I Dig You

I loved the sketch over at Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge blog:

I used the Woofers and Tweeters stamps set with my favorite doggie (who looks JUST like my puggle, Jax).  I made a cluster of the 3 icons in this set and white embossed them on black for the background. The white layer is popped up for dimension.

Thanks for stopping by! If you're on the East Coast like me, enjoy the snow :) 

Project Life 2013: Week 30

Dusting off my blog, on this rare chance to have a day to myself this summer!  It's been a SUPER busy one - vacations, first birthday parties, sickness (who gets sick in the SUMMER?! apparently my daughter and I). I have been busy editing and printing pictures (thank you Shutterfly 101 free prints sale!) and ready to tackle my Project Life pages.  I am WAY behind, but I'm not going to let it get me down. I'm living life and making memories - isn't that what it's all about? :)

So........ I really wanted to play with my stamps (thank you YouTube inspiration.. loving Jen McGuire's videos for a quick fix when I can't get creative myself) and play along with Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge.

I decided to do a throwback PL page in my 2013 album, which ironically is exactly a year ago. And guess who was born a year ago just 3 weeks after my baby girl? Her future husband (a momma can wish right?)

I used the super cute A Little Lovin' set for the little frog prince. How adorable is he with the polka dot paper? Lots of gold for this royal!! :)

Here's how it looks on the whole spread:

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And here's my own itty bitty at just 3 weeks old! Love her! And I love this burlap and blue together, even on a baby girl page.

 

Anyone else get crazy and have a yard sale this summer? My bestie and I do it together every year and have way too much fun pawning our junk treasures on others. This year, I even sobbed over parted with some of my baby items to make room for toddler toys.

And here's "me and my bestie" after we got caught in the rain cleaning up said yard sale :)  I LOVE this heart bokeh paper from Echo Park.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you are enjoying your summer as much as I am (and finding a little time to get creative!) Here's to more PL pages to share soon :) Have a good weekend!

Love You a Ton!

Happy day before Valentine's Day snow day!

Yes, that's my mailbox in the background lol!

During naptime today, I made my lil girl a special first Valentine's card using my favorite baby stamp (from Paper Smooches' "A Little Lovin'")

Paper Smooches is celebrating their anniversary and are having a "fun and cute" challenge going on. Can these 2 elephants get any more cute? And how fun is that sentiment? I typed/printed it and then stamped the Paper Smooches "Streamer" on top and fussy cut.

That popped up scalloped circle diecut frame was a..um.. accident... but I had so much time invested in this card I could not scrap it and start over and have a card finished before she woke up :)  I hope she likes it! And by likes it I mean doesn't shove it in her mouth and rip it to shreds.. HAHA!

Tis the season!

Oh.. wait.. Christmas is over :-p

Actually, now tis the season for CHA new releases! And one of my favorite stamp companies Paper Smooches is having a release blog hop to sneak their products!

You can start the hop on their blog HERE.

I am most excited about the scrapbooking dies and stamps that will be perfect for my Project Life 2014! Also, there are some hello dies and scripty sayings perfect for cards. Can't wait to see it all!

Welcome Baby Boy!

My husband's coworker and friend just had a baby boy yesterday. He asked me to make a card.. sure thing! I went to my favorite baby set "A Little Lovin" from Paper Smooches. So I am entering their Anything Goes challenge as well.

I used an older My Minds Eye 6x6 pad for my layers and paper piecing. The rounded, light blue mat is popped up so those adorable elephants could nestle inside the circle.

My friend Danni RAKed me some charms recently and was thrilled to use one on this card. I love using clear stamps and being able to stamp them on a curve. I repeated the sentiment and put a tiny rhinestones between them.

Thanks for stopping by! TGIF! :)

Celebrate!

My bestie's birthday is coming up next week and I wanted to get her card finished before the craziness of Thanksgiving prep starts. The color challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks challenge was just the inspiration I needed!

I went to my (overfowing) drawer of 6x6 pads and pulled out 4 fun B side patterns with these colors.

And then went to work stamping my favorite rose (from the Pretty Mama set) onto my white card base.

There is something theraputic about paper piecing for me :) I had so much fun making this print. I then used the Celebrate sentiment from Pretty Phrases, embossed in white on black, to finish it off.

TGIF!! Have a great weekend :)

5th Anniversary Card

I love stripes! So this week's trend watch at Paper Smooches was right up my patterned paper alley ;)

I can't believe tomorrow marks 5 years of marriage with my sweetheart. I made this card tonight (okay so add a 4 month old to the mix and I am lucky I even had time to make a card at all HA!)

I diecut the negative of the number 5 using my cricut from red cardstock. I ran it through my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and popped it up on top of the fun diagonal stripe.

I used my favorite Streamers stamps to create my own sentiment using Alphadots. I love the dimension and fun colors. 

Thanks for stopping by.. TGIF!! :)

Paper Smooches: Autumn Thanks

It's been a few weeks since I had a chance to participate in the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge..but the latest color challenge is one of my favs - Autumn inspired:

I was intrigued by the purple and started there with my square card base. I cut some leaves with my cricut in coordinating colors.

And used my favorite pug stamp :)

Hope you are having a good weekend!

I am! And may even have 2 layouts I did in the last week to share tomorrow. 

A Card for My Hubby

Happy Sunday!! I made a card for my hubby today to let him know how proud I am of him and his career moves.  I used the color combo challenge at Paper Smooches:

I raided my cardstock scraps, stamped, and fussy cut my banners from the Streamers to make this card:

I stamped various sentiments from Sentiment Sampler, including Alphadot to add his name, alternating between embossing in white and black. I added hearts from Woofers and Tweeters (solid) and Giddy Bugs (striped) to fill in the shorter ones. That's 5 Paper Smooches sets! :) I also popped up the white sentiments to stand out from the white background. 

I added a free hand solid black line to bring it together. I love how it turned out! Hope he does too! Have a great week. Monday is here again :(

Happy birthday, friend!

We all know how much I love the rose stamp from the Pretty Momma Paper Smooches set.. so when I saw this week's sketch on their Sparks challenge blog I was so excited!!

I added 3 roses to my card, but otherwise stuck close to the sketch. All papers are from the Echo Park "A Perfect Summer" 6x6 pad.

I think those roses are SO fun with the patterned paper piecing. The red one is popped up for dimension:

The white embosssed sentiment is from the must-have Sentiment Sampler. I added the comma and explanation point with white gel pen. I also added a solid white line to the green and blue layers to mimic the pink woodgrain.

Thanks for stopping by today!! Have a great rest of the week ;)

Sequins!!

Okay, okay, I'm finally giving in to the latest trend - sequins :) I ordered a few different varieties and was also gifted some from an online friend. Such fun! I saw the neatest idea on Nikki's blog. Check out her card HERE. And here's my take on it:

I wanted to make a special card for my hubby who is going on a week long golf trip next week. I embossed the black card base with my Stampin Up chevron folder. I popped up my die cut heart above the rows of sequins. Aren't they sparkly?!

The "miss you" sentiment is from Paper Smooches. Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Graduation!

Tis the season for the cap and gown! We are going to a graduation party this Saturday and I wanted to make a little something for the gift. When I saw the latest Sparks challenge at Paper Smooches I knew just the thing!

I decided to make a gift tag. This rainbow chevron paper is one of my favorites :)  

Can you believe I used 4 Paper Smooches sets?? I used the Woofers and Tweeters, Streamers, Sentiment Sampler AND Alphadot stamp sets! Whew!! :)

I love how the banner extends the width of the tag. I embossed the personalized name in white on black to give it that chalkboard feel since she is going to be a teacher :)

Thanks for stopping by today!