Canvas Scrapbooking

On Wednesdays, I get together with some of my girlfriends, and while the kids play, we sip lattes and eat really yummy food.
My upline, Stacey Rose, suggested we scrapbook on canvases...
Here's what we came up with:

 

 This is Heidi's... Really love how it turned out, love that she used the Petite Pennants builder to spell Evan's Name... And the Real Red accents.

This is Nicole's, Really loving the tempting turquoise, Midnight Muse and Early Espresso together!

 This is mine... I knew I wanted to use this photo of Addie and her grandpa...

And of course, Stacey's... understated but unbelievably stunning all at the same time.

Thanks for looking!

Halloween Owls

If you have spent anytime at all on my blog, I think by now you have figured out that I have an obsession with the owl punch.  I just canNOT stop using it!
So when I saw people using the owl punch to make owls dressed up for Halloween, I just HAD to do them!
Here's the card we made at club this month:

We used the owl punch to make all 3 owls.  The fence is using the Word Window Punch.  I used more mustard and old olive for the card colors (I have never used more mustard before, but I like how it accents the owls).
Pumpkin Owl: Owl punch, 1" circle punch
Ballerina Owl: Owl punch, 1 3/4" Scallop circle
Pirate Punch: Owl punch

For the moon, I punched the 1 1/4" circle out of a post it note, then sponge daubed inside it.

And that was it!
Here's some other owls that we made:

Lastly, I wanted to teach my club a new technique, so we did a card using the black magic technique (click to follow link to splitcoaststampers).  

It was simple, and fun, and I love that you can use any image.
And my upline taught me that you can use permanent marker on the rhinestone basic jewels... blew my mind!

Pumpkins, Apple Cider and Sweaters

I'm pretty sure I write this every year around this time, but I just SO love fall.
For one of our club projects this month, we made this simple, understated card:

I love, love, love it.  We used 4 different punches: Wide Oval, 1 3/4 Cirlce, Decorative Label and the Bird Punch.  We sponged the pumpkins in Tangerine Tango (the card stock is pumpkin pie).  The colors are old olive, pumpkin pie and early espresso.
Later this week I will be posting the things we did at the Regional Conference last weekend.  Happy Fall!

Back to School

Fall is here!  My oldest, Audrey, is in Kindergarten (and loving it!) I'm hoping this means I will have more time for stamping and scrapbooking this fall before the baby comes in February... but I doubt it!

For club last night, we made the cutest backpack box... I love it, because you can put a little note in the front folder, and then fill it with candy corn, or any fun fall treat!

 cute, right? I got the instructions and templates from splitcoaststampers: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/backpackbox/

It's quite an undertaking, as it is 31 steps, but we had fun making it! I used old olive and chocolate chip, a favorite fall combo of mine... and the stamp set "day of gratitude".

As a second project (which we never got to), I made a simple 3 x3 card from the stamp set pennant parade:

I used brights, because I wanted a simple, cheery card.  I made the topiary with the trangle, then used the small tip of melon mambo stampin' write marker and the mat pack to make the circles.  I also made the envelope using this tutorial: http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/3x3-envelope-tutorial/
Here's the stamp set I used:

Which is a super versatile set... you can use it for ice cream cones:
 


or a little sail boat:
             


or christmas trees:


or birthday hats:


There are tons more ways, I just love this set!

papaya collage and perfect wedding card

Summer is flying by, and I have had little to no time to stamp.  However, I did make these two cards for Stamp Club in July:

This to me is the perfect wedding card.  It is simple, elegant, and can be changed for the wedding of your choice.  It uses the big shot "vintage wallpaper" embossing folder, the stamp set "papaya collage" for the frame, and "make a cake" for the insides.  I used Cherry Cobbler for the accent color, but you can change it to the color of the wedding you will attending

This is totally different for me, but I love how it turned out!  It uses almost every stamp in the "papaya collage" stamp set (my MUST HAVE) stamp set for the new catalogue... and it's accented with Calypso Coral, which I will grieve when it's gone in less than a year!
Hope you enjoy your last little bit of Summer!  I am looking forward to fall, routine, scrapbooking, hot tea, and sweaters!

Olympics Part 2

Our final count is we made dishes from 44 Countries!  Here is the display after Audrey finished coloring all of the flags:

I'll be posting card projects I've been working on next week, but for the most part, I've been taking it easy from crafting during July and August.  Thanks for looking!

Olympics 2012

It's been a busy time in our house, we are expecting our 3rd Child in February, we went on a vacation to Black Creek on Vancouver Island, and my husband and I are in a Worship Band (www.hillsworship.com) and we opened for the band Starfield on August 5th at the Abbotsford Aggrifair!
Needless to say, it's been insane.  On top of all this, it was the Olympics for the past two weeks.  My mom started a tradition with the Olympics when we were little, to make dishes from some of the Countries represented at the Olympics, to have us try different kinds of foods and to grow appreciation for different cultures.  At the Winter Olympics in 2010, my sister and I made a dish for each Country.  This year there were over 200 Countries in the Olympics, and we were on vacation for 1/2 of the time, so we were only able to do about 60... I haven't got the exact count yet.
Here's a sample of my kitchen wall:

That was early last week, we've done more Countries since then, I will post when they are done... my daughter, Audrey, just turned 5, and she has loved coloring each of the flags, and learning about different kinds of foods.
Here's a sample menu of one of the nights we did:
Carribean Night:
On the menu tonight:
Drinks:
Ginger Beer (Jamaica)
Kanpe Tea (Haiti)
Banana Punch (British Virgin Islands)

Appies:
Spicy Mango and Avacado (Antigue and Barbuda)
Johnny Cakes (Cayman Islands)

Potato Salad (Panama)
Fried Plaintains (Dominican Republic)
Mango Chutney (Dominica)
Barbados shrimp with raspberry sauce (Barbados)
Belinean Rice and Beans (Belize)
Cheeseball (Honduras)

Dinner:
Empenadas (Costa Rica)
Bahama Mama Chicken (Bahamas)

Dessert:
Barfi (Trinidad)
tropical fruit pudding (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

It was a blast!