If We Were Ducks

If we were a duck family, I want us to be just like the ducks on this Rachelle Anne Miller stamp.

I used this stamp on a scrapbook layout about family.  I'm planning on entering it in Lollipop Crafts "All About Family" Challenge.  I love these ducks but I don't think they matched too well with my overall page.  But they are so us, so I had to fit them in somehow. 

I used paper from My Little Shoebox.  I made a little house to frame our Disneyland picture.  I wanted it to match the little houses with the scallop rooftops on the paper.  I used PTI's largest scallop die and also the cloud dies.  I had a hard time deciding where to put the clouds to make them look "natural."

I used PTI's Tabs stamp set for the scallop details.  The hearts I punched out and glued to the scallops and from the chimney.  The hearts from the chimney was inspired by one of PTI's stamp sets called Wonderfully Whimsical.  I had to blur out my hubby's pic.  He wishes to be totally anonymous.

It's late now and lots to do tomorrow so I better get to sleep.  Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Masa & Akemi

Hi!  I won some cute stamps from Sister Stamps recently so I thought I'd put together Easter treats for my kiddies' teachers.  I had actually won 2 Masas but Jenny was nice enough to switch one so I got Akemi too!

I made 9 little treats, 7 Akemis and 2 Masas in different colors.  I used PTI's favor die and picket fence die.  Also used MFT's grass die.

These are kind of small so I could only fill each one with 5 Nestle Crunch eggs. 

Here are all the girls.

A close up.  Cute!  Love the bunnies!

I also used PTI's Tiny Tags die to cut little flower shaped tags and embossed Happy Easter on them.

The 2 boys.  

I colored his hair with Copics but I used a black Prismacolor Pencil on the blue one's hair which is why they look a bit different.  Just experimenting.

Oh, I also have to share this card that my youngest one made as he asked that I blog it too.  Crab is from Paper Smooches and the shell from Lawn Fawn.  The coloring and design is all his own.  Hehe.  

I'll be entering the Easter treats into All That Scraps Challenge -- Anything Goes and Lollipop Crafts Challenge #73 -- Anything Goes.

Thanks for reading!

Fairwee Mia Wish

Hi!  Some time ago, I won a little blog candy from Amy Young and yes, I know it's taken me a long time to finally ink up little Fairwee Mia.  But I finally did and created a circle easel card for the following challenges:

Flutter By Wednesdays #191 has an inspiration photo,

All that Scraps Wednesday Challenge is to use a fancy fold,

and Lollipop Crafts Challenge #68 is anything goes.

I used Sweet November stamp Fairwee Mia and also the mushroom from CC Designs.  I used 2 stamps that I haven't inked up before so while I did purchase some digis recently, I'm still trying to get through to all my uninked stamps.  The Wish sentiment is from PTI's Tiny Tags set.

This is how it looks opened.  I used clear cardstock for the front circle so Fairwee Mia can look like she is flying above the mushroom.  Though if you are like my hubby you will ask why is she trying to jump over the mushroom?  Sigh, because she's a fairy with wings and not a tiny little lady trying to jump the mushroom.  Ohhhhh, her wings are too small. Probably cause she's a tiny fairy.  So that was the gist of my conversation over this card with my hubby.  I added the flowers on the inside to hold up the front and they were yellow but I colored them pink (though they look a bit red) to go along with the inspiration photo. 

Both the mushroom and Fairwee Mia are popped up on dimensionals.

A little close up.  Fairwee Mia was fast to color, she's so tiny!  I added some rhinestones, butterflies, glossy accents on the mushroom, stickles, and twine too.

Thanks for reading!

October 2012

Hi!  I'm feeling much better today though I still have a lingering cough.  Thanks so much for all the well wishes.  I never quite finished my 2012 scrapbook/calendar so thought I'd finish that up. 

I used MFT's sketch 53.  Sorry my photo looks a bit crooked.  The stamp is Pure Innocence Calendula.

A close up of the image.  I think this is a bit crooked too.  Maybe I was standing crooked or something.

This is the opposite page.  I didn't have a matching papers for the background but at least they are both polka dotted.  Hehe.  At least just 2 more months to go and then I can bind them all.  I hope I actually find some photos to go in this book too.

I'll also be entering this into Lollipop Crafts Challenge #62 -- Anything New Goes (Calendula stamp is new) and All That Scraps Challenge Anything Goes.

Thanks for reading!