Missing you...Happy Birthday, Amanda:)

It's March 4, 2012 and 29 years ago, my MOST WONDERFUL dear daughter was born.  She has grown into an AMAZING, SMART, TALENTED, BEAUTIFUL woman, and I'm VERY PROUD of her.

Alas, she still lives on the east coast and is busy attending nursing school and raising two BEAUTIFUL children...and I miss her every day!  We talk often and try to visit each other as much as possible, but I still MISS her.  Amanda, this card is on it's way to you:)  Love you dear daughter.

I was searching through some of my buddies' blogs and came across a BEAUTIFUL card a friend of mine made.  It "spoke" to me, so I decided to use it for inspiration as I designed a card to send to my daugther.

For my inspiration, please visit Gloria's blog.  Thank you, Gloria!  My take on Gloria's card is below:)

Supply list:

Patterned Paper - Basic Grey Bittersweet Line
Stamps - Technique Tuesday
Cardstock - Bazzill
Butterfly - from a Michael's pack of butterflies
Straight Pins - from Michael's, altered using beads from the "Bead Gallery" at Michael's

Other - Ribbon, lace from my stash

enJOY:)

Spring Stamping Fever...Frugal Scrapping Style:)

I'm so excited!  I am going to be teaching a class at Ever After Scrapbooks!  Woohoo!!!!  Many of you know that I've taught at Ever After off and on for about 4 years, but took a break for the last year or so to re-group and re-vitalize my scrappin' mojo!

Well, I'm BAAAAAACK!!!!  I can't wait until class day which will be March 31st from 10 am to 1 pm. I will be teaching a card class using ALL NEW Technique Tuesday stamps and Prima's NEW Songbird collection.  The class description is as follows:

"Spring Stamping Fever with Lori McCausland. Well, you’ve known her as the Frugal Scrapper for many years here at Ever After. And we’re happy to report...SHE’S BACK! Join the oh-so-talented Lori McCausland for a Stamping Workshop using the new Technique Tuesday stamps from CHA Winter. And, a delightful bonus: Lori is including a new Technique Tuesday stamp for each student! You’ll leave with five completed cards...plus the stamp! $25."

Please see below for a quick view of all of the cards we will make:

I hope to see you in class:)

My First Frosted Designs DT Project:)

I'm so excited to be sharing my first Frosted Designs DT Fabulous Friday Challenge.  For this challenge, we we were to create something using "numbers".  Well now, being a banker by day, I thought HOW COOL is that...my very 1st DT challenge is to work with "numbers"?

In additon, the sponsor for this challenge is Graphic 45, woohoo!  Since in true frugal scrapper spirit, the Frosted Designs Blog does challenge you to use your "stash"...and our challenge as DT members is to do the same with the understanding that IF we have products we can use that will support our sponsor, we should use them...AND for those that already know me, Graphic 45 is one of my FAVORITE paper companies.  Therefore, I was able to USE MY STASH while supporting our sponsor this week.

Here is a "numbers" card that I created using one of my favorite Graphic 45 paper lines, "on the boardwalk".  I've been using this line for quite a few of my cards recently, and I'm thrilled at how they have turned out.

I've also incorporated use of my newest favorite stamps by Technique Tuesday.  I used stamps from several sets including the "All Aboard" set, the "Measure Up" set as well as the "Bring on the Sun" by Ali Edwards set.  For those of you who live locally (San Diego area), Ever After Scrapbooks just received a shipment of the newest Technique Tuesday stamps.  Go check them out, they are AWESOME!

I hope you join in on the "numbers" Fabulous Friday Challenge over at the Frosted Designs Blog:)