First Card Class of 2010!

Hey, everyone!!

Yesterday was my card class. We made 4 cards that I will be sharing with you today! If you couldn't make it to the class but still want to come, the cost for the kit is $10 (plus s/h if I mail it) and includes images.

We created a masculine card because I think they are often more challenging to come up with ideas for! Here I used the Just Like Dad patterned paper, Decorative Corners stamp set, Tag Tidbits stamp set, Premium White Cardstock, Jardin Moss palette ink and Mega Scalloped Square Punch all from The Angel Company.

The second card I am showing you is great for baby showers and can be created in pink for girls or gender neutral colors. You can adapt the idea for birthdays, weddings, bridal showers, graduations, or whatever occasion you want! I am using Premium White Cardstock, Brighten My Day patterned paper, Hello Baby stamp set, Mega Scalloped Square Punch, Tombow Markers, Stardust Glitter Gel Pens, Noir Palette Hybrid Ink, Reflection Blue Palette Hybrid Ink, and Trendy Greetings stamp set all from The Angel Company. I also used a white gel pen from Signo Uni-ball that is the ultimate! LOVE IT!

I used an oval punch from TAC to punch the opening for the gift card.
The third card we created is an adorable treat holder that I saw on Angie Juda's blog. Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so what a great way to make a card and gift all in one for your family, friends, coworkers, school teachers, fellow church members, or your sweetheart! The cardstock is Birch and I have never ordered it before but I absolutely love it!!! It has a really nice weight to it and the specks in it make a very natural looking card. It's great! I heard a lot of great things about it in class and got an order for some going in soon!! The papers are from Miss Moxie and I used the Mega Scalloped Square Punch. I used my Tombow markers and Stardust Glitter Gel Pens to color the image in. Do you not love this bird? It's a Hostess Level A stamp set coming up in the brand new Serendipity magalogue that goes live February 1!!

I slipped a Ghiradelli chocolate and caramel square inside the card. The "friend" sentiment comes from the Beyond Measure Hostess Level B stamp set that you can earn with a qualifying party!! I used L'Amore Red Palette Hybrid ink and my Stardust Glitter Gel Pen to go over it for some added sparkle!
Our fourth and final card of the day was for another treat holder. This holds a Dove milk chocolate heart! I used red cardstock, black cardstock, Premium White Cardstock (TAC), the new Brighten Your Day stamp set available now for a limited time, stamped in Noir Palette Hybrid ink, colored with my Burnt Umber Copic Marker, Pink Souffle Gelly Pen, Stardust Glitter Gel Pens and Tombow Markers all from TAC. I accented the cat's eyes with my white gel pen.

The ribbon is from Walmart. It's tied in a knot on the side to secure the card together. Here's a look at the inside:

The sentiment is from Trendy Greetings and stamped in Palette Hybrid Ink. We also stamped hearts from the Build-A-Background Hostess Level A stamp set down the sides for a fun little border inside the card. The idea for this project came from Dawn Griffith. I apologize for the blurry photo. I don't know about my camera sometimes! LOL

I hope you have enjoyed checking out all the fun cards we made! Check back tomorrow for my Scripture Challenge where I will have another scrapbook page to share with you!

Hugs,

Progressive Page

Hey, everyone!

I have been a scrapbooker for a long time now...about 9 years. My style has changed and evolved over and over throughout the years. More and more I just want to get my photos scrapped and into the albums so the stories and photos are shared! I work on three separate albums: one for me and my husband and it is where I scrap EVERYTHING! Then I have an album for each of our kids...this is their baby books and basically the story books of their lives. I have streamlined the process more now since having my second child. Now I highlight events and activities in their books while keeping all the rest for mine. I am always looking for easy and fun ways to scrap!

I haven't been stamping long...just a little over a year now and so I haven't done a LOT of stamping in my scrapbooks but I have dabbled here and there! It's a fun process. I love it! Of course with any stamping I do, I usually CASE it from someone else. I have never copied someone else's pages for my albums before but with stamping, there's so much you can do that I find it easier to see what someone else has done and then I can do it, too! LOL

My friend, AMBER, told me about Progressive Scrapbooking. I had not ever heard of it. She shared some ideas and photos with me and I was hooked! So I decided to make a scrapbook page like THIS ONE. Mine didn't turn out exactly the same but I like it! I can never truly copy every single thing someone else does...I always have to add something or take something away! So here is my page.
I have made 12x12 scrapbook pages with 8½x11 pages on them, too, but not anything like this...on purpose anyway! LOL For this particular page I used Scriptybet and Hello Baby. Can you believe this adorable stamp set is only $2.98 until Monday. It is a set of three stamps and it's so cute! I love to paper piece the blanket and diaper on the giraffe. For this page, I wanted to keep it simple so I just added my Prisma Glitter to the diaper and blanket for a sweet little shimmer! I also used VersaMark and my Speckle stamp (also 50% off until Monday) on the blue strip underneath the top photo. It made a really nice subtle background.

For those of you that aren't familiar with this type of scrapbooking, it's actually really easy! This is the way I do it, but it may be different than how others do it...I started with my 12x12 base cardstock. Then I grabbed an 8½x11 piece of cardstock in a coordinating color. I then took a third color...this time more of a designer paper and used it for the 6x6 page. You start with the smallest page first. Then you layer it on to the middle sized paper. Last you build the page by layering all that onto the 12x12 page. You can make it as fancy or simple as you want. I prefer simplicity when I scrapbook for two reasons: saves me time and I want the focus to be on my photos not the embellishments!

I hope you had fun with me today! If I have inspired you to make a progressive page, please leave me a comment or shoot me an e-mail. I'd love to see it! Thanks for stopping by! Check back tomorrow. I will have some more fun stuff to share.

Don't forget some of you have contacted me saying you'd like to place an order while the T-coded stamps are all 50% off, so be sure you do that before Monday, Jan. 26 because that is when this special ends! Grab your wish list and call or e-mail me!

Hugs,

All that glitters...

Hey, everyone!

You may remember that I told you earlier this week that my daughter helped me out at the Holiday Village and one of my vendor neighbors was doing caricature drawings for $5. I thought it would be fun to let her get hers done and she is always a willing model! LOL Here is the awesome drawing he made. Unfortunately I didn't get his name but he was very nice and obviously very talented!

A friend of mine had a baby boy recently. I haven't got the chance to meet him yet but I saw a picture of him and he is so cute! I am going to meet up with my friend, Heather, soon and will take this card to her and a gift. I hope she likes it! I love this stamp set from The Angel Company. It's called Hello Baby. It has three stamps with it and it's only $5.95! Can you believe that? I love this set and have used it before for other baby cards and love how versatile it is. I can change the diaper color to pink or yellow or purple for a baby girl card and I've even paper pieced the diaper and blanket before. It's just so much fun to color the cute baby giraffe in. I used my Tombow markers and stardust glitter gel pens. I used one of my ink spots to outline the scallops on the circle. It is great to use the spots because it's just the right size to get in the scallops without adding too much ink or getting it smudged up. My inspiration came from a sketch I saw on Heather Scott's blog. I have started using sketches more to help me broaden my horizons as I learn new techniques and new stamping tricks! What I love about Heather's sketches are the measurements! She actually puts the measurements right on the sketch so it completely takes the guesswork out for those stampers who are like me and could use all the extra help they can get!! LOL So, definitely check out her sketches and see what you can make!
I realize this isn't exactly fall themed or Thanksgiving themed but I wanted to share it with you all! Aren't we always grateful for our baby blessings though? My friend had to have a C-section and she was facing a difficult delivery as the baby wasn't turned the right way, so I am thankful that everything turned out just fine for both mother and baby and that she had lots of help in the beginning!

Today is the last day of school for my daughter this week. She will be off for 4 days on Thanksgiving break. I know many of you will be celebrating Thanksgiving with your family and doing some shopping and enjoying being off, if you are fortunate enough to be. I hope you can check back some over the next few days to see the rest of the projects I have lined up and if you haven't done so, please go HERE to sign up for the BLOG CANDY! All you have to do is leave me a comment and let me know you what your favorite thing is to eat or drink at Thanksgiving then leave a link on your blog back to me if you have one. If you don't have a blog, you can still enter to win! For a second chance in the drawing, you can make a card and send me the link so I can check it out. All the details are HERE and I hope you will spread the word!

My friends Vicki and Barb, also have some great blog candy! You gotta go check theirs out, too!

Hugs,
Bridgett

So much to share!

Hey, everyone!

I have been as busy as a bee lately! I love to swap with other paper crafters for new ideas, fun projects to inspire me and encourage me to create even more! I only have a few more swaps to go and then I will be nearly done with swapping for the year! I have several new projects coming up that I will share more about later! It's been fun but also a little hectic trying to get things done on time. My baby boy (13 months) loves to "help" but his busy little hands are a little more help than I need sometimes, so I end up playing with him instead! LOL His laughter is contagious and I love to see his precious smile!

Okay, so let me show you a few things that I have been working on lately! This is a fun little treat bag I wanted to try and make. It's doesn't sit perfectly straight up but neither do most real pumpkins! LOL I am really pleased with how it turned out, though. I used some orange snaps on the sides, black ribbon, my TAC scallop circle punch (page 115 in the fall/winter 2008 catalog) to create my tag, a stamp from the $1 bin at Michael's and I filled it with a cellophane bag and some candy! I was inspired to make one when I saw this one from SplitCoastStampers.

I already shared with you the birthday cards I had made for a swap I am in over at Paper Wings. There's only 3 of us swapping so it makes it easier for me to do a card with a little more detail since there isn't as many to do like that. For the baby shower invitation I used my TAC stamp set HELLO BABY and a couple misc. stamps I have picked up along the way. The diaper is paper pieced and so is the blanket. I used Gentle Beginnings paper from The Angel Company and premium white cardstock, also TAC. I sponged the edges of my card in Burnt Umber palette ink. I tied a brown ribbon with a pretty sheen to it on the left side of the card. I used my TAC scalloped circle punch on this card, too. Can you tell I enjoy using it? For my final swap project I want to show you, I made a gift card holder. This is another swap I signed up for at Paper Wings. I really like the Tutti Frutti paper that we carry! It's so fun! Inside I stamped a birthday sentiment. I left a lot of the white showing inside so the gift-giver can add their own doodle dots, fun stamps or designer paper that they would like or they can simply write a short and sweet note in the white section!
Tomorrow I will share with you the fun projects we'll be making at Memory Lane Scrapbooking store in Bedford on October 9. I had a lot of fun making those projects and am eager to share them with you. I hope you'll be inspired to create something fun today, too! Please let me know if you do. I always enjoy reading your comments!

And I wanted to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my sweet and wonderful husband, Paul, of 8 years. We have grown a lot, learned a lot, loved a lot, and have come to lean on one another more throughout the years. We have 2 beautiful children that makes our lives complete. Here's a picture from our wedding day 8 years ago! Neither one of us had any idea what the future held for us but I am glad I have him in my life. He is my best friend and he always reminds me of how everything will just work out. His faith strengthens mine. I thank God for him.

Hugs,

Am I crazy or what???

Hey, everyone!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today to see what is new! If you haven't received your copy of my newsletter for this month, check your bulk folder and if you still don't have it, let me know. I would be happy to send you a copy of it!

This weekend has been full and busy! Paul had surgery on Friday! Everything went really well. We were sooo tired that morning and arrived an hour early, so we slept in the car (SUCH A NICE DAY!!!) for a little while before we had to go in. Here's a couple pictures of Paul just before he was going in. He is so tall his feet stick off the bed! LOL

That was a long day for both of us! He rested at his mom and dad's a while and then I took him home to rest for the night. Then I had to get busy! My cousin's baby shower was Saturday afternoon. I said I would help with the cake, favors and a special gift. I was up for 28 hours straight!!!! Am I crazy or what? Here's what I came up with:

30 homemade almond bark covered pretzels with blue sprinkles party favors that say:

Thank you!

Love,

DJ & Baby David

I made my own bow from ribbon!

This is the card and envelope I made using the TAC HELLO BABY stamp set and a few miscellaneous stamps, TAC Jumbo circle punch and scalloped circle punch.

The candle is a keepsake for the baby...a preemie and not home yet! DJ loved it!! I used the TAC WILD FOR YOU stamp set.

This is the cake I made! It had been over a year since I decorated a cake and I was really, really exhausted but it turned out okay. It tasted so good! Well thanks for stopping by! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!!!

Hugs,

Bridgett

Baby Shower Card

Hey, everyone!

This has certainly been one busy week! My husband's papaw had been put in the hospital, in ICU. He started improving and they were going to move him onto the medical floor. We got a call Sunday morning to go to the hospital but we were too late when we got there. He passed away just before we walked in. :0(

With the passing of Papaw Elbert, and thinking of death and our own mortality as the week began, it seems only fitting that the weekend would be filled with anticipation and joy with the new birth of my baby cousin and the summer arrival for my friend's baby that I went to a shower for today! My baby cousin was born this week, though he was not due to be born until July! He weighed 2 lbs. 1 oz. and was 13" long!! He is breathing on his own and his heart is doing well! We give God all the praise for that MIRACLE! My cousin is doing well, too, but must remain in the hospital a while longer! It has been a bittersweet week....losing a dear man who was so special and kind...but gaining a new little life, full of wonder and awe! It really is amazing!

The night before my cousin was transferred to a different hospital, I made her a card using the shaving cream technique. It is sort of like a post card! Here is a photo:

Since I got my new stamps recently (you gotta love the DOUBLE REWARDS!!!) I have been cutting my stamps out and eager to play!! I got the chance this morning. I made a card for my friend's baby shower. I thought I would show it to you all!

I used the Hello Baby stamp set, Just Like Dad paper, Hybrid Pallette Ink Spots (LOVE IT!), gray tombow marker, scalloped punch and my new Scor-Pal! Ask me how you can get them, too!!

Sunday (it already is Sunday....just really early), I will be making some packets for Monyca's FunShop she is having this Tuesday! It will be a lot of fun! If you wanted to place an order to get your DOUBLE REWARDS, do that soon because time is running out! April 30 is the last day to get all your DOUBLE BENEFITS!

Have a great day!
Bridgett