Thursday, August 25, 2011

Because I Care Thank You

Hello,

I am incredibly thankful today. We finally have decided on what kind of gazebo we are going to build, and we even got our approval from the Condo Board. We still have to get the building permit stuff but the Condo board is the first hoop and we should be good to go.

My Stampin Up order just arrived so I have a few new goodies to play with. Finally, the weather is gorgeous so who would not be happy.

Oh and my card today is a Thank you hum, how about that!



Ok some details about this card, I layered my focal image on a piece of whisper white that was embossed with the Lattice Folder. I had this doilie that I had taken from a sandwich that I was served because I thought to myself I could use that someday, well it is someday today. I tucked the doilie under the peice of Night of Navy and placed this on the embossed piece.

I used my nestabilities die to cut my scallop  circle and then cut the stamped image with a circle nestabilitiy. I colored the image with markers and stamped the Thank You at the bottom.

So there you have it. Have a great day.



Stamps: Because I Care

Paper: Whisper White, DSP Pack Rich Regals Night of Navy, Marnia Mist

Ink: Black

Accessories: Markers, Nestabilities, Lace Dollie

Monday, August 22, 2011

Calypso Coral Meets French Foliage

Hello, my Blog Friends, hope everyone had a great weekend. We sure are enjoying our weather these days although there is still alot of concern for the fall winds that may threaten our lake shores. But for now we are good, dry and happy.

I had put a card very if not exactly like the one I showed on SCS and I was overwhelmed with the hits on it. So I thought I would try another out of my box combination. One thing I promised myself or made a goal to do was to use my stamp sets more and more often by trying things that are not what most of us would do so hence the color combo's.

I ran my first layer of Black through the Lattice Embossing folder only 3/4 's of the way. I then added my DSP which had added a piece of Calypso Coral that had been punched with the ScallopTrim Border Punch.


The stamped images where stamped in Calypso Coral, Alway Artichoke (rock and roll) and Basic Grey. I stamped the sentiment in Black and sponged basic grey on it while it was still in my nestabilites die. Then I added this whole piece to my Whisper White card base.



Stamps: French Foliage, Whimsical Words (retired)

Paper: Black, Whisper White, DSP (Retired Night and Day)

Ink: Calypso Coral, Basic Grey, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Lattice Embossing Folder, Scallop Trim Punch, Nestabilities die

Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Simply Soft Doily

I spent most of yesterday playing with this stamp set.

I embossed the Hello Doily background stamp with white embossing powder then sponged Soft Suede over it. Then I randomly stamped the doilies from Delicate Doilies with Soft Suede and sponged the edges.


I add some Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon On the side.

For the stamped image I colored it as i did in the previous post and then layered it on a Early Expresso circle. I placed this in the centre of the Doily.

I stamped the sentiment in Soft Suede and cut it out with one of my Nestability dies. I sponged Crumb Cake on the edges.

Thanks for stopping by.




Stamps: Simply Soft, Delicate Doilies, Hello Doily

Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Suede, Markers

Accessories: Nestability Die

Friday, August 19, 2011

Simply Soft

Just a short post.

Sorry I have been MIA, I had my son and his fiance here from Alberta and well you all know how time flys when you are having fun.

I have been feverlessly working on some new cards for the Farmers Market. I have been experimenting with Karen Barbers three color, coloring technique. I quite like it.


See you soon. Thanks for stopping by. 




Stamps: Simply Soft, Well Script

Paper: Pink Pirouette, White, Bravo Burgundy, Retired DSP
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Pretty In Pink, Bravo Burgundy

Accessories: Nestabilities, Pearls, White Signo Pen

Monday, August 8, 2011

Seriously

I made a bunch of these up for the Farmers Market last weekend and I sold everyone of them. The customers just thought they were a riot. I did have some trouble figuring out a layout for her, I must admit.

I colored here dress different colors and then choose card stock around the color of her dress. Next time I may do it the other way around may make it easier, this color combination was great not too much can go wrong with pink and brown.



This is what I put on the inside.


Not too much to say today, I am expecting my son and his fiance this week so I have to get lots of stuff done before they get here but wanted to keep my blog up to date.

Bye for now.


Stamps: Not So Seriously

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink

Ink: Black and coloring with markers

Accessories: Lattice Embossing Folder, Non SU Ribbon, Nestabilities.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Field Flowers Take Three

It is the end of the week, I just can not believe how fast time is zooming  by. Yesterday my family accompanied me to the city for the weekly grocery shopping for my husbands restaurant. My grandson is getting bigger and we did not use the car seat, boy what a difference that made in comfort in the back seat.

They decided to finally get a new computer. They have needed one for a long time. It is hard to decided which one to get. They gave me a bit of a hard time because I am always purchasing electronic gadgets and do not seem to have a hard time to make up my mind. What they don't know is the hours I spent on line doing what they did in person. Teehee So when I walk into the store I know what I am getting without all the decision making to do.

Well here is my card for today, although I am not thrilled with the colors it still is a great card. They other day somewhere I saw a centre step type card but it was done on the 5 1/2 side rather than the 4 1/4 side. I could not find any directions for cutting anywhere so I just improvised. I cut my slits from 1 to 5 1/2 on each side and then scored at 1, 2, 4 1/2 and 5 1/4. That worked for me but I don't know if that is how anyone else would  do it.


I could not decided on what DSP to put on the rest of the card so I did not put any. Instead I chose to emboss a small design across the bottom and add some ribbon. I may change the color of the ribbon to yellow before I sell this card and see if it makes it pop a bit more. In real life it looks pretty nice but a little dull here, must be the photographer LOL.

See you next week, have a great weekend.



Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Elizabeth

Paper:  Early Expresso, Whisper White

Ink: Early Expresso, Old Olive, Summer Sun

Accessories: Soft Suede Ribbon

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Happy Hump Day

It is already the middle of the week, image that, huh. It was just Sunday hours ago it seems.

I am frantically trying to come up with some new designs for my Farmers Market, I am trying to use all things available to me. But today for some reason lime green and black were on my mind. I happen to love lime green as you can tell from my ipad2 cover to my iphone cover to my wardrobe.

So what was I going to do, I always go to my scraps first so I found this piece of potka dot DSP and went from there. I cut the potka dot piece 2 x 4 1/4 and added a strip of Lucky Limeade that had been punched with the Scalloped Border punch. I found some retired Kiwi Kiss Taffeta ribbon and it matched not to badly.

For my stamped image I first stamped the script stamp from French Foliage in Going Grey, then I randomly stamped the leaves in Lucky Limeage and the two Greys added my favourite part the spotches and layered this piece onto a piece of Lucky Limeade.


I then added these layers to a piece of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 Black card stock. Then  I added 3 silver brads. I decided on no sentiment for this card so it could be used for any occasion. Hope you like it.




Stamps: French Foliage

Paper: Whisper White, Black, Lucky Limeade

Ink: Basic Grey, Lucky Limeade

Accessories: Brads, Retired SU Taffeta Ribbon, Scalloped Border Punch

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Field Flowers Take Two

Well the weekend is over, I am sure all the business people including my husband had a great weekend but are glad it is over. Me I just stayed in my stamp room and played between laundry and other household things.

I had made some practice flowers so I decided to put them to use on this card.

I actually cut into my new Well Worn DSP can't believe I did that. TeeHee I hate cutting new paper that I love I am just as bad with my fabric.

Any hoo, here is what I did. I took a piece of whisper white and stamped the French Script with Crumb Cake. Then with Soft Suede I stamped the leaves and branches, keeping in mind where my flowers were going to be, not like last card. Then I cut out around the leaves so that my flower would hang outside of the first layer. I applied the flowers stamped some of those blotches and my sentiment. I layered that piece onto Cajun Craze then Crumb Cake.

I cut a 2" strip from the Well Worn DSP add two strips of Cajun Craze that was punched out with the Scallop Border Punch. All of the layers were added to a piece of Soft Suede and my card was done.



Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Kind and Caring Thoughts (ssentiment)

Paper: Cajun Craze, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Well Worn DSP

Ink: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Concord Crush, Wisteria, Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait

Accessories: Scallop Border Punch

Monday, August 1, 2011

Field Flowers Take One

Who knew, that such a beautiful stamp set could be such a challenge. Now don't get worried that it is hard to use, not at all just a little bit of a learning curve. LOL

I have a new type of stamp club starting next month and the way this one is going to work is like this. They will pick a stamp set for all of them to order. I will come up with a few designs, color combinations and techniques for the set. They will pick what accessories they want to make up their commitment dollars but everything will be there when they come for the class to take home. This is the first stamp set they chose. Cool Huh.

Well I was using the front page of the catalogue for my inspiration, and but was not completely liking what I was coming up with. However, after a few tries with different colors I settled on this one. It also helps when you go in your scrap bag and find a card all ready embossed etc.

It took several attempts to get the centre part to where I like it so I am going to share how I did that in the end. I used Sarah Sand for the lighter color and Early Espresso for the darker image. I also found from trial and error to stamp the Sarah Sand first then the Early Espresso for best results. At first I was trying Crumb Cake and it just did not look right for me but I was happy with the Sarah Sand and Early Espresso.

Another thing to keep in mind is where you stamp your flower. I just stamped my flower, then when I went to stamp my green stem part it was way out of line so I just improvised for this card but will stamp my greenery first next time so that I get it perfect. See what I mean about trial and error. LOL



I used the Elizabeth stamp as they did on the Catalogue stamped with Night of Navy, I also happened to have the birthday sentiment already sitting on my desk so I just used it. I also used the script from French Foliage and the splotches as I just love that look. You could also use the French Script background stamp and it would also look awesome. In my quest to use up all my stuff, I found this cute dragon fly and added it as afterthought. However, it is non Stampin Up.





Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Elizabeth

Paper: Sarah Sand, Night of Navy, White

Ink: Sarah Sand, Night of Navy, Lucky Limeade, Bashful Blue, Early Espresso

Accessories: Sponge Dauber, Stampmajig, Non SU Brad