With a new month comes a new Kit of the Month over at Unity Stamp Co.! I couldn't resist these cute shamrocks and decided to create a slimline card.

 Obsessing with my Winnie the Pooh collection, I just had to pull it out again to make a baby card when we went to meet my friend's baby, Theodore!

 It was our nephew, Lucan's 15th birthday on the weekend! Can't believe it! He is getting more into playing golf these days and we got him some golf balls for his birthday so I thought I'd better make him a golf themed card :).

 I am up on the Studio Katia Blog this morning sharing a birthday card featuring the Daisy Bunch stamp set. I have so many daisies around my place right now that I just had to take this set out! I took out Dotted Slimline Set 3 and cut out two scalloped backgrounds in white cardstock. I took one of them and cut off the scallops along the dotted lines and set aside the one still in tack to use later. I stamped the daisies at the bottom of the panel in black ink and added a mask on top so that I could stamp another daisy bunch above. I added another mask on top and stamped a third daisy bunch at the top of the panel. I removed the masks and set them aside for later.

 Here is another slimline card I made while I was trying out the ghost embossing technique! I cut out a background using the Dotted Slimline Set 1 base in kraft cardstock.

 I am up on the Studio Katia Blog today featuring a new technique I wanted to try: ghost embossing! The name sounded interesting so I just had to check it out. I started out with the Dotted Slimline - Set Two large stitched rectangle and cut it out in some kraft cardstock. Next, I took out the Sunshine of Hope sunflower and started in the middle of the card. I inked up the sunflower with Vintage Photo distress ink and stamped the image twice. Then, I shifted the slimline panel over to the right and down ever so slightly. Next, I inked up the sunflower with some white pigment ink. I stamped the image 3 times. This produces the 'ghost embossing' effect by giving the illusion that the sunflower has been embossed!

*TIP* the amount you want to shift your panel to achieve this effect really depends on the thickness of the image you are using; the lines of this sunflower are not very thick, so I did not shift it very much!

 I am up on the Studio Katia Blog today with my first shaker card project! I am fairly new to the world of shaker cards and let me tell you, Studio Katia is the perfect spot to get all of your shaker card needs! With Mother's Day coming up soon, I wanted to make some personalized cards for both my Mom and my Mother-in-Law. What do you call your grandmother? Grandma? Nana? Nonna? Gigi? Oma? This written tutorial will detail how I made the 'Grandma' card and my YouTube video tutorial will show how I made the 'Nana' card. Supplies for both cards are listed and linked below.

 It's my baby's 2nd birthday today!

*update* I am thrilled to be featured on the Lawn Fawn blog this week!

 These cards were made for my students out on practicum! I wanted to create a little scene with these sweet Lawn Fawn goats and decided to make a mini slimline.

 Harvey is off to preschool this month and I just HAD to make him and his little friend a card to celebrate! The Pete the Cat series is a big hit in our house, so when I heard there was a preschool book I jumped at the chance to order it from our local bookstore, Huckleberry Books. 

 Here are the cards I made for our nephews to celebrate the arrival of the newest member of our family! Baby Jacob brings the total number of grandchildren on that side of the family to 10: 8 children earth side + 2 babies up in the stars.

 I was so excited to start working on this card to celebrate our nephew's 4th birthday after taking Jenn Shurkus' Scootin' By course. I learned so many great tips for colouring and stenciling - especially with this new Lawn Fawn set! Our nephew loves to scooter and I really wanted to create an interactive card for him.

 My lovely Auntie Karen sent me a fun crafty package in the mail the other week! Inside were a couple of these Pinkfresh Studio Floral Notes stamped on watercolour paper. I took out my Tombow markers and got to work! I am linking up with the Pinkfresh Studio  anything goes monthly challenge.

Here is the second card that I made during the Lawn Fawn Create With Us Scootin' By class with designer, Jenn Shurkus! I love all of the sweet details on this card from the helmets with a chin strap, to the little poofs coming from behind the scooters, to the hearts floating up into the air! My absolute favourite, though, has to be adding in the 'wheelie' caret to make the sentiment read: Scootin' By to Say... Have a Wheelie Happy Day!

Yesterday I had the fun experience of participating in the Lawn Fawn Create With Us online class designed by Jenn Shurkus using the Scootin' By set. It just so happened that this was the set I chose to get from the latest release from the Papercrafter's Workshop!

 Here is a baby card I made up for my husband's friend who just had a baby last month. I decided to go with a farm theme as they have many animals on their property. I am linking up with the Lawn Fawnatics challenge of favourite place or travel destination, which I figured fits nicely with the farm.

 I have a couple of crafty friends who I wanted to send some love to this week and I knew just the set to start with from Lawn Fawn. 

 My talented Auntie Karen greatly inspired me recently to make this slimline card and create a tree canopy using the stitched cloud dies from Lawn Fawn. I used the Birch Trees dies on some woodgrain cardstock to make the trunks of my trees and stencilled in some clouds using Speckled Egg distress oxide ink. 

I am SO excited to share my first slider card! It took some trial and error and more learning but it finally came together smoothly! We happen to have a couple of little guys in our lives with birthdays coming up in August who have firefighter daddies. When I saw this Village Heroes set from Lawn Fawn I knew it would be perfect and was so happy I could get it in Canada through Papercrafters Workshop.