My Deepest sympathy

I fifnished my second

sympathy card...I used the "Here For You" stampset from There She Goes again!...I really like how the image and background turned out. I used some chalk pigment inks I was given by a friend a few eyars ago. they seemed to spnge perfectly over the black heat embossed image. WHen I first sponged I filled almost the whole car with Yellow and then over sponged withthe orange. Starting with a sun shape and deciding that a sunset background might work better.

I matted with my usual Black Cardstock...thinking I was originally going to pierce the black paper to let the orange show through, but opted to use the little pieces of MS Lattice Arch instead. The orange piece...feels like SU but I cant remember the color...was embossed with my "Victoria" Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment was heat embossed also and I used my Zutter 1/4" corner rounder to round the two opposite corners. I wish I didnt feel so rusty still because my cards are looking a bit simple, but I am so happy to be Stamping, again.

Until Later ...Happy Stamping! Dont forget the "Resolution Blog Candy"

TSG Sympathy

I needed to make a card for my friend whose brother died recently. I love There She Goes sympathy stamp set, "Here For You" the little sentiments on it are beautiful and meaningful. I need to make another one for another friend in the same situation today, very sad to lose a sibling. I just cant imagine that kind of loss.

I used SU Barely Banana, and Cuttlebug "Birds and Swirls" Folder and sponged a bit of Midnight Black Teardrop ink pad. I used GP white and Embassy Black both from Walmart. I used black embossing powder and from an old multi color stack I got somewhere..and heat embossed the sentiment and bird image..The image is done on Vellum and then turned over and colored with multiple yellows from the Earth Elements and Soft Subtles...after coloring them in strips I sponged and blended with some stamp cleaner...

The brads are from multi color sets from Queen and Co., I figure the brads needed to be shiny to go with the embossing...

Until Later ... Happy Stamping...

PS...dont forget the Resolution blog candy post..I actually browsed the craft isle today...

Cards...I made some cards!!!

Tonight I finally got to use my new stamp set from There She Goes. I really liked the quotes and leaf patterns in her sets so I had to have...Butterfly Happiness... I also ordered a set of three Card boxes and covered them last Friday,...but I forgot to take a picture...heck I almost didnt get them covered...check out Jessicas Blog though she has some great samples there.

I used SU Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana cardstock. SU Certainly Celery, Barely Banana and Close to Cocoa Classic Ink. I used MM paper distressing kit to sand and rough edges, and a torn sponge to age the edges with Close to Cocoa.

I also Used the SU Canvas Backgrounder to stamp the Barely Banana Cardstock ...sorry to see it being retired..I use it alot. I used Offray brown ribbon from Wal-mart and some striped I got from Target dollar spot a year ago, rubbed with water and Close to Cocoa ink.

I hope you like the cards.

The past few months have kept me extremely busy. This morning I completed my 6 dresses...I would bore you to death telling you everything I finished up in the last few weeks but it was a lot..I will post some pictures later.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Baja Bird Song

The color Challenge this week is Very Vanilla, Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze...I managed to have all the colors Yeah!!! I managed to make a card tonight..I am not quite certain what I think of it(tell you why later)...its growing on me a bit...I used my new Stamp Set from ,"There She Goes" to stamp the birds in flight...they worked really nice!....I was going to stamp flowers on the card panel opposite the bird , but when I looked at my stamps the birds in flight looked like they would work wonderfully and they did.
I really need to make some sympathy cards and use more of the set ,but I am catching up on some welcome cards for the RAK group I am involved with that somehow I omitted doing...I used my Cuttlebug and "Bird Song" EF to make the baja panel, I cut the panel and punched the scalloped edge first. I then sponged the front with Kiwi Kiss over the grass and Baja Breeze on the bird and edge. I cut a second strip of Kiwi Kiss and then punched it with the scalloped Punch also layered the piece and adding a strip on the outside edge of the card. I then pierced the kiwi pieces. If you click on the picture you'll see it better. I then stamped the Very Vanilla with "Inspired By Nature" loving the grass by the way...This is the part of the card I am uncertain about; whether mixing the grass was a good idea... What do you think? I stamped the sentiment from "Best Yet" on Vanilla. I had intended to place it on the vanilla panel with a blue scalloped square around it and it looked funny so I shifted it to the baja side of the card and ditched the extra scallopes. I guess sometimes you can have too many scallops...

Let me know what you think...

UNtil Later...Happy Stamping!