Woodland Walk Scrapbooking

Here is a layout from my upline Liz's scrapbook class - fun with chipboard and the crop-o-dile! I am loving getting some of my really OLD photos finally blinged up in a scrapbook and out of the ole shoebox!

This designer series paper is so cute ... nice colours for a variety of seasons and occasions!

Technique Tuesday classes - Dryer Sheet

Only a crafty women can find a way to turn a dryer sheet into something FUN! I do not know the origin of this wonderful wicked women who actually made me excited to do laundry this weekend so I could accumulate a stash of bounce sheets - but kudos to her!

So here is our 6x6 technique card that we made to practices our technique with the dryer sheet and get our stamping muscles flexed before jumping into our cards!

Here is our first card that we made featuring Lovely as a Tree and Teeny Tiny wishes stamp set ... with a Night of Navy and Old Olive colour combo.

And our second card features the Snow Swirled Stamp set ... with a Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive colour combo.

I hope everyone had a great time at the class and learned something new to take home- I totally LOVE the energy of creating with a group of awesome ladies and am now all pumped up for more creating this week - so thanks ladies!

A Rose by any other name

This is my first attempt at the 'Ornament Rose' .... it uses the Stampin' Up ornament punch and each ornament shape is sponged around the edges and than curled to give it the 3D look and than glued onto a 1/34 circle to put it together.

Actually a quick and easy flower to make although it turned out a little larger than I had anticipated it would - the Stampin' Up! tutorial called for 18 punched ornaments and I think I ended up using almost 24 by the time I was done - typical of my style though - why use only 18 when 24 will do!

I used my favorite ticket corner punch as well and than for the first time I was inspired to try and use a paper piercer to give a little dimension to my paper layer - what a lot of fun that is - very therapeutic relaxation for any women who has stress in their life ... I am thinking the paper piercer will be making more appearances on my cards!

And what about those dainty half back pearls? Do they not just give it that subtle elegance?

I stamped an envelope out of habit - but in hindsight I am thinking that this card would work awesome as a 'bow / gift tag combo' on a gift for someone special!

I am planning on making up some of these to sell for the 'Run for the Cure' fund-raising for our Bold and Boobiful team! You can check out more about the Run for the Cure here!

Circle Circus

Shhh .... I spent a little time this morning playing with my toys instead of doing my chores ... don't tell on me :)

This is a beautiful card that my upline demonstrated at a technique class a while back - featuring the Chrystal effects and Circle Circus stamp set ... I LOVE this stamp set - it is so much fun!!!!

So for my birthday I bought the 'digital download' of it for My Digital Studio .... and decided this morning to play with it trying to 'recreate' a traditional inspired card using the program. What fun!

Front of the Digital version:

Inside of the digital version...

Yup - if I were not already sold on the versatility of the My Digital Studio to create with I would be now ... definitely FUN!!

My Digital Garden ...

A huge thank you to my awesome crew today for taking a nice long nap which allowed me a little bit of time to get scrapping my garden photos from this summer!

I am loving learning more and more about what the My Digital Studio can do - and was excited to download some new stamps and ribbon accents this past weekend - happy birthday to me!

I created all the flower embellishments in the layouts using DIGITAL PUNCHES and layering them up .... was even able to recreate a digital version of the 'butterfly pansies' using the butterfly punch template ... I was pretty proud of that one!