Nico is Two Years Old!

Where does the time fly?  My best friend's little boy turned two not long ago and in honor of his birthday I made him a scrapabook page.  Well, I made his mother one.  He would probably just try to eat it.  Or vacuum it.  That's really what he's into right now.  

I did something a little different with this one - going with a simple block pattern.  But I wanted it to have tons and tons of texture so I decided to add buttons and a bunch of little glittery pieces that I received as a RAK.  Using my stuff, using my stuff . . . I used DCWV's newest birthday stack.  It's such a bright and fun paper. Turns out that the paper warped a little because I got it a bit too wet.  I might have been slightly heavy handed with the glossy accents I used to adhere the buttons and glittery gems.  Oh well, it still looks good and Brandy is happy to have something commemorating Nico's big day.

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You Are My (insert awesomeness here)

New Papertrey Ink crafty goodness!  I couldn't resist and it's all Kimberly's fault.  I have been very good at not shopping but a friend MADE me go look at the new releases and then I HAD to have this die, and well, the rest is history.  You know how it is.  Here are a few cards I made playing around with my new stuff.  I am especially thrilled to finally be able to use the corrugated paper that DCWV bestowed upon me when I was a member of their design team.  I adore the bright colors and this die cut through it oh so well.

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The Best Teacher Eveh!

My oldest is quite taken with the piano.  Anytime we go somewhere where there is a piano he likes to sit down and play a little something for everyone.  He even spent a bit of time at Brandy's house giving her son Luca a short lesson a few weeks ago.  My little professor is always so willing to help teach others. I based this page on a sketch by Sherry Stringfield over at Sketch Savvy.  Although it's been a while I have always love playing with sketches.  That was one of the best parts of my time with DCWV's Design Team - getting to see all the different interpretations of a single sketch for the monthly challenge.  I actually used one of my favorite DCWV stacks for this page - Dots, Stripes and Plaids.  This is one of those stacks I've purchased a few times.  The last time was last fall when Joann's had it on clearance.  I got it for five hole bucks - score!  

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Summer Vacation

Another summer archive scrapbook page coming out today.  I love these pictures.  When we're on the island on vacation we seem to be on our bikes all day.  And I love this particular street, where the trees appear to have grown across creating this beautiful canopy.  Breathtaking.  

The paper is from DCWV's new stack >>>>>>>>.  There are embellishments from Studio Calico and Amy Tan on the page and my newest love - sequins.  Uh oh, they might become ubiquitious . . .

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XoXo Happy Birthday Card

My sister texts me and says, "Do you have time to make a birthday card tonight?"  I say, "sure."  So she comes over and I immediately send her to my Pinterest card board so she can find something she likes.  Why Pinterest?  It's where I go when I have low mojo, I'm bored, or if my sister calls me two hours before she arrives demanding I ooze creativity. This is what we came up with, or rather, scraplifted from this lovely lady's blog.  As you can see it's pretty much a complete scraplift, but hey, that's what happens when I don't have time to think about a design ahead of time.  It's still cute anyway, I mean there was a reason I pinned it to my Pinterest board.

The paper is basic bazzill cardstock, and the background of the card is from DCWV's Art of Type.  What do those little words say?  Believe it or not it's the Declaration of Independence.  My sister and I have a bet as to whether her boyfriend will notice.  There is a little bit of Echo Park's Here and Now (those gorgeous yellow lips), a Papertrey Ink stamp, a Cuttlebug embossing folder and it's done.  Thank you Pinterest.  Thank you Silhouette!

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Flag Football

What is that you say?  I have a kid playing football?  Sort of.  It's Flag football, otherwise known as glorified tag, at least according to my husband.  My son has not been a sports participant for several years now and he's dipping his toes back in.  So far it seems the temperature seems to be okay . . .

  

The paper is from an older DCWV travel stack.  I liked the bold colors for a sports page.  I also used some of WRMK's new Chalkboard line paper.  The black can't be beat.  I of course used my Silhouette for all of the die cuts and the main title.  A few Studio Calico veneers and some Pebbles alphabet letters completed the layout.  My son actually loves looking at this one.  Who knew?

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Let's Have An Adventure

This summer my niece earned the opportunity of a lifetime, to live and work in New Zealand for eight weeks.  I can't tell you how excited I was for her to take this trip - or how badly I wanted to pack myself inside one of her suitcases.  As it turns out, she just celebrated her 21st birthday so our family gift to her was a brand new SLR camera for her to take on her trip.  And boy did that pay off.  She supplied us with a steady stream of some of the most gorgeous photos I think I have ever seen.  Which of course means that at least one or two of them was going to end up on a scrapbook page right?  This first page I created is very simple, very stripped down.  I didn't want to pull much, if any attention away from the gorgeous pictures.

I used DCWV's new Linen stack.  I was a fan of the old one and the new one is equally as beautiful.  There is also a touch of Maggie Holmes' (Crate Paper) Vellum stack on here as well, along with some vellum and basic bazzil cardstock.  A few embellishments from Studio Calico, pearls from my stash, a stamp from Waltzingmouse and this baby is done.  

The journaling is something my niece wrote.  I told her that this was going to be a gift to her parents and she wrote something really touching about her trip and all of the wonderful opportunities her parents have afforded her over her short lifetime.  She's growing up to be an exceptional young woman.  I still wish she would have packed me away in one of her suitcases . . .

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Happy Birthday Polaroid Card

I still love the Polaroid frame trend.  I hopped on this one a little late, but I'm still determined to ride it out for all it's worth.  I've been in a primarily scrapbooking mood lately but I did decide to make a quick card the other day.  I wanted it to be trendy but bright and then of course I had to add some layers.  The frame is one I downloaded from the Silhouette store.  Love the simplicity of it.  I decided to make it a birthday card by adding the text at the bottom and creating some negative space.

The tie-dye paper is from DCWV's new Tie Dye stack available at Michael's.  The rest is just plain cardstock from my stash, along with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and a little heart button.  My sister was over this evening and promptly confiscated this card, along with another one we made for a friend of hers.  So I'm back to being out of Birthday cards.  I guess I'm going to have to fix that real soon.

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Go See Do!

Go. See. Do! My son and I took a trip to Melbourne, FL earlier this year.  We've spent quite a bit of time there and one of our favorite places is the Melbourne Zoo.  Lurve that place.  We were only in town a short while, but managed to stop by anyway.  Unfortunately the giraffes weren't interested in coming out to play so we we had to amuse ourselves . . .

I wanted this page to look like a  cork board that you would throw some random pictures on.  The "GoSeeDo" is actually a free cut file from the ever so talented Davinie Fiero, who is now designing for American Crafts.  I've discovered quite a few "new to me" scrapbookers recently and she is definitely one that I have at the top of my list. 

I used cork sheet paper from Canvas Corp, some spellbinders dies, along with paper from DCWV and Amy Tangerine.  There are lots of brads, paper clips and do dads from Studio Calico, My Mind's Eye and who knows where else.  My son giggled when he saw this page.  I think it's pretty cute too.

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I Heart You

As many of you know, I am a big Silhouette fan.  And like many of you, I have collected more shapes than I will ever be able to cut out.  When I am a little low on inspiration I sometimes peruse my Silhouette shape library to see if there is something I might want to work with.  That's how these cards came to be.  I downloaded this shape eons ago and thought hey, I'll make some cards today.

As you can see there are two versions, slightly different. I often do this when I can't decide which paper to go with.  The more the merrier eh?   The paper is from The Paper Studio's Ooh La La collection, along with DCWV's awesome glitter paper.  I used a Technique Tuesday stamp and those brads are from My Mind's Eye.

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