Confucius Says...

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."  Yep, I like that.  Hope you like this card.  Used yesterday's CAS sketch and today's color challenge (Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum) on Splitcoast! 

Gotta run, hope you're having a great day!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Asian Artistry

Colors: Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum

Accessories:  Big Shot, embossing folder, Beautiful Wings Bigz Die, Basic Pearls, Striped Baja ribbon

The Little Things

As you have probably noticed since my last post was up for over a week, I have a new niece. I really wanted to go all out on the perfect baby card to send my sister and brother-in-law... but this card took me several days to pull together. I can't believe how my creativity declines when I've taken some time off from stamping! Well I finally got it done and I'm pretty happy with it. The sketch I used is the FTL97 from the Clean & Simple blog that I enjoy checking out periodically.

I finally put my new embossing folder to use and really like it. Now I can't wait to get the other new one in the new catalog! I'm sure you noticed the cork butterflies. That was fun! I had a scrap of cork laying nearby and on a whim grabbed it to see if I could use my Bigz Butterfly die with it- worked great. Then I decided I needed to more smaller butterflies so tried the Beautiful Wings embosslit. I ran it through twice and it cut also (although not quite as well as the die).

Can you see the Fine Flourish stamped in Pretty in Pink craft ink on the Razzleberry layer?? I liked that so much I decided to use it on the inside as well (below). The Pink Pirouette layer and cork butterflies are spritzed with my vanilla Smooch Spray so are sparkly in person.

Here's the inside shot. Fine Flourish with Pretty in Pink craft ink and sentiment punched out with the wide oval punch. You'll probably notice my imperfect white scallops behind the sentiment. I tried using the oval scallop punch (in three pieces) to layer and was only somewhat successful.

Anyway, I it's worth the wait. I enjoyed the AC today and made two more cards as well. I'll be back with those on Thursday. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get my Diva card done so you are enticed to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Fine Flourish, In My Thoughts

Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White

Accessories: Big Shot, cork, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Bigz Butterfly Die, Modern Label punch, wide oval punch, scallop oval punch, square rhinestone brad, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, wide pink organdy ribbon

Merry Christmas!

Thought I'd stop in once more before Christmas. I'm sure you've not missed me since we're all a little extra busy this time of year. But I've missed my blogging time! My daughter and I have spent the last few days making some gifts for her friends and a few stocking stuffers for relatives so I thought I'd share those today.
These are some chipboard ornaments we made with their school pictures on them. We used the Country Living Holiday Collection Kit that I had left over from last year. It was a great way to make some fast and fun gifts. My kids' wrote their name, age and grade on the back in their own handwriting.My daughter wanted to make some gifts for a few of her friends so I suggested more of the chipboard Top Note boxes that we made for teachers. I let her pick out the paper and embellishments and she even put them together.

Here is the one she made for herself to match her pink and brown bedroom. Inside we put some embossed butterflies cut with the new Beautiful Butterflies Embosslit and Big Shot. The wings stand out so it is almost like a little surprise shadow box inside. She absolutely loved making these!

I took pictures of the insides too, but the photos aren't great. That's what you get when you rush!

I hope you enjoy these because it might be all I have for ya for awhile.

I hope you each have a safe and happy holiday! Merry Christmas and thanks for stopping by to visit me!

~Kristin

A Mojo Sketch and a Beautiful Butterfly!

I was admiring my ribbon collection today when it dawned on me that I hadn't used much of my Rich Razzleberry dotted grosgrain. So I made this card with the Mojo sketch, intending to use that ribbon. Well, in the end I decided not too, but at least I did use my favorite Razzleberry color! The patterned paper is the Night and Day Specialty DSP from the Holiday Mini- the paper in the Build-a-brad is from Cottage Wall DSP.

I also put my Big Shot to use for the buttefly and the white daisies! I am completely out of black brads so in place of the three dots on each side of the sketch I put little dabs of mono-multi glue and added black chunky glitter for a touch of bling.

I do have another card with this very same layout that I did for the sketch challenge but I'm doing something "special" to the inside and didn't get it done today so I'll have to post that tomorrow!

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another Diva Color Challenge!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: none

Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Black & White

Accessories: Night and Day DSP, Cottage Wall DSP, Build-a-Brad, 1/2" circle punch, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Daisies #2 die, Big Shot, Black Chunky Glitter

Fifth Avenue Butterfly

Phew! After my internet being sluggish and then down most of the day I am finally able to post something today!

I'm excited to share this card with you because it shows off several new items including the new Urban Oasis DSP, the beautiful stamp set Fifth Avenue Floral, and the new Beautiful Butterfly Bigz die for the Big Shot!!

To highlight the sentiment in the center of the card I stamped it first, then punched a wide oval out of scrap paper and temporarily adhered it to the Pink Pirouette paper right over the sentiment. Then I randomly stamped the images from Fifth Avenue Floral in Black, Purely Pomegranate and Pink Pirouette. Before removing the scrap paper I sponged around it with Pink Pirouette.

This is a neat way to add some dimension with only one layer. The double stitched ribbon is the retired Pomegranate, and the brads are basic black. The wire I added last for antenna is ancient, and happens to be a perfect match to the Pomegranate!

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be volunteering in the morning tomorrow but will hopefully be able to stamp and post later in the day since I got most of my cleaning and laundry done today (thanks to no internet playing!).

~Kristin