My sweet customer Karen Hollis sent me this darling Valentine’s card.
Thank you Karen!!!
Hugs and smiles
Feb 242008
Feb 232008
Today is stamp camp day! Most of the ladies from last weeks workshop are coming and they picked the projects.
One of them was the treat slider. I showed them the one I had made for the tutorial, but I wanted to make one for Easter. Here is what I came up with. I apologize for the bad picture. It was raining like crazy all day yesterday and it never really got light out.
I started out with a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock.
It was scored at 2 1/2″ and 5″ and that wheeled with the Fast Flowers wheel.
The Wild Wasabi strip measures 2″ x 5 1/2″ and again was scored at 2 1/2″ and 5″.
The designer paper is from the Spring Fling pack.
I tied Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon around the treat holder.
For the main image I stamped the chick from A Good Egg on Shimmery White cardstock and punched it’s sweet little head out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch. It was colored with Aqua Painter and classic inks and layered first on a 1 3/8″ Pretty in Pink circle, then on a Chocolate Chip Scallop punch. I saw this on a card made by the fantastic Cambria Turnbow and new I had to case it.
I attached the image with dimensionals and added a Fusion flower with a vintage brad on the top right.
Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles
Feb 232008
Dawn is one of the sweetest bloggers out there.
Before she left on vacation she sent me this card.
I hope she is having a blast in Florida!
Too bad she went on vacation so far south of me. I would have loved to meet her.
I am sure you all know her blog Treasure Oiler Designz. If you haven’t been there yet, take a few minutes and check it out.
This week was another super hard color challenge for me: Orchid Opulence (really? I had to throw all my scraps away after looking at them. They were so old that the sun had bleached them badly!!!), Certainly Celery and Pumpkin Pie. It looks so much like Halloween.
You know I had to throw some Chocolate Chip in there.
Chocolate Chip makes everything better!!!
The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half.
It was topped with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Orchid (insert a little gag here) Opulence.
The Certainly Celery Prints Designer Paper layer measures 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ and was layered on a 3 3/8″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Whisper White cardstock.
5/8″ Celery grosgrain and the new 1/4″ Chocolate Polytwill ribbon were wrapped around the left side and a double photo corner was added to the top right. I paper pierced all around this layer.
For the main image I stamped the triple flower stamp from Just Because from the Occasional Mini catalog in Brown Stazon on a 2 1/8″ square of Shimmery White cardstock. It was colored the image in with Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Opulence, Certainly celery and Chocolate Chip ink and Aqua Painter.
I punched a small oval out of a post it note and layered the opening over the bottom of the flower stems. I then I used a sponge dauber to add some color under the flowers. All four corners were paper pierced , vintage brads were added to the smaller flowers and a Rhinestone brad in the center flower.
A 1/4″ bigger layer of Chocolate chip and then Pumpkin Pie were layered underneath the image layer.
Here is the sketch for this weekend:
To participate in the challenge and be entered in the raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.
If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC36 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 36) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!
Post a link to your card to this blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.
I will determine the winner with Random.org on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.
To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of
Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Random.org picked number #269. That’s Jennifer Greco from Glitter in my Hair.
Jennifer contact me with your mailing address and I will get the goodies to you.
Thank you all for your kind comments! Hugs and smiles
Feb 222008
Check out this gorgeous card!
Does it ever showcase the gorgeous new cuttlebug folder!!!
Of course I NEED it now! LOL
Donna Baker sent me this beauty!
You can see more of her wonderful work on her blog Serenity in Stamping.
I just passed 1,300,000 hits. Thank you all for coming to visit me! That is so sweet of you! So now it’s time for Fresh & Fun Freebies again.
This time I will raffle away a new unmounted Gina K. Make a Wish stamp set.
You can find a lot of great samples for this wonderful set on Gina’s website.
Along with the set the winner will receive assorted May Arts ribbon.
To win, please add a post a comment to this entry. Add your entry number to your post.
Your entry number is the comment number +1.
I will determine a winner with the help of random.org tomorrow morning around 8:00 a.m. CST.
Good luck! Hugs and smiles
P.S.: In case you are wondering. I am still burried under swap cards. Right now I am glueing little 1/4″ circles on each card (three of them). I hope to be done in another hour or two and hopefully get to play with stamps later on.
I received two more packages of cards, one from Maggie Stockwell and one from Mary Ashby. I will send the cards out in my next box to Rick.
Rick also received a card package from Sandra Polencheck of Tucson, AZ.
He has been told that the families back home have received the cards and loved them!!!!
Thanks again to everyone that send cards. How nice to know we brought smiles to not only the troops, but to their families as well.
To see the cards, click on more.
I will be busy today. I have a long grocery list, that means I will go to the base. That always takes a while. T
hen I have to finish swap cards that need to go out soon.
So I will show you a card I made about two weeks ago for one of Austin’s friends.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Blue Bayou folded in half, followed by a 4″ square of Chocolate Chip cardstock and a 3 3/4″ square of Spring Break Designer paper.
I am sorry I can’t give you the measurements for the vertical strip, but I would guess it was 1 1/2″ wide and I know it was 3 3/4″ long. It was distressed on one side and paper pierced.
The stamp is from the set So cool. It was inked with my Chocolate chip marker and Blue Bayou reinker and a bullet tip Fantastix and stamped on Soft Sky cardstock. I cut it out, layered it on Chocolate chip cardstock and cut it out again. Then I added Pewter brads in the D of dude.
It needed something else, so I used a big photo corner in Chocolate chip and topped it with more Pewter brads.
I was so excited to see the two sets geared towards older kids in this current Stampin’ Up! catalog.
When my sons go to birthdays now, they either take a gift card or cold hard cash.
It’s just too hard to buy for teenage boys. I don’t want to spend the money on a Wii or other game system game for a birthday party, but other then that….it’s hard to find the right gift.
So I added a little pocket on the inside of the card to hold the cash present.
