MOTHERS DAY

I made a mothers day card for a friend of mine to send to her mom. 

I cased this card from ZGRANDMA on SCS. 

 I really liked how it turned out and hope that her mom loves it just as much I do. 

I was having a hard time with the paper flowers, so I used some of my prima flowers I had.

All supplies used are from Stampin Up unless noted.

Paper: very vanilla, yellow, glossy

Ink: gold/brown spray mist, melon mambo, yoyo yellow, only orange, glorious green

Misc: ribbon (my stash), flowers (prima), fire rhinestone brad, hodgepodge hardware

I misted the glossy cardstock with the gold/brown mist and set it aside to dry for a few minutes.

Then I used a sponge, dipped into my ink pads and swished and swiped it on the

glossy cardstock in random patterns.

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

COLOR WITH A BLUR

I played with a same b/w technique adding color back in and I also blurred the background and the glass in the front. This is my son and my 2 nephews.  They are all boy and definately the BOO CREW!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

FLOWER POWER

I wanted to play again with changing a color photo to black & white and then bringing back a touch of color.  Again I used the Corel  Draw program.

This time I used a picture that my sister-in-law took.  I hope you enjoy this one. 

Praise god and Happy Easter to everyone.

Original photo that is gorgeous to begin with.

The after effect with just the yellow. 

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

COREL PAINTSHOP PHOTO PRO X3

I learned something new with my Corel program.  I have had it for a while and just keep learning a little bit and then I use it and then I go back to learn some more.  Today I learned how to take a color photo, change it to black and white and then add a touch of color back in.  I found a picture on a blog that I really liked for a kitchen and what I want my kitchen to look like. I hope you enjoy this and if you are looking for a great photo editing software, I would so suggest this program.

BEFORE W/ ALL COLOR

AFTERWARDS WITH JUST A TOUCH OF COLOR!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

SASSY THANG!

I had 2 birthday cards that I was asked to make. 

 I came across this digital download from

McMahon Five Designs

and could not resist the cute hippo named SASSY. 

On the inside of both cards, it says

"Happy Birthday You Sassy Thang".

SUPPLIES: All supplies are from my stash unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock (blue, pink grey), corner & side scallop punch (Stampin Up),

black ribbon, prima flowers, lt pink brad, 

3d foam embelishments, stampin write markers (Stampin Up)

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

Happy Easter

I wanted to try the technique called Bum pain background found on the videos on My Digital Studio.  I was just playing around and wanted to try the circle instead of the square as I wanted hills.  So I was just going through the downloads and decided on a few from my Easter section.  I hope you enjoy!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

Congratulations

I have a wedding coming up in a couple of months, but I found this card from Valerie Salmon and so I decided to case it in MDS. I hope you enjoy!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

ROBIN

MDS BIRTHDAY CARDS

I made a couple of quick and simple cards on MDS for birthdays.  One is A little bird told me and the other is Whoo's birthday .  I cased the original design from Lesley at Always Playing with Paper. I just love MDS and I hope you enjoy!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

MONSTER HIGH

My daughter Kaley had a birthday party to attend today.  We went shopping and one of the things we got for her friend was this MONSTER HIGH purse.  So when we got home, I made the card to go with the purse using the Stampin Up set JUST JAWING.  I made some alterations, but tried to make it as close to the purse as possible.  I took the pictures (see below), and there was a ton of items in the background, so I was playing with my COREL system and managed to come up with the layout below using my MDS and some fun fonts I downloaded. I hope you enjoy!

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: just jawing

PAPER: bright pink, whisper white

INK: black stazon, basic black stampin write marker

Misc: black embossing powder, ribbon and rhinestones from stash

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

SO GOOFY?

Another layout from the kids at the park.

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

KID ZONE

More pictures of the kids from 2004 or 2005.  I did not mark the photos very well. 

Not to mention, I love taking B&W photos.  It has such an elegant look.

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

LITTLE MAN

My little man and his many ways to learn things. 

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

AMERICAN AS OREOS?

The kids love all holidays.  They had received a flag and was showing their AMERICAN pride.  It all goes together so great.  Zakary is wearing a shirt with an american skateboard, Brennan has his daddy's shirt with a Bald eagle on it and Kaley is holding the OREOS they are eating!

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

TEEN SCENE

This is my teenage son and the normal everyday occurences.

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

PURRRRRFECT

Here is a layout for from our cats over the last 7 years!  We still have Yogi and Gracie. 



HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

 ROBIN

KAT N ROBIN 2

OK, Here is 2 layouts created in MDS with the same picture.  Which layout do you like better?



HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY!

 ROBIN