Note Cards

I made these note cards for a gift for my mother-in-law for her birthday.  I wanted to give her something useful and heartfelt...and something I really thought she'd like.  I was having a hard time coming up with an idea and then I remembered some adorable note cards that my friend Jackie from Stampin' Up! made a few weeks ago.  Working with her idea as my inspiration, I used the Water Trio stamp set, Stamp n Write pens to add multiple colors to one stamp, and some bright colored cardstock.

And here they are...

Look carefully and you will see the darker tips on the flowers in the stamped image on the right.  Using the Stamp n Write markers, I colored the flower with blue, then went back over the tips with a darker color (a dark purple).  I love the effect!!

I did the same two-tone effect on these - the tips of the flowers are a darker color.

The finished product packaged and ready to give as a gift!

Happy stampin'!

Calendar Scrapbook

When my daughter was born, a friend gave me a baby calendar for her...  I LOVED it.  I made notes on the calendar of her developmental milestone and there was a space to add a picture each month.  --But who can add just ONE picture a month?  I would trim my favorite pictures and arrange them to get as many as I could on the page for each month.

But to my dismay... it was only a 12 month calendar!  What's up with that?  It didn't even have 13 months so I could add pictures of her first birthday.  And she wasn't walking, yet, so where would I note that milestone?!  What's a mom to do?

SCRAPBOOK!

I bought a scrapbook coverset and calendar pages from my Creative Memories friend and made my own calendar!  I added milestone notes on the right page and pictures on the left.

Two years later, I did the same thing for my son.  I used a premade baby calendar for the first year and then scrapbooked his second year with calendar pages from Creative Memories. 



The calendar scrapbooks are still some of my favorite projects!!

 This year I bought this 2011 Basic Grey Calendar Kit:

I plan on making notes on it of some of the fun (or funny) things we do in 2011. Then I'll add a picture (or two, or three...) and at the end of the year I'll cut the pages out of the calendar and put them in an 8X8 album.

Happy Scrappin'!