Valentine's Day treat box

This is so sweet!!  I found a couple tutorials for this - one for the treat box (click here for box tutorial) and one for the bow (click here for bow tutorial) using the envelope punch board. Since I don't have any dies or cricut cartridges for these bows, I was quite pleased.  I couldn't resist either of them. This little treat box is for my niece. I'll fill it full of her favorite - gummy bears :)

I coloured the little girl with stampin up markers and covered her dress with Smooch pearl top coat. Papers are the More Amore dsp. My favourite parts are the bow and the brad that keeps the box closed. 

Hello Baby

Here are a couple baby cards I made recently. My Christmas present this year from hubby was a Silhouette Cameo digital cutter and that's how I made the word baby for the first card. I cut it out three times in white and once in the grey.  Not sure if you can tell but the grey one was covered with Smooch pearl top coat.  I kept it pretty simple as I wanted the words to stand out. Papers are from the My Mind's Eye Indie Chic Ginger line and the twine is MME's My Caroline.

 

The next card is using Stampin Up products.  I LOVE that little hanger clip,it was perfect for the little tag!  The little elephant is embossed with Melon Mambo embossing powder. 

Crop & Create Layouts - finally finished

Happy New Year!!  I was lucky to have a good 12 day stretch of days off over the holidays.  So I got down to business and completed three layouts that were from a Crop & Create class put on by Scrapbook and Cards Today in September. This was a class taught by Kelly Goree.  I have a tough time starting from scratch when scrapbooking so these classes have really helped. Lots of product so I'll be able to make a coordinating layout for each!!!  

Journalling is a challenge for me so I was determined to do this before putting them away.  I completed the journalling on two of the three layouts :)

All three pages use papers from American Crafts Lucky Charm collection and the first page also uses papers from BasicGrey's Mint Julep collection.  

Well, I'm off to plan a new layout!

Maya Road Merry Everything Kit

So I said I would share my other present to myself and this is it - the Maya Road Merry Everything Kit!!  As the name implies, it's all Maya Road Christmas related products. I'm thinking this is a great way to sample many products that I might not order on their own or might not even know they exist!!!!  I'll tell ya - it sure adds to my stash and I can't wait to play. It also has free digital cut files as well. Now all I need is a digital cutter wink wink!!!!

You can find the details here. 

Crop & Create Delivered - Winter Wishes AND 2014 Scrapbooking Plannerand Sketch Calendar

This was my Christmas Present to me and it arrived in the mail this weekend!!!  (Along with one other kit but I'll show that in a different post!!!)  I've been a little obsessed with everything Christmas lately and since attending the Crop and Create by Scrapbook and Cards Today I've been planning my December Daily pictures!!!  That's exciting too. Except my book will be more about all my Christmases celebrated not just one particular year. And if I fill up the book I'll start another. So many ideas swirling around.  Along with the kit came some page and card ideas, sketches and digital cutting files to match :)

So here's what arrived:

And it came with the New Winter edition of their magazine. 

Tons of inspiration in there!!!!  I also ordered this Planner and Calendar and again, tons of ideas, and everything came in one sweet package!!!! No excuses now!!!!!

You can check out everything here at Scrapbook & Cards Today.  The Winter Wishes kit is already sold out I believe.  Time to go play :)