For my mother's 57th birthday, I decided to make her a series of 5 cards - one for each day leading up to her birthday.  The card on the right is 1 of 5.  After creating the card on the right, I was inspired to also make the card on the left.  I'm not sure who I'm going to send/give this card to, but I do know that I had fun making it.  I will be sharing the other 4 cards in the series in the near future.
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Materials Used - card on the left:  Bazzill Basics Cardstock; Inkssentials Big & bossy clear embossing ink; White Embossing Powder; ribbon from Michaels; Word/Letter Stamp from Inkadinkado designed by Dawn Houser; Fresh Bloom Stamp by Stampendous; StazOn Jet Black Solvent Ink; Dark Suntan (E15)/Acid Yellow (Y08)/Amethyst (V17)/Mallow (V15) Copic Markers
Materials Used - card on the right:  Bazzill Basic Cardstock; Inkssentials Big & bossy clear embossing ink; White Embossing Powder; ribbon from Micheals; Word/Letter Stamp from Inkadinkado designed by Dawn Houser; Fresh Bloom Stamp by Stampendous; StazOn Jet Black Solvent Ink; Chrome Orange (YR04)/Begonia Pink (RV14)/Acid Yellow (Y08)/Dark Suntan (E15) Copic Markers; hemp cord; Inkssentials Glossy Accents; Tim Holtz idea-ology Fragments Charms; Tim Holtz/Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink

Recently, I embarked on a journey through Big Picture Scrapbooking.  I decided to take the 13 day journey into the Big Idea Festival.  In this free class they made available to scrapbookers across the world, 13 well known scrapbookers were able to create 3 projects (1 main project and 2 bonus projects).  Each scrapbooker was provided with the same kit and was challenged to create 3 projects using that kit.  I'll try to find out which kit they all used and post it to my website. 

So anyway, my layout above was inspired by two different workshops.  One project was the Summer Surprise Door Cone inspired by Elizabeth Dillow.  On my Girlfriends, I incorporated the butterfly technique that Elizabeth used.  Secondly, my layout was inspired by Lisa Day's "My Pride and Joy" layout, in which I scraplifted bits and pieces of her layout to create my layout.

After seeing Lisa Day's layout I knew I wanted to scrapbook a photo that was taken in 2008, of my dear friend Rosemary and I at the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.  I love the "school girl" look of the photo.  I also thought it would be great to incorporate Elizabeth Dillow's butterfly technique.  I think that colors and the elements on the page fit nicely together to create a nice and simple layout.