Mother's Day Floral cards

I've been posting layouts the last few days, so here's a break to show off some cards I created for Mother's Day. I used the same design and basic supplies for both, but since one is for my mom and one is for my hubby's mom, I wanted to make them slightly different. Can't decide which one I like better!

For my hubby's mom

For my mom

Both cards

Recipe:
Hooray Bouquet (2011) & Say It in Style (2009) stamp sets
Caboodle paper
Capri, Sorbet, Shortbread & White Daisy cardstock
Capri, Sorbet & Honey ink
Clear craft buttons
Creme Brulee baker's twine
Puppy Love Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Designs)
Liquid Glass
Cuttlebug embossing folders: Swiss Dot & Little Flowers
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers
Circle Double Stitched Steel dies (Art Impressions)
Pattern:  Sketch-n-Scrap Card sketch #285

Challenges: Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with twist of floral - used a floral embossing folder on one card, plus both have die-cut and stamped flowers; Little Red Wagon #806 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (use yellow) - the smaller flowers, the baker's twine, and one epoxy heart; Retro Rubber Challenges #254  Sweet Spring Flowers - stamped the flowers and the sentiments, stamps are from 2009 and 2011; If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #204 Pretty flowers - I was inspired by the colors and shape of the cookies, plus I added designs on my flowers because of the designs on the cookies

Springtime 2016 Layout

Easter 2016 at church included Peeps and a competition for the Sunday school kids, and my hubby managed to snap a few pictures of the festivities. Thanks to the challenge sites (see below) that inspired me to add flower die-cuts and a pretty color combo to my layout!

Recipe:
My Peeps & Hooray Bouquet stamp sets
Dotty for You paper
Blush, Canary, Lagoon & White Daisy cardstock
Vellum
Blush, Canary & Lagoon ink
Black marker
Pine Fineliner pen (iBayam)
Blush gingham ribbon
Blush craft buttons
Pearl Opaques
Lagoon baker's twine
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, butterflies
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: decorative border
Challenges: Crafter's Cafe #283 Flowers; Cut It Up #248 Spring project with a die-cut; Cupcake Inspirations #540 Color combo

The Magic of Butterflies Layout

One of our favorite places to visit as a family is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and it's extra special to go there in the late spring and summer when the Butterfly Pavilion is open. I've scrapbooked photos of the butterflies several times, but can never get enough of these magical creatures! For my layout, I started with the cool February sketch from Let's Scrap (see below), and then Scrap With Stacy's photo challenge inspired me to change the rainbow and stars to a garland of flowers with butterflies. I also journaling (with a white gel pen on the black background) about the magic of seeing a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.

And here are a few more pictures of those magical creatures (I will be inserting these into a page protector):

Recipe:
Hooray Bouquet & Spot On Backgrounds stamp sets
Dotty for You papers
Black, Smoothie, Sunset, Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, Cotton Candy, Glacier, Bamboo, Autumn Terracotta, Lagoon, Sky, White Daisy & Colonial White cardstock
Green vellum (Hot Off the Press)
Sunset, Sky, Creme Brulee & Cranberry ink
Black marker
White gel marker (Sakura)
Smoothie grosgrain ribbon
Seagull decorative edged scissors (Fiskars)
Decorative brads (from my stash)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, branch, small butterflies, scalloped frame
Cricut Artisry cartridge: large butterfly
Small flower punch (Emagination)
Pattern: Let's Scrap 2-1-19

Challenges: Double Trouble #22 - Thing 1's Tic-Tac-Toe board (I chose die/punch + vellum + ribbon) & Thing 3's Show us a little magic (butterflies are pretty magical!); Use Your Stuff #348 Do You Believe in Magic? (butterflies again)

Spring Blooms Layout

My husband loves to take pictures of flowers, so I usually wind up with a bunch of really pretty pictures and the decision whether or not to include them in our family scrapbooks. I decided to go for it with this batch that he took at the zoo, since I figure it's one thing I want the kids to remember about their dad - his love of beauty. Plus I love the picture of me and the kids checking out that fun bloom!

Recipe:
Hooray Bouquet & You Are My Happy stamp sets
Hopscotch papers
Glacier, Sunset, Cocoa & Colonial White cardstock
Glacier, Sunset, Smoothie, Cocoa & Flaxen ink
ShinHan Touch Twin marker
Gazebo Titles stickers (CM)
Mocha Opaques Pearls
Craft buttons
White embroidery floss
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: butterfly, flowers, scalloped border
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge 2
Challenges: Lasting Memories This or That challenge (buttons, bling)

Spring Luncheon Layout

Happy New Year everyone! Hope that 2016 is a wonderful year full of precious memories and enough time to scrapbook them. I'm starting out with a bang by posting a layout I finished up this morning. As I sat shivering in my scraproom completing it, the soft colors and springtime theme warmed me up a little mentally, even if not physically! I usually struggle a bit working with pastels, but for some reason, this layout came together pretty easily. The banner across the bottom of the layout is actually a photograph of the banner I designed for the event.

Just an FYI: I posted a sketch today on Splitcoast Stampers, so if you need some inspiration for your latest group of pictures, check it out here.
Recipe:
My Sunshine, Hooray Bouquet & Vintage Type stamp sets
Brushed Level 2 papers
Pixie, Crystal Blue, Pear, Canary, Desert Sand & White Daisy cardstock
Blush, Crystal Blue, Pear, Petal, Juniper & Creme Brulee ink
Crystal Blue craft buttons
Bubblegum embroidery floss
Mocha Opaques
Aqua Dots
Mini flower punch (EK Success)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, branch
Cricut Artiste cartridge: Spring title, bird
Pattern: Sketch-n-Scrap #95

Art Philosophy Welcome Banner

I made this banner for a ladies' luncheon at church and then decided to hang it up in my entryway at home. I had made a welcome banner once before using the Art Philosophy cartridge, so I already had the template saved in Cricut Craft Room, and that gave me a jump start in getting the banner done. I went with flowers and butterflies for the end pennants since it was for a women's event, and the colors are, of course, very girly. Fortunately, my husband doesn't seem to mind!

Recipe:
Hooray Bouquet stamp set
Gypsy, Cotton Candy, Sky, Creme Brulee & Sweet Leaf cardstock
Gypsy, Cotton Candy, Sky, Creme Brulee & Sweet Leaf ink
Black marker
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: pennants, butterflies, flowers
Challenges: Heart 2 Heart Banner Day challenge

Dakota Card Workshop

I haven't posted anything for a while because I've been so busy creating cards for my card workshops. I just finished a workshop last night, and here are the cards we created, 2 each of 6 designs. I wasn't enamored of the Dakota papers when my ladies picked them, but I really enjoyed the challenge of taking papers that weren't "my style" and making cards that were my style. Hope you like them!
Recipe:
Live Inspired, Find Your Style, 4 My Friend, Diverse Backgrounds, Say It In Style, It's Your Day, Hooray Bouquet, Intrinsic Backgrounds, Card Chatter - Birthday, You & Me stamp sets
Dakota Level 2 papers
Pacifica, Barn Red,Sky, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Black & Colonial White cardstock
Pacifica, Barn Red,Sky & Black ink
Color-Ready Seam Binding ribbon
Burlap ribbon
Colonial White ric-rac
Durables Round Studs
Pearl Opaques
Milepost Shapes stars
3-D foam tape
Patterns: Gallery, Delightful Dots, Stay Left, Sentiment Secured, Veranda WOTG, Clementine WOTG
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: scalloped border, frame, alphabet collage, "u", arrow, star, sun, flower

Dotty for You Thank You Card

I'm working on cards for Part 2 of my Dotty for You workshop, so here's another simple but fun card. Lots of stamping on this one. Don't forget that if you purchase two stamp sets this month, you get a third one (of equal of lesser value) free!

Recipe:
A Little Everything, Hooray Bouquet & Connections stamp sets
Dotty for You Level 2 papers
Colonial White cardstock
Lagoon, Sweet Leaf & Sunset inks
Sunset button brad
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flower

32 Card Worshop Using Elemental

My mom recently asked me to create a bunch of cards to use for a business event, so I used a template designed by talented CTMH consultant Amber Hanson to come up with the following card set! I combined papers from the Elemental Level 2 pack with some random stamped paper, and threw in a bunch of shapes cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. I used a lot of different stamp sets and tried to list them all, but I may have missed a few.






Recipe:
Hooray Bouquet, Say It In Style, A Little Everything, AP Seasons, You and Me, It's Your Day, Jingle Borders & Holiday Hoopla stamp sets
Elemental Level 2 papers
Desert Sand, Pacifica, Sorbet, Cranberry, Craft & Colonial White cardstock
Cranberry, Pacifica, Sorbet, Creme Brulee & Desert Sand ink
Sorbet ribbon
Creme Brulee grosgrain ribbon
Natural hemp
Colonial White ric-rac
Twill ribbon
Chocolate buttons
Liquid Glass

Elemental Card Class

I was recently asked to created a card workshop using the papers from the Elemental paper pack. Although I was initially hesitant because this was not one of my favorite packs, I started working with it and ended up enjoying the creative process. I love the cards I dreamed up. My CMTH upline loaned me her Cricut machine so I could try out the new Art Philosophy cartridge from CTMH, and I couldn't stop cutting! Every card features one or more (in some cases several) die-cuts from the cartridge. Here are my cards, which also meet the weekly challenge from the Heart2Heart challenge blog: show off artwork featuring die-cuts.

The whole set:

A detail from my favorite card.I cut out a dragonfly in a frame first, then an empty frame. Using the empty frame, we masked the frame part of the frame/dragonfly combo and sponged the dragonfly's wings with Sorbet ink. We then sponged a second dragonfly of the same size, and colored the body black using a marker. We glued the second dragonfly over the first, leaving the wings free, and applied Liquid Glass to the body to make it shiny. Love that look!

For this one, we masked the bottom of the cupcake and stamped the frosting portion first, and then adhered the cupcake liner to the image.We then sponged Pacifica ink onto the frosting, and added Liquid Glass to the swirls. We also dry embossed a line around the Cranberry rectangle, flipped it over, and sanded the cardstock to reveal the white core along the embossed line.