Life is Short

Another quick card and post for today.

This one uses the newly released set Flowers of Happiness from There She Goes. I know it's out of stock right now, but it shouldn't be long until more are in!


I was inspired by a sample card from the SU! catalogue. The flower colours are Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze. The images are layered onto a small strip of Chocolate Chip card stock and a Kiwi Kiss base. The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip ink and punched out with the SU! wide oval punch. I made slots on the ends with a punch and threaded the ribbon through. It's finished off with a knotted ribbon threaded through.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I am still swamped at work and trying to keep things going around the house. I'm looking forward to a three day weekend!

Have a great day,

CAS01

A super, super quick card and post for today. I'm swamped!!!

There is a new challenge over at SCS for Clean and Simple cards. I took my inspiration from this flannel fabric.

I used the SU! set Nursery Necessities for the sentiment which was stamped in Pretty in Pink ink. The DP is from Michael's and I think it is Making Memories. The star is punched out of Pretty in Pink cardstock and attached with a SU! taffeta ribbon.

Thanks so much for taking the time to look!

Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Soft Happy Birthday

Good morning!

Sorry I've been so MIA the last week but I've had a rather full plate! I've been busy stamping samples up for the card camp I had last night and will repeat today. I'll be back later to show you what I've been up to there.


Here's a card I made using the Happy Birthday stamp in the set Special Delivery from There She Goes. I stamped the Polka Dot background in Versamark on Kraft cardstock for the base. A white piece was layered with two patterned papers from the Parisian Summer collection from SU! and a Pink Pirouette striped ribbon wrapped and knotted. Once the corners were rounded, that whole panel was adhered with dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped in Going Grey ink, punched with the Curly Label punch from SU! and also adhered with dimensionals.

We've got a busy weekend ahead of us! Hopefully I'll find some time to get my new February releases from There She Goes inked up.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Another SUO card

I tried my hand at the OCC Challenge today which was to use 2 or more hearts on your card. I missed the "2" part and only used one. My bad. I'll still give it to hubby though as he won't care if it meets the challenge or not!



I used the retired set A Light Heart for this card. The love part was stamped in Regal Rose ink. I stamped the o again and then inked the small love sentiment up with marker and stamped it over the heart. It was punched out with a 3/4 inch punch and popped with a dimensional. I then layered it up with some Sweet Always paper and ribbon. It was corner rounded with a punch before adhering it with dimensionals to a Chocolate Chip card base.

Not much to this card. As I said, it's for hubby and quite honestly he doesn't appreciate the embellishments so they are not wasted on him! He knows that and is not offended. Straight and to the point. Love you.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! We've got a busy weekend ahead. Hope yours is great!

LSC205

Hi!

Here's an SUO card for you gals who come here for that :) The limited supplies challenge (LSC205) at SCS was to make a Clean and Simple or CAS card. Clean and Simple can be considered in the eye of the beholder, I think. I tend to think my style is fairly clean and simple. I don't do a whole lot of layers or embellishments together and try to let one element be the focus, be it a gorgeous image, beautiful paper or embellishment. Rarely do I combine the three on one card! I guess the challenge with CAS is to have the card look simple, yet finished.


I think I will use this card for my card camp coming up next weekend. Better get crackin' on my designs for that!

This card is pretty simple. I used the sketch from SC208 from Splitcoast. The flowers from Eastern Blooms are stamped randomly on the Pale Plum card stock in Pale Plum ink and also onto a Very Vanilla piece. The sentiment from Hugs and Wishes is stamped in Certainly Celery. It's layered up after using the scallop border punch on the celery piece and punching slots with the slot punch. It's mounted on dimensionals and then the ribbon threaded through and knotted.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

You're a Good Egg...

...just a little cracked!

Seriously. How many people could I give this card to? How about everyone in my family, that I work with, lives in my neighbourhood... lol Someone could even send it to me, I suppose!


For this card I used Summer Sun for the base. I know! Summer Sun! I was as surprised as you when I pulled it out and saw that it worked! I don't often feel the love of the Summer Sun. Anyways, I stamped the egg image from LOL Taglines from There She Goes randomly on the bottom part of the card base with Summer Sun ink. I then stamped the egg image again on Whisper White and the sentiment using Black Stazon. A black mat is adhered to the card base, a ribbon (American Crafts) tied and trimmed, and the sentiment panel adhered to the front using dimensionals. TSG03 again!

For a final touch, I coated the main egg in Crystal Effects to have it stand out more. I love the effect it gives but if I were to do it again, I would stamp it first in craft ink and then emboss in clear. The dye ink runs a bit from the CE but it's not too bad in this case since the ink colour is light.

So that's it! A pretty easy card to recreate for all the good eggs in your life :)

If you came for a February Sneak Peek I have to say sorry! I don't have a preview of the new TSG sets for you today because mine haven't arrived yet so I used an already released set for this card. Being in Canada, stuff always takes a little longer to get to me. But hey, I don't want your visit to be a waste now, so leave a comment on this post no later than this Friday and be entered to win a randomly selected mini set from There She Goes.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great.

Enjoy! TSG03

The new There She Goes challenge is to make a card using dimensionals.

Hello? I think it would be more of a challenge for me to make a card that doesn't use dimensionals! lol I love me my dimensionals! I just love how they give, well, dimension! A simple card can be given an extra special touch raising part of it up.


I used a load of them on this card. The cup is raised and then the Enjoy! sentiment is again.

For this card I used Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip cardstock. The patterned paper is courtesy of my friend Sheilagh. It's Prairie from the Jackson Lodge Collection. The cup and oval sentiment from Let's Get Together from There She Goes were both stamped in Chocolate Chip and cut out. The steam is stamped directly on the card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you get a chance to participate in the challenge. Upload your card with TSG03 in the key words so we can check them all out. Those of you that use your TSG stamps will be entered to win one of the brand new release sets! Check out Jessica's post here for more info.

Hey, and congrats to Julie Lacey who is February's TGS guest designer!

Have a great day!

Some Days You're The Dog...

...some days the hydrant.


Ain't that the truth!

I made this card using the There She Goes set called LOL Taglines when my stamping friends came by last night to get glitter all over my kitchen with me :)

The hydrant was stamped four times on Whisper White and once on Real Red using black Stazon. I cut the red one out and adhered it over the third hydrant. that panel is layered on red and black cardstock and mounted on a white base. It's a bit of an odd sized card-4 3/4"x 4 1/4". I stamped the sentiment in black and then punched it with the SU! wide oval. The slot punch was used to make the openings for the ribbon (from Michael's-sorry, unknown brand). I put a dimensional under the sentiment to have it stick up a bit and knotted the ribbon off to the side in an attempt to balance off the hydrant.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

IC163

Morning!

Had some time to do the Inspiration Challenge this morning. Seems that lately weekends are my only time to stamp!

The inspiration today came from the orange pillow found here at Pottery Barn Teen. How much to do I love every last thing at Pottery Barn?!

I used the set Branching Out for the tree image and Special Delivery for the sentiment (both from There She Goes). The sentiment is stamped in Versamark then embossed with white embossing powder to get it to stand out more. The tree was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink and covered with a two way glue pen. I then sprinkled my beloved brown Martha Stewart glitter over it to get it to pop. So sparkley! The Pumpkin Pie layer is adhered to a 4.25" square card base and finished off with a satin ribbon from Michael's.

I just want to say a big thanks to those of you who continue to stop by and visit me :) Your comments are so welcomed and give me a big ol' warm fuzzy!!! Amanda, regarding your question from the Valentine card, yes, I did use the Polka Dot background stamp. So sorry I didn't mention that!

Thanks for stopping by today friends :) Hope the rest of your day is great!

IC162

Good morning!

I had a chance to do the Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast this morning. Here is the towel I was inspired by. I often start an inspiration challenge by trying to see if any images remind my of any patterned paper designs. In this case, the pattern reminded me of the Summer Picnic designer paper from SU!. The colours and placement of flowers led me to select the orange and red dotted paper to work with.


I used the Fall to Layout #24 of Natasha's at Clean and Simple stamping paired with Special Delivery from There She Goes. Once I selected my colours (Only Orange and Real Red), I embossed the sentiment using white craft ink and white embossing powder. I find the ink alone doesn't stand out as much as I'd like. The heart was stamped with Real Red ink onto Real Red cardstock, cut and and covered with two way glue. I then sprinkled Martha glitter over it to give it some sparkle. The entire panel is raised on dimensionals as is the heart once again to make it stand out. The circle was punched with a 1 3/8" punch in case you are interested :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

What's Up?

A clean and simple card using the set from There She Goes called What's Up? I used the Fall to Layout found here on the Clean and Simple stamping blog.


This card uses a mini set from There She Goes called What's Up? It's a cute little set and a great buy at only 5 bucks!

And what do you think of the new watermark Jessica made for me? LOVE IT!! Yes, I am shouting ;)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today. The boys will be off to hockey on Saturday morning so hopefully I will have some time to myself to stamp the morning away....

Hope the rest of your day is great!



Supplies:
Stamps: What's Up by There She Goes
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Game Night DSP (SU!)
Ink: Versafine black
Accessories: Dimensionals, twill (Martha Stewart)

WT199

A quick card today using the new Special Delivery set from There She Goes.


I'm not a big fan of colouring as you have probably noticed, so I don't tend to do it often. For this card, I decided not to colour the mailbox but leave it white so that the pink accents would stand out. The Ways to Use It challenge was to use something silver on your card. I stamped the mailbox omitting the flag and filled in the missing space with a marker. I then stamped the flag on Regal Rose paper and cut it out, then attached it using the brad. Now my flag moves up and down! The white panel and hearts are on dimensionals.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)



Stamps: Special Delivery (There She Goes)
Ink: Close to Cocoa
Paper: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Loves Me DP
Accessories: Close to Cocoa marker, dimensionals, silver brad, hole punch

HCE13 New Year, New Habits

There was a great challenge on SCS today called New Year, New Habits, Old Stuff. What a great challenge for me. I have so many underused items in my craft space and I really am going to try to use more of them up this year. I no longer will ask myself if the recipient is "card-worthy" but just go ahead and use my embellishments for the sake of using them. Perhaps this is a resolution I can keep!


For this card I used a set being released today from There She Goes called Welcome Home. This set is my favourite created by Jessica so far! It was so fun to piece all the parts together and create this beautiful image.

The underused items I used for this card include the SU! library clips which I have been hoarding and the little heart charm which was a purchase from A Buck or Two way back when I first discovered card making. I sanded it down a bit and tried to reduce the shine by adding some brown Stazon and tied it to the clip with gold SU! cord. The edges of the image are distressed and inked up a bit with Creamy Caramel.

Hope you had a wonderful Happy New Year. Ours was nice and quiet! After Wii chicken for dinner (this is chicken that gets burned on the BBQ being forgotten about by hubby when playing Wii...) We watched the Canadian Junior hockey game and then sent the boys off to bed. I was really surprised they fell asleep right away after the high they were on following the win! After that, we tuned into the Dog the Bounty marathon LOL I've never been a New Years fan so I'm glad it's over and done with.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! All the best for 2009!



Stamps: Welcome Home (There She Goes)
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Riding Hood Red
Paper: Creamy Caramel, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla
Acessories: Library clips, gold brads, oval punch, hole punch, dimensionals, gold cord, sponge (all SU!), ribbon (May Arts), heart charm (A Buck or Two)

SC208 TSG02

Hi all!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and got to spend some quality time with people you love. We did. It was the typical Christmas morning craziness with the four of us and we headed over to see my family for dinner. Yesterday we spent the day with my hubby's side of the family. And today we are just crashing!!

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I really dislike the rest of this holiday. After the big day, I'm done with it. I have always disliked the "looking back on the year' type countdowns and stuff around New Years, but seem to dislike it even more as an adult! I think it has something to do with reflecting on the year, having eaten like a pig the last few weeks and feeling down about that, being so tired that I stay in pajamas for most of the day and I never feel good when I do that. I also hate putting decorations away. I just find it depressing!!

Anyways, enough about that. We had a wonderful few days and have a few things planned for the upcoming week. My boys (hubby included!) are in their element as the World Junior hockey tournament is on the next week or so and they can watch Team Canada kick some butt on a fairly regular basis ;) They love our Brampton Battalion team and one of their favourite players on that team is representing Canada. Plus, they feel connected to the tournament in general as my youngest got to meet the entire Czech Republic team when they had an open practice in Brampton. Here's a pic of him getting their autographs. Very nice young men. I *almost* felt bad hearing that Canada beat them 8-1 yesterday!



Enough about me, here's a card for you.


I used the set Here For You to make anything BUT a Christmas card which was the There She Goes challenge (upload with keyword TSG02). Check out this post to find about about the There She Goes Guest Designer for January as well! This card also uses the sketch challenge SC208 from this week at SCS. After stamping, I went over the bird with a two way glue pen and sprinkled Martha Stewart "Brownstone" glitter on it. Pretty! Colours are Chocolate Chip and Old Olive. I used Very Vanilla for the neutral and Brocade Backgrounds (retired) is the designer paper. The panel is mounted on dimensionals and a SU! ribbon threaded through the slot punch holes. The SU! border scallop punch finishes off the Chocolate Chip layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you get a chance to participate in the TSG02 challenge! Leave me a link to show off your creation if you do :)

SFYTT Here For You

I used the set Here For You to create this sympathy card today. I wanted the sentiment to be the focal point and when I saw this sketch by Jen Del Muro, I knew it would work!


The colours I used are Pale and Perfect Plum paired with Whisper White. The celery ribbon picks up the celery green tones in the designer paper which is a retired one from SU!. The sentiment is stamped with Perfect Plum ink and mounted on dimensionals.

To fill in that extra space on the Perfect Plum panel, I adhered three pewter pearls made by Kaiser Craft.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! One more week until Christmas break! Not that I'm counting the days or anything.... ;)

'Til Someone Loses an Eyelet

Somebody stop me with the Top Note! I can't believe I once looked at it in the mini and thought it was a big old waste of money and that I'd never use it! It's one of those things that you can't appreciate until you start using it, I guess. I love it.


I used Kraft paper for the card base and sentiment. The Top Note is cut out of Parisian Summer DP and I used white felt to cut out the flowers with the flower die also available from SU!. The eyelet in the center is a SU! antique brass jumbo one and I used the Key Tag punch to make the shaped for the sentiment tucked behind the flower. The sentiment is from a new set by There She Goes called Crafty Tag Lines.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend! We're going to be doing some Christmassy stuff this weekend. It's the parade near my in-laws' place so we'll head up there today and then tomorrow we'll decorate the house.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Espressing My Thanks

Hi all!

I can't wait for Friday at 3:00 p.m.! All of my parent conferences will be finished and my beautiful six month old nephew will be on his way over for us to babysit! Even though this is my 13th year teaching, I still get nervous around conference time. It's like this every year and afterwards I always ask myself what I was so worried about! Hopefully this year will be the same and it will be smooth sailing :)

So, to relieve some stress I've been feeling, I opened this awesome new coffee set from There She Goes called Let's Get Together to make a card. My older son's teacher is returning from maternity leave next week so I bought a Tim Horton's coffee card for his current teacher. Her last day is on Friday. I am all about the Tim's card for teachers.


I stamped the take out cup image on white and Riding Hood Red, cut out the white top of the cup and pieced it on the red layer. I don't claim to have come up with the idea of using my crimper and Kraft cardstock for the cup sleeve, but don't know where to give credit for the original brains behind it. I recall seeing it somewhere and thought it looked pretty cool. I wrapped the crimped piece around the cup and added the sentiment cut from white cardstock.

The card base is Riding Hood Red with a Chocolate Chip layer cut from the Top Note die from SU! I am loving this die muchly. So quick but it looks so nice! I wrapped some Riding Hood Red striped ribbon and then mounted the Top Note onto dimensionals. The cup is on dimensionals too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

FTL20 Beau-tea-ful!

This post has to be quick! What a weekend we have in front of us! hockey, in-law visit, friends visit, card class on Sunday...I don't know when I'm going to get this house cleaned! So I better do it after this.


This card uses the FTL20 layout from the Clean & Simple Stamping blog.

I used the There She Goes set Tea For Two and paper pieced that little cup using SU! Sweet Always DSP. The colours are Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose and Whisper White. Ribbon is SU! twill in Chocolate Chip and the brads are from Pink Hedgehog Papercrafts. I tried using Rose brads at first but it didn't look so great. The brown ones are much better.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you can do some relaxing this weekend :)

Sending You Holiday Peace

Here's a sample of a card we will be making at my card camp this weekend. I've got 6 coming on Friday and 10 (2 classes) on Saturday. I always cut a few extra and make them up as the ladies are making cards. I figure if I'm cutting, I may as well do extra while I'm at it. And by now, most of the ladies have been to a few camps and know what they are doing so I can sneak in some personal stamping waiting for questions or someone needing a hand. I'm looking forward to it! I've really met some wonderful people through this hobby :) I've got a few spaces left Saturday night from 7-10 so if you're willing to come out to Brampton, let me know!


So this is the card. I used the set To You and Yours. I like this set a lot as the images are nice, sentiments are good/useful/ones I would actually use on a card, and it's kinda cheap! My kind of set. The dove image is stamped in Real Red on Whisper White and framed in Basic Black. A Read Red piece is pierced with the mat pack and piercer and adhered to the card base, and a strip of Basic Black has a red ribbon tied and it's adhered. The sentiment is stamped in red and punched with a black mat. The sentiment is on a dimensional. SU! only baby!!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to look! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Tea Bag Holder

The great thing about this new Tea Set from There She Goes is that Tea for Two comes with a big stamp that you can cut out and use to make tea bag holders. No measuring necessary!


I stamped some Hawaii Papaya designer paper from SU! with the holder image. The image is pretty big so I used a plate from my Cuttlebug in place of an acrylic block. Worked like a charm! I stamped it on the reverse side so that when it's folded up you can't see the lines. Once it was cut out, I stuck it together with some two way glue.

The teapot was also stamped in the same designer paper and paper pieced to a Whisper White rectangle. I added a small pearl from Hero Arts for the top of the lid and some steam stamped on vellum (Thanks to Beth for the idea to use vellum for the steam!) The sentiment stamped in Close to Cocoa finishes it off.

I went to get a tea bag to put in it and then got the idea (thinking about it now it's probably not a new idea, but I was pretty proud of myself to think of it!) to remove the tag that is already on the bag and make a new one out of coordinating designer paper. I took the old one off and then cut a piece of DP the same size (3/4" x 2 1/4") and folded it in half. To get the notched corners, I used my SU ticket punch but did not push the paper all the way in to the corner. I eyeballed it to get it even. Then, I stuck the sides together with the tea bag string sandwiched between.

How cute would these be to give as a little gift! Perfectly co-ordinated :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!