Here's a card I made for our dear friends who are the proud grandparents to the baby boy I made the shape album for. I just love the baby from Stretch Your Imagination! His sweet face is from Peachy Keen stamped with SU Chocolate Chip ink. All the patterned paper is from Kay&Co, Itsy Bitsy Baby Boy stack. The Sentiment is a stamp from Flourishes. The little heart buttons and button brads on the baby's pjs are some from my stash.
Inside I wrote "Welcome to a whole new world of love, small enough to fit in your arms, big enough to fill your world with joy!" And to those grandparents out there, I know you know how true that is!
As always, thanks for stopping by.
Maria

My First Shape Book

Thanks to

Bug Junkie and her awesome video series, I was able to make my very first shape book. I'm so excited about how it turned out, and it wasn't as difficult as I anticipated. It's for my best friend's daughter who just had her first baby.

I mostly used the Old West Cricut cart and the background papers are all from The Twinkle, Twinkle Little Boy stack from My Mind's Eye.
The lettering here is from the Mickey and Friends Font cartridge. The announcement is a stamp from Stampendous, I think.
I had a hard time with this page because of the shapes from the back of the cart. It's not my favorite, but I think I did ok. I covered the rope part of the frame with UTEE.
The horse if from Animal Kingdom and I covered him with Caramel Latte Tan Fun Flock. The chicken is from Everyday Paper Dolls and I used markers on her. The stamp is from My Sentiments Exactly.
I cut the Longhorn out in white then sponged some spots on with SU Dusty Durango ink. Then I added some white Fun Flock and of course, googly eyes. He's my favorite!
The pics aren't in order, sorry. Here's another page I didn't quite know what to do with. Later I wished I had added a pocket for a journaling tag. The pig and barn are from EDPD and the tree from Serenade. The stamp is from My sentiments Exactly.

I forgot to mention it was also the first time using my Bind It All, which I was most nervous about. I followed the directions carefully, though, and it came out perfectly!

Well, that's it. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Maria

Easy Graduation Card

We just received my husband's neice's graduation announcement, so I had to make her a card. I used her school's colors and kept the design simple.

Congrats is from Beyond Birthdays, cut in regular and shadow at 41/2". The cap is from Locker Talk and cut at 11/2". I used a Martha Stewart orange glitter marker on the tassle and a big glitter brad from OTC for the button on the cap. I also outlined the cap with a blue MS glitter marker. The background paper is from the It's My Party stack from My Mind's Eye. I finished it off by adding some stickles to the star.


On the inside I made a pocket (for tucking some cash in) with the same papers. I love the little poem by Dr. Suess, which is a stamp from Taylored Expressions, The Places You'll G0 set. The main sentiment is computer generated, printed on white cardstock which I inked with SU Only Orange ink.
Thanks for stopping by,
Maria

Happy Easter!

By the time I discovered scrap booking my kids were already teenagers. You can imagine the amount of pictures I had, 3 kids X about 17 years! I decided to break it down and do all the holidays first, starting with Easter. Here are a few of my first attempts.



















I can't believe how much things have changed. Everything was hand cut, hand written and look at all those stickers!

It's still fun though to go back and look at the pictures and see those smiling faces. Now I get to scrap my memories of my grand kids. Their pages look a lot different!

Oh, on a side note, I used to make my kids' Easter outfits every year. Guess I'll have to start doing that for the grand kids too, if I can stay away from the paper long enough!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter today. Thanks for stopping by.
Maria

Simple Easter Card

A very quick card I made this weekend. I found this ribbon on clearance at Joann's about a year ago and have been wanting to use it. It was the inspiration for the colors on the card.
The background is SU Certainly Celery that was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder (I believe it's called Daisy Chain, but not 100% sure). Happy Easter is from the the Easter 2010 Cricut Cart. It was lightly covered with Fruit Punch Stickles. The butterfly is cut from the Paisley cart and embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. The body and outline are Yellow Stickles. Yellow Stickles was also added to the center of the yellow flowers on the ribbon.
I'm going to link this to this week's Cuttlebug Spot challenge, the theme this week is wings.
Thanks for stopping by.
Maria

Chicadees

Back in February Split Coast Stampers did a tutorial on how to make a folded paper frame card. I decided to try and here's what I came up with.
The center folded part was made with paper from Chatter Box, the Happy Day collection. The scallop square was cut with a Nestability Lg Scallop Square. The checkered paper is Cosmo Cricket, the Material Girl collection. The green card base is Old Olive by Stampin Up. The chicks stamp is from Unity Stamp Co and colored with Copic Sketch markers. Sentiment is stamped with SU Old Olive classic ink with a Studio G stamp. A rhinestone from Michael's was added to the center.
Here's another I did using a Cricut cut.
The fold on this one was made with paper from K and Co, the Berry Sweet Stack. The plaid paper is DCWV, Spring Stack. The little bunny face is from the Doodle Charms Cartridge and his face is stamped with a Peachy Keen stamp from their Animal Faces set. (it's actually the cat face.) He was adhered to the card with Dimensionals by SU. The sentiment stamp is from Studio G and stamped with SU Summer Sun classic ink. A Pink Martha Stewart Glitter marker was used to trace the bunny's ears and a cute little blue ribbon bow was used to finish it off. I forgot to add I used dimensionals under the flaps, you can see in the pictures that they don't sit flat.
These cards are really fun and easy to make. I hope you'll give it a try. The tutorial can be found here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/foldedframe/
Thanks for stopping by.
Maria

Chocolate bunny, again

This is the same card as my post from 3/14, but hopefully the colors look better!