February 2013 cards

Another great month of making cards. As you can see, I was a little busy.  

I made a "magic" card with a Stampin' Up sailboat.  LOVE IT!! So easy!

Then I decided to case a card I had seen.  This is using Stampin' Up! Stippled Blossom and Perfectly Penned.  I made 2 of each, one Get Well and One Birthday.

This is sad.  I found the most adorable little girl digi images and was buying them up left and right! They are from The Digi Garden, https://www.facebook.com/TheDigiGarden

Not too soon after I started buying them, the owner/artist, Jacqui, who lived in England, her and I started chatting.  Just once or twice, she was not feeling too well and was home recovering.  She even made an image of a little girl named after me!!!  Not even a day after my last email with her, we were told she had passed away.  They no longer sell her images.  God Bless you Jacqui !!! You are missed.  

I had purchased this Spellbinders butterfly die.  What a PAIN IN THE A##!!!!  Just saying, have a piercing tool ready. I was also told to use a piece of wax paper in between the die and the paper to help the die come loose from the paper easily.  I will have to try that the next time I make something with a detailed die.

This one... my Mother-In-Law bought me a Hot Off the Press kit with a cd of ideas and directions to make a lot of different things.  One of them was this card-box.  Check out the video.

My friend Lynn started me with this.  She got the Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch.  I JUST LOVE IT!!!  There are two sizes.  The circle behind it is a Spellbinders die.

This one is using two Stampin' Up embossing folders.  

Another card I've really been wanting to make.  I had to google the instructions on this, but it is SOOOOO easy!!! I love it.    The paper is a Susan Winget paper pack I purchased from JoAnn Fabrics with my 50% off.  Hey, it was 360 sheets of gorgeous paper!!!!

Thanks again for taking a look!!!!

Artistic Etchings

My best friend, Karen, her birthday is coming up on the 29th. I started this card yesterday and realized, gosh, I have to finish this baby and get it in the mail for her to get it on her birthday!!!   So I made this little baby. She loves France and the Stampin' Up! Artistic Etchings stamp set was perfect.

Karen, I LOVE YOU!!!!!  Happy Early Birthday!!!!

Brandy's September 2011 card class

Another fabulous evening at Brandy Boccia's (http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/brandyboccia) card class.  I do have to say, THANK YOU Brandy for dinner. She made spaghetti, and made 3 different sauces!!!  So delicious.  

But here are her amazing cards that she had for us.  Really fabulous...

Triple Treat Flower;

I really love this card!! So beautiful and fun... 

This looks hard, but when Brandy did the work and had all of these punched already, it wasn't hard or time consuming at all.  This is a "quilted" card.  Not only did this have all of the triangles, this was also run through the Big Kick with the Basketweave embossing folder;

Thank you so much Brandy!!! I had a great evening!

Brandy's card class - What fun!!!

Last night was Brandy's card class.  What a great time.  Just spending time with friends and stamping is such a great night out for me.  If you would like to attend one of Brandy's card classes, you can check her schedule or contact her at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/brandyboccia

This is so pretty! Using the Create-a-cupcake punch for the clouds was ingenious!!!

Say so long to this set... Cheers To You has been discontinued. Get it while you can! 

I think this stamp is so pretty! It's new in the Stampin' Up! catalog and it's called Four Frames. 

And the green punch on here is being discontinued.  I really wish Stampin' Up! wouldn't discontinue their punches.  They still have the hardware available that utilizes this punch!  But Brandy did a great job with all of this... sooo pretty!!! 

Linda's card class at the OC

I thought to have a card class while at the ocean.  These are the cards we made;

This one was using the Cricut cartridge Lacy Labels. I Love this cartridge!!!!  And yes, this is a folded card...

The following cards were not all my idea.  I cased these cards with a few changes.  This one I am using the Martha Stewart butterfly punch. 

This particular one, the email address was on the card itself; http://memystampsandi.blogspot.com/2011/05/simply-simple-52.html

This is the card on the above website; 

And this is my card I did in yellow. I wish I had that ribbon, but didn't. 

Hope you enjoyed them!

April's Great Cards

I soooooo love going to card classes.  So many talented demonstrators (April and Brandy), but today... this showcases April's cards.  The first three were from a friend of mine, Melissa F's card club.  Her daughter is getting married and she wanted "wedding" themed cards. (If you like the cards and want to attend one of April's classes, you can reach her at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/about )

Then last night was Mother's Day/Spring card class.  I am in desperate need of  "other" cards, and that is a terrific quality with April, she is versatile, and ready.  So if you didn't want the card to say "Mother's Day" or " Happy Spring", she had additional verses on the ready.

Thanks April for the wonderful cards! Always great to see, stamp and talk with friends too!

Orange you happy?

Today it has been raining, and it seems like it has been gloomy for weeks now. We have a day here and there where the weather is beautiful, but then *BAM*... Mother Nature throws these gloomy days in and says, April Showers.... and boy does she mean it. So today I played around with "Orange" today. Something bright, a bit cheery, and Orange you glad I did? HAHAHAH! This is from the Cricut Preserves cartridge. It's actually the grapefruit, but I was watching My Pink Stamper, http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ , and she inspired me to get a little motivated. I actually had this ribbon on the orange card above, and thought, gosh, it's already so "busy". So.... don't let anything go to waste! I took it off and made another card with the same colors in it. I saw this technique on a YouTube video from Dawn5377, http://www.youtube.com/user/dawn5377#p/search/1/iEva0ZoX8lU/ . It is using embossing resist. It's pretty much a cased card, I changed mine a little to match the ribbon and add the layer of close to cocoa, instead of full layers. But her tutorials are awesome. Thanks for stopping by!

Stamping with Lynn

Today was a pretty good day. Started out a bit on the slow side. Rich left for St. Louis... got up at 4am (YUCK *~*) because his flight to Georgia was early, then a layover and onward to St. Louie.  The pups were wired and took a wee nap.  My friend Lynn Haase, who lives about 5 miles from me, is always UBER busy, but today, alas, we were able to get in some stamping time.

Lynn made this beer card with Stampin' Up Cheers To You set.  The pretty ribbon type of scallopy border, she made with a Martha Steward border punch.  She just did it on both sides of the paper. My friends are so ingenious this way!!!!  But she had made this before I had gotten there.  While I was there, she was working on something for her father's 80th birthday.  Happy Early Birthday dad!!!

I, on the other hand, made 12 birthday cards, in 3 different colors, using the Stampin Up Pocket Sillhouettes set and Well Scripted set, and 2 different Stampin Up embossing folders.

Here they are in Riding Hood Red and River Rock; 

Here they are in Marina Mist and Bashful Blue;

And here are the final four in Perfect Plum and Pale Plum.

As Lynn mentioned while I was stamping these, hahahaha... these are going to have to go to all my "gal" friends... I don't think a fella is going to want this card. 

Now that gives me something to look forward to doing with her on our next stamping adventure.  Manly birthday cards.

Thanks for checkin' them out.