Late post...

This post should have gone up yesterday but it seems Embarq DSL didn't want me to get online til late tonight.... And you never know how much you miss the Internet until it dies on you for over a day...



I went yesterday to a friends house and was asked to show her and another friend a couple of techniques.... The first technique was dry embossing. Not knowing which type of dry emboss they wanted me to show them I took it all with me... light box, cuttlebug, and crop-a dile. And then a basket full of other things too...

I made this card at 5AM yesterday morning to have an idea of what they might be wanting. I had the retired set fun filled flowers along with its' brass template to use with my lightbox. It was a fun card.... but coming up with an idea that early in the morning was rough.... The best way for me to start my card out was going to SCS and looking at the challenges for the week and the Color challenge fit the book and helped me get this card going... Well I got to try and get a better shot of the other card and hope to be back with it before the night is over... Have a great night.

Supplies:
Stamps: fun filled, papertrey inc Birthday verses
Ink: pretty in pink, pink passion, chocolate chip, certain celery
Cardstock: pretty in pink, whisper white, certain celery, chocolate chip
Accessories: white grosgrain ribbon, fun filled brass template, light box, cuttlebug, A2 embossing folder textiles

Wintery Songs....

I started doing something I have always wanted to do since I was a child yesterday... taking piano lessons. I played two instruments in highschool and continued playing them in college some but never learned the piano. Well two years ago I talked my DH into buying me a piano and here it sat. I started my first lesson yesterday and guess what I can play some Christmas music already...

So today I went over to CPS and with the music all in my head I decided to pick the stamp set that reminded me of Christmas music. Sleigh Bells Ring. This weeks sketch worked perfectly with my ideas....



Doesn't it remind you of Jingle Bells. I took out my retired background stamp Musical score and stamped it on the soft sky cardstock. I water colored a few things in the main image and then took some iridescent ice ep and made the whole image sparkle. Here is a closeup of the image...



Well I'm off to go see what else I can come up with for tomorrow happy Stampin everyone...


Supplies:
Stamps: sleigh bells ring, musical score BG
Ink: soft sky, versamark, basic black
cardstock: blue bayou, soft sky, creamy caramel, cardstock vellum, papertrey white
Accessories: prima flowers, halfback pearl from pretties kit, iridescent ice ep, snowflake cuttlebug folder....

Swaps....

I had to get my Christmas swap done and in the mail today so I thought I would share here....





I decided to use Stampin Up Holy Triptych set... I just love this set. I did alot of embossing too. The sketch challenge from yesterday had me so inspired too...

Supplies:
Stamps: Holy Triptych, leaves a la carte wheel, french flair
Inks: Versamark, elegant eggplant
Cardstock: Elegant eggplant, watercolor paper, brushed gold
Accessories: gold glory embossing powder, heat gun, watercolor crayons, aquapainter

Well I'm off to the post office to get these in the mail, only have a couple of days to get to where they are needed.

MIA for alittle bit...

Sorry but I have been MIA for a little bit here and now I am back with both some beautiful pictures of a sunset I took two days ago and a card...



You can click on these to see a larger picture of them... I love to see a beautiful sunset and I have seen a lot since we moved into this house.

Now I guess I better show you my card for today....





Again I used my Thomas Kinkade stamp, The Forest Chapel Vignette, from Cornish Heritage Farms' Thomas Kinkade line. I just love this image now that I have figured a way to color it... This time I used some of my Twinkling H2O watercolor cakes to highlight the windows and some of the other colors. I was happy with my result again. Even made the sunset in with my watercolor cakes.

Supplies:
Stamps: Thomas Kinkade Forest chapel vignette, Birthday hugs and wishes
Ink: Black stazon, Creamy caramel
Cardstock: Natural ivory, designeer paper from Today and always Scrapin kit(retired), watercolor paper
Accessories: taffeta ribbon, utee, watercolor crayons, Twinkling H2os, aquapainter

I colored TK.....

I finally was able to get an image I am happy with....



Here's a close up of it too...



Can you tell I am proud. I love all these great images Cornish Heritage Farms has come up with but have been very scared to try and color one. Every time I did it just didn't seem right until today... I used my SU watercolor crayons and an aquapainter on this piece. I then decided to make a mask so that I could only put UTEE on the image. That made the colors pop to me and on wow... I then took a look at MyTime's sketch challenge for this weekend and did a few minor adjustments and of course my card was born... What do you think.

Supplies:
Stamps: Tk stamp The Forest Chapel Vignette, French Script BG (retired), Weathered BG
Ink: Creamy carmel, Black stazon, chocolate chip, versamark
Cardstock: papertrey select white, creamy carmel, chocolate chip, watercolor paper
Accessories: UTEE, ribbon, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, heat gun

CHF and Thomas Kinkade 2

I decided this card was going to go along with my pink theme for the month. Again I used one of my Thomas Kinkade stamps from Chornish Heritage Farms that can be found HERE. The stamp I used on my card is called The Garden of Prayer Vignette... I really hope to one day color these like some of my favorite stampers have been able too.

I am dedicating this card to all those who suffer from Cancer in any shape or form. There are many people in my life that have been touched by cancer some way. My dad is one and my grandfather's wife. I can name some others as well. But for the month of October I hope that some of my readers can find a way to donate some time or some money to the cancer society of America. I have placed a badge on my site that directly links to them if you would like to find out information and ways to help just click on the badge and it will take you directly to their site.









These rubber stamps are so beautiful. I hope to be back latter today because I have a special stamp set that should be coming in today's mail. I can't wait to share it with you.

Supplies: Chocolate chip cardstock, pink passion cardstock, naturals ivory cardstock, pink passion classic ink, pink ribbon, pink embossing powder, purple cow rotary trimmer, The Garden of Prayer Vignette stamp, warmest regards stampin up set

Casing for a Thank You...

Let me start this post with the meaning of the word CASE for a stamper.... Copy, And, Share, Everything. But with proper notation of the designer.

So here is my case of a beautiful card done by Arlene Mantle on SCS. You can click on her name to go to her beautiful card.



I changed my embossing to silver because I am just a silver kind of girl. I did change a few stamps too. I used my leaves a la carte wheel, and my whirly twirly wheel along with my silver encore ink pad and silver embossing powder. I watercolored my angel using my blue bayou ink pad and my watercolor crayons and an aquapainter.

For cardstock I used soft sky, blue bayou, basic black, some scrap designer paper, and watercolor paper. Stamp sets used were Holy Triptych, aida cloth BG, and two wheels.



I also used star dust stickles on my angel's wings. This card is so much prettier in real life.

This card is going to my dad to give to his neighbor for all the help he has been giving them lately. He wanted a Thank You card.

Spotlighting...

Tonight I decided to try my hand at the spotlight technique. Picking of course my new set from the holiday min from Stampin Up Holy Triptych.
Supplies for this card can be found here.

I wanted to spotlight baby Jesus in this card. So I stamped the image twice and colored one with my watercolor crayons and my aquapainter. Then I took my 1.25 circle punch and punched out the baby Jesus out then took my 1 3/8 circle punch to punch out a circle from a piece of scrap brushed silver cardstock. Then I lined the circles up to the uncolored image.



I am happy with it but it was hard to find the perfect sentiment to fit the card. I took the sentiment from a retired stamp set called Peace Be unto You. I am still not quite happy but i know I will find the perfect sentiment for this here soon. I think this would make a perfect Christmas card for someone this year. Well off to bed I go so I can get the kids off to school in the morning have a great night.

MyTime saturday challenge and VSN....

I had some problems with inspiration last night so I only got one challenge done last night for VSN and this was the card for it ...


The supplies for this card can be found here.

This card used smashing reinkers... The challenge for it can be found here.

This morning I decided to try making a few cards before I took the boys to a movie this afternoon. Here is what I came up with....



This is a closeup of the main image..



Supplies for this card can be found here. I forgot to add that I used iridescent ice ep for the dazzling diamonds technique. Have a great Saturday.

Textured cardstock is a dream.....

Today I decided to play with my textured cardstock again along with trying my hand at a trifold card.... Here is the front of the card.



And here is how it looks inside....



Supplies: Aquapainter, watercolor crayons, mirror gold embossing powder from Cornish Heritage Farms, basic black ink, versamark inkpad, brushgold cardstock, whisper white cardstock, bravo burgundy textured cardstock, gold organdy ribbon, colzzule oval, marvy scalloped oval punch, and the retired stamp set Madonna and Child.

I really like how this card turned out. I may have to make a few more to give as some of my Christmas cards this year. Have a fun afternoon....

Copics and Butterflies

I suddenly got the urge to play tonight. What I wanted to breakout was my retired Stippled Butterfly stamp and see what I could come up with. I am rather pleased with it too.


Supplies: White cardstock, basic black inkpad, stippled butterfly stamp, Copic markers Y15, YR09, Y28, E29, white wide organdy ribbon(I so miss this stuff Stampin Up retired this and I will morn the day I run out), amuse twinkle stickers, iridescent ice embossing powder, versa mark pad, yellow stick post it note for masking technique

I had to break out my copics and play with them again... I love them and so want to get more but have to save the money up for em and I also want the airbrushing system they have for them... but for now I can play with the few I do own. Hope you think this card turn out as well as I do... I have to head off here seems we have a bunch of storms heading through here for the night... happy stampin everyone.

Decided to do a project instead....

Decided to do a project today instead of a card. The tutorial on how to make this wonderful little one sheet wonder box can be found here. I had fun making it and using my first ever Fancy pants designs stamp set Simply stated.


Here is a side view of the cute box....


Supplies: one sheet of cool Caribbean cardstock, white craft ink, copic markers G24 and B32, winter white embossing powder, ribbon to tye it shut with.

I had fun making this little box now to find something to fill it with.....

Oldie but Goodie....

I had to play with a few of my retired items today. I broke out a piece of Cool Caribbean Cardstock along with a retired SU stamp set called Polar Bears. I made my first holiday card for the season....


Supplies: Polar Bears stamp set, very vanilla cardstock, watercolor paper, basic black cardstock, cool Caribbean cardstock, cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder, very vanilla craft ink, versamark ink, basic black ink, going grey ink, cool Caribbean reinker, iridescent ice ep, organdy ribbon dyed using soft sky reinker, aquapainter and watercolor crayons.

I had fun with this little couple. I love the bears in this set. They look so much like the coca cola bears around the holiday seasons. I had to play with making a Holiday card today to try and cool off... it seems to be getting hotter now around here. I know next week I will be on a vacation enjoying sunny FL.... but I will try and update here while I am away. Hope everyone is having a great summer so far... Happy stamping everyone.

Happy Anniversary...

Happy 42nd Anniversary to my parents today... I finally got the perfect card for them designed.

Supplies: soft sky cardstock, very vanilla cardstock and blue bayou cardstock. Year after Year stamp set, Baroque Motifs stamp set and All Year cheer III stamp set. Silver encore ink and soft sky ink. silver embossing powder. soft sky grosgrain ribbon and soft sky organdy ribbon.

The card is 3.5x9 so it fits a legal sized envelop which I also stamped the heart from Year after Year stamp set on and embossed it. I dyed both white organdy ribbon and the grosgrain ribbon with my soft sky reinker to make the ribbon match. I was worrying over nothing it seems yesterday when I had a block on what to do for their card. Well off to get ready to go to a cookout at my grandfathers.... have a happy 4th.

Inside the card I added this saying...."Love is not a matter of counting the years,
it's a matter of making the years count." William Smith. I had to hand write it but I wish I could have printed it out with a nice font.... seems someone has used to much printer ink...... I found this quote on Two Peas in a Bucket.

A little something...

I had to use my long notes from the spring mini... and you know what I am going to have to stock up on some more before the mini goes away.

Supplies: 1 cool carribbean long note and evelope, petals & paisley designer doublesided paper, flirty ribbon from winter mini, sincere salutations stamp set, In full Bloom stamp set, rose romace marker, tempting turquoise marker, old olive marker, basic black ink, versa mark ink, detail black embossing powder, and last but not least star dust stickles and yellow stickles.

My first VSN card of the day....

Well here it is my first card of the day... I used my new Butterfly kisses set from Papertrey Ink for my images and a technique called emboss resist. I used clear embossing powder and then took my pale plum classic ink to color the cardstock. the only cardstock used for the whole card was whisper white. I also used some Amuse twinkle dots on my butterfly to give it a little sparkle I got these from Ellen hutson's store. I really like how this card turned out. I will post something tomorrow that I will try to come up with tomorrow.

The Papertrey Ink sets is an acrylic stamp set but All I can say they are really high quality and beautiful. I am having so much fun playing with them. Happy stamping..