God's Promises

Hi Everyone!

Today's Sunday and I'm feeling the Love. I'm doing a card camp for our Ladies Bible Study on Tuesday night. I wanted to keep it easy and fun. And this is super easy and most cute. I am using up some of last years "In Color" since I have a good little stash of it. But you could use any color combination. I'd keep it in the primary or secondary color wheel arena. I used Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine. I used the Swirl Scribble to cut out the "waves" from Tangerine. I just love the zip and to bring the message home, the rainbow brads at the bottom. Super Cute and easy. I have two more to come up with this after noon. I'll keep you posted.

Nouveau Chic Voila Cookbook

As I promised! I made two of these for the boys for their Christmas gift. I like to give one sentimental along with the loot. I plan to put all those homemade recipes they like. I have a few really cute pictures of them to put in as well as photos of relatives that have been long gone. Like the Blackberry cobbler my great grandmother used to make. She'd send us out for hours collecting berries. (Ok... it may have taken hours because we ate most of what we picked and she probably needed a break from all of our chatter.) I'll put a story about berry picking in the woods behind her house and a picture of her with her blackberry cobbler.

I tried to keep the boys cookbook on the masculine side of things. Can't beat black and grey for boys! As I get some of the inner pages done with family photos I'll share a few with you for inspiration. I hope you like it! If you'd like to have a little soiree` we can get together and make one to get you started. Bring a few buddies and we're talking good times! Click on my demonstrator website over to the right and send me a message.

Autumn Days

I saw this sketch and really liked the triangles. They give the feeling of football pennants and the fall. Seemed to go hand in hand with Autumn Days stamp set. Like I said before I'm really trying to use the new In Colors. So I've used Dusty Durango, Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede. I used the thumping technique on the phesant and the leaves and the words...kind of couldn't stop myself! The colors look so much crisper and prettier in real life. Try this one for yourself at home. It will be easy to make up batches of this one to send to all your friends and family who you won't be able to see on Thanksgiving. Let them know how Thankful you are to have them in your life. I'm getting all choked up! sniff...sniff.....

Medallion

Ok..you cannot make a card much easier than this and still have a zap of Wow! factor! I don't think I've seen anything made with this stamp that hasn't captured me. You can make it in just about any color combination and add it to another set and still... wow! This is Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry. Working hard to adapt to the new "In Color" collection. My daughther got married last August and had these two colors in her wedding. I thought this would make a nice Anniversary card. 1st year gift is paper... lucky for me! Right up my alley. Course I'll have to add some of "Uncle Sams" paper creation as well! It's what moms do right?

Of the Earth

Alright... I'm completely busted. I stole this idea completly down to the colors that were used. The only change I made was slipping in that tiny touch of black. I love this set and tend to over complicate my designs. I needed to ease up a bit for my stamp camps. This one is perfect. It's so gentle even though these colors are outrageous. Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango. Sometimes I look at these new colors and I'm stuck. But when I saw this design I fell in love with it. Hope you like it! If you'd like to place an order please stop by my Stampin Up website. tinawaddell.stampinup.com

Happy Together

I love this set. It's so "Partridge Family"! I am always taking pictures but feel funny just handing over a photo in an envelope. It's so inelegant. So I completly stole this design... I can't even remember where. Sorry. But it was the perfect way to give photos to people that I want to share with. I think this turns sharing just a photo into a gift without having to do a whole scrapbook page to present it. I used Rich Razzleberry and Cottage Wall paper. I'm a little overdoing it on those two combinations. I'm getting ready to break into the Nouveau Chic.

Happy Together inside (Bob!)

Here's the inside tab. I folded a piece of Whisper White so when you pull the tab the photos come up with it. It keeps the photo from being scratched on it's travels. Bob! Who names a baby Bob? Way too cute. He's my nephew and just the most sweetest little boy ever. ...but Bob? Pretty adorable huh?

D is for Dog

I have two little dogs. Barkley and Bosco. They are a bit annoying to others but to me....they're my joy. When I saw this stamp set I had to get it. I'm seeing scrap book pages too. But along with this set I absolutely had to have the "Extreme Elements" set of stamps. I'm in love with them. One stamp looked like a blob of mud...if you have dogs you recognize that shape immediately! I had fun plopping on different combinations of Extreme Elements and could have spent all day just doing that. Combining colors and seeing how they all go together is addicting. But when I put in the doggy in Soft Suede I just knew I hit pay "dirt". This is part of next weeks stamp camp. It was easy and fun to play.

Recipe Book

I'm making recipe books for the kids for Christmas and started with this one for my daughter. I should have most of the family recipes typed and ready by Christmas.

I used Cottage Wall designer Series Paper. I really love this set. It was fun to put together. Each page has a pocket and they are all decorated with all of the papers from this set. There's a pocket that formed between each page. I'll show you the insides when I get closer to Christmas. I'm saving those pockets to put a photograph of the family member who the recipe came from. Or a picture of a family memory for extra fun. Stay tuned to this project. I will be presenting two more books. One for each boy. I think this will make a special gift, one to treasure for generations.

If you would like to get one for yourself let me know when a good date would be and we'll have a little get together and whip up a few. Last Saturday we had a fun group make theirs requests for more. (I think I may be on to something here!)