Trio of Bookmarkers

Here are some magnetic bookmarkers just in time for some summer reading.

Ingredients to make the bookworm bookmarker:
Stamp Sets: First Day
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Real Red, Brocade Blue
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Brocade Blue, Brocade Blue Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Real Red Eyelets
Tools: Crop-a-dile, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Extra Large

Ingredients to make the Champ bookmarker:
Stamp Sets: Sporting, Just Baseball, Starring You
Ink: Garden Green
Paper: Garden Green Patterns Designer Series Paper, Garden Green, Whisper White
Accessories: Gold Brad
Tools: 1 3/4" Circle Punch, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Extra Large, Star Punch

Ingredients to make the happy bookmarker:
Stamp Sets: Flight of the Butterfly, Fundamental Phrases
Ink: Melon Mambo
Paper: Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Pad, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Accessories: Silver Brads
Tools: 1 3/4" Circle Punch, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Extra Large, Trio Flower Punch, Butterfly Punch

Another Pals Paper Arts Challenge

I have to say I amm loving the fact the Pals Paper Arts had the Monochromatic Blues challenge. It gives me a chance to play with all the Blues that will be retiring. I have to say I am going to miss them.

I saw this great card linked off of the Moxie Fab World and I just had to case it using the Circle Circus which I have to admit I have not used enough since I got it! What a simple easy card and perfect for the men in your life.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Circle Circus, Enjoy every moment

Ink: Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Brocade Blue

Paper: Brocade Blue Patterns Designer Series Paper (retired), Night of Navy and Whisper White

Accessories: Silver Brads

Tools: 1 3/4", 1 1/4" and 3/4" circle punches, Mat pack, Paper Piercer

Mojo Monday Challenge

I decided to take this Mojo Monday week's challenge and make it an embellishment on a scrapbook page.

Ingredients to make this scrapbook page:

Paper: Kaleidoscope designer series paper, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive and Whisper White

Accessories: Old Olive Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Felt Fusion, Pretty in Pink Brads, Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons, Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon, Bright Delights Rub-ons (retired)

Tools: Big Shot, Clear Circle Sizzex, Scallop Circle Sizzex, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Circle Scissor Plus

Stampin' Royalty Challenge

This week's Stampin' Royalty challenge is a masculine cards.

Here is the ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Just So Sayings (retired), Simple Birthday Thanks, Think Happy Thoughts

Paper: Very Vanilla, Autumn Traditions Designer Series Paper, Soft Suede

Ink: Soft Suede, Old Olive, Ruby Red

Accessories: Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon, Linen Thread, Playground Designer Button, Old Olive, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie brads

Tools: Paper piercer, mat pack, crystal effects, 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches, Modern Label punch, punch from a local craft store

Inkredible Color Challenge

I ending this week with the Inkredible color challenge. The colors are: Baja Breeze, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets: Happy Together, Kind & Caring Thoughts
Ink: Baja Breeze, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry
Paper: Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad, Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper, Whisper White
Accessories: Silver Brad, White Organza Ribbon
Tools: Corner Rounder punch, 1 1/4" square punch

Baby Picnic Parade

I love today's baby card. This is my favorite one of all. I got the sketch for a very old Mojo list. Click here to see old Mojo Monday sketches.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets: Picnic Parade, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Brown, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink
Paper: Watercolor paper, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla, Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad
Accessories: Pretty in Pink Corduroy Buttons, Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon
Tools: Blender Pens, punch from a local craft store

Pals Paper Arts Challenge

This week's Pals Paper Arts Challenge comes in the form of a card sketch. So here is a baby card I made for the challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Look's Who's Turning, Nursery Necessities

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall Designer Series paper, Whisper White

Accessories: Pretties Kit, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon

Tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Pinking Hearts Border Punch

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! Today I want to share with you a scrapbook page I made that was inspired by page 59 of this month's Scrapbook Etc. It has this great monochromatic textures in it. Just simple elegance. I also loved last week's Pals Paper Arts color challenge combo and decided to use in the scrapbook page: Basic Black, Melon Mambo and Pretty in Pink.

So hope you have a great day with your loved ones! Here's my page with the two cutest valentines ever!

Ingredients to make the page:

Stamp Sets: So Very (retired), Just So Sayings (retired)

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Melon Mambo Textured Card Stock

Accessories: Black Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Black Button from a local craft store

Tools: Big Shot, Heart to Heart Punch, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Hearts & Brackets Sizzex, Timeless Type Sizzlets, Stampin' Up! Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impression Folder

Scrapbook Page that Inspired my Creation:

Pals Paper Arts Challenge

I am so excited by this week's Pal's Paper Arts Challenge. This week's challenge is a color one. The colors are: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink and Basic Black. I couldn't wait to come up with some thing for this challenge. It let me used somre retired products, Love & Happiness rub-ons and the Night & Day Specialty Paper. I also was able to use the fabulous scallop square tip from Gretchen again!

Ingredients to make the tag:
Paper: Night & Day Specialty Paper, Pretty In Pink, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories: Love & Happines Rub-ons, Basic Black buttons, Basic Black Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Black Brad

Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square Sizzex, Small Heart Punch, Pinking Hearts Border Punch, Trio Flower Punch

Mojo Monday #124

Here is this week's mojo monday sketch. I am so glad I was able to get it done in time this week. How great is it that I was able to use two of the Sale-a-bration exclusive products in this card: the scallop trim border punch and the Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad! For every 50$ you spend you can get one of these products for free! So stock up on your favorite Stampin' Up products and gets products for free! Click here to start shopping and Sale-a-brate!

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: On a Pedestal

Ink: Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Paper: Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad, Rose Red, Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Big Shot, Flower Layers with Leaf Sizzex, Circle #2 Sizzex, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Trio Flower Punch, Uni-signal gel pen

Valentine's Matchbox Photo Album

We are so use to seeing little treats inside our matchbox, well I decided to put a little pull out album instead.

To make the box that holds the photos, I took a 4.5" x 4" piece of card stock. I scored the outside border by 1/2" all around.

The box to wrap around the box is 7.5" x 3.5". Scored at 3", 3.5", 6.5", 7"

The sheet of paper that photos were put on is 9" x 3.5". I scored at 3" and the 6".

Ingredients to make the project:

Stamp Sets: Think Happy Thoughts, Teeny Tiny Wishes, You & Moi, Sweet Centers, Love You Much
Ink: Rose Red
Paper: Thoroughly Modern Designer Series Paper, Whisper White, Basic Black

Accessories: Black Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Black Brads
Tools: Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, 1” Circle Punch, 1 ¾” Circle Punch, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Sticky Strip, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Yahoo!

I am so excited, my card got chosen on the Stampin' Royalty blog to be this week's top pick!

Click here to check it out! Every weekly blog challenge picks 3-4 projects to be featured as the top picks and this week they choose mine!

Very exciting! What a great way to start my day!

My Nephew's Birthday Card

Inspired by this week's color challenge, I used two of the colors in my nephew's birthday card. I also used the scraps of paper I didn't use in the color challenge. I have to say thank you to Heather for her inspiration of the monkeys and using the vine from the Cheap Talk stamp set. She does an amazing work especially with the My Digital Studio scrapbook pages. Click here to check them out.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Cheap Talk, Fox & Friends, Look who's turning, Short Order Numbers (retired)

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive

Paper: Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay and Old Olive

Accessories: Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware (retired), Pewter Jumbo Eyelets, Hemp Twine, Bermuda Bay Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Crafter's Tool Kit

Inkredible Color Challenge

Here is this week's Inkredible color challenge: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Bermuda Bay. I have to say I am loving this color combo. I pulled out the Just Surfing stamp set again.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Set: Just Surfing

Ink: Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry

Paper: Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper, Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad, Whisper White, Old Olive

Accessories: 5/16" Silver Brads, Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware

Tools: 1" Circle Punch, Paper Piercer

Stampin' Royalty Challenge

The challenge on the Stampin' Royalty blog this week is a Single Layer Project. I have to say this is not an easy thing. I wanted to do something that would still give a little wow, not an easy feat. Here is what I came up with a little notecard.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Leaf Lines, Whimsical Words

Ink: Basic Brown, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry

Paper: Whisper White Card Stock

Accessories: Whisper White tafetta ribbon

Tools: Punches from a local craft store, Blender Pens

Another Scallop Square Card

A good friend of mine got a new job, here is a card I made to congratulate her new endeavor.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets: Island Blossoms (retired stamp set), Fundamental Phrases
Ink: Melon Mambo
Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper
Accessories: 5/8" Silver Jumbo Brads
Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Square Sizzex

Cottage Wall On the Pedestal

Here is a birthday card I made for my friend's birthday.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets: On the Pedestal
Ink: Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence
Paper: Whisper White and Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper
Accessories: White Organza Ribbon, Prettie Kit
Tools: Scallop Square Sizzex, Circles #2 Sizzex, Big Shot

Mojo Monday #119

Well I have been a little behind on all the Mojo Monday sketches. Here is last week's. It uses an old In Color Purely Pomegranate. I was going through my card stock scraps and thought it was Rose Red and I have to say I like the monochromatic combination. Purely Pomegranate is one of my favorite InColors!

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Vintage Vogue, On Your Birthday

Ink: Purely Pomegranate

Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White, Thoroughly Modern Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Rose Red Double Stitched Ribbon, Rose Red Button

Tools: Scallop Edge Border Punch, Circle Scissor Plus

New Stampin' Up! Goodies

I had a chance to play with some of the new Stampin' Up! goodies that are coming out in the new Occasions mini come January 5th! Here is my scrapbook page with a picture with my dad and my nephew.

Ingredients to make the page:

Stamp Set: Vintage Vogue, With all my Heart

Ink: Soft Suede

Paper: Throughly Modern designer series paper, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon, 5/16" Vanilla Jumbo Brads

Tools: Big Shot, Lots of Tags Sizzlets, Sizzex Clear Circle, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Sponge Dauber

Holiday Blitz Snowman Pull Out Card

It all started with the jumbo snowflake in the center of the 1 3/4" circle punch. I was thinking it would look great as a pull tab.

Here is the ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Set: Holiday Blitz, The More the Merrier

Ink: Taken with Teal

Paper: Holiday Lounge Designer Series Paper, Taken with Teal, Whisper White

Accessories: Clear Rhinestone Brad, White Satin Ribbon, Velcro Dots

Tools: Eyelet Border Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Jumbo Snowflake Punch.