Elegant Bouquet

I love the Textured Impressions Embossing Folders. They are so easy to use and inexpensive. This is a card using the new folder, Elegant Bouquet.

Robert's 3rd Birthday Invites

Here is what I did for Robert's 3rd birthday party invites. As you can see getting all 4 parts onto the card was kinda squishy but they are cute. The colors are what his room is becoming as he becomes more big boy than baby (sniff sniff). Hopefully my next post will be the decor elements train in real red going up on the wall in his room. Cross my fingers that all goes well there. Each part of the train is rather large with no real way to section them off into smaller pieces. I do really love this train set though. Unfortunetly I believe that it is retired now. Not postitive though because I have not got my newer retired sets marked yet.

Emerging Embossing

I shared this card with my stamp club a couple of months ago and the technique was a big hit. If you have not done the emerging embossing technique before, here's the quick rundown:

Stamp your image(s) using a dark color(s) of ink. Choose a focal point. Stamp a solid image stamp in VersaMark over the focal point and emboss using clear embossing powder. After you have finished embossing, ink a brayer with a lighter color of ink than you stamped your image in. Cover the entire piece of card stock with the lighter ink color. Use a tissue to remove any excess ink from the embossed area. Note: if you do not have a solid image stamp, then use a piece of scrap card stock and a punch to create your solid image -- simply place the scrap card stock with your punched image over the focal point and ink with VersaMark by applying the pad directly to the card stock.

Supplies: Flight of the Butterfly stamp set, Pixie Pink, Pink Passion, Barely Banana, Whisper White card stock, Pixie Pink and Pink Passion classic pads, VersaMark pad, embossing buddy, heat tool, clear embossing powder, 3/16" corner rounder, white 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, 1" circle punch

Thank You gifts

Here are thank you notes, paint cans & gift bags that I made for Robert's pre-school teachers. I am in the process of making more for his therapist as he finishes up his different therapies.

Sorry that the pink is one of the retired in colors but

I love that pink pirouette. The cards I saw in the new catalog by

the fresh cuts notes stamp set. I stamped the big square over a

fresh cuts notes card then punched the flowers out and glued a piece of dsp behind it.

The paint can is a smaller sized paint can (that I bought at Jeffrey Alans). I used modgepodge to put the dsp onto the can. I used ribbon (sorry again retired) to make the handle. I just glued it under the top piece of dsp.

Then to decorate the bag I just used the thank you stamp set, much appreciated (again retired) and stamped all over it in the two colors that I had used for decorating the can & the cards.

Chef

You know I love the Big Shot!! This Chef is made using the Top Note and Butterfly Dies. Isn't he the cutest even though he looks a little cross- eyed? Does anyone else have something they have made using the Big Shot?

Fun Decor Elements

Finally, I am getting back into the swing of things. Sorry I am a week late posting.

This is my most recent project. When I saw this phrase in the new Definitely decorative catalog I knew I had to order it. I actually just ordered a few different decor elements. This will be the first of 3 that I am putting up in our house.

The little guy next to the toy box/bench is my youngest, Robert, who will be 3 a month from tomorrow. One of the other decor elements that I just bought is the train. We (my husband will be

helping with that one) are going to try and put it up in Robert's room for his birthday. It matches the invitations that I am making (which I will post as soon as I have one put together).

The decor elements (as Dawn said in her previous post) are super easy to put on once you have it all figured out. I definitely suggest cutting the bigger ones into smaller manageable pieces.

Definitely Decorative

Definitely Decorative is the bomb! I have been lamenting that all of my walls are textured since the day SU! released this product line, so the silver lining in all of the flooding is that when we took down walls and put up new ones, I was able to have smooth walls. Hooray! The wall of our new storage closet was just begging to have the "Tree, Thoughts & Prayers" displayed, so I went right to work. If you haven't worked with these products before, I really encourage you to try them out. It's really quite simple (though I must admit the tree can be time-consuming as each leaf must adhere individually) and I LOVE the results! I even got a little crazy and cut apart the phrase to arrange it in the way I wanted rather than the way it came. Now my head is spinning with all kinds of ways that I can put the Definitely Decorative line to use! I hope you'll all make it to an Inkcited event so you can see this in person. =)

And before I close, let me apologize for not getting anything posted last month. None of the USB ports on our computer are working, so getting photos from my camera to the computer has been a real challenge. And of course, there's never a good time to send your computer in for repairs, is there? We're doing our best to tough it out until we go on vacation. Then we'll cross our fingers that it can be repaired while we're away.