The Creative Stamper Spot

Resolutions for 2013, More Project Life!

Well, it's that time of the year again, time to make our New Year's resolutions. I honestly, CANNOT believe we are sitting here on the eve of next year already. As I get older, these years go by faster and faster. I remember when I was little and I used to say "I'm Bored", well that never happens to me now! I feel like there just aren't enough hours in any day. So my resolution for this next year is to spend at least an hour each week doing Project Life.
I committed to Project Life last year and did a pretty good job at it, I even took a photo every day (well almost) and I am scrapbooked up until July with a few pages here and there from Aug-Dec. I feel like every year I do a great job scrapbooking and then summer hits and I fall apart. This year I have committed to doing Digital Project Life and a photo 365 project with my DSLR. I really want to get better at photography this year and doing a photo a day on my DSLR instead of on my iPhone, I think will really help me get there.
I did these two pages digitally recently from a trip we took in November to Vegas. We left Vegas for a 1/2 day and did some horseback riding. It was a magical time and I really wanted to capture the memories.
Here is the first page. I actually got this template and instructions from Jessica Sprague for free, here.

That was so fun and easy to do ! I then used one of the digital project life templates for this page along with a free background from Jessica Sprague that I found on this website with more free project life instructions for Photoshop.

I still have a bunch more photos to put into my album so I'm hoping to do more digitally for 2012 and of course keep up with my New Year's resolution for 2013.
Thanks for stopping by today!

Owl Christmas Card

Hi all! Today is my post for the Pins to Creation design team. This year for my Christmas cards I actually ordered them online (gasp!) I know, I cannot believe I did not make them myself! For the last few years I have handmade all my cards (usually around 60) and sent them out. This year I just could not find the time to do that and decided to make them. Well I still had a few people I wanted to send out handmade cards to and also to say thank you to some wonderful friends and family for getting me gifts for my birthday (which by the way is today:-)).
I found this awfully cute owl card on pinterest a while ago and since I had all the tools to make it decided to make a few to say Merry Christmas and Thank you!
The card originated from this site, http://stampzone.blogspot.nl. I could not find the exact link back to the card but her site is loaded with great ideas! Here is the photo of the card:

Here are my cards:

I made two just for fun. I love this little owl, I didn't add arms to the below card and actually wish I would have, oh well, next time! I also really love the woodgrain embossing folder from Stampin UP! It comes out so clean when run through my big shot. The trick is to put a piece of vellum paper in with the other paper and then it won't emboss too much where the paper rips. Cool trick I learned! I also punched out an ornament instead of a heart. I am really happy with how they came out.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! If you get a chance, check out our blog and leave some love;-) http://pinstocreations.blogspot.com

Pins To Creation Christmas Blog Hop

Hi all! Welcome to the Pins to Creation Christmas Blog Hop! I hope you have enjoyed the hop so far and are here from Madge's blog over at the Scrappin Lounge. If not and you want to start from the beginning, check out the Pins to Creation blog. The goal of our design team is to find things we have "pinned" on Pinterest and create them! This time we are creating items that are Winter, Christmas or Hanukkah related.

I have decided to make a rolled paper Christmas tree like the one I pinned from the DCWV blog. Here is the photo from DCWV.

Here is my tree, I decided to frame it. This tree was so easy to make! I just started off with some Christmas paper from the DCWV Prints for the Year Ultimate Stack, cut one 8x3, rolled it around a pencil, glued the end and then glued it to the paper. I then went down 1/2 inch on the next sheet and so on until I was down to a 1/2 inch sheet. The star I cut from my scrap paper with my star punch and using two starts together I made the big star on top. I then used an embossing folder to get some brown paper to look like wood, framed it in a frame from the dollar store and voila! My 6 yr old daughter is in love with it!

Blog Candy time:
Today for the blog hop I am giving away 20, 20.00 vouchers to Firmoo.com. Firmoo is the worlds most popular online eyeglass store. The voucher code will save you 20.00 off an order placed at firmoo.com (except for designers glasses). Many of the glasses are under 20.00 and very stylish in my opinion. The voucher does not apply to shipping and the code will expire by Dec. 25th so those that win must be able to use it right away. All you have to do to be eligible to win is to go to the Pins to Creation site and comment below telling me your favorite project so far:-)

Your next stop is Jamie over at the Scrap Queen blog:-).

Pins to Creation Post - Snowman Door

Hi all! For today's post I decided to go with something totally FUN! We have been decorating our house slowly but surely the last few days, getting it ready for Christmas. While I was going through pinterest thinking of what I wanted to do for this post, I saw this and remembered how much I wanted to do it last year. Unfortunately, we do not have a white fridge, opting to go with stainless steel in our house but we do have WHITE DOOR! WOOHOO!

Here is the website where I pinned the idea from, http://craftingmytalents.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-snowman-fridge.html, and here is a copy of the photo she had on her blog:-). isn't it too cute?

Here is my version, my kids are in LOVE with this snowman:-). It was SO simple to make! I just used my Creative Memories Circle maker and cut out the eyes at the biggest circle I had. Then I cut out 9 more little circles, 5 for the mouth and 4 for the buttons (I had some kid help putting those on the door:-)), Then I free hand cut the scarf using some 12x24 Christmas paper I had, I love the candy cane paper that came in the pack. The nose was cut using a 8 1/2x 11 piece of orange paper from Stampin UP!

Here's another photo from higher up on my stairs.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you would, please head over to the Pins to Creation blog and check us out. We are a fun group of girls making projects from pinterest!

Project Life Softball Pages

This morning I was able to get a little scrapbooking done. We actually didn't have anything going on until the afternoon and the kids were playing so nicely so I thought I'd sneak in a little time in my scrapbooking room. A few hours later and I had done a bunch of project life pages and then worked on these pages from Ava's softball this summer. She participated in softball for the first time over the summer and had a blast!

I used the Teresa Collins Sports Edition II stamps for everything but the title on these pages. I love this stamps for anything sports related. The colors I used were Stampin UP Marina Mist and Regal Rose, along with some gray for the strip on the page and Stampin UP Whisper White to stamp on.