A really big card and a really big girl!!!

This card is 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 with a really big paper pieced kite!

I am still trying to decide if I like this card. It really isn't my style, but it is fun to try new things and take a risk!

So I made the kite by tracing and cutting out pieced of the Slumber Party DSP (retired). I made a sky background by punching a circle scallop out of scrap paper and using it as a stencil to sponge on Baja Breeze ink. The string of the kit is some rope that was in a mini ages ago with Riding Hood Red bows. Here is a closer look....

So today was another big birthday at our house. My youngest, Laynee, turned 4 today. Seriously, the first day of school and 3 birthdays all within a weeks time has made me an emotional wreck! We have had lots of fun celebrating! Although I won't lie, I am relieved to have a month off of birthdays!!! lol

So here is my Laynee when she was just a few days old...

and today at age 4....

Ok I am off to bed. I have to go have an argument with the kids' principal in the morning :(

Happy Birthday! Cha Cha Cha! Ooooh la la!

Today, my sweet twin girls turned 5! My kids' birthdays are always bitter sweet for me. I am happy to spoil them, celebrate and see their smiles but I don't want them to grow up!!!! They are my babies!!!! Just look at how sweet they were...

and still are.....

So between the first day of school craziness, shopping, wrapping, baking 4 dozen cupcakes for their classes and entertaining these munchkins, I have had NO time to stamp. It's killing me!!!!

But don't get too worried because I still have one last card to show you that I made last week...

I like the clean look of the bright birthday banner on the white cardstock...

I CASED the card from one I saw on the front cover of Card Style magazine. I just hand drew a pennent shape on the cardstock and then traced it a few more times. That silver cord was super hard to work with!!!! In the future I would use colored floss or string. So much easier!

I am off to get some shut eye so I am ready (as I will ever be) for a 5 year old birthday party tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!

Another SPACIAL Day and a card!!!!

Today is ANOTHER very special day in the Sears Family!!!! Today Laynee is turning 3!!!!! Where sis all my babies go?!!!! We celebrated Laynee's birthday along with the twins' when we were in Disney. And then we had a birthday party yesterday. So today will be a little low key. I am going to take the girls' for a pedicure! Fun!!!! Here is my gorgious birthday girl...

Happy Birthday, Laynee Bug!!!!!

Are you ready for some stamping?!!!!

Here is another thank you card that I made with this beautiful stamp from paper pretties.....

I colored her in with my copic markers and the paper is retired and call Sweet Slumper Specialty. Enjoy!

Pictures from the 4th!!!

Here are just a couple pics of my kiddos from yeasterday!!!

You will be seeing these on a scrapbook page soon!!!! Hope everyone had a great day!

Happy Father's Day!

I didn't get a chance to photograph the card that I made for my hubby : (   But I will take a picture in the morning so I can share it with you tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a couple pics I took today of my sweetie and his babies....

I feel so very blessed! I love them all!

Make a Splash

My kids are on their third week of swim lessons for the summer. I am pleasently suprised at how well they are all doing! It has been ages since I have shared kid pictures here on ym stamping blog- but I just can't help it today! I LOVE swimming pictures! So if you are here for the card, you have my permission to scroll down!

This is my oldest, Kyler.

This is Makenzie. She is one of the twins and they will be turning 4 next month!!! Wow!

Here is her twin sister, Danika.

And this is my baby, Laynee. And she is going to be 3 next month!

Aren't they adorable?!!!! I just love them!!!!

 

Now on to the card!!!! I was so excited when the Paper Pretties introduced this stamp as one of their stamps of the month! It reminds me of my girls!!!!!

I CASED this card big time!!!!! Becky Carafa made the orginal which you can see HERE. I changed the main image and the sentiment- but otherwise kept it the same. The colors in this DSP (which is retired) always remind me of summer! The stamp is from Paper Pretties and I colored her with Copic Markers, but the rest of the card is made with Stampin' Up! supplies.

Recipe:

Stamps: Make a Splash (Paper Pretties)

Paper: Spring Break DSP (retired), Soft Sky (retired), Whisper White

Ink: Graphite Brilliance Black

Other: Copic Markers, Silver Brads, Spiral Punch

Adorable Danika and a FREE Digi kit and wallpaper!

 

 

 

Super simple digi layout for you today!!!! And the best part (well other than the sweet pic of my daughter) is that I used a FREE kit to make the page!!!! If you want to download it, click HERE. But if you are a paper scrapper, this page would be easy to achieve that way as well. You could use ribbon, dsp, flower fusion and brads. Then you could stamp the title or even computer generate it.

Here is the screen saver/wallpaper on my computer for March...

It uses the same kit!!!! But....you don't even have to create this one!!! Click HERE to download the desktop. Add your own pictures and you're done!!!

Have a creative day!

An update and a fun digi page!

I had such an amzing response to my stamp sale yesterday! I spent a couple of hours responding to email and sending Paypal invoices. But wouldn't you know it, no one got the invoices!!!!!!!!! I am not so sure why. But no worries- I will sit down and resend those invoices this afternoon. Sorry for the delay. There are still several sets for sale, so please scroll down to my last post and check them out!

I have not had any time to stamp : (  My hubby worked a lot over the weekend and so I had kid duty. And then yesterday I was so busy sending those invoices : (   Last night while I was in bed, I had the urge to sneek down to my craft room and do some stamping. He he he. I resisted since I knew I needed all the sleep I could get!!! But I do have a fun digi scrapbook page to show you. I am having the best time making these!!!!!

Yummy!!!! I love the bright colors!!!! And of course, I think that Laynee looks ADORABLE!!!!! I just took the picture on Sunday!!! And I already scrapped it!!! I love to scrap the pictures that I am most excited about! I can't wait to get this page printed at Cosco and stick it in her album!

I used this really fun and bright kit from the Sweet Shoppe called Baby Brights. You will be seeing more of this kit for sure!!!

Ok- I am off to story time at the library with my son. And then back here to send invoices again. And then I am going to stamp!!!! See ya tomorrow!

Some Valentine's Digi Layouts

I am not feeling well, STILL, and decided to use this down time to try my hand at some digi scrapping. I am learning....

I used a kit called Heartstrings for both of these layouts.

I like how they turned out! But I have so many questions!!! Someday I will figure this out!!! Hope that you had a happy Valentine's Day!

Lots of Scrapbooking!

Over the past 2 weeks, I have managed to get quite a few scrapbook layouts done!!! They are all pretty basic and simple. But my goal in scrapbooking is to my children the stories about their childhood that they would never remember otherwise. I don't worry too much about "getting caught up." I just scrapbook the pictures and the stories that are most meaningful to me in the moment.  I focus on photos and journaling. Enjoy the layouts!

So what do you think? Are you motivated to get scrapping?!!!

Happy Birthday, Kyler!!!

I cannot believe that my "baby" is 5 today!!!! He is actually my oldest- but as I always tell him "you are always my baby." Isn't he handsome?

Of course he is!!!!

Kyler is having a birthday party with some of his (and my!) friends this weekend. I have to admitt that I actually sent out an evite. It is just so much easier for everyone to RSVP!!! But then I made some invites for some of his friends from school and piano class that I did not have email addresses for. I love the way they turned out! Kyler said that they are "cool." I wanted to play our new wii but told myself I couldn't until the invites were made. An hour later I was playing wii!!!

Here is a peak at the inside...

I used my cmputer and printer to write all the details!

Recipe:

Stamps: Prehistoric Pals, Hugs & Wishes

Paper: Maine Blueberry DSP, Kraft, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White

Ink: Bashful Blue, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive

Other: Bashful Blue Taffeta

Some Disney photos

As promised, here are a few photos from my trip to Disney World with my son.

I took about 450 pictures so it was tough picking just a few to share with you!!!

I actually put more on my family blog if you want to check it out! Just click HERE.

My Girls!

I can't think of a better way to start 2009 then by showing off a scrapbook layout with adorable pictures of my girls!!!

These are some of the pictures that I had taken this past summer to commemorate their birthdays. They were all little hams!

This layout really evolved as I started working on it! I was looking at the Always designer Series Paper that I just recently

got- and had the urge to scrap some girls pictures!

Here are some notes about the layout:

-I didn't have any 12x12 Pink Pirouette so I just used a sheet of 8 1/2 x11 and another strip that was about 2x11. I just covered the seem with the piece of patterned paper.

-I made the scallop with the scallop border punch. This punch is a MUST for any paper crafter!

-The title was cut with my Big Shot Die Cut Machine and the Go Go Boots alphabet.

-I didn't have any buttons to match the layout so I pulled out my clear buttons and punched circles of dsp to go under them. Now I have buttons that match perfectly!

Recipe:

Stamps: None!

Paper: Always DSP, Whisper White, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette

Other: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Go Go Boots alphabte die, scallop edge punch, circle punches, clear buttons, regal rose ribbon, paper clip from clips assortment, white gel pen, pumpkin pie brad, word window punch

Merry Christmas!

Sorry I have been so quiet this week. I have been enjoying some holiday time with my family! We had 15 people for dinner last night!!!  It was crazy- but a good crazy. The kids got so many gifts that I can hardly see the floor in their huge toy room. And we still have to go to grandma's house today!!! And I got a few new stamp sets to play with!!! (When I can squeeze in some stamping time!) Plus, my sweet hubby got me a digital videa camera and I am dying to make a video tutorial!!!

I hope that everyone had a merry Christmas and is spending time with friends and family!

Here is a super sweet picture of my babies!

I have not had any time in my stamp room in days- so I am going to show you another one of the scrapbook layouts that my class made a few weeks ago.

The page was made with the I Wish Simply Scrappin' kit. Love those kits!!!

Stay tuned for pictures from my upcoming Valentine's class as well as some new Class by Mail kits!

Quick and Simple Card

Sorry I haven't posted many projects this week. My entire family has come down with colds and so stamping has been a very low priority this week. I have actually completed some awesome projects that you will have to wait to see!!!

So today I have a super simple card to share with you. I made it yesterday when I was feeling very unmotivated! My Aunt requested a card with the flowers from Inspired by Nature and she wanted them to be purple. So this is what I came up with...

Recipe:

Stamps: Inspired by Nature

Paper: Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White

Ink: Elegant Eggplant and Almost Amathyst

Other: Stamping Spong

 

I am going to leave you today with a picture of three of my kiddos from their Christmas play at church this past weekend! Two of them were cows and 1 was a lamb!

Check my post below as there are AMAZING specials going on right now!

Chistmas Scrapbooking!

Every year, I offer a scrapbooking class in December. I love it- because it forces me to get a jump start on my scrapbooking!!! I think that my customers love it for the same reason! Imagaine printing your pictures on the 1st of the year and have 6 scrapbook layouts waiting for them! Today is the last day to sign up to come to my scrapbooking class on the 12th and it is also the last day to buy a class kit by mail. Click HERE for all the details.

Here is another peak at one of the layouts we will be maiking in class...

Are you wondering why I put three of the same picture on th page? Well I didn't have any other horizontal pictures from our Christmas shoot and I wanted to be able to show you where I intended for the pictures to be placed when I designed the page. Make sense?

Here is a close up of the cute little tag that comes in the I Wish kit. I used it as my title on this page...

I think I may end up using this page for pictures of my kids snuggled up in their jammies on Christmas Eve!

Hope to see you in class!!!

I will be taking the weekend off of blogging in order to spend some extra time with my family- but I am working on a tutorial that I will be posting first thing Monday morning!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Christmas Paper Bag Album

Today I am going to show you a mini album that I made last Christmas. It was before my blogging days. After an entire year- I am still in love with this little album. And all my customers like to look at it when they come to class. The Dashing Designer Series Paper that I used in the book is retired- but if you want to recreate this- you could use any of the Holiday Designer Series Paper packs in the current Catalog or the Holiday Mini.

Here is the cover:

And the inside pages...

And here is a picture of the tags that I put inside the paper bags....

I gave these albums to the kid's grandparents and godparents last year and they were a hit! I know that I displayed by copy all year long!

So here are some details....

-I buy my paperbag albums from ebay. I buy the 6x6 albums and I like to buy the ones that are sewn together as they stay together much better!

-The albums already have the holes punched in them- but if you just add all the pages and then try and punch through them with the crop a dile- it will be too thick. So make the pages and punch the holes before you glue them into the album!

-I used lots of punches and ribbon in this project. The only stamp set that I used was Merry & Bright (still available) for the little reindeers. And the patterned paper is called Dashing- but it is retired.

-I got these pictures taken last year at Portrait Innovations. The outfits were purchased from ebay.

 

Reminder:

This Friday is your last chance to register for my I Wish Simply Scrappin Class. Click HERE for more info.

 

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Happy Stamping!