Sweet Magnolia

Aww, the sweet smell of Magnolias.  Right now the Magnolia trees in our little town are in full bloom and boy are they GORGEOUS!  I drove Mr. J to Columbia last week and stopped in Camden on the way home to snap a few photos.   

Beautiful, eh?  When I look at this flower I imagine a group of Southern women sitting on a covered veranda in there big fancy hats and their white gloves sipping on a glass of mint julep ice tea.  lol. 

Gettin'Groovy with KI Memories

This month the Cookin' Up Creations Design Team had the opportunity to work with some AMAZING new products from KI Memories.  Not only did I receive the newly released Groovy paper collection but I also received ALL the embellies that go along with it!!!

Here's what I came up with.


8.5x11 layout of my niece Nikki.

8.5x11 layout of my favorite little girl, Lulu.

Another 8.5x11 layout of Nikki.

And a 12x12 of Nikki.

And a couple of cards.

Thanks for looking and be sure to check out the Cookin' Up Creations gallery and blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with.  And be sure to join us for our upcoming birthday celebration in June!

Etsy Inspired Challenge #88

Yay, it's vintage week over at the Etsy Inspired Challenge blog and I have THE perfect card for this challenge!  I created this card using an old vintage dress pattern I picked up at the Salvation Army this past week.  I used the tissue pattern to create my flower, the instruction sheet for pattern paper and I even cut out the little teeny tiny dresses off the front of the envelope to use as embellishments.  Can it get more vintage than that?  lol.

 

If you would like to participate in this weeks challenge all you have to do is visit Creation Designs and become inspired!  I immediately fell in love with this Vintage Door Knob Coat Rack.

I love the distressed aqua color but it's the door knobs that I went crazy over!  We use to have those same glass door knobs on some of the doors in our house and I have been saving them for something like this!!!

CUC DT Reveal With Jillibean Soup

This month the Cookin' Up Creations design team had the opportunity to work with the Egg Drop Soup collection from Jillibean Soup!  If you love pastel colors in check, dots and flowers then this collection is a must have!  Whether you're scrapping those Spring photos are making cards....this collection has something for everyone!  Be sure to check it out HERE.

Here are a few cards I created using the Egg Drop Soup collection.

Thanks for looking.....and be sure to check out the gallery over at CUC and see what the rest of the design team created with the Egg Drop Soup collection!
 

Just wanted to share a few cards I created from last weeks Card Crop over at Cookin' Up Creations.  If you missed the card crop no need to worry.......we are getting a jump start on National Scrapbooking Day so please feel free to drop by and join us for lots of fun challenges, games and prizes!!!

Here are my cards.

Scraplift a layout challenge.

Graduation card challenge.

Recipe card challenge.

Punch and pattern paper challenge.

Thanks for looking.....will post more later!

Clean and Simple FTL86

I don't know about you but I never seem to have enough masculine cards so when I ran across this simple sketch on the Clean and Simple blog I knew it would be one that I would use over and over again! This sketch can easily be adapted to a congrats card just by changing the sentiment and it can also be easily adapted to a more feminine card just by changing the colors......not to mention it's a great way to use up those scraps and you could quickly crank out a batch of these in no time!

Here's the sketch.

And here's my card.

As you can see, I stayed with the sketch because I loved it so much!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Earth Day!

I'm pressed for time so I will make this short and sweet!  Here's a really quick and simple card I created in a matter of minutes this morning using some recycled materials and Pink Paislee pattern papers.  For my flower, I cut up a pair of denim jeans that I was gonna toss and paired it with a page I ripped out of an old Reader's Digest book I picked up at a thrift store some years back.

Thanks for looking!