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Hello!

It’s National Scrapbook Day! I need to make my annual page to commemorate the holiday of the hobby that has brought me so much joy. I started scrapbooking memorabilia of my favorite singer, Celine Dion, in 2004. Then I moved on to vacations I took, then I met Mike and scrapbooked our adventures, along with pictures of my older sister’s little girls. While I have tons of my own pictures to scrapbook, my subjects these days are my younger sister’s children.

This is the first page of my youngest nephew who will be 9 months old in a few weeks. Yes, I am way behind. My last page was August 2017, just a few weeks before he was born and it was about his older sister.

For this page, I went back to my roots (sorta – since there weren’t collection packs back then) but I didn’t use any challenge or sketch. I just sat down with the Bella Blvd Tiny Tots collection and went to work making a page. Sometimes it’s good to remind myself that I don’t need a sketch or challenge/incentive/prize to do what I love.

Have a great night!

Hello for the 3rd time today. I hope you all aren’t sick of me yet lol. I spent most of the weekend home and was off work today, so I have had way more craft time than usual.

Tonight’s card is for an MFT card swap and for the MFT sketch that ends tomorrow at noon.

I had these images colored from one of the #100dayproject days earlier this month. It was nice having images ready to go instead of debating on what stamps to use, what colors to use, you get the idea! All I had to do was cut them out and decide how best to lay them out on my card front. Keeping the images, paper and stamp set together is key for a successful project. I was able to select a sentiment to add to the card once I had it glued down.

Here is the sketch~

Thanks for stopping by!

Project 24/365

Hi again!

I finished this card a couple hours ago for a flower card swap and used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I used the new Love What You Do and Varied Vases stamp sets again.

I am getting it linked just in time before the challenge ends. I ended up going for a walk with my Mom for a bit. It is such a beautiful day out. We have been waiting for months for this kind of weather!

I was going to leave the background plain but too much white space drives me crazy lol! So I used a stamp from the Love What You Do set to make a tone on tone polka dot background. The paper has some pearlized flowers and the doily is pearlized as well. I forgot to try and capture how pretty it is when I took photos earlier.

The flowers were watercolored with Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss inks using a blender pen. The sentiment and leaves from Varied Vases were stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock and cut out with the classic label punch and popped up with dimensionals.

Here is the sketch~

Project 23/365

I am back with another card using the new Varied Vases stamp set from Stampin’ Up!

I love stamping with this set. It was so easy to line up the images on my Tim Holtz stamp platform.

For this card I chose to work with the color challenge at Color Throwdown of red, green and white. The flowers look a little more pink though as they were watercolored with the SU Real Red watercolor pencil. They blend beautifully but appear lighter than the regular color does. This was my first time using them.

One more flower card done for a flower swap. I may have signed up for too many lol, couldn’t wait to make springy cards after the very long winter we had!

Project 22/365