Some Masculine Birthday Cards

My nephew turned 17 last week, I can't believe my sister's youngest is 17 already! So I had to get a card made for me to give him and for my mom to give him. Teen boy cards are so hard to make but I think I pulled it off and word from my sis he was impressed :) Here's the one my mom gave him.

And this is the one I gave him using my new embossing folder. I saw the Tim Holtz set with the wood grain and just had to have it & wanted to try it out right away so this is what I came up with.

I'll be back late tomorrow night with my layout for Ella's Pink Scrapbook challenge.

Shabby Vintage Birthday Card

My mom needed a birthday card for her sister (my aunt) so I started off with a Hero Arts stamp I recently got that I've been wanting to use. At first I struggled with the card coming together but I really like the way it turned out, a little shabby, a little vintage. I made a flower out of tissue paper (like my previous layout), Im loving these tissue flowers. I used my spellbinders scallop circles (3 sizes) to cut the white tissue paper and then stamped them with a script stamp. I also added a bit of dyed crinkle ribbon (made from seam binding). Love this ribbon too, I could use it on everything :)

TPE Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #10

This week's challenge is to use this sketch with stamps on your layout.

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I decided to scrap some pictures from this weekend. My family got together for my great nephew's baby dedication. He is now 8 months old and the last time most of us saw him was when he was born! We had to get the 4 great grandkids together and take pics of them with my parents. It looked like the paparazzi with all the cameras shooting pics.

I just used some paper I had from an old paper pack I got from walmart for my layout. I used some Hero Arts stamps for the pattern on the yellow cardstock. The date is also a Hero Arts stamp and also the punched border was stamped with Hero Arts dots background. I made up some flowers to go with the layout out of tissue paper, love these flowers and how thrifty they are. I wasn't sure I liked the layout when I was done but it's growing on me now. This weekly scrap challenge is kicking my butt because Im still not comfortable with scrapping. It'll get better.

Be sure to stop by The Pink Elephant to see the rest of the design teams work!

I've got a couple more cards to share this week too so stop back later!

A Graduation Card

I've been making some birthday cards & had a graduation card to make too so I'll have some things to share this week along with my layout for Thursday's TPE challenge.

My husband is away in MI for his niece's graduation. I sent this card along with him for her. I did the card in her school colors. I designed everything with MS Word and hand cut the 2010 & hat. I could've done it with my cricut if I had SCAL program. The "Congratulations" background was done on Word too. The report from MI was she liked it :)

TPE Scrap Challenge #9

Hello everyone, Im sorry Im late with my scrap challenge this week, it has been a very rough last couple days. We had to put our 13 year old chocolate lab down this morning and it's just been an emotional day actually month as far as that goes.

On to my layout, the theme for this week's challenge is a summer theme. I decided to dig out some of the pictures from the fun we have on the river at my parent's house every summer. We have some great family fun there on the pontoon boat and the waverunners and playing on the sandbar.

Be sure to head on over to The Pink Elephant to see all the fab layouts the design team did this week.

TPE Scrap Challenge #8

It's time for another layout challenge at TPE. This week's challenge is a sketch challenge.

For my layout I turned the sketch. I am slowly scrapping our Alaskan cruise from last year. I am doing a title page for each day with snippets of the day's events. This layout is from our first port of call to Ketchikan. This is only my 4th page I've done of the trip, I need to get my rear in gear :) We're coming up on a year since the trip.

Be sure to head on over to The Pink Elephant to see all the great creations from the rest of the design team! And if you decide to play along with our sketch this week we'd love to see what you've done so be sure to link your creation over at TPE!

For my layout I just used 3 different cardstocks in red, blue & kraft. I stamped the kraft squares with the Hero Arts wood grain stamp and the red squares with the Hero Arts dots cling stamp. I cut out all my lettering with my various cuttlebug alphabets then embossed "Ketchikan" with my swiss dots folder. The totem border was a sticker I had from an Alaskan sticker set. A simple easy layout.

A couple cards

For those of you who browse my blog to take a peak at my cards I actually have a couple to share with you today :) Life has been busy the past couple weeks and a lot of my spare time is now spent in the yard/gardens rather than scrapping so I haven't had much time to make things. I've also been bad about taking pictures of my projects after I'm done. I'll try to get better about that :)

I've been getting lots of inspiration over at the Hero Arts Flickr group lately, I'm not sure that is such a good thing because I have found lots and lots of stamps that I felt needed to be added to my stash. So, my two cards I have to share with you today are from Hero Arts stamps.

I layered two different stamps to create this card, wild flowers and silhouette grass and then added some stamped butterflies. Isn't that grass stamp fabulous! I love it, you can whip up quick simple cards in no time. I have some others I will share later using that stamp.

I am in love with collage stamping right now. I used a number of Hero Arts stamps and a couple others to create this card. One of my favorite stamps from Hero Arts right now is they hydrangea, love love love that stamp and I've got some other cards that I've made using it that I will share at a later date. I have gotten so much inspiration from HERE and HERE with collage cards, these women create some beautiful cards. And actually this card is one that I scraplifted from Carole, so I can't take credit for it at all :)

I'll be back for sure Thursday with a layout for TPE, who knows I might get a chance to whip up some cards to share before then :)

TPE Challenge #7

This week's scrap challenge at TPE is a color challenge and the color is PINK, my fave! I decided to do a page of my sweet great niece, well she doesn't look so sweet in these pics :) She's going through a phase where she doesn't want anyone to hold her but her mommy. I just had to take advantage of the moment and snap some photos of that big pouty lip. Her dress didn't go with my color scheme so I printed the photos out in black and white.

Be sure to stop on by The Pink Elephant to check out the other Design Team's layouts.

Patterned paper: My Minds Eye

Flowers & ric rac: miscellaneous from my stash

Diecut strip: Cricut Home Accents cartridge

TPE Scrap Challenge #5

This week's challenge at TPE is to make handmade flowers. I've got 2 different flowers that I've used on my layout. I got the inspiration for the big yellow flower on the Hero Arts Flickr pool (some amazing stuff there btw). I made the flower by stamping the image with my Hero Arts Large Flower cling stamp with versa mark ink onto yellow vellum then embossed it with white embossing powder. There are actually 2 stamped flowers there. I love the looks of it and have a little stash already made up to use in the future. All the little flowers were used from the Kaiser flowers I followed a tutorial here to make them, love the outcome of them so much more than the purchased product, I might even go out and buy more :)

The beautiful subject of my layout is my little niece that my brother and sister in law adopted from Africa. She is delicately sniffing my mom's peony tree blossoms. This was 3 years ago already, time sure does fly.

Be sure to head on over to TPE to see what the rest of the design team came up with this week.

Paper used Coredinations cardstock, vellum and patterned paper from my stash

Cricut swirls are from Home Decor cartridge

Vellum flower Hero Arts Large Flower stamp

Pink flowers Kaiser paper flowers

Punches EK Success large scallop, MS butterflies (3 different ones)

The Pink Elephant Challenge #4

This week's scrap challenge at The Pink Elephant is to use paint and chipboard. I used some cardboard for the background of my layout and painted it orange, I found the orange was a little bright so I used some Tim Holtz sage reinker mixed with some perfect pearls and water in a mini mister and sprayed the orange. You really can't see it in the photo but it gives a nice shimmer. The title is the chipboard part of the challenge that I painted with Tim Holtz crackle paint.

Here is a close up of the crackle paint, it wasn't completely dry yet but you can see some of the crackle coming through.

Head on over to The Pink Elephant to see what the rest of the team has done this week.

I know I said I was going to show some cards this week, it'll probably be more towards the weekend, it's been so nice here I have been getting some things down around outside.