50th Birthday Guestbook

My mom had her 50th birthday on October 3. My Dad, my sisters and I planned a party for her. I wanted her to have a nice guestbook, but since I am a scrapbooker it of course needed to be a photo guestbook. Rather then just having regular portraits of the guests I thought we could get some wigs of the 60/70's more popular hair styles to spice up the pictures.
I got an 8x8 album from Micheals for the guestbook. For paper I used the boom-di-ada creative basics paper and magic moments paper pack. The featured colours are hollyhock, sweetleaf, colonial white, indian corn blue and cocoa. Sorry for the picture quality, I had a terrible time with the lighting.

The front cover.
The first page.

Here's me :)

Here's my boys.

The last page.

Wow, it has been a long time since I updated! Life has been so busy these last few months. My oldest son started JK and he is not enjoying it so far, I had my Mom's 50th birthday party to plan, Thanksgiving and the list goes on.

I have hardly gotten any scrapbooking done since the beginning of September. This is one of the few things I have done. I did do a batch of Christmas cards that I donated to a raffle but I forgot to photograph them before giving them away. I needed to whip up a quick card for a birthday and this is what I was able to produce in the 20 minutes before the party started!

Products used

(all product used is CTMH unless stated)

Hollyhock cardstock, Creme brulee cardstock, Swiss dots embossing folder (cuttlebug), Birds and swirls embossing folder (cuttlebug), White gel pen (signo), Creme brulee ink pad,Smokey plum ink pad, Olive ink pad, Hollyhock ink pad, Dessert sand ink pad, Sponge, Sandpaper, Adhesive back pearls, Endless friendship stamp set, For every occasion stamp set.

So my niece turns 6 today, so I quickly whipped up a card to mail to her. I like the bright bold feminine colours. I thought they were perfect for a little girls card. I used the CTMH 'Whoops a Daisy' paper pack. I used the 'Everyday Celebrations' stamp set, and popped the cake up on 3D foam squares.I also used CTMH's pretty pins. The pin is a light pink colour, so not quite right for this card, so I took some liquid glass and mixed it with some watermelon ink and then painted it onto the pin for a bolder look. For this card I used a few non-CTMH items which are the diamond stickles (glitter), The pink ribbon and the Swiss Dots embossing folder. Featured colours:
Ocean
Hydrangea
Watermelon
White daisy

Winter Play!

Here is a layout I made for my album. It is of me and my two sisters taking pictures of the igloo we built for my two kids. I absolutely love this colour combination and how this layout turned out! I also love these photo's, they capture the essence of winter and sisterhood beautifully.

I paper pieced the 'love this' and 'captured moments' stamps for multi-toned images. To created the green snowflake paper I first sanded the paper and then random stamped the snowflakes on the olive cardstock. I then inked a sponge and swiped it around the edge of my pieces for a soft distressed finish. The punched out olive and sorbet snowflakes were made by a Martha Stewart punch. Everything else used is CTMH product.

Featured Colours:

Olive

Twilight

Sorbet

Colonial White

New Idea book!

The New Fall/ Winter 2009 Idea Book is out! It has many wonderful new products to check out. You'll love all the new inspirational artwork and I know you will want to pull out your supplies and get creating! Click on the idea book on the left hand side of my blog to view it right away online. To receive your free hard copy of the idea book contact me today at sharonluff@hotmail.com. Happy shopping :)

Everyday Celebration card kit using Twitterpated!

Last night I wanted to make the cards in the promotional card kit 'Everyday Celebration'. I love the argyle paper in the kit and wanted to save it to make some layouts with, as I do love argyle and we do wear a lot of it. Since I wanted to save that paper, I substituted it with the new Twitterpated paper from the upcoming CTMH fall/winter catalogue. I think these turned out great! I loved how simple they were to throw together and now I have 16 cards for all different occasions.

Card onecard one again (on a few I didn't follow the directions correctly and so there are a few different versions of the smae card)card twocard threecard fourcard fivecard sixcard sevencard eight

Later Alligator!

Here is a card I made a few weeks ago for my friend Jason. He left on a round the world trip and will be gone awhile, so I decided to make him a card. The inside of the card reads 'See ya later Alligator!'. All products are CTMH.

Celebrate the Everyday!

CTMH has another wonderful promotion going on right now to celebrate National Stamping Month from August 18th - September 30th. You may purchase the Everyday Celebration card kit outright for $49.95 or you may get one card kit for FREE with a minimum purchase of $75 in stamp sets. There's also an exciting daily drawing for a FREE card kit! If you host a home gathering with a gathering total of $500 you also will earn the kit for FREE! This is an adorable and versitile kit. It comes with full size 12x12 exclusive patterned paper. Even if you do not make cards, you can take the paper and uses it for layouts! Everything you need is included in this kit including mini ink pads and an exclusive stamp set! It is a great deal and makes beautiful cards! Contact me for more info or to order you set today.

Thanks-a-bration

Close to My Heart has wonderful promotion on right now to receive a free paper pack with your qualifying purchase. Get your free CTMH Level 2 paper pack when you purchase $124.95 worth of CTMH product. You also will get the Stamp of the month Free and will not have to pay the tax and shipping/ handling on these two items! Close to my Heart will hand select your free paper pack and ship it with your order. Act fast as this promotion only lasts until August 17th!!!
Contact me with your order today, at sharonluff@hotmail.com