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

New Card Club night for the summer

Happy July everyone!!!  I had a great day today at the beach with my sister and all of our kids.  It was 96 degrees here today and it was so relaxing.  I figured that I would post our new and next card club date.  For this month I will be having our regular card club on a Monday night.  I know that our weekends are so busy with BBQ's and parties so Monday seems to work better.  I'm planning on having our next get together on July 18th at 7pm.  If you plan on attending please let me know. 

Happy Stamping!

Teacher's Card

I made this simple but adorable card for my daughter's teacher.  I used the build a blossom stamp set and punch that I haven't used in a little while.  I'm sure that she will also enjoy the Dunkin Donuts gift card that I put inside as well.

Supplies used:
Paper-pink pirouette, crushed curry, whisper white
Ink-pink pirouette, basic black
Accessories-polka dot embossing folder, ribbon tag nestie, crushed curry brad

Recycle Those Books

I have created this card but my friend Rachel who has a birthday coming up.  I wanted to make a card using some items from around the house.  I ended up using a page from my daughter's old Hardy Boys book.  It was a book that she didn't like and didn't even want to keep so I took it with me to my scraproom and went to work.  I'm really pleased with what I came up with but I'm very sad that this stamp set (cheers to you) is retiring at the end of this month.

Supplies used:
paper-chocolate chip card stock, whisper white, book page
Ink- soft suede, basic black
Accessories-red rinestones, certainly celery marker, real red marker, dazzling diamonds, certainly celery ribbon

Open Sea

What a great set!  I really love having more options for masculine cards.  I used it for father's day and now I'm using it for birthdays. 

 

Supplies used:

paper- whisper white, river rock, basic black

Ink-crumb cake, soft suede, basic black

stamp set-open seas, short and sweet

Accessories-chocolate chip ribbon, black brads, corner rounder

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!

Open Sea Stamp Set

Here's one of the new stamp sets featured in our Summer mini catalog.  If you haven't got the Open Sea set yet, you must get it.  It's great for Father's day, an adult male birthday or even a child's birthday.  It's great for any masculine card.  If you're like me, you probably keep buying all of those beautiful flower and butterfly stamp sets which I know are wonderful and as girls we can't resist.  But every once in a while we need to give the guys a card too and I'm sure that they wouldn't appreciate a rose with some polka dots.  He he, that would be funny though.  On to the card, 

Supplies used:
paper-whisper white, chocolate chip, river rock
ink-crumb cake, soft suede
accessories-photo corner punch, white gel pen, misc. brads

2011-2012 Catalog Giveaway

Hi All,

I'm going to do a little giveaway for the month of June.  Since the new Stampin Up! Idea Book and Catalog is due to come out on July 1st, and I know that you all want a hard copy of it.  I figured that I would give away a new catalog to anyone placing a minimum $50.00 order in June (before tax and shipping).  

Our current Stamp Club is also coming to an end this month, so anyone who wants to continue onto the next stamp club starting in July please let me know.  It's a 6 month commitment where everyone takes turns being the hostess each month with a $25 min. order. 

I will be putting in an early order on June 5th for those of you who want to place a retired order.  You can place your order on the 15th with our regular order but I can't promise that your items will still be available then. 

Here it is!

Stampin Up's retire list is out as of today.  If there's something on this list that you just can't live without, Then you better move fast before they are all gone.  These items are only available until June 30th.  The link is listed below for anyone who wants to look through the items or if you would like to place an online order.  You can also just place an order directly with me on  the 15th.  




http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryID=736

June Card Club Date

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to post June's card club before any other  plans for this month comes along.  My daughter has her 6th birthday and we have a few different graduation parties to go to.  It looks like the 24th is the best night.  We will make a total of 4 cards.  One of the stamp sets we will  be using is Open Seas from the summer mini that's going on right now.  Space is limited so please let me know if you'll be attending.

P.S.  For those of you who are part of our baby card swap, you can bring your cards with you that night and we will do the swap then.

Happy Birthday Jeff!

My Brother-in-law Jeff celebrated a birthday yesterday.  I was so happy when I remembered that I had the Cheers to you stamp set and it had this beer mug that fits perfectly with Jeff.  I decided to make 2 more for the 2 more male birthdays that are coming up in the next few weeks.

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Stampin Up's Retire list is almost here!

Hello Everyone,  It's that time of year again when Stampin Up! goes out with the old and in with the new.   On June 1st Stampin Up! will be releasing their list of all items that are being retired before the new 2011-2012 catalog comes out in July.  I will be placing 2 orders in June.  One by the 3rd for anyone who wishes to try and get their hands on any retiring items.  Once they are sold out of a certain item then you're out of luck.  Be sure to get your reinkers, paper or stamp sets before they're gone.  I'll also be placing our usual stamp club order on the 15th.  Anyone is welcome to place orders on that day as well. 

Happy Stamping!

Shirt Cards for Father's day are always a hit

I just love these male shirt cards.  They were a big hit last year when I made them for my husband and my father.  If I can get some time tomorrow, I will try and get a video up on how to make these.  My card club girls made this card last year before father's day but I couldn't resist making them again for anyone else who hasn't seen them yet.

Father's Day and Lovely as a Tree

 

Have I mentioned that I LOVE this stamp set.  I also Love this photo corner punch more than I though I would.   

supplies used:

stamps-Lovely as a tree (SU),  Sentiment (PTI)

Ink- always artichoke (SU), summer sun (SU), Chestnut roan (color box)

Paper-Old olive, chocolate chip, whisper white

accessories-silver brads, photo corner punch

It's Graduation time again

Here's a card that I made for my friend Ashleigh.  Her sister is graduating and she wanted to give a card with her school colors.  I hope she likes it.

Supplies used:
Graduation cap-SCAL, banner-SCAL
paper-DCWV & PTI
Accessories-Shimmer paint (Stampin Up!)
Stamps-Michaels dollar bin

Greenhouse Garden

As you can probably tell, I had no idea where I was going with this one.  I knew the supplies that I wanted to use but wasn't sure how I was going to put them together.  Here's what I came up with. 

Supplies used:
Stamps-en francais background stamp, greenhouse garden
Paper- green galore (retired), crumb cake, whisper white
Ink-crumb cake, regal rose, melon mambo, wild wasabi, basic black
Accessories-sheer ribbon, jute twine, perfect pearls, framed tulips embossing folder, champagne shimmer paint

Uncharted Territory

Here's another father themed card that I may be using next month for father's day.  I'm not entirely pleased with this card because I couldn't seem to get the colors right.  I used watercolor pencils and then blended it with blender pens.  I colored and blended and colored again.  I finally gave up.  It will have to do. 

supplies used:

Stamps- Uncharted territory, mega mixed messages (pti)

Paper- river rock, basic black, whisper white

Accessories- water color pencils, white gel pen, jute twine

Lovely as a Tree

As long as I can remember, I have loved this stamp set.  It's a great set for making masculine card and even great Christmas cards.  A father's day card would be perfect as well.  I did a masking technique on this one using some photocopy paper and temporary adhesive.  I embossed the trees on using versa mark and basic black just to make sure that they resisted the sponged ink.  I've listed the supplies used below

 

Supplies used:

Paper-Marina mist, Crumb cake, Whisper white, basic black

Ink- Marina mist, summer sun, certainly celery, basic black, versa mark

other supplies- Lovely as a tree stamp set, photo corner ex large punch, bronze brads, dimensionals