Snow Burst

Hi! I am so sorry it's been so long since my last post. I'm pushing a month now. But I'm hoping to do this more often when Christmas break comes! Thanks for coming back and reading this! Wait, is there anyone that still reads this? LOL
I cannot remember the last time I have made a card. I bet it's been nearly 2 months! This one uses the Snow Burst & Heard from the Heart sets.

Well, I'll keep it short. It's a school day and I don't like to keep myself occupied with things.
Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Fall Flair

Here's a card we made last month at my masculine card class. (this one could be for either male or female). We used the baby wipe technique for this one to create the multi colored leaves. Tied it simply with a ribbon and added the wide oval punch layered with an oval cut out with the coluzzle.

Stamps: Fall Flair, Sincere Salutations
Ink: Ruby Red Inkpad, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Ruby Red, Close to cocoa (reinkers)
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red
Accessories: Old olive ribbon
Tools: Wide Oval Punch, Coluzzle, Baby wipes

Inspired by Nature

Here's a super simple card, not a lot going on, but still cute I think. For the flowers I used Poppin Pastels <---you can click here to see the tutorial. Makes for a nice almost watercolored effect for these flowers. The card stock is Chipboard ran through the Big Shot with the Top Note Die. Other card stock is: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and Pink Pirouette. Also used Kiwi satin ribbon. Thanks for stopping by!

Starring You!

Here's my swap card for GSG new catalog swap. I hope the girls like it :) I also used this design for my Masculine card class last friday night. So much fun!

Stamps: Starring You
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip, Taken With Teal, Kiwi Kiss
Ink: Versamark, Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Glitter, Kiwi ribbon
Tools: Lg & sm Star Punches, 1 3/4" circle punch, Heat & stick powder, Dimensionals.

Way to go!

This was a really fun card to make. it measures 3 1/2 x 3 1/2. The total measurement is 10 1/2 x 3 1/2, scored at 3 1/2 & 7". Then I cut out a circle in the center square and folded the right flap in. (on the inside of that flap I attached the patterned paper). Let me know if you need visuals to help you understand!!
Anyway, I used Starring You stamp set, blue bayou, riding hood red, & chocolate chip cardstock and patterned paper from the UR Sweet SS kit. New buttons & star brads were added for embellishments. I used versamark & clear embossed the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a happy day!

swap card

This is a card I made for a swap with a few of my demonstrator friends. It uses the Gerogia Peach papers, Cute & Curly label punch & stamps, scallop edge punch, new button, and felt flower. I used Versamark & white embossing powder to stamp the image & emboss. I also used dimensionals to raise each of the labels.

That's it for today...I'm off to class! Have a good weekend everyone!

Graduation Card

This is a graduation card I made this morning, inspired by Kristina's card. I'm always inspired by her, she's got the best stuff!

We're off (obviously) to a graduation party today, then visiting FIL for father's day. Gotta combine these trips as much as possible to save on gas these days!

have a great weekend everyone!

Supplies:
Paper: Real red prints, black, ww.
Accessories: red ribbon from Jersey ribbon originals, black brad, letters from "street sign" cricut cartridge.

Denise Hinton Featured Swapper

Trying to catch up with the challenges on the Great Swaps Blog

This is for the 2nd featured swapper challenge. Denise Hinton (geekgirl415) was featured 2 weeks ago. You can read all about it here.

I was inspired by her invitation card that was both simple & elegant. Here is the link to her card: Baroque Motifs Invitation

My card is not nearly as elegant, but it is simple. This pink & orange thing is growing on me. It's fun for summer!

Supplies:
Stamps: Always, Polka dot Background
Paper: Black, Pixie Pink, Pumpkin Pie Cardstock
Ink: Pixie Pink, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: A Perfect Day Rub-ons, Black Brads, dimensionals

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there! I hope you had a great day!

Here's a card I made for my mom. I used some new MM's paper and the boho blossoms punch for the little flower. no stamping here, just used my own handwriting. I don't have a mother's day stamp.

Yes, I'm still alive.

I'm just posting quick this afternoon. Sorry it's been a while. We've been busy around our little 4 1/2 acres. It's amazing the work that is involved when spring comes. After being cooped up all winter, we can finally go outside and do some work, then I'm beat by 7:00! We now have 130 chickens and that has kept us busy along with (my) plans for some landscaping around the house and garden shed. I put my in parentheses because my husband does not know about this yet :) LOL! He loves it when I get crazy ideas.
So after working outside most of the day (when we actually have a nice day) I have tons and tons of blogs to catch up on. I think I had 130 unread blog entries in my Reader one day. Geesh...that took about a day to go through that!
Anyhow...I needed to get some thank you's made this week and here's one of them. It's a pretty simple card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely Labels, Polka dot background
Paper: Basic Gray, Very Vanilla, Charbon DP
Accessories: Basic Gray Taffeta ribbon
Tools: Scallop circle punch, 1 3/8", 1 1/4" circle, sm corner rounder.

That's it for today! You can go over to my family blog to see what we've been up to if you really need to know :)

Jackie Pedro GSGFS01

The Great Swap Girls posted Jackie Pedro as a Featured Stamper yesterday. Anyone can play along!
I case'd This Card by Jackie. I love the simplicity and elegance of her card. I changed just about everything except the layout. I used Soft Sky, chocolate chip, seeing spots template, chocolate satin ribbon and "thinking of you" from Three for You punch box, and silver brads. I used the Boho Blossoms punch for the little chocolate flowers.

Bright & Fun Birthday Card

I made this for my dad's birthday a couple weeks ago. I am terrible at masculine cards. I tried to come up with something bright and cheery this time. Usually my masculine cards are dark, so I tried to stay away from those colors.

So what I did was pulled out my Summer Days SS kit and used some elements along with the fun orange blossom paper (I think it looks like one of those Hawaiian shirts!).
I used the Polka-dot background stamp and stamped half of the card with it. then layered some strips of the self-adhesive die cuts.
I used my Street Sign Cricut cartridge for the "h.b." Have I mentioned that I love that cartridge? This winter I was hoping for a real simple font style cartridge and sure enough they created one...it was meant to be.

Thanks for all for the sweet comments on my previous post!

Gotta go...someone's not too happy and I need to make lasagna for dinner tonight! See ya!

Great Swaps Girls CC #1

Today was our first color challenge over at the GSG Blog.

The colors are Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron. Not a challenge for me, because I love this color combo! It's so springy and fresh.

Here I've used the Eat Cake stamps and colored the cake with markers. Then I used the Tombo Multi glue and added the Chunky Sprinkles for the candles and center of the cake. I also added some rhinestone brads to the bottom of the card. I used regal rose for the "happy birthday" although it looks kind of red in the photo. Just imagine it looking more pink :)

So if you're up for an easy and really pretty color challenge go try it out! Then link your card to the GSG blog! We'd love to see your creations!

Fancy Fold Swap

Here's the card I made for the Great Swaps fancy fold swap. I call it a triangle tri-fold, but not sure what the exact name is.
I used the Sweet Celebrations stamp set along with the East Coast Prep DP. I'm not used to using these bright colors, but like how it turned out.

On Saturday (it rained all day) I got about 4 layouts done with some older pictures that I've been putting off using. It feels good to be done with that. I also went through all of my layouts and decided I need to take all of them out of the albums and get them in date order. This will be a big job because it goes back to 2000. ugh! Why didn't I just keep everything in order at that time?? I bet I have 200 layouts to go through. Oh, and I haven't even put 2006 & 2007 in books yet, so that's another job. gee I'm getting overwhelmed just thinking about it.

It was a wonderful day here yesterday with the sun shining and warm temperatures. I opened up all of the windows and let the fresh air come in. It was great.

have a great day!

A quick thank you

I just love the papers from the spring mini. So bright & cheery! This was a pretty simple card that I made quickly. I just punched out a few squares of the Sumer Picnic paper and added some Die Cut Blooms with a Ribbon Slider & the new Olive Twill ribbon.

I've got a stamping class tonight and after that our weekend is totally free! A rarity these days. So we're hoping for nice weather to be able to enjoy the outdoors.
Have a great weekend everyone!

Technique Class Sample

I had a technique class 2 weeks ago and this is one of the cards that we made. It's a scratch and sniff card! It was a big hit!

Supplies:
Tart and Tangy stamp set, Absolutely Fabulous Stamp set, Old olive, rose red, Whisper White cs, & Bali Breeze DSP, Sugar free Jello, Embossing Powder, 1 3/8" circle punch, 5 petal flower punch, Markers: Old olive, Rose Red, Versamarker.

Sorry I've been MIA lately...I'm hoping to do some stamping today with all of this rain! If I do, I'll get it posted later!
Have a great day everyone!

another star border

Happy April!!
I think this type of border works best for a manly type card, don't you think?
These colors are so fun. I used paper from the East Coast Prep pack. Since I have 2 girls now I don't seem to buy paper in these colors too much, but it might work for a girl's page for summer...maybe.

Have a great day everyone!

Supplies:
Paper: Brilliant Blue, More mustard, Real Red,
Tempting Turquoise, East Coast Prep
Accessories: Brads, Rub-ons, dimensionals
Tools: Sm star punch, Lg star punch

Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #2

I wanted to try Kristina's Color challenge today. She's got a really cute room that inspired her color choices. I love her card that she made too.

This is my card for her challenge. I'm not too sure how I like it, but I know I don't hate it :)

Supplies: Stamps: Stemming From Paper: Wild Wasabi Textured card stock, Ginger Blossom paper, So Saffron Prints designer paper, Blush Blossom, So saffron Card stock Accessories: Wild Wasabi Ribbon Tools: 1/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, Spiral punch

Check it out!!

Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum

Don't you love this color combo?? I was inspired by the Eddie Bauer catalog I got in the mail yesterday. On pg 28 there is a sweater shown in these three colors and I was instantly drawn to it and had to do something with these colors!

AND I got so creative this time: I made this pointy border with the star punch! All you do is punch out a TON of stars and line them up like this:

I had to think of something other than a scallop border because I always put scallops on my stuff and I'm sure you guys are getting sick of seeing my scallops! I still love them, and you will probably see more of them soon! HA!


Supplies: Stamps: Always Paper: Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Soft Sky Ink: Perfect Plum (Craft), Certainly Celery Accessories: Celery 5/8" Grosgrain, Blue Rhinestone brads, Build-a-brad (Antique brass) Tools: Star punch, paper piercer, word window punch, 1/2" punch



Have a great day!!

One of a Kind

Did you all have a good weekend? Ours wasn't too bad. At least we had some nice warm(er) weather. I'm so ready for spring, actually I've been so ready for about a month!

This is a card I created this morning. It has a bit more detail on it than I've been doing lately, but I like it. And I like the color combo too: River Rock, Old Olive, and Blue Bayou. Some of my favorite colors. The Blue Bayou hasn't been used much this year. I think I just don't have much to inspire me to use it.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: One of A Kind, Short & Sweet

Paper: Textured River Rock, Old Olive, Blue Bayou, Very Vanilla

Ink: Blue Bayou, Old Olive, Versamarker

Accessories: Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon, Build-a-brad (Antique Brass)


I want to congratulate my swapping friends: Kristie for becoming a "Dirty" girl on Splitcoast, and Amy & Maren for being on a Design team for a new stamp company called H&M Stamps, right here in MN!! That's pretty cool. Go check these talented girls out! I'm so honored to be a member of the same swap group!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!






ETA: I forgot to mention that I used a scallop scissors to make the little scallops on the top of the card.