Butterflies

Supplies: I used my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch and a small Fiskars butterfly punch. The card stock is Stampin Up- Very Vanilla, Going Gray, and Baja Breeze. Stamps by Amuse- clouds and the sky's the limit. The small dot stamp is by Technique Tuesday. Ink is Technique Tuesday and Stampin Up. Oval Punch and Tag by Stampin up. Baubles from my LSS and don't have a company listed on them. Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Tin Box

Picked up this tin at my lss. I was thinking that I needed a new holder for my Copics. So I covered this with some Basic Grey Ambrosia. Which is one of my favourite lines of paper. I love the oranges. The rub on is Basic Grey and the flower is Imaginsce. And I used my new Stampin Up Curly Label punch. The brad is from my stash.

recent cards

Happy Birthday card made with Fancy Pants "True" line of papers. One of my ultimate favourite lines!! The sentiment is Stampin Up. The chipboard letters are Chatterbox. The stars punches are Stampin Up. Bazzill cardstock.

wanted

So a movie inspired card here...."3:10 to Yuma" was being watched and magically this card was made. he he.


Yes, pulled out the Stampin Up Wanted and Bronc Buster sets and my star punches. Used Sahara Sand cardstock for the punched out stars, also the Classic Backgrounds stamp for the large star. All SU Classic inks- Basic Brown, Sahara Sand, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, and Close to Cocoa. The actual stamping, except for the punched stars, is on Whisper White, which is a little difficult to see in this photo.





Also used my new cardstand from my good friend RK. *smile*

thank you

Supplies: Bazzill cardstock, SU- Blue Bayou, whisper white cardstock.

Ink- SU Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky

Punch- SU Ticket corner, word window

other- pebbles

XOXO- 2 by 2

My new Wild About You set from Stampin Up needed to be used this week. Here is what I came up with. Using my new Cuttlebug heart embossing folder as well. :)

Supplies- SU Cardstock- Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White.
Ink- SU Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip
Pen- Staedler yellow fineline
Ribbon-SU Chocolate chip RETIRED, and pink from my stash
Stamps- Giraffe SU Wild about you, Heart & Alphabet stamps- PSX, oval- amuse.
Flower- Bazzill by Imaginsce
Brad- Making Memories
Sticker- Rusty Pickle

Punch- SU Ticket corner, Large and Small Oval

This is what I sent out this year

for my Christmas cards.



I am late in posting them, but here they are nonetheless.

Stamp set Tags on Board SU, inner stamp- Great Impressions.

Cuttlebugged Whisper White SU Cardstock

Wild Wasabi and Soft Sky cardstock tags with the ticket corner punch and horizontal slot punch with ribbon and jeweled brad. Large oval punch, Purely Pomegranate ink.

Regal Rose cardstock

Winter Wonderland

Was able to go to Impress in U-Village Seattle with my friend before I flew home to Colorado. (Thanks A- you know I love that place!) Saw this stamp and this paper and fell in love. It had to come home with me. Mostly I love this Autumn Leaves paper because it reminded me of the big giant snowflake in the SU mini catalog that ended in November. I love this tree stamp because it is so geometric and yet soft.

Stamped it in Soft Sky classic ink. Mounted the patterned paper on Soft Sky as well. Had some photo corner punched out from Cindy and used brads to keep them together. The brad idea was from my SU demo Sarah. The ribbon is from my lss. I decided not to put a sentiment on this card yet, as I am not sure yet who or what I will use it for.

TTC2

This is my card for Nancy and Cindy's Try This Challenge #2. This week's challenge was to use punches in a creative way.

I used 2 Stampin Up punches, Snow blossom for the star of my tree which I made from the Paper Piecing (retired) punch.

The ornament stamps are from Stampendous and free hand cut. Cardstock is Wild Wasabi and Whisper White from SU, and Bazzill brown of some sort.

Patterned Paper is Basic Grey- Blitzen (I think, off the top of my head).
Direct to paper ink- Van Dyke Brown ink pad. Used stickles for the star to sparkle atop my tree.

Christmas card contest entries

Sarah my SU demo who is uber-talented had a card contest and she just posted the winner. The winning card is stunning.

These were my entries into her contest. I made them with my friend Cindy a few weeks ago in the midst of my car breaking down crisis. At least we were able to get some cards made in the middle of my car being in the repair shop. I used her SU Baroque Motifs stamp set. It actually is such a nice and versatile set. I mean hello- Christmas cards too!! Hmm, maybe I do need it before the new catalog comes out in January to tempt me.

Supplies- SU cardstock- Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Very Vanilla
SU- Ink- Handsome Hunter, Very vanilla- which I then embossed in gold as it didn't stand out as much as I had hoped it would.
Other- SU Brads
Stamps- SU- Baroque Motifs and All Year Cheer I (retired)



My 2nd entry. During the making of my first card I decided that the flowers definitely look like snowflakes as well, and so this card just totally came together.

Supplies:
SU- Ink and Cardstock- Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla
SU- Stamps- Baroque Motifs, Warm Words
Other- Ribbon- SU retired. Brads- SU, glitter- stickles, Paper piercer, Circle punch 1 1/4,

Snowflakes cut out by my dear friend Cindy who doesn't have scissor dyslexia :)

HG Happiness

Can't help posting this one. Had a good weekend. Even included a blind date in my activities. It was good. Made this card a while ago. It was one of those things that just had to be done. I love the Heidi Grace products. I even got to meet her once at a CK event in Washington. She's a really nice lady with a super great family.

Supplies:

SU- Pretty in Pink Cardstock and Ink.

Whisper White cardstock.

Bazzill- scalloped 6x12 cardstock. (Seriously love this stuff, wish it came in more colors!!)

Marvy punch- scalloped oval.

Flowers by Prima

Jeweled brad by SEI

Monogram letter- Heidi Grace- Garden.

SU Stamps- warm words.

Happy Fall with a Mellow mood.

Pumpkin Pie, Old olive, Chocolate Chip = Yummy!! Add in some new Basic Grey Mellow and it = Delicious!!

SU- Cardstock and slit punch
Tree Stamp by Rubber Soul, word stamps- Stampendous.
Ribbon- swirled and delightful from my local scrapbook store.

Java, Java, Java

Using what was on my table last week, and this is what was created. The coffee cup sticker is from EK Success, which I found at Walmart as a set for a $1.49. Whoo hoo. I love my Java! At work right now my screen saver is coffee cups and then the power saver screen says Java, Java, Java.

Supplies:

Bazzil Cardstock, SU Sahara Sand cardstock.

SU- Warm words set- happiness and cherish ( I masked the cher and h to get the "is")

Patterned paper- wild asparagus.

punch- large corner- it is the tip part of the arrow.

For 2007, my beverage of choice when going out for coffee is the Grande Sugar free Vanilla Non fat Caramel Macchiatto. Soon though my all time favourite drink will be available. The Egg Nog Latte!! It is my absolute favourite ever. I make sure to drink as many as possible in time that it is available. Starts November 1st. Look for it at your local coffee shop, if not ask for it. You usually start seeing them November 1.

dreaming about cards again

Seriously love that I dreamed about stamps and stamping again!! ( see below post from Oct. 1) This stamp has been in my possession for years!! And it is a square flower in four sizes, you know the cube type of stamp. I dreamed that I used it and then punched it with my circle punch, and so that is what I did!

Supplies:
Cardstock- whisper white, Cool Caribbean- SU.
Stamps- flower- Deborah Farber designs, word stamp Short and Sweet-SU.
Ink- Versamark, basic black-SU
Metal flower-Making Memories.
Punch- Punch Bunch
Patterned Paper- DCWV



I also dreamed up another project too, but I have to find a few more parts, before I can put it together. Let me just say I love these sort of dreams. They are so much better than running around like a crazed nurse dreams!!

Criss-cross cards make me jump, jump for joy.

My version of the Criss-cross cards that have been so popular on Splitcoast.

Supplies:
Cardstock- SU pumpkin pie, always artichoke. White cardstock is other from my stash.
Ink- SU Pumpkin Pie
Patterned paper- from my local scrapbook store on sale and doesn't have the company listed- ahh!!
Punch- SU.
Stamp- swirl Autumn Leaves.
Square jeweled brad- Making Memories








Cardstock- SU- Chocolate Chip, Whisper White. Light blue from my stash.
Cuttlebug embossing template- borrowed from my friend.
Punch- SU
Ribbon- gorgeous brown with swirls from my lss. SU- chocolate grosgrain ribbon, retired.
Stamp- swirl Autumn Leaves.
Square jeweled brad- Making Memories.

The directions for this upright Criss-cross card are from this blog here.

The only down side to these cards is the amount of cardstock and time for all the folds. Don't think that I could make 50 of these for Christmas. But you never know....

Not a winner, but I love it anyway!

Dreamed up this card the other afternoon, literally during my before night shift nap. It was different colors, but the strips, ribbon, corners rounded on one side, and the layers were all there. I went straight to working on it for Cindy's card contest, which unfortunately I didn't win. However I still love this card- Ink, cardstock, ribbon- so simple and so exciting in the end. Love it!!

Supplies:
Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red- SU.
Ink- Versamark, Chocolate Chip- SU.
Stamps- Words- Serendipity Stamps, Flourish- Impress.
Ribbon- grosgain- retired- SU.
Other- Corner rounder

Cowgirl

6x6 card with my SU Wanted set. Was playing with colors that came up from the random SU Color generator here.

My goal was to make it look like a belt buckle. So I used some Copper Making Memories Specialty Glaze and painted areas to make it sparkle.

SU- Cardstock-Whisper White, Cameo Coral, Cool Caribbean, So Saffron.

SU Ink-- Cool Caribbean, Basic Brown.

Stamps- SU Wanted, Making Memories Rummage alphabet.

Other- Marvy Punch- Scalloped oval, oval, EK Success- Corner rounder, SU- 1/4 inch square punch, Wide Chocolate sheer ribbon-unknown.

Camp Creations

So I spent two weeks as camp nurse at the end of July and beginning of August. It was fantastic. In my spare time though I got to make several cards as I had taken supplies with me. I ended up with several cards that I was quite pleased with. I even made this book mark which I used while reading my book for the week at camp: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam.

Made with scraps from my SU cardstock pile, a pink brad and a Bazzill flower.

The inside says "U Rock"


Cardstock, ink, oval punches - SU
Flowers-Prima
PP-Sandylion
Stamp saying- Fontwerks
Other- pink brad



Again using my scraps:

Stamps- Swirl and flower Autumn Leaves
Cardstock, ink- SU and versamark
PP- Sandylion
other- pink brad

How Kind of You Card

Stamps- Wordsworth clear set called I'm So Glad. The paper is SU and also from my stash. The ribbon is from Michaels. The eyelet is SU. I used Nancy's technique with my corner rounder to get the scalloped edge. Thanks for the inspiration and instructions!