Here's a card that I saw on Dawn Olchefske's blog a couple of weeks ago.  She punched hers with the new blossom punch that's in the current mini but my punch is not coming in time to make this card for my mother-in-law's birthday so I had to used the 5 petal flower punch and turn it and punched again to make more petals.  I wanted to make sure that the pretty DP was showing through the cut out.  The DP is from last years in color pack in peach parfait and concord crush.  I think that the two colors look great together.  The small flower was made using the boho blossom punch and the other flower was from a random punch that's been in my scrap room for years and I have no idea where it came from.  Lastly, the sentiment is called Curly Cute by SU.

Simple Single Layer Card

Here's one of those simple single layered cards that is super fast and super easy to make.  It's a good layout for one of those times when you forgot to make a card for an occasion and you have to throw one together at the last minute.  This one was done in black and white but I'm sure that it would look great in any color combination.  The stamp set I used was the new one from the current Sale-a-bration catalog.  It's called Fresh Vintage and it was the first item that I picked as my freebie.  It's a wonderful versatile set that can be used so many different ways.    I also used the oval Designer Frames Embossing folder.  It's in the big catalog and also in the SAB as a free item with a qualifying order.  All you have to do is just spend $50 by March 31st and you can pick any item from the catalog.  

Happy Stamping!

Sara Turns 1

I couldn't believe it when my cousin's little baby Sara was turning 1.  It seems like she was just born and now she is starting to walk and talk and having her very first birthday bash.  I had to make an extra special card for her.  I used one of the new edgelits die from Stampin Up! across the bottom of the top layer and I took the monkey from the stamp set Fox and Friends since she has a monkey theme in her room.  I made the flowers with the Boho blossom punch and the sentiment came from one of the Sale-a-bration items available right now called Elementary Elegance.  This promotion goes until March 31 and with every $50 purchase, you can pick an item from the sale-a-bration catalog.  Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping!

Need for Speed

Hello Everyone,


Remember me.  I haven't posted anything in a month and it's because I'm always on my iphone and never on my computer anymore.  I have to break that habit.  I spent last night in my scrap room with my bestest friend Margaret.  I made my nephew Jake's birthday card with the stamp set called Need for Speed by Stampin Up!.  It's a great set for boys and since I have 5 nephews, I figured that it would be a smart buy.  

I think that this is perfect for an 8 year old.  The paper I used was crumb cake, old olive ds, chocolate chip and very vanilla.  Added some silver liquid pearls (they look like metal)  and the sentiment is for the Happiest Birthday Wishes (hostess) set.

Single Layer Card and Some Card News

Almost Happy New Year Everyone!  I wanted to start off with some stamp news first, In December we finished our 2nd Stamp Club and If anyone is interested in starting up again I will need to know as soon as possible.  We are looking for 6 people to do $25 per month for 6 months and each month someone new will be the hostess and getting the hostess benefits  OR we can do 3 people to do $50 per month for 3 months or every other month and receive hostess benefits.  Please let me know as soon as you can so that we can start in January.  Other news,  On January 4th Stampin Up! will be starting their Occasions Mini promotion.  The new catalogs will be online and if you would like to get a hard copy, let me know and I'll mail you one.

Now on with the card.  The feather stamp used in this card is from the Natures Nest stamp set.  I like to take an image and turn it into something else and this is what I came up with.  This is a single layer card that probably took about 10 minutes to make from beginning to end.  

Happy Birthday Zoe!

My best friend's daughter Zoe had her 8th birthday party yesterday.  She looked so cute with her princess outfit on that I wanted to share.  I asked her if I could borrow it when she was done with it but she said "no way....I'm going to wear this forever".  Can you blame her.  Here's a photo of her and the card that I made for her.

supplies used:
stamps-happiest birthday wishes, dot dot dot
paper-rich razzleberry, whisper white, vellum, silver
ink-rich razzleberry
accessories-ticket punch, build a blossom punch, round tab punch, ribbon, silver liquid pearls, dot embossing folder, rhinestones

Got Birthdays

My daughter Hayley is going to a double Birthday party tomorrow for her friends Lilly & Liz.  I just had to use my new birthday stamp set again called Happiest Birthday Wishes.  This set comes with so many different stamps that is comes in 2 dvd cases.  Unfortunately you can't just buy it because it's a hostess set but if your order reaches $150.00 or more, you have a choice of free Hostess or regular catalog stamp sets.

 

 Stamps-Happiest Birthday wishes

paper-rich razzleberry, river rock, whisper white, rich razzleberry dsp

accessories-1 3/4 circle punch, 2 in scallop punch

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes

paper-whisper white, old olive, daffodil delight dsp, melon mambo

accessories-little leaves sizzlet, beautiful wings embosslit

Happy Stamping!

Language of Friendship

This little bird is so cute.  I love using stamp sets with coordinating punches.  It makes it so easy and quick to make a card.  We also made this one at last Friday's card club.  We all enjoyed using some of Stampin Up's new stamp sets from this new catalog.  My wish list is still very long but I managed to get my hands on a handful of new sets so far.  I'm actually creating this post on Saturday the 27th because we are due to get hurricane Irene tomorrow and I'm sure that there won't be any power for a little while so I figured that I would set this up ahead of time. 

Supplies used:

Stamps-Happiest birthday wishes, language of friendship, frame it

ink-soft suede, bravo burgandy

accessories-ribbon punch, 2 step bird punch, corner rounder punch

paper-soft suede, whisper white, patterned paper

Happy Stamping!

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

I love using recyclable items in my cards.  I use a page from an old Hardy Boys book behind this piece of vellum in this card.  It was a real simple card and very easy to make at our card club.  The ladies found it very easy to color in these flower from the old fast and fabulous stamp set using Q tips. 

Supplies used:

stamps-fast and fabulous

paper-wisteria wonder, black, recycled book paper, whisper white, basic black

Ink-wisteria wonder, certainly celery

So Many Birthday Parties

We had back to back parties this weekend.  My daughter Alex had her twin friends Hannah and Sarah's party on Friday night and then we had my 2 oldest daughters Hayley & Alex's party on Saturday.  I remembered to take a photo of Sarah's card but not Hannah's.  Oh well.  Here it is.  It features that cute little owl.  We had so much fun playing with that punch at one of my card clubs that I wanted to bring it out again.   The photo isn't the greatest but you get the idea. 

Supplies used:
paper-pink pirouette, whisper white, old olive chocolate chip
Stamps-dot dot dot
Ink-old olive
Accessories-owl punch, little leaves sizzlet,ticket corner punch, rhinestones, white gel pen

A Rockin Birthday Card

My nephew Andru is 13 so I had to think of something that would be more for a teenage boy.  This now retired stamp (Extreme Guitar) seemed to be perfect.  I still can't believe that they got rid of these great single stamps. 

 

Supplies used:
Paper-daffodil delight, basic black, whisper white
Ink-basic black, daffodil delight
Stamp set-Extreme Guitar
Accessories-silver foil smooch spritz, iridescent ice embossing powder, non su metallic paper

A birthday card with my new favorite In color (Pool Party)

I just had to use the new pool party card stock since my niece Emma will be having a pool party for her 7th birthday this coming Saturday.  I know that she will have no idea what the name of the paper is nor will she care.  I just needed any excuse to use it.  

 Supplies used:
Paper-pool party, melon mambo, pear pizazz, whisper white
Ink-basic black
Stamps set-swirls & curls versus
accessories-embroidery floss, glass glitter, SU markers in pool party and pink pirouette, crystal affects, scallop border punch

Elements of Style

We got together for my monthly card club last night and we made some fabulous cards.  We also had some great goodies to match.  My friend Margaret brought over some chocolate covered strawberries that her and her daughter Zoe made for us and I served some sangria.  It really got our juices flowing (at least we would like to believe they did. lol ).  Here's a photo of the first card we made.   I know that you can't see it in the photo but I sprayed the whole card with some champagne shimmer mist.  It looked so nice in person.

supplies used:
paper-whisper white, river rock, elegant eggplant
Ink-elegant eggplant, river rock
accessories-basic pearls, embossing border
Stamp set-Elements of style, watercolor trio

Another Birthday Card

My sister Patty also had a birthday this month.  I've been having so much fun with the Cheers for You stamp set.  It's retiring at the end of this month so I'm so glad that I have it already.  I may make another one of these for a friend who also has a birthday this month.  It's super quick and easy to make but looking at the cocktail in the glass makes me want one and that strawberry looks so yummy!

Happy Birthday My little Monkey

My youngest daughter Ava turned 6 on Thursday.  After she fell alseep the other night, me and my other 2 daughters went down to my scrap room to make her birthday cards.  We always call her a little monkey so that's why I picked this stamp from the fox and friends set.  I'm so sad that this jumbo wheel is retiring.  It's called Classic stars and it makes a great background on cards or scrapbook pages.  I also added Dazzling diamonds to the monkey's bellys.  Hope you like it. 

Happy Stamping!

Markis Turns 4

Markis Turns 4

My cutie little nephew Markis turned 4 on Saturday.  It seems like he was just born and now we were at Chucky Cheese watching him play like the big kids.  Time is passing too fast.  Well, I took so long to figure out what to do on his card because I really didn't have much in stamps for little boys.  I remembered that I had an old clear set that I used once before for my nephew Jake.  It was a set with monsters on it (and what little boy isn't a little monster once in a while)  so I figured that I would try and do something with it.  I was so pleased with the way it came out.  I just love the Marina Mist cardstock and he just looks adorable covered in dazzling diamonds.  Who says it just for girls anyway. 

Happy 60th Jerry

We went to a surprise party for a family friend this past weekend.  It was hard to believe that he was turning 60.  I started to think of what I was going to do for his card because once again, I'm not the greatest with the masculine ideas for cards.  I just got this new stamp set from Stampin Up's current mini catalogue called French Foliage (LOVE IT) and I knew that it would be perfect for a male card and it fits for this time of year.  What a great set!  I used bravo burgundy and pumpkin pie ink.  I did the BAM! method on it.  This is where you add your lighter color first then BAM it once into your darker color and then stamp.  It gives it a nice 2 tone color.  The combination was perfect.  Hope you like it!

Another Birthday Card

Here's a picture of my husband's birthday card.  I really didn't know where I was going with this one.  I know it's a really bad photo.  I had all kinds of crazy things in the background because I still haven't purchased a photo cube to take my blog pictures with.  I Love making girly cards but when it comes to masculine cards, their just not fun for me.  I used this old bamboo stamp that I bought from ebay a few years ago.  I used really rust by SU and this designer paper also from SU in the same color.  The card base is kraft by paper trey ink. 

Hayley's Birthday card

My oldest daughter Hayley turned 12 this week.  Here a quick little card that I made for her.  I made this cute side profile flower with a few simple folds.  We will be making some of these flowers at this month's card club.  I will be posting a card from my husband's 40th birthday tomorrow night.  His birthday is today and I haven't taken a photo of it yet.  Happy stamping!

Fabulous at 40

My cousin Teresa is turning 40 this coming Saturday.  I knew that I wanted to make a fabulous card because 40 is a very special birthday.  I thought that this little lady from the Forever Young cricut cartridge would be perfect for her card and I used some more of that white glitter paper for the 40 that I picked up at Target for .99.  This card is much larger then the A2 ones I usually make (5 1/2 x 8) so I had to think of a lot of fillers.  I used the devine swirls on the pink behind the girl and the sentiment came from my usual mega mixed messages by paper trey ink.  Hope you like!