Marvelous Possibilities

SCRAPBOOK CLUB PROJECT This is the project that I made for our scrapbook class for February.  I used to scrapbook a couple times a month, and always planned all day scrapbook events with friends.  This is the first time I have done a page in almost a year, but I am turning over a new leaf.  Or, should I say that I am offering a new class?  That was the catalyst that got me back to creating scrapbook pages.  I can't wait to get started again.    For quite a  while I was in a scrapbook club at my friend, Kay's, and that was the only pages I got made for a couple of years.  Now, let's see what this year brings.  My friend, Debby and I have committed to do our scrapbooks, whether somebody joins us or not.  We hope to stir up more interest from our old pals, and get some new friends excited about scrap booking too.  I think the biggest shame is that many people have all of their photos on their computers, and never ...

 Oh, Hello!  I think I love you!!  I had mixed feeling about this stamp set when I ordered it.  I really wanted the Oval Framelits that coordinated with the Oh, Hello stamp set, and was just going to order the Framelits.  At the last minute, as I was placing my order, I decided to bundle it, and buy them together (saving me money!LOL!).  Once I placed the order, I started running into cards on blogs all over using the stamp set, but not many using the ovals.  Funny how I looked forward to playing with it by the time it finally arrived.  I had seen another card where they had cut out a panel using the Hearts a Flutter Framelits banner die.  They extended it by cutting one banner twice to extend the length.  I thought it was interesting and put it in the back of my mind.  Then I found the challenge on Sentimental Sundays to use NEGATIVES.  So, make use of the cut away's background piece.  I Loved the idea.  Oh, I k...

I don't usually choose to do a shabby chic kind of card, but when it comes to the new spring catalog, it's got so much shabby chic type products, that I was just bound to be drawn to it.  I've always loved doilies and lace, and I could not wait to start playing with all the fun new embellishments.  The card started with some paper from More Amoire DSP.  I wanted to put a doily on the front and I just did not think it looked right, so I tried a little dark sponging on the paper so that it would show through the doily more, and it really did not work, thus the little dark spots (that showed up much more in the photo than when I looked at the card).  I decided to just use a part of the doily on the left, and to add my hearts from Hearts a Flutter stamp set.  The sentiment comes from the free stamp set, Vintage Verses available during SaleABration. The buttons came from SAB Sycamore Street ribbon and button  embellishment pa...

I made this card for our demonstrator's swap earlier this month, but I changed it up a little adding the sentiment from a new stamp set called Vintage Verses, which is available from the SaleABration promotion.  This is just one of the many stamp sets, as well as paper and accessories that are available.  During the sale you get one free item for every $50 spent.  Check out the brochure on my sidebar, as well as the new Spring Catalog, and let me know if you would like to place an order.  I also used the Hearts A Flutter framelits to punch the little banners used on the card.  The paper is More Amoire DSP, and both are available in the new spring catalog. Then I embossed the Baha Breeze panel with the Fancy Fan EF.  I love playing along with the challenges, so for this card think I will show it off over at Just Add Ink Challenge where they are promoting the use of the Big Shot this week with a wonderful blog hop.  I got so much inspiration from...

I feel like a schoolgirl making valentines for my friends.  I just love the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and the matching Framelits from the new Stampin' Up! Spring catalog.  I tried a little of the chalkboard technique that is so popular these days.  I'd forgotten that I had white ink, it's been so long since I've used it, and I was tickled that I could get a bold enough image for the card I wanted to do.  On the outside I stamped an assortment of hearts on the black, and inside I also used messages from my new stamp set Friendly Phrases.  The phrases kind of reminded me of the silly phrases that were on dime store Valentines we used to get.  I stamped the flags in Basic Black and Real Red, and punched them so I could add bakers twine to string them up.  I attached the twine with a couple black brads.  I embossed the red card stock with my striped embossing folder, which reminded me of of an old schoolhouse.   This card was p...

  I am baaaaccckkkk!  With a valentine, my first of the season.  And, I am ready for a challenge.  I have had some of my fun new toys from Stampin' Up! for a couple weeks now, but I have been too run down from the flu to even think of stamping.  Yesterday, I finally took down the Christmas tree, and today I got almost all the decorations packed away.  Then I headed to the craft room, where I needed to do some heavy cleaning so that I could find a surface to work on.  I had managed to get the room cleaned up before Christmas, but so many things got piled on the table, for lack of places to put them away.  I have not done a lick of stamping since my last post in December, when I finished the craft sales.  So, I packed away the Christmas stamps today, and sorted out the paper, and packed it away.  I put away the paper and stamps from the Fall & Winter catalog, and made room for the new goodies.  Yeah!!  I am ready to stam...