Love You Much

Okay, can you tell that I love pink and green together? This was a quick card I made using many of the same card colors from the other day's card.

For inspiration I was flipping through some of my old Stampin' Up! Idea book and catalogs (they are great for references you know, so don't toss them after their year is up!) I saw a card with this layout. I thought, how cute! I could do that easily. So......

I used a pink cardstock base, punched a few shades of pink and green with various sized circle punches and a few with designer paper. A little ribbon, a pink sentiment in a circle and voila! I have created a super cute and easy card.

Think of the possibilities! Flowers! Stars! or even butterflies! What a quick and easy layout! Think outside the box (or circle) LOL

I hope you enjoy this card, thanks for looking!

~melanie :)

Birdy Birthday

This is a birthday card I made the other day. I was using my SU! bird punch and thought I would first run my paper through the swiss dots embossing folder for dimension. How cute?

I really love this color paper and am sad it retired, but there are lots of new colors that I am growing to love.

recipe:

All materials Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Barely Banana

DSP: Kaleidascope

Accessories: So Saffron Ribbon, Circle Designer Brads

Punches: Extra Large Two-Step Bird, Scallop Trim Border

Stamp: Well Scripted

Hope you like it! Thanks for looking!

~melanie :)

I made this card for this weeks Layout Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. This is the first time I have done this. I always look, but decided to get off my butt and start making more!

I hope you like it.

Supplies: All Stampin' Up. The stamp is from a retired set I found at a yard sale last week and the paper is various colors and designs that I believe many of to be retired. I am trying to use up my stash!

The card was quick and easy and got my creative juices flowing so I am totally in card making mode! I made 7 cards in the last 2 days, I hope to post more soon.

Thanks for looking!

~melanie

Simple Birthday Card

I love this card and it was so easy to make with clean simple design. Sometimes I remind myself it doesn't need to be complicated! The layout was simple and it probably took me about 5 minutes to make this card! Great if you need a last minute birthday card!

All Supplies Stampin' Up!:

Cardstock - Brilliant Blue, Yo Yo Yellow, Whisper White

Ink- Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Yo Yo Yellow, Green Galore and Tempting Turquoise

Accessories - 5/8" grosgrain ribbon in so saffron

Stamps - Party Hearty

I know that some of these colors are retired, but I admit this is not a new card! Last weekend I spent 5 hours in my craft room (located in my basement) using new stamps and using new colors. I went back down a few days later and found a puddle on my craft table with my cards directly in the middle! We could not locate the source at the time, but there are pipes running across the roof of my room and we are guessing there was condensation due to the warm weather. That really stinks! I wanted to cry at the time. So hopefully since I am on vacation from work this week I will be able to get ALOT of crafting done!

Hope to share more soon!

~melanie :)

Oh, my poor neglected blog! I have been so bad to you.

Well, did you know that for the last year I have not had a camera? It makes it awfully hard to share my projects! Finally, last weekend I decided I NEEDED to get one! Summer is here, we had our family reunion coming up and my vacation from work. So I am happy to announce that I will now be able to stop neglecting my blog and post more! Yay!

Well, right now I am getting ready for my kids party. It is a playdate that I have had planned for a while and I invited all the kids from my 2 girls classes at school. I have not had many replies (I realize that it is a Saturday in the middle of the summer, so I am not too surprised) but we plan to have a good time. The sun i starting to come out and the girls are getting excited.

I PROMISE, my blog, not to ignore you anymore. I will be back later today to share on you.

I hope everyone is having a great summer and I will be back later :)

~ melanie :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!
I want to wish a wonderful day to all of the mother's out there. This is your day to be appreciated and I hope you are! My family is great to me. I had breakfast made by my hubby and kids...yummy veggie omelet with bacon! my fav.
Also had great homemade gifts from my kids and LOTS of hugs and kisses! My family is the best.
Getting ready to go to my sister's house where my wonderful mom and my 3 great sisters are going to order lunch and have a relaxing afternoon. Doesn't that sound great?

I did have a card to share with you, but am having trouble uploading it...so maybe later!
Have a great day!
~melanie :)

Wonderful Mother

Well that time of year is almost here....Mother's Day! All wonderful mother's deserve a beautiful card. I love this one and it was pretty simple to make.

Cardstock base is Real Red, branch is Old Olive, Bird is tempting turquoise. The DSP is from the Pink Flamingo paper pack. This is my favorite DSP paper pack. I love the colors, I never would have put Real Red and Tempting Turquoise paper together on my own, but when I saw these colors on the paper I was in love. It is a new fav combo of mine.
Image is from the Well Scripted set, stamped in tempting turquoise.
The adorable bird and branch was made with the Extra Large 2 step Bird Punch. How simple is that?

Look forward to more Mother's Day cards this week. Don't forget you only have one week left until Mother's Day!

~melanie

Friends

I love the colors on this card! Everything is from Stampin' Up! Olive green which has quickly become a favorite of mine, Rich Razzleberry and pink pirouette. The stamp set Vague Vintage was not a set I immediately thought I wanted. Then I started to see cards with it and liked it, bought it and now love it!

The really neat part of this card is the flower. My friend told me about the technique and I could not wait to try it. It really is quite simple, but looks dramatic. I used my flower punch and punched out 3 Rich Razzleberry Flowers and one in Old Olive. I took the Razzleberry flowers and crumpled them up really good. Then I carefully pulled apart the 2 layers of paper. The inside is suede - like. I turned rough side up and put the old olive on the bottem, used a cute pink brad in the center and fanned out the razzleberry paper. If the flower flattens out, all you need to do is rough it up a little. So cute and so easy!

For the rest of the card, I used the vine image in the set to make a design on the old olive card base. And on my white cardstock, I sponged the sides with old olive to make it more antique looking and less "in your face" white. I really enjoy playing with this set and look forward to making more cards for my friends.

Have a great Sunday!
~Melanie

Margaritaville

I decided to post this card today because last night I had a Pampered Chef show and served Margarita's to my guests! I love margaritas and I have not had one in months. They were so yummy. I had several!

All materials for this card are Stampin' Up! The layout was from Taylored Expressions.
I stamped the image and sentiment with Tempting Turquoise and colored the image with my stampin write markers. Then I used crystal effects on my "glassware" to give it shine. Thainking about it now, it would have been really cute to "pop up" the umbrella by cutting out a second one and placing it on a piece of a dimensional. Oh, well. Next time. I always come up with new ideas from cards that I have made previously.

Well we are aiming to have a beautiful sunny weekend here in Massachusetts and I am hoping to enjoy it as well as get some crafting done. Hope you all enjoy your weekend too.

~Melanie

April????

Can it really be April already? This year is flying by. I have been so busy with work and family that I have not been doing much stamping. I did however participate in LGH's spring craft fair. Of course I crammed for 2 weeks to get ready. It wasn't as busy as the fall fair, but was a good day. And since my little Lily had no school that day, she came and helped me out. It gave me a chance to make some spring time cards, use brighter colors and new stamps! :)

I am sooooo happy to see the sun today after all the rain we have had. I am hoping the ground dries up some so the kids can Easter hunt outside. I am really hoping that it dries alot for those unfortunate people in southern New England whose homes flooded! Thankfully we only got a few inches in our basement and I only lost a small amount of my craft supplies, mostly old paper.

Well, have a Happy Easter and enjoy the warm and sun!

~melanie