patterned Paper

Mod Brown Patterned Paper

Vintage Audrey Patterned Paper

Vintage Buttons

Embossed Stickers

Upper Crest Border Punch

My Story

Ah..... what another beautiful color inspiration photo to work with this month. I know I went through a time when pink was not my favorite color, but I just can't help it any more. Pink is just a happy color. All the lovely things in the world come in shades of pink after all... bubblegum, cupcakes, cotton candy, flowers, hearts... Hey, even the only medicine that ever tasted good came in pink!

I'm not sure that I can remember the last time I put black on something I wanted to be pretty, but I think it works in this case. A dash of Caribbean blue thrown in there makes it all the more sweet and refreshing. Besides, it's another color of my favorite food: cotton candy. Heehee!

Since it's back to school time, I started to make a cover for my notebook, but during my supply scavenge, I came across a journal that I decided to make a cover for instead. Here's how it turned out...

I had so many shades of pink that didn't really match each other that I decided to just include them all. I think it ended up looking "matchy" in the end after all.

I wonder what I should write in my journal...

Perhaps I'll start writing letters to my little Ethan. I think it would be nice to have letters from my mother and grandmother written when I was a child. Maybe I'll have family members write him letters and put them in here too. What a great keepsake for when he's older!

Do you keep a journal? How often do you write in it?

Do you have any keepsakes that you've put together or started for your children?

Supply List:

The Sweetest Thing - Material Girls collection by Heather Tozzi

Girly Girl - Material Girls collection by Heather Tozzi

Petit Blossoms - Homespun Chic by Melody Ross

Fauna Stripe, Pink - Animal Crackers Girl Collection by Rob and Bob

Baker's Twine

Glitter Words – My Story - Soul Food Collection by Melody Ross

Chipboard Word Stickers - Soul Food Collection by Melody Ross



Back 2 School

Although my little Ethan is only a year old, I felt like he had his first day of school this week when he moved from the infant's room at day care into the toddler room. They have cubbies, nap time, snacks, water play, lunch time, and even recess. I'm headed back to school on Monday myself. I finally finished my degree last month. I feel like I'm on a roll, so I'm going to keep on truckin' through the next one. I've been super obsessed with school supplies, so I just had to make a back to school card. I've never made one before, because it really didn't seem like a card-occasion to me. Now that I'm going back to school as an adult I really feel like a card is in order though! I'm so very excited, but terrified too.

Do you have anyone going back to school or any back to school stories?

I'd love to read them! :-)

Celebrate Card

This picture & the happy color palate that goes along with it just sang to me. It really makes me even consider changing my craft room colors to this scheme. I just feel good looking at it.

The card I made following the photo inspiration was super fun to put together. I used tons of scraps too. It'd be something that would be so easy to replicate for any scheme or scrap clean up of your stash. All the patterned paper pieces are 1" strips just pieced together like a quilt. I even used four different stitch designs from my machine on this one. Each time I went down a row to sew I clicked the button over to the next design. I love using new stitches. I bought the machine with all the fancy designs like I'm sure many of you have too, but I'm too often using the zigzag and straight stitch over and over.  This was much more fun.

I'd love to see what cards you make using up your scraps. Do share a link in the comment section so we can all see what you've created.

Supplies:

Born to Shop

Hugs & Kisses

Fauna Stripe, Aqua

Lovely Green

Petunia Card Stock

Brads

Happy 4th of July

Don't you just love the 4th of July? Picnics, sparklers, watermelon, patriotic bunting & flags. I love it all. If you think your town really knows how to rock out a patriotic holiday, you should try living near a military post! My husband & I have collectively served more than a couple decades & feel that we're perhaps just a tiny bit of a couple of experts in the celebratory matter. My husband is the master chef grill-man extraordinaire while I am the planning decorating shin-dig startin' guru. Pass me the microphone, & I'll get it kickin' in no time! This year will be a bit quieter since my sweet hubs is deployed, but I just had to do a little decorating anyway. I was inspired by wood shavings for this project. Yes, those left over things from when you sharpen your pencil. Anyway, my pencil didn't make big enough shavings, and since my sweet carpenter hubs wasn't here to help me out, I decided to create my own. Let's get started...

Step 1: Pick out your patterned papers.

Step 2: Wrap ribbon around a foam wreath so that your pins will have something to anchor to & to create color blocking guidelines.

Mine looked like this when I was done:

Step 3: Punch out circles, scalloped circles, or even both from your patterned papers. Cut them in half, & roll them into "shavings".

I folded the tips of mine flat to give me a place to put the pins.

Step 4: Start sticking them to your wreath.

Keep going...

It took a while, but I ended up with this:

It looked a little plain, so I went on to

Step 5: Apply white paint or ink to some Chip Art stars, punch holes in them, & adhere them to your wreath.

Finally, here's what I ended up with:

Patterned Papers I used:

Spring Sky - Spring in Bloom Collection by Donna Salazar

Take Flight - Spring in Bloom Collection by Donna Salazar

Bandana - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi

Happy Camper - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi

Picnic Table - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi

S'mores - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi

Little Leopard, Aqua - Animal Crackers Boy Collection by Rob and Bob

Mr. & Mrs. - Sweet Surrender Collection by Tina Higgins

RSVP - Sweet Surrender Collection by Tina Higgins

Together Forever - Sweet Surrender Collection by Tina Higgins

Scandinavian Holiday Stripe - Scandia Jul Collection by Rob and Bob