Happy Birthday....

Birthday's are in high gear around here. I get slammed between Feb and March and then May and June. Today I am sharing the card I made for my niece who turned 10 yesterday. All products are Stampin' Up! except for the artisan punch (Fiskars) across the top & the pink ink (Hero Arts Mid-tone ink in bubblegum). The funky red scallop is actually the tops of the cupcakes. This set is seriously fun! It's called Create a Cupcake. It also has a matching punch which I love because I don't have to cut all the little pieces out. I love that! You can order it here..Just click the shop now button in the upper right hand corner. I'll add links soon for anyone interested in shopping.



little bit of glossy accents on the cherry tops it off.



That's it for today.....

Have a great day!
Michelle

My big news....1 & 2

Hi everyone! I am here to share a new card and share my big news....first up, I have become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! I am very excited about this. I needed some sort of income and a job that would allow me the freedom to work around my health issues and my family's schedule. This was the perfect solution.

A lot of people have asked me if this means I won't be working with Hero Arts and their stamps anymore....ABSOLUTELY NOT! Hero is a part of me! Hero and Jen McGuire are the reason I stamp, I would never give them up. By the grace of God I found them at a very dark time in my life. Hero is a part of my heart. I own more Hero stamps than any other brand! :).

Secondly, I am also going to be opening a store on Etsy as well as out of my home. We are hoping in time to make it a brick and mortar. It's named after this blog, Page Master Designs. It has been in the works for a very long time now and I feel confident that I now have the time and resources to give it my full attention. I will be making invitations, announcements, thank you cards, party paraphernalia, mini albums and complete party packs. Hopefully, it will take off and I truly will be stamping for a living! :) I will keep you updated on it.

I will be using this blog for everything and I will be using my Stampin' Up! blog for all my Stampin' Up! stuff. You can find my Stampin' Up! blog HERE. You can place orders online directly from me by following the links on my site. I hope you will take the time to look. I would love to help you add to your collection of stamps....because you can never have too many! :)

So, with that all said it leads me to today's card....

I made this for my first workshop that I will be hosting in my home in the next couple of weeks. I was really excited about the Clean & Simple class I took through Online Card Classes. I think it's the best class I have ever taken. It really helped me learn that less is more! :)



I started by stamping with the "Just Believe" set. I really love this set and have a feeling it's going to be that "go to" set for me. There are so many things you can do with it.

I trimmed my card to 4.25 x 5.50. I cut a piece of Stampin' Up! card stock that measures 8.5 x 11 right down the middle at 4.25. You will get two cards that open from bottom to top when you cut your cardstock this way. Next crease the card at 5.50.

I started with the Real Red ink pad and inked the circle flower stamp up really well then stamped it on my Stamp-a-ma-jig. I lined it up and stamped it. I then moved the Stamp-a-ma-jig mat down and did the rest. I used Pool Party, Pear Pizzaz and Pumpkin Pie. After that was done I went back to my "Just Believe" stamp set and pulled out the title box with leaves. I inked it really well in Pear Pizzazz and then used my finger to wipe off the 2 flowers that are on it. I carefully inked those up with Real Red and stamped. I finished by using Basic Black and the "thank you" that is in the "Just Believe" set.

If you made it this far....THANK YOU!!! I know it was a long post today. I will be back with a much shorter post and a card tomorrow! :)

Until then....CHEERS! :)

Quilting Book

Hi Everyone,

I have been very busy as of late. I have been creating up a storm!! I am pretty excited to share this one. I made this for my mom for her birthday. I used 9 Hero Arts stamps to create this. The cover is a combination of stamping and patterned paper from October Afternoon.

My mom made my husband and I this gorgeous quilt:


I fell in love with it. This photo doesn't even do the quilt justice. I took it with my phone. It is just stunning in person.

I wanted to make her a book so that she could record the materials and stories behind her quilts. I know my daughter will love to go through it someday too. I will make her many of these I am sure. It was super simple to put together once I got the inside template done.

Here is the cover...It's inspired from the quilt she made me:



I had a bunch of Technique Tuesday diamonds and I started playing with them. I decided that they would be too bulky to add to the top so I took the exact dimensions of them, as they fit perfectly, and made a diamond template in my Silhouette Software. I did cut the smaller diamonds too but it looked too cramped on such a small area. I cut the diamonds out of cardstock and October Afternoon Paper. I stamped the cardstock with 8 different Hero Arts stamps...most of them flowers. The yellow and the red are hard to see in the photo as the inks were really close to the cardstock colors but IRL you can see it and it's so pretty. I lightly attached them to a 10x12 piece of cardstock and then used my sewing machine to stitch them on. I added the October Afternoon letter stickers and then I put Modge Podge over the entire thing.

Here is the template I made for the inside pages:

Opposite this page is a place for pictures too, each page was decorated similarly with a strip down the side and a small embellishment. I really wanted the focus to remain on her pictures of the quilts.

and here are some close ups of those diamonds...
The Fabric Stamp worked so well on this one! :)
You can really see the texture in this one:

I love the way the Colorbox Frost white looks on the dark brown and green. You can also see the dots and flower stamp on the yellow in this one.

You can just make out the large flower background stamp on the red in this one:


I hope you all have a fabulous weekend! I have so big news to share on Monday if I can get my ducks in a row...if not I will at least have some cards! :)

Til then......

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