Ladystamper

Summer is here! Can you tell? I haven't blogged much because I have been hanging with the kids! No schedule...it is great! We start camps and summer school next week. sigh....at least the summer is extra long! I had a totally fun workshop last night with some roudy women. You know who you are....! This is one of the projects we did. The patterned paper you see is from the Palete of pattern sampler pack (yes, I probably spelled that wrong Jesse...) that is available this month. I LOVE the patterns and the colors! On this 6 x 6 page I used the Almost Amethyst and Certainly Celery papers, mounted on a Certainly Celery page base. The squares are all 2 x 2. I sponged the edges of all the squares with Chocolate chip ink to pull them all toghether and to go with the brown ribbon I used for the flower stems. The flower on top is stamped with Amethyst onto white cardstock. The one on the left is stamped with White Craft ink onto celery and the one on the right is stamped with white craft on...

Today was our first day with no school. sigh...I love having the kids home. They have so much energy! I don't usually get much house work done when they are all here, but we get to do stuff together! Today we went and saw Shrek the Third. It was okay. I honestly only go to see those so I can see Puss in Boots. He is the cutest thing. The donkey is a bit irritating and Shrek, well...he IS an ogre.... We had a fun time tho. The weather here has been awesome. I think we may have to pay for the great season when the hurricane season starts. I guess we better enjoy it while we can! I am sharing another page I did last week. It is hard for me to get good pictures of scrap book pages because they are so large. This really looks better in person. I used the Encarte patterened paper from SU for the background. You can actually see both sides of the paper because I cut a large triangular shape out of it and flipped it for the the middle section. I stuck all three pieces to a sheet of white ...

Some of you may know that I have a scrapbooking business. It is called 200 Trees. It is named for my awesome yard that has over 200 trees. Anyway, I scrapbook for other people. The last couple of weeks I have been working on a graduation album for a client. It was a lot of fun but also a lot of work. I had SO many other things going on with the end of the school year and other projects...not to mention every day family matters. I am happy to report that I finished the album on time! whew! It ended up being 46 pages. I think I must have done at least 30 of them on Saturday! It turned out well. I hope the graduate likes it! I am just sharing a couple of pages that I made. This first one uses the treehouse papers and Doodle this from SU. I also added a bit of ribbon from my ribbon stash. The leaves and buds by the flowers are just hand drawn. That is one of the things I LOVE about this set...you can easily add to it. This next page was done using basic grey papers and a vellum quote. The...

I hope you all are having a great Mother's day. I was awaken this morning at 7:30 by my dear son Jared bringing me breakfast in bed! It was a very yummy omelet and strawberry shake. He brought me mine and then pulled up an chair and ate his with me. It was a great breakfast and great company! I had a 'spotlight' class last night. I demoed several different ways to spotlight in you stampin projects. It was a small class but we had lots of fun. This first card is made by punching different shapes out of cardstock and using them as stencils. Lay the punched window over your prestamped image and color in just where the window is. We used different shaped punches randomly over the ima ge. It is a fun look. This next card is really fun! We stamped the bugs from Winged things in black on white cardstock. They we took the simple shape stamps and stamped them over the bugs. I love the little rows of squares! They add such character! After the shapes are stamped, we colored in the bu...

Lookie what I got in the mail today! My bestest friend Michelle sent me this adorable Bella card. I don't own any Bella stamps...yet... But they are quite tempting! This one is SO cute! Michelle says the B on the bag is for Beckie, not Bella. ;o) She used the awesome new pallet of prints paper from SU on this card so, I know she loves me. She even cut the little dress out of a sheet! That paper is hoard paper! I can't even bring myself to use it yet! Thanks for making my day Michelle! This next card is one I actually made today. I was playing around with the Au Chocolate paper and loved the effect I got when I brayered over it. On this one, I used Pretty in Pink to brayer over the chocolate. I also sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink. It really changes the look of the paper and makes it look more shabby chic. I love it! The stamp is from the soon to be retired Girlfriends set. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of that set. I think it is one of my daughter's favorite...

I spent most of yesterday scrapbooking. I am doing a graduation album for a client and friend. It has been so much fun!! I had a ball doing this page. I used brilliant blue for my base and stamped the doodle this and doodle that sets in craft white. I colored in the flowers with the metallic pencils and then went back and added some bling with silver stickles. I love that stuff! I added a strip of white car dstock along each side to give the layout some 'closure' and added a dotted line of stickles along that. They look like diamonds in real life. Love it!! I think it really captures the glam of her prom dress. Here is a close up....sorry I don't take better pictures! Here is another page I did yesterday. I was "in the zone!" I did eight pages! This one is pretty simple. The colorful stripes along the bottom are actually just a strip of striped paper from Die cuts with a view. I layered that onto some Cool Carribean paper (I'm going to miss that color!!) and t...

I bought myself a cuttlebug a few weeks ago. It was on sale for only $49! That is $40 off so...I felt justified. I have had SUCH fun with it! Here are few of the first cards I made with it. The first is using pixie pink cardstock that I ran through the CB and then sponged with craft white ink. The background is so pretty...I didn't want to cover it up! I punched out a white circle, stamped the flower circle from seeing spots and stuck a clear button over it with crystal effects. The white organdy ribbon is wrapped around the pixie pink and the white circle is stuck on with dimensionals. Very sweet! The next card is made with the same CB folder but I ran a folded piece of vellum cardstock through this time. The vellum is thin enough to fit and it embossed both sides! Very cool! I stuck a piece of Pumpkin pie inside the card on the back side and stamped Happy Birthday right under where the front focal point was. The flower on the front is stamped with PPie and punched out with my big...

I received this card in the mail last week from Judith Novak. I love it! Talk about attention to detail! It is a cheerful as a fresh boquet of flowers. I am lucky to have such talented people in my downline! I had a fun surprise today...since it was Tuesday Stampin Therapy, I had a few friends over to stamp. We had fun visiting and stamping and eating lunch. We a lso shed a few tears over the new retiring list from Stampin' Up! You can see the EXTREMELY LONG list here There are some great sets retiring!! Be sure to get them now while you can. After July 1st, they are gone forever. Anyway, back to my story. My surprise! My good friend Kim brought me this adorable donation jar she had made just for me! She even started it off with $5! The labels say "ribbon, adhesives, bling, ink, paper, & buttons." She is just too sweet! I showed it to my DH when he got home and he wanted to know if he had to climb into the jar...his name is Brad...LOL