For the Birthday Girl!

For my post from earlier today about Twilight Tuesday and the New Moon Blog Hop, please click here!

And onto the new post – I am excited to share these two projects because I had such a fun time making them!  This set, including a birthday card and a journal, is for an 8-year-old girl and I loved using these bright, cheerful colors and the lovely fairies!  I’ve got lots of photos to share – let’s get going!

Here is the front cover of the journal.  The fairy stamp is from Inkadinkado and the letters for the name were cut with my Cricut and the Don Juan cartridge.  I love the look of that font – it’s clean-looking and whimsical all at the same time.  I wanted the fairy to be really colorful, so I stamped the image with a Kaleidacolor Spectrum ink pad and colored it with Copic markers with touches of glitter from Sakura Gelly Roll pens. Here is the inside of the journal. The inside covers are covered with Stampin’ Up’s Cameo Coral and the pages are plain white.

And here’s the birthday card! Another fairy image from the same stamp set is on here, and I colored her with Prismacolor pencils and added lots of glittery touches. I managed to get a couple of photos that actually show that, which never happens – see below! I am loving these new Nestabilities Labels (these are Labels 9) – such a lovely shape.

I don’t yet have any items like this for little girls in my Etsy store, but I hope to add some items like this there soon.  Thank you for visiting – see you again soon!

What I Used:

Journal:

Paper:  DCWV Posies designer paper; Papertrey Ink white cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral cardstock; Bazzill Bling in diamond (white); Bazzill purple cardstock (for back cover of book, not pictured)

Stamps:  Inkadinkado Beautiful Fairies stamp set

Ink: Kaleidacolor Spectrum ink pad and Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral ink

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Spellbinders Nestabilities petite oval dies; Cricut with Don Juan cartridge; Prima flower; Copic Ciao markers and Sakura Gelly Roll pens

Card:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral and Lavender Lace cardstock; DCWV Posies designer paper

Stamps:  Inkadinkado Beautiful Fairies and Collaged Expressions stamp sets

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 9 dies and ribbon slide die; Fiskars Threading Water border punch; EK Success deco corner punch; Kaiser rhinestones; Papertrey Ink ribbon; Prima flowers; Robin’s Nest Dew Drop; dimensionals; Prismacolor pencils; Sakura Gelly Roll pens.

New Wildflower Kids are Coming!

Hey everyone!  Want another sneak peek at a new stamp set?  Well, here you go – Wildflower Kids Stamps is releasing a new set called Autumn Splendor tomorrow and they are as cute as can be!  You’ll find Wildflower Kids Stamps exclusively at the Stamp Happens Shop – go check ‘em out!

And today this post will really feature only a “peek” – my project is still a work in progress.  I’m in the process of making up a little book for myself, filled with info. on the many, many, many steps that I undergo while cooking for Thanksgiving.  I’ve been meaning to collect all of this info. in one place forever – timelines, recipes, various notes, you name it.  And this Autumn Splendor set gave me the perfect image to work with – check out this beautiful cornucopia image!  This will be the cover of my book.  I am waiting a bit to assemble the whole book and to bind it, since I want to take some time to sort out what I want to include so I can determine how many pages the book will need.  I might add tabs for sections, too.  I’ll be sure to post the whole project after it has been completed, but for now, I wanted to give you an idea of the lovely images you’ll find in the Autumn Splendor set! 

The cover of this book was covered with designer paper by 7 Gypsies, and I colored the cornucopia image with Prismacolor pencils.  I used my Cricut to cut the letters for “thanksgiving.”

The Wildflower Kids Autumn Splendor stamp set is a digital set of images by artist Jen Shults, which will be available for purchase and downloading tomorrow at the Stamp Happens Shop. 

Today, the Senior Design Team members of the Stamp Sistahs Design Team will be previewing their projects from the Autumn Splendor set; hop over and take a look!

Beth, owner, StampInsanity Stamps

Jen, owner, Wildflower Kids Stamps; her own blog: Deconstructing Jen

 Tonya, owner, Stamp Happens Shop

The full Stamp Sistahs Design Team will be posting theirs tomorrow.  Visit here tomorrow for links for that.  See you tomorrow!

What I Used:

Paper: 7 Gypsies designer paper; Papertrey Ink cardstock in Vintage Cream and Summer Sunrise; Stampin’ Up! cardstock in Really Rust

Stamp: Wildflower Kids Autumn Splendor set

Ink:  Ranger Archival Ink in jet black; Papertrey Ink in Summer Sunrise

Accessories:  Zutter Bind-it-All chipboard book covers, 8×8” size; Cricut and Storybook cartridge; Prismacolor pencils and gamsol; Cuttlebug and Spellbinders Nestabilities dies in petite oval and scallop oval.