A Birthday Card with Glam + Glitz

Like I mentioned, I have tons of birthdays coming up this month. Well ... I personally only have one annually (THANK GOD), but I think half the people I know were born in May!

I made this card from the Damask Decor cartridge. This cartridge is just the BOMB as it comes with cards and envelopes for every single damask pattern. I am not even going to complain that Joanns has it on sale for $30 this week and I paid ... more than that. It's okay, I love it that much.

The brown paper and the rad, glitter-riffic blue paper is from DCWV, then the envelope is from Paper Source paper. I had to use my heavy duty Cricut blade to cut through the glitter paper--it's that super and amazing!

I got these awesome Pebbles Chips from the good folks at Peachy Cheap, and put the GLITTER ones immediately to work on the cover of this card. You can see all the fun that will be had for years to come with all these gorgeous bits of yummy cardboard + glitter.

This adorable card looks like a present on the front. I cuttlebugged the inside with a fun flower print, and then created a little spot to write on from the same paper I used for the envelope. This is especially great for these shape cards that don't quote cover the entire inside -- then you know right where to write so the writing doesn't leak out and show through the front. yah! When cheating is beautiful. (Yep those cute little quotes are from the Pebbles Chips kit too!)

 In the end, I think this card has a lot of dimension, glitter and fun! Hopefully the birthday peeps will feel glam and glitz when they get this one.

cheers!
-marcia

<I am entering this in The Pink Stamper National Scrapbooking Day Celebration challenge #9!>

Think Pink for Mother's Day

I hope the moms out there are feeling like queens today! My only "child" is Molly the Maltese, and she is really testing my patience today. Woof.

I made two cards for Mother's Day--one for my fabulous mom and one for my awesome mother in law. I'm so blessed to have both of these ladies in my life!

I used Teresa Collins paper from the Bebe Chic Girl collection for both cards. For my mom's card, I came up with the theme of Queen for the Day since the paper has these fabulous crowns on it. While my mom was here helping me scrapbook, she was trying to put a tiara dimensional sticker on every page so it seemed even more fitting to put it on her card.  :)

I used the Damask Decor cartridge, but instead of putting the pattern on the cover I switched it up and put it on the inside. Boom, I just blew your mind. The letters are from the Blackletter cartridge. The tiara (resting on the "q") is from Jolee's Boutique I believe.

Card for "Mom Penny"

For my mother in law's card, I used one of the card kits from Teresa Collins, which is adorned with a damask print and chandeliers. <3 Man, that thing made it SO EASY, I feel like a bit of a Mom Day Cheater!

The cover sentiment -- The Best Things In Life Aren't Things -- is totally my mother in law. She'd much rather have a latte with you for a couple hours at Starbucks over an elaborate gift. I cut the sentiment out of one of the Teresa Collins papers, and then backed it with DCWV glitter paper cut with my Mostly Memories circle (and oval) cutter. I like how the glitter is a bit of a paradox to the sentiment.

I stamped the inside with my new Inkadinkado chandelier stamp. The mom sentiments are a clear stamp set from Studio G. I got it from a local craft outlet store.

We celebrated "Mom Penny" yesterday by attempting to take her on a boat ride that wasn't running yet this season (oops), followed by the back of plan of a bus ride that took all too long (double oops) and eventually made it to our destination of a nice lunch (linner?) of shrimp tacos on the beach. We ran into our Starbucks barista while waiting for the bus, and he was kind enough to leave us two free "Mother's Day" drinks so we treated Mom Penny and her husband, David, to an afternoon iced latte. Yay!

Hope everyone enjoyed their Mother's Day weekend! This month brings many birthdays so check back for some new cards, going up soon!

cheers,
-marcia

<This is being entered in the My Pink Stamper National Scrapbook Day Celebration challenge #4). woohoo!>

The Wedding Fun Begins!

After a slow start the first weekend my mom was in town (ONE PAGE! THE HORROR!), we got to rockin' and rollin' and were able to crank out some good stuff the day before they left.  I will do updates with what carts I used on each page, but here are a couple of samples just because I am excited to share!

I used Teresa Collins' Bebe Chic Girl and Welcome Home collections quite a bit. Those two kits couldn't have hit Peachy Cheap at a better time! They worked out so perfectly and I am, of course, still hearting chandeliers to bits. The new Damask Decor and Elegant Edges cartridges I got from ScrapbookPal proved to be just as handy as I thought they would be.

I need to figure out how to photograph this page to do it justice ... it is just dreamy in real life. Love the beading, stuck down with some Zots! Aren't my bridesmaids just the cutest ever? We had so much fun.

Hope everyone celebrates National Scrapbook Day / Mother's Day weekend in style! I'll be posting my adorable Mother's Day cards soon ... don't want to spill the beans before the Moms see them. :)

Cheers!
-marcia

Shopping Til I Drop (off to Sleep, preferably ...)

I am currently battling a sinus infection that came out of allergies. UGH. This means being on prednisone and antibiotics. Unfortunately, the antibiotics make me feel sick and the prednisone makes me act sick. The side-effects of prednisone are numerous and unexpected, but I'm starting to notice some patterns.

Besides being moody (Sorry Mr. Awesome), prednisone seems to put some random, annoying song in my head. When I was sick in December, Taylor Swift would play in my head over and over, all night long, when I was trying to sleep but the meds were keeping me up. Let's just say Romeo and I weren't on speaking terms by the end of those three weeks. This time it seems to be Bruno Mars, who would apparently catch a grenade for me but won't get out of my brain. KaboooM!



It also makes me obsessed with having to do something immediately, and to the extreme. In December, I had just gotten my Gypsy and I would lie awake, listening to Taylor Swift in my head and thinking about how I needed to make cards for everyone I knew that very moment! Let's just say that if the Cricut was quieter and not adjacent to our bedroom, I would have been producing instead of obsessing.

This time, my mom is coming to town this weekend (YIPPEE!), so that means I'm obsessed with getting all my ducks in a row for The Wedding Album. At least it's well-timed obsessive energy.

What these obsessions lead to is ... shopping. Mostly for craft items. Seriously, I should hand my credit cards to Mr. Awesome when I go on prednisone. In addition to yesterday's chandelier-themed purchases, and a fluke win of the Home Decor cartridge on eBay ... I ordered a whole slew of stuff from ScrapbookPal.com after I decided at 2 a.m. that I absolutely could not do my wedding album without the Elegant Edges cartridge and the Damask Decor cartridge. In my 2 a.m. delusion, I decided I needed to get them for $50 each (not the $90 MSRP), that they needed to ship to me by this weekend, and that the shipping needed to be free. Wouldn't you know that ScrapbookPal came through on all counts and I should have my stuff tomorrow ... along with some Glimmer Mist, Stickles, ink etc.... Yippee!



In the meantime, I've been playing with the new cartridges on my Gypsy.  I guess I should eat my words that it is dumb that they preload all the cartridges on there, even if you don't have them. I am SO excited to get these carts and know they will be super useful for The Wedding Album and beyond. YAH!

Lets just say the shopping didn't end there, and there are sparkles, stamps and chipboard waiting for my Week O Scrapping with my Mom. If I run out of adhesive or some such nonsense, I'll definitely have to send her to JoAnn's ALONE!



All this to say ... I SHOULD be producing some quality craftiness in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Nighty night! (I'll be dreaming of Pink by Design stamp sets and my very own Imagine ... )
-marcia