Sympathy
This is a card that I hated to have to make. However, a lot of love and heart went into it. My grandmother recently passed away and while I could be making cards for 20 to 30 of my family members who are mourning the loss of her, I focused on making one for my grandfather. This color palette was inspired by the spring Pottery Barn catalog. I found it perfect for this card.
Thank you notes!
My creative time has been quite limited the past two months. My days {and nights!} are full of nursing, rocking and diaper changing. I've stolen a few moments here and there to create some thank you cards. We've been blessed by many gifts for our sweet little guy. Here are a few:
The Shabby Tea Room Challenge
I found this great blog through my friend Dawn. It's called the Shabby Tea Room. Every Monday they post a challenge to create a card based on different requirements and/or inspirations. I was so excited to find this blog because of all the wonderful shabby goodies that are in the Occassions Mini 2011. Today our challenge was to create a card based on a beautiful shabby chic nursery. This is what I came up with:
More Bliss!
Here is one more sample made with the Sale-a-bration stamp set "Bliss." Love that birdie!!
Sale-a-bration Preview!
All of these cards feature one of our new Sale-a-bration stamp sets. Sale-a-bration is the wonderful time of year Stampin' Up offers a free product of your choosing with every $50 purchase. There is no limit to how many free things you can earn!! Sale-a-bration begins January 25, 2011. Stay tuned for more previews and more details!
Digital Scrapbooking
Have you ventured into the fabulous world of digital scrapbooking yet? I have happily taken the plunge into nearly 100% digital. I love it for many reasons. I get to skip the step of selecting, printing and cropping photos all on my own before I scrap. All of my photos are already right where they need to be: on my computer! My husband loves digital scrapbooking because there aren't 87 pages of paper, 38 packages of stickers, adhesive, cutting tools and scraps of photos laying all over the house!! (I admit I kind of like that too!!) It is all neatly organized right on my computer. I LOVE it!
My Digital Studio is a wonderful program to invest in when you are ready to take the digital step. It is entirely user friendly and fun. It also comes packed with over 2000 of Stampin' Ups images, papers, punches and embellishments. You can use them over and over and never run out of any supplies! It is a beautiful thing.
My Digital Studio is a wonderful program to invest in when you are ready to take the digital step. It is entirely user friendly and fun. It also comes packed with over 2000 of Stampin' Ups images, papers, punches and embellishments. You can use them over and over and never run out of any supplies! It is a beautiful thing.
Here is a page I created today with My Digital Studio.
Handmade Holiday
Starting tomorrow through December 16, Stampin' Up! is offering several bundles at a discounted price. All of these bundles can be used to create beautiful handmade gifts for the holidays including jewelry, picture frames, handmade packaging and of course, cards!
Craft show... here we go!
I'm hoping to participate in a local craft show here in a couple of weeks. I think it will be fun and a good way to get meet new stampin' friends! Today I created this fall banner:
So you don't care for pastels....
I get that and I totally respect it. While I tend to lean towards everything vintage and shabby chic, I do love to see some funky dots and bright colors here and there. Today I created a card using the same stamp I did yesterday. It is called "Baby Steps" and is available a-la-carte. It's such a cute stamp! I love elephants!! Anyhow, today's card shows how versatile a single stamp can be. I just love that about Stampin' Up!
