Another little boy's birthday card

along the same lines as the one I showed you the other day:  I just flipped it to the horizontal and made it slightly different with punched stars and a strip of retiring DSP.  Not that my son noticed; he thought it was exactly the same as the other card!  Hmm, men and the attention to detail gene!

Here's the other card for the sake of comparison:

Which card do you prefer?  Drop me a comment and let me know.  :-)

Random cuteness

After the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis AND the Retirement List, here are some random cute images of my two youngest expressing their creativity:

 

Oh, and some cards I made a little while ago but hadn't put up on the blog:

 

The cards on the left are part of a package made for a Baby Shower featuring the retiring Bundle of Joy; on the right is a card made for a lovely little boy who turned six recently.  I used the Wanted stamp set plus the retiring It's Your Birthday.   

Enjoy!

Some Scrapbooking, for a change

I know - two posts in one day, INCONCEIVABLE!  (Princess Bride reference there, hee, hee)

Just thought I'd show you a few more pages of the 8 x 8 albums I've made by Mum and MIL for Christmas, now that I'm wrapping them to go under the tree!

Please note all materials are SU! unless otherwise stated.  I've done these in a hurry (what else is new?) so I've kept things nice and simple.  I've stamped and used co-ordinating DSP (Afternoon Tea from the Summer Mini with Live Your Dreams Stamp set).    Also I was happy to discover that the Live Your Dreams set has a journalling stamp - dotted lines - which makes it perfect for scrapbooking.  I've used it in almost every page.

  what?  another stinkin' sideways photo?  Argh!

Bad blogger!

OK, I know its been a little while since my last post - lots of busy life stuff, plus bad storm activity here has meant no time to post.  I haven't been idle however!

Here are the cards we were supposed to be making at our Christmas Card Class last week - unfortunately, it was cancelled due to hail.  Hopefully Mother Nature will be in a better mood this week.  

The card on the left uses a technique known as "reverse masking" which is very easy, but looks effective.  The card on the right uses heat embossing - I know many of my "card ladies" have been keen to try this technique!  I've used stamps from Crazy for Christmas, Short & Sweet, Lovely As A Tree, and Occasional Greetings (just to make a change from Season of Joy!).

I'm also working on a 8 x8 scrapbook for both sets of grandparents for Christmas (Shh! don't tell!) and finally added another couple of pages today.  I've used Ahoy Matey, and Matey's Map (jumbo wheel) to make my cute little pirate baby page.  So quick!  I'm all about quick these days, LOL.

Finally, I've made a scrapbook page of my daughter using the Round Up Simply Scrappin' Kit.  I was amazed at how easy it was to put this together.  I also made the medallion embellishment using a stamp from the Wanted stamp set - it matched up perfectly with the scallop circle punch!  Ahhhh, I LOVE it when things work together like that!

Just a quick reminder - we are now in the last days of the Spring Mini Catalogue, and the November promos (rub ons and single markers) so you'd best order ASAP or you will miss out!