It's a Valentine's Day Blog Hop Party!!

Hey everyone,

Have you heard of Cut Card Stock? They are an amazing online store that carries a wide variety of cardstock including my personal favorites the “Stardream” collection and Green Grocer’s Brown Bag products.

Cut Card Stock is having a blog hop party February 6th- 14th.

Here are the super easy ways you can WIN:
Add Cut Card Stock as a reader thru feedblitz or blogger. Then you can blog over to our 7 participating sites. “Subscribe" to each blog and leave comments at each blog you follow.

You have the opportunity to WIN up to 7 different prize packages including a $30 Cut Card Stock gift card!

Here’s a sneak peek at what you can WIN from my blog:

(Basis Cardstock Sample Pack 20 Sheets 8.5x11)

(Brown Bag Hand Tinted & Kraft Assortment Pack 12 Sheets 8.5x11)

(Kraft Brown Bag Envelopes 25 pack in a A7 sz )**Remember every blog will offer different prize packages so head over to these other blogs to increase your chance of WINNING! **

Danielle

Cindy

Linda

Roree

Norma

Cut Card Stock Blog

If you want a chance to WIN - Just leave me a comment and tell us what you listen to while your stamping, scrapbooking or creating your cards…

I enjoy listening to songs from the 80’s!

How about you.....

(Winner will be chosen by random generator and posted on my blog so remember to check in)

Want to see what you can create with Green Grocer's products? Check out my previous post.

Coffee anyone?

My inspiration for these cards came last night as I enjoyed a hot cup of coffee trying to stay warm in this -30 degree temperature.

The main ingredients in all of these cards are the new Greengrocer's Brown Bag Cardstock available through CutCardstock.com. The sentiments were printed on my Epson printer and the stamps came from Inque Boutique & Impression Obsession, and Gel-A-Tins. I picked up the stamp that looks like a Starbuck coffee cup with the three little boxes some years ago at a going out of business craft store, unfortunately I can't make out the manufacturer :(

I couldn't find a background I liked for the card above so I designed one for myself using reasons "Why coffee is better than a man". LOL (amazing what you can find on the Internet!)

I printed them on GreenGrocer's text weight cardstock and VOILA instant custom pattern cardstock!

I'm currently waiting for an order to arrive from Card-scents, they've got these amazing specially formulated scents just for cardstock! HOW COOL IS THAT? I'll add a little to my cards and I'll truly have a "scent"-ational card for my friends.

Of course they've got just about every imaginable scent so I've ordered a few to test the waters. I can't wait!

After all this coffee talk I think its time for another coffee break.

Just in case you're wondering about the coffee cans pictured above, if you love strong coffee and I mean you LOVE and can handle STRONG coffee then I totally recommend Mehmet Efendi Turkish Coffee, I pick it up at a local store Istanbul Market and they do have online shopping! You can prepare it the American way using your coffee machine but if you want to truly indulge in the tradition you can prepare in a Cezve (Turkish coffeepot). Another favorite is New Orleans very own Cafe DuMonde Coffee, enjoy a cup with some of their Beignet mix and you'll feel as your in the French Quarters. :)

Now it's really time for COFFEE!

CutCardStock Designs pt. 2

Here are two more cards designed using Cut Cardstock products.

Other than using metallic cardstock I love working with Asian stamps, papers, etc...

This card features Swimming Carps (Kodomo Inc.) stamped with Ancient Page ink (clearsnap) onto Quartz Stardream Cardstock, a watercolor technique was used using Marvy markers and accented with Nirvana Glitter (Art Institue Glitter), image was further accented by carefully popping up parts of the Carps with 3D tape, final image was then layered onto silver reflective cardstock and matted onto Bluesteel Curious Metallic Cardstock.




This card was created for a special friend, the sentiment was computer generated and printed onto Crystal Stardream Cardstock, image was stamped with Ancient Page ink onto watercolor paper, a watercolor technique was applied using Marvy markers and accented with sugarcoated bubblegum glitter (doodlebug), image was stamped and colored twice. The first image was cut and adhered to the sentiment using my trusty Xyron. I then cut out two flowers and a leaf from the second image and placed over first image with popup tape. Completed card was layered onto Rose Quartz Stardream Cardstock and matted onto a precut and scored A2 Coral Stardream Cardstock

CutCardstock Designing

As you may have had previously read, I was honored when my card was chosen in a contest CutCardstock.com was having at the beginning of the month. Part of my prize included a package filled with goodies from CutCardstock but my real prize was getting the opportunity to design for them during the month of January. Here are two of my designs thus far:

For those of you familiar with my work you know I love anything metallic! I love the elegance it brings to invitations and cards, that's why I choose to create an invitation.

CutCardstock has these Gatefold Invitations in various colors. They carry them in 3 sizes, the one I used is a 5"x7" in Ruby. The insert is Silver Stardream and the gold is a reflective cardstock I picked up at a local store. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it online. The stamp used came from Bella Brush made by Fancy Pants, ink Pale Plum came from SU and the text was computer generated on my handy dandy Epson.

This design is perfect for weddings because the band holds everything together just tuck in the RSVP and envelope inside and mail away.

I'll be posting other cards I designed next week :)

Winter is officially here in Chicago!

Brrrr! The cold weather hit with force last night, I can't wait til spring!
In the meantime, I'll continue playing with my Blog, there's so much I want to add to it if I can just figure out how to put it all together. :)
Here's two cards I'm entering in a contest. Winner gets to be a guest designer for the month of January and a runner up will win a $20.00 merchandise gift card. As much as I would love to take 1st place, I don't think my blog is interesting enough "yet" so I'm hoping to be a runner up so I can get more goodies to design with.
Wish me luck!
I 'LOVE' this card! It's an A6 and I used patterned paper from scrapperdashery, Jupiter Stardream cardstock, Marvy's Xtra Giga Punch, Sentiment by Penny Black , Cardinal Image by Serendipity Stamps and holiday flourish by Inkadinkado Images were colored with Copic Markers, Ink from SU and glitter from Art Institute Glitter These are A2's using Sapphire Stardream cardstock, the snowflakes were embossed using my trusty cuttlebug on Crystal Stardream cardstock and accented with silver mirri cardstock scalloped with my create-a-cut trimmer, Marvy oval and scallop punches were used for the sentiment and ribbon from May Arts and a little bling from Mark Richards. Sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts, silver ink from colorbox and clear embossing powder from Coloriser

Contest Entry

Hmmm!! My first official post! I'm still testing the waters with the blogging world so please bear with me. Here's a pic I'm considering for a contest I'm entering, I'm still undecided whether this one will be one of two entries.