Serene Spring Card

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Serene Spring (111684)
(fall-winter 2008)

Paper Colors:
Kiwi kiss, Whisper white, Riding hood red


Ink Colors:
Riding hood red, Kiwi kiss, Basic grey

Accessories:
Bella Rose Paper, Watercolor crayons,
Aqua Painter

Wanted Wild West 6X6 Brag book pages

A Holly, Jolly Christmas Card

I Wanted to work on a card from this set today. What do you think? I have bought all the beads from the Catalog and used the red ones on the trees. I stamped the Santa in red and the grey, cut the shoes and the head out in the grey and the hat in red to give it the 3D look. I also put Dazzling Diamonds on the Santa's beard and fur. I also used Watercolor Crayons on Santa's face, real red for cheeks and Creamy Caramel for the skin.

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
A Holly, Jolly Christmas (111558)

Paper Colors:
Baja Breeze, Kiwi kiss, Whisper white,
Riding hood red

Ink Colors:
Riding hood red, Kiwi kiss, Basic grey

Accessories:
Red bead Duo, Riding hood red ribbon, sponge
DD Glitter, 1/4 hole punch, cutter tool kit,
Watercolor Crayons Real red and Creamy caramel.

Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

More new stuff... :)

My New Stuff I got this week... fun fun!!

Blue bead Duo 110753
Pink Pirouette Ribbon 111373
Basic Grey Taffeta Ribbon 109064
Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon 109065
Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon 109071
Absolutely Fabulous Stamp set 109493
Simply Scrappin Summer home 112068
Hostess Set Serene Spring 111684

Time to go use my new stuff!!

Shirley Pumpkin

Garden Show 12x12 Scrapbook Pages

This was a really fun night at the Kids School they do it every year. The Garden Club sponsors this event and gives out ribbons to everyone. The name of the category's are so funny, like Purple passion award, Zippy Zucchini award and many many more. The School had Dinner and a Reading Night along with the Garden Show, and the dinner was even free. Yum Yum. I added pictures of the kids favorite entry one is the zucchini in a bikini and the space ship cucumber.


The Recipe


Paper Colors:
Garden green, Tangerine tango,
Yoyo yellow, Chocolate chip


Accessories:
Reminisce bugs life paper (aka: boys gone wild)
Reminisce Self-adhesive diecuts and epoxy
embellishments, dimensionals

Love you guys... get Scrapbooking!!
Shirley Pumpkin

Field Trip 12x12 Scrapbook Page

My Son's Kindergarten class went on a field trip to a grocery store. They had a lot of fun, they ate so much food from banana's to cookies. I used and old tooth brush to splatter Baja breeze ink on the letters and sahara sand paper. I think I am going to add more ribbon, I just don't have the right color right now. I printed the story on my Microsoft Word program in black.


The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Well-Worn Alphabet (107159)

Paper Colors:
Sahara sand Textured, Whisper white,
Baja Breeze, Close to cocoa, Chocolate chip

Ink Colors:
Sahara sand, Baja breeze

Accessories:
Cutter tool kit, Mini Library clips, Clips
Assortment, River rock ribbon (retired),
S.e.i. Granny's Kitchen paper, Dimensionals

Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

Just Jawing Make and Take

I brought this Card to our last American Ink meeting. It was a big hit with the girls. It is a little time consuming with using the Old olive and Real red markers, but it is so worth it! What is so Great about the Glitter is it goes on so thick and give the card some Bling!! Stamp the Skull first on the white paper, then work around it with the cherry's adding just the Skull face with the glitter last.

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Just Jawing (111660)

Paper Colors:
Whisper white,Real red

Ink Colors:
Basic black

Accessories: Markers Old olive and Real red,
Dimensionals, Chunky glitter red and white.

11 Days Until Halloween!!

You Rock My Friends!!
Shirley Pumpkin

I entered this card into Stampin' Up this month.
I am hoping to at least be on Stampers showcase!!

The Order I got Today!! Yeah !!

A Cool Picture of my 20 Year Anniversery Pin



The Stuff!!

Halloween Frights Stamp set
Jumbo wheel Frightful Fence
Ribbon Originals Alpine
Little Felt Flurries
Wide Oval Punch
Flower Trio Punch
Simple Birthday Thanks Stamp
Accents & Elements Flower Fusion
Designer Series Paper Ski Slope
Glitter Chunky Sprinkles
Stampin Dimensionals
Real Red 8 1/2 x 11 Cardstock
Patterns Pack Hostess Paper
Tag It Personalized Stamp (for my Son Calvin, he loves to make cards)
20 Year Anniversary Pin

Time to go have some fun with my new Stuff!
Shirley Pumpkin

House of Haunts Swap Card

House of Haunts is a fun set. I love to heat emboss, giving it a polished look. I used the watercolor crayons around the house to make it look spooky. I punched out one little skull to put in the build~a~brad, I placed it over one of the tomb stones. The Halloween paper is so cute this year, I have used it on a lot of projects.

16 days until Halloween

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
House of Haunts (111574)

Paper Colors:
Pumpkin pie, Basic black,

Ink Colors:
Basic black

Accessories:
Black embossing powder, DS paper
Ghostly greetings, Build a brad,
Watercolor crayons Pumpkin pie, Black,
Yo yo yellow, sponge dauber

Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

Eat Drink and be Scary Swap Card

I can't say it enough... I LOVE HALLOWEEN!. So I love to make Halloween Cards and Scrapbook pages. I think I have every Halloween Stamp set from the past 4 or more years. I cut out the mini spider and put it on top of the witch hat, then put teene tiny eyes on it.

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Eat, Drink & Be Scary (111764)

Paper Colors:
Whisper white,Tangerine tango, Basic black,
Kiwi kiss

Ink Colors:
Basic black, Tangerine tango, Kiwi kiss

Accessories:
Kiwi kiss striped ribbon, Pumpkin pie ribbon,
Cutter tool kit, 3mm wiggle eyes

I love Halloween and Stamping
Shirley Pumpkin

"My Kids" Altoids Tin

The Altoids Tin


The Mini Book from inside


I used my 1 3/8 square punch to punch out the photos. I went and got lots of all the kids photos from school, they are the perfect size for this project. Or one thing I really like to do is go to Target and they will take your photos and make them Mini, they can fit 4 photos on a 4X6 or 6 photos on a 4X6, so they would be just right for a mini album this size, and its the whole picture you don't have to punch just parts of it out.

Beautiful Always Card

This is one of the prettiest stamp sets in the Catalog this year. The New In-Colors are Fabulous... I love love love them!! The best In-Colors yet, if you have not got them yet.... go go go girl and order today!!

I did the Rock and Roll Technique on this card, I stamped the bird in Baja breeze and then rolled it into Pacific point. I also stamped the bird on the main white piece of paper first and then stamped it onto a scrap of white and cut it out, just make sure the feet are dark and when you cut the bird out cut the feet off to give it 3D effect. I think the next time I will stamp the greeting in Pacific point so that it would show up better.


The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Always (113620)

Paper Colors:
Whisper white, Baja Breeze, Kiwi kiss,
Pacific point

Ink Colors:
Baja breeze, Pacific point, Kiwi kiss

Accessories:
Kiwi kiss striped ribbon, crystal brad
Tempting turquoise, Scallop edge punch,
cutter tool kit, paper-piercing set

Thanks for looking my Fabulous Friends
Shirley Pumpkin

New Picture of my Wall of Stamps

I love to Stamp... as you can see. I do need another rack like this I just don't have the room for it. So I try to change up the stamps on it once in a while.

Love you Girls
Shirley Pumpkin

Moose you Christmas card

This Moose has gone crazy, just look into his eyes. *LOL* Terry and I were talking one day about this Stamp Set, how it would make a cute Christmas card.. and yes it turned out super cute. Sometimes I just can't help myself with all the cutting out that I do. This Card shows my talent that I learned in Kindergarten, working with scissors.

The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Heritage Holiday (111646)
Moose you (109345)

Paper Colors:
Old Olive, Riding hood red, Whisper white,
Chocolate chip,

Ink Colors:
Old olive, Chocolate chip, Basic grey (ornaments)

Accessories:
Cutter tool kit, Markers Real red and Old olive,
Cristal affects, Hemp twine, 4mm wiggle eyes
Dimensionals, Striped Riding hood red ribbon,
Ski slope DS paper

Love you guys
Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

Sock Monkey for the Troops

My Upline and Friend Terry SU had a stamp~a~stack last night. 5 cards for $5.00,then you pick one of the cards to donate to the troops. This was the card I brought. I used the Very Vanilla Craft ink on the Close to Cocoa paper with the Canvas BG stamp,to give it a fabric look. I love this card and stamp set, and so did all the other girls!!


The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Sock Monkey (111550)
Hugs and Wishes (109383)
Canvas BG (104421)

Paper Colors:
Certainly celery, Old olive, Night of navy,
Close to cocoa, Confetti white

Ink Colors:
Basic grey, Very vanilla craft

Accessories:
DS paper Maine blueberry, Grosgrain ribbon Bashful blue and Night of navy,
White taffeta ribbon, 5mm Wiggle eyes, lots of Dimensionals



Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

My Star Album

Happy Camper fun!!

OMG... The Bear is in the tent... run for your lives... *LOL*



I am going to update the Recipe and other info later...

Heritage Holiday 6x6 Brag book pages

Do you see the tree in the background? I got this tree at Rite Aid for 1.79. I used the stamp with the ornaments, colored them in with Real Red and Old Olive markers and added Crystal Effects. After it dried I cut them out and hot glued them to the tree. What I like about how it turned out is that the ornaments look old...so cool!



The pictures are of my kids Levi and Calvin, Christmas 2004.... wow so long ago. They are so cute here with their new Christmas stuff. Levi 6 years old and Calvin 2.



So I did it again! Here I took the kit for the 6x6 Brag book pages and made two 3x6 cards. It works great when you do this at an event when there are people that don't want to do the Brag book pages and they can make the cards instead. It was a big hit the last time we did it.




The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Heritage Holiday (111646)

Paper Colors:
Baja breeze textured, Old olive, Riding hood red,
Chocolate chip, Whisper white

Ink Colors:
Baja breeze, Old olive, Riding hood red,
Chocolate chip

Accessories:
Cutter tool kit, Punches 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 square,
word window, 1/16 in hole punch,
Dimensionals

Thanks to my friends... love ya!
Shirley

House of Haunts Swap Card

This is another card I just found in my drafts file.. but never loaded it onto my blog.. Don't know why... (lost in cyber space). One of the reasons might have been because I was thinking I was going to enter it into a contest but I never did.. or I did and it did not win.. :( But now it is here on my blog and it is one of my Favorites. I am so glad I found it. Thank goodness I keep all my old Catalogs so I could find the name of the Designer series paper: Ghostly Greetings. I punched out a little skull from the paper to make the brad, using the build a brad.

The Recipe

Stamp sets:
House of Haunts (111574)

Paper colors:
Pumpkin pie, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink:
Versamark, Basic Black

Accessories:
Black embossing powder, Sponge, Build a brad,
Watercolor Crayons, Pumpkin pie, Basic Black,
Yo yo Yellow, 1/2 inch circle punch, Dimensionals,
Snail Adhesive

Thanks for looking
Shirley Pumpkin

Jolliest Time of the Year Card

I made two versions of this card... one with santa head on the card front and the other with it layered on top of the santa to give it dimension.. it looks cute both ways... unless you agree with Terry that its just a decapitated santa head.. I think it looks cute as an accent on the bottom of the card.... so its not a snowflake... its a head... *LOL*


The Recipe

Stamp Sets:
Jolliest Time of the Year (109507)
Heard from the Heart (111644)

Paper Colors:
Real red, Whisper white, Black

Ink Colors:
Basic Gray

Accessories:
DD glitter, watercolor crayons Real red, B black,
Bashful blue, Creamy Caramel, Zig painty pen,
1/8 in hole punch, Tag corner punch, Black G-Ribbon,
Dimensionals, Aqua Painter

Tableau of Terror swap card

The Recipe

Stamp sets:
Tableau Of Terror

Paper colors:
Basic gray, Whisper white,
Kiwi Kiss

Ink Colors:
Basic Gray

Accessories:
Ghostly greetings paper, Watercolor Crayons
Chunky glitter: silver, red, black, Orange beads,
Orange micro beards, 4 and 5mm eyes, cutter tool kit
black marker.

Bloomin' Beautiful Card

I was so glad to see that this set made it into the Catalog. I have seen so many great things made with this set. I used the Canvas BG on this card... first I inked it with Sahara sand and then took the Chocolate chip ink pad and rubbed it around the edges to give it an older look and I stamped it a few times on the front of the card. I used the Chocolate chip marker to put the Love on the bee. I used a lot of Dimensionals to make it pop up high. Thanks for looking friends!

The Recipe

Stamp sets:
Bloomin' Beautiful (111490)
Canvas Background (104421)
Family Phrases (111016)

Ink and Paper colors:
Chocolate chip, Always artichoke,
Mellow moss, Sahara sand, Confetti white,
Basic brown ink.

Accessories:
Watercolor crayons:B-blue, C-chip, A-artichoke, M-moss,
Circle punches: 1in, 1 1/4, 1 3/8, Linen thread,
Cutter tool kit, C-chip marker.

House of Haunts brag book and cards

I thought that I would make something different for my brag-book pages, by heat embossing the Designer Paper. I think heat embossing for brag-book pages gives it a lasting look and its not like glitter that gets onto other things. (including your hair and face so no looking like a pixie for me..) *LOL*



This is a fun set to work with. I made a pair of brag-book pages that turned out super cute.... that is my son Calvin on Halloween. I used the same pieces and made it into a 3x6 card, so that someone at a stamp camp or other events can have a choice to make a brag-book or a card... their choice. :)



The 3x6 Card



This view is to show you that some of the pieces are on the inside of the card. Using the kiwi kiss inside is great so you don't have to use a white gel pen on the inside.



Page 2 of the 6x6.. super cute picture of my son Levi, he has a nice smile.



The 3x6 card from page 2.



This was so much fun and both turned out so cute that I am going to do this from now on. In fact I have a few kits from other 6x6's that I have done that I am going to make into cards.... yeah yeah... fun fun... thanks for looking friends

The Recipe

Stamp sets:
House of Haunts (111574)

Ink and Paper colors:
Black, Kiwi kiss, White

Accessories:
Black embossing powder, Kiwi kiss ribbon,
Pumpkin pie striped ribbon, ghostly greetings paper,
Versamark pad.

"wild about you" swap card

I love to use all the animal sets and stack the animals on top of each other... it just makes me laugh. So here is another one that I did with the new in colors, I think it really shows them off.

Stamp Sets:
Wild about you (107371)
Upsy Daisy (111710)

Inks and Paper:
Tangerine tango, Baja breeze, Riding hood red,
Kiwi kiss, Whisper white

Accessories:
White gel pen, Cutter tool kit,
Horizontal slot punch, Kiwi kiss striped ribbon,
wiggle eyes 3mm,4mm,5mm

Thank you Friends

My Owl Card was on Stampers Showcase!!!

Yeah.... I was so happy to see my card on Stampers Showcase on August 14, I just wanted to share with all my friends.. Thank you Terry for sending it in for me.. you are the best!!!!!



OWL TOGETHER NOW STAMP SET (111534)

Stamps:
OWL TOGETHER NOW STAMP SET
SANDED BACKGROUND STAMP

Paper:
CARD STOCK PUMPKIN PIE 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK WHISPER WHITE 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK REALLY RUST 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK OLD OLIVE 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK CHOCOLATE CHIP 8 1/2X11

Inks:
CLASSIC STAMPIN PAD BASIC BROWN
CLASSIC STAMPIN PAD CHOCOLATE CHIP
CLASSIC STAMPIN PAD PUMPKIN PIE

Accessories:
RIBBON GROSGRAIN PUMPKIN PIE
CRAFTERS' TOOL KIT
AQUA PAINTERS
WATERCOLOR WONDER CRAYONS EARTH ELEMENTS
SNAIL ADHESIVE PERMANENT

Created by:
Shirley S

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Tart and Tangy Masking Card

The Recipe

Stamp sets: Tart and Tangy, Smarty Pants
Paper: Real red, Garden green and White
Supplies: Markers real red and garden green,
Real Red 5/8 Grosgrain Ribbon,
and Punches..3/16 Corner Rounder,
Scallop, 1 3/8 and 1 1/4 Circles

This stuff looks like a lot of fun!!

Halloween Pumpkin 6x6 Swaps