Happy National Scrapbook Day!

Hi!

What a wonderful thing...National Scrapbook Day! A day to play with paper and glue and release some of our creative energy! Love! Will you be doing a bit of scrapbooking? I'm working on finishing up a page right now. Oh and it's mother's day weekend too...double goodness! Hope yours is fabulous!

I have a yummy card share this morning.

This sweetie is a hybrid card made with the new 'Little Summer Cakes'

by Holly Brooke Jones of Two Peas in a Bucket.

Don't these little cakes look scrumptious? I love 'em, except that they make me crave sweets! Why can't cake be one of the four food groups? Why can't the FDA make cake a nine servring per day requirement? Don't you think we would all be a little more cheerful? A little sweeter? ;)

This little yellow butterfly is also part of the kit. I used some of my newly discovered crepe paper trim again to make a bow...I found it on Etsy.

I used some Spellbinders

dies for the cake frame and to shape the polka dot background paper, a Quickutz die for the tiny tag, A corner rounder punch, a gray Copic

maker for the edges of my paper and a few buttons from my stash.

I hope your weekend is the best! :) kathy

My Friend

Hello friends!

I have a friendship card that I put together for no reason what-so-ever! I love those kind of projects! I didn't make this card for an assignment or for a particular person or occasion. I created just for the fun of it! Just to play!

The papers I used for this card are a mix of Crate Paper

, Echo Park

and Jillibean Soup

. I added links here to all the Two Peas in a Bucket products because they are having a FREE SHIPPING event! Gotta love that! Just use SMSFF9 from now to May 11th.

I used some of my Papertrey Ink stamps, 'Just the Ticket' and the sentiment is from 'Friendship Jars.' I also used a couple stamps from a Unity set called 'Blossom Soup'

create by Jillibean Soup.

The heart die is from My Favorite Things and I embossed it with a Quickutz embossing folder that I ran through my Big Shot. The photo corner and file tab are Quickutz dies and the tags are dies from my old faithful Sizzix. I often laugh at myself for having so many die cut machines, but hey...I use them! :)

Other tools used are my old Fiskars 'Cloud' scissors and scallop border punch

. The butterfly dies were actually included in my March Midnight Rooster kit.

I colored the stamped images with Copic

markers, inked my paper edges and added hand stitching. You may have noticed that I use a lot of crinkled and dyed seam binding? I get mine from Marilyn Healey at MemerieMare on Etsy. Her seam binding is the best! Some of the other shops don't dye their ribbon the way she does so it doesn't have the vintage look of Marilyn's. She has the best color selection and she binds hers in little bundles with text paper, craft string and old mother-of-pearl buttons! Fun!

So what will you be doing this mid week Wednesday? I started a scrapbook page last night using another fabulous digital kit from Peas. I'll probably have that to share with you tomorrow. I hope your day is the best! :) Kathy

A Digital Monday

Hey everyone! How was your weekend? Crazy? Relaxing? Memorable? Mine was rather relaxing. We had hot weather here in North Carolina. In the 90s and humid. My boys spent a number of hours at the pool. I'm not so hip on wearing almost nothing and had plenty of work to do so I stayed in. I got my digital projects done so I'll show you those.

This first project is a hybrid card made from a brand new and adorable kit called 'Fun in the Sun Drawings' by Holly Brooke Jones.

Lots of you like to use Copic Markers and this kit is full of fun little icons perfect for that! My next project is an all digital page made with 'Denim Summer' a fabulous new kit from the talented Jen Martakis.

Isn't this kit cool! Perfect for those summer beach photos! This photo is of me and my son taken at Carolina Beach last summer. We were up with the birds looking for shells before the beach got crowded and hot.

I hope you can pop back by for a bit tomorrow to see the next Digital Doodles stamp release. All of you who do, and leave a comment, will be eligible to win the new stamp! Hope to see you then! :) Kathy

Supplies:

Card Stock: Neenah Paper, Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey
Digital Kit:  Fun in the Sun Drawings
Embossing Folder:  Cuddlebug

Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette; Spellbinders

Stamps:  Close to my Heart

Stamp Ink:  Memento
Ribbon:  May Arts

Craft String:  DMC

Markers:  Copic

Button:  Buttons Galore

Digi Kit:  Denim Summer

Just for Fun

It's the weekend! And a Mother's Day weekend too! I hope everyone has some wonderful things planned for the next couple days! I'm going to attend a Brick Magic Show with my husband and son tomorrow. My son LOVES Legos and is very excited about this! I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day than with my two favorite guys!

Last night I made a card just for the fun of it. Not an assignment or part of a challenge or even with one of my Digital Doodles. Just felt like playing with the 'Fly a Kite' line from October Afternoon.

Isn't this line of paper ADORABLE?!?! I colored the vintage girls in with Copic markers. This was such a fun card to work on. Maybe it will inspire you to play a little this weekend? Whatever you decided to do, I hope you make it a good one! :) Kathy

Supplies

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  October Afternoon
Stamp Ink:  Colorbox

Decorative Pin:  Fancy Pants

Markers:  Copic

Tag Punch:  Ek Success for Stampin' Up

Seam Binding:  BlueBirdLand