Pink Persimmon

Tag Tuesday

Julie Detlef created two sweet gift tags to share:

Julie used Smooch Spritz in green and blue to create the background of the tag.  Stamps used:  Flower Greetings and Dutch Journal circle 

Julie used the Banner from the Vintage Cupcake set to add the sentiment to this Birthday Boy Tag.  Clever use of an element intended for a cupcake, but looks much more boy-ish when surrounded by the adorable sports papers. 

 

Celebrating a Special Mom

We asked the creative team to design a book for a special mom in their lives.  On Monday, we shared Kristie's book for her niece who just became a new mom.  Yesterday, we shared Samantha's book for Grandma (her Mom).  Today we celebrate a very special mom with a wonderful story about who she chose for her scrapbook.

From Kelly Schirmer:  "The woman I picked was, wellll, ummmmm, me!  Let me explain!  When I first got the project I thought "Oh dear." and felt what I call "the twinge."  My dad died when I was 4 and my mother died when I was 18 (both from illness).  They did have me as "older" parents but they still both died only in their 50's-60's which is young.  Most people don't even know this about me, because I don't bring it up unless directly asked.   Every year at school I would feel the "twinge" around Father's Day because of the projects.  My teachers were always sympathetic and I joyfully would celebrate my 2 brothers-in-law, my uncles, etc...but I would get that twinge.  So after my mother died, I carried on and celebrated my wonderful sisters (who are 17 and 24 years older than me!!), and now my wonderful mother-in-law...but still felt, yep, the twinge.
 
And THEN I became a mother...and the twinge is so tiny now that Mother's Day is one of the best days of the year for me!  And so that is why I celebrated myself!  No more twinge, and it was sooo much fun to put this together!  The only twinge that came up was that there aren't that many pictures of the girls and just me together because I am the one behind the camera.  Jason (Kelly's husband) took note of this and said he will work on taking more pictures, hee!"

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly painted the edges of her book with Crackle Paint in Antique Linen.  She used October Afternoon  "Fly a Kite" and "Thrift Shop" decorative papers.  She used an amazing assortment of Pink Persimmon stamps in her book as well! 

Thank you Kelly, for sharing your touching story, and for sharing your beautiful girls with us in your scrapbook. 

Happy Mother's Day to ALL the Moms! Whether you are celebrating your mom, a special friend, or even yourself, may you have a joyous day filled with love from your family and friends. 

Mother's Day Album for Grandma

Samantha Sibbet's girls are adorable.  Take photos of them in black and white and put them in a cute shabby chic album and they are even MORE adorable.  This Mother's Day Gift is for a very lucky Grandma.

 

Sam used the Kaiser Craft Bracket Album with October Afternoon papers.  She also did a rubber cement "resist" technique on the book pages to give it a "shabby" weathered appearance.  Paint one color of acrylic paint in random areas of the book, when dry apply rubber cement over these spaces and some of the bare wood areas.  Apply a second paint color over the entire page and when dry, you can begin to peel off some of the rubber cement to reveal the first color and bare wood below.  Click on any of the images below to view larger and get a close up look of this technique. 

The banners are from the Small Banner stamp set and the alpha letters are Soda Pop Alpha .

 

 

 

Using the sepia toned photos with the distressed paint technique and the vintage style papers gives this album such a unique look.  Your mom will love this gift Samantha! 

A special Mother's Day Gift

We gave the Creative Team girls a Kaiser Craft mini album and asked a few of them to make something to celebrate Mother's Day.  It did not have to be about or for their own mother, they could choose any mom that they would like to celebrate.  I think you'll love some of the great projects they made. 

Kristie Larsen chose to make her album a gift for a NEW mom.  Here is her explanation:  "My niece has just had her first baby who came almost 3 months early. She is still in the NICU and I thought a nice "first time" mother's day present would be fun. So I set up this book to be a first scrapbook for the baby. The only problem is I don't have ANY pics of the baby, and technically you could say its a baby gift ; ). So I made up the pages so all she has to do is slide in the pics. I made sure not to dictate too much how many pics or what size the pics should be (for the most part), so that is why, besides the embellishments, most of the pages are empty."  

Kristie used Scenic Route patterned paper from the Charlotte line to cover her Kaiser Craft album.  (click on any image to view larger).   

 

 

 

Kristie also made a sweet little card to go with the gift to complete the package.

 

We'll be sending good thoughts and prayers for your niece and her new baby, Kristie!  I know she will love this adorable album.  

Mini Book by Samantha

An adorable Mini Book that Samantha created for her daughter.  Each page showcases a year in her life with a beautiful photo.  (click images to view larger)

 

Love how Sam bent the greeting "welcome" from the Vintage Greeting set to fit on her page.  If your clear stamp image doesn't quite fit, bend it!

 

Notice how Sam printed her photos in black & white so that the photos would take main stage and not compete with the colors used in her papers and stamped images.  Great idea when you are trying to tie together photos from different events. 

Hope you all are enjoying National Scrapbook Day!  We'll be back next week with some sneak peeks of NEW STAMPS! yeah!