Pocket Silhouettes

I made sure I'd have some alone time to make these, I got up early, about 2 hours before my DS, and got 3 of them made before DS woke up. but I've had so much fun making these. I've fallen for the designer paper I used, Urban Garden.

This card is my absolute favorite. I brayed the background, could have done better there but I still like it. I then used a sponge for the edges. Colors: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss and Not Quite Navy. I used Whisper White for matting and Basic Gray as the base. And just a little bit of designer paper.

Not much to say about this one. Colors: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy and Whisper White. I used my word punch for the sentiment and scallop border punch for the scallop strip.

I stamped the image in basic Black on Very Vanilla. Matted with Baja Breeze. The card base is Basic Gray.

I don't think this needs much explaining either. This is cardboard covered with designer paper and card stock. I used my scallop border punch, my scallop circle punch and my Coluzzle circle template.

Monday Mailers

Here are the last 2 MM's that I received from Dacia. We had to do FAUX anything and she was so creative.

You probably look at this card thinking....FAUX WHAT? I know I did, until I noticed it's not designer paper she used in the background. She did faux tearing and faux dp in one. Brilliant idea!

This card is so pretty, I wish I could make that stamp set look so good. She did a faux diamond on the image. You might be able to see that it sparkles on the picture. I'm not sure how she made the scallop circle, I was trying to see it but didn't want to tear the card up.

I have not decided what stamp set to use next weekend, it'll be an old one though, gotta give the old stamps some lovin' too :)

TFL

It's a Stretch

I am so sorry it took my so long to post. We had AT&T guys working in our street on Friday and they left us with a dead phone line. Apparently they forgot to switch our phone back on. And I've only got dial-up :0 You can imagine what I was thinking all weekend about those poor guys. DH called the customer service and was told (by an answering machine) that we'd get someone over next Thursday!!! But fortunately someone came over yesterday and turned our phone back on...and my DH glued himself to the computer the rest of the day.

Back to my post. I'm not too crazy about the cards I'm showing you now. I've been trying to work on the cards and get ready for workshops and my 3 year old wont leave me alone for one second. He needs to stamp too, you know! Which means I get to clean the 100+ stamps he wants to use (or 10+).

This one I think is my favorite. The base is Baja Breeze, then Pacific Point, Apricot appeal, Always Artichoke and watercolor paper. The image was stamped with Stazon and colored in using blender pens and ink.

Cameo Coral, Chocolate chip and Whisper White. I used Baroque Motifs too. I used markers on this image.

I really like the stocking but I should have picked different colors. Always Artichoke, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze and Elegant Eggplant. I used Crystal Effects on the stockings and Scallop border punch on the red layer. Colored in using blender pens and ink.

I have come to realize I don't like Tangerine Tango at all, but I still want to use it *lol*. I think this stamp is cute but I don't have a sentiment to go with it so I found one in the Nursery Necessities stamp set. I colored the image with blender pens and ink. And added a little bit of faux stitching ;) This card fits in SU's medium square envelope.

Next weekend I'll be using Pocket Silhouettes!

TFL

Pop-up Christmas card

I got a request for a pop-up tutorial. Well, I had never done a pop-up card before but I had this idea to make a pop-up christmas card (after I received a birthday card from my Upline).

I'll start by showing you how I did the pop-up part of the card (that's where I started). You can scroll down to the bottom of the post if you want to see the card first.

I started off with a white base, 3 1/2 x 7 inches.

I used my bone folder to score at 3 1/2 inches (the middle)

I drew a line 1 inch from the middle, to see how far up I needed to cut.

And used my paper trimmer to cut from the line to the middle, 1 1/2 inch from each side.

I then scored each end of the "flap" so it would be easier to fold the opposite direction of the rest of the card.

Now would be a good time to stamp the background on the top part (I didn't know that then though *lol*)

Next I cut a piece of designer paper, it is better to cut it a little bit bigger than the white cardstock because you can always trim it when you've glued it down.

I glued the dp to the top part of the white cs. Be careful not to put glue on the "flap".

Before I glued the dp to the bottom part I adhered a ribbon to the front and tucked it under the dp to hide the end.

I then added the image I wanted to pop-up.

I then adhered ribbon horizontally on the back of the base so I could us it to close the card. And I adhered the whole thing to my card base. And this was the result:

Untie the ribbon:

And Voilá!

Now how is that for a first pop-up card and a first tutorial in english?

Supplies

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White, Ruby red, Kiwi kiss

Designer Paper: Holiday Treasures

Stamps: Christmas Classics

Ribbon: Always Artichoke

Markers: Old Olive, Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard

I'll be back this weekend with "It's a stretch"!!!

TFL

Serene Spring

The stamp set I'm showing you today, Serene Spring, is one of the hostess sets in the new Ideabook & Catalog.

This is the first card I made with the set. I stamped the image on Very Vanilla. I'm not very good at coloring on VV card stock. I used my inks and my blender pens to do it. But what I think turned out just the way I want it is background. I wanted the background to look like a wall behind the image. So I used a technique called the Grid Technique to make a faux tile background. I used my bone folder and my Fiskars cutter to emboss lines on a sheet of Very Vanilla. I then used my brayer to cover the card stock in close to Cocoa and if I remember right, Baja Breeze. I don't have the card here to look at, I sent it as a Monday Mailer to Wanda.

I really wasn't sure what to do with this one. I wanted the focus to be on the image but I didn't want it to be just the image on a white background....but now I think I should have done just that, I should have kept the background just plain white and not added those layers or brayered the card base. Oh, well, I'll keep that in mind next time. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored it in with my inks and my blender pens.

Here's another easy faux tile. The image is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with inks and blender pens. I used the new scallop border punch for the scalloped edge.

Here is another image stamped on Very Vanilla and colored with blender pens.

I'm keeping this post short because I'm not feeling all that good, got some kind of stomach virus I think. But I want to show you a birthday card I received last week from my NCSUdemos group and the Monday Mailer I got from Dacia last week.

I don't know much about this card except for the stamp. *lol* I like the pattern paper, I'm pretty sure it's a retired one. the stamp is from our last SAB and it was stamped and heat embossed, then punched out with our scallop circle punch. Pretty card don't you think?

Here is the Monday Mailer I got from Dacia. Looks like she may have used the Heartfelt thanks stamp set. She was going for the faux silk and it turned out great! I think she picked a wonderful color combination too. Very pretty!

Next weekend I'm going to show you a new stamp set called It's a Stretch.

Until then....TFL

Thank you

I decided to show off the nice cards I've got in the mail recently. The first card is a birthday card I received from my Upline. She used a retired designer paper, Fall Flowers. I have to admit that I don't know the stampset she used.

This is so neat. I'm going to try this idea, my DH gave me an idea of how to make a Christmas card similar to this one.

This card here is the first Monday Mailer I got this month. Dacia made it for me. We are supposed to make cards using FAUX anything and she did Faux stitching. She used two of the new In-Colors, Pacific Point and Tangerine Tango. And the stamp set is Pick a Petal. I think her pattern turned out great!

This card here was the last Monday Mailer for July. We had to use Bold Brights on our cards. Carol made this card for me. She used the Embrace Life stamp set and the main color is Orchid Opulence. She stamped the image on Shimmery White card stock. It's so pretty.

Here's a card I got from Laura. She used the Tart and Tangy stamp set and Summer Picnic Designer paper. You can find directions on how to make this card HERE.
I've been meaning to try this fold myself, don't know if I'll be able to make a card as nice as Laura's though.

This card was made by Sharon, we swapped stamp sets a couple of weeks ago and she made me this beautiful birthday card using the set she got from me, Older and Wiser. Isn't the turtle cute!?! I love the way she folded the DP too.

Ann asked me to show the sketch I used from Take Ten. It's on page 26 in Take Ten Jun/Jul/Aug 2008 (Stampers' Sampler Take Ten). The cover is green. The sample on pg. 26 is made by Jen del Muro.

Well, I'm not showing you any of my cards today. That doesn't mean I haven't been busy stamping *lol*. Next weekend I'll show you Serene Spring. I've got the cards ready but you'll have to wait.

I finally got the new catalog this past Friday and I've looked through it about a hundred times. I love all the color combos they have in it and there are "a few" stamp sets I NEED. But I'm not going to get them all at the same time. I've already started thinking about Christmas cards so I'll get a couple of those, the ones I have retired this weekend (just my luck!). And did you know that SU is going to start selling Sizzix products? Yep, it's true! And I really like their dies! But you can't order those until September.

Here are some interesting links you might want to take a look at!

$99 starter kit promotion

Fall-Winter Sampler Promotion

Never before seen promotion

Well, I'm off to decide what to put in my first order from the new catty!

Until next weekend....

TFL

Peaceful Wishes

I'm sorry to write this post so late. I had to take an extra shift at work yesterday. I have to say that taking a job in a store just before Tax Free Weekend is not something I recommend. It was crazy all weekend. And I worked today too so tonight I've been finishing up on the cards I wanted to make for this post. And then when I tried to upload my pictures I kept getting error messages. I hope the images show OK, I had to upload them to a gallery first and then load them to my blog.

I did decide to change stamp sets for this post. I just wanted a chance to use this Christmas set before it retires :0

The first card I made earlier this summer. The base is Always Artichoke. Then we have Bravo Burgundy, River Rock DP, Always Artichoke again and I stamped the image in Always Artichoke and Bravo Burgundy on watercolor paper. I used sponge daubers to distress the image with Bravo Burgundy ink and River Rock ink. the ribbon is Bravo Burgundy.

The colors in this card are Old Olive, Ruby red and Chocolate Chip. The image is stamped on Naturals White. I used my markers instead of the inkpads. I used my new scallop edge punch for the scallop edge and I didn't have a ribbon in the right color red so I used a scrap paper instead (Ruby Red).

This card I made for a "Monday Mailer" thing I've joined in my NCSUdemos club. We were supposed to do FAUX anything on this months cards. This is the first card this month and I did faux linnen (sp?) on the three background panels. I couldn't find my sanding blocks so I had to use sandpaper and I don't think it turned out as good as if I had used the blocks. I used En Francais on the three panels and sponged Always Artichoke onto it before using the sandpaper.

The card base is Bravo Burgundy, then the three panels, then Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy again and the image and sentiment. The image and sentiment are stamped on Very Vanilla. I did put a ribbon in the top left corner after I took the picture of the card. And I used Crystal effects on the berries!

This card is pretty simple but I like it. I used Soft Sky, Baja Breeze and Pacific Point. I don't feel like I need to say much about it.

This one is pretty simple too. the colors are Always Artichoke, Real Red, River Rock and Chocolate Chip. I managed to "cut" the sentiment in half by using my real red marker.

I was going to show you a couple of cards I received last week from fellow demos, but it'll have to wait until Blogger accepts the images straight from my computer.

I do want to tell you that I've got a SU website now. I just got it yesterday so I haven't worked on it much, but soon you'll be able to order from my website if you like :)

The link is http://huldap.stampinup.net/

TFL