A Few More Masculine Cards

A masculine birthday card and another Father's Day card using the same supplies as the last card creation I posted.  

Father's Day Card

Continuing my goal to use up retired designer series paper from SU!, I made a Father's Day card using an old A Muse Artstamps "golfer" I've had for a long time.  Paired it with another A Muse stamp sentiment inside (not shown) which reads "have a swinging day!".  

The paper is the same from my last post along with Sahara Sand and Chocolate Chip cardstock from SU!  Father's day sentiment from SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes and Papertrey Ink's dotted stamp from Faux Ribbon.

Loving that it's summer break for us.  Have a great weekend!

First Day of April

....and it's going to be a beautiful one. 

 

Here's a thank you card for a friend.  Inspired by Melissa's card HERE.  Great way to use up scraps of designer series paper.  I've had this paper for awhile now that I can't even remember the name of it.  It coordinated with one of SU's sets, Looks Like Spring, I think.

 

 

 

 

 

Made it a post card, sizing it to fit a business size envelope.  Colors are Crumb Cake, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip and white.  Butterfly punch from Martha Stewart, Espresso Twine, embossing folder on the strips of CC cardstock, and some little pearls for embellishments.  Cute and simple.

 

Hope you have a great week!

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter

 

Here's a card I had at my last stamp camp for some wonderful ladies that like to take their time and stamp with me.

 

 

 

 

 

Using SU!'s Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Bloomin' Marvelous and the single stamps set, Easter Blessing.  Colors are Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Pear Pizazz, and Pink Pirouette.

 

I did not realize before snapping the picture that I lost one of the little gems on one of the pink flowers.  Oh well. 

 

Hope you have had a wonderful Easter!

 

Blessings,

 

 

Stamping

There are some days I love to stamp, other days I read, then other times I cross stitch.  Then there are lots of days where I don't do anything!  That's been mostly the case lately.

 

But since spring break, I've been playing with my stamps.  I pulled out a set I hardly have used, SU! Great Friend, now retired.  It's one I just had to have, used it on a card or two, then it sat in the closet unused for a very long time.  Partly because it is wood mounted and I prefer my clear mount sets over the wood nowadays. 

 

 

 

 

 

So I pulled out the neglected set, peeled it off it's wood block and made it into a clear mount set using Papilio Inkjet clear static cling vinyl film using THIS tutorial and THIS one. 

 

Found the coordinating designer series paper (that I just had to have with the set!) and inked up the stamps.  Made several cards, like the ones above and below.

 

 

 

 

I'm determined to use up all of this paper, making simple coordinating tags with the scraps.  No use hoarding it. 

 

 

 

 

Had to pull out an old color to match with the designer series paper, A Walk in the Park.  It uses the retired color Cameo Coral.  Good thing I hadn't gotten rid of it yet.  I am getting ready to clean out my stamp room and do away with the old colors and coordinating cardstock. 

 

 

 

Going to find another old set to redo and give it a little inky love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Spring Tea

Happy Spring! 

 Popping in  to share with you a  little gift for my sister who loves to drink tea as much I do.

 

It's one of our favorite daily rituals. 

 

Packaged up a tin of Harney & Sons tea called "Paris" with a tea themed card.

 

 

Used the SU! set called Tea Shoppe.  I cased a card I made awhile back but used Wisteria Wonder color scheme to match the tin. 

 

 

 

 

Enjoying a break from school; we are on our spring/Easter holiday break. 

Love having this time at home but it's going by way too quickly for my liking!

 

 

Have a lovely day!

 

 

"Brown Paper Packages.......

.....tied up with string".  As soon as I read that phrase, I hear Julie Andrews singing it as she did in the classic movie "Sound of Music".   Such a pretty song. 

And she has such a lovely voice.  I can't carry a tune to save my life.  It's just not a gift I possess.

But I can stamp. 

And can whip up a brown paper package for a birthday gift with a coordinating card.  So there's that.

I had a large pillow box that I used for a template.  I carefully undid the side glued seam, traced the opened up box on some craft colored cardstock, scored it in the appropriate places and used red line tape to adhere it back into a pillow box.  Before adding the tape, I stamped a swirl image all over. 

A doily from Wilton with a black scalloped circle and the phrase typed out on the computer is the focal point.  Embellished with an off-white prima flower and pearl then tied up with some stretch white cording (string) :)

The card was clean and simple using the stamp set Build A Blossom and it's coordinating punch.  The black layer was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper folder.  Pearls for accents.



Pretty, pretty, pretty and easy to boot.  If I do say so myself.  Love little brown paper packages!  I think the recipient enjoyed it too.

Hope your week gets off to a great start!  Thanks for stopping by!



Supplies Used:

Stamps: Build A Blossom, Elements of Style, Well Scripted

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Black, Whisper White

Ink:  Versamark, Stazon Black

Accs:  circle punch, Nestibilities scalloped circle die, prima flower

         pearls, stretch cording, Wilton doily

Keeping Calm..........

Hello Friends!

We are back into the swing of school time!  Whew!  I'm trying to "Keep Calm" as we carry onto the new school.  My boys started 6th and 4th grade and I've got 14 new little ones in the preschool class I assist in.  They are precious!  

Things have been busy and I have been super tired lately with getting adjusted into our school routines.  Things are settling down now and everyone is happy in their places.  

Back in July, I sent a little gift to my sister.  It was a book entitled, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', a historical fiction novel, that is charming and full of quirky characters telling the time when an English island was occupied by Germany during WWII .  An English themed book, the card I enclosed with it was a perfect match I thought.   

All supplies used are from Stampin Up! 

We are already looking forward to a three day weekend with Labor Day coming up!  Just 4 more school days.  Woohoo!

Take care and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Carry On

Paper: midnight muse, whisper white & real red

ink:  real red, white craft, gold metallic ink

accessories:  1"inch circle punch, clear jewels





Stampin Up & Flower Soft

Hello! 

A little bit of stamping goodness for today.  Made this card a while back and just realized I had it sitting in my drafts and never posted it.  

It uses an older SU! stamp set called, Serene Spring.   Colored the image using an aqua-painter and classic pads & ink refills, paper used was watercolor paper.  Some flower soft in different spots for added texture and dimension.   Not sure if the flower soft comes through in the pictures but it's really pretty in real life.   

Trying to get through my pile of books.  Seems like I've checked out more library books than I'll be able to get through before the return date!  I've added more to this stack since I took the picture. 

Just finished "Sweetness at The Bottom of The Pie" and found it immensely enjoyable.  Mystery type novel set around 1950 England involving a precocious 11yr old girl named Flavia.  Fun read.  Next up is "The House at Tyneford". 

Better get to reading! 

Hope your week so far has been a good one! 

Easter Monday

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  We enjoyed a wonderful service and some family time with my in-laws on Easter Sunday. 

I had meant to post this card last Friday but I simply forgot in the busyness to get things ready for a quickie trip we planned with the boys for Fri & Sat.   I thought I'd go ahead and show it anyway.  This was actually a card I made last year and had a couple left over to use this year for Easter.  It's a direct case from Teneale Williams.  Her cards are simply beautiful and I love her style.   You can see her original here.

 

Everything is from SU! except for the sentiment which was typed on the computer. 

Stamps:  Easter Blossoms, Looks Like Spring (diamond pattern stamp)

Paper:  very vanilla, baja breeze, pear pizzazz

Ink:  crumb cake, baja breeze, pear pizzazz, regal rose and versamark

Accessories:  vanilla seam binding, scallop border punch, pearls, 2-way glue pen and dazzling diamonds glitter

Here's a look at the inside of the card:

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great Monday!

Spring Chick

I saw this very cute chick card by Nicole Heady and decided to replicate it using a stamp set I had that is just a little bit similar to hers.  At least the chick part anyway.  My chick comes from SU!'s A Good Egg set and the little roses are from SU!'s Everyday Celebrations set.

Sentiment is a little too close to the button but I had already cut it out and decided I didn't want to waste so went with it.  Cute little card that didn't take long to put together. 

Supplies used are PTI's white, SU! daffodil delight dsp, pool party dsp, crumb cake cardstock that was trimmed with the scallop border.  Ink is daffodil delight, black stazon, pumpkin pie (for the beak) and white craft for the flowers.  A snippet of pool party seam binding and a yellow button with strip of pool party cs for "thread".  I typed the sentiment using Albemarle Swash font on the computer. 

We had a really nice weekend but our allergies are in full swing.  Itchy eyes and noses, sneezing and drainage are our companions right now.  I really like Spring but not all the pollen that comes with it.  Hopefully it won't be too long before we are all feeling better. 

Happy Monday!

Tea Shoppe

Happy Saturday Everyone! 

Popping in with a stamped card today.  When SU! came out with this stamp set in their current Occasions Mini Catalog, I knew I just had to have it.  I love tea and all the little things that go with it.  Pretty cups, pretty teapots, pretty dainty food to go with the tea.  I find it all very relaxing and soothing.   So of course I had to get this set and this is my first card with it.

I used the layout from the mini catalog that the stamp set is featured in but added my own elements to it.  Used River Rock as my base for the card, a piece of Everyday Enchantment designer series paper, a Wilton small doily, and a strip of whisper white that was punched using the Eyelet Border punch then run thru the crimper for texture.  The large teacup was stamped using lucky limeade ink onto very vanilla cardstock and cut out.  Popped up with dimensionals and little pearls embellish the florals on the cup. 

I took a teabag and snipped off the end to remove the tea (otherwise it would have been too thick to have behind the cup) and stamped it with the little floral image in pool party ink.  Made a little tag for the teabag using the white peony image and colored it in with a blender pen in lucky limeade and pool party.  Seam binding in pool party color and a little tag with the "just for you" sentiment finishes it. 

Adding this card to Our Creative Corner's  "How Green Is Your Spring!" challenge.  The challenge is to make any papercraft to show Spring in all it's color using Green as the main color. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful Saturday! 

Winding Down.....

Well.

It's been awhile hasn't it?  Christmas has come and gone and we're on the eve of a New Year.  How about that?!  Time flies when you're having fun! 

Hope everyone Christmas was wonderful.  We definitely had a great one and so enjoyed all the down-time post Christmas brought.  We didn't have any set plans this past week and took things one day at a time.  Enjoyed a date night with the hubs, had some pajama days, and pretty much relaxed.  I caught up on a lot of blogs and can I just admit here that I have a serious addiction to Pinterest?  Oh.my.word.  From organizing, decorating, crafting, cooking, you name it, I've probably pinned it!   So many fun ideas.  Lots of talented people out there sharing their gifts.  

Speaking of gifts, here's the Christmas card I sent out to a few people.  I cased it from the  super talented Vicki  from It's A Stamp Thing.   It did take quite a bit of work and so there weren't that many that were made.  Wished I had photographed some of the other Christmas cards I had made prior to this one, but I was in a hurry to send them out and forgot to.   

No big plans for us tonight.  We are just hanging out at home this evening.  The boys are watching football with dad and I'm going to settle in with my cross stitch.  I've made a start on CCN's monthly series "January" and will post pictures tomorrow. 

Hope everyone has a great evening!

 

 

***Edited to Add***

 

I've had a few inquires to this card as to how the petals were made.  I used Stampin Up!'s Blossom Petals Builder punch, using just the "leaves" of the punch.  You can see it here.

Direct link to Vicki's (who I cased as I explained above) is here.

 



Pumpkin Bird House

         Here's a little paper bird house I created for my stamp ladies I had over this past weekend.  It's a total case from Vicki at It's a Stamp Thing.  A little time consuming but so worth it.  I think they turned out so cute!  The pattern for the birdhouse was originally offered to demonstrators on the SU! website but has recently been done away with.  Luckily for me, who didn't download it when I had the chance, I found it one someone else's blog.        The pattern can be found here. 

  

For the front of the bird house, I used my Creative Memories oval cutters to create the pumpkin shape.  After they are adhered together and the circle punched out, I ran it thru the SU!'s Wallpaper embossing folder and taped it to the front.  Tucked inside are some chocolate truffles.  Isn't it sweet?

The "welcome" piece was printed out on the computer.  A little leaf cutout, some twine and ribbon finish it off. 

My dining table set for a fall lunch. 

Hope you have a great start to a new week! 

  

Happy Halloween!

Have a "boo"-licious day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Holiday Best

Paper:  Black, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil dsp, white

Ink:  Black Stazon, Markers-Razzleberry, pumpkin pie,

            kiwi, soft suede, basic black, daffodil, blush

Accessories:  Spellbinders scallop and circle, web embossing folder,

             jewel dots, shimmer spritz in Sparkle, ribbon, 

            (not shown in photo: Sizzlit leaves in black, spritzed with shimmer)

Sunflower, take two....

September reminds me of apples and sunflowers.  A prelude to Autumn colored leaves, fall mums and pumpkins.  Here's yet another card that I made using the set Give Thanks.  Love how it came out.  I first took a picture of it without adding some glitter to the center of the sunflower, then went back to add it.  The second picture shows the addition and in real life, it doesn't look to bad.  But, I think I like the flower without the glitter best. 


 

What do you think? 

 
Hope you have a great start to the new week.

Stamps:  SU Give Thanks, PTI Green Thumb (for the pot)
paper:  marigold morning, buckaroo blue, expresso, watercolor paper
                 Sonnets DSP Houndstooth
ink:  marigold morning, always artichoke expresso, black stazon
acc:  Martha Stewart border punch, paper piercer, linen thread