It's been absolutely forever since I made any cards.  I joined an SU! stamping club last month and we had a second meeting on Wednesday night.  Since then I've had the hankering to start making cards again but didn't get an opportunity (and inspiration) until tonight.  As usual I did a little bit of mass production and made 5 cards (using some already cut to size card stock bases).  I used a wheel I had never used before (although I'd had it a few months) and some pearls from my Pretties Kit (again that I've never used but had a few months).  I really like the way these turned out and will use them for any occasion simply by stamping a greeting on the front (above the white cardstock) and a sentiment on the inside (Thank You, Birthday, Thinking of You etc).

Here they are:
Credits:
Forever Flowers Wheel, Pretties Kit, Close to Cocoa ink, Chocolate Grosgrain Ribbon, White CS, Pale Plum CS, older light blue CS (can't remember name of color), scallop punch, prima flower.

Today you can find my contribution for MyScrapShop's FREE Autum Collaboration Kit over at their blog here . This is the first collaboration kit I've partcipated in and it is being given away for FREE in installments over several days with my part available today. So if you like it, download it and leave me some love. Thanks!

This is really supposed to be a two page 8.5x11 spread but I wanted to do 12x12 for consistency in I's scrapbook. These photos have already been posted on the blog so no more descriptions.

Credits:
Papers by Meredith Fenwick Baby Mine
Date Stamp by Trish Jones
Font CK Ali's Handwriting
Alpha Tab Scrapgirls Erica Hite Bookworm
Staples Meredith Fenwick

This weekend saw a digital scrapbooking sale over at scrapbookgraphics.com for one of my fave designers Meredith Fenwick.  I've got most of her stuff already but I picked up these calendar stamps which I thought could be pretty useful.  You can use them for any year, just delete the extra days and add a month and year.  I figure I can use them to make home made calendars or for dating scrapbook pages.  Not bad for $1.80.

My "Design Your Life" class with Cathy Z over at BigPictureScrapbooking.com has just started and we have two assignments this week. This is the first assignment which is to use a sketch that demonstrates "balance" in its design.

Credits:
SFreeman Back To School (striped paper)
Miss Vivi Back To School (graph paper)
SFreeman Back To School (lined kraft paper)
Raspberry Road Suburban Boy Element
Century Gothic Font

I've been looking for something to store items to be scrapped/preserved (such as the kids artwork and oversized photos) for a while and stumbled across these drawers at Winners for $16.99 each (that's CDN). I picked up two sets in the "quiet meadow" so that I would have one drawer for each child plus one for family stuff. They are already labelled and K's is already pretty full with all the artwork she has done over the last year.

I don't plan to keep her artwork in there indefinitely as I'd actually like to photograph it and print each piece on a 4x6 and put them into a photo album that everyone can look at I just haven't worked out how I will combine that with the titles like "Elephant", "Horse", "Ariel the Mermaid", "Our Garden". Until then, these drawers are the perfect solution.