Fall Festival

     Happy Halloween everyone I have some cards that I have made with the new Cookie Cutter Halloween Stamp Set and I wanted to show them to you before Halloween was here and gone.  I have absolutely fallen in love with this set and punch and cant wait to do something with the Christmas set.  As always the DSP that I used and some of the supporting stamp sets may be retired I use what I have and hope that these are inspirations for you.  I used layouts with 2 of these cards that I have used before and with each card I will link to the example in previous posts.  I hope you enjoy them.

Mummy Madness

 

Supplies Needed:

• Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, and Very Vanilla card stock
• Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Momento Tuxedo Black ink
• Smoky Slate Marker
• Gorgeous Grunge,Ghoulish Grunge,Cookie Cutter Halloween, Work of Art, and Good Greetings Stampin Up Stamp Set
• Cookie Cutter Punch
• Silver Metallic Thread, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Dimensionals

     Base Card Night of Navy 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, Smoky Slate 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, Night of Navy 3 1/8 x 4, Very Vanilla 3 x 3 7/8.  Smoky Slate Stamped with the Guaze Texture in Night of Navy from Ghoulish Grunge, The Very Vanilla layer was first stamped with the Work of Art stamp with out reinking with Night of Navy, then the Bats from Cookir Cutter Halloween in Momento Tuxedo Black and then stamped with Gorgeous Grunge stamp randomly in Cherry Cobbler.  The Mummy was stamped separate and shaded with the marker.  I hope this was helpful.  This is the same layout as the Birds of a Feather.

Dracula's Date Night

Supplies Needed:

• Basic Grey, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Very Vanilla card stock
• Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP
• Basic Grey, Tangerine Tango, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, More Mustard & Sahara Sand ink
• Cookie Cutter Halloween, Timeless Textures, and Wicked Cool Stampin Up Stamp Sets
• Brick wall Embossing Folder
• Scalloped Tag Punch, Cookie Cutter Punch, 2 3/4 circle thinlit
• Ribbon Sliders & Basic Black Scalloped Dots Ribbon
• Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers.

     Base Card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 Basic Grey, Tangerine Tango 4 x 5 1/4, Scallop Tag 4 5/8 long (start with 5" piece, the run through Bigshot with Brick wall embossing folder.  Sponge Daub the 2 3/4 Very Vanilla Circle with More Mustard then around outside use the Timeless Texture Stamp for effect.  Stamp bat on circle once dry and ears for Dracula once you line him up. I cut him out so there would be no white around him from punch. 



Crow Grateful

Supplies Needed:

• Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla card stock
• Sweater Weather DSP
• Sahara Sand, Momento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky, Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, and Chocolate Chip ink & markers
• Cookie Cutter Halloween and Truly Grateful Stampin Up Stamp Sets
• Oval Thinlit, Mini Treatbag Thinlit
• Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing folder
• Washi Tape and Jute Twine

     Card base Tangerine Tango 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, Very Vanilla 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 (run through Bigshot with Cable Knit Dynamic),  2 Chocolate Chip  pieces 2 3/4 x 4 3/4, DSP 2 5/8 x 4 5/8. Very Vanilla Oval cut and edged in Chocolate Chip stamped and colored in with markers.  Glue DSP to one of Chocolate Chip pieces use the Dotted Edge Thinlit from Mini treat bag along edge and double the jute twine and thread it.  Cut out with the For you thinlit from mini treatbag 1 Chocolate Chip and 1 Tangerine Tango Glue together slightly offset. the two framelits glue together as seen flat use dimensionals to raise of Very Vanilla also pop up for you. This is same layout as the Love You Lots frog.

This is a card that my BFF and I created on a weekend using new and old stamp sets and retired DSP the instructions are on pinterest and boy is it a tricky one.  The end result was so cut I had to share, no instructions will follow though to long. ENJOY.

 

 



As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at her  web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Love You Lots

     Hello everyone, it has been a little while since my last post.  The new catalogue has come out with some cute things in it.  The hostess sets are some of the cutest.  The precious little animals in the Love You Lots set are my favorite.  So today I have made cards with all 4 of them.  You will notice that some of the colors and all for the DSP that I used are retired, that is because I have set some rules for myself, until I use up a lot of my DSP that I currently own I cannot get any new.  So I certainly plan on using up as much as possible in the next few post.  I know that a lot of demonstrators only use the current materials,  but there are a lot of us out there that hang on to the retired stuff until we run out.  I always say that the cards I make are only a jumping off point for you, you can always substitute colors, DSP, stamp sets,  use these as inspirations.  So without further babbling.

Unlikely Friends

 

Supplies Needed:

• Hello Honey , Basic Grey, Whisper White card stock.
• Moonlight DSP
• Basic Grey, and Lost Lagoon, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark Ink
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets Love You Lots, Sheltering Tree.
• Dimensionals, and Blender Pens

Card Base Hello Honey 4 1/4 x 5 1/2,  DSP Polka Dots 4 1/4 x 1 3/4, DSP Rain 3 x 4 1/4, Basic Grey 4 1/4 x 1 7/8 & 3 1/8 x 4 3/8. I stamped the elephant and mouse on white and colored them in, I then cut them out.  I stamped the tree and ground in black on the  DSP and then used verso mark and clear embossing powder to highlight them.  The Elephant and mouse were stamped on the DSP, I then took the cut out of the elephant and put on with Dimensionals. and the mouse was glued flat.  The whole layer was also popped with Dimensionals. 



Bug Buddies

 

Supplies Needed:

• Raspberry Ripple, Basic Black and Very Vanilla card stock.
• Print Poetry DSP
• Momento Tuxedo Black ink
• Stampin Up stamp set Love You Lots
• Elegant Dots Embossing Folder
• Black and White Bakers Twine, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Dimensionals.

The card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 Raspberry Ripple, the  DSP is 1 7/8 x 4 1/2, the Elegant Dots is 2 1/8 x 3 5/8 with a 1 3/4 circle cut out.  Basic Black cut at 2 x 4 5/8  &  2 1/4 x 3 3/4.  Very Vanilla 2 x 3.  I stamped the bugs on the very vanilla and then on some DSP cut out the bodies of the bugs from the DSP stamped image and with Dimensionals put them on the stamped image.  I also used Dimensionals to raise that layer.

Feelin' Froggy

Supplies Needed:

• Very Vanilla, Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green card stock.
• Print Poetry DSP
• Momento Tuxedo Black, Midnight Muse ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Set Love You Lots, Crazy About You.
• Circle Card Thinlits Star Die, Greetings Thinlits Die, and the Extra Large Oval Punch.
• Seaside Embossing Folder
• Wink of Stella, Summer Starfruit Ribbon, Dimensionals.

The card Base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla Embossed cut at 5 3/8 x 4 1/8,  (2)  DSP cut at 2 1/4 x 4 1/2.  (2)  Gumball Green 2 3/8 x 4 5/8.  (1)  Very Vanilla 2 1/8 x 4 1/4. Stamp an image of frog on Very Vanilla and one image on some of the DSP cut out the DSP frog minus the eyes and glue onto the image on the Very Vanilla.  Assemble the card everything is glued down except the star it is raised with Dimensionals and covered with Wink of Stella.  Cut ribbon to fit stamp words below I used pop dots for the cheers.





Hedge Hog Hello



Supplies Needed:

• Hello Honey, Sahara Sand, Whisper White card stock
• Moonlight DSP
• Blackberry Bliss, Sahara Sand, Hello Honey ink
• Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow Makers
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets Love You Lots, You've Got This, and Hello
• Candy Dots Rich Razzelberry , Dimensionals.

Card Base Hello Honey 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, DSP 2 1/2 x 4 1/4, Whisper White 3 1/4 x 4 5/8.  Sahara Sand 2 5/8 x 4 1/4  &  3 3/8 x 4 3/4.  Stamp the large background stamp in the lower right corner after stamping it off once.  Stamped the image on top and colored in the flower with the markers.  Top layer raised with Dimensionals.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment.  If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at her web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

My Craft Room

     I have had quite e few people ask me to post pictures of my crafting space. Over the years I have looked on Pinterest for ideas on storage and re purposing furniture so I thought I would show you what the end result is from all that inspiration.  So I took a few pictures to share with you.  I hope you find some inspiration or come up with your own wonderful ideas.  This is an ever evolving room so I am always on the look out for new ideas.  Granted it took me 2 days to clean it up enough for pictures  LOL.  If you all are anything like me I work best in a mess.  If you have any questions or comments please feel free to post.

 

 

 

 

 

     The very large piece of white furniture that takes up the whole wall used to be the cabinet that surround one of those large TV's that stood on the floor,  so when we upgraded to the flat screen I took boards cut them to the with painted them and used them for shelves.  as you can see even my side table hold paper.  The Shoe rack is for the finished cards it is the best thing I have found to keep the separated by need.  All of the white cubbies over my desk and that hold stamps are from Target. and all the other containers come from Walmart , Staples and Michael's.  If you see the tubs I have holding my ribbon they actually were from my Dogs Treats Pupcorn containers. So if you have any questions or comments I welcome them.

Acorns Abound

     As some of you know this blog started as a Cricut card site and has now become much more Stampin Up than anything else.  Well the next few things I am going to share are a wonderful marriage of the 2.  This was made for my BFF Becky's nephews first birthday party, and they really turned out wonderful. The theme was woodland creatures and acorns.  Included are the treat bags that are made from Stampin up products,  The high chair banner and the Happy Birthday banner that were cut out on the Cricut and all products used were Stampin Up.  I will put a list on the bottom of all things used.  I hope you like them and get inspired yourself.

Treat Bags



Highchair Banner

Birthday Banner





 





Supplies Needed:

• Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip, Baked Brown Sugar (retired), Crumb Cake and Whisper White card stock
• DSP Sweater Weather (retired)
• Early Espresso, Soft Sky. Brown Sugar and Cajun Craze ink
• mini clothespins, Jute Rope, 1 1/4 Burlap Ribbon and Linen Thread
• Create-a-Critter Cricut Cartridge cut @ 6"
• Stampin Up Acorn Builder Punch
• Stampin Up Stamp Set Thankful Forest Friends, Perfect Pairings, For All Things
• Stencil Set from Canvas Banners
• Circles Collection Framelits

     I really hope you enjoy the project it was a lot of fun to make.  As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment or question.

Flying High

     Today I am going to share 2 wonderfully masculine cards, that you can use for any occasion.  With Valentines fast approaching and Graduations not far behind this is the time to think about the men in our lives.  The Stamp Set I am using today you get for FREE from Stampin Up with a $50 purchase between now and March 31st, 2016.  So if you love this card as much as I do it is time to contact a Stampin Up Demonstrator for more details.  One of the cards today is using DSP that has been discontinued so I apologize in advance. 

Flying High

 

 

Supplies Needed:

• Crumb Cake, Basic Grey, Very vanilla(inside) cardstock.
• DSP  This and That Epic Day
• Memento Black and Real Red Ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets Sky is the Limit and Bloomin' Love
• Linen Thread

 

     The card base was Cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, the mat was cut at 4 x 5 1/4, and the DSP was cut at 3 7/8 x 5 1/8.  The Image was Stamped Four times without reinking in memento tuxedo black. The hearts were stamped in Real Red.

Soaring



 

 

Supplies Needed:

• Basic Black, Lost Lagoon and Very Vanilla cardstock
• DSP pack Going Places
• Memento Tuxedo Black and Lost Lagoon ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets World Map, Sky is the Limit and Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Silver Metallic Thread, Candy Dots Brad Bases and Dimensionals
• Word Window Punch

     Card Base cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2,  mat 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, stamp image of world map 4 x 5 /14.  Long strip 1 7/8 x 5 1/2 DSP 1 3/4 x 5 3/8. Three square mats 2 1/8 x 2 1/8. Stamp images 2 x2.  The image of World Map was stamped off once before stamping image for card.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at her  web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain







Flying High

     Today I am going to share 2 wonderfully masculine cards, that you can use for any occasion.  With Valentines fast approaching and Graduations not far behind this is the time to think about the men in our lives.  The Stamp Set I am using today you get for FREE from Stampin Up with a $50 purchase between now and March 31st, 2016.  So if you love this card as much as I do it is time to contact a Stampin Up Demonstrator for more details.  One of the cards today is using DSP that has been discontinued so I apologize in advance. 

Flying High

 

 

Supplies Needed:

• Crumb Cake, Basic Grey, Very vanilla(inside) cardstock.
• DSP  This and That Epic Day
• Memento Black and Real Red Ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets Sky is the Limit and Bloomin' Love
• Linen Thread

 

     The card base was Cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, the mat was cut at 4 x 5 1/4, and the DSP was cut at 3 7/8 x 5 1/8.  The Image was Stamped Four times without reinking in memento tuxedo black. The hearts were stamped in Real Red.

Soaring



 

 

Supplies Needed:

• Basic Black, Lost Lagoon and Very Vanilla cardstock
• DSP pack Going Places
• Memento Tuxedo Black and Lost Lagoon ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets World Map, Sky is the Limit and Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Silver Metallic Thread, Candy Dots Brad Bases and Dimensionals
• Word Window Punch

     Card Base cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2,  mat 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, stamp image of world map 4 x 5 /14.  Long strip 1 7/8 x 5 1/2 DSP 1 3/4 x 5 3/8. Three square mats 2 1/8 x 2 1/8. Stamp images 2 x2.  The image of World Map was stamped off once before stamping image for card.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain







Seaside Wonders

     Hello everyone,  the cards that I have to share is from the brand new Stampin Up Occasions spring catalog 2016.  I fell absolutely in love with this stamp set. I live on the east coast in a beach town, so the starfish in this stamp set was a must have.  The depth and detail that these stamps get from their multi layer stamping technique is awesome. I will tell you that some of the DSP that you will see on these cards is retired and therefore so are the ink and card stock colors quite  possibly.  As always I hope you get inspiration and ideas from the cards  Enjoy!

Starfish Parade

Supplies Needed:

• Smokey Slate Whisper White card stock
• High Tide DSP.
• Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Bermuda Bay ink
• Stampin Up stamp set Picture Perfect
• Summer Starfruit thick Bakers Twine, Pool Party pom pom trim and mini clothespin.
• Elegant Dots Embossing Folder
•  4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base, second layer 3 7/8 x 4 3/4, third layer 3 3/8 x 4 1/2, stamped image sheet 3 x 4, banner made to fit sentiment.

 

Supplies Needed:

• Crumb Cake and Whisper White card stock
• Love Blossoms DSP
• Bermuda Bay and Pool Party ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets: Picture Perfect and Awesomely Artistic.
• 1 1/4 Burlap Ribbon, Metallic Bakers Twine Silver, Bermuda Bay sequin, Rhinestone Basic Jewels.
• Card base 5 1/2 x 4 1/4, DSP 5 1-4 x 4. Starfish stamped on Whisper White and Cut out mounted with dimensional.
• I used a stapler to get the effect with the burlap.

 



Supplies Needed:

• Mint Macaroon and Whisper White, and Thick Whisper White card stock
• Mint Macaroon, Tip Top Taupe and Pool Party ink and markers.
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets: Hardwood and Picture Perfect
• Linen Thread
• Base cut at 5 1/2 x 4 1/4, Mint Macaroon cut at 3 1/8 x 4 1/4, 2 1/8 x 4 1/4 and 1 1/8 x 4 1/4, Stamped image on Whisper White 3 x 4 1/4. After starfish stamped cut at 1/2, 1, 2, 2 1/2 then place the two outside pieces on the 3 1/8 inch mat leaving 1/16 border the next 2 outer on the 2 1/8 inch mat leaving 1/16 border middle and largest piece stamp saying and place on 1 1/8 mat then use dimensionals to stack image.
• Place thread on stacked mat before placing on card.
• I used markers on background stamp to get that effect.

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

Hummimgbird Parade

     Sorry it has been so long between post.  Life tends to get in my way sometimes.  I have been very excited about the new stamp sets out and could not wait to get my hands on the and share some of my ideas with you so the first set of cards today is from the Stampin Up Occasions Catalogue 2016 and it has 3 really pretty multi stage stamps that I think everyone will soon fall in love with. I must give a shout out to my BFF she let me borrow her stamping tool the MISTI if you have never seen on e of these, then go to google and put in a search.  I must say is a must have for multi layered images. So without any further delay I am going to share four cards with you that all use the same main stamp set.  Just a little disclaimer all of the DSP that I will be using is discontinued, which means some of the ink colors and cardstock also.  I always hope that the cards are for inspiration and that you realize that the same layout can be used with any paper.  So with that out of the way on to the cards.

Hummingbird Parade

 

 

Supplies Needed

• Pistachio Pudding and Whisper White Card Stock
• Sweet Sorbet DSP
• Pistachio Pudding, Summer Starfruit, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Memento Black Ink
• Stampin Up Stamp sets: Picture Perfect and Definitely Dahlia
• Summer Starfruit Thick Bakers Twine
• Elegant Dots Embossing Folder
Rhinestone Basic Jewels and Hardware Clips Essentials.
4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base, second layer 3 7/8 x 4 3/4, third layer 3 3/8 x 4 1/2, stamped image sheet 3 x 4, banner made to fit sentiment.

 

 

Supplies Needed

• Smokey Slate and Whisper White Cardstock
• Watercolor Wonder DSP
• Island Indigo, Gumball Green, Wild Wasabi, Blushing Bride, and Memento Black Ink.
• Stampin Up Stamp sets: Picture Perfect, Definitely Dahlia,and Guys Greetings
• Island Indigo Bakers Twine
• Woodgrain Embossing Folder
• Rhinestone Basic Jewels and Bermuda Bay Sequins, and Hardware Clips Essentials.
• 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base, second layer 3 7/8 x 4 3/4, third layer 3 3/8 x 4 1/2, stamped image sheet 3 x 4, banner made to fit sentiment.

 

 

 

Supplies Needed

• Summer Starfruit and Whisper White cardstock
• Sweet Sorbet DSP
• Pool Party, Pistachio Pudding, Summer Starfruit, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Memento Black Ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets: Picture Perfect, Watercolor Wash and Simply Wonderful
• Card Base is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4, DSP cut at 5 3/8 x 4 1/8, mat cut at 4 1/2 x 3 1/4, Stamped Image cut at 4 3/8 x 3 1/8.  Bird Stamped on scrap paper and cut out. Dimensionals used to raise bird image.

 

 

Supplies Needed

• Basic Grey and Whisper White cardstock
• Moonlight DSP
• Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Hello Honey, Delightful Dijon and Memento Black Ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Sets: Picture Perfect, Watercolor Wash and Lots of Thanks.
• Card Base is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4, DSP cut at 5 3/8 x 4 1/8, mat cut at 4 1/2 x 3 1/4, Stamped Image cut at 4 3/8 x 3 1/8.  Bird Stamped on scrap paper and cut out. Dimensionals used to raise bird image. 

 

As always thank you for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like any of the supplies you see above, that are still current  you can get them through my BFF and demonstrator Becky Crain at here web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain