So as promised here is a picture of the pages we created at Scrapbook Night last night.

So, as usual, my pictures never do anything justice.  Someday I'll get a light box!

But these pages have a great vintage feel to them.  The colors are Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip.

I love, love, love the 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbons these days and I LOVE fraying it!  The frayed edges just add to a fabulously vintage feel.

And of course the shimmer paints are favorites of mine.  I used silver shimmer paint on the edges of the snowflakes and the Decorative Label punch (from the Occasions mini).

The edges of the pages have snowflakes stamped in Chocolate Chip and Craft Whisper White ink on the edges of the textured Baja Breeze card stock.  I frayed the edges of the striped ribbon and added some glimmer brads and Crochet Trim ribbon as well.

You may be wondering why the title of this post?  Well, remember the kids winter pages?  Those were great pages and I used them as inspiration for these pages but was able to add the fun snowflake embellishment, shimmer paint, the snowflakes from the Big Shot, fraying the ribbon, the glimmer brads, and Crochet trim ribbon.  Hope you all enjoy adding your pictures to these layouts!

My Scrapbook Club meets this Monday night.  We talked last time about doing a winter page so I decided to use the pages I did for my young girls as inspiration.  Of course I am able to spice it up a bit for my adult stampers not only because they're adults, but because they obviously have a love for stamping (or they wouldn't be in my club, right?!) and there are 8 of them (versus 16 young girls!).

So… here are the upgrades. After the club meets I'll show you the completed pages.

Here's some more stamping I did in December!  (See, I was just too busy to post!  Sorry! But aren't you glad to see them now?  Maybe? hehe)

Anyway, you may have seen that I stamp with 16 girls ages 5-8 years old each month.  They create a 2 page layout each month and when we are finished they will have a 20 page scrapbook!  Well for December we focused on winter (we had already done Christmas in November!).  The layout was inspired by a project I saw in our monthly Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine.   (I know I've mentioned these publications before – I really do love them!  They provide oodles and oodles of inspiration!  So, first, here's the project that inspired me.  (Created by Carol Gensweider of Pflugerville, Texas)

Isn't that pretty?  I thought so!  But clearly it's not a scrapbook page… Here's what I came up with for the girls (ages 5-8).

So, as you might be able to tell, I copied the stamping of the trees with Night of Navy ink and Whisper White craft ink from Carol's card.  The girls then stamped snowflakes on the Baja Breeze card stock edges.

They then stamped various titles like "Skiing Fun" and "Skating Fun" to make the page their own in Night of Navy ink.

Other supplies used:

Card Stock: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Night of Navy 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon, felt snowflakes (retired), and basic jewel rhinestones (in the center of the snowflakes).

Hope you like them!  The girls and their moms did which always makes me smile BIG!

These are the Christmas cards the ladies made the other night.  Everyone made 3 of each design so they are 12 cards closer to making their Christmas goal!!  Yeah!

The next Christmas card class will be Thursday, August 19th.  Hope you can join us!  Class fee is $25 for the 12 cards plus envelopes.  Or $30 for the cards, envelopes, and a package of Antique brads.  Please RSVP by August 8th.  Thank you!

Stamp Sets Used:

A Cardinal Christmas
Tree Trimmings
Big on Christmas
Dasher
Many Merry Messages

Supplies Used:

Big Shot
   Petals a Plenty embossing folder
   Top Note die

Punches
   large oval
   modern label punch
   scallop edge

Colors Featured:

Rich Razzleberry (it stayed!  yeah!)
Pear Pizazz
Crumb Cake
Marina Mist
Chocolate Chip
Real Red

Tonight was the kick off to our Six Stamp a Stack class series.  Each stamper created 12 cards, 3 each of the four designs seen below.  The back two cards were designs of mine and the front two were variations of others I found online.  All told we made 6 wintery thank you cards and 6 birthday cards in under 2 hours!  And had fun while doing it!!

Our next one is scheduled for January 5th.   We’d love to have you stamp with us!  We’ll be creating 6 Valentine cards and 6 Anniversary/Wedding cards.  For more information click here.   To RSVP for the 5th please click here.  Thank you!

So… my friend Mary showed me some great Thanksgiving Day easel cards she was making not too long ago.  If you know Mary you know she likes the more involved, intricate type projects (remember this?) so I thought to myself, ‘must not attempt easel card.’  LOL

Well, in the last couple weeks these easel cards have started popping up everywhere in the online stamping world.  So I thought maybe I should reconsider my original thoughts on these and try something new!  And then it turned out that splitcoaststampers posted a tutorial on them and then I discovered the Crazy 4 Challenges blog posted an easel card for a challenge last week.  Of course I didn’t get my card done in time for the challenge deadline, but that’s okay.  I actually combined it with this week’s C4C Challenge of using acetate as well! 

So have you counted three reasons thus far as to why I created this card?  1) to attempt something new 2) to participate in the easel card challenge 3) to participate in the acetate challenge.  What’s number 4 you ask?  To create a project to be made at this week’s Stamp Club meeting!!  Hope my clubbers like it!!

If anyone from SU! is reading this, please don’t ever retire the ‘Lovely as a Tree’ stamp set!  It’s such a wonderfully fabulous versatile stamp set!  I white embossed the trees onto Night of Navy cardstock.  See the snowflake acetate covering the trees?  I used Frost White Shimmer Paint for the snowflakes using the new ‘Serene Snowflakes’ stamp set.  The sentiment ‘warm winter wishes’ comes from the hostess stamp set ‘The More the Merrier’ and I used the shimmer paint for that as well.  And just to add more sparkle (and a prop for the easel) I put a strip of sticky strip across the base and covered it with the Silver Glass mix beads.  That’s another product I don’t use enough!  Love how it sparkles (of course it looks better IRL, but use your imagination!) 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about product used on this card.  Take care!