Lovely As a Tree

I thought I would sneak in one more fall card before December arrives.  I've used the thumping technique with this stamp set a lot.  It gives the look of all colored fall leaves.  To start you first stamp the tree in a brown, I used Soft Suede.  Then I used markers and just thumped them right onto the stamp.  The markers I used are Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke and Early Espresso.  I used the Frostwood Lodge and Regals Collection paper.

Season of Joy

Once again, shadowy pictures, sorry!  This was my card trade for stamp club.  Once I started using the Mica flakes I got a little addicted.  They give your card a new fun look.  The colors are Not Quite Navy and Pool Party.  I love the Ruffled Ribbon in the New In Colors and also the Designer Printed Brads.

Lovely As a Tree

Sorry about the shadowy picture, I don't claim to be a great photographer! :)  This is the card that we made at stamp club last night.  The ladies really liked how it turned out.  First we stamped the tree in Garden Green. Then we used a two-way glue pen lightly all over the tree and then sprinkled Mica Flakes (from the Holiday Mini) all over the tree.  It gives such a pretty look that's similar to glitter, but so much thicker.  Very cool!  The paper is from the Frostwood Lodge designer series paper and the ribbon is the Cherry Cobbler Quilted Satin, both from the Holiday Mini Catalog. 

Lovely As a Tree

For this card I stamped the trees in Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock. It's tied with the Early Espresso/White Baker's Twine and layered on paper from the Frostwood Lodge pack in the Holiday Mini.

Halloween!

Halloween started at my mom's annual party on Saturday.  All the grandkids dressed up and then we ate a spaghetti dinner and carved pumpkins.  The kids get more and more creative every year.

Adri and all of her friends decided to be clowns this year.  Adri was going for the 'scary' clown look, and I think she pulled it off.  From her scary make-up right down to her scary sock puppet - all done by herself.  Justus was a scary scarecrow - he made the costume by himself a couple of years ago. Tori was a teenager!

You can see all of the wonderful works of art.

Justus' pumpkin is on the left - a witch with a pointy nose.  Tori's pumpkin is in the middle and Adri's is on the right.  Justus's pumpkin was a hit with all of the kids, they loved the witch nose.

This is Adri before she headed of to school on Monday.  Once again she did her own make-up.

Here's the clown crew.  Raquel, Liberty, Adri, Rachel, Alyse.  They looked pretty cute walking through the school Halloween Parade

Circle Circus

Circle Circus is such a fun set to use.  I used the Color Coach and put these colors together:  Rich Razzleberry, More Mustard, Island Idigo and Lucky Limeade.  The pattern paper is from the Regals Collection Paper Stack.  And the Rich Razzleberry button is from the Brights Designer Buttons.  The cute little cake stamp is from the Happiest Birthday Wishes hostess set and I just used markers directly on it.

Warm Fuzzy Jars

I didn't come up with this idea, but wanted to share how mine turned out.  I made these little jars for my primary class.  The lesson was about serving others.  Inside the jars is a bag of 'warm fuzzy's'.  Each time the kids do a kind thing for someone else they can place a fuzzy from the bag to the jar.  Their goal is to fill their jar to the top by serving others.  The idea came from a talk that President Monson gave.

Itty Bitty Bits

This card was inspired by the card on page 143 of the Stampin' Up! Catalog.  I chose the colors from the Bravo Burgundy card of the Color Coach:  River Rock, Baja Breeze, More Mustard and of course Bravo Burgundy.  First I punched out the butterfly and then I stamped the Itty Bitty Bits and used the Itty Bitty Shapes punches to cut the stamped images out.  After that it was just the process of covering up the butterfly with all of those cute little flowers and circles and then adding some Rhinestones here and there.  I also used one of the Bitty Buttons with a More Mustard brad in the center.  The lacey Baja Breeze paper was created with the Lace Ribbon Border punch.  LOVE the color combo!!!

Upsy Daisy

For this card I  used the Framed Tulips Embossing Folder on white card stock and ran it through the Big Shot.  Then I inked up the daisy stamp in the Cherry Cobbler ink pad and then kissed it onto the Canvas stamp to give it a little bit of a textured look.  After that I stamped it, moved it a bit to the right and then up a bit and then stamped it again to give it a shadowed look.

Season of Joy

This is one of those versatile Christmas stamp sets.  The flower and swirly can be used for so many things besides just Christmas.  Love that!  For this card I used More Mustard, Garden Green and Early Espresso.  I first inked the flowers in the More Mustard and then used the Early Espresso marker to color the dots in the center.  I wrapped the ribbon around a couple of times and then crossed and tied it in the front. 

French Foliage

This was my card trade for Stamp Club.  I did the same techniques on this card as what I taught at stamp club on my last post.  We're starting to get some Fall weather where I live and I'm loving it.  The colors are Chocolate Chip, More Mustard and Crumb Cake.  It's hard to tell, but I did the wet embossing on the Chocolate Chip colored leaves and I used the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder for the dry embossing.

For All You Do

At Stamp Club last week we made this way cute card using two of the new In Colors - Wisteria Wonder and Pool Party.  I taught them that we don't always have to dry emboss the WHOLE piece of paper.  On this card we just embossed a little bit on the right side of the white card stock and then we stamped and did some wet embossing on the left side.  The butterfly was first stamped in Versamark and then into the Wisteria Wonder pad.  After that we embossed with clear embossing powder.  SO CUTE!

Justus' Eagle Court of Honor

This is the invitation for Justus' Eagle.  He wanted to have it outside to get that whole 'scouting' effect, but the weather wouldn't cooperate.  At the last minute, really about an hour before it was supposed to begin we started making calls to tell everyone to come to the Armory instead of up the canyon where Justus really wanted it.  He thought we should still have it in the wind and the rain, but I'm sure many people were happy that we didn't make them sit in the cold and wet. 

Justus' Grandpa Mike gave an awesome tribute to Justus and presented him with a cool sword.

Grandma Sorensen also did a great tribute to Justus.

Here is Justus and his Eagle Scout friends, Kevin and Tanner, doing the scout pledge.

Justus is officially an Eagle Scout!

We were able to fit in his 16th Birthday too.  We also sang to his little cousin Allie since they share a birthday.

We got Justus an Eagle statue to always remind him that he earned his Eagle. For his Birthday we got him a Jeep Cherokee.  SPOILED!  He will be able to get his license on the 31st of this month! Watch out!!!

I also made him a scrapbook to help him remember this big event.  I'll be adding onto it since we finally got his Court of Honor done.

Congratulations Bud!  We couldn't ask for a better kid!!!
We are SO PROUD OF YOU!

Flight of the Butterfly

I love the new Scallop Dots Ribbon!  The colors I've used are Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant - I got the color combo off the Color Coach.  I also used the Lace Ribbon Border Punch, cut in half, for a different look.  The flower was created using the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch with a Designer Printed Brad in the middle. The brads are a must have!