Dream Album

Several of my friends got together on Saturday to have an all day scrapping event.  Marie was so gracious to open her craft room and her home to us.  She even made a delicious veggie soup to share.  Yum!  

The Dream Album was a class I took at S&S several months ago but never finished.  It was the first project I finished on Saturday.    

This 6"x6" mini album was designed and taught by Terri Burnett.  Terri does such awesome projects.  This album will be one of my go-to projects when I need a quick gift.  It would be great as an event album and would look good using any paper line.

Enjoy!

February Card Swap

We don't have a proper name for our card swapping ladies group but I do think this is something we need to work on in the future.  For now I will just call us the CSL

We met last evening at Beck's Prime on Dairy Ashford to eat, chatter and swap our cards.  BTW the food was wonderful, the chatter non-stop, and the cards, as always, beautiful!

 Our theme for the month was a masculine card using any greeting.  Starting on left we have Amanda's card.  Check out her blog at Theadventuresofgoldilocks.blogspot.com.  You won't be disappointed, she shares some beautiful cards.  Next is Michele's, Casey, Susan, Cece.  Center Patsy and bottom Mary.  Mary also gave each of us s small heart ornament in honor of Valentine's Day.

We also had a visitor join us last evening.  Carolyn wanted to check out what we do and what a card swap was all about.  I'm sure she will be joining us for future card swaps. 

It was a fun evening and all the cards were lovely.  Check out our group site on Facebook to learn more about what we do and how we play.  Scraptabulous Crops & Swaps.
Until next time.............

Valentine Card Class......

A week ago I had a card class featuring three Valentine cards.  These cards were super easy to make and we were done in just under an hour.

Two of the cards used the new Designer Series Paper pack called More Amore from the Spring Mini.  This paper is so fresh and clean and also includes the Laser-cut sheet used on the card below. 

I used the heart framelit on the top card cutting out just the DSP.  I used the heart border punch down the side then layering it on the base.  The Tasteful Trims die was used down the side with pearls.  Smaller hearts were layered onto Whisper White after greeting stamped.  All were popped up in center of framelit opening.  I used a single pearl on the smallest heart. 


 I layered the laser-cut heart on the DSP, added a greeting and some ribbon and the middle card was finished.  Easy Peasy!

This last card was a case.  The base card is embossed with the Adorning Accents heart folder.   Cut the papers into strips and punched out the hearts.  Added to base leaving a small gap.   Embellished with gems.  Enjoy!

Card Challenge

I made this card following a sketch over at Craft Project Central.   This is my take of the card sketch for February.   Hope you like it........

Valentine Cards.....

Last weekend I attended a card class given by a friend and sister SU demonstrator.  We made three Valentine cards using the new Hearts a Flutter stamp set and matching framelits from the Spring mini catalog.   The butterfly card was made using the Beautiful Butterfly Bigz die and the Scallop Square Bigz die, both from SU.  The butterfly is unique and has three layers, one made from the box the SU supplies come in, one from the packing paper used in the box, and then one of just plain card stock.  The three are layered together using dimensionals. The butterfly was embossed and then inked to give it added dimension.   We used the Delicate Doilies Sizzlits on the heart card with the new two toned ribbon in Pink Pirouette/Rose Red.  All three cards were fun and easy to do.  Enjoy!

Cowboy boot....

I made this darling cowboy boot last evening using another file from SVGcuts.com.  The file is new and called Happy Trails.  The boot is about 8' tall and is made out of card stock and patterned paper by SU.  It wasn't hard to make but the sole.of the boot gave me a few problems.   A little distress ink made it okay in the end.  This would make a cute accent piece with wildflowers sticking out of the top of the boot dontcha think?
Enjoy!

Valentine's paper crafts......

 I've been wanting to make this lollipop garden ever since I found the file over at SVGCuts.  It was fun and super easy.  My cutting machine cuts out everything, a little glue here and there, presto, a cute little garden with lollipop tulips.  I made this one for a little friend of mine up in Montgomery.

This is another file from SVGCuts.com.  It is a Valentine mail box.  The box stands about 7 1/2 inches tall and 5 1/2 inches wide.  The box is large enough to hold a small gift or to store all your special Valentines.  James will give this one to his teacher.

 I cased these little Valentine Treat containers from a friend last week at our crop.  She was using premade envelopes but I just used a 12' x 12' piece of card stock cut into 6' x 6' squares.  I added a Russel Stover Valentine chocolate heart and tied it up with twine and a heart tag. These will be perfect treats for James to share with his classmates.   He is putting his name on all the hearts.

Check out  SVGCuts.com and take a peek at all the neat cutting files.  There is something for everyone and for every occasion.