Oooh, sparkly!

Another card I did before the big move to WA.  You can see the lovely green paint from my craft room in the background *sniff*.  I embossed the ginormous stamped image in iridescent ice, it was lovely all by itself but I had some things lying around on my desk so I just added them to the front to give the card some dimension.  The cardstock is Old Olive but the scraps of paper and ribbon are from Stampin' Up's first set of in colors.  Enjoy!

Marbling!

This is another old card I did this summer.  The batik looking strip of paper on the left got its awesome look by using some marbles, a couple colors of reinkers and an old stamp set case.  So fun and easy.  Just choose your colors of reinkers and put 2-3 drops of each color in the case.  Place your marbles in and roll them around a bit.  Then place your card stock in the case and roll the marbles over it.  Only a tiny bit messy.  Enjoy!

Hello all and happy Sunday.  It's a beautiful and warm sunny day here in Sactown.  This is a card I came up with for a Stamp a Stack I did with my friend Tracy in late January.  I used Twitterpated fabric from the mini catalog on the base, and stamped with the Bordering on Romance set on the Conffetti white cardstock.  Kind of sweet, I was thinking Valentine's day but with the option for using it any other time as well.

Here's a close up of the detail.  I punched the heart out and ran it through the big shot using the Petals a Plenty embossing folder, then painted the center of the flowers using the smooch paint that I believe is being discontinued so get it while it's hot. Oh, and FYI, I found that glueing the fabric worked best with a glue stick.  Some sewing might be cuter but I don't have a machine. Enjoy!

Happy Sunday everyone!  It's such a lovely day I should be outside, but here I am playing on the computer instead.  It's so nice now that I have uploaded all of my photo's to be able to sit down and create a post whenever I want. 

  This is the card I made for my hubs for the big V-day.  It's not a very good pic, I should have gotten an up close shot of the heart.  I stamped and embossed it from a very old Stampin' Up hostess set, it says "Lovey Dovey".  I embossed it on some metallic purple cardstock a very good friend had given me for Christmas one year.  The background CS is just something I picked up somewhere, the black design is flocked and I thought it spoke for itself so I didn't want to do too much to it.  I layered it over some Perfect Plum and the base is just Whisper White.  The ribbon is from a spool of Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon I've been hoarding because it's discontinued (I must love him if I used it on his card...he better not have thrown it out!).  I hope you like it!

Alrighty folks, it's been awhile.  This is why I took so long to start a blog, because I knew I would let life get in the way of my posting regularly.  Well, I now have a backstock of photo's to post from.  This does mean however that you might see some Christmas stuff in the middle of summer, but I guess that's how I role.

These two lovely tags I'm actually proud of, that doesn't always happen for me.  Sometimes I work so hard on something that by the time I'm finished I can't stand to look at it anymore.  Anyway, I made these to go with the teacher gifts I made for my boys teachers for Valentine's day.  I used scraps for various places, I'm pretty sure the designer paper is from a discontinued Stampin up set, as is the jack in the box stamp and the die cut I used for the heart.  I had more close up picks but my computer isn't cooperating at the moment.  Enjoy!

Well Worn and watercoloring

Here is another project from my last club get together.  I used the Well Worn DSP again and thought this image from the Creative Elements set really wanted to be watercolored so I used my aquapainter and just ink from the lids of Dusty Durango, More Mustard and River Rock to color it in.  The flower I die cut from the Fun Flowers die and embossed it with the Petals a Plenty folder.  Enjoy!

Finally! One of these days I will get on the ball and get in the hang of uploading my pics and posting regularly.  These are a couple of coffin shaped treat boxes I had my gals from one of my clubs make last weekend.  I got the template from the SU! website and the paper is from the Well Worn DSP pack.  I thought the wood grain was perfect for a coffin.  I also tried my hand with the scored medallions, much easier when you have a scoring system.  I had tried them once before with just my regular scoring tool and it was a disaster.  Anyway, Happy Halloween!

I LOVE to use things that would normally be thrown out.  I've recently been working on switching some of my old stamps from wood block to acrylic.  I was left with all of these wood blocks.  I could have just given them to someone to toss in their fire, but I felt the challenge of repurposing them.  So, I painted these with some gray acrylic paint and used the Wicked Fun DSP, bat punch and curly label punch to pretty them up.  For the letters I wanted a little more dimension so I stamped them on the cardboard pieces that come with the DSP (again repurposing), and used Crystal Effects to make them stand out.

Up close and personal.

Here is the Christmas version.  I painted the blocks white and used the DSP from the Holiday mini.

Up close again.  We did all of these at the retreat that my stampin buddy Tracy and I put together last October.  Something to think about if you like what you see, we are already starting to plan for this October....=).

Diva mask

Hello again all!  (If you're paying attention I've been naughty and haven't posted in awhile).  This is a mask I made just for the fun of it but then actually got to use at a masquerade.  I used the newsprint DSP from the Holiday mini catalog. I used sparkley modgepodge to glue it on.  I also added some black glitter to define the holes for the cheeks, eyes and nose.  Fun stuff, hope you like it!

Here's a better view.  I also added the purple glitter to the fabric piece that held the feathers together and rhinestones to help make it appear a little more graceful.  I had to resist the urge to get some false lashes to put on.

Last one.

This is my 6x6 scrapbook layout.  I'm not very good at these so it may not seem very inspired, but I thought I'd share anyway.  Also, posting these has made it very clear to me that I need to learn how to use my camara better.  I used the Autumn Splendor set more most of the stamping.

I used this "perfect" stamp from the Define Your Life set.

More mini-convention swaps

This is the card swap I made for our mini-convention.  I love this new Elizabeth stamp, and you just can't go wrong with quotes from strong women!

Because I Care post it cover

My upline recently had a "mini-convention" for those of us who weren't fortunate enough to go to the Stampin'Up convention.  This is one of the swaps I signed up for, the 3-D swap.  You can't really tell what it is 'cause I was a dope and forgot to take a picture of the inside, but it is a post it note cover.  I used the "Because I Care" hostess set and some of the brand new colors: Marina Mist, Daffodill Delight and Early Espresso.  I'll post the other swaps I made tomorrow.  I still need to take pics of them.  See ya tomorrow!

I just made up this card today to practice posting on this here new fangled blog. I used Crumb Cake as the base. I used a strip of the Presto Pattern S.DSP on the left and antiqued it with the gold glow Smooch Spritz and around the edges with Early Espresso ink. I stamped the image underneath with the large stamp from the Baroque Motifs set and inked it with the Champagne Mist shimmer paint. The center image is stamped with our brand new Elizabeth stamp it was inked with a combination of Early Espresso and Champagne Mist shimmer paint on shimmer white card stock. The sentiment is from the Favorite Thoughts set in the summer mini catalog.

Hello to everyone in Blogland (as my friend Cathy calls it). This is my small contribution to the wealth of stamping inspiration available on the world wide web. I hope you like what you see and above all else that it inspires you to take a few minutes of your day for yourself to CREATE! (A special thanks to my fearless friends Cathy and Brandy for the kick in the butt to get this going.)