3 different views

Today, I've got 3 different looks for the same basic card. It's really easy to change up a card just by using some different papers, adding ribbon, brads, & so on. These cards were made using the Heartfelt Thanks stamp set from Stampin' Up!I stamped on Whisper White. Then I layered cardstock using Certainly Celery, Mellow Moss & Green Galore. The card with the striped paper background is from the Sale-a-bration mini catalog using the Delicate Dots Designer Series Paper. So easy to do! I had fun with them & will be using them soon!

Busy Weekend

Hi All!
I had just a moment today so I'd thought I'd let ya'll know what's going on. Yesterday, I went to pick up 3 of the missionaries who are taking part in our conference at the Austin airport. It was terribly foggy all the way there but I didn't really have any problems. I made a wrong turn once in Austin & had to ask directions on how to get back to where I needed to me but it wasn't bad. I was able to have a nice visit with the ones I picked up. If you're in Temple, hopefully, you'll be able to stop by Immanuel Baptist some time tomorrow morning & meet our missionaries. The ones I've gotten to talk to so far are wonderful!
We're having the senior adults fellowship at our house this evening so I've got a lot to do today. We will have the missions fest at the church tomorrow morning from 9 - 11:30 am. After that, weather permitting, we will have a prayer walk, then a picnic at Miller Park. Hope you can come. Sunday morning service should be great. Pastor Ron will be interviewing the missionaries in with his sermon. After worship, we're having lunch in the FLC. Then I get to drive back to the airport to deliver the ones who flew in. David is planning on going with me then, so I won't have to drive.
I'll try to come up with something creative to put here for you on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Egg-citing

I've got a cute layout for you & it can be used with your upcoming Easter layout. The background is stamped with 2 stamps from the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set that will be in the new mini catalog that comes out April 1. You can pre-order this set right now if you wish. It is a set of 10 stamps for $34.95.
If you want to be on my mailing list & receive this mini catalog free, email me your snail mail address & I'll send one out to you. You can find my email address in the "About Me" section on my blog.
Here are the directions.

1. Using the Easter egg stamp from the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set, stamp eggs around the Mellow Moss cardstock in Certainly Celery ink. Stamp the eggs to about 1" from the top, bottom and left side and about 3" from the right side.
2. On the So Saffron 8 1/2 x 11" cardstock, stamp the duck with Summer Sun ink.
3. Using the Snail tape runner, adhere the So Saffron cardstock over the Mellow Moss cardstock. Place it so that it will slightly cover the eggs that you stamped on it.
4. Stamp your title on Whisper White cardstock and cut around the words.
5. Stamp 1 Easter egg and 1 duck on Whisper White cardstock with the Staz-on Jet Black ink. Using the Watercolor Pencils and the blender pens, color the egg and duck.
6. Apply Snail tape runner to the back of a 12 1/2 to 13" piece of So Saffron ribbon. Let the ends overlap the Mellow Moss cardstock & attach to the back. Slightly overlap the So Saffron cardstock with the ribbon.
7. Place dimensionals on the back of the egg and duck to pop them from the page. Add your pictures and journaling.

Busy, busy, busy

Today has been a very busy day for me & it looks like it's not going to let up until next week. I hope I'll be able to post some ideas or layouts tomorrow & Thursday but I know that after that I won't have time to post until Monday. Please check back then & hopefully, I'll have something creative to share with you. My church is having our missions conference this weekend and since I'm on the missions committee, my whole weekend is booked solid.
I thought I'd share this layout with you today of 2 of my grandchildren from a couple yrs ago. The papers used in this layout are from SU! Tea Party designer series papers. I just love the floral and the lavenders! I think my favorite color is changing to lavender from the blue that it's been all my life. This was so easy to put together with the papers already matching. The title I stamps with Schoolbook Serif alphabet in Certainly Celery ink. The ribbon across the top is the Certainly Celery from the ribbon bundle in the Sale-a-bration brochure. If you want to get any of the free sets in the SAB mini, be sure you order by March 31. That's the last day for this sale.

Tag album in 3 posts

Part One.

Good Morning! It's Monday and the start of another great week. Today, I've got a cool tag album that I made of my dgd, Victoria when they lived in Abilene. She was on a soccer team & I got to go up to watch her play one Saturday. That was a bit difficult to do often since it was a 3 hr drive from where we live. Maybe someday they'll live close enough for me to see all their special things!

To make this I used Brilliant Blue, Green Galore and Tempting Turquoise cardstock. I cut each piece to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" and then folded each in half, like a card. I used my Big Shot and one of my old Sizzix dies, the large oval tag. I love the Big Shot because I can cut just about anything with it. Dies from any cutting machine will work with the Big Shot! I placed the folded side just to the inside of the right steel die cut area. Then ran it through the machine. This gave me a tag with one side folded. After I did this with 3 complete sheets of cardstock (2 folded tags per sheet), I then started running adhesive with my Snail on 1 side of the folded tag. I then glued 2 tags together so that they would stand up and 1 side would overlap the other. Hope that makes sense.

After I adhered all of the tags together, I took a few of my favorite stamps (Fifth Avenue Floral & Best Kind of Friend) and stamped over several of the tags. I stamped in the same ink color as the color of the cardstock. It gives a really nice look that way. Use scrap paper to use as a mask so that the ink goes just where you want it. That means, cover up the areas you don't want stamped with the scrap paper so you stamp only where you want it.

I used some pieces of scrap cardstock and designer paper (Raspberry Tart) to make pockets, journaling boxes and elements to decorate my album.

I finished it up with 1/4" strips of Whisper White grosgrain ribbon. What? It doesn't look like I used Whisper White ribbon? Well, since I'm still new in SU!, I can't afford to have every matching ribbon color available. Soooo... I took 8" pieces of the Whisper White and rubbed it across my Brilliant Blue, Green Galore & Tempting Turquoise ink pads. I left one end for my fingers, used the end of a paint brush to mash down & rubbed the ribbon back & forth on both sides several times in the chosen color. It gave me some beautiful matching ribbons. Be sure you give the ribbon at least 30 min. to dry. Then I tied the ribbons to the tops of each tag.

Tag album

Part three
This is what the finished tag album looks like. You can see from the pictures that this makes a 2 sided album. I used a total of 3 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11" cardstock to make the complete album. It gave me 12 pages plus a title page. I hope that all of this makes sense. If any of it is confusing, leave me a comment & I'll try to explain better or clearer to help you in making your own tag album.