Birthday Whimsy

With Zoey and Natalie's Birthdays coming up, I've been in the mood to celebrate!! I made these cards last weekend and am just now finding time to add them to my blog...

All products are by Stampin' Up.
Birthday Whimsy & A Little Birthday Cheer Stamp Sets
Inks: Real Red, Bashful Blue, Only Orange, Certainly Celery
Paper: Summer Picnic Series, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Old Olive

The Birthday Whimsy stamp set was part of the freebies I earned during Sale-a-bration! I love freebies and this one has been very useful! The Summer Picnic paper series is also very cute in real life. They are double sided patterned papers that work together soo nicely! The colors in this set are very vibrant and perfect for celebrating! I've almost used my whole pack already making little things to display at my workshops...

Anyways, the cards are pretty straight forward. For the 'happy birthday' card, I cut my papers for the background first and adhered them to the card base. I added ribbon around the middle and tied a knot on the side. Next, I stamped out plenty the balloons in different colors and cut them out. I stamped the sentiment and cut around it, leaving room for an eylet on the right. Then I matted it with orange paper and popped my eyelet in. After that, I just adhered it all to my card using dimentional pop dots. I then added the hemp balloon strings to tie the balloons down to the sentiment. Pretty cute!

For the 'make a wish' card, I started by cutting and adhering my background papers. Then I stamped plenty of balloons in different colors on white paper. I also stamped some on the white strip in the background to give dimension to my balloon bouquet. Then, cut out all your balloons! After cutting them out, I adhered a couple straight onto the card, added the next few with demensional pop dots, and added the last one with 2 layers of dementionals. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom and just drew in the balloon strings! Pretty easy really!

I am planning my first workshops now so hopefully I'll have some more exciting things to post soon! If you see something you like in my cards, or in the Stampin' Up catalogue please send me an email and I'll get them ordered for you!

-tessa

I fell in love...

with YouTube!! Did you know that you can watch Scrapbooking and Stamping videos? I searched for stamping techniques and found some really great videos by Tim Holtz, Suze Wienberg, and some other really great artists... there is some good stuff on there!! My favorite from last night was a cool faux sea glass technique- I can't wait to try this out this weekend...

I've been working on getting my Stampin' Up samples ready for my first workshop. It was a little harder then I thought it would be because of the limited color selection. At Recollections, I had every color imaginable to choose from... with Stampin' Up, there are a lot of choices but I am having trouble putting different colors together coheisively. I've been doing alot of lifting from other paper artists. I think this has helped me get into the Stampin' Up groove of things! I'll be making my own masterpieces in no time, right?? Anyways, here are a few cards I've made this week. They were all inspired by the great paper artists on the Stampin' Up website or at Splitcoast Stampers.

Hope you have a great day and have fun paper crafting!!

-tessa

Grandma's Brag Book

So, I finally finished my Mom's birthday present... her birthday was in December! Yikes! I am so bad at procrastinating! I am trying a new slide show version of my photos to see if I can add more that way. You may see some of the same photos again... they are my favorite right now so I keep using them on these little gift albums!

I finally got my Stampin' Up starter kit in the mail. Stamps, inks, pastels... and a lovely "how to" DVD. It had to be the corniest thing I've watched in a while... I hope I never act like that at a workshop! My other stuff is pretty fun though! I've made a few cards so far. I have everything to work on a mini book, too. I just have to find the time to put it all together!

Well, babies are calling!

-tessa

Stampin' Up is coming!!!

I finally ordered my starters kit... I am sooo excited for it to get to my house! I've been tracking my packages via UPS and they are still in Utah... hopefully early next week. I've got big plans in store for this spring. Card classes, theme mini books, scrapbooking for everyone, and of course, SBIAD! I am planning two open houses to kickstart my workshops so hopefully you can all attend! Hope to see you there!

-tessa

A Project!

Hello! I thought I'd post a project I finished recently. This was supposed to be a Christmas present but since I was too busy to get it done, it became a birthday present for my mother-in-law. It is a mini chipboard book I made at Reco's before we gave up the diecut machines. The paper and most of the embellishments are from the Bohemia line by My Mind's Eye. A little ink and stickles, plus cute pictures of all my nephews & my daughters- I think it turned out pretty cute!

I've decided to join Stampin' Up. I know that there are many other people who sell this but I am going to try it my way! Lots of workshops with fun projects. Page kits, cards, SBIAD... I can't wait to get started!

Anyways, hope all is well with you all!

Do you all know my daughters? Here is picture of Zoey, 2 years old... She loves to twirl and to dress up like Snow White. She is a good big sister to Natalie, our 9 month old little girl. They are both truely sweethearts. Anyways, really, this is just to see if I can figure out the picture thing!

-tess

Only a week left??

I know we've known Reco's is closing since October but it went by too fast and now there is not much left in the store... sooo depressing! Especially when I remember how much fun I've had there over the past couple of years. We really did love our customers, I hope you know...

I still don't know what I'll be doing next week... I've been waiting to hear back on a couple of options so hopefully I'll know soon. I'll also try and post some pictures. Today, I figured out how to add links so there are a couple over there to check out! 2peas is my favorite scrapbooking site hands down! I always find inspiration there. Also, thepaperchic is really my freind Jess from the store. She sells her designs on etsy and ebay so check her out! Khris, who is down at Scrapdoodles has a fun blog so I added her, too!