Second Week of Digital Project Life

I'm not sure I like this layout, but I finished it and am posting. It may well change though. I had a lot of pictures, more than I thought. I need to learn what it necessary and what isn't.

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Two Cards From Sunday

I meant to come back the past couple of days and post the two other cards I made on Sunday, but that obviously didn't happen. So, today you get a twofer. *Ü* Enjoy!

This card was inspired by this one I saw in my Reader. I really liked the feel of the card. 

I switched it up a little as you can see.  

The pattern paper is Collectable Notable from My Mind's Eye (6x6 pad)

The cardstock is Twilight from CTMH)

The ribbon is from CTMH

The flower is cut from Flower Shoppe and my Cricut and inked with Tim Holtz Wild Honey distress ink

The leaves are punched from a Martha Stewart punch.

The honeycomb embossing folder is a new one for the Cuttlebug. 

The pearl is Recollections brand from Michaels. 

I also used Nestabilites circle and scallop circle.

The next card was inspired by one my good friend, Barb shared here on her blog. Barb is the queen of adding lovely details to her cards and while I didn't add any sparkle, I'm pretty pleased with the final result.

The technique is called triple stamping or something like that. You cut the three pieces of cardstock you are going to stamp on and lay them on top of each other, adhering them a bit so they don't move. Then you stamp your image. Once done, then you mat the pieces, which hides any imperfections in the stamping. Very easy steps for a look that has a lot of impact, as Barb said. 

I used a stamp set from Close To My Heart, but it doesn't have a name on it. It does have a 25th Anniversary sticker on it and some stamps that say i am... I liked this flower image. I used Sunset ink and at the last minute decided to add the black centers. I liked the contrast quite a bit. 

The label is a cut from Artiste and I added some pearls for a little extra interest. 

The Happy Birthday is from Birthday Basics from Papertrey Ink.

Hope you are having a good week.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

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Snow Day Star Card

The forecasters were predicting a pretty decent winter storm today, although I was hoping they were wrong, because a couple of friends and I had planned a crafty playdate. 

But, the weather didn't cooperate.

 Not as impressive as the the midwest has gotten recently, but more than we've seen in our neck of the woods for a very long time. More than I wanted to navigate the roads to craft. 

So, instead we hung out some, shoveled some...

drank some yummy stuff that was

awesome!

 And produced big sloppy grins.

Then we played some, 

(Yes, Becky, I had to find a version for us to play *Ü* )

While this simmered on the stove.

And I snuck away some, to create this card!

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I saw this pin on Pinterest and wanted to try it for myself. 

I found a diamond shape on Plantin Schoolbook and cut 12 at 1 1/4 inch using My Mind's, Eye Miss Caroline, Howdy Doody paper (what a mouthful).

I stamped the label using Sunset ink and the label stamp from Happy Thoughts stamp set (Close To My Heart) and added a few pearls from Michaels Recollections brand. The white organdy ribbon is from CTMH as well and the label is popped up with foam tape. 

What a fun snowy day. 

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Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Happy Thoughts Card

I was very inspired by Kay Miller's card here and was able to do my own version yesterday. 

Oh gosh, it was fun to play around with the stamps and fussy cut to make them work for me.

The stamp set is from Close To My Heart and is called Happy Thoughts (C1536). It's in the current catalog.

I used inks from CTMH as well, Sunflower, Star Spangled Blue and Moonstruck. Those colors are retired, sorry. The green, Topiary, isn't retired, though! I also did some sponging on the leaves 

I added some gems from my stash and cut a doily almost in half. 

The papers are Sunflower cardstock, and Pebbles' Family Ties 6x6 pad. 

I also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder. 

Some of the flowers are popped up with foam squares. Hard to see, though.

The burlap butterfly sticker is from some new product at Michaels from Little Yellow Bicycle. Naturals is the name on the package. Very fun.

Thanks for the inspiration, Kay!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope your weekend is off to a great start!

Going to Try Digital Project Life...First Week

My friend, Laurel over at Seabrook Designs has been sharing her Project Life layouts and I've been very impressed. I've drifted away from digital scrapbooking over the past year or so, yet, every time Laurel posts a layout, I feel a niggling urge to scrapbook. Most of the time that feeling drifts away too, but for whatever reason, when she posted this layout, the urge to try this Project Life thing got stronger. After a little research and a very serendipitous email from Jessica Sprague about a self paced class for Digital Project Life, I decided to take the plunge and signed up for the class. Thanks, Laurel, for the nudge with your great layouts!

I finished up the class today and here is my first week layout. Be gentle, I'm pretty rusty.

This spread is pretty photo heavy, but I guess more happened during the week than I thought!

I decided to use Becky Higgins' Clementine kit as well as some elements from Kay Miller Designs' Happy Hearts kit.

I honestly am not sure if I can keep this up each week, but I will try. If not, I think just dipping my toes into this process may well encourage me to think about digital scrapbooking more than I have recently. 

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Chantilly Cards

I saw a card on Pinterest...I seem to be saying that a lot lately...boy is that a place for inspiration. Anyway, I really liked it, so I made my own version of the card. It has those rounded corners again. Since I'm unsure if copying the url for the pin gives access to my account, I'll just share the link to the blog post here. Actually, I liked the idea so much I made two cards with the same idea. Click on photo to enlarge if you like.

I chose to leave off the sentiment on the second one because I liked  the white space as much as I liked it with a sentiment.

The squares were cut at 1 1/4 inches and rounded on two corners. 

I've used the newly released Chantilly paper pack from Close To My Heart as did the inspiration card.

Cardstock colors are Twilight, Pear and Buttercup

On the first card, I've added a fabric covered button and on the second a chipboard element. 

Both were embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend. 

Cascading Card

Jessica and I had a great day today. She had the day off from school, but Amy didn't. So we got to have a mommy daughter day. She was so excited. :) We went shopping for a birthday gift for a friend whose birthday party is tomorrow. I showed her a Lego Friends kit that I had seen, but she hadn't. She decided to get it as she had money from birthday and Christmas. When we got home I eventually ended up in my craft space and she joined me putting together her new kit while I finished making a card. It was quite enjoyable.

I recently picked up the Spring 2013 issue of Cardmaker magazine. If you click on the link you will see the reason I picked it up. I was instantly smitten with the cover project. My friend and I had a crafty playdate yesterday, the first for us in a very long time. I have to admit to not completing any particular project, but we enjoyed chatting about all things crafty. I brought along the magazine to show her and we decided to follow the tutorial to make the card base. Then we looked up the Spellbinder's products needed to complete the project as shown. Now, I don't own the products used, but I decided to go through the CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge and see if there were any cuts I could use in place of Spellbinders.

This is what I created: (click on photo to enlarge)

I used Kraft paper for the base and American Crafts cardstock in white and yellow. The Breeze (blue) cardstock is from Close to My Heart. 

All the cuts are from Artiste.

The flower is on page 54, I cut two for each flower. The white flower is 2 inches, yellow is 1 3/4.

The butterfly is on page 58 and is cut at 1 inch (I think, forgot to write it down)

The leaves are on p 54 and cut at 1 inch

The swirls are on page 43,  1 is cut at 1 3/4 and the others at 1 inch.

The buttons are from my stash, the twine is Doodlebug from the Halloween collection.

The blue pieces are punched with a Martha Stewart border punch

The chipboard piece and Oh Happy Day stamp came with the Artiste collection.

Jessica was done with her Lego kit and wanted to help, so she stamped the sentiment on the banner. 

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The idea is that you can flatten the card and it would be a standard A2 size. Well, it would have worked except the banner makes it too big now, but there was no other place to put it, so I will keep this card on display.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a fabulous weekend!