The Same but Different

Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  We have a couple of kids birthday parties this weekend and I thought I would share the cards that I made for them.  They are as the title to this post suggests the same but different!  Let me explain, I got my CTMH Lolly Doodle card workshop kit the other day and I can not wait to dig into it and my CTMH LollyDoodle Scrapbooking kit which I also can not wait to dig into later tonight.  I love the cards that are included in the kit, so I decided to use the sketch for one of the cards to make by birthday cards.  I used the same sketch for both but as you will see they are both completely different.
The first card is for my daughters friend who is turning 10 and loves owls:

I used Basic Grey pattern paper and cardstock on a CTMH card base.  I used the You're a Hoot stamp set to stamp the owl, the sentiment was done with the Fringed Phrases stamp set, the heart is from the stamp set that comes in the kit, all of these were stamped with CTMH Gypsy ink.  The border around the owl is from the kits stamp set and was stamped with CTMH Pear ink.  To embellish this card I stamped the arrows with gypsy ink and a stamp from the kit.  A small piece of shimmer trim and purple glitter gems finished off the whole thing.

Here is a close up of the owl and embellishment.  Shimmer Trim is one of the worlds greatest inventions!  

And now for the second card which is for a boy who is turning 3.  I used the same sketch and cutting guide as the first card:

Here I used one of my favorite retired CTMH paper packs, Rough and Tumble.  I stocked up before it retired and think I may have a lifetime supply!  Anybody else guilty of doing things like this?  HAHA!  I kept this card a little more simple, the car embellishment is a sticker from the paper pack that I adhered to cardstock and then cut it out.  I used foam tape to stick it to the card for a little dimension.  The sentiment is from the fringed phrases stamp set, stamped with dutch blue ink, and then I added some buttons just for fun!

That is all for now, be sure and check out my website.  There are lots of great card and scrapbook  workshops on the go that include great sketches that you can use again and again!  I am going to start assembling my Lollydoodle card kit tonight, I will share the finished project with you later!

Happy Friday!

It is finally Friday, we survived the latest snow storm here in the Northeast and I hear there is another one coming tomorrow! sigh!
Today is also Valentines Day, I hope everyone has a very Happy Valentines Day and you get to spend some quality time with the one that you love.  This brings me to the first thing I wanted to share with you today, the Valentine that I made for my Valentine, my wonderful hubby!  When it comes to cards, I typically use a sketch or scraplift and add my own personal touches.  I did something a little different with this one, no sketch and no scraplifting!  Instead I challenged myself to come up with a card that used no more than three different techniques.  What I came up with was a card with two techniques, matting and heat embossing!  Yay for me, here it is:

This card was made using all CTMH products.  The stamp set I used was Hearthrob, the card and mats are made from white daisy and cranberry cardstock.  I used clear embossing powder to emboss the first cranberry mat with a flourish from the stamp set, and silver embossing powder to emboss the top cranberry mat.  

The second thing I have to share is a birthday card I made for my nieces birthday, my family has lots of birthdays in March and April so I figured I would get a head start:

The little princess is turning 5 this year, so I thought it was appropriate that her card have a princess front and center!  The princess was from the Happy Endings stamp set.  I stamped it on white daisy cardstock.  I colored the skin with copics markers and the rest with ctmh exclusive inks alcohol markers.  I used the CTMH birthday stamp for the sentiment.  The patterned paper is and oldie but goodie from CTMH that I stocked up on before it was retired called Day Dream.  I topped it off with color ready ribbon and some clear sparkles, because after all it is all about the bling!  That's it I hope she likes it.

I have one more thing to share with you today, I got my later sk8r picture my life kit from the new spring/summer ctmh catalog and I couldn't wait to use it.  I am telling you, you have to get one of these.  I tried to get into the whole project life thing because I loved the idea of doing something with all those extra pictures that we all take that don't make the traditional scrapbook, but I just wasn't feeling the love!  These new picture my life kits from ctmh are a whole different story, same concept but done so much better!  They all coordinate with ctmh paper packs, they all use the ctmh color pallet they are such good value.  I am going to put these layouts in my traditional scrapbooks to get all those extra pictures in the book!  Here are the layouts I did last night.  

this first one uses the 12 X 12 page as well as one with one of the included memory protector and cards.  I did mat these pictures with some plain project life 4 x 6 cards due to these pictures being an odd size.

One great thing about these kits is there are not a million repeats of the same card designs, so you can make your layout unique.

This is the backside of one of my pages that I haven't completed yet, when I do this layout I can cover some of the cards with pictures and then it will be done!  Very simple very easy! 

Here is the last one.  I can't believe how fast these went together and how great they look!  As I said this is a great way to catch up and to use extra pictures.  

I am going to get a couple more of these kits to have on hand for my daughters scrapbook and the family scrapbook.  

That is all I have for today I hope everyone has a great weekend and a very Happy Valentines Day!

Chow for now!

                                                                       

                                                                   

                                 

Footloose and Fancy Free!

Here I go again, there is no school tomorrow for the kids becasue of yet another snow storm and here I am scrapping the beach!  I used CTMH Footloose paper this layout is for my son's book:

I had a bunch of pictures of this fun day so I added them all using 4 x 12 flipflaps:

thats all I have for tonight, I hope you like my layout!  See you soon!