Color Me Happy

Cards, cards, and more cards

I've been hosting card week over at write. click. scrapbook and thought this would be a good time to catch up here on my own blog with a few cards that I haven't shared here yet.

First up are a couple cards I made for Jillibean Soup's design team call and I'm super excited to say "I made the team" you can check out the announcement on the Jillibean Soup blog.

I'm Nuts About You Card

 

Hello Card

 

These next two cards were made for the Come On Get Crafty blog, featuring the American Crafts Dear Lizzy Die Cut Cards.

Hi Card

 

Hey Card 

 

This last card was made using goodies from my December Gossamer Blue kit plus some wood veneer stars from my stash.

Hooray Card

Thanks so much for visiting! Have a fabulous weekend...make it a crafty one!

Come On Get Crafty Pocket Insert Cards

Hello, hello! I wanted to share with you some cards I've made recently using pocket inserts. These smaller size pocket inserts have fun designs and sayings that are perfect for using on a regular sized card.

 

Birthday Card

The owl flair was perfect for adding a clever owl greeting in the speech bubble. If you love owls as much as I do make sure you check out my list of clever owl greetings.  

 

Christmas Card

This simple Christmas greeting used basic background designs for the base of the card.  

 

Cheery Spring Card 

I made this just for all my friends that are buried in snow...a perfect little spring card to brighten your day. I hope you all thaw out soon! 

This one features the use of 4 different pocket cards, a 4x6 card trimmed down, two 2x3 cards and the flowers were cut out of a 4th card.

All of these cards feature products from the Come On Get Crafty shop.

I hope you enjoyed today's post featuring pocket cards. If you like to make cards make sure you swing by write. click. scrapbook this week. I'm hosting and showcasing cards in a different theme every day all made using a single card sketch.

Thanks so much for visiting!

I'm a Chickaniddy Craft Team Girl

 

Hi everyone! I am SO excited to be sharing this news...

I can't wait to start creating with all those fabulous Chickaniddy goodies and this group of talented ladies. I'm still pinching myself and am so excited to be on this adventure with Heidi Sonboul and Pam Callaghan...thank you so much for having me. Make sure you swing by the blog to meet the entire team.

Thank you for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

xoxo

Happy Valentine's everyone! I wanted to share a layout I made for Valentine's Day featuring my main squeeze, my one and only, my forever and always, the guy that "gets me." Thanks for always being there for me. :)

I used lots of goodies from Jillibean Soup with neutral papers for the base, with pops of red, yellow and pink. Kind of fun for something different.

I hope you have a fabulous day and spend it with someone you love, whether that is your spouse, kids, other family members or your BFF.

xoxo

A Flair for Buttons Hey Cupcake flair

Hi everyone! I squeezed in a little scrapping time last night for the close of my weekend and may have created my most favorite, in the history of ever, layout! It features a favorite photo and looking at the layout just makes me happy! It is full of everything I love...colorful paper, flair, ink splatters and I even stamped and used a die cut!

Want to see?!

The flair is from the Hey Cupcake flair set that Shelley from {a flair from buttons} created for me using some of my ideas! The stamp, which I think is perfect for my photo, is from the Picture This set by Laina Lamb Designs for My Favorite Things, and the Hugs & Kisses die is also from My Favorite Things.

Here are a few close-ups.

I wrote the title using a brush script technique that I'm learning from Kal Barteski. Super fun, I'm looking forward to experimenting with this technique some more.

Thanks so much for visiting today! Have a fabulous week...make it a scrappy one!

write. click. scrapbook February gallery

Growing up I had a small bulletin board in my room. I loved pinning things I pulled out of magazines, notes/reminders and memorabilia onto the board. My love for bulletin boards still exists today, but I've gone virtual with Pinterest! I visit Pinterest every single day and "pin" all the ideas, tips, recipes, travel destinations and anything else that catches my eye on my 54 boards (and growing). The best thing about Pinterest is that I can access all those things I've collected when out and about. Comes in pretty handy when shopping, I even ask my kids to make their Christmas wish list on Pinterest. :)

I've had the idea for a long time to do a page about Pinterest when I had a piece of cork board paper land in my stash. When I learned the February gallery theme at write. click. scrapbook was technology I knew it was time to pull it out and make the page.

I filled the cork board paper with screen captures of some of my Pinterest boards layered up with patterned paper, flair, brads and stamped images.

The bottom of the layout details statistics on the number of boards, pins, followers and who I'm following along with some things that I love about Pinterest.

Here are a few detail shots.

The amazing cork board flair is from the Cork 2 Flair set and Maps 2 Flair set from {a flair for buttons} .

I used two super cute stamp sets. The arrow stamp is from the December Main Kit from Gossamer Blue and the pin images are from Studio Calico.

For the arrow images, I stamped the name of the board (or abbreviation so it would fit) on a piece of white card stock, then I inked up my arrow stamp and lined it up so the typed word would be in the arrow and stamped the image.

Last, but not least, here are the fun statistics from my account.

So what do you love about technology? Do you rely on it daily? Do you have a favorite technological device? Why not document it? I'm sure it will be just a matter of a few short years that you will look back on the layout and think how dated that technology is and be glad that you took the time to record it.

Need some more ideas? Head over to write. click. scrapbook to see what the other designers chose to document for the technology theme.