Pink and Black are never out of style

I made this card for a special birthday. No names please. Although if she sees it she'll know it's for her because the diva has a special meaning to her. Don't know why I'm on this pink and black kick. It took me awhile to catch up with the trend. Oh well!

So I was perusing the Silhouette site for new items and saw this silhouette diecut of three women and just had to have it. Then I got the idea for this layout. Kind of matches the card.

Supplies for the card: paper Jillibean and Prima Mkt. Steel Toe Mary Jane. K&Co. acetate, Silhouette die cuts Butterfly, frame and part of a flourish. Ribbon and pearls.

Supplies for the LO: Prima Mkt. Steel Toe Mary Jane paper, EK Success punch, Silhouette dies Trio of Women and Style phrase.

Never too early

My Lilac vine ( Hardenbergia violacea) is blooming. This is one of the vines that we can grow here in the desert. Unfortunately it only blooms once a year but it stays green all year. I have it outside the window of my craft room. That way I have something to look at besides the block wall. Pretty!!! It's given me inspiration to make some cards for Spring and Easter.

Danni from Dannisdoodles is another big inspiration. I love the clean look of her cards. She was the inspiration for this card. The little girl is clip art I found. Isn't she cute?

Supplies: patterned paper- My Minds Eye "quite contrary", Cuttlebug embossing folder " dotted swiss", paper flowers, brads.

file folder album

I saw this really cute album on Jana Eubank's blog and decided to try it. I used whatever supplies I had on hand and this is what I came up with. The tags I made from the leftover file folder and all I had were white reinforcements so I colored them with a Sharpie. I still haven't gotten any twine for the tags yet. Her instructions were so easy to follow why not give it a try?

Let there be spring!

Finally drove the 45 miles or so to the scrapbook store for some new paper. I know I could order it online but it's just not the same as wandering the aisles and looking at all that yummy paper. One of the papers I bought was Gigi Birds by Glitz Design. It just looked so fresh. I used a Nicole Thomas sketch from the March/April issue of Paper Crafts mag. to make this card.

Supplies: Glitz Design paper, cardstock, Prima flower, Recollections gem and Silhouette cutter.

Spring cleaning

Yeah, yeah, I know it's not spring yet but for lack of something better to do I started to clean out my scrapbooking/craft supplies. Then I thought "Why not have a garage sale?" I have a bunch of cards and paper craft items made so I thought maybe I could sell those too. Then that put me in the mood to make some scrapbook layouts to sell. Stop already!! This is one of the lo's I did and a couple sneek peeks.