Lacey Petals

I finally made a card this week that I can post. I made one for my new SIL birthday, but I was running so far behind I put it in the mail with out taking a picture...I hate when I do that.

I recently bought MS lacey Doiley Punch and recieved this Botanical Blooms Stamp Set from SAB. I had fun using it for this card. I like how it turned out. I made this card with SC217 and WT207 on Splitcoast. I dug in my scrap box for the DP Petals and the Celery piece of CS, I've also remebered the White CS for the sentiment and Floral images is scrap fromthe wedding invites as is the ribbon. I feel it met the Frugal Find...I am sure I will probably make another card because I have lots of frugal finds down in my Craft room.

I used some Pink Pirouette, and Pacific

Point CS also and some hero Arts Gemstones. The Sentiment is from Upsy Daisy. I stamped the floral image in Jet Black StazOn also and then colored with my Prismacolors in Pink and then blended with Gina K's Odorless blender solution. After punching the images out with my EK 7/8" square punch, I painted Bashful Blue Watercolor Wonder Crayon floating it onto the surface around the flower. then painted the stem with Certainly Celery.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Branching Out to You

Hello, My close friend and I got together to stamp on Wed afternoon...It has been awhile since we've done our regular routine of Stamping. Life just kept interferring. So she invited me over to make a card. She had recently recieved her "Branching Out" stamp set so we each chose 4 colors and made a card. Our colors were pretty similar but you can see a diffence in styles.


Her card should be posted on her blog Shari's Cards and Stuff soon.





This one is mine...I used Chocolate Chip,Summer Sun, Old Olive, Ridinghood Red, and Very Vanilla. We were at her house and my Cuttle bug stuff was at home So I used Crosshatch background stamp ont he Chocolate Chip, I wanted to use the Embossing folder. I think the card is pretty self explanatory I tried to mirror stamp the bird ont he end of the "best Yet" sentiment, but I couldnt get it to look right. the sentiment and Boots are mounted on dimensionals. Hope you like it...Until later ...Happy Stamping!

Embracing Everything

Tonight I had fun making up the last of my "Embrace Life" flower cards. I also made another one on SCS for LSC207 Stretch yourself...I made a little Black and White Bliss card that Is in my gallery there. I used only black and white and no embellishments and no cuttlebug so its a bit different from my usual.

I used Certainly Celery and Baja Blue on the first card, and the sentiment is from Upsy Daisy...I made it for a friend. the Ribbon was a gift from a CCRak Irecieved last summer...I thought it was perfect for this card.

I just had to add the little Celery flower bard to the sentiment. I have failed to mention yesterday that the leaves were painted withmy Watercolor Wonder Crayon in Certainly Celery.

The Second card I used Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirouette. I think this is the perfect Pink to go with Chocolate. I used Everyday Flexible Phrases to stamp the "Happy Birthday", I used my circle punches and scalloped circle to make up the sentiment matting and my 3/4" punch to make the indent on the image panel for the little Chocolate bow...yes, I tied an actual bow instead of a knot.

I like how the D'vine swirl Embossing folder looks with this...I have been trying not to use it so much, but I really do like it.

I think my flash went off way to bright on the last card. I used scrap of Brown cardstock I got on clearance a few years ago because it was faded abit. I think this is the last piece I had so I finished up somethign form my

stash...yeah for me!
I used textile Embossing folder for a different look from the other cards. I used one of my my "tags & sliders" Cuttlebug diecut also. I cut one in white and one in Perfect Plum and then layered the sentiment "celebrate" from Everyday Flexiable Phrases on dimensionals.

I have enjoyed revisiting Embrace Life to make the 5 cards int he last few days. It helped get my stash of Birthday cards up for emergencies and it was fun to be able to have some cards to blog about.

Until Later ....Happy Stamping!

In my free time a few days ago I stamped several "Embrace Life" flowers, and masked them to stamp the stems over the top. I colored 5 of these flowers all together I have left sentiments off of them because my stash is low in all areas... I decided to make a few up that I can use on anything while I work on building up my stash of Birthdays, Getwell, Thank you, Sympathy and Thinking of You cards.... Both cards use GP White and Certainly Celery. One uses More Mustard and the other Riding hood Red . The more mustard card was made for Splitcoast SC215 challenge. I used my So Swirly jumbo wheel to ink up the background. and the Brown is from a nuetrals value pack I got at Michaels, before I learned about the advantages of thicker paper. I used my Prismacolor Pencils to color the flower with a blender, and my Watercolor Wonder Crayons to paint the leaves.

This red card really make me think of apple blossoms, which right now I am dying to see. It will be a few months yet before the leaves burst out and the spring flowers are blooming, so these cards are as close as I can get right now.
I used my Floral Screen Cuttle Bug Folder and Dotted Swiss to emboss on both cards. I was going to just have two panels but decided to round th ecorner and off set the image with the ribbon and bow. I used my slot punch to put the holes in the image panel to thread the ribbon through. I loved adding a bit more color with the MM 5th Ave Flower brads I picked up at Target.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Valentine Ideas

If you havent figured out my stamping theme/goal this year is to reduce my Stash, buy including it in to all may creations. We all have a stash! It just happens because so many new things are always coming out. They are always great and so our stash grows and grows. My eyes were opened a little this year when I moved my carfting space. I realized I forgot I owned some stuff how does that happen..LOL... So because of the economy I am trying to cut back and reduce my stash. I've decided there are many ways I can reduce my Storage requirements at the same time... so with that in mind here are my simple Valentine Crafts I made this year. I also covered a few Hershey bars for my DD's, but I forgot to take a picture...I need to get another one made so maybe I'll get a picture taken yet...

I made some cute valentines using my SU "Festive Favorites" sometimes we forget we already have stamps in our collection that we can blow the dust off. I n my case Festive Favorites was the perfect set the little square shapes are perfect for ghiradelli chocoalte squares.

I wanted to cover the new Peanutbutter one's I picked up and boy are they delicious...I also covered this little heart tin I saved from last year and so I included a matching square on it.

I colored with my Prisma Pencils, and used some oderless mineral spirits to blend. The colors are close to Pirouette Pink So Saffron, Real Red and Pixie Pink.

I Covered the Red Heart Tin (an old mrs fields Chocoalte tin, it had raised lettering onthe front. Isaved it last year it got filled with minatures and Kisses) it took a little work. I used White GP Card stock rolled with "so swirly"SU jumbo wheel and REal Red Ink. I traced the tin bottom and cut out the shape and adhered it to the top with Dimensionals. The square on the tin was matted using my SU Scalloped square punch with Real Red CS. I had to punch two, because we all know the punch is slightly too small for SU larger square punch. so I off set them at the diagonal where the ribbon is placed. I added a little gem stone on the lower corner and covered the little clip with Real Red CS also and tied a nother bit of the ribbon( old Target $ scraps from last year). I had these die cut "K" on hand(using my stash) in a Burgandy so I sponged it with White Craft ink and some Dew Drop Moonlight white for some shimmer, then added the two red gem stones for glitz and to match up with the square.

So last night I made the most hideous card ever. I saw a piece of scrap DP just a general scrap of paper. I thought I'll use that..well nothing good came of it and the more I tried to make it work th eworse the card became..LOL ..since I still eneded three masculine birthday cards...I still used it and told my nephew( hes 27ish) I hope he got a good laugh out of it. A little leary tonight I went back and tried again I still had two images colored..,afterall. I am happy to say I had actual blogable results. Not my best work because I am still overcoming months of being too busy with the wedding, but none the less blogable.


Iused the same colors for the cards a Brown from a Nutrals Assortment form Michaels a bit lighter in color than SU browns..Real Rust and More Mustard...the ribbon is a dotted swiss organza from Wal-mart I like the way it lays on a card...need to get more colors of it...I used my cuttle bug embossing borders, and Woods background...I am loving coloring images with my Primas and WWC I used Oderless spirits on these too tigers from SU "zoorific" and I used happy thoughts for the sentiment. I stamped in Timber Brown StazOn. I hope you enjoy them both. I have two more post to do this week...Just some simple Valentines I made for tomorrow.

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Amazing Birthday Trio

I have always liked "Pretty Amazing" so I paired it with the birthday sentiment from "Upsy Daisy" to make some birthday cards. I used the same elements and mixed them up a bit.

I masked the huming bird and then stamped the flower on Barely Banana and Rocked and Rolled it in Apricot Appeal. I like how these masked images turned out. I used my Watercolor Wonder Crayons and my H2O painter to paint the humming bird using Taken with Teal and Cameo Coral. On one image I also painted the background with Bashful & Bordering Blue. I used my Cuttlebug "Stylized Flower" folder to emboss Taken with Teal. I trimmed and matted with Basic Black. I found the cute MM yellow flower brads to accent the sentiment. I think they go great with the image. The black tricot ribbon is from Ofray at Wal-mart. I am using up my stash so well; I used up all my tape runner...ugh! I hope they have some in stock on Monday when I can get to the store...

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Challenge Cards 2

I have been trying to get all my routines going again. Slow and steady wins the race I guess. I have made the challenges on SCS the last three days so thats a start. I have also made alot of progress on my goal of scanning my pictures into my computer. I actually finished a year today. It was a big year too, becasue we had recently purchased a new camera. Abt. 200 pictures so yes I am feeling like I am accomplishing something. I also went and read a book to DS's class so I can chalk of some volunteer time to the school.

All of my cards are very basically similar to what I usually do nothing amazing but it feels good to actually be doing something again. The new thing I did was the TLC 206 Challenge. I used some old CS the thinner stuff I bought when I first ventured into Card making, another goal this year to use up some of the old paper so I can free up space for some nicer stuff...I was raised with Waste Not ..Want Not attitudes and to not be wasteful..so I need to use up some of my stuff. The lilac is the CS of which I speak. the DP is PC scrap that was setting around, came in a big multi pack gift for Christmas a few years ago. I used some pieces of Perfect Plum and Old Olive to trim it and bring in some colors from the DP. I made thewindow first using the diagram on the SCS challenge. I didnt have enough information, but I think I made it right. the window mightbe a little high it interfers withthe card closing a bit. The template said 1/4" I'ld probably only make it an 1/8th of an inch next time. I'ld also lower it away form the fold a bit more. after getting the base made I realized I should have stamped the Card base before hand. I resorted to DP and then cutting a piece of matching CS to go aroung the opening so I could emboss it, it helped make thecatrd stiffer. I cut a 1/4" square frame the dimension of the opening, to frame the wndow I felt it hid the openings created by the cuts in the corners. All in all this card ook me two days to work around learningthe best way tomake a window frame card again. I cut a piece of white Dp and embossed it with Swiss dots CB embossing folder and rubbed Alwasy Artichoke on the dots. After doing it, I decided on the Old Olive for frame and embossed with Floral Screen, thinking AA was too dark for a baby card. I used my With Love CB strip to Emboss the flowers and Perfect Plum to mat them. I used some dollar Clear stamps from Michaels to stamp the Welcome Little one, and the baby is a stamp I picked up somewhere inexpensively a few years ago. I like how my first ever Window card turned out. Nest time it will be much easier, since I learned alot trying this one. My second card is for the CC204A challenge on SCS using Cameo Coral, Creamy Caramel and Old Olive... this card definately Challenged my skilld. Coral and Carmel are not "go to" colors for me and it was difficult to figure out what to use as a primary color so I resorted to OO becasue I use it alot and SU "heartfelt Thanks" becasue I like it for flowers. It turned out better than I imagined. I distressed alot because I wanted to mute the colors a bit, because I was uncomfortable withthem. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the OO with Floral Screen, a new favorite of mine, then I sponged with Creamy Caramel. The Coral Piece I spponged with Creamy Caramel and the Creamy Caramel I sponged with Cameo Coral. Iuse dmy Stamp A MaJig to stamp teh Creamy Caramel border over thePrimary image stamped using SU Old Olive andCameo Coral markers. I sponged theedges of all the Very Vnilla Cards tock with Creamy Caramel andthen also sponged my Caramel Gingham Ribbon with the used sponge also to Darken the white of the ribbon. I was going to post all three cards but lost the images once So I will have to do another post tomorrow.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!