Cute Card Thursday - Sun, Sea or Sand!

The theme on Cute Card Thursday this week is

Sun, Sea or Sand!

I have been waiting for a good opportunity to use this cutie that I bought a year ago and this traveler's notebook was the perfect size for an album I wanted to create following our vacation in Hawaii last year.  

It was such an amazing trip that we did with the whole family.  We certainly packed in a lot of fun and have plenty of photos from it to fill an album! 

The cute surfing penguin is from Whimsy Stamps Clear Stamps range designed by Crissy Armstrong.  It is called

Penguin Life's a Beach

I coloured him with Prismacolor Pencils.

Other supplies are Traveler's Notebook and Letters are new from Michaels.

Papers and 'dream' wording are old from my stash (I am determined to start using up stuff)!

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We are sponsored this week by All Dressed Up, I hope you can join us! 

Thanks for dropping by! 

Cute Card Thursday - Dressing Up!

The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is 

Dressing Up!

We are sponsored by  All Dressed Up  this week!

I used this very cute little witch by All Dressed Up you can find her here

Magical Day she is coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils.

 I have created a mini album for our visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal.  One of my favourite places!  

The letter stamps are from Whimsy Stamps

Mini Album

I made this album way back in the summer as a memento of our Whimsy Stamps trip to CHA and as a thank you to Denise for making it happen!

It appeared in the last Whimsy Stamps Inspirations magazine as part of a product review for Beacon Adhesives.  Their Zip Dry glue is my favourite adhesive for this type of project.  It is a liquid glue, holds fast and there is never any puckering of the paper!

 The stamps I used in this project are

Whimsy stamps  Heart Balloon 'Time for Tea',   Birthday Greetings 2, contest ribbons and Welcome to the Big Top. The dies are also from Whimsy Stamps - Double scallop doily die. and Contest Ribbon die.

The papers are Authentique and the embellishments are a variety of bits I already had.  The enamel brooch on the front is Bo Bunny.

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Cute Card Thursday - Butterfly Kisses

Our theme over at Cute Card Thursday this week is

Butterfly Kisses

The obvious thing to do is add a butterfly but I thought I would try to use the kisses part too and create a mini album I have had in mind for a while now.

I have lots of photos of the hubster and me from our early days together and thought it would be nice to have them all in one place!

The paper collection I have used here is My Minds Eye - Lost and Found 3 Ruby.

We are sponsored this week by Whiff of Joy who will give a stamp of choice to the winner!

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Paris Album

It is the Whimsy Stamps July Rubber Release Day 5, we are showing you some of our creations using the new stamps that are available instore now!

 I knew as soon as I spotted these amazing vintage style transportation stamps (vintage transportation) that I wanted to make a mini album for our upcoming trip to Paris.

I also used the Adventure Mini Postage Stamps and on the front page here also used the Into the Farm Background stamp and the Good life tickets which were from the June release.

 The album is by Basic Grey, the papers are mostly Colorbok for backing with the rest being part of the Simple Stories 'destinations' kit that I used for my last travel album.  I am completely hooked on the Simple Stories papers now and can't wait for the new release they are showing at CHA!

 Can't wait to get the photographs to go in here!

 The journey quote stamp is by Rubber Stampede, I picked it up in a yard sale a few weeks back!

and a quick card I whipped up using the Touch of Elegance stamps again.

Whimsy are having a blog hop on Wednesday to celebrate the launch of all these stamps, remember though, they are already for sale in the Whimsy Online Store and also through retailers!

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On a sad note, I have decided the time is right to step down from the Whimsy Stamps DT, for the past 2 1/2 years I have thoroughly enjoyed creating with their amazing stamps, it wasn't an easy decision but because I want to concentrate on scrapbooking more than cardmaking for the next little while I felt I wouldn't be doing justice to the stamps or to the team.  I know there will be some of the stamps that will be perfect for my layouts so I will still be keeping a close eye on all those future releases and I can assure you I will still be telling you all how fabulous they are.  

My last Whimsy Blog Hop will be this Wednesday for the July release when I have one last project to show. 

Hope to see you then, thanks for dropping by! 

CK Scrap and Play

I attended my very first Scrapbooking event at the weekend with my friend Kerys.  It was the Creating Keepsakes Scrap and Play event.   I can highly recommend it if you are near Idaho or Pennsylvania which is where the next 2 events are being held!  For details see here!

Below are the pages of an 8x8 album just waiting for the photos. We made this using Simple Stories 'Destinations' products and the album was a blank Maya Road.   We were given free crop time in between classes and I managed to add the photos to most of my layouts.

 The finished album, so love this!

 The front page, I managed to complete a tag and add some lettering and photos to most of this project during the open crop time.

Of course, we had to visit the candy bar a few times!

 and drooled over the prizes!  they gave us so many lovely goodies, it is well worth the trip and the registration fee for those alone, but apart from that the classes were amazing!  I loved everything I made!  

 The event started on Friday evening, we finished at midnight and then started again on Saturday morning at  9am and finished at midnight if you had the stamina.  

This is the tea room at the hotel, it was so cute, just had to take a pic!

Sigh.....can't wait till they come to our place again!