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!