I'm back, I'm back!!!!

Wow, I can't believe I've been on a 4 month hiatus!  I hope some of you are still checking in because I have a lot of great new creations to share.  I've done a craft room makeover and am ready to go!  Funny how a little organization can make me go from never entering the room to wanting to spend every spare second there!  I'll share pictures of my craft room soon. 

I made this card recently for a retired swap with the Late Night Stampers group.  I used soon to be retiring stamps and cardstock.   

STAMPS:  A Beautiful Life

ACCESSORIES:  Fresh Favorites II buttons,  Scallop Trim Border punch

CARDSTOCK:  Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Elegant Eggplant, Confetti White

I think this card turned out cute.  I have a hard time with the Kaleidoscope paper but really wanted to use it and this is what I came up with.  I love this caterpillar!  

STAMP SET:  Love Bug

ACCESSORIES:  Whisper White ribbon & my markers

CARDSTOCK:  Kaleidoscope DSP, Apricot Appeal, Pixie Pink, Whisper White

Stay tuned, I promise to have more tomorrow!

Happy Stampin'!

Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge

This is the Saturday Sketch from Stamping 411.  I love challenges because they always have me doing something new and trying many cool different techniques.  If this looks like fun click the link and participate.

This is my take on the sketch.  Simple and cute, perfect for a new baby or a little one's birthday.  

STAMPS:  Fox & Friends, Whimsy Stampin' around Wheel

ACCESSORIES:  Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, Scallop Punch, Perfect Polka Dot Impressions Die

CARD STOCK:  Kraft, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy Stampin'!

Vintage Challenge

I made this card for the late night stampers vintage challenge. We were to make a card looking vintage using all current Stampin' Up product.  I love the vellum inside the scallop frame and the way the flowers turned out from the Birds & Bloom sizzlits dies.  I also sponged a little champaign mist shimmer paint onto the vellum to give a little dazzle along with the half pearls from the Pretties kit.  

STAMPS:  Vintage Labels, Embrace Life, Well Scripted

ACCESSORIES:  Birds & Bloom Sizzlits Dies, Champaign Mist Shimmer Paint,  Pretties Kit, Oval Scallop Frame Die

CARD-STOCK:  Mellow Moss, Ruby Red, Vellum Paper

New Blog Design

Hi everyone, I've been working hard today updating my blog design using Stampin' Up's new My Digital Studio!  I'm excited to be using some of my favorite stamps and papers digitally and to use them on my blog!  I'm still working out the kinks but you can see how it is going!  What do you think?

Of course I can't post without sharing a card so here is one that I made the other day using my new Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die!

Stamps:  Whimsical Words

Accessories:  Embosslits Beautiful Wings, Linen Thread

Card Stock:  Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper, Rich Razzleberry, Mellow Moss, Orchid Opulence

      Thanks for stopping by today!
         Happy Stampin',

Weekend Sketch Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone!  I've got my babies down for a nap and wanted to share some cards I did this early morning for Gretchen's Inspiration in Action Sketch Challenge.  I love the sketch she came up with and just had to do more then one!

Stamps: Cheers to you, Picture this, Cheers stampin' wheel

Accesories:  Basic Black Satin Ribbon, Basic Black brads, word window punch, modern label punch, spritzer tool

Card stock:  Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Razzleberry Lemonade

Stamp Set:  Picnic Parade

Accessories:  Melon Mambo 1/2" polka dot grosgrain ribbon, Pattern 2 Texture Plate

Card Stock:  Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede, Welcome Neighbor DSP, Whisper White

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'!

Kaleidoscope Valentine

Yup... another Valentine!  This is a happy Valentine using the Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper.  I used the kraft corduroy buttons and dyed them Rich Razzleberry easily by sponging the ink right onto them.  I love that I can pretty much make them whatever color I want!

Stamps:  A Happy Heart

Accessories:  Kraft Corduroy Buttons, Only Orange 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, corner rounder punch, Table setting Die

Card Stock:  Kaleidoscope DSP, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Pixie Pink

Non-traditional Valentine

I decided to go outside the usual Valentine color scheme for this one using So Saffron, Elegant Eggplant and Basic Black.  

Stamp Set:  Holiday Best, You & Moi, I {heart} hearts

Accessories:  Basic Black Brad, Eyelet Border punch, small oval punch, Matchbox Die, Black Embossing Powder

Card-stock:  Groom Specialty Paper, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black

Dazzling Valentine!

Valentine's Day is around the corner, have you started thinking about how you are going to show that special someone that you love them?  A handmade card is the perfect thing!  This year I am sending everyone I love a Valentine's card!

For this card I put dazzling diamonds on the scalloped hearts to make them glitter like the paper does, it looks so pretty in real life.

Stamps: Well Scripted, I {Heart} Hearts

Accessories:  Embosslits Scalloped Heart of Hearts, Full Heart Punch, Small Heart Punch, Pinking Hearts Border Punch, Real Red Corduroy Buttons, Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Crystal Effects, Dazzling Diamonds

Card-stock:  Sending Love Designer Paper, Whisper White, Real Red, Pretty in Pink

bot love note

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and wish you an even better new year!  I'm sorry I've been MIA for the past few months, my family moved to Florida recently and we have been getting settled and enjoying the holidays and sunshine!  I'm back at it so keep checking back for new ideas and inspiration!

Here is a super easy little notecard I made to put in my sons lunchbox for school.  I love the little robots in this set and I think he'll enjoy getting a special note at lunch!

STAMP SET:  Lots of Bots,

CARDSTOCK:  To the Nines Designer Series Paper, Sahara Sand

ACCESSORIES:  Ticket corner punch, Old Olive Classic Ink, Earth Elements Brads

Happy Stampin'

Jenna

Wandering Words Christmas

STAMP SET:  Wandering Words

CARDSTOCK:  Real Red, Very Vanilla and the retired DSP Ski Slope

ACCESSORIES:  1/4" Real Red grosgrain ribbon, silver embossing powder

STAMP SET:  Wandering Words

CARDSTOCK:  Ruby Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla

ACCESSORIES:  Distressing tool, Chocolate Chip Corduroy Button, hemp twine, Christmas ribbon, Oval Punch

Happy Stampin'!

Its that time of year....

I love Christmas and making christmas cards! I imagine you'll be seeing lots of christmas from me over the next couple weeks! Here are 2 cards I made using the Home for Christmas stamp set.

I love the snow made with the gel pen on this card and I decided to not color too much, but looking at it now I think I'm going to go back in and finish coloring!

STAMPS: Home for Christmas

CARDSTOCK: Old Olive, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Real Red and Ski Slope DSP(Retired)

ACCESSORIES: 1/4" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, Top Note Die, White gel pen, stampin' dimensionals

This card is a case from the Current Idea Book & Catalog, I loved it so much it had to be reproduced!

STAMPS: Home for Christmas

CARDSTOCK: Night of Navy, Garden Green, Close to Cocoa, Watercolor Paper

ACCESSORIES: Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, White embossing powder, silver brads

Happy Stampin'

Big Shot Birthday!

Here's a big shot birthday card for you! Isn't it cute! I love my big shot and all of the things you can do!

I used the scallop square for the card base, make sure you put the folded end just a bit below the scallops and you have a perfect card base. After that I ran the card through the big shot using the dots backgrounds 1 texture plate. I made the cupcake using the big bold cupcakes sizzlits dies.

Happy Stampin'

I'm back!

I'm finally back, sorry its been so long! I've been home enjoying having my hubby home! He left to go back to work overseas about a week ago and so I'm getting back into doing my favorite past time... stamping. I attended Stampin' Up's Cincinnati Regional Seminar for Demonstrators last weekend and I had soo much fun I've spent every spare moment since stamping, not that I have that many 'spare moments' but the ones I've had they have been spent stamping! I came back from regionals totally inspired! Good thing too, with Christmas coming up I'm going to need a lot of something to stamp out 100 Christmas cards!!

Here are a few cards I've done over the past few weeks,

This card uses the Petal Pizazz stamp set and the retired In Colors.

This card features the NEW In Colors and uses Bugs and Kisses and Eastern Blooms Stamp sets. This paper is from the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP.

Last but not least a very simple Monochromatic card using the new Medallion stamp and the Rose Red flowers from the Flower Fusion Accents & Elements Tin.

Happy Stamping!

B is for birthday

Just a quick post today as my kids are very impatiently waiting to go out and play. This is a card I made for my cousin's birthday this past weekend. Using Classic Stars Jumbo wheel and the Party Hearty stamp set this card was super simple and I got to use my new Jumbo Grommets and Star brads.

If you haven't tried out the new grommets from SU these are awesome and really easy, just poke it through and push the sides over kinda like you do with a brad. My smaller star brad fit perfectly in the middle, I can't wait to use it on some more projects and cards!

I'm off to go enjoy the sunshine! Happy Stampin'!

Nouveau Chic

Hello again! This is a card I just made last week. I used the New Nouveau Chic Designer Series Paper for the first time and this is what I came up with!

The colors used on this card are Sage Shadow, Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White. I used my Stamp a ma jig for the daisy's to get the shadowed look. I tied a piece of the Sage Shadow 1/4" grosgrain ribbon and taped the ends behind it, layering it on top of a Basic Grey Corduroy button with a glue dot.

I got a big shot!!

Man the days just fly by in the summer! I can't seem to keep up, I'm having too much fun in the sun! Since I've abandoned you all a little to long, I'll make it up with a few cards today! This first one is from a challenge I did where you can only use one embellishment and NO layers!! Kinda scary huh! Once I got started it wasn't so bad!

I used the neighborhood wheel and the welcome comes from the Warm Words stamp set. I used the wheel on a piece of scrap Whisper White and colored the house with Stampin' Pastels and cut it out. I used stampin' dimensionals to adhere to the card.

I just recently got the big shot!!! It is so much cooler then I ever could have imagined! I absolutely love it!! This is the first card I made using the big shot and the Elegant Bouquet textured embossing plate. I used a little crystal effects and dazzling diamonds for the flower centers and my white gel pen to make some of the lines pop a little more! I also used a flower from my pretties kit along with a half pearl for the center!

The tutorial to do this card comes from Patty Bennett. Click on her name to see how to make this beautiful card! This Manhattan Impressions Die is just gorgeous and makes last minute cards a breeze!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stampin'!

Friendly Words Swap

Here are the cards from the swap using the Friendly Words jumbo wheel as promised! I absolutely love this wheel, its probably my favorite wheel right now!

My swap card, using Kraft, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla and Bordering Blue.

This card was stamped by Barbara Dykhouse using Kraft, Night of Navy, Naturals White and Bella Bleu DSP.

This card was stamped by Julie Ramos and uses Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Whisper White and Razzleberry Lemonade DSP

This card was stamped by Hilary Reynolds using Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla and Bella Bleu DSP.

This card was stamped by Barbara Jean Smith using Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and Flamingo DSP.

This card was stamped by Nancy Horn using Mellow Moss, Close to Cocoa, Night of Navy, Kraft and Very Vanilla.

This card was stamped by Lorraine Toll using Basic Grey, Whisper White, Almost Amethyst and Tea Party DSP.

Aren't these cards gorgeous!! So many different styles all from the same ol' wheel! It was so much fun being a part of these swaps, I can't wait until the next one! If you are interested in some amazing swaps check out Jeanna Bohanon's Website ~Stamp Time Somewhere~

Happy Stampin'

MISS June Swap Loads of Love

These are the cards I received from the Loads of Love Swap that I participated in last month hosted by Jeanna Bohanon.

This is the card I made and sent for the swap I hope they enjoyed it as much as I am enjoying the ones I have received!

This card is stamped by Meghan Smith

This card is stamped by Julie Ramos

This card was stamped by Barbara Jean

This card was stamped by Cindy Garner

I hope you all have enjoyed seeing all of the things you can do with this great set! This set has been around for a little while and with the coordinating wheels and Loads of Love Accessories, there are many possibilities and if that wasn't enough, you can do even more with the *NEW* coordinating Loads of Fun set!

Be sure to stop back tomorrow! I will be sharing the beautiful cards from the Friendly Words Wheel Swap I was in!

Until then,

Happy Stampin'!

Cherish

These cards use the Baroque Motifs Stamp Set, which is one of my favorite sets for a beautiful card! I CASED these cards from a card that I had made at my friend Sherri's Card Class. I changed up the DSP and colors but everything else remains the same! Both cards use the newly retired Bella Birds DSP.

This card uses Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and So Saffron.

The flower is popped up with stampin' dimensionals and has a rhinestone brad through the middle.

This card uses So Saffron, Bordering Blue and Whisper White.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'!

Bugs & Kisses!

I hope you all had a wonderful forth of July weekend! Holidays are always a little sad for us with my husband gone but we had some fun too! We started off with our town Independence day parade and my kids were thrilled to get candy thrown at them! A lady in a statue of liberty costume came up to give my daughter a liberty crown and she totally freaked out and ran screaming! My kids aren't character friendly, they don't like any giant Mickey Mouse's coming their way either and I really don't blame them! This is a picture my sister-in-law took of us before we started doing sparklers and our little fireworks.

And the card I'm sharing today was a CASE (copy and share everything) from Jennifer Handschuh. My colors are a little different and I've added DSP from the newly retired Rainbow Sherbet. I love this Bugs & Kisses set and I'm glad to hang on to it a little longer!

Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Green Galore, Gable Green

Thanks for coming by today and Happy Stampin'!

Lots of Bots Issues!

As I was working on cards the other day for my Stamp a Stack, I had a heck of a time coming up with this one! I'm happy with what I came up with, it just took a few tries! I thought it'd' be fun to share how things go sometimes!

3rd times a charm! This card uses Taken With Teal, Basic Grey and Whisper White Cardstocks. Night of Navy 1/4" grosgrain ribbon. I used basic grey, taken with teal and night of navy classic inks and water-colored my bot using the ink well on the top of the Ink pad lid.

This was my 1st card attempt and it is ok, but I just don't love it. I was trying to CASE a card from the IB&C and just make it larger, but it just didn't go so great! This card uses Bashful Blue, Basic Grey & Whisper White.

My 2nd attempt, I was going for a bandaid look over on the left although it didn't look as great as I'd pictured in my head! This uses Tangerine Tango, Apricot Appeal and Sage Shadow.

If you do not have the 'NEW' Idea book & Catalog yet, I would love to get one to you! There are just so many wonderful new things in there!

~I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July weekend~

Happy Stampin'

Cards were recieved!!

The cards left Ohio on June 17th, traveled over 7000 miles to Afganistan and arrived in my husbands hands yesterday! As you can see from the pictures they have already started to dig in!! According to William they are a huge hit and a big morale boost. They are very grateful and I think they are feeling the love!

Thank You Late Night Stampers! Without the amazing women from this very supportive group, I would have never got this together or had so many beautiful cards to send!

I am hoping to get more cards out to them soon as they seem to be going fast! Please let me know if you'd like to help out by donating card fronts to be converted, cards or envelopes. I am hoping to get enough for my husband to bring to other nearby bases.

I'll post some cards I've been making tomorrow!

Until then...

Happy Stampin'!