Celebrate Card

Good morning everyone!  I hope your weekend is going nicely!

I am popping in to share a birthday card I made with the It's Your Birthday collection from Pretty Little Studio.  This collection is so cute and the card came together so quickly and easily.

I began by gluing my patterned paper to my card my base, then topped it with a vellum doily.  After that, I mounted my die cut sentiment to a strip of patterned paper and glued it down.  I covered everything with the pink star acetate and then scatted around some phrase stickers.  My finishing touch was to fussy cut a party hat from one of the cute papers and add it to the top of the first "e" in "celebrate".

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a wonderful day!

Card base: K & Company; Staples: Tim Holtz; Everything Else: Pretty Little Studio

Easy Birthday Card || Pretty Little Studio

Hey everyone!  I am popping in to share a very simple birthday card I made for my mother-in-law and shared earlier today on the Pretty Little Studio blog.

Today is her birthday and all she asked for was a homemade card and pictures of Piper.  I decided to combine the two and make her a photo card:

Piper's shirt says "Mama & Sunshine & Peace & Naps & Love, but I took some painter's tape and alphas stickers so we could change it to say "Grammy" instead of "Mama".   We took a bunch of cute pictures and I then made a collage and printed it off and matted it on the cute paper from the "It's Your Birthday" collection.  Finally, I added some sentiment stickers and tags.  All-in-all, it was super simple and easy to do, but hopefully it will still make her feel special on her day!

Last Projects for Jillibean Soup

Hey guys!  I know it's been a hot minute since I've blogged.  Life is so crazy right now.  I just returned to the working world and Miss Piper is more active than ever.  Luckily, I'm finishing up my last class for grad school and if all goes well, I'll be completely done with my Master's in June.  While I am excited to have a new degree, I'm actually more excited to get my crafty time back...lol.

For now I just wanted to pop in and share my last projects as a member of the Jillibean Soup design team.  I had so much fun on that team and feel so lucky to have been able to work with them for over a year!

First, my two layouts:

And a fun, little card:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Pattern Happy + Ellen Hutson Blog Hop

Hey everyone!  Welcome to the Pattern Happy/Ellen Hutson blog hop!  Today we are sharing some fun Spring projects with you.  And when I think of Spring, I think of rainbows, which is why I used a variety of Pattern Happy dies and papers to create this rainbow-filled card:

Make sure to leave comments at each stop on the hop for a chance to win one of two Pattern Happy prize packs! Leave your comments before April 5th, at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be contacted via email.

And here is the whole hop order:

Amy Tsuruta
Carly Tee Minner
Emily Midgett
Heather Campbell
Kat Benjamin (that's me!!)
Kelly Griglione
Khristina Sorge
Kristine Davidson
Laurel Seabrook
Sharon Harnist

Happy hopping!! :o)

Valentine's Cards

Hi everyone!  I wanted to show you some super quick Valentine's Day cards that Piper and I made using some Pretty Little Studio products.  When I became a Mom, I knew I wanted to start some fun holiday traditions.  One of the traditions I really wanted to do was handmade Valentines for close family and friends.  And even though Piper is too young to notice or even participate, I decided to start this year.

I chose a super simple design for our Valentines, so I could quickly and easily replicate it.  We made cards for grandparents, aunts & uncles and her teachers at day care.

We started by tracing Piper's hand.  I knew I wanted to incorporate something cute and signature Piper in the cards, and I realized her hand would be perfect.  In full disclosure, I tried to do her hand prints with paint, but that was a TOTAL DISASTER, so I settled for tracing it :)

I had pre-cut and typed out the sentiments on the card, so I just glued down the hands, topped them with a cut-out sentiment and added a quick border.  I thought the beautiful With all my Heart collection was absolutely perfect for these cards.  Finally, I popped in a cute photo of her and we are also giving her teachers some chocolates and Starbucks gift cards.

I'm in love with how these came out...and I know I'm going to love seeing how small her hand was when I look back in a few years :)

January Jillibean Soup Shares

Hi everyone!  I just wanted to pop in and share my January Jillibean Soup projects:

A layout about Piper and my Dad:

A quick & easy birthday card:

A layout about Piper and one of her toys:

 An easy gift-wrapping project:

Thanks for stopping in! Tomorrow's Fri-yay!!

December Jillibean Soup Shares

Good morning all!  I just realized that I never shared by December Jillibean Soup projects here.  Whoops!  The holidays have got me all discombobulated :)

First up a layout featuring a 12x12 photo as the highlight:

Then a simple Christmas card:

Then another layout using one of my all-time favorite Jillibean Collections, Healthy Hello Soup:

And finally, a fun little gift tag:

Thanks for stopping by!

November Jillibean Soup Projects

Hey everyone!  I just wanted to pop in and share my Jillibean Soup projects from last month:

This layout using one of their awesome cut files:

This headband for Piper made with their new felt flowers:

This card made using another one of their cut files:

And this layout made with the new collections, Shades of Color and Farmhouse Stew:

Have a great week!!

October Jillibean Shares

Good morning everyone!  I am totally loving playing with Jillibean Soup's new lines, Shades of Color and Farmhouse Stew.  Here are my projects that were shared on the Jillibean Soup blog this month:

This card for World Cardmaking Day:

This card using Farmhouse Stew: 

This layout using Farmhouse Stew (and my trusty circle punch): 

This card using Shades of Color: 

And this layout using Shades of Color:

I can't believe it's almost November.  Where has the time gone?!

September Jillibean Soup Projects

Hey everyone!  HAPPY FRIDAY - the best day of the week, in my opinion!  I just wanted to stop in and quickly share my September projects for Jillibean Soup.  I made 2 cards and 2 layouts this month with their new collections - Farmhouse Stew and Shades of Color.  These collections are so much fun to work with!

 

Thanks for stopping in - happy, happy weekend!  :o)

August Jillibean Soup Projects

Hey, hey!  Just popping in to share the projects that I had up on the Jillibean Soup blog this month - two layouts and two cards:

 
Still so happy that I'm on this amazing team.  I love working with their products so much and really enjoy the group of ladies we get to work with!!

June Jillibean Projects

Hey everyone!  I wanted to pop in and share the 2 layouts, card and home decor project that I had on the Jillibean Soup blog this month:

This layout of my nephew picking strawberries:

This layout of my fuzzy sidekick and I:

This card for my Dad for Father's Day:

And this wood plank for Baby Girl's room: 

 Thanks so much for stopping in...tomorrow is July...and that is CRAZY.

More May Jillibean Shares

Good morning, everyone!  I wanted to pop in and quickly share the last layout and card I had on the Jillibean Soup blog for the month of May:

I used the Chit Chat Chowder line and an assortment of random embellishments for this one:

I used the Hardy Hodgepodge line for this simple card:

Thanks so much for stopping by today - tomorrow is June...and that's just crazy!

Layout: Cardstock: Bazzill; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

Card: Everything: Jillibean Soup

Some Jillibean Soup Shares

Good morning!  I wanted to pop in and share a few projects that I have had on the Jillibean Soup blog recently.

The first is this layout based on a sketch challenge designed by Summer Fullerton:

I also created this card by backing a lot of kraft circle tags with the new Souper Celebration collection:

And finally this layout created for our team up with Page Maps...loved digging into my Healthy Hello Soup stash to create this one:

Thanks for stopping in - happy hump day!

Layout 1: Cardstock: Bazzill; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

Card: Mist: Heidi Swapp; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

Layout 2: Doily: Studio Calico; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

CardMaker Magazine + Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

Good morning everyone!  Welcome to the CardMaker Magazine & Reverse Confetti blog hop!  There is sure to be a ton of amazing inspiration along your journey today!  :)

For my card today, I got to play with the awesome "Think Pink" stamp set.  I love the cute little flamingos.  There is also a cute die set that matches the stamps:

I really can't get over how cute the flamingos are :)

Your next stop on the hop is the super talented Katie!

Thanks for popping in!!

Card: Studio Calico; Stamps: Reverse Confetti; Label stickers, Typewriter: We R Memory Keepers; Markers: Tombow

April Jillibean Soup Projects

Good afternoon all and happy, happy weekend!  I am popping in to quickly share my April projects for Jillibean Soup.  I made 1 layout and 2 cards this month:

Thanks for stopping in!  Enjoy your Sunday!

Layout: Cardstock: Bazzill; Cut File: The Cut Shoppe; Everything Else: Jillibean Soup

Card 1: Everything: Jillibean Soup

Card 2: Everything: Jillibean Soup

CardMaker Magazine + Lil Inker Designs Blog Hop

Hi, everyone!!  Happy Fri-YAY and welcome to the CardMaker Magazine + Lil Inker Designs blog hop!!

Lil Inker Designs was super generous and gave us some great product to play with.  For my card today I decided to use the ridiculously cute Perfect Pairs stamps combined with the Dip Dyed Ombre Paper Pad to create this simple, but cute, card:

Seriously, I can't get enough of those little stamps and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be breaking them out again soon for some of my #the100dayproject Project Life cards.

Next up on the hop is Chrissy Larson!  Be sure to hop along for your chance to win a $35 gift card from Lil Inker Designs.  

If you didn't start at the beginning, you can do so at the CardMaker Magazine blog!

Happy hopping!!

Cardstock: American Crafts; Markers: Tombow; Adhesive: Elmers; Enamel Heart: Bella Blvd; Journaling Card: Studio Calico; Everything Else: Lil Inker Designs