Bowling Invite

The other day I mention that my little one had a Birthday and with Birthday's come party's so I had to make up a bunch of invitations.  He decided he wanted to have another bowling party so I had to bust out a long long since retired set to make his invites, a set called Have A Ball.  (Yes I keep each and every set I have ever gotten BUT I still use them!)  I kept them super simple since I made over 20 of them.  Happy Stamping!!

Making It Simple

I have a wide range of cards I make from one layer to over the top and lately I've been stuck in the over the top mode but thought I would show one of the simpler cards I made. Just because it's simple doesn't make it any less pretty!! Here I used the set Zoo review and since I hadn't used the Giraffe image I used that one here. I stamped it by inking it with a mixing it with cajun craze and gold shimmer paint which gives it a really elegant look. I spritzed the base card stock with Log Cabin smooch spritz to give the base a bit of shimmer too. Then added some coordinating cardstock and dsp with a couple of brads and that's it!! It's got this great subtle shimmering effect that really looks great in person! Happy Stamping!!

Countryside

Just a simple card made using the truck from countryside.

Happy Stamping!

Home Sweet Home

When the new catalog came out Just Buzzin' By was the first stamp set I just had to get. Probably because I am a huge bee collector. I have all things bee like. This is the card I made using this set.


Don't you just love it?!?! I sure do! And when you open it up you get this:
cute little bumble bee on the inside. Happy Stamping!!

Card and Specials

I wanted to let you all know about the promotions Stampin' Up is having in addition to the Retirement List. One is the Love You Much promotion and the other is an inventory blowout. Click the link to download the flyer's both have some super product!! Be sure to check them out.

Here is a card I made for a monochromatic swap I did.

I've used this set several times lately and I have to tell you I wasn't very fond of it when I got it free at convention. Matter of fact I really disliked like and almost gave it away. I'm glad I didn't because it sure has grown on me!! Happy Stamping!

Blogger 3 Challenge 1

This week I finally started doing challenges ... not too sure why I waited so long. I've had fun making each of them. This is the 3rd one I've done this week and it's for a blogging group I am in. The challenge was to use yellow and orange and include a flower image. Here's my submission:

I made this card off a case of another card I made which I'll show later this week. It was fun to make something not related to Christmas ... even though I still haven't made my cards. So what do you think?

Recipe. Stamp Set - Eastern Blooms, cardstock, Barely Banana, Pumpkin Pie, and Whisper White, Ink - So Saffron, and Tangerine Tango, Accessories - Dimensionals, Orange Duo Beads, Tombo Multi, and yellow beads..

First Day of Snow and New Promo

Today we woke up to a dusting of snow. It actually started to flurry last night but this morning it was so peaceful with the trees all covered in snow. I like the snow when it looks like this I'm sure later today I'll be wishing it was all melted and gone. So in light of the snow I'm going to share this card today.

I think it's very fitting for this weather. You can't see it too well in the picture but the brown piece is watermarked with snowflakes. The card is rather simple but I really like it. I love using browns and blues together, they compliment each other well. This is going to be one of my Christmas cards ... all my cards this year are non traditional colors. So what do you think?

I also wanted to share with you a new promotion that Stampin Up! is running through November 30th.

You can also click on the link I added to my blog bar on the right. You will save 20% off the cost of Rub On's once you have placed an order for $20.00. If you would like to take advantage of the special you can place an online order using my SU website or by emailing me. Happy Stamping!!

A Toast

Here is a fun card I made for Halloween. I took the Cheers To You stamp set and changed the olives to eyeballs in the Martini drink. It would be a great card to use for a Halloween gathering.

This card reminded me of a picture I was sent the other day .....

A little too much to drink . Someone was pretty creative in designing these pumpkins don't think I have ever quite seen anything like this. Oh and I got this great card from a close friend of mine.


I think it's very creative!! Thanks Pam!! When ever I get a card from Pam I am always careful not to tear into because she is notorious for having confetti in it!! You can see a bit of it on the envelope! Happy Stamping!

Fall Pumpkins

This is a card that I had made last year and think it's pretty cute so I thought I would show it here since the whole blogging thing is fairly new. The elements of this card really came together for me and was actually inspired by a 3-d project I had made, I'll post that one tomorrow. It was rather easy even though it doesn't look that way. So what do you think?

Recipe: Stamp Set - Weathered ;Accessories- Small and large Oval Punch, Dimensionals, hemp; Cardstock - Creamy caramel, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Close to Cocoa; Ink - Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Basic Brown

Technique Tuesday - Chalkin' it up!

For today's Technique Tuesday I will be going over the Chalkboard technique. It's a simple technique and not very time consuming.
To start you are going to need your chalks, q-tip, stamp image, cardstock and your white craft pad. The image turns out better when you use a dark cardstock color.

Stamp out your image onto the cardstock where you want your image. In this case I wanted several images to run along the bottom of my card.



Using your q-tip add color to the image based on your color design.


I wanted several colors on my images so I added an additional color after applying the first. Once you have your image(s) colored to your specifications you are all set.

Here is my finished card. I wanted to make a Halloween card and I love candy corn corn, so I thought this would be cute. It came out close to what I had in mind. I know candy corn isn't traditionally in green colors but there are so many new flavors of candy corn now so it very well could be. I almost made it in red tones since I just picked up a package of red candy corn, caramel apple flavored and they are good too! BUT since I had green scrap on my desk that was the color I went with.

Hope you found the tutorial useful! Leave me a comment if there is a technique you would like to learn.

Recipe: Stamp Set - Tasty Sweet; Cardstock - Basic Gray, Garden Green, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White; Ink - Craft White; Accessories - Garden Green Marker, Old Olive Marker,Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon 5/8", Dimensionals, Chalk

Drinking Spirals

I got together with some friends and fellow demos last Monday and we decided to make a few projects just for fun. One of the projects we made were these cute little spiral cards that we learned about at convention. I designed the front of the card, we wanted it to be nice and bright!! My original template I did in Tangerine Tango but I think the Pumpkin Pie worked just as well. They are pretty easy to make as long as the image you use on the inside is easy to cut. It took us a while to cut out 10 of the glasses. When I do a demonstration of these I will be definitely be doing something with the punches or with the big shot. It'll go much faster that way.
Pretty cute huh!?

I did the drawing for my card candy this morning, I got home late last night and was so tired I completely forgot about it. The winner is ....... Traci G. So if you will email me with your address I'll get it mailed out to you! Happy Stamping!

All Smiles

Here is another card card using my favorite of all times stamp set. If I recall correctly this was the first stamp set I bought because I wasn't going to buy anything except the rollers to make my own background paper but this was the ONE set I had to have. It all went down hill from there.

I wanted to make a card that was nice and cheery. After much finagling I created this card and was surprised in how nice it came out. Hope you like it too!!

Recipe: Stamp Set - Smile; Cardstock - Cameo Coral, Gable Green, Whisper White; Ink - Cameo Coral, Gable Green; Accessories - Gable Green Grosgrain Ribbon, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals

Drink Up!!

Did you know that today is the second biggest drinking holiday next to New Year's? I was surprised to hear that I thought it would have been the 4th of July. So I thought I would share this card, fitting isn't it? I have liked this set since it came out in the Canada catalog and I was happy the SU! finally decided to put it in our Catty. The set is called Cheers To You and comes with several versions of drinks. I made the card using a gate fold base. I wanted it to be bright and cheery so I added lots of colors. Not to sure if it shows up in the picture but I put crystal effects over the blue drink part to make it look more like a liquid.

Recipe Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Bliss Blue, So Saffron, and Naturals White Accessories: Crystal Effects, Dimensionals, Markers-So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Bliss Blue and Ruby Red, and So Saffron Twill.

Bottoms Up,