More to share...

So... like I said in my previous post, I have been busy... I just couldn't share because the recipients hadn't received their cards yet... so, I'm here to share a few more.

First up, I have a card that I cased for the layout. I don't know where I saw it, or what the fold-type is called... I'll call it another type of Gate-fold card. I used my Polkadots and Paisley stamp set along with my Garden Whimsey set (have I mentioned how much I love my Garden Whimsey set???) I used Pretty in Pink and Rose Red ink and cs... I also used Shimmery White CS for the focal point. I think the Corner adorner is from SU, but I might be wrong. I made three of these cards and sent one to one of my SBS10 sistah's, one to my neice, and the last one to a dear friend of mine. All three were used as birthday cards.

The next card is one I made for one of my best friends, Anette, for her birthday (which was Saturday)... Anette's favorite color is green, so I had to use it... The scalloped edges were made with a Martha Stewart border punch (I don't know the name of it). The stamp is Cuppacakeabella from http://www.stampingbella.com/, and the sentiment is from SU!'s Sincere Salutations stamp set. My colors were Certainly Celery, So Saffron, and Real Red... not one I would've originally put together, but I like the end result. Of course, I went Stickle-crazy... on the cupcake, the & the dress! I just LOVE LOVE LOVE stickles! After all, diamonds are a girl's best friend and stickles constitutes as papercrafting "diamonds" in my book!

This next one is nearly the exact same card with a ton of color changes... I made it for one of my SBS10 sistah's... I hope she loved it! It was so fun to make!

This last one is one I made for two different people... One for my friend's (Suzanne) birthday, and the other, I changed the sentiment to say "missing you" for my GodDaughter, Lindsay. I used my nesties on this one along with my Martha Stewart border punch (that I don't know the name of). This was a sketch challenge of some sort, but it's been so long, I don't know whose it was... if it was yours, let me know so I can give credit where credit is due! :) My colors were Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery, and Chocolate Chip for this card. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations (love that set too!) and the grapes are from Gorgeous Grapevine (now retired) from SU!)

I suppose that's all for today...

SYKE!

I'll give you just one more...

and I saved the BEST (in my little 'ol opinion) for last... I used my Cricut Animal Kingdom cartridge for this one... I am sooooo beyond pleased with how this card turned out. I wanted to make a card to send to my parents while they're away on vacation just to "check in" on them & see how things were going.

I cut these chickens out 4 times just to get the result I ended up with. It's a lot of layering and pieceing together, but totally worth the work! The "egg" behind those chicks was a bit of "work" too... It started out as a piece of Very Vanilla CS... I color dusted it with Close to Cocoa and used my Itty Bitty Backgrounds to add a few spots. Then, I embossed it with Ultra Thick Clear Embossing Powder & stuck it in the freezer for a couple minutes. When I took it out of the freezer, I folded it back & forth a few times to create the "cracked egg" look. This technique is called Cracked Glass and you can find the real tutorial for it HERE. To make the background, I cut thin strips of Bravo Burgandy and Ruby Red cardstock and layered them onto a sticky piece of Chocolate Chip to get kind of a "barn door" effect. I color dusted it with Chocolate Chip and then layered it onto my card base. To finish it off, I used my word window punch to cut the space for my sentiment (which is hand-written in my chicken scratch) and added buttons to balance it out on the other side. I doodled around the edges to bring it all together & I must pat myself on the back for this one... I am BEYOND PLEASED with this card!

Okay, for real this time, I'm off to do some more creating! Have a blessed day!

Scrap Happy!

Okay, so I am typing this for the SECOND TIME now and if that isn't enough to make someone really mad, I don't know what is! Just kidding... it's frustrating, but nothing to waste energy on getting angry over.

So here's the short & sweet version of what I had before. I love scrapbooking... but once, I was the girl who was convinced that scrapping was not for me. The instant gratification of making cards was so much more enticing to me... but I have jumped that hurdle and I'm diving full force into scrapbooking!

I made this page the other day... and I have really come to love it! My boys really enjoy fishing with their Daddy and Brandon finally took pics for me while they were out on the boat.

And my wonderful husband - the great fisherman that he is, has taught my boys how to properly tell "fish tales"...

The next spread I did was to fulfill a challenge that was given to me by Joan in my Sisterhood 10 group... the challenge was to make a scrapbook page using NO Designer SB Paper. We often tend to take the easy way out and use dp in nearly everything we do... so I was all over this challenge when it was presented... and I must admit, I am right proud of myself... not to TOOT my own horn or anything, but I think it came out beautifully!

So, what do you think? I'm getting used to this scrapbooking thing... and I must admit...

I REALLY LIKE IT!

So I'm off... to feed my girl some lunch... thanks for stopping by - and leave a message, let me know who's visiting me! Have a blessed day!

~Sara

Emerging color causes emerging creativity!

So, the other day, Anette and I decided to try a new technique. We saw the emerging color technique on Kathi's blog and of course, on Splitcoast and we decided to give it a whirl. Anette wasn't very impressed with the way hers came out, and, to be completely honest, I wasn't all too thrilled with mine either... until I started embellishing it... that's when the magic happened.

My color pallet (sp?) included Summer Sun, Ruby Red, Cameo Coral, and Real Red. I used clear embossing powder and it was all done on Shimmery White CS from Stampin' Up. I used my Garden Whimsy stamp set for this one. My card base is Summer Sun, and I had some wide "summer sun-like" yellow ribbon that I had stashed away for a project I'd get to "some day." Then, I used the Rock n' Roll technique to stamp my butterflies on some more Shimmery White CS and cut them out. I mounted my fluttering butterflies onto Ruby Red CS and then backed that on Summer Sun CS. Then, using my pop-dots, I adhered my main image to my background. At this point, I thought I was done...

I thought wrong!
It didn't "feel" done, ya know? Well, after some debating on what it needed, Anette and I decided that some snap topped eyelets would be PERFECT... so I added 3 to the top left of my card. Again, I thought I was done...

Again, I thought wrong!

My card sat on the table as we moved on to other projects and kept whispering to me...

"I'm not dazzling yet. I'm not dazzling yet."

So, out came the Dazzling Diamonds and the 2-way glue stick from SU and now, I feel like it's complete.

Well, it better be... I mailed it today to a very forgiving & deserving woman who shares my love for stamping. A former customer of mine forgave my mistake and I needed the perfect card for her... I hope you like it Sarah O.

Now it's your turn...

SBS 10 sistahs, this is your first challenge...

Try the emerging color technique and upload it to your blog... after you've done so, leave a comment here and I'll go get the pic & add it to this post...

Let's show the world what this Sisterhood has in store!

Here's Michelle's Card! Thanks for playing Michelle!

Whimsey gave it a shot... here's her card...

Chrissy tried it too... she did a few different cards... check out her blog for the other pics... Here's one...

Alyssa gave it a shot too... Isn't it beautiful?

Anyone else up for it?