BUTTERFLY KISSES

Hey, everyone!

I couldn't make a Valentine card for my son and leave my baby girl out, so I made this card for her! She loves to give "butterfly kisses" by blinking her eyelashes across my cheek. She is so sweet!!! You can't tell it so much by the photo but there's a lot of glitter on this card! I know she will love it!
I used Sketch #2 on page 3 in the fall/winter 2008 The Angel Company Inspiration Book and Catalog. The paper is premium white cardstock (V-290), Brown Cardstock (V-235), Pink 2 (V-92) and Winterberry (V-903). I used my pink Tombow marker from the Brights collection (F-01) to ink up my Speckle stamp (T-19) for the top portion. I then added Prisma glitter (A-287) on top of that. The pink scalloped circle was made with the Mega Scalloped Circle (D-700), the white circle was punched out with the Super Jumbo Circle (D-73). I used my pink Tombow marker to stamp the butterfly kisses stamp from Kid Praises (T-2686). I colored the butterfly in with my Stardust Glitter Gel Pens (F-462) and doodle dots and designs were made with the Brown Memory Marker (F-165).

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to share a real special treat with you all tomorrow! Speaking of treats, don't forget that the Blog Candy will be given away at the end of the month to the one who has left me the most comments since February 1!

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,

Day Of Thanks

Hey, everyone!

This week I am featuring cards and projects with a Thanksgiving theme. I don't think this is the only time each year we should stop what we are doing to count our blessings, but I do feel it is very important to be a little more focused on being thankful during this season.

It seems as though time is getting shorter, not that there aren't still 24 hours in a day, but that we just cram so much into one day that our time to sit and reflect on the good things of our day has been squeezed out. I am guilty of cramming so much into my life that I don't always have an attitude of gratitude and that bothers me. I want to change that because I truly have so much to be thankful for, that I should never let a moment go by that I didn't express my appreciation in a heartfelt way.

I want my son and daughter to know how very much I appreciate being their mother. The fact that God blessed me with them, entrusted them to my care, well, it's sometimes so very hard to believe! I am blessed beyond measure with these two awesome children and so very thankful for them. I have a wonderful husband who does so much for me and our children and I have to stop to wonder, do I thank him? Sure I use my manners and I give him hugs and kisses, but how often do I just stop what I am doing to tell him how much I appreciate everything he does? Today I just sent him a text message out of the blue just to let him know I was thinking about him and I love him and I missed him. He didn't text me back because he was working. He said he got my message when I asked if it went through but that was all. But I know that it meant a lot to him. He once told me that he liked getting text messages from me and missed it when I didn't send them.

Who are you thankful for? What are you thankful for? I love my family and even though sometimes it seems as though we are having a hard time making it through, I am just glad we have each other to lean on. What a blessing it is to be together!

For today's project, I want to show you a card I made with the Speckle stamp as a background using our Burnt Umber ink. That is my favorite ink, by the way! I love it!! The cornucoppia and Day of Thanks sentiment come from the retired Autumn Smiles stamp set. I cut the horn of plenty out and added pop dots to the back for some dimension. The Remember, Reflect and Appreciate sentiments come from the My Journey stamp set and the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment is from the Count Your Blessings stamp set. I am using Juliette paper on the nuggets. The scallop circle punch layer was punched out using our Marvy punches and the doodle dots were added with a white gel pen. You can find all of these items in the Fall/Winter 2008 The Angel Company catalog and if you would like to order any of them, please let me know. You have a little longer to take advantage of the Double Dips promotion going on until December 3.

This is something you can easily put together and give to whomever is hosting your Thanksgiving dinner, if you are like me and won't be doing all the cooking yourself. If you are in charge of the dinner party this year, wouldn't it be fun to make up some of these nuggets and place one at each dinner plate? You could just place the nugget by itself if you didn't have the time to put together this whole thing. The card could easily be turned into a place card, as well.

Hope this inspires you to create something today. My inspiration for the card came from a sketch I saw for a MOJO Monday Contest. You have to check this blog out, if you haven't already. Lots of awesome stuff going on!

Don't forget to sign up for my blog candy. All you have to do is click HERE to read all about my blog candy and check out photos! The winner will be announced on Sunday, November 30, so find out how you can enter to win! GOOD LUCK!

Thanks for checking out my blog today! Come back tomorrow and see what is new here!!

Hugs,
Bridgett

Peep, Peep

Hey, everyone!

I am so excited that I finally got a chance to play!!! I put my info. on the back of my catalogs and I am putting a couple packets together for some friends that want to place an order. I hope you like the card I made! This is the first TAC card I have created!! Here it is:
I only used TAC supplies (except for the ribbon).
Supplies:
Premium White Cardstock
Tombow Markers (Brights)
Noir Palette Hybrid Ink Pad
Speckle stamp
Hey Chick stamp set
Gentle Beginnings paper
My inspiration for this card is found on page 70 of the spring/summer 2008 catalog. Comments welcomed!!!
Have a great day!
Bridgett