Popcorn and Movie anyone?

So I was doing a little creative searching online a little while ago and found these popcorn and movie inspired projects on a blog.  I immediately knew I was going to translate them into scrapbook pages for this month's scrapbook club.  I need a third "movie thing" to add to the layout with the popcorn and director's so I did a quick google search for movie images and found a movie reel.  After SEVERAL attempts at making a movie reel it finally hit me to just simply punch out some circle in a larger circle! DUH!  I was trying all sorts of different shapes and not loving what I was getting.  I don't know where or why I finally thought of the circles but I think it works!  And I also think it would be super cute to put multiple pictures in those smaller circles… your own little film strip if you will!

I used the ticket corner punch (of course) to make the tickets.  The two on the left are for a title or journaling.  You could also put some black letters on the popcorn bucket for your title.  I used the star punches with Daffodil Delight card stock and added shimmer with the Champagne Mist shimmer paint.  It's the PERFECT amount of shine for these stars!  And of course the spiral punch was used for the film strips. 

So, who knows what I used to make the popcorn?

Valentines and Birthday Cards

Here are the cards from this week’s club meeting.  I love getting together with you ladies!  You are all so much fun.  Because of the holidays and all it felt like it had been forever since we got together and it took me a few minutes to get back in routine.  It was great fun!!  And I wish you all could’ve seen the swap cards.  (Each month members have the opportunity to participate in a card swap with each other.)  There was a snow globe card, TWO stair step cards, embossing, glitter, bling, and more!!! 

Supplies used include:
Stamp Sets: With all my Heart, I {Heart} Hearts, Well Scripted
Punches: circle punches, Heart to Heart punch, scallop edge
Accessories/Embellishments: Circle scissors plus, Scallops Die #2, Chunky Essentials Glitter, white gel pen, corduroy buttons, Soft Suede polka dot ribbon, vintage brads, clear rhinestone brad

First Card of the New Year!

Wow – it was both great and difficult to put ink to rubber to paper today!  It has been waaaaay too long since I have stamped.  It was awesome to sit and stamp again but very difficult to get a groove going as well.  Let’s hope I’ve worked out some kinks and the next ones come more quickly and easily.

I started with the Mojo sketch from this week (I did stray a little from the sketch but that’s okay) and knew I wanted to play with two new stamps: I {Heart} Hearts and Well Scripted.

Even with a slight loss of clear chunky glitter to my stamp room floor (thanks to my 2 year old) I like the way it turned out and hope you do too (especially my stamp club members who will be making this Wednesday night!). 

The color is a little off (got a new camera for my birthday last month and still have A LOT to learn on it!) but the colors used are Real Red, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla.

Penguin and Polar Bear friends

Another day, another challenge!  LOL  I wish it was that easy!  But I have designing to do for Stamp Club on Wednesday and I love starting with sketches and rolling from there so yeah me got to play two days in a row! 

Here’s my take on Taylor’s sketch challenge this week.  First time putting ink on these cuties!!  I LOVE THEM!  My Scrapbook clubbers, don’t be surprised if you see these guys next time…

Quick card highlights:

Cold & Cuddly Stamp set (in the current Holiday mini)
Holiday Lounge DSP (in the current Idea Book & Catalog)
Ice Circle Rhinestone brads
Frost White shimmer paint applied with an old blender pen to the ice
modern label punch
Circle Scissors plus
Stampin’ Up! colors used: Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, and Ruby Red

Bugs and Kisses Color Challenge

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to play along with one of Kristina’s color challenges.  So today, on this gorgeous day outside, the baby and I stayed inside.  Good and bad.  Sure would’ve loved to enjoy the  beautiful weather and watch my hubby do the yard work (yes, watch, I do the flowers and he does the rest) and play with the older kids, but the baby needed me inside and so ‘we’ stamped and it was great fun. 

I have a few little boys birthdays coming up so with that in mind I went to Kristina’s color challenge and began playing.  I decided right away that I wanted to do an unusual layout, use the circle scissors plus, and use the Bugs & Kisses stamp set.  I pulled out the colors of cardstock and inks from the challenge and sat and sat and sat.  I just couldn’t decide where to start with the layout!  I finally decided to just go ahead and cut a circle, which led to stamping the bugs in rows, which led to layering the circles, and then I sat and sat and sat.  Remember that unusual layout I wanted?  Ya, wasn’t feelin’ it.  So I turned my focus onto the background and challenged myself NOT to use Designer Paper (I seriously have an addiction to DSP!) so that left me where?  I wanted to incorporate some kind of round aspect to mimic the bugs circle.  But my go-to fave background stamp (Polka Dot) has retired, so I decided to keep thinking.  That’s when I decided to do the Big Shot texturz plate but knew I wanted more.  That’s when it hit me to make my own DSP with a baby wipe and reinkers and Whisper White CS.  Hence, the stripes.  I grabbed an envelope and striped the bottom inch of that and then grabbed an inside layer for the card and striped that!  Fun!  The rest of the card came together pretty easily and an hour and a half later (yes, I know it doesn’t look like a card that should take an hour and a half but remember all that sitting and thinking I was doing?!?!) I had this simple layout, bright and fun birthday card!  Hope you like it and I hope the recipient and his mom do too.  So T.R. pretend you didn’t see this post! 

The colors for the challenge:

My creation:

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Bugs & Kisses
Paper:
Real Red
Tempting Turquoise
So Saffron
Chocolate Chip
Whisper White
Inks:
Tempting Turquoise marker,  pad, & refill
Real Red marker, pad, & refill
Chocolate Chip marker, pad, & refill
So Saffron pad & refill
Accessories/ Embellishments:
Tempting Turquoise brads
large oval punch
circle scissors & glass mat
baby wipe
paper snips
Big Shot
Texturz Plate
blender pen
dimensionals