Happy 18th Birthday Jimmy!!!!!

18 years ago today, my Jimmy Dean came into this world. 

 This little 8lb 6 oz bundle of joy has grown into a 6'1" young man who takes the world head on.  As his graduation nears he is more anxious to get out in the world.  Me I just want to keep my Baby around for awhile longer.  

He has already joined the Army and is leaving on August 28th, so I plan on spending as much time with him this summer as possible.  He sure has grown up fast, and I want him to know that I am very proud of the young man he has become and all he has accomplished.

Happy 18th Birthday Jimmy Dean, I love you!!!!!!

Designers Choice this week at Inspired Stamps

This week at Inspired Stamps us Designers get to choose what we want to show case.  It didn't take me long to decide, I have been checking out lots of cards on Pinterest and my favorites lately have been the ones that are mostly white.  So that became my focus for my card.

I got out my Inspired Stamps and black and white paper and came up with this.

For this card I used my favorite Inspired Stamps set, His Plans for You.  

Materials used:   His Plans for You

CTMH Materials Used: AP Cricut Cartridge, White Daisy and Black Card Stock, Black ink, Create a Shade Pearl Paint, Liquid Glass to glue on Roses

Other materials: Black Nightfall Pearls from Queen & Co  

Sneak Peek Week

 It's Sneak Peek Week over at Inspired Stamps, so today I am showcasing artwork using the new Inspired Shapes stamp set.  Remember the Inspired Stamps Design Team will be giving you sneak peeks of the New Stamps sets that will be released this Friday at noon on the Inspired Stamps website.

When I first saw this set I immediately knew that my artwork would include me creating my own background paper using Random Stamping.  Above is just the beginning of my creating with this set.  My 2nd son is graduating in a few short weeks, and at the rate the Graduation parties are stacking up, I really need to get on the ball and create lots of graduation cards.  I had so much fun with this new stamp set that I was able to get seven done.

I combined the Inspired Shapes with His Plans for you and More Perfect Sentiments to create all the cards.

This is my Background paper for my first card, my son goes to a vocational school, so he has lots of friends who go to different schools, and have different school colors.  I decided that the rainbow colors would let me create a card and not have to worry if it was the right color for their school or not.



And here is the card I created.

Materials Used: 
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Orange Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Another piece of Random Stamped background.

Followed by the two cards I created using this paper.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Holiday Red Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Sunny Yellow, Orange, Holiday Red, Hydrangea, Star Spangled Blue, and Clover Meadow ink, Black, White Daisy, Holiday Red Cardstock, Versa Mark Ink, White Embosing Powder
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

These next to are very simple and are in my son's school colors.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Black, ink, Black, White Daisy, Cardstock
Versa Mark Ink
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co, Silver Embossing powder from JoAnn's

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Black, ink, Black, White Daisy Cardstock
Versa Mark Ink
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co, White Embossing powder from JoAnn's

These next to began with my just playing around with the Rectangle in the set, and next thing I know I have what looks like a brick wall, which reminded me of the boys elementary school building.  Believe it or not these two are actually from the same piece of Random Stamped paper, for some reason the lighting is really off in the second picture.

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Chocolate ink, Black, Holiday Red, Desert Sand and Chocolate Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk

Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps-Inspired Shapes, His Plans For You
CTMH materials used: Black, Holiday Red, Chocolate ink, Black, Desert Sand and Chocolate Cardstock
Cricut Cartridge - Locker Talk
Red Cardstock from The Paper Co.

Don't forget to keep checking the Inspired Stamps blog for more sneak peeks.  These stamp sets will be released for sale at noon on Friday.

Thanks for looking,
Until next time Happy Scrappin

Jenn

Designers Choice week at Inspired Stamps

This week due to computer problems my Inspired Stamps Design Team artwork is just a little late being posted. 

Here is my card for this weeks Designers Choice.  I used Inspired Stampers Favorite Collection #2 for my sentiment and scripture.

Material Used: Inspired Stampers Favorite Collection #2

CTMH Materials: Roxie Paper Pack, Black and Desert Sand Ink Colonial White Ribbon

Paper Doily and roses from stash.

Mom Time!!!!!

Whew, what a month.  When Springtime arrives around here it seems like the boys have way to much energy and are constantly getting into trouble.  Which explains why I spent alot of time at the hospital and Dr's office this last month (5 visits in a one week period)..  We only have one badly sprained pinky finger, one broken thumb, (on the same kid, 2 different ER trips and hands), and one hip injury.  After a month like that I have been quite happy to escape to my craft room for some MOM TIME and Sanity Check. 


With Jimmy's graduation fast approching I have been concentrating on getting his scrapbook done, I am slowly reducing the piles of pictures I have that need scrapped.  Right now I am concenrtrating on his sports pictures, and I am kinda cheating I am taking Robbie's sports layouts that I did last year, you can see them here and creating the same layout for Jimmy sometimes mixing up the papers.  With this method I am whipping through them quite quickly.  I am also working on just putting the pictures on the pages and will do the titles, journaling and embellishments later.  If they don't get done before his party on June 16, I can still display the pages with the pictures on them.  Since these layouts aren't quite finished I figured I could show you some of the layouts I have managed to get done this winter.  Along with several of the layouts I created for the Warren Township Community Center Scrapbooking classes.  Just about all these layouts have come from our How To Books, but I can't remember which ones and I don't have my books with me right now to tell you which layout designs I used.

These first 3 are using my favorite paper pack Victory, I have bought to packs so far and will definately be buying more. With 4 redneck boys I definately need all the outdoorsy paper I can get, and the camo sheets are being hoarded.  Not to mention that my oldest son is the one in the layout on the back of the Victory My Stickease, and on the Victory Layout on Jeanette's blog here.


This first is the Warren Township Community Center (WTCC)  Scrapbook layout for the month of April.


Materials Used: Victory Bulk Paper Pack, Colonial White, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Olive, Barn Red, Chocolate and Outdoor Denim Cardstock, Desert Sand, Chocolate, Outdoor Denim, New England Ivy, Barn Red Inks, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. A Journey and the Stamp Set that comes with the Victory WOTG.


When I first saw this layout in the catalog I immediately had these pictures in Mind.  Yes My son's name is James Dean after his two Gandfathers My Dad Dean and his bio Paternal Gpa James.  These pictures just totally show his casual ornery side.  I did change it up a little and used the A Hope Stamp Set cause the wings matched his shirt. 



Materials Used: Victory WOTG,  Varsity Alphabet, A Hope (had to use the wings since they looked so much like the ones on his shirt) Grey Wool, Outdoor Denim and Barn Red inks, Durables and the April SOTM You Are...

This was the WTCC layout for March.  I ended up doing 2 layouts with the same paper pack cause I ran out of Pemberely and didn't have enough time to order it for the April Class.

Materials Used: Victory Bulk, Colonial White, Barn Red and Olive Cardstock, Olive & Barn Red Inks, Rustic Alphabet. and Pure Adventure Stamp Sets.  Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

This is May's WTCC class layout, using the Pemberely Paper pack. Having all boys I am constantly trying to figure out how to make the girly papers work for boys, this is what I came up with for Pemberely.



Materials Used: Pemberely Bulk, Colonial White, Outdoor Demin, Desert Sand, Honey and Indian Corn Blue cardstock. Indian Corn Blue and Outdoor Denim Ink.  Stamp Sets: Trinity Alphabet, Take A Picture, and Love Life
Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge



This was the WTCC February Layout, using Roxie.  Once again I took a girly paper and made it into a masculine layout.

Materials Used: Roxie Bulk, Desert Sand, Colonial White and Black Cardstock, Tulip and Black ink. Stamp Sets: Love Life, Giggle Upper and Lower Case Alphabets.

This was the WTCC Class layout for the month of October. 

Materials Used:  Typeset Bulk, Desert Sand, Creme Brulee, Juniper , Cocoa and Colonial White Cardtsock.  Love Life Stampset, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Milepost Shapes Bulk, 4x6 Flip Flaps

I have fallen in love with the flip flaps, they are wonderful when you have too many pictures to use on one page, but not enough or you don't want a second page. This allows you to add the extra pictures, and sometimes hide your journaling (which is my plan for the lower blank spot, eventually)

Above Layout with Flaps Open

This next layout is one I created for my family scrapbook but will be in Jimmy's at his party.  Gee it seems like yesterday they were this little.  Now they are a Freshman in College and engaged, a Senior in High School Leaving for the Army in August, a Freshman in High School and a 7th grader, they grow up way to fast. 

Materials Used: Typeset Bulk, Notebook Level 1, Cocoa, Creme brulee, Sunflower, black, white daisy, colonial white, juniper, tulip, chocolate and grey flannel cardstock. Juniper Ink,  Red Glitz Glitter Gel, Stardust Stickles, Black, Red & Blue Markers White Gel Pen and Cricut Cartridge Locker Talk

Here is another layout incorporating flip flaps.  This layout was the Jan WTCC class layout, using Wonderland paper pack

Materials used: Wonderland paper pack, White Daisy and Crystal Blue Cardstock, Trinity Alphabet, Crystal Blue ink, Prisma Glitter, and the AP cricut cartridge.

The Flap Opened

My Final Layout was the December WTCC layout, and it used Mischief paper pack in a non-halloween way.  I created this layout just after Jimmy's dog Cori Jo had died, she was his Best Friend for 10 years.

Materials Used: Mischief Paper Pack, Cranberry, White Daisy, and Black Cardstock, Mad About You Stamp Set, Black and Cranberry Inks, AP Cricut Cartridge.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my Masculine Layouts.   Sorry for the glare on some of the pictures I was taking the pictures late at night and couldn't find away to shoot them without getting the glare of the lights.

Thanks for looking,

Feel free to leave some love.

Until Next time Happy Scrappin

Jenn

Flowers

This week the Inspired Stamps Design Team is focusing on combining Flower Stamps with a scripture.  I decided to once again create my own backgrounds using the Flowers stamp set.  I couldn't decided which card I wanted to make so this week you get to see 2 pieces of my artwork.

The first card is using a piece of the background paper I created in my April 5th post. I combined the Flowers Stamp Set background with the His Plans For You Stamp Set, to create this card. I love how the background turned out and am disappointed I only have 2 small scraps of it left. It has been really fun to play with and I am sure I will be making my own Background paper using this technique again real soon.

On my second card I used the Big Flower from the Flowers Stamp set to create the Key Lime and Sky background paper using the same color cardstock and ink stamping tone on tone.  I also took a piece of white cardstock and stamped it using Sky, Sunkiss Yellow and Hollyhock creating a colorful background paper.  I also used the His Plans For You Stamp set for the Scripture.

Materials for Both cards

Inspired Stamps Used: Flowers & His Plans For You

CTMH Materials used:  White Daisy, Sky, Key Lime cardstock, Tulip, Sunny Yellow, Pacifica, Sky, Key Lime, Sunkiss Yellow, Hollyhock, and black inks.  CTMH exclusive cricut cartridge Art Philosophy, CTMH Blue Buttons, Glitter Brads, Blush RicRac
Irredescent ribbon from stash.

Thanks For Looking, don't forget to visit the rest of the Design Teams blogs, the links are in  my sidebar.

Jenn

Spring is in the Air

This week the Inspired Stamps Design team was asked to create something with a spring feel.  So I put on my thinking cap and decided that springtime means pastels and Graduations. (I just might have been influenced by the fact that my second son keeps reminding me that he will be graduating here in less than 2 months.)  So I created a graduation card using pastel colors.



Front of card




Inside of card

  For this card I used Inspired Stamps His Plans for You for the scripture and the sentiment.  I also used one other stamp set can you find it.  Here is a hint:


Close up of background paper


Yep, you guessed it I used the Flowers stamp set to create my own background paper. 


Background paper before I cut it up

 I used the Burned Batik technique to create my background. I took the big flower from the Flower set and stamped it in Versa Mark all over my cardstock, I then sprinkled it with embossing powder and heated the powder until it melted into the paper, this let the ink resist the embossed area but I had burnt the image into the paper so the glossy, raised embossed area was no longer there. I then used a sponge dauber to add my ink to the page using the lightest one first.  After it was inked up I sprayed my paper with my homemade glimmer mist to give it a little shine, and to help blend the ink. 

Materials Used:  Inspired Stamps Flowers and His Plans For You
CTMH materials used:  White Daisy, Key Lime, & Sky Cardstock
Tulip, Sunny Yellow, Indian Corn Blue, Amethyst and Black inks, Versa Mark ink, CTMH Clear Detail embossing powder, Just Blooms Flutter Paper Shapes (Butterflies), round clear Sparkles 
Ribbon from stash



Thanks for looking, please make sure you check out the rest of the design teams wonderful Spring ideas, by following their links in my sidebar.

Until Next Week Happy Stampin

Jenn