Hello Beautiful

As per usual, I am miles behind most trends.  But look at this washi tape.  I just love it.  I played along with the Featured Stamper challenge on Splitcoaststampers today.  Heidko has a beautiful gallery and it was hard to make a choice about what I was going to use as the basis for my card. 

Her card featured a lovely water colored plaid  with a die cut sentiment and flower.  I opted for die cut hearts and a washi tape with a sentiment printed on it.

Thanks for looking!

Details - Paper: Snow Storm Smooth, Pool Party; Ink: Pool Party; Accessories: washi tape, Verve heart quartet die, zig painty gold pen, stampin' sponges, stampin' dimensionals.

My Anchor

Today is my husbands' birthday, so I made this card for him.  I played along with the Featured Stamper challenge on Splitcoaststampers to find a sketch to get started with.  I was fussing around in my craft room looking for a masculine image and nothing really was clicking for me.  Then I saw my Spellbinders set which include this anchor die.  An idea was born.  Beside creating his birthday card, I have a few more things to get done today before he gets home.  He's been backpacking with a few friends in the mountains.  My daughter and I are going to whip up some Rice Krispie treats (as he isn't a fan of cake) and then hang up some streamers and balloons.  I might only have about an hour to get those things done.  Gotta run! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps:  Island Life (MFP); Paper: Sweet Tooth White, Basic Gray, Basic Black, MME Surf's Up, A Walk in the Park; Ink: Basic Gray, Versamark; Accessories: Scallop circle punch, circle punch, D'vine Swirls ef, clear ep, heat tool, hemp twine, scor-tape, stampin' dimensionals, glue dot, Nautical Frame and Accents dies.

Another Peek and A Featured Stamper

Happy Sunday!  I just finished a fabulous meal courtesy of my Mother-in-Law.  We are one day late as many of the family were all out celebrating last night.  She served up corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, green salad and biscuits.  One of my husband's sisters brought the monstrous multi-layered chocolate cake from Costco.  I think we just made my MIL's weekend.  She had two of her children, three grandchildren, a DIL and one of the grand kid's girlfriends over.  She really enjoys the company and all the kids cleaned up the kitchen.

I didn't want to, but I did have to hurry home to take care of some of my design team responsibilities. This card is made in honor of pinkberry, today's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers.  I chose this card of hers and morphed it to suit my tastes.  This is also a sneak peek of Mother's Magnolias, a new set soon to be released by Mark's Finest Papers, A Heinrich Company.  Stay tuned for details about its upcoming release.

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Mother's Magnolias (Mark's Finest Papers); Paper: Whisper White, Mellow Moss, BG Sugared; Ink: Tuxedo Black, Pink Pirouette; Accessories:  copic markers, sponge dauber, elegant bouquet embossing folder, mellow moss taffeta, Nestabilities, stampin' dimensionals, glue dots.

Flashin' Back on Saturday

Hello Folks!  Happy Saturday to you.  It's a cloudy and wet day in my world.  My hubby has gone to cut wood and my daughter has run across the yard to play at her grandmother's house.  That means it's time for me to do a few chores and get my craft on.  But before I head to my craft room, I thought I would play along with the most recent Flashback Friday Challenge.  Jen W.  is the current hostess and is challenging us to find out first paper pieced project!  I reached way back to May 2008 to find this little number.  I originally created it for a Featured Stamper challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  So the design is not my own, but based on this card by Jennifer Meyer. 

This card really embodies what I love about playing along with Flashback Fridays.  Just look at my photography and how out of focus my card is in this picture.  I have come a long way.  I can see this in my card design too.  I love to have some perspective and be able to identify where I have grown!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Merci, Birthday Whimsy; Paper: Barely Banana, Pixie Pink, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, striped dsp from DCWV the stack III; Ink: StazOn Black: Accessories: SU Light Pink organdy, Scrap Essentials Neutrals twill tape, random red grosgrain from my ribbon drawer , SAMJ, corner rounder, glue dots, stampin' dimensionals.

The Inside of Monday

Happy Monday Peeps!  It's time for another Friends of Speedy TV challenge and today is all about decorating the inside of your card.  Whoa, this is something I rarely do.  But before I go ahead and share the inside, I wanted to give a shout out to my fellow MFP designer, Kathy Bradley, who is the Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers this week.  Woohoo, go Kathy!  I cased one of Kathy's MFP beauties for the challenge.  With that said, I can go back to my card now.  Since I rarely decorate the inside of my cards, I decided to do a little repetition of the Winter Crocus and the patterned paper.  Since the set has other great sentiments, I added another one.

This is what I came up with.  What do you think?  I like the end result. 

I popped my crocus off the front of the card in order to submit it for one of the VSN mini challenges this weekend too.  Tracy called for popped up flowers in her Poppin' Posies challenge. 

Hey, thanks for stopping by and I hope your Monday eases you gently into the week!

Details - Stamps: Winter Crocus (Mark's Finest Papers); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, In Color dsp; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Accessories:  Copic Markers, Nestabilities, paper snips, M's rhinestones, corner chomper, black taffeta ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, scor-tape, scallop border punch. 

Featuring One of Speedy's Friends

Today's Featured Stamper on Splitcoast is Kim, Luv Flowers.  Kim is a design team member for Mark's Finest Papers.  She is on the Speedy Fox Blog Team.  So, you know I had to play...and I had to break out some of my MFP too!  I reached way back into Kim's gallery to 2008, for a very simple design that would work for me.  I chose this card to case.  I hope she doesn't mind that I dug so deep.  The Saturday challenge for Speedy Fox and Friends (Kim's design team) is to make a birthday card. Hey, I can do that!  My card is fairly self-explanatory.  I stamped my crocus and colored it with Copic markers.  I'm still learning about these markers, so forgive me.  I cut out my image and popped it up over some designer paper and an embossed card base.  I finished it off with a little organdy ribbon, an embossed sentiment and some rounded corners.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet as the wind is blowing in my neck of the woods and I am wondering if we are going to get to keep our power.  I hope so, but if not, I am prepared.  I'm going to start my laundry so that I can have some clean clothes for work tomorrow, too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Winter Crocus (MFP), Background Fun (MFP); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Night & Day Specialty dsp; Ink: Tuxedo Black, Versamark; Accessories: White ep, heat tool, stripes ef, Nestabilities, copics, white organdy ribbon, corner chomper, stampin' dimensionals.

It Must Be Spring

It just must be spring because there is a bird on my blog!  Just kidding!  I am hoping that spring is right around the corner, though.

I made this card for a couple of different challenges.  First,  Kelly challenged us in the Stamp 2 Spend challenge to make a card inspired by a robin.  It had to include black and rust and have a bird or curve on it.  Check, check, check!  Second, I cased a card by Neva, this week's Featured Stamper on SCS. 

I punched my bird from some black and white designer paper and sponged some rust ink over the belly of the bird and around the edges of the wing.  I used a rub-on for my sentiment!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!


Details - Paper: Really Rust, Basic Black, Whisper White, Night and Day specialty dsp; Ink: Really Rust; Accessories: rub-ons, XL bird punch, birds and swirls ef, Nestabilities, M's self adhesive rhinestones, sponge dauber, stampin' dimensionals. 

For Marisa

I don't know how it happened, but I am pretty sure it was in the Verve forum.  I met Marisa a while ago and let me tell you, she is nothing but nice.  It seems we have a few things in common.  For starters, we both live in the Pacific Northwest.  We both went to the same university and both love stamping.  Maybe some day we will get to meet up :)

Marisa is the featured stamper from yesterday!  So I made this card for her.  I cased this card and then made a few changes to make it my own.  I was sure to use my Verve stamps as that is how Marisa and I met!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Kind Words (Verve); Paper: Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, BG Lilykate; Ink: Bordering Blue, Pear Pizzazz, Basic Gray, Going Gray; Accessories: Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, self-adhesive pearls, stampin dimensionals, mini glue dot; Techniques: faux stitching.

For Charlene and For Traci

What, how can a card be for two people!  Well, you see, I made this card for the Featured Stamper challenge today.  Charlene, aka Cookiebaker, is the featured stamper and I knew I wanted to use that particular stamp so I searched through Charlene's gallery until I found this. 

I made the card to send to Traci for her card give away blog.  Now I just need to get it in the mail to her.  I also made the card for a Stamp 2 Spend challenge to use roses as my inspiration for my card. 

Before I go, I want to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July!  Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Almighty God (Unity); Paper: Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Bella Rose dp; Ink: Old Olive; Accessories: Nestabilities, M's pink satin ribbon, Just My Type embossing borders, glue dot, stampin' dimensionals.

A sweet-heart

I made this card for last Sunday's Featured Stamper challenge on SCS.  The featured stamper was LeAnne Pugliese and I chose this card of hers.  It just jumped out at me.  I'm not sure that I have ever chosen to case a CAS card or not, but there aren't usually a lot of elements to change.  I managed however and here is what I came up with. 

Just a quick post today!  It's the first day of my summer break and it's raining, WAH! 

Oh well, more time in my craft room!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Happy Hearts, Well-Scripted; Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery dsp; Ink: Regal Rose.Accessories: white grosgrain ribbon, corner rounder, stampin' dimensionals.

Featured Flowers

It's nice to get back to a fresh, clean and simple style.  I made this card for the Featured Stamper challenge yesterday on SCS.  Pat has an incredibly detailed gallery, but I chose one of her more CAS cards.  My card is quite similar (go figure, I was CASEing) with a few changes.  One of my changes was the little bow in my ribbon, for the OCC challenge.  Another change was my image.  I don't have the cute cupcake image she used and so I chose a flower image to meet up with the PALS theme challenge this week.  I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but I scored a couple lines around my ribbon up top and around my embossing on the bottom.  I like the clean look this gives. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Details - Stamps: Happy Moments; Paper: Whisper White, Mellow Moss; Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Mellow Moss; Accessories: Moss gingham ribbon, glue dot, large oval punch, WCC, blender pen, Scor-pal, Just My Type embossing borders.

More My Style

Yep, the colors here are more "me"!  I think I gravitate toward softer and earthier colors.  I played along with the Etsy Inspired Challenge and made a card based on this item.  I wanted to use the cute little mushroom rub-ons fromt the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love collection.  I used a sentiment from the same collection.  I pulled colors from the mushrooms and then chose these cards by Theresa Momber to case.  She is the featured stamper this week on SCS!  I grounded my little mushrooms with some torn paper and jazzed up one corner with a corner punch and a pearl.  Fun stuff!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Paper: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava; Accessories: CC Earth Love rub-ons, ticket corner punch, Kaisercraft chocolate pearls, groovy guava double-stitch ribbon, scor-tape, stampin' dimensionals.

Tin Ceiling Tiles?

This card and design sort of remind me of them.  How about you?  I made this card for the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS.  The stamper chosen for this week's honor was Mutnik and I cased this card.  I also worked in a Stamp 2 Spend color spotlight challenge for silver.  I had a ton of fun making the flower.  I punched out two daisies and curled them over my bone folder until the paper started to separate.  Then I carefully peeled the layers apart from the outside, leaving the center attached.  I added the silver pearls to the center of the flower and stuck the two punched daisies together with a glue dot and then mounted the whole thing on my card!  I wanted a little sentiment, so I stamped the "happy birthday" and punched it out with the word window punch.  It looked a little plain by itself, so I backed it up with another word window punch in the cocoa.

Thanks for looking!

Details - Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Brushed Silver; Ink: Close To Cocoa; Accessories: Mat pack, piercing tool, silver gel pen, M's silver pearls, word window punch, edge distresser, finial press ef, daisy punch; Techniques: embossing, paper piercing, faux stitching.

Love this one....

I made this card for yesterday's Featured Stamper challenge on SCS.  I can't remember that last time I actually played along with one of those challenges.  I usually go through the stamper's gallery and get my idea all ready and then never make the card.  This time, I was so excited about the card that I got it done!

Here is the card made by SmilynStef.  She made a great colorful card and my idea was to drain it of color and let the embossing speak for itself.  One small exception.  I added a banner with a sentiment.  I saw Jennifer McGuire make this banner, but I don't remember where.  It was either on her blog or the Hero Arts blog.  Sorry about that!

This was made super-ultra easy as my Stepfather drew my name this year for the gift exchange and he went shopping straight off my idea list.  Thus, I got some great new embossing folders!

Have a great day!

Hip Hop Hangover 8.28.09

This is my favorite card that I made this week! I really love the new In-Colors, especially these two paired together. I think the touch of gold gel pen really sets the color combination off.

I made this card for a few challenges. First, I played the Featured Stamper Challenge and cased this card by jojot. Of course, I altered it a bit, using my Unity. The big square image reminded me of this stamp in Folk Inspired. Then, I incorporated this week's CAS29, an inspiration challenge by shoes and hand bags from Anthropologie. I chose these lovelies to be inspired by :) I drew inspiration from the color and I thought the cut out pattern reminded me of this image!

Finally, the lovely ladies at Our Creative Corner issued a challenge last Saturday to use the new In-Colors and so I submitted this one.

Have a fabulous Friday!!!

Here are the details:

Stamps: Folk Inspired (Unity)
Paper: Soft Suede, Confetti White
Ink: Soft Suede, Bermuda Bay
Accessories: gold gel pen, mat pack, paper piercing tool, stampin' dimensionals
Techniques: paper piercing, cas

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

A couple of SCS challenges this week

I really do love the look of CAS (clean and simple)!! I usually try to keep embellishments to a minimum, but this card just called for more. I embossed with my Swiss dots folder. I added the hot pink bling to the corners. I glued on the pink ribbon tabs and glittered up the cake with some glitter glue. By the way, the CAS challenge was to "Make It Sparkle". I took to the glitter part of the challenge.
This second card was done for the Featured Stamper challenge. I chose to case this CAS card (I think a theme is developing here???). If I did it over again, I would used darker colors of my Water Color Crayons. The pinks and greens that I used were so faint. It turned out all right. I like the double punched border. Fun stuff, I tell you!
I also are fairly certain that that celery colored ribbon is the last bit leftover from my wedding reception over 7 years ago. I really got my money out of that purchase. I am scared to look through the closet for fear of what else I may find. I guess the good news is that I still like the color as much now as I did then!


Here are the specifics for these cards:

Cake card -
Stamps: Sentiments O' Simple (unity)
Paper: Pink Passion, Whisper White, Lovely Lilac
Ink: Pink Passion
Accessories: Orange and Purple glitter glue, MM fuchsia ribbon, M's self-adhesive pink rhinestones, Swiss dots embossing folder, mini glue dots, stampin' dimensionals
Techniques: embossing

Watercolor card -
Stamps: Linden Branch (Unity), Mix Up of Cuteness (Unity)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink
Ink: Regal Rose
Accessories: WCC, water mister, Stardust Stickles, Eyelet Border, mini glue dot, JoAnn's celery ribbon

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

Hip Hop Thursday with Unity!

It's almost here again, so I figured I had better post my cards that I made for last week's SCS sponsored challenges and the two Hip Hop challenges. This is my Featured Stamper card casing Beate!!! I chose this card that Beate made to case for the challenge. I have had this color combination in my mind for some time. I had huge plans for a metallic gold ribbon that I was sure that I had. Alas, it was nowhere to be found in my craft room. Now that I think about it, I probably used the last of it at Christmas time. Oh well, I jazzed it up with some dew drops that Jennifer Buck sent to me. Cute stuff, huh? I tell you, that woman is so sweet! I would love to meet her in person!

This next card is one I made for the CAS challenge that is relatively new to SCS. This particular challenge was to use punches on your card. I used some punches and miniaturized this sketch from Stamps and Smiles. I thought it was pretty good idea and apparently some other stampers thought it was pretty creative too! I tried to break away from my white kick and busted out some River Rock card stock for the base of this one. I am please with my result. Oh and this will be the first of three cards on this post that uses the Linden Branch stamp. I won it a few weeks ago and just received it and I love it. It's really quite versatile!


Here's card number two with the Linden Branch. This card is for the Color Challenge from last week on SCS. I also participated the the Stamper's Dream Dreamy Challenge and cased one of their Design Team member, Laurie Schmidlin. I chose this card that Laurie made to case. I embossed the Linden Branch with white embossing powder and colored on the back side of the vellum with my markers, or blender pen and In-Color stamp pads. Embossing is the highlighted technique for this week's Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge.



These last two cards are from challenges that from Hip Hop Thursday. Prizes are offered for winners of these challenges and sometimes they are featured on the Unity Blog! This challenge was to purple, black and white on a card. I cased another card by Beate for this one! Jeanne posted the Hip Hop Thursday challenges a little earlier, so I could actually participate. She posted them on Wednesday evening. Hooray!
Third and final card using the Linden Branch here! This was for the second Unity challenge last Thursday, "Unity Thinks Spring"! I also used a Mojo Monday sketch to flesh this one out. Do you know how hard it is to get a rhinestone brad through a knotted ribbon! I could have cried. SU's ice circle rhinestone's brad tails (I know their is a technical name for these things, but I can't recall it now)are rounded so they won't poke through. I also used wide organdy ribbon increasing the bulk of my knot. Plus, piercing ribbon is just a hassle anyway. I must have fooled around with that ribbon and brad for 15 minutes anyway. I wanted to scream and just ended up placing the brad around the knot and through the card!

Here are the deets:

Guava thanks card -
Stamps: Tree of Elegance (Unity), Sentiments O'Simple (Unity)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Groovy Guave, Brushed Gold, Watercolor Paper, Afternoon Tea dp
Ink: Versamark, Groovy Guava
Accessories: gold ep, heat tool, dew drops, MS butterfly punch, gold gel pen, mat pack, piercing tool, mini glue dots
Techniques: embossing, paper piercing

CAS thanks card -
Stamps: Linden branch (Unity), Sentiments O'Simple (Unity)
Paper: River Rock, Whisper White, Old Olive, Haiku dp
Ink: River Rock, Old Olive
Accessories: 1 3/8" square punch, 1 1/4" square punch, 3/4" circle punch, stampin' dimensionals, stampin' sponge
Techniques: clean and simple

Linden Branch vellum card -
Stamps: Linden Branch (unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Vellum
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Craft White
Accessories: White ep, Kaisercraft Rose pearls, pink organdy ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, scallop edge punch, corner rounder
Techniques: heat embossing

Celebrate card -
Stamps: Sentiments O' Simple (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Black Linen dp, PC Heritage Post
Ink: Perfect Plum
Accessories: Corner rounder, M's self adhesive rhinestones, Offray black polka dot ribbon, scallop edge punch

Amethyst hello card -
Stamps: Linden Branch (Unity), Tiny Trinity (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, DCWV dp
Ink: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac, Old Olive
Accessories: Black organdy ribbon, scallop edge punch, ice circle rhinestone brads

All products used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

More white...

what is with me? I don't know that I have ever been able to identify stamping phases in myself. I hear other people talk or blog about it. Oh well, at least it is a neutral!
So this week a I did a couple of SCS sponsored challenges with my Unity stamps. I made this first card as part of the Featured Stamper Challenge. What a gallery this woman has! I cased this card and changed a few things to make the card mine. It's a pretty straight case though!
You will need to click on the photo to see a closer view of my butterflies. I punch them out with a Martha Stewart butterfly punched, edged them with a darker purple marker and then placed two tiny pearls in the center for their bodies. It was fun!
This card was for the Inspiration Challenge. Fitz and Floyd was the company featured this week. I chose some canapes plate that looked to me like they had a flower embossed on them. I took off from there! I used the Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge #6 to flesh out my design. Finally, this week's Timeless Tuesday challenge is to use ribbon...that you don't normally use or in a way that you wouldn't normally use it! I just got this poly-twill ribbon from SU and had to give it a try.

The details -
Enjoy:
Stamps: Dream Tree (Unity), Sentiments O'Simple
Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Lovely Lilac
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Accessories: Iris satin ribbon, MS butterfly punch, M's self-adhesive pearls, glue dot, two way glue pen
Techniques: CAS

Hello:
Stamps: Humble Bloom (Unity), Distress Dots (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Barely Banana
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Versamark
Accessories: dew drops, clear ep, heat tool, celery poly-twill ribbon
Techniques: emboss resist

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

Using my Unity...

on SCS sponsored challenges this week! This one is the week before last. It's a Limited Supply Challenge, called On Your Mark, Get Set. Limited supply challenges happen on Fridays. The challenge was to complete a card in 30 minutes and boy, was that tough! I set the timer to be honest with myself. I wanted to do so much more to this card. And the worst thing happened, I accidentally cut through two sheet of the black linen paper! Wah! It was such a waste.
I tried to save time on stamping by using the rub-on, but coloring in my image took lots of time.



I made this for the Featured Stamper Challenge. The stamper this particular week was Judy. I cased this card of hers. For some time now, I wanted to use my Distressed Dots background on some clear medium. I should have used acetate as this recycled plastic packaging was really too thick for the Sissix die. It left a clear impression, but I had to cut out the hearts with some scissors.
This card is for Saturday's Inspiration Challenge. This particular Saturday the company/website on display was Spunky Sprout, see here. I also made this card for Limelight Papercrafts Six Chick Sketch #16. The product focus for this week was ric rac!!! While I didn't win the prize, I did get an honorable mention!


The Clean and Simple (CAS) Challenge is fast becoming my favorite! They are quick, easy and oh so simple! This CAS was a color challenge, green and blue! I recalled this ancient dp that I had with lots of green and blue. Not colors I use a lot, not sure why I even bought it! I found a stamper I admire and checked out her gallery and cased this card. I really need to remember this ribbon treatment because it is so easy, stays on and is quite economical!





Hey, you know what I just noticed. All my cards have white bases this post. I must be going through a phase;)

Here are the specifics -
For You:
Stamps: Tree of Elegance (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Taste of Textiles/Black Linen
Ink: Almost Amethyst
Accessories: Sakura ClearStar gel pen, M's rhinestones, Offray Iris satin ribbon, Chit Chat rub-ons, oval stencil
Techniques: rub-ons

Always:
Stamps: Distressed Dots (Unity), Sentiment O'Simple (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, PC Fascination
Ink: StazOn Blazing Red (which looks fuschia to me!)
Accessories: Black Organdy ribbon, corner rounder, M's self-adhesive pearls, fuschia Sharpie, stampin' dimensionals, heart die cut, recycle plastic packaging, sponge dauber
Techniques: sponging

Hello:
Stamps: Humble Bloom (Unity), Tiny Trinity (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Lavendar Lace, Regal Rose, BG Urban Prairie
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose, So Saffron, Lavendar Lace
Accessories: Offray ric rac, Liquid pearls, stampin' dimensionals

Thanks:
Stamps: Sentiments O'Simple (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Pool Party dp
Ink: Brocade Blue
Accessories: corner rounder, 1/8" circle punch, mellow moss taffeta ribbon
Techniques: cas

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

I love the weekends!

Plus it is snowing! We get snow every year, but generally not a lot! Yesterday, they were tiny little flakes that kept coming for about 7 hours! It only amounted to about 2 inches and I am sure that will be gone by this afternoon, but it was snow and it stuck! My dogs were going crazy playing in it and Sweet Pea was fascinated until we went outside. All she had to say then, "It's cold!". I promised hot cocoa with marshmallows and then she went outside!
So during nap time and cartoons, I got this card done! I got some new Unity and had to ink it up! I made this card for Jennifer Buck's quick card challenge for the Stamp Simply Celebration '08! Making it quick means using Julee Tilman's sketch and using some designer paper. My quick card took a little longer when I tried to incorporate some gold for the Stamp Something red, gold and green challenge. Embossing added time, but it was well worth it!
Looking back now, my scalloped edge layer needed a little something more. Oh well!
I used some new Unity here too! This one is called Trinity Trio. I used another sketch on this one! The sketch is the Six Chicks Sketch and Product Challenge #10. Mandy from Limelight Papercrafts posted it here. This card is pretty self explanatory, except for the color. I was trying to match the blue-green color in the dp, so I scribbled on some cellophane with my Tempting Turquoise and Certainly Celery. I mixed them up with a blender pen and colored my trees that way. Overall, I like it! I still need lots of work on my coloring skills. I think that is a strong deficit of mine. Any tips? Please let me know! I never took any art classes, I was always too busy with music:(
In retrospect, I should have stamped the trees with Timber Brown StazOn, but I don't think it is really noticeable.
This last card took quite a long time! I had to be upstairs anyway. Sweet Pea has a cold now and wasn't sleeping very well. She kept waking up and I had to go in and help her calm down and get back to sleep. It even happened two more times after dh and I went to bed!
I began this card for the Featured Stamper challenge #97 on SCS. I cased this card. Since it was a sketch challenge, I changed the sketch to Taylor's sketch for this week. I also changed the color scheme, the vertical crimping to horizontal scoring, and the pearls to brads. I added ribbon, paper piercing and a scalloped edge!
I realized when I was finished that this card is red, green & gold (probably because that was what was out on my desk from the stocking card). So this meets the challenge for the ladies at Stamp Something.

Here are the details for the cards (Stocking card, Snowy tree card and Poinsettia card):

Stamps: Stocking of Elegance (Unity), All Year Cheer III
Paper: Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi, BG Urban Prairie
Ink: Versamark, Real Red, Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Gold ep, heat tool, scallop edge punch, blender pen, stampin' dimensionals
Techniques: embossing

Stamps: Trinity Trio (Unity), Short & Sweet (SU)
Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, BG Mistletoe & Pear
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Chocolate Chip grosgrain, corner rounder, MAMBI & Michael's self adhesive rhinestones, Glistening Snow Writer, stampin' dimensionals, blender pen

Stamps: Tiny Trinity
Paper: Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Clear ep, heat tool, corner punch, mat pack, paper piercing tool, Michael's gold ribbon, MM gold brads, glue dots, stampin' dimensionals, scallop edge punch, Join in the Cheer die cut, Big shot
Techniques: paper piercing

All products used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.