Happy 2nd Birthday Card

Hi everyone! Back again this Sunday evening with another post.

My sister Polly asked me to make a card for her friend's soon to be 2 year old daughter, Zoe. She also needs it ASAP!
She wanted the card to be hot pink, light pink and chocolate brown. It also had to have a butterfly on it.

I decided to use Echo Parks "Be Mine" collection which is an older collection from 2011. I actually did not want to buy this but recently purchased another older 6x6 paper pad from Echo park called "Walk in the Park". To my surprise when it arrived, half the paper pad was "Walk in the Park" and the other half was "Be Mine". Oh well, decided to hang on to it anyway as the papers were very pretty.

Getting back to the card, I decided to use the "Be Mine" collection as the patterns used hot pink and light pink which were the colors requested.

Chocolate chevron patterned paper is from Echo Park's "Walk in the Park".

For the embellishment, I cut a scalloped circle and plain circle using Papertrey Ink's limitless layers circle dies. The butterfly die cut was made using my Cricut and the Wall Decor cartridge.

I used chocolate and light pink Bazzill cardstock for my die cuts. The music notes patterned paper is also from Echo Park's "Be Mine" collection.

I used Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz cardstock as my card base. Card base is cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.


Here are pictures of the finished card:

I decided to cut out a double ended banner to stamp a Happy Birthday sentiment on. I then added "2nd" using Jillibean soup cardstock stickers.

Happy Birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's "Heart 2 Heart #3" stamp set.

I added some Kaisercraft fuchsia colored rhinestones to add some "bling" to the butterfly.

I decided to stamp the inside of the card as well. Sentiment and cake stamp are from Hero Arts "Yummy Treats" stamp set.

I tried to keep the card simple but hard to do especially for girlie cards :)

I wish Zoe the best birthday ever and hope she enjoys my card from her Tia/Madrina Polly!


Thank you again for stopping by and hope you enjoyed my card.

Have a great week everyone!



Ana


Supplies used:


Cardstock - Papertrey Ink (Raspberry Fizz), Bazzill (Chocolate, Light pink)
Patterned paper - Echo Park
Clear stamps - Papertrey Ink, Hero Arts
Dies - Papertrey Ink (circles)
Die cuts - Provocrat (butterfly)
Stickers - Jillibean soup
Rhinestones - Kaisercraft

Project Life May 2012 continued

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying this weekend! I have been pretty busy at work and trying to catch up on work. I had to take a day off this week just to sit at home and finish clinic notes. Friday I had medical conference to attend. So happy though that I could spend time this weekend in my craft room! I meant to post earlier today but my poor Peaches is sick again. She started vomiting this morning after her breakfast and finally stopped early this afternoon. Poor girlie - she has such a sensitive stomach! We think it was the new dentastick snacks we bought the doggies with parsley for fresh breath. She was able to hold down some water a few hours ago. Looks like she is on the road to recovery this afternoon and is sleeping at my feet as I am typing now :)

Well onto my Project Life album and finishing the month of May. For those of you that kind of follow my little blog here, I am not doing a week to week Project Life as that is IMPOSSIBLE with my schedule.
I am trying to remember to snap pictures on a week to week basis but only scrapping month to month and hitting the high points.

I have watched many other blogs and have learned to use my current paper pads and embellishments to make my own Project Life album. This is a great alternative as actual Becky Higgins Project Life products have been sold out for many months now. I know that they are working on reprinting all the collections and should soon be back on Amazon but I really like making my own now.
I have been using my Cricut craft room program to cut out 4x6 and 3x4 squares out of my cardstock.
I also found a picture frame die cut on the Fabulous Finds cartridge that resembles a Polaroid photo frame which are really popular right now.
I cut out some open patterns with my Paper Lace cartridge using kraft cardstock. I have seen similar backgrounds and patterns on Kerri Bradford's store but since I do not have a Silhouette, tried doing something similar using my Cricut machine. I use one of them in my one my layouts that I am showcasing today.

I have been buying more products including word stickers, stamps, label stickers, flair buttons and journaling cards and it is beginning to add up :)
I have seen many You Tube videos and pictures on how other crafters have been organizing and storing their Project Life items. Finally went to Office Depot and Marshalls yesterday and bought some organizers to match my craft room.
Found really good stuff and even found a few My Mind's Eye 6x6 pads and Thickers!

Here are some pictures of my little Project Life area on my desk. I had to move some things and get rid of others but like the end product.

I had the opportunity yesterday to work on the rest of May including my Mother's day breakfast and Terry's law school graduation.

Here are the pictures: Sorry about the shadows but took these pics late at night and I am still kind of an amateur photographer :)

I used My Mind's Eye newest collection "Nostalgia" for filler cards, backgrounds, and to embellish. I have been stocking up on alphabet stickers and used some number stickers for the date on the title card.

I also used some of my new flair buttons to embellish. I posted the links to the etsy stores where I bought the buttons in the 2nd part of my post today, in case you are interested.

The May die cut was made using my Cricut and the cartridge Designer's Calendar.

The top right corner is journaling about the excitement of the week and getting ready for Terry's graduation. He started receiving graduation cards earlier that week from his family and friends. Some even came with money which he really liked :)

In one of 3x4 pockets, you can see my pattern cut out that I made using the Cricut craft room and the Paper Lace cartridge.

Above is the picture I took of my Mother's day breakfast prepared by the hubby. He made me cheesy eggs, bacon and pancakes - yummy!

I used my Dear Lizzy date stamper but did not notice that the year was on 2021 - oops! Just scratched it out and stamped the correct year.
I made some of my own journaling cards. The one above is a plain journaling card that comes in all the Project Life core kits but you can make your own using your stamps. I used Ali Edward's "Hello Routine" stamp set for this one. I actually got the idea from Nicole Mcgouirk's blog http://nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/things_that_really_matter/2012/05/project-life-2012-week-thirteen-custom-stamped-journaling-cards.html

Here is a picture of the evening before the graduation. My brother and his family came into town as well as my sister to join us that weekend. We have such fun when they visit! My niece and nephew are so grown up - I remember when they were babies, so hard to believe that they are so grown up now!

The 2nd page highlights Terry's actual graduation. I bought this dSLR Canon camera in preparation for his graduation but my pictures still turned out terrible. Boy, do I need to work on my photography skills.

I tried to get a picture of his receiving his diploma but my lens was not able to zoom as much as I needed it to.

I used his graduation announcement in the layout as well and worked great as filler cards.

Since I was not able to zoom in as much as I wanted to get the picture of Terry getting his diploma, I cut the picture to fit this photo frame cut out in kraft cardstock.
Sentiment on photo frame is from Ali Edward's "Life right now" stamp set for the month of June.

The "You Did It" is a die cut using my Cricut and the Wild Card #1 cartridge.

I also used one of the new flair buttons I just bought as an embellishment which is very popular right now as well. I have followed several blogs in which they highlight several easy stores. One of them was  www.etsy.com/shop/aflairforbuttons and the other store is www.etsy.com/shop/alifehandmade. These ladies have great little flair buttons to sell and they are all so cute!

 

I love this pic! Terry with his family and his good friend Brandon. Yes, his father is wearing jeans! I could not believe it but you know what, in the end it was just great that he was there to see his oldest son graduate from law school. I know that he is proud of Terry and was excited to be there.

Me and my family - the latinos always try to dress well :) Love it! I was so happy that they came to Houston to share this day with us.

Hope you all enjoyed my Project Life post! If you have any questions regarding Project Life or on any of the items then just shoot me an email.

I did make some cards this weekend. My sister called me yesterday needing a card ASAP for her friend's 2 year old daughter and for a diaper cake.

Once I have finished the diaper cake, I will post it here on my blog.

My friend Amy has also asked me to help her out and make some diaper wreaths or diaper cupcakes for a class she will be teaching soon. So I have lots of projects to post here on my blog coming up!

My husband's birthday is this week on June 25th! I made his card which I am really excited about as it turned out really cute and I think he will get a big kick out of it.
I will post his card later this week after his birthday.


Thanks again for tuning in and I have a few product hauls coming in this week. I have a BIG Two Peas order that should be here on Tuesday.

I also found UrbanPapercraft.com which has GREAT prices and bought a few things that I have been wanting at a discount price.

Have a wonderful evening everyone!


Ana

Fourth of July Banner

Hi everyone! Can you believe it! I actually have 2 posts for you this weekend. Although I don't think my shopping haul counts as there was no actual project :)

My project this week is a paper banner for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. I was asked to make a banner by our clinic staff a few weeks ago.
So far I have made a Halloween, Christmas, and Easter banner for the clinic.

For this banner I picked up a paper pack from Hobby Lobby. The pack is from Canvas Home Basics "Americana cardstock". It blends a nice navy blue and red with kraft card stock which is currently my favorite to use in projects.
I had used a similar pack for my Christmas banner which worked well. Luckily the company had a pack with red and blue for the holiday.

I also decided to use different banner shapes. My banners are usually the same triangle shape but I recently made a Birthday banner with different banner shapes which I really liked how it turned out.

I used my Cricut Expression 2 with the "Birthday Bash" cartridge to cut out the banner shapes and die cuts. This cartridge is great for birthday decor and cards. It has every banner shape you can think of.

I decided to use 3 different banner shapes and used 4 different papers including 2 patterns and 2 solids. All these papers came with the Americana Canvas paper pack.
I cut the banners at 7.5" using my Cricut.

If you have seen my banners before, you will see that I like to add a top layer to the banner. Since this banner is for the 4th of July, I decided to use some star die cut shapes as well as my usual scallop die cut for the top layer.

I cut the scallops and stars at 4" using the Cricut. I decided to use the scallops more to break up the stars and add personality to my banner.

The paper pack also came with vanilla colored solid card stock, which I used for the letter die cuts.
To make them stand out, I used my Tim Holtz distress ink in vintage photo to ink the edges. The picture below is pre-inking.

I cut the letters at 4" as well.

Now to put it together. I used my Tombow runner adhesive to glue the letters to the stars and scallop shapes.

To adhere to the banner, I used 3D adhesives to make the top layer "pop out" and give it some depth.

Here is a few of the first ones I put together:

After I have all the banner shapes and letters together, it is time to string it together. I used curling ribbon in both red and blue to string the banners together.
To add a finishing touch, I like to add different ribbons between each banner. I found a pack of July 4th  holiday ribbon at Hobby Lobby and on sale! LOVE Hobby Lobby and their sales :)

Now for the finished product:

Ready now for display in clinic!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great week!


Ana

Simon Says Stamp Haul 6/2012

Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great weekend so far. I worked this morning in clinic and was able to get some paperwork/administrative issues finished. This made it possible to sit in my craft room this afternoon and CRAFT!
I am working on a 4th of July banner this weekend and will post pictures once it is completed.

I did get my order from Simon Says Stamp (SSS) online store this week! Yay! I have been buying more 6 x 6 paper pads/packs since I am making more cards. I also use them to make 4 x 6 filler cards and journaling cards from the small papers for my Project Life album.

On this SSS haul, I bought some Lawn Fawn stamps that I have been wanting plus some of the new ones that just came out.

"Sunny Skies" is a great set - has very cute clouds and flying kites that are popular right now. The set also comes with cute little smiley faces to add to the clouds.
"You've got mail" is a fairly new one as well but not a recent new one. I have been wanting this set for a few months now - it has been sitting in my cart for awhile :)
"Happy Summer" was really cute too so had to buy. I mostly bought it for the Happy Summer sentiment.
"Hello Friend" stamp set is an old set but love the sentiments. They will work great for friendship cards.


Also bought a Hero Arts/Basic Grey stamp set that coordinates with the Basic Grey "PB&J" line. Just received the paper pad 2 weeks ago which has great patterns.

Hope to make a summer card or layout soon using the patterned papers and stamp set.
Look for it in a P&P Creations post near you :)


Anyway, I also bought alphabet stickers from the Jillibean soup line in many colors. I am trying to get as many alphabet sticker sets as I can now that I am involved with Project Life.

Other items in my haul also includes label stickers from My Mind's Eye (MME). I actually bought all available ones at SSS as these also work well with Project Life.

I also found these cute wooden pennant embellishments by MME and just had to buy them :)

Last but not least - all the 6 x 6 paper pads! You name it, I bought it :)
Jillibean soup, My Mind's Eye, Simple Stories, Authentique and even Lawn Fawn's new paper line. I actually was not a big fan of the Lawn Fawn paper but after seeing it used in several projects, I knew I had to get it.

I did not include all the paper pads I bought in the picture. If my husband saw all the paper I bought, he would not be happy :)

Don't worry guys - he would not really get mad. He just thinks I am crazy for buying all this stuff :)

Well anyway, as soon as I finish my 4th of July banner, I will post it here.

Have a great evening everyone! Off to my TV room to watch "Singin' in the Rain" with the hubby. He is on a  mission to watch every movie on the AFI Top 100 list that he has not seen yet and this movie is the first one.


Ana

Girlie Chat Card

Hi everyone! Ana here at P&P Creations with another card. Sorry, I did not have that much time this weekend to sit in my craft room and be creative. This weekend though I did meet up with my good friends Amy, Melissa, and Delma - these girls and I go way back! All the way back to high school! Hanging out with good friends inspired me to make a quick girlie card this evening.

I LOVE Papertrey Ink and their clear stamps!  They have a new series that has been out over the last few months called Heart 2 Heart. The first set really has a cute coffee theme to it. Who does not love to get coffee with their girlfriends and just chat!

Here is my card/project for the week:

This week's card is very simple. Card base measures 4.25 x 5.5 and is made using PTI dark chocolate cardstock. My patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket "Social Club" 6 x 6 pad. I actually bought this paper pad at Two Peas a few months ago on sale - love the colors!

For my stamps and die cuts, I used PTI "Heart2Heart #1" clear stamps and matching die. I cut the patterned paper first using my die cut and then stamped the shape. I added the middle section of the coffee cup to break up the polka dots pattern. To create the middle section, I stamped the image on regular white cardstock and then cut out the shape. Adhered it was 3D foam dots.

For the small banners, I also used PTI double edged banner die and just rounded the edges. The sentiments also come from the "Heart2Heart #1" stamp set.

I should of really made the card smaller as my stamped image and banners are a little small for regular A2 sized card but oh well :)

Still love it - now who should I send it too?

Actually made this card in less than an hour - Wow! Can you believe it?

Thanks Amy, Melissa and Delma! It was great hanging out with you ladies and catching up!
Don't forget about our 20 year high school reunion next year - Yikes! Where does the time go?

I hope you all enjoyed my card for this week. Will try to get some more Project Life pages done later this week. Will post them here if I do.

Also bought a nice sized haul from Simon Says Stamp which should be arriving later this week! Will post pics of those items as well.

Have a great week everyone!


Ana



Supplies used:

Cardstock - PTI dark chocolate
Patterned Paper - Cosmo Cricket "Social Club"
Clear stamps (coffee, sentiment) - PTI "Heart 2 Heart #1"
Die (coffee cup, banner)  - PTI
Ink - Jenni Bowlin "Brown Sugar"

Project Life 2012 - Finally!

Happy almost Friday everyone! It is Thursday evening and here in my craft room trying to organize my projects. I just received my latest Two Peas items I ordered last week. For those of you who are not familiar with Two Peas, it is the BEST online scrapbooking supply store. I also love Simon Says Stamp!
I bought the newest October Afternoon collection "9 to 5" as well as others I don't have yet such as "Sidewalks". I also purchased other paper collections I had wanted, such as PB&J from Basic Grey and Heidi Swapp's "Sugar Chic".

Anyway, I finally started on my Project Life this past weekend. For those of you that don't know what Project Life is - it is from the creative mind of Beck Higgins. She came up with a way to make scrapbooking much more simple. If you want to learn more, I invite you to visit her website. Just click on the Project Life icon/blinkie on my website to whisk you away to the world of Project Life and Becky Higgins!

Project Life is setup to document the events in your life on a weekly basis. As a full time physician with a full time schedule, that is IMPOSSIBLE!  :(
So instead I am doing more of a month to month scrapbook. The beauty about Project Life is that it is your story and you make the rules :)

It is also very hard to get your hands on most Project Life products at Becky's amazon.com store. Most products are out of stock. I got lucky and was able to purchase the black signature binder, photo pocket pages, and the Cobalt core kit. I really wanted Clementine but no such luck. I believe they are getting ready to restock all the collections soon as well as new ones. My husband just bought me the 12 x 12 page protectors on amazon.com so that I can also continue to do some full layouts.

I really enjoyed putting my starter page together. Project Life is meant to keep scrapbooking simple and easy to keep up with. Keeping that in mind though, I think most of us who scrapbook can't get away from using embellishments. I tried to keep mine as simple as I could with some embellishments. What I love about Project Life is it allows me to use my paper collections and stamps to make my own journal cards and background cards. Again you make the rules....it is YOUR album, YOUR story.

Here are the pictures of my first page:

One of the first events I documented in May using my new Canon dSLR camera was the Pan family's annual crawfish boil.
Living in Texas near the gulf and Louisiana, crawfish boils are a must :)
My favorite pic is of the one of the crawfish pan and how I captured the steam coming off the crawfish.
My husband Terry really loves the mixture of crawfish and a good beer. He loves going over to the Pan household but mostly to talk sports with Andy as they are both NY Mets fans :)
He is always the first to ask about the Pan's crawfish boil come springtime.

Well I only have 2 pages done so far :)  Need to finish off May and start taking pictures in June!


Have a great Friday everyone! I am on call this weekend so will be staying home this weekend, mostly in my craft room. Will try to get a card project done this weekend after catching up on some work.


Ana