Its Friday Already?!!!

I dont know where the week went really...its beena busy crazy one...I found some time to create today so I made a couple cards using the same colors and a variation on the focal image. I decided to combine LSC174 with SC182...

On both cards I cut the GP white cardstock to 8.5x 4 1/4 then folded it in half to make a 41/4 square card. The Barely Banana Piece is 4 1/8 square. The Mellow Moss squares in both cards are cut from scraps with my 1 1/4 square EK punch. The small white quares I rolled my Vine JumboWheel on my Mellow Moss Ink Pad and then rolled it on White then stamped in Pretty Pink the small flower from Paint Prints. the yellow center is done with A dcenter from a different flower set. seems I didnt have any erasers on the end of a pencil to use

...Imagine that....the squares on the frist card were cut at a hair bigger than 1 1/8th, on the second card they are cut at 1". The first card used scraps of a baby girl Pink Pack I got at michaels and the second uses scraps of Regal Rose...

I used MM green brads form an earthtone set I picked up at Target. the Pink Button Brads are from a Baby girl set I got at Target a while ago.

On the first card I used the solid stamps to stamp the image masking the leaves and using a ticket corner punch. On th esecond I stamped using the outlines and painted with Watercolor Wonder Crayons in the Soft subtle colors.. the Pretty in Pink was very light so I switched to a Pixie Pink to do the background around the flower and leaves on the second card...

I hope you like them...I even managed not to use my Cuttlebug...LOL

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

SC181 Challenge Card Lavendar Frienship

I made this card for a friend, and for my SC181 Challenge on SCS...I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the Black and Lavendar Lace pieces with D'vine Swirl and Swiss Dots...then I used my paper piercer to make the holes I used to sew the waxy flax through. I really like how it turned out..I thought I had enough DP, but when I went looking for something to put in the background I couldnt find anything to go with it. I finally used my Petals Jumbo Wheel and Lavendar Lace Ink to roll the flowered background. I then added a little color using my Watercolor Wonder Crayons in Nuetral to paint the dots and dashed circles in the two gray colors. I matted the Lavendar and Black with White card stock and then used my silent setter to punch the holes for placing the 3 MM lavendar Rivets. When I finished with the rivets I matted with Black. The double matting helped make the Main image and Embossed pieces stand out, and I like the black behind the riveting instead of the white. The friendship sentiment from "Think Happy Thoughts" was stamped in SU Basic Gray ink, and the flower from the set in Lavendar lace. I punched the iimages out with a 1-1/4 and 3/4 circle punch and then matted with black, cut with the 1 3/8 circle punch, and mounted on dimensionals...as an after thought I think the Small flower maybe could use a lavendar matting also, other than that I like how it looks and I hope my friend does also.

Until later ...Happy Stamping!

It may seem like I am on the ball lately making a lot of post but really I was on the ball a few weeks ago... This week I have been busy organizing and shredding old documents. My craft space and some other spaces in my home are starting to look really nice. This is the last of the cards I made in early June. It was an anniversary card for another friend on SCS. I used a Rust from the Michael's buy an Eco pack, I told you about it last month, for the background. I mounted it on a white GP cardstock base after assembling. It is a top fold card. The ribbon is a Roberts Craft buy I made a few years ago when I dropped my DD off at college. It is an organza in a dark brown. I tied a bow of SU linen thread to soften it up a bit. The flowers are from Pretty Amazing stamped with Going Gray and mellow Moss for the stems. the flowers are painted with Watercolor Wonder Crayons using a fine point H2O pen. using Summer Sun and Pretty in Pink. I matted with a Burgandy from the same Eco pack.

I used the flower MM brads in a Earth Tone color package, I cant remeber the name, but the colors are very much similar to SU EE colors. The vellum background was embellished with Birds and Swirls, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and then I colored the popped up flowers with a Summer Sun marker and the Birds with Real Rust. I used a SU Ticket Corner punch to add some extra detail. The Happy Anniversary is SU Real Rust marker on the Michaels $ bin Clear Stamps, that I have been using on all my Anniversary cards for June.

I hope you enjoy it.

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

happily Everafter Card

I made this card for a friend for her Anniversary.

I used the Cuttlebug Textile folder to Emboss the white GP cardstock. then I chalked it using a Rose colored Chalk and a Cotton ball It is actually much pinker then it looks int he picture not sure why that is. I matted with Regal Rose and basic Black and put it on a White cardstock base... I used Fairytale Wedding to stamp"..and they lived happily everafter." in Regal Rose and then stamped "Mr&Mrs" in Basic Gray over the top after stamping off once..it shows up a little darker in this picture but I think it was a nice Effect. My tag punches werent long enough to punch the quote so I improvised. I cut the white GP tight to the Quote and then inserted it throught the back of my tag Punch (sm) to trim the edge. I matted with a piece of Regal Rose and the n Trimmed withthe large tag punch inserted through the back. The organza ribbon was a white I dyed with Regal Rose a while back and opted not to use...I tied it to the card and tied the tag withthe Black satin Cording... To help tie it all together I used three small Pink and Black sprinkle brads from Queen Co...

Challenge Anniversary Card

I really liked this LO for SC179 on SCS when I saw it. I tried some new stuff when I was stamping. you might have to click on the picture to enlarge it to see the details better, but I will try to explain them.

The first question I asked myself was,"Can bleach go bad?" I wanted to stamp the little flower images from "Fairytale Wedding" on the Light Blue strip with bleach so they were white...well no go, the images would not appear...... I took the whole sopping Napkin of bleach and pounched the paper with it finally getting the light cloudy images on the Blue. I stamped the image with SU Basic Gray Ink and the trimmed the strips to size...I have used bleach before so dont ask me why the flowers didnt work...The last gallon is finally gone so a new bottle will be tried next time. I took the same color of Light Blue and then stamped the "Happy Anniversary" sentiment from a Michaels Dollar find. Then I embossed it in the "Diamonds in The Rough" Cuttlebug folder.

I used two Queen Co. Black Brads from "Kissy Fit" to add some depth. I free handed the Dots on the Black full card background with my Sakura Clear Glitter gel pen(only the part showing on the top)..then embossed the Rose from "" on black using White Craft Ink and Kaliedescope Clear Emossing Powder.

I think the card is very pretty...The only step I should probably have done was cut a white circle out with my Cricut to mat the black Rose Image to help it Pop...It was mounted on dimensionals and I think it still turned out great.

Hope you enjoyed it also...

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Dragon Fly card

a friend of mine on SCS sent me this card front to make into a card she said to dress it up and use it.

My first thought was this is perfect as is...but I decided to add anyway..My first thought was to disassemble the back Rust panel and Cuttlebuged it, but I couldnt get it apart. She used some very good adhesive.

I then decided to pierce the yellow strips and use my Sakura Stardust gel pen to add some shimmer... then I trimmed the Rust and then used a Very Vanilla base and sponged with Mellow Moss like she did on the tag...I used it for a Birthday card for another SCS friend...

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Another Fathers Day card

For any of you last minute card makers out there..Like me I amde this card today for my FIL for Fathers Day...I still need to make one for my own Husband...I used Mellow Moss Choclate Chip and Very Vanilla for this card the Moss was embossed with D'vine swirl and the Chocolate with Distressed Stripes..It looks like a tree doesnt it...

The squir is the smae as the last Fathers day Pop up card I made.

I used my word window Punch for the Moss tabs with Creative Impressions matte brads in brown. I stamped the Happy Fathers day and Were Nuts for You with individual letters and then mounted them ..out side they are on dimensionals.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!