Every year, when a new SU idea book and catalog is due to come out, my group always gets together to swap cards made with the new hostess sets. The sets I used for this one are from the 2006-2007 catalog. What's cool about this card is that it incorporates a color from each of the 4 color families, yet they work well together.

This is one of my favorite photos of my son who was 5 months old. We had spent the week of the 4th of July at a small resort in Winter, Wisconsin. The day of the local parade, I captured this awesome shot while my friend Missy was holding him.

I created the left border with with the stars using VersaMark and embossing with white powder. The red cardstock was also embossed with white using the Simple Stripe background stamp. The red and blue stripe on the white cardstock was achieved by coloring the stamp with Real Red and Night of Navy markers.

An awesome photo of my son taken at Flash Photography. I created this layout for my dad for his birthday, complete with frame. After inking the real red cardstock with basic black ink, I overlaid it with torn vellum and a strip of eyelash fibers.

To make the red airplane embellishment, I cut it from red tin.