Hello Ladybug Scrapbook Pages

I love the layout of these pages! I will have to use this sketch again with different papers and see what else I can come up with. But before I get ahead of myself, let's take a closer look at these pages.

Peaceful Cabin

It's one of the hottest days of the year in SE WI and I'm going to share some Christmas cards!

This is a set that was available during the July-December mini catalog last year. It's called Peaceful Cabin. It had a coordinating set of dies that made playing with it even more fun.

On this first card I masked the cabin. I used the dies to do that and you can see a bit of a halo around the cabin where the trees should be but they are not. Lesson learned, trim the die cut if using to mask. To mask start by stamping the image on the cardstock where you want it. Now stamp again on a post it note or copy paper and fussy cut out. Lay the cut out image on top of the stamped image and stamp the rest around the main image. Remove the post it note image and complete card. 

Confirmation Gifts 2022

If you have followed me for a while, you know that my husband is a pastor at a Lutheran church in Racine, WI and that every spring we have confirmation. Every year I make the kids gifts. I use retired designer series papers from Stampin' Up!, print their confirmation Bible verse, and frame them. Here is this year's gifts.

There is a bit of a glare on these because of the glass on the frames so the letters look a little blurry. These aren't blurry in real life.

They also appear to not be level but that is the way they are angled when I took the pictures. I wish I would have realized that before I wrapped them and gave them out!

The crosses are wooden crosses that I picked up at Hobby Lobby and painted black before I adhered them.

The letters are adhered to the outside of the glass. They are die cut from vinyl. 

The words come from their passage and the kids all get to pick a passage that means something to them. I print the passages on Basic White cardstock and then layer it with Basic Black.

So what do you think? I have shared these every year for a number of years already. Go take a look. I have fun making them for these kids on their confirmation day.

Happy Stampin'!

Waves of Inspiration

Maybe you remember that I love the ocean. When Waves of Inspiration came out as an early release bundle introducing the new catalog, I knew I had to have it! So I ordered it and then the very busy spring months came and I never inked it up. I am glad this set is around for a while so that I can enjoy it!

The card base is So Saffron. I ran the top layer through my Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine with the Painted Texture embossing folder. The sunset was created by using blending brushes and So Saffron, Crumb Cake and Pumpkin Pie inks.

Daisy Garden

This large background stamp is so much fun to create with. You don't have to use the whole image which is easy to forget for any stamp but especially these large stamps.

I stamped the daisies on a piece of Basic White with Memento ink and colored this in with watercolor pencils. I did add a bit of Wink of Stella to the center of the daisies. 

Seas the Day

Seas the Day retired yesterday but I still love this set! I couldn't put it away yet. I started with Pool Party for the card base. I masked the strip in the middle of the Basic White piece with post it notes and then stamped the seaweed with Bermuda Bay. I stamped the seaweed more than once before re-inking. I then used a blending brush with Pool Party.