Swap Club this week: Baby or wedding Congratulations!

Here is my card for this week's swap club. A pretty simple 4X4 card. I used a favorite sheet of Animal Cookies paper, the little monkey from Life's a Jungle, some ribbon and a white jell pen. Oh, and I also used the Code it stamp set on a few of the cards...but not all...




At the swap, everyone will add on to their make-and-take mini-tag book. I will teach them how to apply fun flock to this little lion and how to create their own backgrounds using random stamping and alphabets. They can apply ink very easily to the stamps attached to the acrylic backign sheet and then put their paper on to create this little blue circle.


I will also show them how to use 2nd and 3rd generation stamping to create movement.


Also, I thought I would show you the sweet card I received from Krista over at Simply Creating. I won her blog challenge and she sent it to me! It is so sweet. Thanks Krista!

1st Birthday Party Invites!

Last summer it seemed like all my friends were having babies...this summer, all the babies are turning ONE!


I worked on some super cute birthday party invitations with my best scrapping buddy, Abby a couple of weeks ago. Her nursery is in monkey so we continued the theme with this little invite! It is super cute!!


While we worked on this tri-fold card, I kept thinking of ways to make it cuter...Everything I suggested was cute, but it was LABOR INTENSIVE! Hand-cutting all the onesies, hand-cutting all the #1s, hand-coloring all the monkeys! Whew!! We had fun!! I like to cut. Luckily.


Ingredients: CTMH Stamps...Tiny Typewriter, Life's a Jungle and Baby Steps
Martha Stewart Patterned paper
Craft Cardstock
Scallop punch and circle punch
Blender pen
CTMH Vellum, brads
CTMH Exclusive Inks: cocoa