Thinking of You card

I found a little time in my craft room to scraplift this delightful card I found on the I Create blog.  I loved the simple style and I could not believe how quickly this card came together.  I made the flower out of some leftover scraps from the mat stack Mango Frost by DCWV.  I ran it through my Big Kick using the Provo Craft Asterisks dies.  I finished it off with a sentiment from the All Occasions set by Inkadinkado.  Then it was just a little pen work, an Eye Candy gem and some little gems from Darice to finish it off.  Quick, easy and cute!

Freshly Made Sketches Inspired Birthday Card

Woohoo, other than laundry, I have a whole day to myself in my craft room. But wouldn't you know it, I really couldn't get inspired to make much. Perhaps I should have turned off the TV, but I'm still trying to get caught up on Amazing Race and read through the blogs I haven't been able to keep up with either. Then I saw Freshly Made Sketches' sketch #28 and started thinking. I have this stamp set from Lil Davis Designs made by Fiskars called Crillon Filigree that I thought would make a really nice background. So stamped my own design on the paper.

But I still needed something else. The sentiment didn't stand out enough against the patterned paper, so I added a little extra to make it pop and then was stumped about what to do on the pink. On Friday night, I had downloaded this cute magnolia for the Silhouette from the Silhouette Design Studio and cut it out. It was darn cute but near impossible to make at the size I needed for the card. However, when I dropped out the center and replaced it with this cute Eye Candy gem, it was perfect.

So hop on over to Freshly Made Sketches and come up with your own interpretation of this week's sketch.

Mojo Monday 224

Whoo hoo! Back to paper crafting! I loved the new Mojo Monday sketch 224. It was the perfect starting point to getting back into playing with paper. As usual, I pulled out scraps from my bin. This time I used left over paper from making my mother-in-law's Christmas gift. Here's the weird part: I have no idea what the stack is called. See I made an album for the hubby using DCWV's Scrapbook Kit in a Stack called Love and Marriage. It's one I had in the drawer in my craft room that I must have bought some time past for some reason (likely because I've never done our wedding album). But, I decided it would be perfect for the project. When I was done, I liked it so much that I decided to do one for my mother-in-law. But I couldn't find that same stack at Michaels. All I could find was a different 8 by 8 kit from DCWV, so I made her album from that. But I cannot find it at all anywhere to include the name of the stack. Even though I bought it much later, it must have been an older stack. How weird is that?

Anyhow, all the paper except for the card base and the white scalloped circle and white flowers are from that DCWV stack. The card base is from my stash of Nekoosa Linen Text by Mohawk that I bought at Paper Zone (I am soooooo sad that they are going out of business). The white is from my scrap bin so who knows where it's from. The pink flower that makes the base of the flower is a Prima Marketing flower out of my Bucket of Blooms (man that thing is never ending!). The white and red are cut from the Asterisks die from Cuttlebug. I love the little black gem from Eye Candy.

But the best part is the little "thank you" circle cut on the Cameo. It's from the Silhouette store and I just cut off the little tag to make it fit my design. Unfortunately I didn't have a scalloped circle on the Silhouette, so I had to get a little creative. I did have a flower design I had downloaded earlier that was close to what I wanted, but I needed a solid design. So I used the "offset" feature on the flower design and played with the amount of the offset until I was happy with the scallop. I just love the Cameo. I learn more each day.

So there's lots of time left, why now play along with Mojo Monday and get your mojo on.

New Layout - Our Happy Family in 2011

It's been so long since I made a 12 by 12 layout that I thought I had better give it a try before I get too rusty. The Sketch Inspiration sketch of the week was the perfect way to get back into the swing now that that the craziness of the holidays and such are over. I thought that starting by chronicling our family as it looked in 2011 was the perfect way to get started. Now purple and back wouldn't have been my first choice, but when I was looking for paper, I found this page in the Luxury Stack from DCWV and I just couldn't resist. The I decided I needed some flourishes so I looked through what was available on the Silhouette store and found two that I loved, along with this great "happy family" phrase. I wanted to add the year so I did a little welding (actually pretty easy to do on the software to turn the phrase into the one I wanted. Since the welding was so easy, I welded the flourishes onto some rectangles to frame my pictures. A few flowers, some Black Soot Distress ink, and a little Eye Candy bling and I was done.