Fall Festival

    I have recently been so inspired by all of the creations people are coming up with from work of art, that as soon as a friend of mine got the new stamp set from the holiday catalog (she is a demonstrator) I could not wait to try and see what I could create.  This is what I came up with.  I hope you like it, and I can not wait to see what everyone creates with this new set.  I can't wait to order it myself.

Pumpkin Parade

Supplies Used

• Whisper White, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie cardstock
• Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede, Garden Green, Early Espresso ink
• Stamp Sets For All Things, Gorgeous Grunge
• Linen Thread, Subtles Buttons (Pear Pizzazz)

Supplies Used

• Very Vanilla, Crushed Curry
• Color Me Autumn DSP
• Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Old Olive, Early Espresso ink
• Stamp Set For All Things
• Linen Thread, Subtles Button (So Saffron)

 As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Box full of Gouls and Goblins

     This is a card in the box that I made just playing around with some ideas for Halloween.  This is one of my favorite Halloween stamp sets from Stampin Up and I just love the way that the box turned out, hope you do too

Box of Ghoulies

Supply List

• Very Vanilla, Basic Black card stock
• Witchy Brew DSP
• Momento Black ink, Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie, and Dafodil Delight ink.
• Stamp Sets Googly Ghouls, and Gorgeous Grunge
• Window Sheets

     As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain


 Here is a link on how to make a card box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dXZFeFMPsw&feature=share

Flamingo Fun

     Wow!  It has been a long time since I have posted anything.  Summer has been a busy time.  I have managed to make a few cards, but had no time to post to my blog, funny how like just gets in the way. LOL  Well I wanted to share a few cards that I have done this summer so I will get right to them.

Flamingo Fun

Supplies List

• Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry card stock
• Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, and Memento Black ink
• Stamp Set Flamingo Lingo
• Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder

     Any occasion Octopus

Supplies List

• Night of Navy, and Whisper White card stock
• Maritime DSP
• Real Red, and Night of Navy ink
• Stamp Set Sea Street 
• Linen Thread, Gold Sequin Trim
• Circles Collection Framelit

Somethin Fishy

Supplies List

• Whisper White, Lost Lagoon, Basic Grey, and Pool Party card stock
• Moonlight DSP
• Pool Party, and Basic Grey ink
• 2 1/2 circle Punch and non stampin up Nestabilities scallop circle
• Petite Curly Label Punch
• Stamp Sets Flamingo Lingo, and By the Tide.

  

 As always thank you so much for stopping by and taking a look feel free to leave a comment.

A Million and One Thanks

     This card was made from a Mojo Monday Sketch #284.  Once again I made this for the card swap club that I am a part of.  This card came together quickly and the results was exactly what I was looking for.  I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.

 A Million and One Thanks

Supplies

• Whisper White, Smokey Slate, Island Indigo and Garden Green card stock
• DSP Watercolor Wonder
• Smokey Slate, Island Indigo ink
• Petite Petals, 2 1/2 circle, and scallop border Punches
• Decorative Dots Embossing Folder
• rhinestones

As always thank you for stopping by.

Beach Day

     Hello everyone,  I wanted to share a card with you that I made for the card swap group I am in.  This card was based fof a sketch I had seen with some adaptation by me. I just love the way it turned out.  The colors are cool and the funny thing is that all the other women I am in the group with are demonstrators but none of them recognized the DSP for this project.  It goes to show you that we need to take a second look at what we already have.

Beach Day

Supplies

• Basic Grey, Pool Party, and Whisper White card stock
• Basic Grey, Basic Black, Smokey Slate, and Pool Party ink
• DSP Epic Day This and That
• Wetlands, Gorgeous Grunge, By The Tide, and Fabulous Phrases
• 1/4 inch Grosgrain Ribbon Basic Grey
• Spellbinders Nestabilities (Labels 8)

     As always this is a A2 size card.  The first layer is 4 1/8 x 5 3/8.  DSP is cut at 4 1/4 x 3. The grey mat is 4 3/8 x 3 1/8.  I used Spellbinders Nestabilities (labels 8) for the last layer, I cut the same size twice and then cut grey in half and trimmed middle off and used to frame the sides.  I also sponged the edge of the white with Smokey Slate.  For the shells I stamped the grunge in pool party on scrap whisper white and stamped shell in Basic Grey over it and cut it out.  For the background on base I stamped pool party ink on pool party paper with the grunge stamp. for the white piece I stamped pool party with grunge stamp and then on the bottom I stamped Smokey slate and Basic Black with the grunge stamp.  The birds and the sentiment were stamped in Basic Grey.  I hope this helps.

     As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Panda Time

Hello to all of my fellow Cricut lovers.  I am sorry it has been so long since I posted a Cricut card I am sure you have given up, I hope not.  This is such a cute little guy in the create-a-critter cartridge I just had to do something with him.  I love to flock things and he lent himself to flocking, now he is all soft and fuzzy.  I hope you enjoy the card as much as I do.

Panda Time

• Create-A-Critter cartridge
• Cut at 3 inches
• Flocking - White and Black
• Cuttlebug embossing folders
• metal studs

As always this is made on a A2 size card,  If you have any specific questions let me know I will try to answer them.  Have a great day and get crafting.

Steffani

Bubbles

     This is the last card for the day I really liked the way it turned out,  if you notice the scallop stamps if any of you out there have finished a card just to touch it and get ink on it and want to cry this was the card that happened to to me.  I had worked out the layout and had it all finished and picked it up and was just about to scrap it when I saw this stamp and thought I would at least give it a try and I think it turned out OK.

By the Tide Bubbles

 

• Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, and Pistachio Pudding card stock
• DSP Tea for Two, and Venetian Romance
• Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, and Soft Suede ink
• Various Sizes Circle and Scallop framelits and punches
• Square Lattice and Arrows Embossing folders
• Stamp Sets By the Tide, and Petal Parade

  As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Simply Subtle

I completely cased this card from Shelly Godby at Stamping Smiles,  I loved the simplicity and elegance of the card.  I did not want to totally rip off her design so I changed few things about it, but not much it was already beautiful.  I hope you enjoy my version.  I love tone on tone cards.

Subtle Elegance

• Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White card stock
• Wisteria Wonder ink
• Stamp Sets Blooming with Kindness, and So Sorry
• Wisteria Wonder ruffle ribbon and button
• Beautiful Wings Embosslits

  As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

With Sympathy

    This card was made from the scrap I had from the Easter Egg Treat Cup Chicks I made a week ago.  I am one that hate to throw away paper, so I had all of these frames basically and wanted to find ways to use them this was one of those ideas.  Stampin Up paper is wonderful to work with but it is not cheap so any time I can re-purpose scraps I do.I hope this inspires you to look at your scraps a bit differently.So get in your craft room or at your table and create.

Iris

• So Saffron, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla card stock 
• DSP Tea for Two
• Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, and Early Espresso ink
• Elegant embossing folder
• Beautiful Wings Embosslits
• Tiny Tag punch
• Linen Thread and Lucky Limeade Button
• Stamp Sets Love & Sympathy, Teeny Tiny wishes, and Gorgeous Grunge.

  As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Celebrate Spring

    Today is another cold rainy day perfect for stamping.  I have made a cute card with the Sale-a-bration catalogue paper and stamp set.  I am going to miss the paper so much.  I just love all of the color combinations, and the pop of black is awesome.  I hope you enjoy and get a chance to stamp today.

Spring Fling

• Basic Black, Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Whisper White card stock
• DSP Sweet Sorbet
• Pool Party, Summer Starfruit, Basic Black ink
• VersaMark, and Whisper White Embossing Powder
• Stamp Sets Petal Parade, and Fabulous Phrases
• Decorative Dots Embossing Folder
• Bird Builder Punch
• Various Sizes of Circle and Scallop Framelits and Punches
• Candy Dots - Pool Party

  As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Happy Feet

    This is a card in a box idea I came up with watching the movie happy feet with my great nephew.  I have always loved the penguins made with the owl punch and just had to give it a try.  The basic design is the same it will fit into an A2 size envelope.  This is  the link to the you tube video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dXZFeFMPsw&feature=share . The penguins are just the Stampin' Up Owl Punch with the ears cut off, no tutorial needed. I hope you enjoy.

Happy Feet

• Whisper White, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango card stock
• Basic Black, Real Red, and Daffodil delight ink
• Snow Much Fun and Endless Wishes Stamp Set
• Owl Punch
• Northern Flurry embossing folder
• Window Sheet
• Dazzling Diamonds

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Easter Eggs

     This is such a cute project for Easter that I just had to share it. I just got some of the treat cups with the punch and could not wait to try it. This is what I came up with, and I LOVE it.  Really simple project to put together.  I am going to be taking them to our stamp club meeting this month.

Easter Eggs

     As you can see I had fun with this one from the front looks like cute Easter egg,  Turn it over and it looks like a boiled egg LOL I thought that was a cute touch. Pull the ribbon and the Chick hatches and you get your candy. I Love it so much.  I think the ladies in card club will like it as well.

You will need to cut out three large ovals.  2 white, and 1 DSP.  Cut out 1 oval two sizes smaller in yellow.  Stack all 3 large pieces no glue and take your 1 3/4 inch punch and punch all 3 at once in lower 1/2 of egg.  Then take the treat cup and line it up with the hole on one of the white ovals, then put adhesive on back of DSP and place over cup onto the white layer.  Now with scissors cut zigzag pattern off top.  Now flip egg over and with glue dots place around bottom and sides about 2/3 of the way up egg.  Place 2nd white oval on the back lining it up, this one is not cut.  Decorate the yellow as above and before you place the top of egg on chick place chick in egg and then with a little glue match the two egg pieces together, let glue set and then pull chick out punch hole put ribbon through. Place chick in half way fill cup and push chick in all way to close.

• Raspberry Ripple, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, and Baja Breeze card stock.
• Different Packs of DSP Patterns Stack
• Basic Black ink
• 1 3/4 Circle punch, Owl punch, 7/8 Scallop punch, Word Window punch, and Modern Label punch.
• Oval Framelits
• Treat Cups
• White Ribbon
• Candy (Easter M&M's)

      As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Card in a Box

     Today I have 2 wonderful cards in a box, just like the ones you have seen all over the place.  I was very sceptical on how I would feel about them but I LOVE them.  They were much easier to put together than I thought.  They fit into a regular A2 size envelope that was important to me.  So I will post the link to the YouTube video that I found to be the most helpful.  This was so much fun, of course it was a joint effort with my BFF Becky this past weekend and we both just loved the way they turned out.  If you have anyone you want to WOW then I suggest giving this technique a try.

Under The Sea

• Island Indigo, Very Vanilla, Pistachio Pudding card stock
• DSP Venetian Romance
• Window Sheets
• Crisp Cantaloupe, Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Pistachio Pudding ink
• Stamp Sets By the Tide, By the Seashore, and Perfect Pennants
• Stampin' Trimmer

Spring Explosion

• Basic Black, Whisper White, Pistachio Pudding, and Crisp Cantaloupe card stock
• DSP Sweet Sorbet
• Summer Starfruit, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Pool Party, and Basic Black ink
• Window Sheets
• Stamp Sets Secret Garden with Framelits, Gorgeous Grunge, and Really Good Greetings
• Beautiful Wings Embosslits
• Stampin' Trimmer

     The video that I followed is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dXZFeFMPsw.  She made it so it would fit into a A2 size card. We made 3 inserts to make layering fuller.  I encourage everyone to try it.

     As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Simple Elegance

     The card for today is just simple, but it turned out beautiful.  This is truly a 5 minute card.  It also helps get rid of some of your scrap paper.  We have had many losses at work lately and I realized that I had very few cards that addressed that.  As much as we like to make happy cards, it is in the hard times that are friends need something that lets them know we care, yet still give them their space to grieve.  We also forget sometimes to thank all of the people that help during those times.  So making Thank You cards for those people,  is one thing as a card maker we can do that can be the most helpful for the loved one going through such a hard time.  OK so onto the card, I truly hope you like it.

Serenity

• Whisper White Card Stock
• DSP Sweater Weather, and Christmas Paper a few years old
• Soft Sky, and Chocolate Chip ink.
• Stamps Sets Lots of Thanks, and So Sorry
• Jewels

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Springtime

    This card today was inspired by Spring and the thought that it will soon be here.  I have a wonderful friend that I correspond with in TN, and I thought that she might enjoy a little Spring preview.  Sending cards is such a personal way to let people know that you are thinking of them.  So I encourage everyone to make a card for someone you know and put a smile on their face.

Springtime

• Brown Sugar, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Very Vanilla card stock.
• Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, and Brown Sugar ink.
• Arrows, and Square Lattice Textured Impressions.
• Framelits and 3/4 inch and 1 inch circle punch, and 7/8 inch scallop punch.
• 1 1/4 inch burlap ribbon, and linen thread.
• Stamp Sets Love & Care, and You're A Gem.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look if you would like any of the supplies you see above you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here webpage www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain