I’ve had four days of illness, and I was only really able to get up and about yesterday evening. I was thankful that I was able to have the energy to make a Miss You Monday card for today. After all that time in a dark, germ-infested room, I wanted light and summery-ness. Well, I wasn’t going to get it outside, so I made my own little piece of happiness with this card.
Sometimes I just love Hero arts stamps so much that it hurts! I picked up this fab background stamp a little while ago, and I wanted to use it, but in a slightly different way – a background with a difference. Of course my distress inks were my first craft-comfort after a week of non-crafting, and I turned to my two favourite colours: shabby shutters and broken china. Yum yum.
I’ve been wanting chipboard flourishes lately, and as this was my last Bisous chipboard swirl, i really must buy some when I next see ones that I like.
Thanks for looking.
Products used
background stamp – hero arts embossing powder clear gloss distress ink: shabby shutters, peeled paint, broken china, shattered straw
decorative edge scissors
black ribbon
string
button
foam tape
pink cardstock quickutz butterfly die
bisous chipboard swirl
Liquid Pearls
These are so quick and easy to make, and are perfect gifts, especially for teachers or friends. Check out Jennifer MaGuire’s video here which walks you through how to make one of these cool Bookmark Cards.
For mine, i’ve used Raindrops stamp from heroarts, and a heart swirl stamp, also heroarts. The bird is a stamp from the Unity Stamps June Kit of the Month. I’m not sure where the little ‘be you’ stamp comes from, its been lurking in my stash for a little while now. Doesn’t it look mega cute!?
Nothing quite like the colour yellow to get you into the summery mood! Its the colour of sunshine, sand and sunflowers, bananas and buttercups…oh, and this card! ♥
This stamp has been lurking in my stash untouched for quite nearly three years. Bought in a random toy shop on our honeymoon, i was so thrilled to find a shop that sold (a limited amount of) stamps that I simply couldn’t not buy this set of clear stamps of teddy bears. To be honest, some looked a little mis-shapen and odd, but this little dude (or dudette, i can’t quite tell) seemed to jump out at me when I was making this card.
The papers are from two different collections from two different manufacturers, lemonade by Basic Grey, and Bloom and Grow from MME, but i love the way they compliment each other. ♥
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You are all likely familiar with my Miss You Monday posts for my friend Sarah, well, today, I am sending a special Miss You post for her son, my darling Godson Randolph.
Following the excitement of hosting the June Paperclipping Challenge, I actually inspired myself into creating this layout.
Sarah and Rand have been in the USA for several months now, and as the weeks go on, I love getting regular updates on the latest and greatest thing that Rand is doing. Even though it kills me that he is half way round the world and I don’t get to watch him as he learns new tricks. He had just turned two before they went back to America, so he was entering that really lovely phase of learning new things every day, absorbing information from everything in his environment and saying funny things as he tries to interpret the world around him.
I miss the way he walks. The way he is obsessed with Craig and would say his name over and over again.
Our trips to starbucks, where Rand would walk around the seats until he got the one that was ‘just right’. I miss the way he would pull you out of the green chair if he decided that he wanted up there. I miss the way he calls ‘miya’ and then when the kitty came running he would get a little shy. I miss the way his eyes light up when he sees the bean bag, and insists that it is ‘D’dof’s chair’. I even miss the way that he steals your iPhone so he can see the ‘earth’ screensaver like on his daddy’s phone, then is confused when he actually sees a random photo of distress inks or flowers or some other random photo that is my wallpaper of choice.
As I was thinking about all these little specific Randolph things, quite simply the memories were creating an intense sense of sadness in me. But as is always the case – i crafted a little and I felt so much better. They say that crafting is cheaper than therapy, but i reckon its also better for ya! I find it so cathartic. yeaaaaaaahhhh!! Now I can smile at the fact that i’m going to see him again soon, and fall in love with the wee man all over again.
On a different note, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but it suddently dawned on me a little while ago that i’ve been making more and more cards, and making distinctly less scrapbook pages. To be honest, I cant explain it. It just happened to be a mood thing i guess. But i’ve got good news to share. I’ve been finding that lately i’m getting into the scrapbooking mood more often again!! Yeay!! I am excited about that.♥
For this layout, I didn’t care about matching papers or creating a stunning masterpiece- I simply just wanted to get the page done and tell a story, because I wasn’t crafting for a magazine, or a book, or for any other reason than for myself! But, in fact, I love this page a whole lot!! Ain’t it funny how that just happens sometimes?! Maybe I just love it cos my wee Randolph is on it, but thats ok by me! ♥
Thanks for popping by and listening to me rant, I hope you like the layout, and heres hoping theres loootsss more scrapbooky-mojo to come!
