Day 181: Owl Card

For a while, my stamp club was making ATC size minis to trade and to be made into larger cards.  Someone in the group made this owl from punches.  It was in my scrap basket to eventually be turned into a card.  I reclaimed the moons and stars image from a Halloween project that had also made its way into my scrap basket.

Day 180: Butterflies Card

The embossed and glittered butterfly was from a demonstration I attended when I went to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour.  I believe it is from Just For Fun, but I am not certain.  I had this purple oval die cut in my scrap basket, so I fussy cut the butterfly out and layered it onto the purple oval, and then layered both onto pink card stock. I added a few punched butterflies and some pretty trim to make this a beautiful card.

Day 179: Planned Cards from Bits and Pieces

We are getting ready to go on a trip for the 4th of July, and I wanted to bring some things with me to work on.  I decided to go through my scrap basket and find bits and pieces that would work together to make cards.  I planned out cards for the 6 days we will be gone, with the only things not coming from my scrap basket being the card bases and ribbon.  Keep reading to see what I make from scraps from my scrap basket!

Day 178: My Star

Since this is a birthday photo of my son, I wanted to focus on the number 7 and not so much on the football, so I put a piece of red paper (DCWV)  behind this blue paper with a punched-out star design. (This was in my stash, sorry I don't know/remember the manufacturer.) I used another piece of the red from DCWV underneath the photo. The big triangle acts like a giant photo corner.  I ran a small strip of red paper behind the photo to help carry the red color to the top of the page.  I accented the red strip and the corner of the page with some star ribbon from my stash.  I made a banner from the star and pennant chipboard pieces (Little Yellow Bicycle), a metal rod from K and Co., and some baker's twine from We R Memory Keepers. I used a Stampin' Write marker (Stampin' Up!) to write Happy 7th Birthday on the pennant.  I placed chipboard stars (Little Yellow Bicycle) in the center of each punched out start and then topped them off with metallic spirals from a kit by Creative Impressions.

Day 177: Planning Birthday Pages and Sports Pages

Tonight I planned out 10 pages for my son's scrapbook.  Four were birthday photos and six others were for sports.  I planned them out all together because my son's birthday photos featured a football, so I needed to decide which papers I wanted for his birthday and which ones I wanted for his football team photos.

Day 176: School Days Scrapbook Page

I had a lot of fun incorporating texture into this page for my son.  The aged leather-look background paper is from Paper Adventures. I layered the "sweet, smart, boy" tags by Wild Asparagus on top of a brown fabric tag and  a striped fabric tag (that almost perfectly matches my son's shirt!) by Making Memories.  I even re-purposed another fabric tag in the set to make the blue photo corners!  The blue buttons on the photo corners are from Stampin' Up! The twill I used to make the ribbon for the tag and to wrap around the letter "d" was in my stash.  I used the back side of a patterned library pocket and library card from Marcella by K to journal some information about my son in first grade. I made a ribbon to go on top of the library card, added an epoxy "school days" sticker (Brenda Walton for K and Co.) and accented it with two blue square brads (Colorbok).  I used Ranger distress ink to age the library card and envelope so it would coordinate with the background paper. I used the "Remember" tag and "2010" stickers from "This and That" by Lori Whittock.  The letter "d" is by l'il davis designs, and the other brown letter stickers are by American Crafts.

Day 175: Father's Day Card

My son made this card for his Dad for Father's Day.  He designed the layout of the card himself; I just assisted with using the paper cutter and added some strength when he was using my punches. He used the dog image and the Father's Day verse from "For Father" by Stampin' Up! He used Stampin' Write markers to color directly on the stamps and then stamped onto white card stock. The "I Love My Daddy" stamp is from Inkadinkado; my son punched it out with a circle punch.  He also punched out three stars from Pacific Point card stock by Stampin' Up!