Why ello kitty

Hubster and I spent a bit of time away from it all by camping in the mountains.  As I'm sure you all may have seen our little furry-purry Pendleton, we needed a kitty-sitter.  Thankfully, my sisters was super stoked to watch our little Pen-Ben.

And naturally, I was super stoked to make her a thank you card.

Tried to make the white happen with the letterpress, but it just wasn't working out for me.  So I had to try something else to make it work.  I used a cuddlebug folder to emboss the blue paper then used white ink with a stamper pad to color the raised pattern from the embossing. 

I used the Car Decals cart to make the kitty.  "thanks" stamp was from a Fiskars removable stamp pack (can't remember what it's called off the top of my head).  Both ribbons are Celebrate brand.

Hopefully I'll be able to post some more pictures this weekend.  Have lots of cool stuff to show you. 

Fifty, Fuschia, and FABULOUS

I am definitely excited to see S. Ell Designs starting to take off.  Just finished a custom order for birthday cards, and I must say that I am so proud of how these cards turned out.  I had a little trouble getting my ideas off the ground at first, but then everything just clicked.

A very special lady in my life wanted some birthday cards to celebrate with her friends for a, shall we say milestone, birthday.  And I was more than happy to fulfill this request.  The only thing, they had a theme...  Fifty, Fuschia, and Fabulous.  Since most of the cards I've been doing lately have been for babies, most of my supplies consisted of pastels and neutrals.  So back to the craft store I went.

But of course, no one has to drag me into a craft store or two.  When I go, I usually spend an hour or so just wandering around the aisles, getting ideas and inspiration.  And on occasion will go to one, two, or three craft stores in one trip just to make sure I have everything I need.  Or, at least everything that I think I need.

1 Card for $3.50 or 3 for $9.75



1 for $3.25 or 3 for $9



1 for $3.50 or 3 for $9.75

 Each card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and includes a beige envelope.  Card inserts have been left blank for the card givers to add their own personal sentiments.

Like what you see and want some for yourself??  Email me at s.elle.designs@hotmail.com and let's talk about your custom order!

Little One

This last weekend, we welcomed little Amelia into the world.  One of my bestest friends of all times had her precious little baby girl this weekend.  I was so excited to see my friend and to finally meet this new little one.  BUT FIRST, I had to make a card to welcome Amelia.

Even though I knew the baby is a girl, I still went with seemingly generic color scheme.  But the reason I chose pink, blue, and green, is because it matches the colors in Amelia's room.  Which is so freakin adorable... might I add.

So after scribbling some notes and sentiments on the inside of the card, I was off to go help Mom by cleaning her house a bit, since Amelia was earlier than expected.  I am so excited about the addition of this precious little one into our lives.  And forsee many many birthday cards on the horrizon...

Baby Shower, Flowers, and Cards

So much of my time lately has been spent on the planning and preparation of a baby shower for one of my dear friends, Misty.  She and her husband have ASTONISHING will power, and have decided to not find out the gender of their baby until the little precious boopshie arrives and surprises the world.  Thus, the baby shower was of gender neutral colors; it was a little difficult, but yellow and green are some of my fave colors.  You may have seen in previous posts the green and yellow cards and treat bags, so we had to have some coordinating flower centerpieces as well. 

I thought, green, yellow, and white flowers, what a cinch!!  But it was actually kinda difficult to find flowers in my area that looked decent in this season.  Probably had something to do with all the rain we've been having this year.  But thanks to Ralphs and Costco, I was able to put together 3 large and 3 small centerpieces.

I must admit, when I started to assemble the first arrangement, I thought, "What the heck did I get myself into?  There is no way I can pull this off..."  And considering it was the night before the shower, I was startin to get a little worried.  So I told myself, this will work.  This HAS TO work.  And thankfully my head clicked into gear and I whipped these out.

All of the roses opened up by the morning, looking full and gorgeous.  I was so stoked that they filled out.  This was one of my favorite of the smaller centerpieces.

About two weeks ago, the Scrapbook Expo was in my area, so I went with my sister and one of my co-workers (owner of Delo Designs).  We had an uber blasty blast, but were exhausted by the afternoon.  We all came out with amazing things and eager to bust out crafts with our new toys.  I rediscovered some cool techniques I had forgotten about, and found out new about new toys, like a letterpress.  Which will be my next toy...  **wink wink, Hubster**

The Hubster and I also attended a wedding last weekend and I thought it would kinda be against the rules to give a store bought card, considering I'm trying to start my own card business.  So this was another whip something together card. 



You can't really tell, but CONGRATS is embossed in black.  Silver swirls were also embossed


Their red, black, and white wedding was GORGEOUS! And so so so much fun.  It was great to see a lot of the Hubster's friends from the marines again, and nice to finally get to meet some of the wifeys.  There were lots of pictures...  and lots of drunkennes... lol  But all in all, it was a beautiful wedding, and lots of congrats to the new Mr. and Mrs. 

I just had to use some of my new toys from the expo, so I embellished the insert on the card

Without fail, when I walk into a craft store, I find stacks of paper that I feel I just cannot live without.  So my stash of paper is borderline getting out of control.  Before I got to the Scrapbook Expo, I told myself, that I would absolutely not buy any paper, what so ever...  But, as I'm sure you could guess, walked out with almost more paper than I could carry.  Thankfully, just after the expo, I had an order for Thank You cards so buying all that new paper felt justified.

After scouring the interwebz for card ideas and seeing demos of people blending borders on their designs, I just had to try it out on a card of my own.  One of my other co-workers was thinning her crafting collection, and graciously thought of me.  So I decided to give it a whirl.  I think it turned out pretty good.

I spent most of my morning getting my craft cave organized, so I have a renewed passion to get in there and make stuff happen.  Plus... I have orders coming in, so I have to get it crackin.  But I'll leave you with one last picture.  One that was snapped quickly with my phone, but gives me an uber big smile...

Just a little peek into my world of crafting.  I can't wait to make more stuff happen and to share it with you!  Until Next time...

More Cards from S. Elle Designs

So I am at that stage in my life where seemingly every one I know is either having weddings or babies.  So you may start to see a very common theme in the things that I create.  I usually find most of my inspiration from the happenings around me.  Since I (unfortunately) have to work full time until I can make this crafting shindig a legit money-making business, I usually only have time to make the cards and crafts that I need at that moment.

Maybe one day... I'll have enough time to create and bring you all the ideas in my head... but until then, some of my little crafties to hold you (and me) over.

Treat bags (to match baby shower invites seen in previous card post)

S. Elle Designs

So I know I've been slacking on posting this last month and a half.  But as usual, got all caught up in the holidays.  But now I'm back!!  And I've been working on a couple projects.  I know I promised to post my recipe for the treats I gave for Christmas.  And I will!  But I'm really excited about some card projects and I wanted to share them with you all. 

So now for the projects...  I'm venturing into the world of card making. Here's pics of some of the stuff I've been working on.

I hope you guys like them!!  I am so excited about getting into making cards.  I'll be posting more as I do them.  But I wanted to keep you all updated with the crafty happenings in my life.  Until next time!!