Be Mine Valentine's Day Card

This is a card that I designed for my club. It is Valentine's themed and I used "Just B" stamp set. Everyone loved, loved, loved this set. In fact, I sold 5 sets that night. It is a great set, very versatile. Please see the recipe below. Enjoy!

Stamp set: Just B
Cardstock: Choc chip, Purely Pomegranate, Regal Rose, VV
Ink: Choc Chip, Regal Rose, Purely Pomegranate
Accessories: White Gel pen, Scallop, Circle & Ticket corner punches, Regal Rose Ribbon & dimensionals

Disneyland Scrapbook

Hi there. In early October, I went on a scrapbook retreat and scraped our trip to Disneyland. Hayden had so much fun there and so did we.
These pages are just random pictures of our trip. You can also see how Disney goes all out decorating for the holidays, here they are decorated for Halloween. Hope these photos are big enough to allow to you view.

It's been a LONG time

I know, I know. It has been a long time since my last post, almost 3 months to be exact. My computer went down and that was the only computer that we had the imaging software on that allows me to resize my pictures.
I am now working on my husbands, well mine now, computer and we have loaded all the necessary software so that I can work efficiently on this computer.

A lot has been going on with me since my last post. Look at the picture. Can you guess? I am finally PREGNANT again! This picture was taken in Mexico in early January and I was 20 weeks. I do not look this pregnant, I don't know if it was the shirt or the angle or what, but this picture makes me look about ready to pop! I am now almost 24 weeks (6 months) and am definitely showing. I only have one pair of jeans that fit, other than my maternity ones, but those are still a little big.

We went to Disneyland end of September, early October and we found out just after we returned. We kept it hush hush for a while but I could hardly stand it and let it leak out to most of our family & friends.

I decided to have an Amino. Due to my age, 39 and the fact that I was really worried about the unknown. Everything went fine with that and the day after Christmas, we got the news that we are having a little girl. Greg was in shock. For some reason he thought that we would have a house full of boys running around. Now we are thinking pink, barbies & dolls. This is very new for us! Especially considering that Hayden is ALL boy.

We are excited about our pending arrival and feel blessed that we get another child on our lives. Things have settled down and I am hoping to start posting every few days. Please keep looking and be patient!

Elyse

Our trip to Joan's Pumpkin Patch. Daddy finally got to join us this year!







Hayden loves to run through the pumpkins, here he is stilling on the pumpkin that he picked out.!



Hayden feeding the goats. He thought that was so cool. And he kept his hand flat so that he would not get bitten! Too cute!

3x3 Gift cards

These are 3x3 gift cards that we did on Friday at my Club meeting. I wanted to show the girls cards that were easy to make and great to give along with gifts for either family, friends or co-workers.

These little cards are great for using up your scraps of designer papers.

Start with a 3x6 piece of Old Olive that will be your card. Fold in half. Now you have a 3x3 card. I then layered using a 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 piece of Real Red c/s and then a piece of 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 piece of Dashing Designer paper. Layer the two pieces together but not yet to the Old Olive.
Next, take piece of 1/2 x 2 3/4 of Real Red and layer in the middle of the designer paper. Add some Very Vanilla ribbon and tie. Stamp "merry" from Season of Joy ( I used the Real Red marker using direct to rubber technique) and then use the window punch to punch out. Layer that onto the two layered pieces and tuck behind. At this point, you may adhere to the Old Olive.
Next you can either use the Poinsettia or circle Snowflake from Season of Joy. Layer with circle punch and layer again with Scallop. Use dimensionals to make your focal pop.

Happy Holidays!

This is another card using the Dashing Designer Paper from SU! I just can't get enough of this paper. This is called a Criss Cross card. You can use the link below to get to the Tutorial on Split Coast Stampers. I pretty much "cased" the card because I really wanted to make it a Christmas card and I had the paper! Just changed the colors a bit! Enjoy!

Be advised that this card will not fit in the "normal" envelope. It is just too bulky and with the tab punch sticking up, it is too big. Order the large envelopes.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/crisscrosscard.php

This card uses several punches: Tab punch, Scallop punch & Snowflake punch, as well as the Crop-a-Dile, and 1/16" punch.

Materials used (besides punches): Season of Joy & In the Spotlight stamp sets, Real Red, Old Olive and Very Vanilla c/s. Real Red & Old Olive inks. Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Large Brads & Sticky Strip.

Joy Fold Christmas Card

This is a card from my Club meeting last Friday. This is a Joy Fold card using Dashing Designer paper. I love this paper, as you will be able to tell from my next few posts. There are two pictures. The second shows how the card opens up. You just want to be sure to place the build-a-brad so that it holds your focal down, but not too much or it will be too hard to get open. Enjoy!

You can go to the following link for a tutorial on how to make this card: http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2007/05/05/joy-fold-tutorial/

Materials used for this card: Season of Joy Stamp Set, Dashing Designer Paper, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, & Real Read c/s, Real Red Craft Pad, Old Olive Classic Ink Pad, Heat & Stick powder, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, dimensionals and Build-a-Brad.

For the Poinsettias, I stamped them in Real Red Craft Pad and then sprinkled with Heat & Stick. I then heated them up and poured on the glitter, heating again to set the glitter.

That's it. Fairly easy card with lots of bang! My clubbers loved it and some are considering making this their Christmas card.