sliders

I saw a card on Stampin' Up's website that inspired me to make these slider cards. The heart one is the first one that I made, it is a little bit harder to slide back in because the circle that goes on the top outside is small. So in the second one, the yellow one, I made the circle MUCH bigger and there is no problems now :) I think these are cute ideas, I will probably make more cards like this in the future!





Have a great day!

~Vanessa

mini 'book'

Here is a mini 'book' of two mini cards, 2 bookmarks/tags, and 1 doorhanger. I bought these papers all together, and I decided to give this project a try. I am so pleased with the outcome! It was somewhat a lot of work, mostly because I have never made one before. So it was a lot of time spent on 'figuring it out'! I gave the end product to a good friend at church who does a lot of good deeds for everyone that she knows!

here is side #1 opened up


here is side #2 opened up


a few close ups






What do you think?

~Vanessa

Embossing

Ohhhhhh man! So my husband bought me an embosser since we had a 40% off coupon, it is AMAZING! I love embossing :) They only thing I don't like about it is that I seem to get powder everywhere no matter how hard I try to be careful! It seems to just sneak right out! Anyways, here is a sheet of paper that I embossed an image on over and over again, two rows shiny, two rows sparkly!



ammmazing!

~Vanessa

paper stars

I recently discovered "paper stars" from a video that Kristina posted. And I tried and tried to make them, but for some reason my stars just weren't poofing on both sides, one side would be puffy, and the other side caved in. So after a while I gave up, they weren't looking that cute anyways. But then the other day I was walking down the street here in San Francisco where I live (and I live in a very chinese populated area) and ventured into a store that sold strips of pretty crinkly shiny paper just for making paper stars with. So I bought a pack of it for $1.50, I mean why not! And I told the lady at the register that I hadn't been able to get them to "puff" out just right yet, but that maybe it was because of the paper I was using. She smiled and said, "no, you can use ANY kind of paper to make paper stars! Let me teach you how to do it the right way" So she showed me, and it turns out I was just starting the folding going the wrong way! How silly. Anyways I went home and tried it out, and it WORKED!!! And the star was SO CUTE. So I quickly made up the whole pack of paper into stars and I went back to the store to show the lady, and I bought some more paper. Here are two photos of the paper stars I have made :)

here are the 'warm' colors


and here are the 'cool' colors


Aren't they just so cute?! I love them, I love tiny and shiny things ;P Ok until next time!

~Vanessa

tiny hands

I wanted to share some photos of the two 8x8 scrapbook pages I made with my two little sisters in law! They picked out some photos of their own and I helped them make their first scrapbook pages :) Here is the younger sister's (Elisabeth)

these are photos of her riding a pony named Jellybean at a fair the small area to the top left is for journaling


And here is the older sisters page (Anna)

This is a photo that she took of Jake (my husband), Mike (my father in law), and myself at Disney Land


Well I hope you enjoyed looking at those photos! They had so much fun showing them off to the rest of the family ;)

wedding page

here is a scrapbook page I made for Kristina's Color Challenge!



sorry I haven't posted in a while, I will catch up! I promise!

~Vanessa

sigh

Here we go with another one of Kristina's Color Challenges!



I chose to go with the yellow in my submission, instead of the green. None of my greens matched quite right, so yellow it was! Here is my card...



Sorry this is such a short post, I have to hurry! (sorry the photo is not that great, its rainy here today in San Francisco)
~Vanessa