Heading off to a weekend retreat with some of my mom friends and then off to Indiana for a few weeks. I'll still be posting here, but my entries will be lighter than usual. I'll be back to normal in April.
Layered Flowers and Dots
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using embossing folders. The Decorative Dots folder is my absolute favorite, so of course I had to make a card using that one! I just started layering on the flower parts to build up the card. As a last touch, I added some rhinestones to the middle of the flowers and coated the Calypso Coral flowers with Wink of Stella (hard to see in the pic).
- Stamps:
- Inks:
- Cardstock: Calypso Coral; Chocolate Chip; Old Olive
- Accessories: Rhinestones; Doilies
- Tools: Botanical Builder Framelits; Wink of Stella
SSINKCC31: Lots of Dots
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the following colors:
I decided to pull out an old favorite stamp set: Work of Art. I love the ability to use the abstract stamps to create interesting pictures and patterns. I just love my dotted background! I went with a simple sentiment with some added splats from my new Timeless Textures Stamp Set. To finish, I added some candy dots (my favorite embellishment!) and washi tape.
- Stamps: Work of Art; Timeless Textures
- Inks: Pink Pirouette; Lost Lagoon; Rich Razzleberry
- Cardstock: Pink Pirouette; Lost Lagoon; Rich Razzleberry; Whisper White
- Accessories: 2014-2016 In Color Washi Tape; Candy Dots
- Tools:
Project Life February 2016
February's pages featured a lot of hearts and pink/red. I'm not a huge fan of pink, but I had to highlight the color for the month of love. My goal was to add an embellishment to every picture. The first page highlights our monthly visit to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose.
Pages 2 and 3 featured pictures from my mom's afternoon out painting. I decided to not embellish the pictures as they are full of color. The clean look works for these pages.
Page 4 is all about the 3rd annual MVPA Valentines Exchange. We've had so much fun going every year and this year was no different. I love all the hearts I added to the page.
Page 5 and 6 collect our random photos from the month. Sometimes it's nice to just have some good photos without a big theme or embellishments.
Desktop Thursday #9
Not a huge mess, but definitely not a clean desktop right now. I've got some of my new stamps sets hanging out as well as part of my birthday gift from a good friend: SNAIL!!!
March 2016 Crafting Goals
Arthur and I are visiting family in Indiana for half the month, so I'm keeping my goals simple.
- February PL pages -- The usual.
- Finish Retreat Crafts -- I'm leaving on the retreat on March 10th, so these get to get done pronto.
- Send Out March Cards/Take April Cards with Me to Indiana to Send Out -- Already started prepping March, but need to finish. Since we will be in Indiana from the 16th until the end of the month, I need to take some of those cards and April's cards with me to send out.
- Reevaluate My PL Plan -- Carry over from last month's goals. Want to spend some time thinking about what I want to see in my PL pages. On a related note, Ali Edwards just announced Week in the Life for May. I need to decide if I want to buy her kit again this year.
A recap of last month's goals:
- January PL pages — Success! We were very sick, so there weren't that many pages to make.
- Finish Retreat Crafts — Fail. Not quite finished with one of the crafts. Hoping to knock it out this week.
- Destash/declutter before possible move — Success! Did another pass at my stash and trashed/put in sale box a decent amount. Feeling a bit better.
- Take supply inventory — Success! I reorganized some things, took stock of my cardstock supply, and listed out my stamp sets.
- Send February cards out — Success! It's so much easier to do them in one batch than try to remember individual cards throughout the month.
- Reevaluate my PL plan— Fail. Completely forgot that this one on my goals list. Oops!
Sunday Haul #6
My February Stamp Club order came this week! And I've already started using my new supplies. I snapped up:
- Timeless Textures Stamp Set
- Welcome Words Stamp Set
- Pink Pirouette Ink Pad
- Crumb Cake Ribbon
- Fine Tip Glue Pen
- Stacks of Wishes Washi Tape (clearance rack)
- Metallic Glitter Tape (SAB free item)
Blooms and Blushing Bride
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using on our current favorite products. My current favorite is the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set. I love the images, but even more I love the ability to color the images to fit my card! For this card, I repeatedly stamped the large flower image. Then I raided my markers box for some pretty spring colors. I stamped a sentiment onto an oval piece. But still something was missing... A bit of Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper was the perfect embellishment!
- Stamps: Birthday Blooms
- Inks: Blushing Bride; Rose Red; Perfect Plum; Mint Macaron; Lost Lagoon; Old Olive; Pear Pizzaz; Hello Honey; Basic Black
- Cardstock: Rose Red; Blushing Bride; Whisper White
- Accessories: Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper
- Tools: Oval Framelits
Currently...
Watching: Obsessed with The Bachelor right now. Watching it on free Hulu, so I'm a week behind. Trying to avoid any spoilers for the current week.
Reading: Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. Finishing out the Miss Peregrine trilogy finally. The library had it on the Lucky Day shelf so I grabbed it quickly!
Listening: J downloaded the Hamilton soundtrack and it's still on repeat...
Making: The design team admins put up the schedule for March and April. My goal is to finish out my cards for those two months before leaving for Indiana on the 16th.
Feeling: There's some big news brewing in our household. I'll let you know once everything is set, but I'm super excited.
Planning: The retreat is happening in two weeks. I'm finalizing the last little details and shopping for food.
Loving: Grabbed some awesome ginger beer at the store last week. Now I am obsessed with it.
SSINKMC30: Easter Baskets
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a project using at least three of the items below. For this month's mystery challenge, I chose four of the items: non-card project, all the colors, 2 or more punches/dies, and Easter theme.
I made a simple Easter basket to use this coming March. I finally bought the Berry Basket die and just had to make an Easter/spring basket. After assembling the basket, I went about decorating it. I didn't want to go too crazy, so I just added some stamped and punched flowers finished with candy dots. Very simple, but such a great little 3D project. The February stamp club ladies made their own versions last week.
- Stamps: Flower Shop
- Inks: Wisteria Wonder, Bermuda Bay, Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight
- Cardstock: Cucumber Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Bermuda Bay, Blushing Bride, So Saffron
- Accessories: Candy Dots
- Tools: Pansy Punch