Thinking of You

 This is the last card I am posting that I created with the Simon Says Stamp January card kit.  I promise.  I know  you are tired of seeing them.  I'm tired of making them. NOT!  And I hope you aren't tired of seeing them.
I love those little tickets...they are from Tim Holtz and I just stamped on it with some VersaFine ink.

A few layers...a little knotted gingham ribbon and done!  Simple and easy.

My husband who is not the most artistic or creative person would probably look at this and say it is dirty looking.

I made him a mini album a few years back which was distressed..inked and grungy..  Sent it to him while he was tending to some family business and was out of town and he said he liked it but it looked a bit dirty to him.  LOL! God love him!

Fertig! (German for "Finished" if you didn't know...)

Done.  Over and out!

Happy Crafting!

Project Life: Week 19

Well, my goodness....7 more weeks and we Project Lifers will be at the halfway mark of this year!   (I'm already growing out of my Project Life album....time to go to Volume II!

Here are my Week 19 layouts.  You know...last week I did a more involved layout with all that stamping with Hero Arts so decided to take the quick and easy approach this week.  I went to my stash and found some leftover stuff from a Simple Stories kit called Fabulous.

This all came together very quickly....I was done with the whole think in about an hour (OK, maybe an hour and a half!).

For my journaling card below I simply (love that word) layered a couple of things and added ribbon.  I am sorry but I just cannot have totally flat.  Just can't do it! LOL!  Not with paper, anyway!

My week card...shown below...was just a filler card I added some stickers to.  Fast and simple (using that word again!)

 I cut an arrow with my Silhouette and have it pointing to David.  This is a terrible picture but Project Life is about documenting snippets of your lives....this photo was taken through a one way mirror at his Mother's Morning Out program....here he is with his "fwends" sitting on a mat listening to story time.  I just love seeing him engaged in activities like this.  He and his "fwends" are just 3 years old.  :)

I couldn't NOT include that picture, you know?

Below is a collage photo done with a template from The Lily Pad.  There are some wonderful, wonderful collage templates for 4x6 and 3x4 photos.  They are a great way to get more photos on your layouts, I think, and are easily done in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements if you  have basic skills in those programs.

Here's another photo collage below of our little girl, Taylor, who doesn't mind getting down and dirty!
I just added a couple of stickers and some baker's twine to it.

These collages are also a great way to use "not-so-great" photos and ending up creating a better visual impact (I think).

Here is the right side:

The bottom right photo is another collage and I just added a few stickers to pep it up a bit.

I added another arrow cut with my Silhouette to the journaling card as well as a few cardstock stickers.

Simple Stories....that is the manufacturer of this kit and it does live by its name.  This was very SIMPLE to do.  Sometimes simple is all you need!

More with Simon Says Stamp's January Card Kit

I have still been working with the January card kit from Simon Says Stamp.    I ended up making about 6 cards, I think, with this kit and still have a few sheets of paper left.  Fun!  Great value and I love the stamps that were included. 

Here is another card I made with it:

Oh, uh, yeah....it is a cut out card...something I don't do often enough!  I used a Spellbinder scallop circle and a regular circle to cut out the shapes and a Fiskars scallop punch for the smallest scallop.  The Kraft sticker came with the card kit and I just inked it with some black VersaFine ink.
This is how it looks closed:

And when you open the card this is what you see:

I love the way it turned out and just might have to CASE myself on this. HAHA!

It was fun to do!  I like fun!  I like value and I think the SSS kits are a tremendous value! 


Lots of ! in that last line! 

!!!!

Happy Crafting....

Back to a Card or Two...

As I've been working on my Project Life I've also found a little time to whip out a card or two.  And my challenge has been to use WHAT I HAVE HERE! LOL! What a novel idea.  USE what I have rather than adding to the collection!

I have been receiving the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit of the Month.  I love it.  The value is great....the stamp set that is included is wonderful...and I love the little things that are included with the papers for card making.  It has been a really fun challenge for me.  So....since I have a few boxes stacked up I decided to go back and, beginning with January, use up the rest of the supplies so I can toss the box.

Here is January Card Kit if you don't recall what it looked like:

Ribbon, tickets, these great Kraft colored round stickers, canvas buttons, tons of paper and more! 
I've made a couple of cards already but made a few more the other night.

The first one I actually did a little cross stitching with my We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy and some embroidery floss that was included in the kit.  I will sew on paper but I will throw a shirt out before I will sew a button back on!

The sentiment is hard to read in the picture so here is a closeup:

"Each moment of my life that intersects with me makes me happy."  I love that sentiment.

And here is the other card...made with one of the cute Tim Holtz tickets that came with the kit

That's it for today...hoping to make a few tonight with February's fabulous kit!

I'm entering the second card in the A Blog Named Hero: Challenge #24: Clean Up Your Act HERE.

Happy Crafting!

Project Life: Week 18 Right Side: Hero {sm}ARTS Take 2

I've written about my love with Hero Arts many times so I'll not bore you the details at this point.  I know it gets dull hearing about my love for this company.  LOL!  I only love Paul McCartney more!

Not true....

Anyway, here is the right side for my Project Life Week 18 which basically means I am ON TRACK.  I actually finished last week's layout last night for Week 19.  Woohoo!

Here is the right side...complete with more Hero Arts touches:

Do not ask me why the picture on the lower right looks like there is a purple haze around me.  Awful picture but it is what it is!  LOL!

I particularly love the way this card turned out!  Love those Hero Arts ink colors...
The background was stamped with the Tweed background stamp and then I used some other stamps from the Stamp Your Story to journal about sweet little Max, the dog we rescued and found a forever home for. I added a little Washi tape to "bold" it up a bit.

I also love this little journaling card.  I used the Friendly Flags stamp set to make my pennant.  It's not a new set or one in the Stamp Your Story Catalog but it is a great set nonetheless and worked so well for my Project Life.  I also stamped the background with the Newspaper Print stamp and embossed it with some clear embossing powder.

I put a little Studio Calico wood veneer bird on it which I'd inked and loaded up with some Stickles.

The stamp set Tape Your Message has some Washi Tape stamps in it and I used several on the two pages I did but here is an example of one that I stamped...journaled on and then just cut out.

The Hero Arts Products I are:

Friendly Flags
Tape Your Message
Today
Newspaper Background

Inks:
Garden Hills
Soft Purple
Cornflower
Bubblegum

Sea Layering Papers

Such fun to do!!!

I'm entering my layout in the Hero Arts Stamp Your Story Contest found HERE.

Happy Crafting!

Project Life: Week 18 and HERO {sm}ARTS! Left Side

I love Hero Arts.  I've written about it several times in the past.  I have had a long standing love affair with this brilliant stamp company since I first stamped with one of the fine stamps this company manufactures over 10 years ago.  I have used many, many Hero Arts products in my cardmaking and scrapbooking over the years.

Hero Arts has just released the new catalog titled "Stamp Your Story".  There are some wonderful new stamps being released soon....I already have a couple of the sets on my wish list.  Hero Arts is doing a contest where the requirement is to use at least one stamp set from the new catalog in a project.  I looked through the catalog and since I am a Hero Arts stamp collector extraordinaire I saw that I had several of the sets and decided to use them in Project Life.  Perfect.  I could use plain white pieces of paper and dress them up with inks, embossing powders.  What a novel idea!  Hero {sm}Arts....that's me.

So without further ado...here is the left side for my Hero Arts laden layout:

 The first card "Take Note" was cut out on my Silhouette...oh yes, my Cameo loves being the host to Hero Arts!  I used Hero Arts layering papers and stamped the journaling box with a Hero Arts, of course, stamp.  (I'll list all HA supplies below.)  The little birds are wood veneers from Recollections and were inked and "Stickled".

 My "Week 18" card was a lot of fun to make.  I did the background with the HA newspaper stamp and embossed it with black embossing powder.  I added some stickers from my stash for the letters and then stamped onto some white medical tape to make my own Washi Tape with some HA stamps.  And then I added a couple of sparkly buttons.

I love, love, love the way this card below came out.  I cut the drama masks with my Cameo but the background is all stamping.  I used a huge background stamp and some HA ink and then used a circle stamp with some other colors to create the background.  Love the colors.  I added a little Washi tape as you can see.

 The card below was stamped with the Tweeds background stamp such a cool stamp!) and another stamp was used for the journaling box.  I added a little flower and inked and Stickled butterfly to the card to 'oomph' it up a bit.

My friend, Donna Gibson, who is on the Creative Team for Becky Higgins' Project Life shared this very cool idea a week or so ago where she scrapbooked her adorable grandson's video and you can see it HERE. So very cute!  Now, how do you do that, you ask?  Well...it is ridiculously easy....you basically upload your video to a sharing site....like Youtube...get the link and then get a QR code for it.  What does QR code stand for?  Quick Response.  I did not know that but once again Google and Wikipedia to the rescue.
Anyway, I did my own of my very adorable grandson who is singing happy birthday to me.  The photo of him is a screenshot from the video and did not turn out well but things like that don't bother me so much anymore.  You know?
Here is my QR code and how it was printed out:

Is that not the coolest thing ever?  You can actually scrapbook your video now!  Wow!  Technology is amazing!

Here is a listing of the Hero Arts supplies I used:
Stamps:
Tape Your Message
Today
Newspaper Background
Tiny Ink Spots Background
Tweed Background

Inks:
Green Hills
Cornflower
Soft Purple
Bubble Gum

 Sea Layering Papers

And I am entering this in the Hero Arts Stamp Your Story Contest which you can see HERE.

And lastly....a very Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers out there and if you still have your mother, please give her a hug....my mom is no longer here and I miss her every day!

Happy Crafting!

Project Life: Week 17

My week 17 layouts for Project Life have been completed for a while but I find the whole process of taking pictures of them tedious!  LOL!  A first world problem, huh?  I'm complaining!  wah, wah, wah!
Seriously once I get the cards in their pockets I don't like removing them.  I have tried to take photos through the protectors but always get such a glare despite my many attempts.  So I take them out of the pockets and photograph and then painstakingly put them back in!  It's not so bad when the cards go in the front side of the page protector but when they go in the back side...well, it gets tedious to me.  I read where someone asked Becky Higgins if they might start putting inserts on both sides and she replied it would be "too expensive".  Oh well...I love the completed pages so I just need to stop my whining.
Stop.
Ok, There you go.

Here is the left side for Week 17....oh and I used the papers and trims and buttons from the Close to Heart pack that I did my insert page with...seen HERE and several cards for the last couple of posts. 

I opted to use one of the 3x4 slots as the "week" card for this layout.  I made my card in my Silhouette software and cut it out with my Cameo.  I added the word memories from a design purchased in the Silhouette online store.  I added a rub-on and some trim and a dot of bling to finish it.

This card was also cut from a design purchased in the Silhouette store.  I backed it with some paper, stamped the lines with an old Stampin' Up journaling stamp I have and added some buttons.

The card below was also cut with my Cameo and then I added a canvas circle from Maya Art that I inked up with some Distress Ink.  I added a little crocheted flower and a button.  I love the way it turned out!

And here is the right side:

We went to a beautiful wedding so I had to add some of those photos!  And a day at the park with my granddaughter gave me some cute pictures to use. 
Another Silhouette cut and embellished with some rub-ons and white pen work.

And oh yes...another Silhouette cut.  LOL...can you tell my Silhouette has been invaluable with my Project Life?   And thanks again, Sheryl and Phil for the awesome cradle for the children!

 And lastly...I love this picture of Taylor peeking out from the tube on the playground....and I love the quote (which is a Rub-on):

So true...so true....

Loving Project Life....loving life...;)

Happy Crafting!