Just Believe

I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Weekend!  This is going to be a crazy busy week for me, starting on Friday I will be starting another summer of work at a Boy Scout Camp. I finish my last class before summer today.

Some how I missed posting the card we made in Mays Hostess Club. The technique we did was Faux Tile also called Grid Technique.

• Card base is Naturals White with a Front of Daffodil Delight that was ran through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder.
• here is a link to the tutorial , After scoring a piece of Very Vanilla CS we colored the stamp from Just Believe with markers and stamped it over the grid. We layered it onto a piece of Lucky Limeade then knotted a piece of Daffodil Delight Seam Binding(new in the catalog that starts June 1st) around it and layered it onto a piece of More Mustard. The matted image was added to the card front.
• The phrase is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and was stamped in Lucky Limeade onto Very Vanilla and punched with the Word Window Punch. it was layered onto a piece of Lucky Limeade punced with the Modern Label Punch. We punched and added two circles behind the phrase, a 1 1/4" More Mustard and a 1 3/8" Old Olive. This was added to the card base last.

We will be starting a new Hostess Club in September and have room for more so if you are interested in joining let me know.

More Herringbone

Here are the other sample I made for club.

Here is the card we made in club.  And here is another sample

• This card has a Whisper White card base.
• The DSP:  Beyond the Garden .
• Stamp Set: Vintage Vogue (soon to retire)
• Punches: 2 1/2" circle, Itty Bitty Punch Pack flower, 
• Ink: Pacific Point.

• Card Base is River Rock, with a front of Bravo Burgundy
• DSP: Paisley Petals
• Stamp set: Just Believe
• Ink:Versamark, Always Artichoke
• misc: Labels Framelit, Clear Embossing Powder.

This card was a CASE of my friend Debbie's card

• Card base is Not Quite Navy
• DSP: Well Worn
• Stamp set: A Word for You
• Punch: Curly Label
• Ink: Cajun Craze

If you haven't tried Herringbone I hope you have been inspired to try it, come back and let me know so I can see your work.

Thanks for caring/Just Believe

This card was made for the Tuesday open stamping at my house every 2nd and 4th Tuesday.

• Card base is Confetti White
• The image was stamped on a piece of Confetti White, using Concord Crush and Old Olive markers directly on the stamp.
• The image was layered onto a piece on Concord Crush CS and then onto the card base.
• With love ans caring was stamped onto a scrap of Confetti White with Crushed Concord and then punched out with the Designer Label punch. and framed with some Hodgepaodge Hardware.

Remember all the CS in the Open Tuesday Selection is cut and ready for you to stamp and put together. There are always between 8 to 12 cards to choose from, so come on over tomorrow and stamp with me.

Water Cooler Swaps part 2

I had two classes yesterday, so I only posted 2 cards because I was crazy busy.  Today I bring you 4!

The first one is from  Stephanie McKinnon. Her note with her swap, credits the idea of the embossing and sponging to Jackie Topa, but the layout and colors were Stephanie's. I have the stamp set she used, it is Fine Flourish. Stephani embossed it in white on Tempting Turquoise and sponged Concord Crush and Rich Razzleberry on it adding a Rhinestone brad to the center. I haven't paired Concord Crush and Tempting Turquoise but I'm sure you will be seeing it soon.

The second card is from Kathe Deck (gets confusing sometimes at the water cooler with Kath, Kathe and Kat) her blog is http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/kathed/blog  what a great way to use the scraps of DSP that you hate to throw away!

Card #3 is from Joanne Do in Hawaii, She used the stamp set Just Believe, I love that set!

Card #4 comes from Buffy Cooper she is another of the long time helps that I have turned to over the years for answers to my Demoing questions.  The stamp set she used is called Strength & Hope, it is a wonderful set that Stampin' UP! has in the summer mini, you will be able to order it in May, in fact I have a class in may that includes this set, you can find her card on her blog http://buffycooper.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/03/hope.html

This swap has been the most fun of any I have been in and since we decided to mail them to each other individually instead one lump to one person to divide and send in one lump it has been so much fun checking the mail and finding a new card waiting. The fun has been going on for a few weeks so far and there are still more to come.  This swap has been so much fun that we have decided to do a second swap will be in June.

On a non stamping note, my oldest son Ryan entered in a Film Festival some of the short films he has made this year, he got 1st in music video, 2nd in animation, and 3rd in short films. He was pretty happy!

Just Believe

I made this card last summer, it may or may not be a CASE, I really can't remember and since my to CASE file mysteriously disappeared from my computer I don't have any idea.  Sometimes I try to work outside my comfort zone and so I CASE or I try to make something in a style I am not used to.  This card fits that description.  The large image from the stamp set is easy to use ans I have posted a few cards using that stamp, these two are not so easy in my mind to design a card around.  But here are the details.

• The card base is Crumb Cake with a front of Marina Mist.
• 3 of the circles were stamped with Marina Mist on Very Vanilla these were mounted on Early Espresso CS and 2 were stamped with Early Espresso on Crumb Cake
• The stamped frame for the thank you was stamped directly onto the card front with VersaMark the thank you was stamped with Early Espresso on Crumb Cake and cut to fit the the frame
• The Marina Mist circles were popped up with Dimensionals, I started by putting the two outside circles on first, then worked into the center.
• I added a pearl to the center of the flower in each circle.

Last card fromDelightful Decorations

         

This is a card that looks so much better in real life then in a photo! 

•  The card base is Always Artichoke with a front of Cherry Cobbler, then a layer of Deck the Halls DSP.
• The Angel instructions I found here http://www.sandimaciver.com/sandi_maciver/ornament-punch-angels/  my angel was stamped with the wreath from Welcome Christmas.  The body is Cherry Cobbler and Gold embossing powder and the wings are Vellum CS and were embossed with a mixture of embossing powders ( when my granddaughter moved in at age two, she got into my drawer of embossing powders and dumped several of them- Iridescent Ice, Gold, Silver, Copper, Hologram, Clear and White- so the wings are very interesting- but I like them!
• I stamped a phrase from Just Believe embossed with Gold on the DSP.

I hope you like this card! Let me know ;).

Just Believe

This is a fast and easy card!

• The card base is Whisper White.
•  The front is Daffodil Delight then another layer of Whisper White ran through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper folder, a Whisper White ribbon is tied around the front and tied in a knot, then added to the card base.
• The flowers are stamped in Daffodil Delight on Whisper White, over stamped with the phrase in Stazon.  The image was then layered on Daffodil Delight and then added to the card front.

See fast and easy.  Have a great day and find time to create!

Today (10-19-10) I found out that two other ladies have made cards that are very similar to this one, I'm not sure if I saw them in the past (while blog hopping) and that the idea just stayed but I wanted to give credit to two others who have made this card. Christine Alward and Donna Powell Thanks for sharing!

Just Believe/Newlyweds

Yes another fast and easy card!

• Card base is Very Vanilla with a front of Soft suede ran through the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper folder, I decided to use the debossed side for a different look.
• I sprayed the piece of Very Vanilla CS with Champagne Shimmer Paint Spray then I stamped the image using Soft Suede ink.
• I layered the image on Early Espresso and mounted it with Dimensionals.
• On a scrap of Very Vanilla CS Istamped a phrase from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Soft Suede, punching it out with the Word Window punch.  I layered the phrase on a piece of Early Espresso punched with the Modern Label punch. This was mounted overlapping the image on one side and with a Dimensional on the other.  I added two of the smallest Pearls to the ends of the Modern Label.

Just Believe

I love this Stamp Set!

• Card base is Very Vanilla, with the right half of the front ran through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper folder.
• I added a strip of Always Artichoke along the lest side of the card.
• I colored directly on the stamp with Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke markers stamping it onto Very Vanilla CS.  Get well wishes is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped in Cherry Cobbler.
• The image is layered it on Cherry Cobbler CS.
• Ribbon was dyed with Cherry Cobbler reinker. and added to the card.

Let me know what you think of this card, it is one of my favorites that I have done recently.