...gasp... I've been stamping too!

After a bit of a creative hiatus, I finally completed some projects that I have been meaning to finish days ago.

First off is a card for a male friend who turned 30. I used my new Bombshell stamps on it. It's a complete departure from what I usually do, but I had a blast.
Front of card

Inside of card

Here is a thank you card I created for a family from my home church. They kind enough to send us some Korean items for our pending Korean adoption. This family adopted 3 children from South Korea several years ago.

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The cherry blossom stamp is a digital stamp from the Digi-Shack.

Finally, here is a wedding card I was working on today for my sister-in-law, who is getting married next weekend. They are having a beach wedding and I couldn't resist using my Stampin' Up Crab & Company set. On the inside I created a pocket for a gift card.

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I hope to work on the Sookie Stackhouse challenge from Twilight Tuesday soon. I found some GREAT paper for it. I've been missing out on the Twilight Tuesday challenge projects despite having a few great ideas. But I hope to share my BIG project soon -- it's not a paper craft, but will be well worth all the time spent on it since I will be using it regularly. :) It's been the reason for my departure from my stamping lately.

I've been scrapbooking!

Can you believe it... I have been actually scrapbooking and not the digital kind. Here's a couple pages -- 1 of the pages wasn't photographed since it isn't completely done.

This is page 2 of a two page layout of a trip I took with a friend to Kennedy Space Center. It's a smidge blurry but you get the idea:

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Here is a day trip my hubby and I took on our motorcycle (and yes, I'm saying OUR motorcycle since my name is on the title *wink*) this past fall:

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Amazing blog candy

Go visit Passion for Crafts!!! She has some absolutely wonderful blog candy along with some super cute projects!!!

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #27

This week's Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge is from Julie:

Happy Tuesday, Twilighters! It was my turn to choose this week’s theme for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge - it’s time to show some love to Jasper Hale! Oh, I think we can handle that.

The creative part of this challenge is to make a piece that says “Jasper” to you. And the comment portion for this week is all about Jasper’s amazing calming abilities. What do you like to do to create that Jasper-style calm for yourself? Tell us about it!

Oh HALE yes!! I love this challenge, maybe because I'm a big Jasper fan... there I said it. Don't get me wrong Edward is wonderful, but there's something about Jasper that I just find fascinating. I found his backstory in Eclipse to be very intriguing. Plus, I love Alice and the combination of Alice and Jasper is just too cute. Jasper is also a polite, southern gentleman.... which *swoon* does it for me. ;) The actor who plays Jasper in Twilight is Jackson Rathbone. Jackson/Jasper, I must say, is one very hot vampire with some seriously awesome hair -- though I know there's some debate about his hair in Twilight. I personally liked it!

I created a digital layout -- though I didn't intend to. As much as I love doing digital, I will admit that manipulating paper and embellishments is where my true love of crafting lies. I ran across a great quote from Jasper talking to Bella and included it. I thought it really spoke volumes about his character (re: special gifts) and that he's learning to be not such a monster. He's definitely MORE of a vampire than Edward -- if that makes sense, which I'm sure it does to you Twilighters.

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Now to answer the comment portion... how do I relax?! Hmmm... if you know me, I'm constantly doing SOMETHING. I can't really sit still, I create too many projects for myself. Rarely do I sit infront of the tv and veg out -- well except for watching Dancing with the Stars or Grey's Anatomy... and of course, Twilight on DVD. Even then, I'm usually crocheting. But to truly "escape" I would say I read, which hadn't happened in a very long time until I picked up Twilight. Otherwise I would say I take a vacation to relax, but seriously, that doesn't happen too often either....

Pictures courtesy of: http://www.lionandlamblove.org/gallery/
Digital elements from: http://ellielash.com/blog/ and http://thescraploft.blogspot.com/2009/01/freebie-kit-cullen-kit-inspired-by.html
Digital scrapbooking program: http://www.scrapbookflair.com/

Another Rockin' Birthday

For one of the many April birthdays in our family, I created this card using Rockstar Anya by The Greeting Farm. The layout is based on the Mojo Monday sketch.

The sketch:

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My card:

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