Philadelphia Flower Show Pages

I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show for my first time this year, so I wanted to make a record of my experience. The flowers were gorgeous and it made for great photos. I hope get to go again sometime.

I used Certainly Celery for the base of these pages and the Tea Party DSP on the two edges. I thought there were enough flowers already, so I used butterflies cut with the Stampin' Up! exclusive Beautiful Butterflies Sizzix die. Originally I planned to cut the butterflies from the DSP also, but it was a bit to busy for my taste, so I opted for vellum stamped with Polka-Dots, plain vellum, and Whisper White butterflies.

Birthday Boy Scrapbook Spread

My scrapbook club will be doing this spread this Sunday evening. I conveniently scheduled a birthday theme the month after my son's birthday. :)

I used Bashful Blue as the base for these 12x12 pages. I stamped the party hats from Party Hearty along the bottom in Versamark. Then I stamped the title on an 8.5" x 11" sheet in Whisper White Craft Ink (all except the first letter of course) using the Schoolbook Serif Alphabet. After I got the title on, I ran the sheet through my printer to add the journaling. I stamped the "Celebrate You" from Party Hearty in Kiwi Kiss in and punched it out with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch. I layered that to a Real Red circle cut with the Sizzix circle die and stamped the image again in Bashful Blue and layered that to a Real Red circle too. I layered a piece of 5 1/2" wide Real Red on each outer edge and then layered the Kiwi Kiss over top. Finally I added a "B" cut from chipboard covered with Whisper White using the Serif Essentials dies and added some 1/2" striped Grosgrain and a Jumbo Groment along the bottom edge.

Riordan's Baby Card

Here's a baby card I made a few months ago and didn't post... didn't want it on the blog before the receipent got it... but he's probably crawling and talking by now! LOL!

I wanted to personalize the card, and was going to put his name "Riordan" on the card, but only had the Serif Essentials dies at the time. I ended up using only his initials and still had to make it a long card. I used the stars and verse from Nursery Necessities. Stars are stamped on So Saffron with So Saffron ink. The verse is embossed with white on the Bashful Blue background paper. The dry embossing is the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder on Whisper White card stock, run through my Big Shot. Single star is a Stampin' Up! chipboard star covered in So Saffron. Some paper piercing and blue gingham ribbon finish it off.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Water Park Pages

I wanted to share these fun pages with everyone a few days ago (sorry for the delay Lori!), but you know how time can get away from you! Anyway, here they are. This was the last project for my two scrapbooking clubs, BTW.

As you can see, I had some fun taking the photos of this layout! I wanted to show the detail of the button above. I think these little emblishments really add to the fun of this otherwise simple spread. For the buttons, I used small bits of background paper adhered to the clear buttons with Crystal Effects. They really look great in person!

The colors for this one are based on the Muirfield Designer Series Papers, and are Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, and Whisper White. I really cheated a little on the last one, as Muirfield DSP really combines Very Vanilla with the other colors, but I think it worked out fine. The base is a 12"x12" sheet of Whisper White, and the letters were cut using the Serif Essentials Big Shot dies from chipboard covered with Whisper White card stock. The small print was done on the computer on Whisper White card stock. Hey, did you notice something here??? This is my first page with NO STAMPS! Oh my, what has happened to me!!!

Happy Scrapping!

Brycia

Way to Go Ellen!

This is a large card (6 3/4" x 5 1/2") that I made for my daughter this week after learning that she was voted Student of the Month at her middle school. I wanted to make something a bit fun and funky, and I think it came out pretty well. The background papers are all from the retired Polka Dots and Paisleys Designer Series Papers. The "way" is stamped with Short Order Alphabet in Versamark and embossed with white on Tempting Turquoise, and then punched out with the My Way Jumbo punch. The "2" is chipboard glittered with the Two way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds, and the "GO" is die cut with the Serif Essentials dies and the Stampin' Up! Big Shot machine.

Happy Stamping!

Brycia