Capture the Little Things

During the month of March, I was able to work on a few things scrappy related. However, I neglected to post them to my blog! So, I'm playing a little catch up here... ;) This is a card I made for a challenge/contest on the scrapbooking message board I frequent. I received 2nd place for it! The frame, which I cut out using SCAL, is popped up with adhesive foam squares, as well as the butterflies. I also added some diamond stickles to the butterflies to give them a little something extra. The floral design in the center of the circle was stamped & then clear heat embossed. I hand-cut the little "hello" tag and then sanded the edges before stamping it. Cardstock: DCWV; Patterned Paper: Paper Pizzaz; Punches: Fiskars Threading Water & Martha Stewart butterfly; Bella's Baubles ; Ranger Diamond Stickles; Flowers: Unknown

I apologize for not blogging in such a long while! September is a busy month for us... my in-laws came in for a visit for almost a week and both of our boys had birthdays. Our oldest celebrated his 4th & our "baby" celebrated his 1st. So I stayed busy being creative. :) Here are their birthday invites and cards... 4 yr. old's Birthday Invite printed the Toy Story characters on the computer, then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder Used one of Michael Strong's stamps for the background; patterned paper - Bo Bunny; "You're Invited" stamp - Heidi Swapp 4 yr. old's Birthday Card inside of the card... 1 year old's Birthday Invite Used one of Michael Strong's stamps to texturize the background on the white Car stamp is from Inkadinkado; textured cardstock from DCWV; Ribbon from Jo-Ann's Craft Essentials 1 year old's Birthday Card Used Autumn Leaves' Cuteworld Boy papers & sticker; Ribbon unknown

Recently, we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary by taking a 3-day trip to St. Louis. I had been "begging" my husband for a while already to take me to Archiver's - I had never been to one yet. So when we went to St. Louis, he did! And he gave me $50 to spend! :) Of course, upon entering the store, I immediately realized that $50 wasn't nearly enough for all I'd "need". I decided it was best not to mention that to my dear husband though, for fear that he'd have a heart attack! ;) Since I'd never been to Archiver's before, I was in for a real treat! WOW!!! I loved it! What a fantastic place!!!! I could have spent all day in there and easily spent $500! I fell in love with Basic Grey papers - some really gorgeous papers! I saw so many things I would love to get... someday. ;) And about that $50 I went in with, well, here's what I came out with... Yep! That's right! Exactly 1 penny! My total was $49.99 - am I good, or what?! LOL! ...

I made a card this past weekend for a friend of mine who was having a birthday. It was a new one for me. I saw the design for this over on Hero Arts (pretty sure that's where it was!), but I customized it! :) It was a little time consuming since it was the first time making it, but really a lot of fun! Here is the card opened up. You have to pull the tag to open it... The back side... you can see how I attached things here... And here it is closed... it lays nice & flat when it's in an envelope, but I let it pop up a little for the pic...