Iris Twist- Welcome Baby

I taught my granddaughter the Iris Twist and this is the card I made to show her the technique. You can see her card here.

Stamps:Petite Pairs
Paper: Whisper White CS & Go Wild DSP Stack
Ink: Tip Top Taupe
Misc: Baby's First Framelits, Boho Chic Textured Embossing Folder

PCCCS#144 with a Sneak Peek

It's been awhile since I tried a sketch from Paper Craft Crew. So for a sneak Peek of an upcoming host set I used sketch #144. Voting starts tonight.

Here is the sketch

For my card

Stamps: Best Thoughts(new host set), Petite Pairs & Perpetual Birthday Calendar
Paper: Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Watermelon Wonder CS, Neutrals DSP stack, Watercolor Paper
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Watermelon Wonder, Mossy Meadow, Stazon
Misc: Circle Collection Framelits, Petite Petals & Itty Bitty Accents Punches Dimensioals & Aqua Painter

So hop on over to Paper Craft Crew to vote for your favorite entries.

PCCCS140

Here is the card I made for Paper Craft Crew Challenge 140.

The sketch:

Stamps: Too Kind & Petite Pairs(both retiring)
Paper: Naturals White(retiring), Melon Mambo CS, Canvas Creations(retiring) & Painted Bloom DSP
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Blackberry Bliss & Mossy Meadow
Misc: Dimensionals, Spring Flowers Embossing Folder & Very Vintage Designer Button

Voting starts tonight at http://www.papercraftcrew.com/pcccs-140-card-sketch/

The Wacky Watercooler August Blog Hop.

Welcome  to another Wacky Watercooler Blog Hop! Our Hop Runs in a circle so you can hop from anywhere on our loop and view all of the blogs. You may have hopped here from my  friend Marsha's blog.  I'm sure you enjoyed all of her projects.

My first project is a Dream Catcher.

Stamps: Four Feathers
Ink: Soft Suede & Pool Party
Paper: Pool Party & Sahara Sands CS
Misc: 1 1/4" Burlap Ribbon, Twine, Pony Beads & Ring & Feather Framelits

Next is a Christmas Card using old and new stamp sets.

Stamps: Holiday Home, Lovely as a Tree & Good Greetings
Ink: Stazon, Island Indigo, Pool Party, So Saffron, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Smoky Slate, Mossy Meadow and Real Red
Paper: Whisper White, Mossy Meadow & Real Red CS & Watercolor Paper.
Misc: Aqua Painter & Dazzling Details


Almost 5 years ago I made a wedding card with a tuxedo heart and a craze began. It was fun the first few times I saw them with credit given to me. So many people have now made them and added twists of their own.

Stamps: Petite Pairs
Ink: Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Blushing Bride, Blackberry Bliss & Mossy Meadow
Misc: Heart Collection Framelits, Sweetheart Punch, Zig Zag Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Rhinestone Jewels(colored with Stazon), Dimensionals & Envelope Punch Board(Corner rounding)

I hope you enjoyed my projects, now hop on over to Deborah's blog

Pleasant Poppies

I bought the background stamp Pleasant Poppies several months ago but this is the first time I have used it.

• The card base is Very Vanilla CS that has Pleasant Poppies stamped on it in Stazon(my favorite black).
• On Watercolor Paper I stamp the clump of poppies that are on the left side when stamped, I used Stazon so I could use an Aqua Painter and Ink to color it. I used Strawberry Slush, Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry and Pool Party inks.
• I layered the image onto Old Olive CS and layered it onto the card base,
• I stamped the phrases from Petite Pairs in Pear Pizzazz on a scrap of Very Vanilla CS and punched it with the 1 1/.4" Circle punch. I punched a 1 3/8" Circle of Real Red to layer it on and used a Dimensional to pop it up on the card.

So glad that these two stamp sets are not retiring.

Sale a bration starts today!

I used the Feeling Sentimental stamp set from the Sale a bration flyer and That's the Ticket from the Spring Catalog for this card. I wish it photographed better (I am going to build a light box again, while I was away last summer mine disappeared)

I wanted to try the chalkboard look.

• The card base is Whisper White with layers of  Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple and Basic Black CS.
• I stamped the phrase from Petite Pairs in White Craft on the upper corner of the Black and the image from Feeling Sentimental inn the opposite lower corner. With a cotton ball I swiped so White ink to make eraser smudges.
• On a scrap of Whisper White CS I stamped the ticket in Raspberry Ripple and then punched them out. The flags are cut from Summer Smooches DSP, I strung them on Island Indigo Bakers Twine (I only noticed as I posted the some of the twine popped out, I will fix it before I add it to the "for sale" cards).

So remember for every $50 you spend you can pick a Sale a bration item!

Moving Forward

I needed a baby card for my Card Buffet so this is what I came up with.

• The card base is Whisper White with the lower third embossed with the Stripes Embossing Folder.
• I colored the stamp of the boat from Moving Forward with markers and stamped it on a scrap of Whisper White and then cut it out with the Windows Collection Framelit. I layered it onto a Gumball Green CS cut the next size up. I added a Vintage Trinket brad into the lower curve off the Gumball Green CS.
• I layered the image onto a square on Daffodil Delight CS that was layered onto a square of Marina Mist CS then added it to the front of the card.
• I stamped the Welcome, baby from Petite Pairs in Marina Mist on a scrap of Whisper White and punched it out with the Modern Label Punch, I sponged the edges with Gumball Green then added a strip of Linen Thread to hang the phrase from the brad.

I hope you like this card, have a great day and go ahead and stamp something!

Postage Due

A couple of the ladies that come over to stamped came the other day. They made this card.

The directions for the card layers are in this post.

• The base and stamped layers are Very Vanilla.
• The mats are Not Quite Navy.
• The colors of ink used are: Marina Mist, Cajun Craze, Not Quite Navy and More Mustard.
• The sentiments are laying on the cards not yet attached the are from Petite Pairs and fit in the 1" Square Punch that layers onto the Postage Stamp Punch. I think I will sponge the edges when I decide what phrase to use.

These cards are fun to make.

Summer Afternoon

A new Hostess Set, great for Watercoloring!

The Hostess Set is called "Summer Afternoon".

• The card base is Whisper White.
• I stamped the image with Stazon onto Watercolor paper I colored the image with markers using an Aqua Painter to move the colors around. The cart is Raspberry Ripple a new In Color, and one of my favorites! I punched the image out with the 2 1/2" Circle Punch.
• I die cut a Gumball Green CS 3" Circle with the Big Shot. Then I ran it through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper folder. The image was layered onto it.
• I stamped the phrases from "Petite Pairs" in Raspberry Ripple onto scraps of Watercolor paper and punched them out with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch they were layered onto Primrose Petals CS punched with the 1 3/8" Circle Punch.
• The image was popped up with Dimensionals.

I think this is a "happy" card. I hope you enjoyed it.

On a personal note... I have started my summer job working at a Boy Scout Camp so I will be posting every Sunday until the middle of August, if I get time I will post in between. I didn't want anyone to think that  I was stopping my blog, I just won't have the internet during the week. 

Herringbone- All White

I have been playing with the Herringbone technique we did this month in club and I thought I would share with you over the next few days some of the results. Here is an all Whisper White Card.

This card was so pretty in real life (it was sold with in 30 minutes of completing.

•  The card base is Whisper White with a front of Textured Whisper White CS.
• I ran Whisper White CS through the Big Shot with different Embossing Folders and with Texturz™ Plates. I then cut them into strips 1/8" to 3/8" wide.
•  The herringbone design was done by cutting a piece of Whisper White CS 3 3/4" x 5" and layering it with a piece of Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet cut the same size. I then filled the design in with the strips I had cut. I then popped it up with Dimensionals on the card front.
• The Basic Black CS was sprayed with Champagne Shimmer Paint Spray and cut with the Label Framelit.
• Best Wishes is from Petite Pairs and it was inked with Versamark stamped onto Whisper White CS and embossed with Black Embossing powder that had BlackFine Galaxy Glitter mixed in. When Embossed the word were sparkly black. I punched the words out with the Small Oval punch and then added to the Basic Black piece then centered on the card.

I hope that you like this card, herringbone is a fun design and a great way to use up scraps of DSP or even CS.

Fifth Avenue Floral & Petite Pairs

I retook this picture a few time trying to get the colors to look like they do in real life, this one is the closest, so you will need your imagination.

• The card base is Regal Rose with  a front of Bravo Burgundy.
• The flowers from Fifth Avenue Floral were stamped with Craft Ink and Clear Embossed, The Roses are Regal Rose, Lilies are Chocolate Chip and the Daisies are Bravo Burgundy, they are stamped onto a piece of Very Vanilla that is 3 3/4"x5".
• The phrase is from Petite Pairs ( a great set with coordinating phrases) it is stamped in Bravo Burgundy.

Swaps

My Friend Stephanie made this interlocking heart card.

Stamps:Take it to Heart  & Loving Thoughts
Ink: Baja Breeze & Riding Hood Red
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Whisper White & Blushing Bride CS, Red Glimmer Paper, Twitterpatted DSP
Other: Big Shot & Hearts Framelits, Small Heart punch, Dimensionals.

Buffy made this card and it is her fault that I bought the stamp set :).

Stamps: Bordering on Romance & Petite Pairs
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo & Crushed Concord
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Crushed Concord, Melon Mambo & Whisper White CS, Cheerful Treat DSP
Other: Big Shot & Labels Framelits, Corner Rounder & Small Oval punches

Happy New Year!

On our demonstrator forum there has been many discussions on CASEing
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there are a wide range of opinions from it is OK to CASE to you should never CASE, fortunately more are for then against. Pretty much everyone agrees if you CASE you must credit who you are CASEing.  Now sometimes I have a problem doing that. . . and the cards I am sharing today are cards I made that I know might be a CASE, but I didn't bookmark the idea. Why didn't I? Well as I scan blogs looking at what others have done I am usually looking at layouts and color combo not necessarily looking for something to CASE, but sometimes I will see a card that makes me decide to buy a stamp set that I don't already have, I guess we all have done that. Now sometimes by the time I order the set and then get the chance to use it I don't have anything but a memory of what I saw that made me decide to buy it, I have no idea how close these cards are to the one that inspired me to buy them but here they are, if you recognize them let me know I'd like to be able to compare what I have done with what inspired me to buy the set.

First up Field Flowers, I had marked this as a set I liked but hadn't bought it until October of last year, I bought it because I saw a card that "spoke to me" and though I couldn't find it when I had the set this is what it reminded me of.

• The card base is Very Vanilla
• Front of Basic Black under Very Vanilla
• Hello Doily is stamped with Crumb Cake and the Field Flowers are stamped with Versamark and embossed in Black, Very Vanilla Seam Binding is knotted around the front
• Best Wishes from Petite Pairs was embossed and punched out with a 1" circle, it is popped up with Dimensionals and the tiniest of the Pearls are added under the words

The next card uses stamp sets I had, I know that the color (purple isn't a color I use often) and lay out are the same but I am pretty sure that the card I had seen used different stamp sets.

• Card base is Perfect Plumb 
• Front of Elegant Eggplant under Confetti White
• The rose spray from Elements of Style was stamped with Elegant Eggplant
• An oval of Elegant Eggplant was cut with the Ovals die and the Big Shot, a piece of the scallop polka dotted ribbon was attached to the back of the oval and it was popped up with Dimensionals on the card
• Thank you was stamped with Elegant Eggplant and stamped onto a strip of Confetti White that had the ends punched with the corner of the Curly Label punch it was added to the oval and Rhinestones were added to the ends.

So here are the two card that I made last year that how closely they are CASEd I am not sure, whoever you are that inspired me to make these cards I thank you!

So have a Happy New Year! 

My door

The door is another card that is widely seen around blogdom this year. Here is my door.

• Card Base is Whisper White with a front of wood grain DSP from Frostwood Lodge.
• The panels are 1" wide popped up with Dimensionals on Whisper White CS the is 1 1/4" wide.
• The door knob is Bushed Gold word Window repunched to be smaller with  I circle popped up with 3 mini glue dots stacked on each other.
• The wreath is from the felt pieces Winter Wishes.
• Merry Christmas from Petite Pairs was stamped on a strip of Whisper White in Real Red and added to the wreath.

This was/is a card in the December card buffet.

I put this stamp set on my wish list when it came out last July, I finally bought it last month. This card was one of my "Card Buffet" cards(you can come over every Tuesday and stamp cards ate $2 each to make, make as many as you would like), I made this as a Birthday card but the sentiment could(and was) change for any occasion.

• Card base is Marina Mist, then each layer is 1/4" smaller then the last, in order- Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo and Whisper White.
• The flowers are two step stamping. First layer was Marina Mist second layer Not Quite Navy. The stems are Old Olive.
• My phrase is from Petite Pairs, one of my favorites to use, I stamped it in Not Quite Navy.
• I used a Daffodil Delight marker to "dot" the flower centers.

I love the blues and yellows together!

Turtle & Co

We finished all the Wedding Celebrating this past week end with an Open House in California.  Sadly my laptop cord got a short in it and it took until yesterday afternoon to get a new cord. So my blog was neglected.

Today's card was from my weekly Card Buffet and uses the stamp set that is the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set. It is call Turtle and Co.

• The card base is Naturals White with a front of Old Olive, the bottom half was debossed with the Starburst folder.
• I colored directly on the stamps with Marker and stamped the onto Naturals White CS. I then lightly colored the images with ink and a Blender Pen.
• I used two phrases from Petite Pairs stamped in Old Olive.
• Image is layer onto Island Indigo and again on Calypso Coral.

So the wonderful ladies that I Blog Hop with did a Christmas card swap, I will be taking pictures of them and posting them so that you can get wonderful ideas for Christmas cards.

Yep, Another Elebration Card!

This was the first Elebration card I made, I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to post it.

• Card base is River Rock with a front of DSP called Cheerful Treat, it is one of the Hostess Selections.
• Elebration was stamped with Stazon on Watercolor Paper and colored with Markers and an Aqua Painter. Colors used Basic Gray, River Rock, Crushed Concord, Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Pretty in Pink. The phrases I used  are from Petite Pairs, the first one was stamped directly on the Watercolor Paper with Melon Mambo.
• The image was layered onto Crushed Concord then onto Melon Mambo then onto the card front.
• The second phrase was stamped onto a scrap of Whisper White and punched out with the Small Oval Punch it was layered onto a die cut from the Matchbox die cut from Concord Crush.

So there you go. Have a great day and enjoy some time stamping.

A Christmas Carol- September's Christmas Card Class

So this is the card that we will be making on Monday for September's Christmas Card Class.  Each guest will be making 10 of these. Cost for class is $15.

• The base is Crumb Cake that is sprayed with Champagne Shimmer Paint spray.
• The image is stamped in Cherry Cobbler on Very Vanilla CS, the edges are sponged in Early Espresso.
• The image is layered on Early Espresso CS, that has a piece of Cherry Cobbler Quilted ribbon knotted around it, a piece of Vanilla Velvet ribbon is threaded through the knot.
• Merry Christmas from Petite Pairs was stamped on a scrap of Very Vanilla , then punched with the 1" square punch, then is tied around the knot with Cherry Cobbler Baker's twine.

I still have a couple of spaces left for this class so let me know if you are interested.