Birthday Cards

It's been a pretty busy week on the ol' blog with my guest design gig for Jillibean Soup's Card Kitchen. I got to play with their March kit which included one of my favorite collections, Birthday Bisque. In case you didn't have a chance to pop over to their blog the past couple days, here's a look at the second half of those cards. 

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Don't you love this kit?!?! Festive colors, awesome elements and all of them coordinating perfectly! Makes it easy and fun to whip up a pile of cards in very little time!

Once again I've completed my Project Life week with temporary photos...looks like I may need a new printer. We're going to look into having it fixed, but I don't hold out much hope since things are rarely made to last. So...what kind of photo printer do you have? How long have you had it? Would you recommend it? Mine is a Canon i9900 and we've had it for about nine years without any issues until recently. 

Have a great weekend!

It's Been Fun!

Time flies when you're having fun and it's been awesome guest designing this week for Jillibean Soup's Card Kitchen kit club!

Today I have two more cards for you...here. I hope you have enjoyed seeing them as much as I had creating them!

Thank you Kimber for inviting me to join you as a guest designer! This kit is the birthday bomb!

  

Guest Designing for Jilllibean Soup's Card Kitchen

If you haven't stopped by for a while, I've been guest designing this week at Jillibean Soup's Card Kitchen blog. I had a ball cooking up a set of birthday cards to share with you using the March kit! Below are the four cards shared so far...just in case you missed them. 

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This kit has so many awesome die cut icons! How about that soda bottle? Stars, arrows, conversation bubbles...you name it, this kit has it! 

Here's a peek at one of the cards posted at the Card Kitchen today....click here to see them both. 

Guest Designing for Card Kitchen

Do you like Jillibean Soup? Birthdays? Card making? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will be happy to hear that I have some birthday card creations to share with you over on the Jillibean Soup Card Kitchen blog today through Friday!  

As a paper crafter there are just too many fabulous paper manufacturers like Jillibean Soup and too little time to  play with all of them so I was beyond thrilled to get a chance to create with Jillibean's March Card Kitchen kit. 

Here's a little peek at one of my designs. This kit is right up my alley with all the die cuts to mix, match and layer! And this month is my birthday so it was super fun to make birthday cards! 

Additionally, I have a project to share with you on the Pebbles blog today, scheduled to post at 2:00 p.m. MST. 

Here's a peek at that using the gorgeous new Garden Party collection.

I've been afflicted by spring fever with temperatures reaching near 70 degrees on Sunday, turning to a winter mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain yesterday! What?!?! Schools are closed today because of it. Come back spring...pretty please! :)

Hello Friend

Hello!

Did you have a nice weekend? Hubs and I got to spend time together since Christopher had a mini-camp weekend. We went on a hike, watched movies, dined out and went to the flea market. It was lovely.

Today I have another card to share that I created with The Sweetest Thing line by My Mind's Eye.

Love all the accents...the crochet doily, brads, wood button, chipboard button and enamel dots.

I tossed in this Hello Friend 'Soup Label' from Jillibean Soup.

When I was just about done, I thought the card needed a little something more so I removed the doily/brad and splattered a little Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist on it. Do you that addition?

I hope you have a great start to your week. Thanks for your visit!

All American Boy

Good morning!

One week from today we'll all (in the US) be celebrating the Fourth of July, our country's 235th birthday! How will you and your family celebrate? Ever since Christopher was born, we've lived in two homes where fireworks are legal so we have a little fireworks display after dark. I spend the day making some of our favorite all American foods, potato salad, baked beans, watermelon and either fried chicken or grilled hamburgers. We always have some kind of dessert too, chocolate chip cookies or cupcakes. I'm thinking of making home made ice cream this year. Sounds really good, doesn't it? I'm looking forward to it!

I just finished a scrapbook page using a photo of Christopher from last Fourth of July and a new Two Peas in a Bucket Digital kit called 'Celebrate' by Polka Dot Pixels.

Wow, these July 4th papers are colorful and patriotic! Most supplies used are from this kit with some buttons, alphas, brads, die cuts, card stock and ribbon thrown in for good measure.

I adore these Jillibean Soup corrugated alphas! The color matched this kit perfectly!

I used a Spellbinders circle die to cut out the star accents.

I only needed a couple strips of paper for my journaling.

If you're like me and you love paper layouts because of the dimension and ability to make things with your hands, paper and tools, don't pass up digital kits because they are a fabulous way to hoard tons of papers and accents without being buried alive with them! ;)

Hope you have a great week! :) Kathy

Rock Garden

T.G.I.F!

It's shaping up to be a glorious day! We've had such a wonderful spring this year. Throughout April and May the weather has been just lovely. Not like some years when we've skipped over spring and headed straight into summer's hot temperatures. That will happen next week when the forecast calls for 90s!

Well, I have a fun scrapbook page to share with you today. Recently our son created a project that required the use of his dumptruck. He loves to push that truck around, ever since he got it for his fifth birthday five years ago! He'll help his dad by carting away trimmings and he takes away a load of weeds for me! He decided that his dump truck needed to haul large rocks from the back yard to the front and created what looks to me like a rock garden.

This is actually a hybrid page. The papers and some of the accents are from a fabulous new digital kit at Two Peas in a Bucket called 'Discovery'

by Dianne Rigdon.

I LOVE this map paper and the numerous phrases included in this kit!

These awesome corrugated title letters are from Jillibean Soup

, the border punch is from EK Success and the gray letter stickers are American Crafts.

I used the Silhouette

to cut out these pretty butterflies and added the must have hand stitching. I love the way this page turned out...the soft colors are so pretty!

Well, I'm off to play some more with paper and glue! I hope you have a terrific weekend! Lots of graduations and fun things going on! Enjoy! :) Kathy

Antiques

Hey Ya'll!

Can you tell I'm blogging friom the south? ;)

I have a scrapbook page share for you this morning. A couple weeks ago I went to the Liberty Antique Festival in North Carolina and created this block design scrapbook page with a bunch of photos from the day.

'Twas a great day to  junk hunt and there was plenty to see! I went with my dearest friend Audrey...she's in the group of photos.

Most of the die cuts and sticker accents are from the  Emma's Shoppe

line from Crate Paper. I threw in a Cosmo Cricket patterned paper and I believe the text background is from My Mind's Eye.

I inked the edges of everything to give the page a vintage feel. I also added some hand stitching and some super cool Jillibean Soup

corrugated alphas....love those letters!

Before I run, I have to share some exciting news! Speaking of Audrey, she just called to inform me that she's going to be a new mama soon and that makes me a new Auntie! But it's not the kind of baby you might be thinking about. She's going to be mama to this sweet little boy! He's a hedgehog.

Is he adorable or what?!?! Oh my what a sweet little guy! I can't wait to hold this little fellow! And guess what else? I get to baby sit him for three weeks! Yep! Audrey and her kids will be visiting family in California soon after they adopt their little dude, but they know he'll be living it up here like it's the Four Seasons Hotel! I'll have to blog about his visit so Audrey and her kids can see what their baby is doing each day and so you can see him too! :)

Okay, enought critter talk...for now! ;) Hope your day is swell! :) 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