Monthly Archives: September 2012

Super Simple Quint-Essential Flower

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Here’s a super simple card for you today.  This one would easily fit in an envelope and be mailed without extra postage.

I just love how this stamp, Quint-Essential Flower, coordinates with several punches so it’s easy to layer with just one stamp.

Enjoy your day, and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Quint-Essential Flower, Beautiful Birthday
Ink:  Island Indigo, Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Island Indigo, In-Color Designer Series Paper Stacks
Embellishments:  Finishing Touches Edgelits
Punches:  2-3/8″ Scallop Circle, 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle, 1″ Circle, 1/2″ Circle, 3/16″Corner Rounder

3 Cheers for You!

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This was not a stamp set that I originally thought I had to have.  But after seeing so many cute cards made with this set, it became a “have to have” set.  It is a really fun set.  I love how it comes with so many pieces so you can mix and match the drinks — strawberry, orange/lime wedge, olive, umbrella, etc…

Happy Hour Clear-Mount Stamp Set

I made this card using the sketch over at the Retro Sketches site.

Have a great week!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Happy Hour
Ink:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Summer Starfruit, Lucky Limeade
Paper:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Summer Starfruit, Summer Smooches
Embellishments:  Finishing Touches Edgelits, Calypso Coral Baker’s Twine, Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, Pearl Basic Jewels

Blue Ribbon

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Here’s another of my swaps from convention.  This was for an organized swap I participate in each year with the Ink the Beginnings group, which is a group of my stamping sisters from Texas and Oklahoma.  I always receive the best swaps from this group!

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Blue Ribbon, Take a Ticket
Paper:  Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Summer Smooches dsp
Ink:  Island Indigo, More Mustard
Embellishments:  Chevron Folder, Bitty Banners Framelits, Finishing Touches Edgelits, 2-3/8” Scallop Circle punch, 1-1/4” Circle punch, Ticket Duo Builder punch, 3/16” Corner punch, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Island Indigo Baker’s Twine, stapler

Spooky Creepy Crawly

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Here’s a Halloween card for you today.  I love it when Stampin’ Up! offers kits that make my stamping life easier.  The Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit allows you to make some really easy and cute projects.

Ghoulish Googlies Designer Printed Kit

I also used the Border Banter stamp set to make the sentiment and the pattern at the bottom of the card.  I just cut the strips in half and pieced them together. 

Border Banter Clear-Mount Stamp Set

I chose the colors for this card from the Create with Connie and Mary Color Challenge for this week.

2012 Create Challenges-034

These are my favorite Halloween colors!

Well, I’m ready for a relaxing Saturday with some college football thrown in, lots of laundry, and hopefully some stamping time too.  Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Border Banter, Googly Ghouls
Ink:  Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Lucky Limeade
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Basic Black
Embellishments:  Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit, Finishing Touches Edgelits, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle, Color Spritzer Tool

Give the Elephant a Ticket

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Freshly Made Sketches is celebrating their one year anniversary this week, and their weekly challenge is to make a card using any of their past sketches.  Since I just found this site a few weeks ago, I loved looking at all of the sketches I missed out on.  I ended up choosing sketch #25 for my card.

And here’s my card:

I don’t know what it is about the elephant image in the You’re Amazing stamp set, but I just love him!  I think it’s the cute hat he’s wearing.  Once again, I pulled out the ticket wheel.  I must say I’ve gotten more use out of this wheel than I have out of all my other wheels combined.  Love that thing!  I used a blender pen to color the elephant with my ink pads.  Enjoy your Friday and have a great weekend!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  You’re Amazing, Take a Ticket
Ink:  Staz-on Black, Island Indigo, Cherry Cobbler, Calypso Coral, Basic Grey, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Island Indigo, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, World Spectacular dsp
Embellishments:  Ticket Duo Builder punch, Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, Cherry Cobbler 1/2″ Seam Binding Ribbon, Island Indigo Baker’s Twine, blender pen, stapler

Three Little Note Cards

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Being a mom who is also a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, one might expect that I would make all sorts of cute little things for my kids.  Hmmm…..not so much.  However, once in a while, I do make little notes to tuck into their lunch boxes.  I was inspired to do that today when I saw the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World.

These colors are my girls’ favorite colors, so I immediately thought of them, and then I thought that I should make them little lunch box notes.  Now, I know that my green isn’t the same shade as the shoes, but sometimes you just have to use what you have. 

Now, since I have two girls and one boy, I had to make a more “masculine” version for one.  No bows or buttons for him.  And since one daughter is in 2nd grade, I tried to keep the vocabulary level down a notch.

Here are close-up pictures of all three.

 

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  I Am… (a special set given to 2012 Convention attendees only)
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
Embellishments:  White embossing powder, Brights Designer Buttons, Lucky Limeade Baker’s Twine, 3/16″ Brights Brads, Wild Wasabi 1/4″ Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon

It’s Good to try New Things

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I tell my kids all the time, “It’s good to try new things.  How will you know if you like it if you don’t try it.”  So I decided to take my own advice and try the color challenge over at The Paper Players.

This is definitely not a combination that I have ever used before, so it was a good challenge for me.

I sprayed some Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz on the flowers.  It’s always hard to get the full effect of that in a picture though.

Enjoy your Tuesday!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Fabulous Phrases
Ink:  Versamark
Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Twitterpated
Embellishments:  Paper Doily Sizzlits L die, Fun Flowers Bigz L die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Black embossing powder, Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, 3/4″ Circle punch, Antique Brads, Basic Black 1/2″ Scallop Polka Dots Ribbon

I Still Love to Color

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One of the main reasons why I loved the For the Birds set in the catalog when it first came out was because it has images that you can watercolor.  I have always loved to color and I still do.  There’s something that is so relaxing and calming about coloring.

I made this card using this week’s sketch over at the Retrosketches site.

I got the color combination straight from the Color Coach.  I find that I use that helpful tool quite a bit, as it provides suggested color combinations for each color.  Plus, I use it a lot to just see what different color combinations would look like together.

Color Coach - International Edition - by Stampin' Up!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  For the Birds, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Marina Mist, Summer Starfruit, Soft Suede, Basic Gray, Bashful Blue
Paper:  Summer Starfruit, Real Red, Polka Dot Parade, Watercolor paper
Embellishments:  Summer Starfruit 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon, Subtles Designer buttons, Pearls Basic Jewels

It Finally Feels Like Fall

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Well, we finally got a break from the 100+ degrees temperatures and today it feels like a beautiful Fall day in the 80’s (hey, it IS Texas).  So I finally broke out a Halloween stamp that has been sitting in my stamp room for two months.

I heat embossed the witch image and then sponged some Rich Razzleberry ink on it for the background.  I also pulled out my color spritzer tool and splattered some black ink on the Basic Gray card stock.  Love that tool!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Toxic Treats
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Howlstooth & Scaringbone dsp
Embellishments:  Rich Razzleberry 1/4″ Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Black 1/8″ Taffeta Ribbon, White Bakers’ Twine, 3/8″ Basics Glimmer Brads, Brights Designer Buttons, Labels Collection Framelits, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, Bitty Banners Framelits, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Color Spritzer Tool, Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Sponge Dauber

A Fall Bloom

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Ok, I have to say I’ve kinda gotten addicted to the weekly sketch challenges over at the Freshly Made Sketches site.   Now I haven’t been playing along but for a few weeks since I found it, but every week I like the sketch.  It seems to always fit with my style.  So here’s the sketch for this week:

I haven’t really used the Comfort Cafe designer series paper yet, so I broke into it and decided to use it today.  I went with the Fall colors.  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I use Pool Party A LOT.  It has really become my favorite “neutral” color because it goes so well with everything and it’s so cheerful.  I don’t even want to think about it retiring in a few months!

So here’s my card:

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Blooming with Kindness, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Pool Party
Paper:  Pool Party, Cajun Craze, Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse, Comfort Cafe dsp
Embellishments:  Labels Collection framelits, Window Frames Collection framelits, Finishing Touches edgelits, Boho Blossoms punch, Regals designer buttons, Pearl Basic Jewels, Summer Starfruit 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon