A Calender and a Card...

Today And yesterday I started this little project and little is not really what i would call it...



Shrink plastic and I had fun with this... I added different little charms to some of the months. Here are a few pictures of them and you can click on any picture to enlarge them... The designer papers come from The Angel Company Rustic Chic stack.


February
I took the heart from Stampin Up Year after year and had it shrunk to fit my page....










April Showers
Of Course April showers bring May flowers... Stamp sets shrunk for these two months are And Everything Nice and Summer by the Sea. These were such fun sets to color. And I love them shrunk down... may even have to shrink a few more for a piece of jewelry.




May Flowers









July Summer fun









Harvest time September

Had to play with my apples from Give Thanks...





November Thanksgiving pumpkin

Again Give Thanks gives a great pumpkin for the month of November.


December with Santa and a Tree
I had to shrink a Santa and a tree from Jolliest Time of the Year. Isn't Santa just the cutest.








Now this calender took me alittle while to complete but I just love the out come. Supplies for this project were 7 medium weight chipboard coasters, designer papers. Calender print outs, Shrink plastic, cuttlebug alpha set for my 2008 numbers on the cover, some ribbon, binder rings I found in the office supply section at walmart.

Oh and of course the card I promised...

I did this a few days ago... And mailed it out to a friend.

Supplies for this: Give Thanks, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, watercolor paper, creamy caramel cardstock, creepy crawly dp, really rust cardstock, Trees backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms, twill ribbon tape.

Sorry I haven't post much this week but my life seems to be turning in so many ways lately. I hope everyone has a great afternoon and I hope I can be back soon with another fun project.

SIMPLE SQUARE...

Today I decided to attempt a square card... I did this one first and decided to finish it off with a set of four using the whole stamp set. Here is how they all turned out...




Supplies: Summer by the sea stamp set(which is still available from stampin up but is not in their fall and winter catty), warmest regards stamp set(retired hostess set), fabriano medioevalis 5inch square card, copic markers, classic black craft ink

My main reason to make these cards was that I needed one for a friend who would be going to have surgery on Friday so I think I am going to send her my first card and wish her well on her surgery. Well off to go work on some more of my swap cards... have a happy stampin day...

ok as promised...

Ok what do you think.... I like it. It is a simple card. But it is also and explosion card too... when you open it it looks like this...

SuppliesHugs and Wishes stamp set, Summer by the Sea, Best Blossoms, prima flowers, giga scalloped square punch, 1 3/8 square punch, basic black cardstock, soft sky cardstock, petals & paisleys designer paper, basic black ink, copic markers, stickles waterfall

This was hard...

I joined a monthly swap last month and this month we had to come up with a masculine card design.... I really had to work on this one.



Here is the closeup of one...



I used my Summer by the Sea set from Stampin up to get a masculine image. Cardstock I used was night of navy, bordering blue, and very vanilla. I also took the diamond designer paper from Stampin Up's designer set called Sentimental Journey. I stamped the image in bordering blue clasic ink. After I got the elements together I thought it was missing something but could not put my finger on it. I showed it to my aunt tonight and she suggested something like ribbon or metal. I went with two little silver brads. I distressed the very vanilla cardstock on the edges.

Like I said in my last post I really am loving my ATG gun with doing these swaps. Have a stampin good night.

Autumn Elegance Kit...

The Autumn Elegance Kit from Stampin Up and the Country living Mag is so much fun to play with. I signed up for a swap before I even got my kit. The swap was for just card fronts and i think my two designs are great. Well without further ado here they are...


I didn't have a fall set until now and I really like this set of stamps in the kit. I added the stamp set Summer by the Sea to one because it just made me think of going to the beach on a fall day right at the beginning of the season. I used Not quite Navy cardstock, Summer sun and Very Vanilla. Ink that was used was Close to cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Creamy carmel, Pumpkin pie, and Ruby Red. I took an entire sheet of Very Vanilla and stamped the big Oak leaf and small oak leaf on the paper in random order with the fall colors. I used the masking technique to layer the leaves.... got to love those little yellow sticky notes. Little girls are always great blessings.



The second card front I used just the stamps from the autumn Elegance kit with a little watercolor wash of ruby red to add some color to the large leaf. I took a piece of Brushed gold cardstock to frame up the saying and ran the cardstock for the saying over my chocolate chip pad to give it a little something extra... I think this kit has so much to offer.