Emma’s 9th Birthday

Emma is a frequent stamper of mine and she's 9! She and her mom come to most of my mom & me classes and she is such a love.  I've actually known Emma and her mom for about 7 years now and remember her toddling around with this headful of adorable curly hair and now she's 9!  Crazy.
So, Emma's mom approached me and told me that Emma wanted to stamp at her birthday party.  LOVE IT!  How could I say no?  So first, every birthday girl needs a birthday present, right?!  So here was my present to her…a scrapbook layout to scrap her 9th birthday party.

A row of 9 (of course) cupcakes with some sugary cherries on top!

Here's the journaling block.  This cherry has a dab of crystal effects on it to make it look super yummy!!

Tomorrow, I'll show you the projects the girls stamped!

Hope you enjoyed this absolutely gorgeous weather this weekend!!

Christmas Cards

Here are the Christmas cards we made last night.  It's hard to choose which one is my favorite.  I love the Deck the Halls designer paper and the vintage feel to the Cardinal card… I like the ease that the snowflake card comes together yet still looks well put together…of course I love the ornaments, the details in the ornaments just make it… and who doesn't like the crispness of Real Red, Basic Black, and Whisper White together along with some glitter on Santa's hat??

Do you have your Christmas card designed?  If not, I'd love to help you!  Just shoot me an email or give me a call to help you design Christmas cards perfect for you!

DD’s Birthday Invitation

Funny enough we now have a child’s birthday to celebrate each quarter of the calendar year!  LOL  And next month is our oldest daughter’s birthday so the last of her invitations went out in today’s mail.  But before they went I had to take some pictures to share with you all!

I think Crazy for Cupcakes might be my current favorite set!  Remember I used it for both the invites and thank you’s for my other daughter’s birthday and I’ve recently done a Cupcakes Class and I used it for my technique club recently as well, among other instances I’m sure!

This instance of using the set just made sense because the tier of cupcakes has 6 cupcakes in it and my daughter will be turning 6!  She thought that was just perfect.  We decided easily on the pink and brown color scheme and used the retired Berry Bliss DSP along with Pretty in Pink CS.  I didn’t have enough of the Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon for all the invites but I thought the pink striped ribbon looked just as good (if not, perhaps, better!).  And of course the Big Shot was used a TON with the Top Note die, not just for the outside but the inside as well.   And if you remember from a few posts ago I used one of the cards from the Hawaii boards as inspiration for the layout of the card.  We’re pleased in our house at how they turned out and are looking forward to a fun birthday party!

A Pink Striped Hippo…

So, another place I often look to for inspiration is a website called Mojo Mondays.  This site doesn’t do Color Challenges but rather sketch/layout ones.  It’s a great place to go for inspiration and the Mojo Team gives fabulous samples.  I especially thought Maria’s was super cute so I ran with hers!  

So, that’s where I went today when I needed a second make and take card for my workshop tonight (gotta love the last minute thing, huh?!? not!).  But as usual the Mojo site came in very handy and here’s my creation for Mary and friends tonight – hope they like it!

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Pun Fun
Wow Flowers
Paper:
Real Red
Candy Lane DSP
Whisper White
Close to Cocoa
Inks:
Black Stazon
Close to Cocoa
Real Red marker
Accessories:
5/16" Neutrals brad
1" circle punch
1-1/4" circle punch
paper snips
2 way glue pen
dazzling diamonds gliter
dimensionals
 

French Onion Soup 6 x 6 Recipe Card

Oui, oui maidemoiselle!  (Did I even spell that right?! LOL)  Our jet setter of the group, Joanne, created this Parisian inspired recipe card!  The blue color scheme and layered background stamps are just perfect.  You can’t see it well in the scan but the glitter on the Eiffel Tower – C’est magnifique!!