Button Birthday

I feel compelled again to show you the entire journey of making a card. Most of the time one good card takes at least 3 tries, sometimes more. My stamping room is normally filled with bits and pieces of cards I've made and torn apart and don't know what to do with.  This one only took 2 tries! Yay!!!

Here's Take One:

And Take Two:

Isn't it amazing what a layer can do? The whole card pops with color now and its just that much cuter. Also, adding this much card stock costs very little and doesn't harm the card's ability to fit in an envelope either. I say when in doubt, add a layer or two!

And how cute are those buttons?

I used:

* Button Button and On Your Birthday stamp sets

* Rose Red and Crumb Cake ink

* Rose Red, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White card stocks

* Old Olive 5/8" ribbon

* Sweet Buttons embosslit

* Two Tags Die

Build a Blossom!

I'm really trying to get back in the swing of stamping. I mean, holy cow, it's the middle of March and I haven't even used my spring mini goodies yet. I'm so ashamed.
So, the goal today was to thoroughly play with my Build a Blossom stamp set, Blossom Petals Punch and my Framed Tulips impressions folder. Here are the results!
This is the first card. The flower was super-fun to make but the card itself is super-boring!

So I used the same flower (basically) but spiced up the card a lot. Amazing what a difference a brad can make right? As well as a layer or two! But this flower was a problem now because while its fun and pretty, if I had to make a bunch of them I would hate my life and I have a rule that if I can't make 100 of them, I don't want to make any.

Which brought be to this little beauty. How happy is that yellow flower??? And how cute is the striped ribbon??? But for some reason I wasn't quite satisfied. I don't know why because I actually really love this particular card. Oh well.

But here is my last and final card. Not as flashy as the one with the brad or as cutesy as the one with the ribbon but for some reason, still my favorite. I guess I was in a plain and simple kind of mood. Who knows.

So which one is YOUR favorite???

I used:

* Build a Blossom, Teeny Tiny Wishes and On Your Birthday stamp sets

* Pink Pirouette, Naturals Ivory, Pear Pizazz, Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Very Vanilla (assorted card stocks and inks)

* Framed Tulips impressions folder

* Blossom Petals Punch, 1/2" circle punch, Word Window punch, Modern Label Punch, Crop-o-Dile

* Linen Thread

* Antique Brads, silver brads

Cute Condoms Part II

Last Valentine's Day as part of a joke, I made these and then posted them to my blog. I never imagined that it would become the post that EVERYONE saw...and then teased me (and my husband) about.

So of course I had to make more Cute Condoms, and here they are. Enjoy!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Sometime this week I realized it's almost Valentine's Day! AH! It's not that I give so many Valentines away or anything, its just that I have so many cute products to use!

This card layout can work with any shape, occasion, patterned paper, embellishment and greeting that you want. The sky is really the limit here with how fancy you can make it too. I added only a little bit of bling to this particular card but I think you could really go nuts...or really simplify and it would still work great.

I'm totally falling in love with this new paper that looks like encyclopedia pages called First Edition.

You get 24 sheets for $11.95!!!!

I used:

* Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set

* Soft Suede ink

* Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, and Rose Red card stock

* First Edition d.s.p.

* Double stitched rose red ribbon (retired, sorry!)

* Square lattice embossing folder

* Heart to heart punch

* Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit die

* Basic Rhinestones

Here's another card made with almost the same materials as the first card but for some reason I didn't like it as well. Maybe there's too much going on for my simple brain to process. I'm not sure.

I used:

* With All My Heart stamp set

* Soft Suede ink

* Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Real Red and Pink Pirouette card stock

* First Edition and Love Patterns d.s.p.

* Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon

* Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Scallop Trim Border Punch

* Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit die

* Basic Rhinestones

Denim Valentine

I know I'm super slow getting these posted, and I'm sorry. Hopefully I'll get back into the groove of stamping AND blogging soon. Moving is a lot of work!

This is the second project I made with my club ladies last month. I love the image of the little girl, I love the sparkly red glitter paper and I love the patterned paper too!

After staring at the above card for a while I thought I'd add a little more sparky glittery goodness and here's what I came up with:

I hope you like this as much as I do!

I used:

* Greeting Card Kids  and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets

* Not quite Navy ink pad

* Real Red Marker

* Very Vanilla and Not quite Navy card stock

* Blueberry Crisp d.s.p and Glimmer Paper

* Heart to Heart and Small Heart punches

Are you filled with love?

Stampin' Up! has a really fun Valentine's promotion going right now. Not only can you get free buttons, you can also buy a special pack of paper that is ALL red and pink! I don't know about you guys but I would buy the pink and red paper pack all year round. I love it!

 

Isn't it cute?

Click here for promotion details!

Because I just couldn't help myself, I also made some little Ghirardelli boxes with the same basic design,

Click here for a tutorial

I think this will actually be the club's non-card project this month, which will also be my last month with this club :(

I used:

*Love Patterns Designer Paper Pack

* Tiny Tags Stamp Set

* Real Red ink

* Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, and Whisper White card stock

* Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslits Die

* Scalloped Ribbon Border Punch, Full Heart Punch, Jewelry Tag Punch

* White crochet thread (non SU!)

Happy Birthday Dad!

Wow. I knew it had been a long time since I last blogged but I didn't realize my last post was before Thanksgiving! I am soooo lame.

Well, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years. I know I did.

And LOTS has been happening. Life is crazy.

Lets see, Josh (my husband) was offered a new job in Utah right before Thanksgiving. He started the job right after Thanksgiving. He comes home on the weekends (usually) and together we've been wondering why the house is a) not packed  b) not clean or c) not rented or sold and d) where we might live if/when we move. It's been awesome. 
My parents came for 2 weeks over Christmas and in that time my father fixed and painted everything, my mother and I packed and cleaned and then miraculously we rented the house and found a super duper cute house to rent.
It looks like we'll be moving to Eagle Mountain Utah (if all goes as planned, which never happens) next Saturday, January 15th. AHHHHH!!!!!!

I'm not usually a fan of lengthy wordy posts because I know you're all only interested in the pictures so I'll get to it!
And let me start by wishing my father a happy birthday and thanking him for being born in January. His birthday (January 12th) always marks the time when I really need to get back into the swing of things, when Christmas break is officially over. Thanks Dad, you're the best.

Happy Birthday.

Also, thanks for coming during your vacation and working to fix my house up the entire time. You're amazing!

With moving there are a lot of very sad things. One of them is saying goodbye to my son's wonderful 1st grade teacher. Here is the Christmas gift I made for her. It's a box of 10 simple thank you cards.

I hope she likes them. We'll sure miss her.

Because I was in a bit of a time crunch this Christmas, and I was a little bit sick of Christmas cards by then anyway, here is the picture that was the front of our cards this year. I thought it captured the essence of the Holiday pretty well!

I had to include this one too because it's just so darn cute!

Oh, and on an end note. My Maggie turned 2 on the 29th and got a hair cut too.

I know I know, she's the cutest thing in the world.

More stamping to come soon!