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.

Wonderful Favorites- Vintage Vogue

This is the card we made in our Hostess Club this month. The card is a Joy Fold card- go here if you want general directions http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/joy_fold_card/

• The card bases are Pretty in Pink and Early Espresso.
• For the DSP panels on my card I used the Very Vanilla from the pad of Neutrals, On the larger piece of DSP I stamped the rose image from Elements of Style with Pretty in Pink.  The smaller panel was stamped with Early Espresso using the leaf and swirls image from Vintage Vogue.
• The large Vintage Vogue flower is Pretty in Pink with an Espresso glimmer brad, two of the smaller flowers are Regal Rose and one is Pretty in Pink, rock and rolled in Regal Rose the centers are the Pearl Jewels. These are all cut out and have a Dimensional on the backs of them.
• The center panel is Very Vanilla CS that I have stamped the leaf and swirls with Old Olive and the small flowers with Early Espresso in the lower corner. Wonderful Mother is stamped with Early Espresso (used the Stamp a ma Jig). The cut out flowers were then added and a piece of Early Espresso ribbon was added.

So what do you think, anything you would have changed?
I hope that you have a wonderful day, if you need to order anything let me know.

Vintage Vogue- Kindness

I decided to try emboss resist, I know that sometime in the past I saw a card simular to this, but I don't remember when or where.  I hope whoever did the card knows that I appreciate them sharing the idea.

• The card base is Very Vanilla CS, I stamped the border in Crushed Concord and stamped it near the edge.
• On a piece of Very Vanilla CS I stamped the vine in Crushed Concord then the large flower in Versa Mark and embossed it with Clear Embossing powder.  I stamped the smaller flowers in Perfect Plum.  With the Perfect Plum I sponged ink around the embossed flower.  I stamped the phrase under the large flower in Crushed Concord.
• I ran a 1" wide strip of Very Vanilla CS through the Big Shot with the Finial Press folder. 
• Both the Strip of Very Vanilla strip and the image were mounted on Crushed Concord and added to the front.

If you know who I CASEd this card from let me know OK?

New Catalog Today! and Dreams du Jour

I can order new designer paper today :), but until then I am making do! Here is a card that I made my own designer paper on. . . so what do you think?

• I used 3 new colors on this card, Cherry Cobbler(love this red!), Daffodil Delight, and Pear Pizazz.
• The card base is Whisper White with a front of Cherry Cobbler on to that is a piece of Whisper White(3 3/4"x 5") that I random stamped with the vine image from Vintage Vogue, using Cherry Cobbler ink.
• I stamped the image from Dreams du Jour with Stazon onto a piece of Whisper White.
• I colored the image with markers, blending with a blender pen.
• I mounted it onto a piece of Pear Pizazz, then onto Daffodil Delight, then onto Cherry Cobbler, finally onto the card itself.
  
  I really like this card and hope that you do as well.

Pocket Silhouettes and Vintage Vogue

I was going for the "art" look. The card base is Textured Basic Black. On a square of Watercolor paper I used Only Orange, Rich Razzleberry, and Tempting Turquoise markers for my back ground, starting at the top and working down, I scribbled the color and then used an Aqua Painter to move the color around, then moved on to the next color. After it dried I stamped the image from Pocket Silhouettes in Stazon and added it on top. The phrase is from Vintage Vogue, it says -You raise kindness to an art. I punched two holes in the top and ran Rich Razzleberry ribbon through.

Vintage Vogue- mother's day

This card is inspired by a card made by another stampin' up demonstrator, her name is Jen Sannes. Stampin' Up started a demonstrator only site so that demonstrators could share ideas with each other. It was her card that made me decide not to use my Vintage Vogue set in Vintage colors and to distress everything.

So my card uses colors from the Bold Bright collection, a collection of colors that rarely use. The colors are Lovely Lilac, Tempting Turquoise and Green Galore. The card base is Lovely Lilac with a front of Whisper White. I stamped the large flower, 2 small flowers, and the vines on the front, on a scrap I stamp 1 large and 4 small flowers and cut them out. With dimensionals I popped three of the flowers up and left 2 small flowers flat but hanging slightly off the edge. The phrase is from All Holidays I used markers to color the stamp before stamping.

For the center of the large flower I used a ribbon slide with a half pearl.

Creating

So the second photo is my oldest son Ryan's creative outlet. I make cards and scrapbook, he creates with Lego. I think it is cute.

The card is my attempt to use the Fresh cuts stamp as a background stamp. I started with a base of Whisper White and added a top(4" x 5 1/4") of Basic Black. I stamped the Fresh Cuts image on Whisper White with Stazon and then cut it to the size of the image. I used Fine Flourish and the ivy from Vintage Vogue to finish the card front. cutting both to fit the remaining area. The phrase is from Teeny Tiny Wishes

Vintage Vogue

My card isn't very vintage looking, but I like it. The card is Basic Black and Real Red. The bottom piece of Real Red has the vine randomly stamped in Stazon, I prefer Stazon to the Basic Black ink pad, I feel that Basic Black has too much under tones of purple. The top piece of Real Red has the vine done with Versamark for a tone on tone effect. I stamped the flowers and the F in Stazon on Real Red and cut them out, I popped them with dimensioals. Friend is stamped directly on the back ground. The flowers centers are Fire Rhinestone Brads.

My open house is this Thursday. Stop by and check out all that is going on, and have a piece of Tin Roof brownie, it's all good!

3 of My Kids made cards

I had empty spaces on my sample board and my 13 & 15* year old sons volunteered to help fill it they talk my 22 year old daughter into helping(she doesn't even enjoy crafts).

The first card was made by my 13 year old and I was impressed with his work(I suggested the designer paper when he was trying to decide how to finish the card) he used Loads of Fun.

My 15 year old (with the cutting talents of his sister and some advice) made the second card he used paper from the sweet pea designer pad(a piece I didn't care for) I ended up liking the card. My 13 year did the third with scraps that were in the scrap pile stamp set is Of the Earth.

4th card is another by my 13 year old it didn't live up to his hopes. He used Pun Fun and Sanded. The last card was by my daughter and she says it is why she doesn't do crafts. She used Vintage Vogue.

* My daughter said this needs more back story so that you really understand the cards. My 13 year old was grounded, no friends, TV, computer, or x-box. It was his idea to make the cards because he was bored, the 15 year old asked if he could put Lego on the card he made, all he does is build Lego things, he even made the newspaper because the group he is a member of (ULUG) was part of the train show at Thanksgiving Point in Utah, oh he makes movies with his friends as well... my daughter says "I am a Science major we don't do crafts" So you see the fact that some of these turned out pretty good is amazing. The photo is "team Awesome" Oh my daughter also says "Glitter is the cancer of the stamping world".