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Imaginisce May Sketch Challenge

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For my mother and mother-in-law for Mother’s Day, I put together photo albums with pictures from the first 3.5 months of Jessica’s life. When I printed the photos at Costco, I also printed copies for me. Now it is easy to scrapbook Jessica as I can just go through the photos organized chronologically in the photo box and pick out some to scrapbook. This makes challenges easier to accomplish on time as I already have photos printed.

This layout uses Imaginisce’s May Sketch. I was especially inspired by design team members Melinda and Liz‘s takes on it. I found it somewhat challenging since I don’t have a lot of photos of Jessica that worked well square, so if you look closely,  my photos aren’t quite square. I used the super cute  Imaginisce Wild Things Collection and coordinating solid paper I picked up the scrapbooking convention I went to last September with Kristy. I thought the collection would be really good to scrapbook all the zoos I like to visit when we travel, but it also worked perfectly with the adorable little outfit our friend Robert sent to Jessica. I just added a touch of purple paper.

Imaginisce May Sketch

My Take on Imaginisce's May Sketch

I had a few extra pictures from that same day, so I made a second layout that coordinated with the first. This is where writing a blog comes in handy as my journaling came from this post about Jessica.

2nd Layout

Paper: Imaginisce Wild Things Collection; Paper Studio purple textured cardstock; Stampin’ Up Bashful blue (title, journaling, stamped elephants)
Stamps: Imaginisce Wild Things Elephant
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown (elephants); Dell (printed title, journaling)
Accessories: elephant brads
Tools: Xyron 5″ Creative Station; Nestabilites Standard Circles Large

Mother’s Day Cards for my Mothers

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As soon as I saw this darling image by Sarah Jane at Sj’s Little Musings, I knew this was the image for the mother’s day card for my Mom. Obviously, I am well past the age of actually sitting in my mommy’s lap cuddling, but hopefully this card gives her warm fuzzy feelings inside. This card and the next are both 5.5-inch square easel cards. I really like how the style of the card allows for displaying the card.

Mother's Day Card for my Mom

Stamps: Sj’s Little Musings Cuddle with Mum; Hero Arts CL052 Clear Design May (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Pattern Papers Bashful Blue
Ink: Dell printer
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Ballet Blue eyelets, Certainly Celery twill ribbon; Stickles Baby Blue (ends of ribbon); dimensionals
Markers: Stampin’ Up Ballet Blue (to ink sentiment)
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Stampin’ Up 1 3/8″ circle punch, scallop circle punch

You might recognize this next card as I posted it not that long ago without a sentiment for part of my design team call entry. At the time, I said I didn’t know what sentiment I wanted to use, but that was a little white lie. I had this card in mind for mother-in-law for mother’s day the entire time I was making the card.

Mother's Day Card for my Mother-in-law

Stamps: Prairie Fairy DT Fairy; Stampin’ Up All-Year Cheer II (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant, Pretty in Pink
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Tea Party
Ink: Dell printer; Stampin’ Up Elegant Eggplant (sentiment)
Accessories: Stickles Frosted Lace, Lavender; purple glitter brads; white sparkly ribbon; silver heart brad
Tools: colored pencils, Stampin’ Up Blush Blossom marker

Mother’s Day Cards for my Sisters

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This year I decided that in addition to my mother and mother-in-law, I would make mother’s day cards for my sister and sisters-in-law.

This first card is for my sister whose favorite color is blue. Sarah is the mother of our two sweet little nephews Cameron and Trevor, so I figured she needed a girly girl card. I used Jen del Muro’s Sketch for You to Try and a sweet flower girl digi stamp I picked up for free by being a member of Karen’s Doodles group at Paper Craft Planet.

Mother's Day Card for Sarah

Stamps: Karen’s Doodles Flower Girl
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Good Morning Sunshine
Ink: Dell printer
Accessories: Doodlebug sparkly blue brads; The Beadery 9mm Crystal Acrylic Stones; dimensionals
Markers: Stampin’ Up Regal Rose (handwritten sentiment)
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Marvy Uchida flower punch (used twice)

The second card is for my brother’s wife whose favorite color is green. Julia will be celebrating her first mother’s day (if you don’t count last year when she was pregnant) as the mother of our sweet little niece Aspen. I will be hand-delivering this one at our playdate today. This 5.5-inch square card uses my favorite Phindy image and thus meets the Phindy’s Place Friday Challenge #3. I picked up my two Phindy digi-stamps from being a member of Phindy’s Place group on Paper Craft Planet. I used The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #54 to put it all together. I really really like how it turned out.

Mother's Day Card for Julia

Stamps: Phindy’s Place Beary Beautiful; Hero Arts CL052 Clear Design May (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White; Wild Wasabi, Close to Cocoa
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Prints Certainly Celery, Pink Flamingo
Ink: Dell printer; Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Paper Studio yellow paper flowers; The Beadery 9mm Crystal Acrylic Stones; Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip 15/16″ satin ribbon
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Stampin’ Up Key Tag Punch

The third card is for my husband’s sister. Tami will be celebrating with our nine-year-old nephew Dawson. I don’t know what Tami’s favorite color is so hopefully she likes the pink and brown scheme I chose for the All That Scraps Challenge #27. It also meets the requirements of this week’s Our Creative Corner challenge to make a mother’s day card with no flowers and A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #102 to use a furry friend on your card.

Mother's Day Card for Tami

Stamps: House Mouse Love Bunny; Hero Arts CL052 Clear Design May (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Loves Me
Ink: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip 15/16″ satin ribbon, Pretty in Pink 3/8″ taffeta ribbon
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Stampin’ Up Key Tag Punch

Let the Cute Begin

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A few weeks back, I made a card for a lady in my MYC group who just had a baby boy. I really like how it turned out.  I made two of them, so I have an extra for some other baby boy. I also made some personalized note cards like the ones I made here, but in boy colors. I’m excited that Stampin’ Up is bringing back Wild Wasabi, as that is one of my favorite colors.

Let the Cute Begin

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Big on Spring
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Delicate Dots
Ink: Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi
Accessories: button brads (Making Memories maybe?); dimensionals
Markers: Stampin’ Up Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery

A Birthday Card and Gift for Lillie

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My good friend Jillan’s daughter Lillie recently turned three years old. She and her cousin Jacey (who is two months younger than her) celebrated by having a carnival-themed birthday party this past Sunday. I wanted to do something special for Lillie. Lillie is enamored with baby kangaroos. I recently bought this stamp set, because I knew it would be perfect.

Lillie’s birthday card was the other thing I worked on the last time I got together with Lori. It worked out well, because I was talking about grass and how I wish I had the Martha Stewart grass punch. Lori brought up that she had this grass-like wheel and it was perfect for the vision in my head, especially once I added the rhinestone flowers to the flowers in the grass.

Lillie's Birthday Card

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Build-a-Roo, Daisy Field (wheel); Hero Arts CL037 Clear Design Number THREE; Stampabilites Fun Alpha Upper, Fun Alpha Lower
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Kaiser Scrapbook flower rhinestones; Stickles Yellow, Xmas Red
Tools: Xyron 5″ Creative Station

I also made Lillie a personalized picture frame with a mama kangaroo and her joey. I am very happy with how it turned out. I would have liked to put something in the lower right corner, but couldn’t think of what to put.

Kangaroo Frame for Lillie

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Build-a-Roo, A*Muse Polka Dot Letters
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa
Paint: Folk Art Christmas Red
Tools: Mod Podge Matte

I had plans for one more crafty thing, but I didn’t quite get to it. I rounded out Lillie’s gift with a stuffed kangaroo with baby joey and a book about kangaroos.

Unfortunately, Jessica didn’t care for the loudness of a toddler birthday party and we didn’t stay very long. Fortunately, Jillan pulled Lillie off to the side to open the gift from us (didn’t want to upset Jacey because he wasn’t opening gifts) and I got to see Lillie’s reaction to her present.

Lillie Looking at Her Card

Lillie Looking at her Frame

As you can see, Lillie very intently looked at her card and frame. Isn’t the little clown dress Jillan made for her perfect for the carnival theme of the party?