Birthday Blocks

In our family, Lego is like currency. My nephews are addicted to Lego so it is only fitting that I made my nephew a Lego themed birthday card.

Products Used:
Cardstock - White Daisy, all other Recollections paper pack

Ink - Black and Cocoa from CTMH

Stamp - Card Chatter Birthday

I hope you enjoy it!

Until next time, happy scrapping!
Brandi

I didn't forget....

We have all been there, remembering at the last minute or even after that a friends birthday has come and gone. Well, I know I have so I decided to have some oops cards on hand. I didn't forget your birthday...I am just extending the celebration! This card was really very simple and put together very easily, perfect for those oops emergencies!

Products Used:
Paper:
- La Belle Vie (retired)
- Colonial White card stock

Ink:
- Smokey Plum
- Cocoa

Stamp:
- Card Chatter - birthday

Embellishments:
- Bitty pearls

Until next time, happy scrapping!
Brandi

More Birthday Wishes

As I mentioned December is full of birthdays. Here is another birthday card that I created. This one is for my sister in law. The stamped image was going to be completely different but as I was chatting with a friend while scrapbooking I got playing and found this candle stamp in one of my sets and just kind of played and ended up really liking what I came up with, so much so that I do not even recall what I had originally planned for the card creativity taking over at its best!

Here is the list of supplies:

Paper:
- Florentine
- Olive Cardstock

Stamps:
- Cricut Artiste Birthday

Ink:
- Olive
- Twilight
- Creme Brûlée 

Miscellaneous
- Pewter Badge Buttons
- Floer (by Kaiser crafts)

I hope you enjoy this card!

Until next time, happy scrapping,
Brandi

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Ok, so not normally the headings you see in December but in my family we have a lot of December birthdays so Happy Birthday is said almost as much as Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas. 

I made this card for my mother in law's birthday. I used one of my favourite stamp sets, Piece of Cake, on this card. I love this stamp set for birthdays. 

Products used:

Paper:
- Florentine

Stamps:
- Piece of Cake
- Party Pennants

Ink:
- Olive
-Creme Brulee
-Cocoa
-Twilight

Miscellanous
- Water blending pen
- Watercolour pencils

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Brandi

Party Time!

First things first, Happy Easter to everyone! Now, the reason for my one week departure from blogging...I have been a busy little bee getting ready for a dual party, yesterday we hosted an early Easter dinner and 2nd Birthday party for my little girl! This was our first birthday party since adopting and I wanted it to be uber special so I was busy planning, cleaning, cooking, paper crafting, cleaning, and more prepping!

I did not finish all of my paper crafting goals for the party (where oh where does the time go?) My to do list included hand made party hats, cupcake toppers, Happy Easter and Happy Birthday Banners, and place cards. I got almost everything done, the only project I did not get to was the banners and I will admit that I did not quite finish the place cards, I got them done but did not get time to put names on them.

Here are the cupcakes I made along with the cupcake toppers. The toppers say either 2 or 35 (we also did some for my brother in law who has a birthday this week)

Here is our table (sorry about the shadow, even on full auto my camera often has this happen) You can see the bright and festive party hats all lined up. 

 Here is a close up of the party hats and at the top of the plate you can see a matching little bag, this was supposed to have everyones names on it but ran out of time. Each bag was filled with jelly beans, a hit with the kids of all ages!

Another view of our table (and that darn shadow!)

Materials used:
I have to admit I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to my Close to my Heart products and really wanted to use them on these projects (they would have looked even more fabulous then what I have here) but I just could not handle the thought of them getting tossed or ripped up by the little ones, so I went with some stuff from Michaels.

All paper is from the Michaels Recollection line and I used their white card stock and their Bright and Basic paper pack.
The hat template came from this inspiration: http://jonesdesigncompany.com/tutorial/party-hat-tutorial/
The gift bags were cut using my Close to Heart Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge (love this cartridge, it really is a must have!)

Now that the party is done and over and the aftermath is cleaned up it is time to get working on my next project, a give away for some croppers at a crop that I will be vending at later this month (trying not to procrastinate) so I hope to get those done this week. I also am going to a day crop so you should be seeing some art work come out of that!

Until next time....happy creating (and Easter!)
Brandi