Mother's Day is Coming....

I've decided to make an album book for my sons grandmother (my husbands mother) for mothers day. The idea came from Tricia on www.tvweekly.com, and of course it's the scrapbook lounge channel. Tricia is amazing and comes up with some awesome ideas, so thanks for this one!! The papers are a mixture of golds, bronzes and browns, and I think they came together nicely. The gold piece that you see on the front here is not as much gold as it looks on this pic, it's more like a brown colour, but it has roses all over it. The stamps here (see last pic below) are roses that have been embossed in metallic bronze powder. The chipboard letters were bought, and I inked them with a brown pad, and then did the edges with gold ink to accent. I'm pretty impressed with it so far...hoping it turns out nice when I get the pics added inside! I'll keep posting as it comes along!

This is the inside page. Since I didn't have oval templates big enough for the one that Tricia made, I decided to use her circle idea. I like the ovals better, they were neater looking, but this gives a pretty cool effect too. No pics have been added as of yet, because I ran out of glue!! lol I also have to find some old pics to add to it as well. I stuck with browns, golds, and added some orange in there as well. Hoping it all comes together in the end!

This shows the front and back cover of the album I'm currently making. The back cover is looking very gold here, but it's not really that gold, it's more brown. You probably can't tell, but there are roses in the back cover page, so when I realized that mom had loaned me a rose stamp I was thrilled! They match very well, so I stamped two roses on the front cover and embossed in brass metallic powder, and also did one on the inside of the front cover. The binding paper is textured with lines, and it really gives it a rich look. I was just impressed that the thing is staying together!!

I added the boarder today, I think it fills up the card nicely, where there was something missing before.

Remember a few posts ago, I posted a baby shower card? Well...in usual Amie style, I came up with a new idea and decided to save the other card for another occasion. (This is why I NEVER sign the inside of my cards until I'm headed out the door to give them out!) I recently bought a Cuttlebug die set with these four animals, and finally got good use from the little cuties. Each was done in at least two steps...let me tell you what I did. The monkey was made from a dark beige shade, and then shadowed with my brown inkpad. The face was cut from a lighter beige paper and also shaded before being added to the front. The eyes were a different paper behind, as they are cut out. The lion was the most work. The whole thing was done in the same paper as the monkey's body, but I then used an orangish shade flocking powder to make it fuzzy. The body, face, and ears are fuzzy textured. The mane was cut from a patterned brown paper and shaded around the edges. The giraffe is shaded with the brown too, and it's tail, ears and back hair are all made fuzzy textured with yellow flocking powder. The elephant was the easiest, made simply from silver shiny paper, and the eyes and ears are pink because of the paper I added behind the cut out parts. The water waves were made with kaleidoscope embossing powder, so it shines like water when you move it. The clouds are white embossing powder, and the edges are done with a purple ink pad. The card I think turned out real cute. To take the religious look off of it a little (as it wasn't intended to be religious, really), inside the inscription reads "Hoping your new baby brings you Boatloads of Love". I enjoyed making this card, as the idea was developing in my head for a few weeks, and it finally came to life. Hope you enjoy!
And thats it for now...haven't had a lot of time for card making/scrapbooking lately. As soon as I do more, I'll surely post pics! Have a good weekend!!

It's been a while, so I thought I'd post my latest two cards. I can finally post the card I made my mom for her birthday, since she recieved it today. It's made basically from my Cuttlebug. The swirls are Shapeabilities (cut and embossed in a two-step Cuttlebug process). They are SO CUTE! I love them! They actually came from mom...lol...she gave them to me for my birthday! The Lettering is made from a Cuttlebug alphabet set, although I forget the actual name on the set...I love it, the letters are beautiful. They were cut from a two-shade green striped paper. The flower was also cut from a Cuttlebug die, and I believe it came in the same set as the alphabet. I then used my dark orange ink pad to shade the edges. The ribbon ties it all in then, with the corresponding colours...the 'white' dots, are actually pale green.

I also realized that the quality of pics on this blog seems poor. Some of the older ones are bad because of my old camera, but the newer posts are good quality if you click on them and see them at full size. Stay tuned in a week or so for the card I made mom for her birthday... ;) Can't post it yet though!! I'll be posting more scrapbook pages this weekend, I think. Have a great weekend!

This is a card that I created for one of our previous supervisors at work. She is going on a Cruise for her wedding soon, and jealous as I am, I could not resist making her this card. Remember previously I made a wedding card for my Uncle and his new wife? Changed my mind on that one, actually, and made one for them that was very similar to this one. Of course I forgot to take a pic of that one, but they were really close.

Anyways, This card was created using microbeads and liquid embossing powder for the entire bodice of the dress. The eyelets were places, and the ribbon stiched through, and a piece of handmade paper is on the inside. The Sticker across the bottom says "Eternal Love". Around the edge of the beige is liquid embossing power dried into dots. The quote on the inside says "Love is friendship caught on fire... May you always feel the Heat". I love it, I read the beginning of it somewhere, and I then added the feeling the heat part, and I think it fits nicely. This was a time-consuming card, but I think it turned out nicely.

As promised, I decided to add some of my scrapbook pages. So why not start with the newest? I usually do a two -page spread, but today I opted for one. I put it in the plastic before I realized I hadn't taken a pic, so please ignore the poor quality. Ok...whats going on on this page...
First, the large scalloped circle was bought at a local scrap shop, pre-cut. In the scallops, I added various size flowers which are sparkly (Bling paper) which I cut with my Cuttlebug. The larger flowers have square silver brads in them. The 'pocket' is made from regular paper (matching the background) and is edged with a distressing inkpad. The brown flowers are from a 12 X 12 page that I bought at the same local scrap store, and they were all pre-cut. I cut off the corner that I wanted to use, but the rest of the page is to die for. The 'sisters' is also cut out of the Bling paper using an alphabet die set for the Cuttlebug. The little tag at the top says 'friendship' and you'll see a white thing that you don't know what it is, I'm sure. My sister is 12, and I'm a little bit older, so when she was little she drew me a picture of a dalmatian. Not wanting to cut the picture, I scanned it and printed it on sticker paper, and then cut it out. The other pink piece of paper has a saying which I actually found on Facebook, so I'm not sure where it originated, but I love it. It says " I pinky promise that when we're old ladies we;re gonna be best friends chasing each other in nursing homes with our motor scooters". Thought it was cute. I love ya, Abby.

A co-worker recently got a new job, and since it was his last week at work, I created this card for all our friends to sign for him. The brads were purchased at Michael's, and they are fabric. The black scalloped oval is a textured paper that looks leathery, and really adds class to a card. the Congrats was embossed in black powder. The background was a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and I inked the inside with a black inkpad to get the 3D affect, which I think really added a lot to it. The ribbon really set off the whole thing. Again, the scalloped ovals were cut/embossed using my Nestabilities (as seen in the card below). Love them!

A friend from work is having her baby shower this weekend, so I've created this card for her using one of mom's previous cards as inspiration. You can see moms in the 'older posts' of her website http://sandrasscraps.blogspot.com/. The stamp used is (I think) Studio G, purchased at Michael's in the cheap bin. The dress was stamped onto another sheet of paper and then cut to fit over the original stamp. The scalloped/embossed ovals are made with my new Nestabilities (Thanks Mom!) They were a birthday gift. It took a while to get the technique down pat, and get a good 'sandwich recipe', but I LOVE them, and can't wait to get more!! I also have Shapeabilities, which you will see in the future.

This is the inside of the card I've made. She's a single mom, and I think this quote is very appropriate. I'm sorry, I'm not sure who wrote the quote.