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.

Last Chance Stamp a Stack Cards

Here’s what the girls will be stamping tonight…

One is the card featured earlier on my blog here.  The second is a simple trifold card using the Wild About You set.  The third is a hinged card using the oh-so-beautiful Heartfelt Thanks set and Filigree brads.  The final card features the fun Doodle This stamp set an a button from the Button Bouquet assortment.

Prehistoric Mojo

This card is serving multiple purposes!  One – to do a Mojo challenge that I haven’t done in forever!  Two – for the Stamp a Stack this week.  Three – for a little friend’s birthday this weekend!  I have to say this might be the first time in 6 years I bought a stamp set from the Retired List.  It’s been on my list forever and was just kind of waiting ’til I *needed* it for the something for the boys.  But since it’s retiring and there are no dinosaurs in the new catalog I knew I HAD to have it!  Why didn’t I get it sooner?  It was great fun and super easy to play with!

The sketch for this week:

Tonight’s Marker Club Projects

Again, busy, busy!

Tonight’s projects include:
-  a gift card/money holder featuring the Top Note Die and Branch Out stamp set
- a card using one of my favorite Retiring Stamp sets, Heartfelt Thanks and also the Top Note Die with the Big Shot
- and a Totally Tool father’s day card.