Thankful for Spring

Posted on March 6, 2014 by amyoneillblog

It’s been way too long since I joined in a challenge at the Paper Players! This week Ann has a fun theme challenge:

I haven’t used my Beautiful Butterflies die in a long time, and butterflies make me think of Spring, so I went with a butterfly theme. And I think the Sale-a-Bration dsp, Sweet Sorbet, sings Spring too.

Speaking of Spring, we have just one more school day before Spring Break starts here! Yes, we’re in countdown mode. Bring it on!

Enjoy your Thursday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Fabulous Phrases
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe, Sweet Sorbet dsp
Embellishments: Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Basic Metal Buttons, White Baker’s Twine, Tea Lace Paper Doilies, Deco Labels Framelits

A Tilted Star Birthday — FMS126

Posted on March 5, 2014 by amyoneillblog

Happy Wednesday, Everybody! It’s time for a new sketch over at the Freshly Made Sketches site, and I have the pleasure of being the hostess this week. I designed a sketch with some tilted panels, so you can use a mix of dsp patterns or make a scene of your own.

I need to replenish my birthday card stash, so I decided to go that route. I pulled out my Simply Stars set, and used a sentiment from a hostess set called Express Yourself. I also used the little star from the Sale-a-Bration set, Banner Blast.

I hope you’ll join us and play along with the challenge this week. I’d love to see what you do with the sketch. Meanwhile, feel free to go on over to the Freshly Made Sketches site and see what the other designers created. They are always awesome and inspiring.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Sweet Sorbet Wish

Posted on March 4, 2014 by amyoneillblog

When I saw the great sketch over at the Retro Sketches site, I knew I wanted to play along:

I pulled the Sweet Sorbet dsp out (love the colors and patterns in this collection), and I added some fun gold accents to it.

Enjoy your Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Summer Starfruit, Basic Black
Paper: Pool Party, Basic Black, Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet dsp, Gold Fancy Foil Designer Vellum
Embellishments: Gold Sequin Trim, Mini Metallic Clothespins, Banners Framelits, White Baker’s Twine, Scallop Edge Border punch

An Epic Day with Maggie — Monday Montage #14

Posted on March 2, 2014 by amyoneillblog

We’re back with another Monday Montage blog hop for you tonight. There are ten of us participating, and you can easily make your way through the hop by clicking on the “Next” or “Back” buttons at the bottom of each post. I have an 8″x8″ scrapbook page to share with you this time.

Some of you may remember that when I was at Convention last summer, my family adopted a dog while I was gone. I came back to find an adorable two-year old Pug named Maggie. Well, Maggie is a full-fledged member of the family now, and I have loved to see how she has bonded with each of us, especially my nine-year old daughter who paid for the adoption and feeds Maggie every day. Maggie runs upstairs and waits patiently outside Kendall’s door each morning until Kendall wakes up, and then gives Kendall an excited greeting. And Kendall always makes time to love her dog back.

Before Christmas, I was taking some shots of the kids for Christmas cards and of course, Maggie had to be included. I decided I needed to make a scrapbook page to remember our first real photo shoot with Maggie.

I went back to an old favorite, the Epic Day This and That suite of products for my layout. I also used one sheet of the Kaleidoscope dsp (the Basic Gray graph paper background sheet).

There are some really fun Epic Day This and That Designer Stickers that coordinate with the dsp, and I used several of them on this layout. It makes for a quick and easy page.

I love scrapbooking, and I really should do it more. It is what first drew me into this papercrafting hobby. And my kids love looking back through pages like this. This page will actually be going up on a bulletin board in our home office/craft room for a while.

You’re ready to hop on over to Breelin Renwick’s blog and check out her amazing creation. If you’d rather work your way backwards, you’re welcome to hop on over to Wendy Weixler’s blog and see some of her awesome-sauce work. Either way, be sure to make your way through the other nine posts.

Enjoy your Sunday evening! Thanks for stopping by!

Hip Hip Hooray for Card Kits

Posted on March 1, 2014 by amyoneillblog

I finally had a little time to stamp last night, and I recently received the super cute Hip Hip Hooray Card Kit so I pulled it out and got to work (or play). I love the sketch over at Mojo Monday this week, so I used it for my inspiration.

This Hip Hip Hooray card kit comes with instructions for how to make 20 different cards, but you can also make what you like, as I did with this one:

I love the patterned Crumb Cake card bases that come with this set, and I especially adore the cute little clips that come with it. You can see it a little better in this shot:

Enjoy your Saturday! I’m almost finished with our home office/craft room project. So hopefully I can get that wrapped up this weekend. Then I’ll take some photos and let you see what we’ve done. The kids are loving the much more functional space, as they now have more room to work and places in which to set their laptops and books as they do homework. And I even gained some more space for all of my crafting supplies. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Hip Hip Hooray (comes in card kit)
Ink: Calypso Coral
Paper: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Basic Gray, Hip Hip Hooray Card Kit
Embellishments: Word Bubbles Framelits, Small Heart punch, accessories from card kit, Pearl Basic Jewels

You’re How Old? — FMS125

Posted on February 26, 2014 by amyoneillblog

Whew! I’m finally back! Our home office/craft room project ended up being a little more time-consuming than I thought. I had to move everything out of the room so we could put up shelving in there, and I realized I have a LOT of stuff. When I could no longer stack stuff in the dining room, I had to start stacking stuff in the family room. When my son came in later that day, he told me that it looked like we could be in an episode of Hoarders.

But we got the shelves up and now have a much more functional space for everyone, and I’m still in the process of getting everything put away in just the right spot. That could take a while! I’m trying to purge as I do that and rid myself of the hoarder label that I identified with a little too much.

Meanwhile, I did take a little break and made a card for today’s new challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. Narelle Farrugia is our hostess this week, and she has a versatile sketch for us:

I decided to use a speech bubble for the circle in the sketch. And I pulled out some of the Birthday Basics dsp.

I hope you’ll be able to join us and try this sketch yourself. You can go see what the rest of the design team made at the Freshly Made Sketches site.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Just Sayin’
Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla, Birthday Basics dsp
Embellishments: Raspberry Ripple 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon, Bold Designer Buttons, Word Bubbles Framelits

Simple and Grateful

Posted on February 22, 2014 by amyoneillblog

There are times when coloring is kinda like therapy to me. And with a master bath remodeling project that is now in its fourth week (I’m ready to have my bathroom back!) and a home office/stamp studio project that is now in full swing (everything is piled in our dining room until we get the shelves up this weekend), I thought I could use a little therapy today.

I love the floral images in the So Very Grateful set because they are so pretty and they are easy to color. I used an aquapainter and my ink pads to color this one.

I stamped the image twice — once onto the Watercolor Wonder dsp, and once onto Whisper White card stock. I did use my Stamp-a-ma-jig to align the image. And then I colored away. The top panel is popped up with dimensionals.

We will be putting up shelving in the home office/stamp studio this weekend. And then I can move everything back in. It should be a happy day! Now, if only I could get our contractor to finish the bathroom!

Enjoy your Saturday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: So Very Grateful
Ink: Staz-On Black, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Whisper White, Watercolor Wonder dsp
Embellishments: Calypso Coral Baker’s Twine, Gold Sequin Trim

A Gold Pansy

Posted on February 20, 2014 by amyoneillblog

I love the look of clear embossing on Very Vanilla card stock. I pulled out Hello, Doily and embossed it on the card base. Then I embossed the pretty pansy from Flower Shop with gold embossing powder and punched it out. I already had the heat gun out, so why not?

I added some gold touches (I’ve been doing that a lot lately, haven’t I?) and ribbons and called it a day.

Enjoy your Thursday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Hello, Doily; Flower Shop
Ink: Versamark
Paper: Very Vanilla, Sweet Sorbet (Sale-a-bration)
Embellishments: Gold Sequin trim, Coastal Cabana 3/8″ Stretch Ruffle Trim, 5/8″ Crochet Trim, Gold Baker’s Twine, In Color Boutique Details, Pansy punch, Clear and Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Watercolor Dots — FMS124

Posted on February 19, 2014 by amyoneillblog

Happy Wednesday, everyone! With Wednesdays comes a new sketch over at the Freshly Made Sketches site. And one of our very talented new designers, Karren Johnson, from New Zealand has a great sketch for us this week:

I haven’t made a square card in a while, so I was glad to see that in this sketch. I pulled out some of my Watercolor Wonder dsp, which I thought would be such a pretty focal point on this card.

I was cleaning out some of my supplies and I came across a partly used pack of the Creped Filter Paper. I totally forgot about that stuff! I decided to make a pretty little flower with it and my Pansy punch. I think I used about eight layers of the filter paper, and then scrunched them up a bit.

I hope you’ll join us and play along with the sketch this week. Go check out what the rest of the design team made at the Freshly Made Sketches site for some inspiration.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Express Yourself (hostess)
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Creped Filter Paper, Watercolor Wonder dsp
Embellishments: Pansy punch, Gold Sequin Trim, , White Baker’s Twine, Crushed Curry 3/4″ Chevron Ribbon, Regals Designer Buttons

Tilted Thanks — Monday Montage #13

Posted on February 16, 2014 by amyoneillblog

It’s time for another Monday Montage blog hop! There are ten of us participating, so just click on the “Next” button to make your way through the hop.

I decided to play with the pretty flowers in the So Very Grateful set and the Sweet Sorbet dsp which is available during Sale-a-Bration. I love the colors in it.

I am seeing cards with tilted panels everywhere these days, so I decided to try one again. I’m finding that the most challenging part of these cards is photographing them. I always seem to have a hard time photographing them at the correct angle. So please try to look past that. 🙂

Here’s a closer look at the flowers and embellishments. I stamped the flowers twice and colored them with my Stampin’ Write markers. I cut out the blooms and popped them up with dimensionals.

You’re ready to hop on over to Breelin Renwick’s blog and check out her lovely creation. If you prefer to work your way backwards, you can hop over to Wendy Weixler’s blog by clicking on the “Back” button instead. Either way you choose to go, you can work your way through all ten blogs.

Enjoy your Sunday evening and Monday. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: So Very Grateful
Ink: Staz-on Black, Crisp Cantaloupe, Summer Starfruit, Pool Party, Pistachio Pudding
Paper: Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet dsp
Embellishments: Pool Party 1/2″ Seam Binding ribbon, Gold Sequin Trim, Crisp Cantaloupe 3/8″ Ruffle Stretch Trim ribbon, Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack