Happy Birthday!!!

This is coming a little late... Last weekend was my niece's birthday.



This is what 11yrs looks like!



Happy Birthday, Leah!

It's Card Kit Time!

Welcome to Card Kit Club 2013! We have 10 ladies in the club this year... 10!!! These are all wonderful ladies who I've had the good fortune to meet at Scrappin' Mojo. Wait until you see all the talent and inspiration!

It's time for our first Kit Club reveal. This month's kit was put together by Beth! It was full of Valentine sweetness:



Here are the cards that I created:



In this card, I used everything that grabbed my attention first: the doily, tissue paper, ribbon, beads and roses. I created this one for Beth's Challenge at Scrappin' Mojo:





Now I needed a Valentine card for a boy, so I combined my stamps with Beth's stamps, doily and cute PP, and came up with this:





I lifted this card from Pinterest. I had some cute BG heart paper that worked perfectly with Beth's PP and beads. This is created for Stella's challenge at Scrappin' Mojo:





The flower stamps were just screaming "STACK ME!" So here's a card with an amazing stacked flower. I just love the colors that Beth picked for this kit!





Be sure to checkout the creations from the other ladies:

Beth - bethiejs.blogspot.com
KimP - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Diane - mumblebeedesigns.blogspot.com
Terri - jazzyscrappertidbits.blogspot.com
Mary - justanotefrommary.blogspot.com
KimO - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Jan - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Niki - ellenaspaperhouse.blogspot.com
Mara - loveyourmotherearth.blogspot.com

Well, that's it for this month! Thanks for dropping by!

February [be creative] Unity Challenge

I just adore the creative images on Unity stamps! I especially LOVE the Itty-Bitty's... and cute image and and equally cute saying.

Anyway, over at Unity, they have created a new challenge blog. A new challenge will post the second Thursday of each month. This month, was a sketch.



For this card I used a cute Itty-Bitty stamp set called How's it Rollin'. I didn't use the cute saying. This time I combined the image with some old stickers by Fancy Pants. I thought it would make a nice Father's Day card.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great day!!!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 3

We have just finished week 3 of Marathon Training. Here's our page. I'm bummed that our picture is blurry, but it's the only one I have, so it will have to do...



And here is this week's free card. It's an overlay in PNG format, so you can add your own photo or pretty patterned paper behind it. Just click on the image to download:



Happy running, everybody!

Happy Birthday, Ran & Cat!

My brother and sister-in-law have birthdays which are only a couple days apart. This year we had a nice family gathering at my folk's house to celebrate with one of my mom's FABULOUS lunches and a piece of birthday PIE!

Happy Birthday, Ran & Cat!

12 Tags of Christmas

Welcome to the February edition of the 12 Tags of Christmas!

Here is the link to Tim's post for February....
http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-february/

And here is my second Christmas tag of 2013:

Thanks for stopping by!!!

PTI 6th Anniversary Celebration

This month I've been following the PTI Anniversary Celebration. I didn't have much time to join any of the challenges... up until NOW! We were supposed to find a photo on pinterest that inspires us to create a gift packaging project. I have lots of gift boxes pinned on pinterest, and I picked a very unusual one to share.

It all starts with....

Cut it up so that it looks like this:

There is a lot of room in there for a gift. I'm thinking of making these to give cookies to the neighbors next Christmas.

I used PTI product of course... the card you can see inside used the Heart-2-Heart #5 Mini Stamp Setand the Fillable Frames #4 Mini Stamp Set.

The label that I used for the packaging is from the Mat Stack 1 Collection Stamp Set and the 2011 Birthday Tags Stamp Set.

If you want to make one for yourself, here is the link on pinterest for the milk container box:
https://www.papertreyink.com/stamps/2011-birthday-tags-stamp-set/

Thanks for stopping by!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 2

We just finished our second week of marathon training. Two weeks down and 16 weeks to go! It seems like such a long long time, but I'm sure it will go by before we know it. Here is the second week of training in project life:

And here is the free card of the week... click on the image to download.

My Favorite Things Challenge

I'm joining the My Favorite Things Stamp to Win Wednesday Challenge. I got my first set of MFT stamps called LJD Gift Card Greetings II and the coordinating Die-namics Gift Card Pocket die. Here is the card I came up with:

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great weekend!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 1

Week 1 of training is over, and here is my first training page for project life. There's nothing like a 6 mile run in the rain!

And here is my new marathon filler card. Click on the image below to get your free download!

One week down... 17 TO GO!!!

Project Life - The Road to a Marathon

There are so many digital goodies available for Project Life... journal cards, title cards, filler cards, photo templates, quote cards... But nothing themed to running or more specifically, a MARATHON! So I'm trying my hand at making some running related Project Life cards.

Here is my first one. This is going to go on my cover page. What do you think?

If you would like this card for your Project Life project, click the image above for a free download.

Enjoy!