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!

Plane and Simple

My husband is a pilot, so of course I had to buy this set from the Occasions mini.  My husband donated the retired charts.

• The card base is Crumb cake, folded in half
• 4" x 5 1/4" Rich Razzleberry front, then 3 3/4" x 5" Not Quite Navy and the chart is 3 5/8" x 4 7/8"
• The plane was stamped with Versamark on Whisper White and embossed with black, I corner rounded opposite corners of the image layered them on Not Quite Navy with two corners rounded
• The phrase from One Your Birthday was stamped on Whisper White with Versamark and embossed with black, punched with the Modern Label punch, layered on a NQN Modern Label punched CS cut in half on both ends

So what do you think of it?  I hope you all have a great day.

Fast and Fabulous II

• For this card I started with a base of Daffodil Delight.
• I stamped the flowers on a Piece of Watercolor paper with Stazon, then colored them in with Markers (Daffodil Delight, Peach Pizazz, Old Olive, Cajun Craze and Tempting Turquoise) and an Aqua painter.
• On small scraps of Watercolor paper I stamped and colored two more yellow flowers and two of the purple flowers, cut them out and popped them on Dimensionals.
• I stamped a phrase from On Your Birthday in the upper left corner.
• I layered my painted image on a piece of Concord Crush and added it onto the base.

I hope you like my card, let me know what you think!

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Just Baseball

My oldest daughter bought this stamp set, it had never seen ink. I just didn't find inspiration in it. Another demonstrator posted a card that is very similar on our demo site, I Cased the card from memory, and now can not find her card to give her credit.(there are 60,000 sample in the gallery on that site) Anyway, I am happy with the card and think that it is a great boy birthday card.

The base of the card is Not Quite Navy topped by Soft Suede and then Very Vanilla. On the Very Vanilla layer I inked up the background stamp Sanded with Creamy Carmel (soon to be retired), stamped off once and then stamped it on the Very Vanilla. I inked the baseball in Creamy Caramel, stamped off once and stamped over the sanded. On a scrap of Very Vanilla CS I stamped the hat in Not Quite Navy, the bat in Soft Suede and the ball full strength Creamy Caramel. I cut out the images and added Diemensionals to the backs of each of them. The phrase is from On Your Birthday stamped in NQN ink and matted on Soft Suede CS. The images were added over the phrase.

Pocket Silhouettes

One more card using 1 1/4" watercolor paper squares. I did get the inspriration to make these cards from Stampin! with Jaydee. I used markers and an Aqua Painter for the backgrounds of these. I used Taken with Teal, Only Orange and Old Olive. I used black stazon for the Pocket Silhouettes as well as the phrase from On Your Birthday. All are mounted with Dimensionals on a Textured Basic Black CS.

On Your Birthday

Final Card for my Folds Class on March 30th. The base of this card is Elegant Eggplant in textured card stock, the designer paper is Razzleberry Lemonade, I sponged the edges with Elegant Eggplant ink. The phrase is stamped with Elegant Eggplant on Whisper White and the edges are sponged with the same ink, it is matted on Crushed Curry and Elegant Eggplant. The butterflies are cut with the Bog Shot using the sizzlit Beautiful Wings and the Die Beautiful Butterflies, the card stock used is Crushed Curry and Elegant Eggplant.

On Your Birthday

I made this card a few weeks ago and posted it on Stamping Up's Demonstrator only site and forgot that I hadn't posted it on my blog. I ready for Spring to come and that is the way a lot of my cards are going. This cards flower is made the same way as the one February 6th post, only I used the Scallop Circle punch. The leaves are made with the sizzlet Little Leaves. I used the scallop edge punch on a strip of Old Olive CS, I ran the Cameo Coral strip through the big shot with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. The Whisper White card front was ran through with the Perfect Polka Dot folder. I ran a scrap of Whisper White and a scrap of Old Olive through with the Lots of Tags sizzlet, cut them in half and layered them off center on top of each other. The card base is Cameo Coral.

Loads of Love & Fun

I made this card just for fun, then sold it to my neighbor who is a big snowmobiler(she bought all the cards that I made with the snowmobile on) after I sold it I had to borrow it back because I had forgotten to take a picture of it.
The card base is Bordering Blue, I had a strip of Basic Black left over from another project and used it for the road, I tore four pieces of Whisper White for my snowdrifts and sponged them with Bordering Blue ink. Placed two drifts down, added my road, then added two more drifts on top of the road.
I stamped the truck, trailer and snowmobile on watercolor paper with Stazon and colored them with Watercolor Wonder Crayons (can't live without them) and an aqua painter. I cut the images out and used Dimensionals to pop them up.
The phrases are from On Your Birthday, the first is stamped with White Stazon and the second with Bordering Blue.

Pocket Silhouettes and Autumn Days

This is a easy card. The base is Kraft CS. I stamped the images on Very Vanilla CS The bottom 4 are Mellow Moss and So Saffron with the edges sponged with Always Artichoke. The Center top one is stamped with Always Artichoke and sponged with Mellow Moss, it is also popped up on dimensionals it straddles the Chocolate Chip ribbon. The phrase is from On Your Birthday.

Happy New Year! Loads of Fun

Loads of Fun was on my want list as soon as it came out. My friend and her family are big time snowmobilers, so I made this with her in mind. The colors are taken from the designer paper, the paper is Autumn Traditions. The phrases are from Hope Happens and On Your Birthday.

Colors used on this card. More Mustard, Ruby Red, Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke on Soft Suede.

Lovely as a Tree

I have several pieces of water color paper left over from other projects and being the tightwad that I am I can't throw them away. These strips fit into the larger tag punch and even though the image is bigger than the tag I think it works. I stamped a piece of Really Rust with the background Sanded with Really Rust ink I added two black brads and used dimensionals to pop up the tag. The phrase is from On Your Birthday and is embossed with black. Of coarse I colored the image with Watercolor Wonder Crayons.

Remember to check the pay it forward post. Have a great week end.

LIVE, LAUGH & LOVE happy birthday

The colors are Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Crushed Curry. The daisy is a scallop circle with cuts down the scallops near the center. The center of the flower is the Corduroy Button with a Rhinestone Brad.

Party Hearty- that just didn't quite work...

In my head this was going to be cute, finished it didn't make it. I think it needs a Pink Passion Ribbon, then it might have worked better. The base is a piece of Pink Passion CS cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" I cut Green Galore at 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" and bi-folded it, I used the Curly Label punch so the Let's celebrate shows through to the front. So what would you do to make this card work?