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

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

Polka Dot Ornament Card

I love polka dots.  I love black and white.  I love starting with a card sketch.  I love Gymboree. 

Did you read that last one twice?  LOL  Yes, I love Gymboree, the kids clothing store.  Let me explain why that pertains to this post: the colors and the patterns!  There’s this great Panda Bear line right now at Gymboree and slowly I’ve been adding pieces of this line to my daughter’s closet (even got some more today!).  So this great clothing line was the inspiration for my card.  Here’s the Mojo Monday sketch, the Gymboree line, and my card!  Enjoy.  (Click on the card for an added bonus.)

Scrapbook Club Projects

I {heart} scrapbooking!  And I love having the scrapbook club back in action cuz it helps me get more pages ready to go!  So here’s some ‘before’ shots of the pages for this month.  And hopefully VERY soon I’ll get some ‘after’ shots with pictures on them!

I used the new Night & Day Specialty Designer Papers as well as a LOT of punches on this layout.  I love how versatile the Baroque Motifs stamp set is as well.  Who would’ve thought it would be a great stamp set for Halloween??  But when I pulled out the Night & Day designer paper I immediately thought of Baroque Motifs.  Hope you like it too! 

Here’s the second layout for the scrapbook club members and guests.  Again, I used the Night & Day Specialty Designer paper.  This time I pulled out my Medallion background stamp, inked it up with Frost White shimmer paint and stamped it half on each page.  I also did a ton more punching to make that spider (scallop circle and photo corner punches) and used the Big Shot to get the Build a Bear.  I used a marker to color a toothpick Elegant Eggplant and used that as the holder for the Happy Halloween banner the little bear is holding.

Mojo 105 & Twist Club Card

I thought this week’s Mojo Sketch was so fun!  I was happy to be able to play again and create one of the four thank you cards my Twist Club members will be making this month.

This card uses the Thoroughly Modern Designer Paper ($9.95) and the Elegant Thank You stamp($6.95) along with two of our new In Color card stocks, Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede and the scallop square punch and the 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" circle punches.  Very fun and very simple to do!

Thanks for stopping by!  For any more information or ordering information just contact me!  I’d be happy to help you with your Christmas Cards, thank you notes, etc.