Inspiration Wednesday & my homework for "Clean & Simple 4" online card class!

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome to another "Inspiration Wednesday!" 

For my card card today, I was inspired by the talented Miss Shari Carroll!  She is one of the teachers for the "Clean & Simple 4" online card class & she did a technique by die cutting an image out of fun foam & using it as a stamp!  I adhered the die cut to an acrylic block, inked it up & stamped it directly to my card! Using that same foam that I inked up, I removed it from my acrylic block then adhered it slightly on top of the stamped butterfly! Next I used the smaller butterfly die & just cut it out using the same fun foam, but just kept it white!  I added some wink of stella to all 3 of my butterflies! I used some gold/bronzey paint & flicked a tiny bit of splatters on to my card.  I added 3 different kinds of washi tape to the right edge of my card & this is what Miss Shari did to her card & I LOVED that touch! Before I adhered that front panel to the base of my card, I used some gold/bronzey thread, tied it around a few times & made a simple bow~!  I used my Label Font stamp set & stamped out HELLO using that same ink I used for the butterflies which was Simon Says AUDREY BLUE! Then I used some clear embossing powder on top of the sentiment to give it a little shine, then layered it on top of a gold card stock! Last, but certainly not least, I added sequins! 

MCT Products:

~ Pretty Butterflies & Dragonfly dies (will be back in stock on Feb 9)

~ Label Font stamps

Now onto my AWESOME design team! :) Don't forget to click on each name to see what "THERE" inspiration was behind these GORGEOUS projects!

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Lucia

Miss Nikki

Didn't my team do an AWESOME job like ALWAYS?  Don't forget to visit their blogs to leave them some LOVE!

I just wanted to let you know that I will do a video for you tomorrow!  It's been a crazy busy week & there were NOT enough hours in the day for me to make videos for you these last few days :(
But I will, because I feel like my blog isn't complete w/o a video for you! :)

Thank you ALL for stopping by & I hope you all have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

Scrapping the Little Things

Good morning my creative friends!  I hope you ALL had a FABULOUS weekend! Welcome to another "Scrapping the little things"! Today we have some SUPER FUN pages for you!  

I decided to go ahead & do another page in my smash book! For my page today I focused on the "Day before school"!  It's "TRADITION" that my boys get EXTRA SPOILED the day before they go back to school! My hubby always reminds me the day before to make sure I take them out! Which we NEVER forget! ;) I take them to their FAVORITE places~! First up on the agenda, was they LOVE Ghiradelli Chocolate Factory (which "I" do TOO!) hehehe! They wanted dessert BEFORE lunch! So that is exactly what we did! Baby Aaron had his usual Sundae, but he ordered it a bit different this time! Anthony ordered his milkshake & of course I had my "usual" a banana split! ;) I have to treat myself too...right? :) So we hung out there, then we headed to Barnes & Noble! Okay, I do have to say that I don't have your "typical boys"!  I know if I were to ask my nephews where would THEY want to go for fun, they would FOR SURE say the Park!  But not my Baby Aaron & Anthony, they ALWAYS pick to go to Barnes & Noble! Hey, I don't mind AT ALL! I am just SOOO LUCKY & BLESSED that BOTH of my boys ENJOY reading SOOO MUCH!  They told me not to ever get them a kindle because it would NOT be the same to them! In "my opinion" I have to agree w/them 100%! There is NOTHING like holding your book & turning the pages yourself!  But I do know ALOT of people who do prefer the kindle over a book because it's easier for storage purposes!  

We usual spend "at least" 2 hours at Barnes & Noble.  Since we had a late start this day, it was almost dinner time, so the boys chose to go to their FAVORITE burrito place! So we picked up the burritos to go so my hubby can enjoy his burrito w/us when he got home from work! 

You can see a list of products I used right below this pic! 

Supplies used:

~ Stitched Hexy Dies

~ Stitched round tab, arrow & tag set

~ Stitched file folder & index card dies

~ Stitched square speech bubble dies

~ Stitched round speech bubble dies

~ My teacher rocks stamp set

~ Label font stamp set

~ Just simply live stamp & die set

~ Celebrate good times stamp & die set

Now onto my AWESOME design team! Don't forget to click on each of their names to visit each blog & leave them some LOVE~! ;)

Miss Amy

 Miss Cassandra

Miss Cathryn

Miss Courtney

Miss Glora

Miss Nancy

Miss Ruthie

Weren't these some SUPER FUN pages? Well, I hope we inspired YOU to do some scrapping yourself today! Thank you so much for stopping by & I will see you all back here tomorrow morning!
xoxo

P.S. ORDER UPDATE! THANK YOU ALLL SO VERY MUCH for your orders over the weekend! It looks like ALOT of you took advantage of the sale~! The sale has already ended & my Mom will have ALL orders out from the sale by tomorrow (Tuesday, August 20th)!  If you missed out on this sale, no worries....I will be having another one VERY SOON! ;) 

Scrapping The Little Things

Good morning my creative friends & welcome to another:

First things first, I hope you all had a FABULOUS weekend! For me, it was bittersweet because my hubby is returning back to work today after being home w/us since December. He had injured his knee at work & had to have surgery so that's why he was w/us. My boys & myself are sure going to miss him like CRAZY! Even though he was injured, we all made the best of it & really ENJOYED having him home w/us. :( 

Well, I guess now I will be back to my regular routine, if I can remember it! ;)

For my page today, I just HAD to use this BEAUTIFUL picture of my hubby & my boys. For one of my hubby's father's day gifts, we had taken him to see the "Man of Steel". Wow, what an AWESOME movie from beginning to end....we all loved it!  My Mom had gotten all 3 of them these cute shirts & I thought it was PERFECT that they wore them to see this movie. Of course, it was a "Kodak" moment...lol.... I just had to get a picture of all three of them w/their matching t-shirts! I thought this was the PERFECT picture to add to my smashbook!  I will later add the ticket stub to this as well, as soon as I find it! ;)

 In my video below, I explained how I put this together! You can see the list of supplies I used right below this!

Supplies used:

~ Lowercase Fun Dies

~ All Star Baby

~ Vintage Label stamps

~ Vintage Label Dies

~ Journal It

~ 3x3 Stitched Journal Die

~ (small arrow) Stitched Mini Frame die

~ (big arrow) Stitched Capture Frame die

~ Label Font

~ Scallop & Stitched Circle die 

~ Burlap (off white)

Here is my video for you today!

Now onto my AMAZING design team! Click on each of their names to visit each of their blogs!

 Miss Cassandra

Miss Leanne

Miss Nancy

Miss Shar

Miss Courtney

Miss Micia

I hope you all were inspired to scrap something today! Thank you so very much for stopping by & I will see you back here soon~!  Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

P.S. Don't forget to play along w/our "BLING" challenge that is going on right HERE!

3-D Wednesday

Good morning my creative friends & welcome to another 3-D Wednesday! I had a question from someone who wanted an idea for a graduation invite! Soooo, since my Baby Aaron will be graduating as well, I'd thought I would come up w/something perfect for a boy! You can see in my video below exactly how this was made step by step! 

I put the date at the bottom for the date that needs to be saved & instead of sending a separate invite, I decide to just go ahead & put all of the info on the back of each tag! 

Since I will be hand delivering most of these, I thought they would look awesome to give in these super cute little glassine bags from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique!  I am very proud of how these turned out! ;)

Supplies used:

~ Tag Dies

~ Stitched Chunky Jar Dies

~ Label Font Stamps

~ What's Growing On? 

~ Just Simply Live

~ All Around Everything ACCESSORIES

~ Kraft ribbon

~ Teresa Collins "He Said She Said" 6x6 paper pad

~ Small Glassine Bags 

Here is my video for you today! :)

Now onto my FABULOUS design team! Don't forget to click on each of their names to leave them some "L-O-V-E"! ;)

Miss Kim

Miss Leanne

Miss Liz

Miss Veronica

Miss Shar

I hope you were all inspired here today! Thank you so very much for stopping by & I will see you back here soon! Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

Scrapping the little things!

GOOD MORNING & welcome to another "Scrapping the Little Things"! WOW, I can't believe today is April 1st AND the BEST part about today is that it is "Opening Day" for baseball season to be back in full swing! My boys & I are are looking forward to watching AND going to lots of Giants games!;) 

Okay, onto my page for today! I decided to do a SUPER QUICK page in my smashbook! Since today is "April Fool's Day",  my design team & myself are scapping "silly" or "prank" pictures on our pages today! I chose this cute pic of my beautiful boys fooling around w/their Easter baskets on their head that the Easter Bunny left for them yesterday! I thought it would be a PERFECT picture to use for today! You can see all the products I used right below this picture~!

Supplies used:

~ Label Font stamps 

~ Simple Stories 24/7 6x6 pad

~ Simple Stories 24/7 decorative brads

~ Blue Vellum bag & tag

Now onto my FABULOUS design team!:)

Miss Amy

Miss Cheryl

Miss Cindy

Miss Courtney

Miss Nancy

Miss Katie

Miss Shar

I hope you all were inspired to scrap those "silly" pictures today!;) THank you sooo very much for stopping by my blog! Don't forget to visit my sweet design team's blogs for more details on each of their pages!

Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

P.S. Don't forget to join in on our latest "TIC TAC TOE" challenge we have going on right HERE!