My Nephew's 2nd birthday card

I had such a great Saturday. A bunch of gal pals and I rented a hall, packed up all our scrapping crap and brought some snacks to enjoy a fun day of scrapping, heavy on the yapping. We had a great day. I wasn't as productive as I'd hoped, but I still completed a bunch of cards. I'm glad the only kids present were in utero...let's just say the language leaned toward the filthy...ok...so my language leaned toward the filthy. A lot of the other women climbed into the gutter with me...and fun was had by all! The first card that I'm posting from that day is my nephew's 2nd birthday card. Had to use Elmo...gotta love Elmo. I know...filthy language and Elmo is creepy, but I love how it turned out. I started out using different paper, but Donna (gal pal...local Scrapbooking store owner extrordinaire) screamed yikes...so I took her advice and this was the end product.

Recipe:

• Bo Bunny Expresso double dot cardstock and teal ribbon
• Bazzill-red, orange, black and white
• SEI-6x6" paper pack-Happy day patterned paper
• Stampin Up scallop border punch
• Paper Shapers corner punch
• Kraftin Kimmie sentiment inside card
• CTMH-cocoa ink
• Cricut cart-Sesame Street Friends, Pooh font(2)
• CTMH-cocoa ink, Happy birthday sentiment

Sympathy Card

Another instalation of the sympathy cards for Hubby's workplace stash. I like how it turned out...another 3 cards made in a jiffy. I literally dug through my scrap pile for these ones...yahoo! This coming weekend I'm getting together with the girls for a husband and kid free 12 hours of scrapping and yapping...can't wait! Hopefully I'll have a @#$% load of cards to post. Yeah me!!

Recipe:

• Andrea Victoria-My Minds Eye Paper line
• Urban Windows-We R Memory Keepers line
• craft cardstock for base
• Stampin' Up edge punch
• Kaiserkraft black organza ribbon
• CTMH-black ink and goldenrod(sponged on tree)
• Cricut carts-Heritage(tree), Storybook(tag)
• Sympathy sentiments-Hero Arts

Sympathy Card

My husband asked me to make some sympathy cards for his office. From time to time they have clients that pass away and the office buys some stock cards that they give out. I guess he thinks mine would be more personal. I decided to keep them simple. I love how they turned out. He asked for 10...I'm planning on making a few of each design I come up with. I'll post the rest when they're complete.

Recipe:

• base cardstock-looks like a paper bag ? brand
• My Mind's Eye-Andrea Victoria
• brown cardstock
• KaiserKraft brown organza ribbon
• EK Success border punch
• Paper Shapers corner punch
• CTMH brown bag ink
• sentiment stamp from Hero Arts
• Cricut cart-Heritage (tree)

Innsbruck-The Prettiest place in Europe

This is the last installment in my daughter's Europe album. WOO HOO!!  Another album bites the dust. Anyways...This one came together really fast...a little on the plain side, but the paper is so pretty. Hopefully the paper covers up how empty the page is...

Recipe:

• Bo Bunny-Love Bandit, Blush and Coffee Double dot
• In Stitches Bazzill templates
• Bo Bunny flowers, buttons and gems
• Chocolate, white and Rose DMC floss
• Paper Shaper's corner punch
• Cricut cart-Winter Woodland

Paris...Oh the things you can see!

Chelsea took sooooo many pretty pic's in Paris...I just had to put a few more on a scrapbook page for her album. I just love Bo Bunny...you can't go wrong with this paper...it's so pretty.

Recipe:

• Bo Bunny-Alissa line
• Bo Bunny-Ocean dot and blush dot
• Bo Bunny flowers, ribbon and buttons
• white DMC floss
• Cricut cart-Simply Sweet
• Cuttlebug embossing folder-flowers and dots
• Imagine layout book

IL Duomo

My daughter didn't really like Florence, Italy. The one thing she did like was Il Duomo. I think this paper was perfect for it. I had a really hard time not over embellishing it though.

Recipe:

• My Minds Eye-Breaking free(adventure series)
• Core'dinations-Cloudburst, Roasted pepper, and dark teal(no sticker on this one)
• CTMH-Twilight ink
• diamond Stickles
• light teal DMC floss
• Bazzill "In Stitches" templates
• Cricut Cart-Nursery Rhymes
• CTMH- Imagine layout book

The Crooked House

While in Vienna, my daughter's tour group stopped at the "Crooked House". She found this building "so cool" that I had to scrap it for her Europe trip album. I really like how this one came together. The paper is so happy and colourful...and I actually got to use my Jubilee cart (house font). I just couldn't pass up using it.

Recipe:

1. Echo Park-A Walk in the Park-paper line
2. Stampin' Up buttons
3. brown DMC floss
4. flower brads ? brand
5. cricut cart- Jubilee