Little Garden Layout

Wow!  The Little Garden paper collection brings you not one, not two, not three, but four beautiful pastel-colored striped patterns.   

Some of the "journaling" is printed on vellum....left over from the beginning of my crafting days when vellum was so popular.  I seldom use vellum because I don't care for most methods of adhering it....but I ran it through my Xyron...and I'm very pleased with the results....though I really do prefer my vellum have some texture.  Can't have everything, I guess.

It's the Creative Memories Virtual Crop

You know I love playing in the Creative Memories Virtual Crop - it often takes me a bit out of my comfort zone and the entries always show so many different styles.  Generally, I struggle to complete all six sketches - but not this weekend.  It's always fun.

The photos are from my student teaching experience.  I do always worry about posting photos of other people....but then I realized that these young girls are now all in their 60s!  My ephemera is from my young friend, Mikah.  As much as I love that vintage look, I often don't have a place to use it.  But since I taught typewriting - these were perfect for these pages.

The papers are from Little Garden (retired) by We Are 3.

Shabby Christmas

Nothing says the holidays like Christmas trees, presents and sleighs, eh?  We don't see many sleighs in Arizona, though.  This gorgeous paper is from We Are 3 called Shabby Christmas.  I created a very simple layout with just some borders and a touch of Little Garden (retired.)  The borders are from Creative Memories.

Merry Christmas

I designed this for the Kerst Christmas Challenge with this fun quirky Santa Claus called Sitting Santa Loves Cookies by Last Minute Manda.  Although I love all kinds of digital stamps, I really get a kick of those I can layer - so I had a ball here with Santa.  The set comes with six Santas sitting and enjoying a variety of sweet Christmas treats.   He's coloring digitally.  I added a twist with a trimmed Christmas tree from Ink and Dot.  Good thing the theme this month is Anything Goes, because once again I forgot the check out the theme before making my cards.

Be sure to check out Last-Minute Manda's gorgeous and adorable images.  There is something for everyone.

New Release at We Are 3.

I created this card for a Valentine challenge at A Cherry on Top.  I went for "traditional" and used the gorgeous Little Garden - cut in a heart shape to give the card even more of a Valentine feel. 

I added tiny pearls to the fairy's wings.

The fairy is from Design Bundles.  The scroll border design were from Digital Scrapbook Experts.

The gorgeous sentiment came right out of the newly released Fairy Tale set.

Bring on the Sunshine (A Paper Ala Mode Challenge)

Today we are sharing projects at Paper Ala Mode made using wonderful, whimsical, and wacky digital stamps shared by our sponsor, Pattie's Creations...I used Rain Boots with Tulips.  For my background, I used papers from We Are 3's Little Garden collection.