A Tribute

A tribute huh? Well, I know that may sound kind of cheesy, but that is what I am doing! :) This is a post for my favorite cardstock. You might be able to tell but I am not a patterned paper type girl! Now, I do love making my own patterned paper, but really I love my solids! (Disclaimer: I do love TAC's Catelynne! Ok and Willoughby and Reece....)

Ok....SO....these next few cards are made from cardstock from The Angel Company. The first is made from Scarlet Cardstock and Brown Cardstock. They are not textured, nothing fancy but if you love paper like I do....you would love this stuff! It is all about the weight for me I guess! Nice and thick! And the colors? Bright and beautiful!

I used Aged Ornaments and Versamark for the background and the sentiment (so super cute!) is one of the new Promotional sets for April, called Forever Friends! Click here to check those out!



This card is made from TAC's Olive CS and Brown CS. Again I used Aged Ornaments and Forever Friends! ( I got the inspiration for this card from my friend Jen! Thanks Jen!) I stamped the images below in White StazOn of all things. I am still in search of my favorite white. I had a reinker for this one so it came out nice and bright, which is what I wanted against the brown CS.


And last but not least, a super easy but elegant Thank you card! On the brown CS, I used Versamark and a pencil eraser to get the polka dots! Again, I used the Forever Friends sentiment and finished the card with a bow! The ribbon is from the Angelee collection!

So, I hope you understand my tribute to cardstock! I know we all have our "things" we love....tools, paper, ink, ribbon! Well, I really love all of those things, but paper tops the list!

If you have any questions about The Angel Company's cardstock, email me at llwillison@hotmail.com! I would be happy to show you some samples!

For the Boys!

I have been scrapbooking in pink now for about 5 years! So, when Brody came along I was kinda exctied to change it up a little bit! The first stamp set I bought anticpating the future was TAC's All Season Athlete! I love this set because it is kinda vintage. It is not like your plain old Hobby Lobby sports sticker look! It is really cute!

So I figured I better pull it out and make something. Here are 3 birthday cards for boys! Something I haven't ever done before so I had to start somewhere right?

Having said all of that, the first one I made with Rylee in mind! She is playing soccer right now but this card still is kinda for the boys.....although when she sees it, she will want it! :)


My cuttlebug folder was in the drawer yelling at me when I made this card! I think the bubbles made the brown cs look like a football. Kinda? What do you think? I had fun making this card! I also used the White Souffle pen on the football for the laces!


And last, this card is more of a small tagish kinda card. Pretty plain but cute! Super easy! I just cut the circle card out with my Coluzze!

So that it is for the boy cards! My challenge is for you to get this set out and make some of your own! Have a great day!

Rasberry Suite Color Challenge

EDIT: Ok so maybe I should have LOVED my card a little more and over time I did change my mind! But I had to post a little note in here and tell you all how excited I am.....because Dawn loved it too! Thank you Dawn!! How exciting!! She picked mine in her top 12 out of 152 cards! I bet she has no idea how she made my day!! :) You can go see her color challenge spotlight HERE! :)

One of my most favorite blogs is Dawn McVey's! She creates sooo many beautiful things and her blog is just alot of fun to check every day! She has started to do her own Color Challenges, so I thought I should jump in on one and see what I can do! Well, the first one I picked was pretty hard! It definitley was a "challenge"! Here is her color swatch:


I love all of these colors so I gave it a try. I played with them in different layers and different sizes but this is what I came up with! I am not totally happy with it but I love the layout! It is a little like Heather's Sketch but not totally! :)


I used The Angel Company's Aged Ornaments and Versamark for the background on the Kraft Paper. Then I placed the other colors....berry, vanilla, red and light pink....on the layers!



I am not going to give up! Just because this card isn't my favorite, there will always be another color challenge! Ok Dawn! I can't wait for the next one! :)

Thanks for looking!

Using Stamps to Scrapbook-Blog Hop!

This weeks blog hop is alot of fun! Because it takes me back to my first love....scrapbooking! I started scrapbooking about 10 years ago and it is like an addiction! I have tried to stop....but I can't! Then stamping came along and made it all the more fun!

You know when you are looking for that certain something that you just can't put your finger on? An embellisment? a piece of patterened paper? Well, for me, the stamps have added that! You can make your own personalized buttons, embellishments, patterened paper or just about anything!

This first page uses the April Stamp of the Month! This is a really cute set that made the most fun background paper! I just randomly stamped across a piece of white cardstock and there you have it! Homemade patterened paper! (The picture was for Rylee's Birthday invites when she turned 4!)

This page was really fun too! Can you believe I actually cut those scallops out with scissors? Crazy I know! Then if you can see in the bottom right corner, I stamped with TAC's Curls and Swirls in white ink! It just gave the page that fun added touch to make it look complete! (The pics are of Rylee's 4th Birthday! I am not trying for a theme here! haha)

Deco Designs is one of my favorite sets and I think it makes the cutest border! I love this page, mostly because I love the pics of Rylee, but I love the stamping detail as well!

I have posted this page before but since I used a TAC set I thought I would put it on here again! I used Springtime for this page and I think it turned out so fun! The leaf stamps made adorable touchs at the bottom and I just love the tree! I also added the date with Date Disks on the bottom right!

All of this had really put me in the mood to scrapbook! You will definitley see more stamping and scrapbooking posts soon! Now go and check out all the other creations from these talented Angels...

1. Melisa - http://paperliciousdesigns.blogspot.com/

2. Jen - http://jensinkspot.blogspot.com/

3. Barb - http://fosterdesignhouse.blogspot.com/

4. Stacy - http://stacy.typepad.com/

5. Ellie - http://www.elliesstampgarden.com/

6. Carol - http://stampincarol.blogspot.com/

7. Trudy - trudystreasures.blogspot.com

8. Anna - http://scrapandcrap.blogspot.com/

9. Bridgett - http://hoosierstamper.blogspot.com/

10. Maria - http://stampinfoolmeier.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

TAC Downloads

In case you don't know, The Angel Company has a new feature on their website where you can find free downloads. This month they have a download of 5 black and white 8 1/2 x 11 patterned papers. I was only going to print one out to see how I liked it and then I just kept going. So here are 3 examples, using that paper!

Here is the link to see the paper:

http://www.theangelcompany.net/Downloads.html


This Thank You card just uses a piece of one of the patterened papers. I think that it has a great vintage look!


This one has just a small part of the paper. This paper would also be really cute on a scrapbook page! I should also tell you on this paper I changed the tone to sepia with Photoshop. It has a great look to it!


This picture is not so great, but it gives a more up close view of the paper!

Here is one more card. This one I changed again with PE to be more pink! I just love this polka dot paper! Well, I love ANY polka dot paper! :)


And last but not least, my fav, an 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook page! Again, I changed the tone. It has a great "antiquey" (is that a word?) vintage feel to it! I just love this page! The picture is also printed out in sepia tone!


I made the 2 larger flowers with my Marvy punches. The smaller flowers are out of vellum and then inked with Burnt Umber! Then I used the In Bloom flowers from the Magalogue, finished off with Scrapper's Floss! If you look close on the full shot, you can see I also used the set Date Disks, right on top of the photo! So cute! Oh, and the letters I cut out with my Cricut!

If you have any questions about these downloads, don't hesitate to email me! Thanks for looking!