SCRAPBOOK PAGE OF MY MAIN MAN

Well, honestly, I have 3 main men - my son JP, my hubby Bill and this adorable little guy Luigi.  I had some fun with My Digital Studio (MDS) today so I created this scrapbook page of him.  I love how the bottom photo looks like he is smelling the flowers.  Tuesday May 31st is the last day you can get printing on sale from SU!'s printing service.  I wanted to print a few pages for my scrapbook because the print quality is phenomenal.  At 30% off, it is a great deal!

 

UR SEW WONDERFUL CARD and LAST DAY TO GET WORD PLAY STAMP SET

I'm not sure if I shared this card or not.  It uses some great SU! papers and stamps that are in the sewing line from SU!  Janet Wakeland, my upline, designed the card and I CASED it.  I have been meaning to send it to my parents to thank them for the sewing lessons they gave me when I was in grade school.  That was one of the best things I ever learned - how to cut from a pattern and make clothes.  They even bought me my own sewing machine that I kept until just a few years ago.  The main stamp set on this card is the pattern pieces.  Janet had us stamp it in soft suede on vellum, lightly shade the vellum and then back it with cardstock. They look like real pattern pieces.  Also...on the SU! seam binding, did you know you could stamp?  We stamped the tape measure on it.  I love it!

 On the envelope I used the wheel to stamp the stitches.  The main reason I think I wanted to show this card was for the inside of the card and the envelope featuring the stamp Remember When.  It is part of the word play stamp set and on sale for 30% off til May 31st only! If you didn't get the word play stamp set yet, get it now because there is nothing like getting it on such a great sale from SU!

WORD PLAY STAMP SET - GET YOURS TODAY!

30% 0FF SELECT STAMPS UNTIL TUESDAY MAY 31st ONLY

Click on either photo to see stamp sets larger.  30% will be taken off at the end. Prices shown are original prices.  Email me or go to my website to shop now.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HON!

Love this great under $10 stamp of the sailboat from SU!  I was able to make my husband's anniversary card with it.  The original design for this card comes from my upline Janet Wakeland. I just changed it slightly by adding the sentiment and putting husband on the card.  The original card was a father's day card.  Do you like the new baker's twine from SU!?  Cool embellishment I think!

We are married 19 years today!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL!

Let us remember all of the great service men and women who work so hard to make this country great and to protect it.  Let us remember those who have sacrificed their own lives for our freedom!

THANK YOU CARD FOR A FRIEND - TRUE FRIEND 30% OFF FOR 2 MORE DAYS

The stamp set True Friend that I used below is part of the SU! National Scrapbooking Month 30% off Sale by for SU!  The Sale includes stamp sets, digital downloads and digital printing.  There is also a great sale for those looking to join our SU! family!  See the ad on the left side of my blog down and to the left that says 30% off!  I love this stamp set so I had to purchase it with the sale this month. I've already showed you word play in the post yesterday.  That's another great set to have on sale.  My other favorite is grunge rock!  I bought that set last year at the start of the new catalog year to make my husband's birthday card.  So many great sets on sale! Sale ends May 31st.

This card I made for my friend Sandi.  I hope she doesn't see it before I give it to her.  I wanted to thank her for her friendship and for always being a supportive friend to me.  I actually almost completely CASED the card idea in the SU! Idea book using this stamp.  I modified by using river rock for the base color and by putting a ribbon on the card and also cutting out a stamped butterfly to place on the ribbon.

WORD PLAY STAMP SET ON SALE AT SU!

I demonstrated this card at class this week to remind me to tell everyone that there are several great stamp sets on sale for 30% off from SU! You can order some great sets. One of the sets is Word Play.  I think this is such a perfect set. The words are great and I like how they are designed.  I put a graphic of the stamp set at the bottom of this post so that you can see what this set includes.  For the first card we made a simple card with some cardstsock, designer paper, embellishments and tool kit (to paper pierce the line of holes into the red cardstock beneath the blue dsp).  This is such an easy card to make.  Everyone in class had their choice of the stamps for their sentiment.  I also did a card using the Thanks a Million sentiment.

This second card also uses a stamp sentiment from word play - Go Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams.  This couldn't be a more perfect sentiment for the accompanying summer mini catalog stamp set the Open Sea.  I made this card up as I went along.  I couldn't have found two more appropriately matched stamp sets than these.  The dsp is also new from the summer mini catalog and is nautical.

THE OPEN SEA STAMP SET

Classic images and old world designs fill this five-piece stamp brush set. Choose it for your Father’s Day projects or a travel photobook. Use it with the Nautical Expedition Designer Series Paper for perfect coordination.




WORD PLAY STAMP SET - on SALE til 5/31 at 30% off!  GREAT DEAL!

An image is worth a thousand words—but these words have quite a bit to say themselves. With some font-tastic emphasis and a few images mixed in, they’ll express your feelings in a big way with maximum meaning on scrapbook pages, cards, tags, and more. Available both in wood-mount and clear-mount.


If you would like the Word Play set (or any of the other stamp sets on sale) at 30% off until this Tuesday 5/31 only - email me or visit my website for shop now!

LINDA KINCAID'S DESIGNER CARD

I'm so excited about this card.  Linda Kincaid, another one of my SU! downline, designed this card for our masculine style classes this week. This card works for either gender. Linda chose the SU! stamp set Every Moment.  I actually stamped and colored this card and it is very similar to the one that Linda demonstrated for us.  Linda taught us a way to color with our blender pens so that we get some light coloring and some realistic shading (click on the card below to see the coloring more closely!).  We used early espresso, marina mist and daffodil delight for our card stock colors.  The main image was stamped with basic black onto confetti white cardstock by SU! which is a very good quality paper to use for this technique or for watercoloring.  We also took out the distressing tool for the edges.  This makes the card slightly vintage especially with the addition of the linen thread and the vintage brad.  Both are also by SU!

EVERY MOMENT STAMP SET 
Capture a glimpse of gentle nature moments for a card to a loved one or a scrapbook page dedicated to some time spent reflecting in the quiet outdoors. Our Every Moment set includes a few nature favorites to help you express your awe and reverence for all creatures and living things that beautify the world around us. Available both in wood-mount and clear-mount. Also available in French.

GREAT CARD BY HSIAO-HUI

We are doing masculine style cards this week.  I had a great class Tuesday and another class meets tonight.  I held off posting the cards til today since I like the class to have an element of surprise when they make their cards.  This is a card designed by Hsiao-hui Lin, one of my SU! downline.  She used designer in color DSP in pear pizzaz for the shirt.  It is the origami folded shirt that is circulating the blogs and websites right now that is so perfect for the new stamp set from SU!  in the summer mini catalog called Best Dad Ever with the ties.  I love it.  We also used baja breeze card stock, our Big Shot to emboss the backgrounds, and a Happy Birthday stamp that is great for coloring and stamping with stampinwrite markers.  I know tonight's class will love this card.

BEST DAD EVER STAMP SET

Your search is over for the perfect stamp set to help you say " I love you" to that special dad in your life! And now you won't have to wait for Father's Day to let him know that he is the "Best Dad Ever"! Ink the tie images with Stampin' Write markers for a look that's colorful and fun. Or create a doorhanger enclosing a coupon or gift for your favorite dad. Lots of great uses with this set.
Have you seen the card that uses the ties as vases for flowers?  So cool!  This set has lots of uses and the fonts for the different greetings are really terrific!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD- MAY 26

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!  

YOU'RE THE GREATEST!

SURF'S UP MDS

Oh boy did JP have fun on this trip.  Here's my next MDS page!

MDS CARD

I'm taking advantage of SU!'s great MAY SALE!  30% off Digital printing.  I've done a bunch of scrapbook pages and also cards.  It's been fun, easy and very quick.  Here's a card I made.  It literally took me 5 minutes to create. Yeah MDS!  And this month you can get a version of MDS for 1/2 price.  Email me for info! Notice how real the pom pom trim looks!

NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING MONTH - MDS - FAMILY VACATION

It's National Scrapbooking Month!  Don't forget that we have 30% off a lot of SU! stamps and bundles, digital items and printing.  Email me for details or go to my website.  I'm working on scrapbooking my recent trip and also on scrapbooking in general.  With My Digital Studio (MDS) it is very easy to scrapbook.  Here's my next page!  It's all 3 of us together in Marco Island!

 Click on page to see more detail or view larger!

ANOTHER SCRAPBOOK PAGE

Here is a scrapbook page I did with the brand new Scrapbook set from SU! Polka Dots.  It is so cheery and colorful.  I love the main color Daffodil Delight.  I actually made this page for my scrapbooking retreat to showcase myself in my tiara.  If you look closely you can see me wearing mine.

I love the components on this page. The scrapbook kit comes with great papers and die cut stickers that are of super quality.  I added buttons and our new bakers twine.  The panel on the left was made by stamping one of the flowers from fabulous florets stamp set (brand new in the summer mini) with daffodil delight, and then embossing the whole panel with the polka dot embossing folder for the Big Shot.  I also added a crown embellishment to the page at the bottom of my photo.  The letters of my name were die cut with the Big Shot using chipboard and then coloring with old olive ink.

EMAIL ME TO GET YOUR SCRAPBOOK KIT TODAY!

MDS -JP SAILING

I just had to do another MDS page.  I love digital scrapbooking. This one is of my son JP on the catamaran.  We loved the boat and it was a perfect day to just "chill" and enjoy the ride!

MDS - SAILING FUN

One of the coolest things we have ever done as a family is to set sail in the Gulf of Mexico.  On Monday, our last day of vacation, we took a catamaran out and spent the morning on the boat.  It was fabulous.  I usually get sea sick if I don't have an anti sea sickness medication, but I did fine.  The water was mostly smooth.  The sun was shining and it was a picture perfect day. We even had the right amount of wind to sail.  Midway through our sailing adventure we stopped at a small island in the Gulf to go shelling. I'll have another page showing that.  Here's an MDS (My Digital Studio) scrapbook page of the three of us on the boat.

I used a brush stamp set called The Open Sea.  You can purchase this very inexpensively and then download this from SU!  You can also buy the rubber stamp set if you want to do regular scrapbook pages with ink or even make cards.  This is a really great set!

MARCO ISLAND MDS STYLE

Here is an MDS page I created using a photo of JP at the beach.  I am going to create a whole digital album of our trip.  I have about a 2 hour flight home so that should give me a good start. 

GREETINGS FROM MARCO ISLAND

We are on vacation in Marco Island Florida.  It's amazing here.  Love the Sun, the Water, the Beach, everything! I actually have a work conference, but each day it's out by 1, so I'm at the Beach!  It's been a great week here.  Let me just take today's blog to share a great fun photo of my son in the Gulf of Mexico!  I'll be back to stamping and crafting tomorrow!

 Marco Island 2011 - AWESOME!

 

BIRTHDAY CARD FOR CINDY

Cindy Geskey has a birthday on May 17th.  I thought I would go ahead and make my card for her and get it out.  She is so sweet and I was thrilled to wish her a happy day!

I used Greeting Card Kids by SU!. This little girl originally had a valentine in her hand. I stamped a present that was the perfect size and put that in her hand.  She is adorable.

The colors on the card are always artichoke card stock base and so saffron dsp.  I water colored the little girl and added some shine with smooch!

Do you like my three little words....spoil yourself today?  Cindy, I hope you do just that!