Sunshine on my card...

Makes me happy!!!

I participated in a "summer themed" card swap a while back, and wanted to play around with an unconventional layout for a card... Since saying "thanks" always reminds me that someone has brightened my day, I decided that this would be the theme for my card. Hope that you like it!

Baby sized cards

For some reason I have been into midget sized cards recently - just little 3x3-ish cards that I can slip into a package for someone or to give to a patient of mine when they're having a bad day or done something that has been hard for them. I thought that I'd share some of my creations with you all!


All papers are from CTMH. The stamps for the wording from from either the "Say It in Style" or "For Every Occasion" stamp sets. The designs are simple - but that's what these little midget cards are about - a quick way to say what you want / need to say!


I left the sentiment square on this one blank so that I can write in whatever I want to say when I use the card.
The Outdoor Denim and Colonial white squares are lightly sponged with each other's colors (the colonial white CTMH ink is pigmented, so it will show nicely on dark colors).
The stars in the corner are made using a white gel pen, then adding a rhinestone center. Fun stuff to play with!


This little guy uses the butterfly B&T from the "Blue Ribbon" kit. I distressed the edges around the sentiment, then sponged on Cranberry ink.

This one comes from the Silhouette paper pack. I used some black ribbon and a little red safety pin that I had laying around.

This little guy comes from the Good Times paper pack. The edges of the sentiment and backing are distressed, then sponged with the color of the opposite layer (Chocolate is sponged with Sweet Leaf and vice versa). Then I anchored the sentiment with two Bigger Brads.
Just a little tip - put your brads on before adhering the sentiment to the card, then the tails won't show on the inside of your card :-)

This is another Silhouette card. Again using the black stitched ribbon (LOVE this ribbon). Below the sentiment, I adhered three red rhinestones (two tiny ones and one slightly larger).

This card I love... It uses the Stardust paper pack papers. I stamped the polka dot B&T with Playful Flourishes stamps in Moonstruck ink, then tore the bottom edge before adhering it onto the Honey cardstock. The cute tag is from the Stardust flexi-labels.
It was fun, because the little girl that I gave the card to took the label off and put it onto her backpack to remind her to dream big and not let her disorder run her life... SOO fun to see that!


This next card uses the Sarsaparilla paper pack. When I first saw that paper, I was really not sure about it, but it's become a favorite! I'll post the kitten album layout with this same paper later on, but suffice to say it's more versatile than it looked at first to me!

Anyway, for this little card, I tore the edges of a piece of flourished B&T and black cardstock, then adhered them onto the background piece of flourish B&T. I used three little flowers from the White Daisy Just Blooms collection (which everyone KNOWS that I'm addicted to!). The centers are black bitty brads.



That's all for today - Back to my scrap room to play!

A tag for you, my dear?

I just finished a "glitter swap" - where every item created had to have a central feature of GLITTER!! Now... I'm not usually a glittery gal, but this one intrigued me, so I signed up.

Just wanted to share with y'all my little tagged creation:

The base is Black CTMH cardstock.

The printed paper is from the Silhouette Creative Basics kit.

The flower is one of the Big Pinks sprayed with Rose Petal Glimmer Mist, then dried and a central circle of Liquid Glass was placed then dried THEN a dot of Icicle Stickles to finish it off! (whew!)

The wording is from a CTMH stamp set. It is stamped in Black StazOn ink. I distressed the edges, then inked them up with Versamark ink and dipped them in gold tinsel embossing powder (I forget the company). I used my heat gun to set the EP. THEN, I sprayed the wording with Wheatfield Glimmer Mists and allowed it to dry before adhering to the tag.

The ribbon is black organza with baby pink organze (these are retired CTMH ribbon rounds).

That's it! I had a lot of fun making it and am SOO looking forward to getting the other submissions back in the mail!

Have a great day!

Kitten Album intros!

Those of you who know me are aware that the past month has been a blur for me - Nana fell and broke her hip on April 28, requiring an emergency hip replacement for her at 96 years of age. She is back at home now (with a LOT of support from friends in the community and neat gadgets in order to get daily living things all done). SO, I am trying to do a lot of catching up. Prior to April 28, I had lost my password to this account and had not posted in almost three months - so there is a lot to catch up on!

Today, I just wanted to post some layouts that I did to showcase my two fur-children. I am doing an entire scrapbook of them and their antics. They are such a part of our lives that I couldn't leave them out!

SO, introducing Angel, our supposedly older and definitely larger cat-child:

I wanted to do a layout that basically introduced the general factoids that one needs to be aware of regarding the Queen of Cat-itude :-) The paper that I chose has a wonderful swirl of yellow and orange - in honor of both he coloring and her craziness! I just wanted two large pictures on the layout, so that I would have a LOT of room for journaling - and even then I needed to add in flip-pages to accomodate all that I had to say about her!

Then there is the infamous Mooch. We don't actually know her birthday, as she is a rescued cat, but she will be the perpetual kitten regardless of her actual date of birth!

The paper that I chose here is from the "Perfect Day" paperpack from CTMH. The embellishments are paper flowers that have been Glimmer Misted to achieve the colors. Again, I had too much to say, so I used a single flip-page add-on to accomodate my wordiness!

I hope that you enjoyed the brief look at my cat-children's album! I'll post more pics later this month as I get more of the album completed!