Flight of the Dragonflies

    Hello once again today I thought I would post a few cards that I just absolutely love.  Both of these cards feature the beautiful Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies and paper from the Serene Scenery DSP stack. both of these cards inspiration came from pinterest they are just my interpretations of either layouts of other cards or color combos.  I find I love to take some ones layout and use new colors and stamp sets to make it my very own.  So I hope you like them and find your own inspiration.

Field of Dreams

Supplies Needed:

• Very Vanilla
• Serene Scenery DSP stack
• Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Bundle
• Versa Mark
• Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

     I used the video from pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/224265256418449563/ to make the base of this card and then cut the DSP 1/8 inch smaller than the space to be covered.  I cut the Dragon fly out of Very Vanilla card stock and then covered with versa mark ink and then Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder to heat emboss whole dragonfly, then also stamped saying with versa mark ink and Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder heat embossed the saying.  I used dimensionals to adhere the dragonfly for dimensional effect.  I truly hope you love this card as much as I do. It is a very simple I promise, but elegant effect.

Flight of the Dragonfly

Supplies Needed:

• Whisper White, Old Olive cardstock
• Serene Scenery DSP stack
• Vellum cardstock
• Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Bundle
• Old Olive ink
• Wink a Stella Clear

     The card is5 1/2 x 4 1/4  base landscape orientation. The Old Olive mat is 5 x 2 3/8 and the DSP was cut at 4 7/8 x 2 1/4. I used the smaller dragonfly solid for the vellum and the detailed smaller dragonfly for the whisper white I used wink a Stella to cover the detailed dragonfly. I glued the two together with the fine-tip glue pen, and mounted it with dimensionals.  I truly hope you love this card as much as I do. It is a very simple card with an elegant 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 her  web page  www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/beckycrain

The Shining

     I am trying to post more cards, trying to catch up from the break I took since October.  The new catalogue came out in January and I absolutely fell in love with this Stamp Set.  High Tide is absolutely a wonderfully versatile stamp set, it can be used for all sexes and all occasions, so I truly hope this card is an inspiration I got the layout inspired from pinterest and changed a few of the mediums and added just the light shining.

The Shining

 

Supplies Needed:

• Very Vanilla, Night of Navy, and Crumb Cake card stock
• Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede, and Versa Mark ink
• Stampin Up Stamp Set High Tide
• Gold Embossing Powder

     The base card as usual 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, the mat is cut at 4 1/16 x 5 5/16, Very Vanilla cut at

 3 7/8 x 5 1/8.  I stamped of using night of navy for the waves and used gold embossing powder and heat set it for the light beam and the words. 

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



Boys Will Be Boys

     Hello everyone, I am so sorry my post have been so far apart but I have had some medical issues that have prevented me from posting.  I none the less have been making cards but have not had the energy to post so I thought today I would post what I have been working on.  Little boy cards are always a challenge for me but I have a few today that I hope you will like.  Some are from the new occasions catalogue and some from the main catalogue.  I hope you are inspired.

Jump In

 

Supplies Needed

• Whisper White, Always Artichoke, and Soft Suede card stock
• Always Artichoke, Soft Suede, Old Olive and Versa Mark Ink
• Stampin Up stamp sets Boys will be Boys, Happy Birthday Everyone, Work of Art, and Pictogram Punches.
• Gold Embossing Powder

     The base card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, Mat is 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, Whisper White is 3 3/4 x 5. Stamped the Happy Birthday in Soft Suede, the Parachute men in Always Artichoke, and the stars are gold embossed. to color the parachutes I used work of art stamp and markers soft suede, always artichoke and pear pizzazz randomly colored the stamp and stamped it on the parachute.  I love the effect of camouflage it gave.

Lego

Supplies Needed

• Basic Grey, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla card stock
• This and That Epic Day DSP (retired)
• Basic Black, Basic Grey, Smokey Slate Ink
• Gumball Green, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Daffodil Delight Markers
• Stampin Up Stamp sets - Boys will Be Boys, Timeless Textures, Gorgeous Grunge
• Daffodil Delight Satin Ribbon,  Bakers Twine Black and Pool Party, and Subtles Candy Dots.

     Card Base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, Mat cut at 2 5/8 x 3 7/8, Very Vanilla cut at 2 1/2 x 3 3/4.  Tag hand cut to fit.  DSP strip 5 1/2 x 7/8.  stamped with Timeless Textures in Smokey Slate first then legos in Basic Black then colored in randomly. Stamped in Basic Grey with Timeless Textures on base and the in Basic Black with Gorgeous Grunge. Finished with candy dots and pop dotted the tag.



Hero Birthday 







Supplies Needed

• Dapper Denim, and Crushed Curry, Whisper White card stock
• Basic Black, Vresa Mark Ink
• Dapper Denim, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler and Blush Blossom (retired) Markers
• Stampin Up stamp set - Everyday Hero, Any Occasion
• Wink a Stella
• Crushed Curry Embossing Powder
• Itty Bitty Accent Star Punch, Circle  Card Framelit

     Circle Card Framelit Base, Stamped hero on Whisper White Colored in and hand cut out x 2. Stamped the Wow and explosion stamp on Crushed Curry and hand cut out, the beam and small stars are all heat embossed with Crushed Curry and everything on hero in green and all punced out stars are covered with clear wink a stella .

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

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