In My Thoughts Card

Got to play with my new Sue Wilson dies and Honeybee Stamps.

Cream and Black Thinking of You

I got a chance to use my Anna Griffin Beribboned Frames dies and her stamps this weekend. Love how this card turned out.

Challenging myself

I've decided to make something everyday and post it here. Wish me luck.

Two cards today - lots of die cutting and embossing, which has quickly become favorites to do.

Birthday Card project for my grandmother

So my grandmother's birthday is in April and I wanted to celebrate her all month long so I decided to make (and send) her a card every day leading up to her birthday. She loves receiving cards so I thought it would be nice for her to get some happy mail every day.

Here is card #1 which I sent with an small explanation of what's to come for her this month. I used the new Anna Griffin flip card kit to make it. Lovely set.

Hate to give it away

Ever make a card you hate to give away? I think this on might fit the bill. I really like how it turned out.

Dies by: Spellbinders, Create and Craft Couture, Sue Wilson.

Cream and Gold card

This card is fairly simple...embossing, stamped flowers that I cut, and a few die cuts, but I think all combined it created a striking effect. I really like the look of it.

Pearl Overload

Ever make a card that you think might have gone a little too far? This card might have a few too many pearls for my taste. Not sure if I recycle it or send it on to someone. Never know who might appreciate it I guess.

Supplies: Heartfelt Creations dies, Sue Wilson classic rose die, Anna Griffin paper and embossing folder, The Paper Studio stamps, and lots of pearls!

Butterfly Birthday

A card I made for a woman on Facebook's grandmother. I love the idea of showering a special person with cards...even if the person doesn't always know the giver.

Details: Sue Wilson Blushing Rose dies; Spellbinders butterfly dies, Kiwi Lane card templates, Websters pages paper.

Sympathy Cards

 

I just love the details I can achieve with my dies. Just cardstock and my dies...

 Products used: Little B, Spellbinders, Memory Box, and Sue Wilson

Love making pre-made pages

They are great in frames and for gifts.  I used my Kiwi Lane templates one one and I always use them for designing. Also some dies by Teresa Collins, Spellbinders, Magnolia Doohickeys, Tim Holtz, and a fussy cut Penny Black flower stamp.

Hello card

I've been making quite a few cards lately. This one I used an Anna Griffin die, my new Anna Griffin mix and match embossing folder, Webster's Pages/Allison Creft stamp, and SU Flower Fair dies.

Just Because...

Ever send a card just because?  I love sending random greetings to the people in my life to let them know I am thinking of them. This is a card I made for one of my aunts to do exactly that.

Thank you cards

I made some thank you cards using Sizzix nesting dies, MFT blueprints dies, Anna Griffin dies, Studio Calico stamps, CTMH stamps, MME and K&Co paper and of course my Kiwi Lane Templates.

Fast Birthday Card

Can't keep saying it enough...I love my Kiwi Lane Templates. I used my Delight card borders set and Tiny Shapes set to pull this card together in minutes.

A quick birthday card

I love how my kiwi lane templates help me to quickly make cards.

Thank you cards

Got out some of my Anna Griffin cardmaking kits and made some thank you cards for my mom to give to some members of her church.

And the winner is...

Thanks to everyone for commenting on my blog during the Kiwi Lane May Blog Hop. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. During that I hop I had a little giveaway...a Floral Template set and another template set (the winner get s to choose from a variety of sets). 

So the randomly chosen winner is...Scrapping Nana!  Congrats! I will be contacting you about your prize.

May Blog Hop with Kiwi Lane Designs

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am so excited to share a new layout I created using Kiwi Lane designer templates. I love to scrapbook but life so often gets in the way of my ability to do it as often as I like. Between work, home, and writing a novel, I have so little time to craft lately. That's why I was especially thankful for the chance to pull out my templates and actually make a layout. The templates make designing scrapbook pages so fast and easy.

My process is to first design my page by laying out my templates on my cutting mat. Next I select my paper and start cutting and inking. My pages don't always end up quite as I designed (like my layout below) but the templates provide me a great jump off point for layout. I know that if I didn't have my Kiwi Lane Designs templates I would take probably three times as long to make a single page.

On this layout I used the FLORAL template set. A great accessories set that can be used in a number of ways. I love making 3D flowers with them as well as using them as  focal points on my pages. This time I used one of the FLORAL templates as I would a doily and I really loved the result. To give my flower the full on doily look I embossed it in my die cutting machine. The embossing folder gave my cardstock flower nice detail which I further enhanced by running white ink over the raised portions.

And here is my finished layout.

Templates used: Floral3; Scallops2; Mini Strips (1/2" & 1"); Brackets3; Tiny Floral3

As you can see my complete page is not quite the same as the design I made with my templates. While my initial design had space for two vertical photos, I ended up modifying it for one horizontal photo that I liked so much better with the papers I selected. 

Thank you for hopping with us!

Be sure to check out all the awesome blogs in the hop this weekend to find so many ideas to inspire creativity. 

1. Kiwi Lane - http://kiwilane.com/blog
2. Lissa Mitchell - http://mightycrafty.blogspot.com/
3. Leslie Prinkki - http://www.scrapsofmine.blogspot.com
4. Connie Wallenbrock - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
5. Sandi Pressley - http://lifeatthebeach51.blogspot.com/
6. Christine Meyer - http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com
7. Alicia O'Bryant -http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
8. Suzanne - http://scrapwithsuzy.blogspot.com
9. Roselyn Riley - http://prettylittlepackages.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE!
10. Arin Flinn - http://apieceoflifespie.com

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

A random winner from ONE of the participating blogs (including the Kiwi Lane blog), will be given a $25 gift certificate to the Kiwi Lane Shop, for leaving a comment and will be announced on the Kiwi Lane blog on Thursday, May 8th.

Also if you subscribe to my blog and leave a comment below I will also choose ONE random winner to receive a brand new FLORAL template set along with another mystery set. So please leave me a comment for your chance to win two KLD template sets.

LOAD214

So I took the plunge and signed up for LOAD this year. The layout a day class/event by Lain Ehman. I just finished my first week 7 layouts done and I have to say it has been fun. The prompts she provides each day have made this experience even better almost making scrapbooking like a game. And I have been using up my old Studio Calico kits and getting long overdue photos scrapped. Very cool!

Here's on layout I made this past week where I had to use something very old from my stash. I used a Rebecca Sower metal tag from like 2005 or 2006. Nice to finally open the package lol.

Gift card wrapping

I love this time of year, when I get to pull out odds and ends from my stash to create packaging for holiday gifts. We tend to give out gift cards and money mostly these days but I still like to present them in a cute way.

This year I used my sizzix rectangle scalloped card die, a stampin up/ek success bracket punch, MME paper, stampin up Tiny Sentiments stamp and some glittery ribbon from Michaels. For the females I topped it off with a recolored silk flower (used Heidi Swapp color shine) with a rhinestone center. For the guys I put a rhinestone in the center of a Studio Calico wood veneer snowflake. Quick, easy and cute!