September Stamp of the Month - Family is Forever

Here we are hopping thru the Blog hop again!  If you've come from Haley's blog, you are on the right path, otherwise, you can start here and you will do a complete circle.

September's stamp set is Family is Forever:

 I created this card from the stamp set:

I used the tree for the base of my tree. 

I used Pathfinding Paper Pack and a 1 inch circle punch. (I hit an acorn perfectly!)

The Family is Forever Stamp I blocked out each section when I stamped.

You can't tell but the edges for the circle are up on the bottoms.

 

 Here is the inside of the card and the other half of the stamp.

Thanks for looking ~ please leave a comment.

Now hop over to Michelle's Blog for more great ideas with this stamp set!

My Sister's Birthday Card

My sister has a great yard filled with tons of flowering plants and trees.  She has a garden of fruits and veges throughout  her yard as well.  She literally removed all her grass and did plants and paths everywhere.  So for her birthday, I did a Strawberry Pop Up Card!  She's got a ton of those too!

The card is part of a set at SVGCuts.com and I made it on my Cricut using MTC software.

I post on Facebook and forget to put things here!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Birthday Boys Gifts

Three brothers, three birthdays and they all love sports, so I made three hats and filled them with gift cards, Big League Chewing gum and sour patch kids!

The logo is two of the brother's baseball team's logo.

I purchased the file from SVGCuts.com and cut it all on my Cricut.

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Stamp of the Month Blog hop - Circus Alphabet

We are hopping again thru the blog hop.
If you came from Shirley's blog, keep hopping and you'll do a complete circle
- or start here and continue a circle from here.

The stamp of the month is Circus Alphabet:

When I did this layout last week I knew what I would be doing with the photos!

I used the stamp set to do the words: CARNIVAL FUN

We attended Greek Fest in Milwaukee and my daughter went on every ride a dozen times!

A close up of the letters. I used our old markers (hint hint) to color the letters in.
The paper was a June Special paper pack!

Thanks for looking, please leave a comment.
Now hop over to Katy's blog to see her great artwork with this stamp set!

April Stamp of the Month: Balloon Talk

We are hopping again thru the stamp of the month.  If you came from Kathleen's blog, you are on the right track, otherwise, start here and it will do a complete circle.

This month it's Balloon Talk:

See the red line around some of them - they can be cut with one of our Cricut Cartridges.

Here's the whole layout - both pages.  Sorry iPad doesn't like wide photos

Left Side

Right Side

Thanks for looking! Please go to Carla's Blog to see some more great artwork with this stamp set!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

March Stamp Of The Month - Happy Place

If you are coming from Krista's blog, you are on the right track.  If you are starting here, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  This month is a fun set:

 I used the Like Mother/Like Daughter stamp and the heart for my one page layout:

Sorry somewhat blurry iPad didn't want to work for me. (The iphone didn't do much better.
Wanted to get these posted in time so the top one isn't clear.)

 

3 Generations cooking Greek Cookies for a Girl Scout Event. 

Here are some close ups:

 Before powdered sugar

( So that you can tell they are cookies.)

 After Sugar - there's about 4 layers of cookies stacked.

Thanks for looking! 

Now hop over to Kim's Blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

Jeanie's Birthday Cake

I created a roller skate out of paper using two kits from SVG Cuts.com. 

One kit has an ice skate and the other has round gift boxes - 

put the two together and created the roller skate I needed.

My daughter had her 8th Birthday Party at the local roller rink with some friends and family.

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

What I did this summer . . .

Here is a few things we did this summer . . .

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Mary Eisen

Jeanie Layouts

A couple of Jeanie layouts - above is her first hair cut! 

Below is her eating a cookie and really enjoying getting into it!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Fairies at the Fair

The Renaissance Fair and Jeanie loved the Fairies.  Here is another Studio J layout.  

Did you know that you can search our pre-designed layouts by the quantity of photos you have to use? So if you have 3 or 10 photos you can see all the layouts that can handle all the photos you want to use - then add you paper choice!  What a great idea!  

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Camping Adventure Layout

I had a lot of fun doing this layout and adding tons of extras from the embellishments tab!  Our first camping experience as a family!  Thanks for looking and please feel free to comment. 

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Mary Eisen

Studio J - Getting caught up

The the opportunity to do some digital scrapbooking in December - in fact, I have 8 free layouts that would be expiring December 31st, if I didn't use them.  So here is one of eight.  I did a 3 photo layout. Jeanie fell and caught strep throat - the strep went into her arm and infected her cut.  Weeks of wearing a bandage cured her inquiring about a cast!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

The Christmas Parade!

I made the banner for my daughter's Brownie Troop.  

We will be in the parade tonight in West Bend.  

Come out and see us and Santa at 5pm!

Thanks for looking!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Special Care

Hello again and welcome to our monthly blog hop!  If you came from Katy's blog, you are on the right track, if not, start here and keep hopping, you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set is Special Care:

Three of these stamp can be cut out with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge - see the red outline.

I thought of my baby girl when she was in the tub in Wisconsin Dells. It's really a hot tub in our hotel room. She and Daddy had a blast - better than the cold pool!  It was Thanksgiving weekend 6 years ago.

WARNING NAKED BABY PICTURES:

I used the HANDLE WITH CARE stamp and created a background paper by stamping the image in rows.  I White Pigment stamped the Special Care stamp on the top right. There's even a Warning Label stamp.

The top is the left page and this one above is the right.  I have this one in the page protector because I added flip flaps to the center, on top of the page protector so they can be opened without having to take out the page.  Underneath is naked Daddy chest - and I promised to hide that - but still scrap them. 

A couple of clear gems for bling and sparkle.

Thanks for looking - please leave a comment!

Now hop over to Vicki's blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

November Stamp of the Month - Illuminate

If you came from Joy's blog, you are on the right track, if not, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set reminded me of camping with the hanging lights and because this was the first year we did camp -  it was perfect!!!

I curved the stamp on a block and added it behind the cork letters I ran across!

You can't even tell where the left page ends and the right one starts - I planned that! 

(My idea of camping IS pool side!)

Now hop over to Wendy's blog to see some other great ideas for this stamp set!

My Front Door

Felt like fall to me so I thought why not embrace the season and decorate (hate cold weather!).

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - September

If you are hopping from {Katy's Blog,} you are on the right track, if you are starting here, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  

This month's stamp set is called Poster Tidings S1309.  

In my years, I've created 100's of layouts and many are still sitting unfinished 

because they are made for class examples. 

I dug deep into my stash and found these pages and finished them.  

I really wanted to do something Fall so I dug thru our photos and found these.

Our daughter was just turning one and it was the fall of 2007. 

 

I stamped this 4 times in 4 different colors.

I then cut up the words and used foam tape to "pop" the words out.

 Our lake house and the hill around it had such great colors 

in fall when the leaves would change. 

We sold our house and boat shortly after this due to the economy falling.

We have great memories and pictures - plus we were able to move across the street

so the lake isn't too far away.  

Check out the rare antique embellishments that I used on this layout! hee hee

 

Can you see the hot air balloons in this picture?  

They almost touched the water when they came into the Kettle.  

Now to continue on the hop to see other great ideas! Click here to see {Lalia's Blog}.