So this Thursday, Friday and Saturday is the Great American Scrapbook convention here in Arlington. Since I still can't drive-thankfully July is just around the corner-Kyle's Aunt Jan SOOO generously volunteered to drive me to the convention center and watch Kylie while I shop. I wanted to make her a thank you card, for being so "absolutely fabulous". The soft sky base is 4x3.5. the ribbon is papertrey's berry sorbet. I colored "kylie" with copics. The certainly celery scallop is made possible by my nesties.

Let the cute begin...

I wanted this card to be fairly simple because I know for sure its going to end up in the trash, so there is no bells and whistles. The striped paper is by Pebbles Inc. The brocade blue card base measures 5x4.25. The rectangle layers are certainly celery, bordering blue and then the striped paper. My main image is layered onto a barley banana long rectangle nestie.

Supplies:
Stamps: Big on spring
Paper: certainly celery, bordering blue, brocade blue, barley banana, striped
Ink: Adirondack pitch black
Markers: Certainly celery, bordering blue, brocade blue, banana

Ice Cream Kylie...

I hope all of ya'll had a great holiday weekend! I'm detoxing so it was a little less fun for me, but I only have 2 days left YIPPY! Its really hard to tell in the picture but I stamped the cool Caribbean square with my stitched background stamp.

Supplies:
Stamps: Dress up Kylie, stitched, birthday basics
Ink: Adirondack pitch black
Paper: chocolate chip, cool Caribbean, berry sorbet

Eloise Greengrass..

I made this card with my mom in mind. Purple is her favorite color and I just love perfect plum, certainly celery and soft sky together! I used SU's retired rub-ons for the sentiment and flower vine. I know the picture is dark but it was the only wayI could get the glitter to show up. I used my spica glitter pen on her dress and flower.

Supplies:
Stamps: Eloise Greengrass
Paper: Basic gray, certainly celery, soft sky, perfect plum, Iridescent white
Ink: Graphite black
Copics: BG10, YG11, YG03, R32, R22, BV00, BV02, V17.

Flowers for Mom...

This card is for my mom for mothers day. I can't believe MD is next weekend! This card is a 8.5x4.25 sheet of kraft paper folded in half. The blue bayou strip measures 1.5x4.25 and I used my cuttlebug swirls folder to emboss it. After I embossed it I took my blue bayou ink pad and gently ran it over the swirls. I used my nestabilities for the so saffron strip. The main image was water colored and its matted onto kraft and groovy guava squares. The "stitch" wholes on the bottom are actually rub-ons.

Distressed Flowers...

If the layout looks familiar, it's because its from Beate's WSC. These past two weeks have been really hard on me. Why, you ask? I HAVE NO CLUE! I've just been in one of those blah, eh moods. I even let it effect my school work (NOT good at all). A few days ago Kyle and I lost a bid on a house we really wanted :( so it's more time with the in-laws. So enough boohooing and to my card. I really felt like water coloring last night and I wanted to wc flowers so I dug through my closet and found my never touched fun&fast notes set. The bashful blue base is stamped with SU's retired french script bg stamp; that I inked up with bashful blue ink. The DSP is from SU's cutie pie line.

Groovy Giraffe

My MIL asked me if I would make a quick (but cute) baby card for her. Since I live with the woman I couldn't say no :) j/k she actually was going to buy one of the VERY first baby girl cards I had made, this was before stamping, cricut, etc. So of course I said "NO, NO I will make you a "fresh" one." I really am on the fence with this card, I "like" it but at the same time I really don't. I wasn't even going to post it but I figured someone out there might find inspiration from it-that's what I'm telling myself so...I used my nestablitlies to make a 4x3.75 Kraft scalloped base square card. I then layered a 3.5x 3.5 square of groovy guava DSP. I then cut a 1.25x3.25 strip of certainly celery. I inked up the swirls and stars stamp with certainly celery craft ink. After stamping it onto my cc strip I added clear embossing powder (then heated it up). The main image is clear embossed too, and then water colored.

New Baby Boy..(coming soon)

I think my sister must have started a trend because my cousin Haley just found out that she is going to have a boy too! BTW does this card look familiar? It's for Beate's WSC, not to mention it looks almost exactly like her example-does she EVER make ugly cards?!?! I sure haven't seen one. Now, for the card...The card base is a 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 piece of Basic grey cardstock folded in half. The horizontal strip of certainly celery dsp measures 3 x 4 and was matted onto a 3 1/8 x 4 1/8 strip of whisper white cardstock. I stamped a whole sheet of bashful blue card stock with SU's sweet stars wheel. I then cut a vertical strip of bashful blue to 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 . For the main image I stamped the hippo from Pun Fun onto a 2" square of watercolor paper. After I watercolored him, I added a bashful blue bow.

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: sweet stars, pun fun Paper: basic grey, bashful blue, whisper white, certainly celery dsp Ink: basic grey, bashful blue, certainly celery, soft sky (used as a shadow) Accessories: nesties, bashful blue grosgrain.