Finally.....a scrapbook page

So those of you who stop by my blog know, or at least have figured out, that I am basically a card maker. Well I am also a self-confessed paper hoarder, be it real or digital. Years ago when I first heard of scrapbooking I, and my eldest daughter (she was still living at home then), went and bought some basic tools to start scrapbooking. We were all gung-ho and truth be told my daughter did make a couple of pages. I on the other hand, think too much (as a friend once told me)and therefore have several pages in my head, pieces cut out, planned, pictures scanned and/or printed all ready to be made into the most wonderful pages!! LOL,
A few weeks ago I had happened upon a free kit and tutorial from Jessica Sprague which she offered for the USA "Arbor Day" holiday. This is the page I made with that kit. It is a picture of our little grandson I took while on his first visit to a Pumpkin Patch, and if you all are patient I will get around to putting together a page which actually shows some pumpkins!

Recently it was iNSD (InterNational Scrapbooking Day) and I participated in a G+ hangout tutorial with some lovely ladies. It was for beginner digital scrapbookers. I learned quite a few new, well actually almost all of what I learned was new, things and made my 2nd digital scrapbook page. I'm not quite finished with it yet, I need to put some more "elements" on the page before I'm totally satisfied with it. So stay tuned.

On another note, I'm not sure if there are any of you out there really following me, but if you are I will be out of commission for a few weeks, as I am having carpel surgery next week. Luckily it's on my left wrist, so I may be able to mouse around, ya' never know!!!

Stampin' Up! News

So many things going on around Stampin' Up! lately that every time I turn around something new is announced. I thought I'd let you in on a couple of things.

FREE SHIPPING!! 

We are offering FREE shipping on EVERYTHNG April 6 - 8 (excluding expeditied orders)! That's right, no minimums or limits and all order types qualify. So if you've been putting off buying that "Special" stamp set...now is the time. As always utilize my "shop" button in the right side bar, or give me a call I'd love to talk to you and help you with any questions you may have.

COLOUR REFRESH

Stampin' Up! is doing a little "freshening" up of their colour families. This means the retiring colours will be going on the "retired" list coming out soon in anticipation of the new 2013-2014 annual catalogue (May 31, 2013). On the chart below you will notice 10 new colours (most of which are returning In Colours from previous years), welcoming back some of your favourites, moving some colours to new families and introducing one brand-new colour. So peruse the chart carefully because beginning today April 4, 2013, all retiring/discontinued colour products (i.e. ink, paper, ribbon, accessories, etc.) will be available only while supplies last, and with free shipping, see above, now is the time to stock up on all your favourites before they are gone forever!!!

On a sad note.....

WATERCOLOUR PENCILS & CRAYONS are being discontinued. 

The Watercolour Pencils and Crayons Brights collection are no longer available. The Crayons in the Subtles, Neutrals and Regals collections are available while supplies last.

Happy Stampin'

     Deb

Catch Up

Well my sister brought it to my attention that my blog seems a little stalled, it's probably more like it's me that's stalled LOL, so in a quick effort to catch up here are some of the cards I have been working on since last we visited.

This is CASE's from Melissa Davies over at RubberFUNatics  I just love her work, check out her blog.

This is also CASE'd, I can't remember who from (if it's yours let me know, so I can give you proper credit).This is my version but changed it up for my class. The ladies used Silver Glimmer paper strips for the lattice, which is stunning as well, and some used a Real Red piece for backing which gave it another super look. I decided the pearls were not necessary with the glimmer paper. I wish I had taken pictures of them, they really were sparkly. Maybe I'll do up another one and post it someday.

One last Christmas card. 

  

This one I did for a swap with a group of fabulous girls I know. I think it became my favourite from my 2012 Christmas selection (I think I had 14 different cards in all).

Well after all that snow the last 2 days, it's nice and sunny so I will go dig out some of the other cards and take some pictures and post them for you.

Happy Stampin'

       Deb

It's been awhile, but I'm back

Well, I've been MIA for a while, but I'm back full strength now and it's smooth sailing ahead. Well until the next wave in the lake. Our DD and family moved back to our neck of the woods and are now only 5 mins. away, so I see a lot of our little "bug". That's where some of my time went, but it's time well spent and the bonus is I sleep very well after his visits LOL.  

I would like to show you the projects from the last couple of my WOW Wednesday classes, so I will post April's now and over the next few days catch up with the rest. So keep popping back in, you might see something you like! 

I have been wanting to make these adorable little birdhouses since I first saw them in our Stampin' Success magazine (exclusive to demo's sorry!) last year. 

This pic does not do it justice, it really is does not list to the left, it's just resting on a tumbled tile I made last year for DH for Father's Day. There is little "blingies" in the flowers, and the Daffodil Delight is so bright and cheery and really sets off the Certainly Celery DSP. 

To download the template for this adorable birdhouse click here.

Here are 2 cards we also made. This is the Stained Glass technique and is just so pretty and feminine.

And the Spotlight technique, I also showed the ladies how to do the brayered embossing folder technique for the background on this one.

I have a little bookcase set up in My Creative Space, where I hold my classes, and use the top shelf to display some special items I have created. I try to change this out frequently but lately it has been neglected. Here is a pic as it was a few months ago. I hope to have some new items to display for next class.

Kirsteen Gill did a lovely project called Spring Plaque which I just had to CASE. 

Thanks Kirsteen for setting me on another path of creativeness. 

The little yellow matchbox is still full of those little flowers I punched for the framed art, and it seems someone has absconded with the little JellyBellies from the pink box LOL.

 As always, please leave a comment or contact me if you have any questions.

Happy Stampin'

   Deb

Just one of those days

So yesterday was a "I should have stayed in bed day".  It started off great, I was off to see my grandson get his first haircut, DD had chosen such a cute place that specializes in kids cuts.  Well I was amazed at the set-up, as I'd never had these types of places when my kids were small, of course I made sure I took my camera to take lots of pics, go to turn it on........guess what..........battery dead.  Now, I have 2 batteries to eliminate this problem (can you tell I've done this before LOL).  I had put in a fresh one the night before (I thought), while I charged up the dead one.  Luckily I had my cell phone charging  in the car (sense a theme here....).  Well we did get lots of pics, even the teary ones, he didn't like getting his bangs cut. 


Well haircut done, off to the post office to mail off an ATC swap that a group of us have every month.  Oh shoot, it's the post lady that always gives me grief about something to do with my package. I nicely asked her how much postage I needed for this particular package, she answered $1.27 really quickly and before I could say anything she slapped on the postage!!!!!  I already had stamps out and she could see that, I only wanted to know how much I needed.   Anyway I used my stamps for the return postage and sealed up the envelope.  It didn't seal, faulty glue.  Nice post lady, watched me struggling with the flap, knew it wasn't sticking, but I had to ask her for some tape, she hands me a glue stick which I knew wasn't going to work now that the flap was all damp.  Then when I showed here it still wasn't sticking she did an eye roll worthy of "Stephanie Plum" and said "here I've got some tape", all the time never a flicker of a smile or any emotion at all.  This is not the first time I have dealt with her, the other post lady that works there is very nice, but next time I see this nice post lady I'll go to another post office. 


Then, everyone on the road seemed to be just driving crazy - one guy making a left hand turn decided he was out to far and backed up, into OUR lane!!!!  There was a police car behind me, but he was obviously going off shift as he did nothing except swerve like the rest of us to miss the left turning idiot.  It just seemed that a lot of little things kept going wrong.  Just one of those days!


Oh enough ranting on to some cards.

The technique for my WOW Wednesday class this month was Bleaching.  We all had so much fun trying out different colours of scrap paper to see what colour the bleach would turn them, some were really spectacular and others didn't seem to do much.  Oh and don't look too close, you'll see how I went out of the edges on the boat.  Even embossing can't keep me in the lines. LOL
We used the bleaching a stamped image technique for this masuclilne card.


The  recipe:
Stamp - Sail Away 
Card stock - Always Artichoke & Sahara Sand
Designer paper - Well Worn & Paisley Petals
Inks - Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake & Black Stazon
and of course household bleach.
This is a" Z fold" card with the image added to a "gate type" front piece.

This next one used the bleach as a stamp pad technique. I have used this particular design many times on cards, it seems to be my go to when my mojo has got up and left.  It is simple and now I wish I had used a punched border on the bottom of the three sections.  It still is a very pretty card and everyone seemed to like it.


The recipe:
Stamp - Fresh Vintage & Elementary Elegance
Card stock - Real Red, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Designer paper - Everyday Elegance
Inks - Real Red & Crumb Cake
Extras - Vintage Wall paper embossing folder, Oval punches, basic pearls & Big Shot


Thanks for looking,
Hugs,
   Deb

Yeah...the sun is finally shining!

Well it's finally looking and feeling, like spring. I have the windows open and it's even sounding like spring, love to hear the birds....makes me happy.


What a lovely day for the St. Patrick's Day parade, that's where most of my family is today. I decided not to go as I still have some prep work to do for my WOW Wednesday class. It was so nice to have my "green" mojo kick in and I finished that St. Patrick's Day card and got them mailed away, I used the new lovely Everyday Elegance paper and some of the Lucky Limeade ribbon from Stampin' Up. (both of which you can still get free from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue click on the catalogues tab to see details)  To make the shamrock I punched 3 hearts, using the small heart punch, out of some of the silver glimmer paper which I first coloured green, and then hand cut the little stem. I mounted it on some ovals in Whisper white and Lucky Limeade then popped that up on a layer of Whisper white I ran through the dotted embossing folder. 


It seems so simple now, but this was my 4th design for this card.

While I had that mojo captive I whipped up a belated Birthday card for my sister (her birthday was in January, bad me, but she still loves me anyway). Maybe I should start working on her next birthday card now! LOL. I used a base of Perfect Plum and this was a stretch for me I almost always start with a white base, ran a layer of Whisper White through the dotted embossing folder, sponged the edges lightly with Wisteria Wonder. Using the Greenhouse Garden set (which is a two-step stamp) I stamped the large flower twice using Perfect Plum and Concord Crush, ran some Old Olive through the Little Leaves sizzlet and some scraps were used in the Beautiful Wings sizzlet for the butterfly. Some pearls for bling and some ribbon from my stash and Voila!! done. 


Now what took me so long? 








Thanks for stopping by and check back in a few days to see what we did on WOW Wednesday.

Hugs,
   Deb

It's not easy being green

This post is kinda out of desperation.....my St. Patrick's Day mojo has finally left the house! I have been trying to come up with a simple but not too simple design for mass production. I send out 12 cards to family and they look forward to them each year, so it is a challenge to out do my previous year card. Anyway since I have discarded 3 different designs so far I'm hoping that this 4th one is the keeper. I guess it better be time is a-runnin' out.


So for today's cards one is for a birthday and one is a pick-me-up for someone special who is going through a tough time right now. I do have to give Kari Metzger my sincere thanks for the idea of using SU Framelits in 3D. I don't have the Framelits so I used my nesties, which look very much like the Framelits, anyway you'll get the idea when you see them.  

I had a devil of a time photographing these. It's very hard to see the 3d effect of the frames in these pics, so I took a few close up shots. Here's one.

Well now, off to finish those "green" cards LOL!!


Hugs,
   Deb