Twinkle, twinkle, little star...Do you know how loved you are?

This idea sketch (layout) is from the Elite Challenges Sketch challenge 19.

I made it with lots of purples: almost amethyst, lavender lace, elegant eggplant

and a small scrap of white cardstock to stamp the baby star image on.

I made it last night at the Tuesday night get together (Hi !).

This is a very easy sketch to use. Only 3 layers (you have to love that).

A circle punch to punch out the Twinkle Twinkle sentiment, a stampset, plus ribbon and buttons. Materials:

Stampset: In the stars. (the baby safety pin is from the short and sweet stampset), I weakened, I wanted it to look a bit more baby-boyish ;)

Cardstock: Elegant eggplant, lavender lace, almost amethyst, whisper white.

Ink: Elegant eggplant, almost amethyst.

Assorted rich regal, soft subtle buttons.

Elegant eggplant ribbon, Dimensional adhesive.

In the stars Page keeper !

Do you remember I made these Taken with teal and Elegant eggplant star cards to match a scrapbooking page?
Well, they were nice and I do love these colours together with Lavender lace. But wait there's more!
I was going to leave them as is, but... I haven't quite got those page keepers out of my system.
And I did promise to show you the cards I made once I'd finished! So here they are: (With the book mark on the card ...)

And the bookmark almost off, showing the stamped words.
The Stars were stamped using the "rock and roll" technique where they are inked with the Taken with Teal ink pad first, then the edges rolled on the elegant eggplant ink pad to get a two toned effect. Lots of different variations here:

The elegant eggplant ribbon is tied in a bow using the two hole punch and the ends tucked in underneath the cardtock and trimmed off.
We made these at a recent card making party...

they could be used as a birthday card for male or female I think, considering the colours :

or for a thank you card,
or just a nice I am thinking of you ...
hello card, too.

May all your dreams come true ...

I bought the "in the stars" stamp set on an impulse ... then I bought the star punch and now I can't seem to put them away!

I am trying to scrap as many of 2008 photos as I can, so that I can start 2009 ... with a fresh slate! Recently it occured to me that I can make matching cards in the same colours, the same stampset and almost the same layout give or take for the size difference... I had the idea from a layout sketch challenge where someone had used the sketch for a scrapbooking layout, then used the scrap pieces to make a card with a the same design and colours. The colours in the photo dont particularly match the cardstock: My daughter is still wearing only-pink, but there is a touch of purple in her jeans pocket ... i just couldn't do another pink layout ...atm.Here you can see the two cards I made using the same colour scheme and stamp set. I have "Rock and rolled" the stamps in the teal inkpad first and the elegant eggplant inkpad second. And used the star punch to cut out two of the stars, the slightly smaller one I cut out with scissors.

I have used the Yummy- scrolls around the journalling circle you can click on the image to enlarge it. I like anything with a curly flourish ... wish my handwriting was as stylish!

I really like Lavender lace, Taken with Teal and eggplant together.

Scrapbook catch up ... and a star on the rise

I am playing scrapbook catch up ... months of photos in packets, end of the school year, Christmas and Birthday parties, new skills and new experiences to document and journal ... For a five year old (almost turning six) and leaving kindergarten everything this year is a big event. Especially when your teacher is leaving at the end of the year and you have just been a star in your school spectacular (every child in the school was involved) ... to capture the innocence of kindergarten as it is replaced with the self assurance of a big school girl performing on the stage

... our little star is on the rise:

Materials:

Elegant Eggplant textured cardstock, Silver Metalic cardstock

Ink: Silver and White Signo gel pen.

Stampset: In the stars, Lovely letters alphabet,

Star wheel.

Star Punch.

Bright and Joyful Bali Breeze Dream

I am loving these bright colours from the Bali Breeze DS papers.
This one uses two of the new scallop punches in the Summer Mini: The small white square is made with the Scallop-Square punch and the pumpkin medallion is made with the Scallop-Edge punch.
And, that is the new Rose Red stitched ribbon threaded through the middle, layerd on Rose red cardstock and small strips of Old Olive, on a Taken with Teal base card.

I have used the square scallop to put a hanging hole on the end of the tag which is another little trick to use the scallop square punch for. The words are from "In the Stars". (The only stamp used on the card) coloured with the olive, teal, pumpkin and rose red markers.
And the paper square in the centre of the card is cut from the Bali breeze DS paper.