Fifth Avenue Floral 1

I think I have found my favorite set of the year! Fifth Avenue Floral is now #1 on my list of favorite stamp sets from SU.

I wanted to make a card for my grandmother, who turned 90 this month. I had bought her an Anne Klein silk scarf and these colors matched the scarf nicely (Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand and Basic Black. The red rose is stamped on Whisper white and then I used my brayer to color it red. I chose to do that instead of stamping straight onto a red card stock because this way the rose would be darker in some places and lighter in others without doing the whole watercoloring thing. I cut out the rose, covered it with Versamark and Iridescent Ice and heat set it.

This is actually the first card I made with this set. I Stamped the rose 3 times on Whisper White and then used my blenderpen and Tangerine Tango to color the roses in. I have to say though, Whisper White is not the best choice of paper when you want to watercolor, but I wanted to give it a try. I usually use watercolor paper but I didn't want to use heavy paper like that on this card. Well, I then cut out the 3 roses in different places so I could make a 3D rose. I then did the same as with the rose above, added Versamark and Iridescent Ice. The colors are Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango and Handsome Hunter. The "ribbon" is fake, it's Tangerine Tango card stock and a white Signo pen. Here's a close-up of the rose.

I don't know what to say about this one, the flowers are colored with blender pens and Pink Pirouette ink. And of course I added Iridescent Ice, I already had the kitchen all glittered up anyway *lol*.

I'm not too sure about this card, the colors were too soft except for the Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss, I used Pink Pirouette and Barely Banana. I like the way it's set up. I might use it as a "sketch" for another card, case my own card.

Remember it's Sale-A-Bration time now and that means now is a good time to get the Big Shot from SU because you earn free stuff for every fifty bucks you spend!!!

I've already given one of the SAB sets a try and have got the pictures on my PC ready to be processed for my next post :)

I just got a box in today with chip board that I just have to try out (On Board so Tweet). One of my customers bought it and I fell for it...isn't it supposed to be the other way around??? *lol*

Anyway, I'm off to play Memory with my DS and hopefully I'll get him to go to bed early so I can play a little bit ;)

TFL

Baby girl

My friend in Finland had a little baby girl just before Christmas and I've bought a little something to send to her. So I needed a card to go with the gift. I didn't want to use just pink and white so I decided to try perfect plum, apricot appeal, regal rose, basic gray and whisper white. I made two similar cards, using Nursery Necessities, and I have yet to decide which one to use.

I'm sorry, this one is a little bit blurry, I hadn't noticed it when I was resizing it. I didn't have perfect plum cardstock so I used my brayer to cover a piece of whisper white with perfect plum ink. I sponged all edges with sahara sand.

I decided to use the brayer again here, to make the regal rose background. And I turned the sketch.

Which one do you like better?

I think I might send the pink version. It's a little bit brighter than the other one.

I just finished making three baby boy cards. They took me a few days to make, my DS insists on stamping with me and that means I get absolutely nothing done. Well, it doesn't really matter what I'm doing. If I'm cooking he seems to look for things that I have to help him with. I try to talk on the phone (which I don't do much of) and he stands right next to me and sings as loud as he can so I can't hear the person I'm talking too. But as soon as I sit down on the sofa he finds himself something to play with. Are any of you familiar with this behavior in 3-4 years old children? ;)

Anyway, I'm going to try to post the other cards before the weekend.

TFL

Scandinavian Season

I have to admit that the stampset Scandinavian Season does not remind me of Scandinavia (I've lived in Norway and Sweden and have been to Denmark a few times), but I like the set :)

Here's the first thing I came up with, using the Christmas tree from the set. It took me a while to come up with something I liked. I stamped the trees with Jet Black Stazon on Whisper White. I then brayered Old Olive over the images. Added a little bit of white with my Signo pen and cut out the trees. I then masked the bottom half of the card base before I brayered Baja Breeze for the sky. The card base is Naturals White cardstock. I then got the snowflake and Whisper White craft ink and stamped snowflakes all over the card, stamped red stars and Very Merry. The trees are on 3D tape.

Here you see my favorite stamp from the set, the mitten. I stamped the card base (Kraft) with snowflakes in Chocolate Chip. And stamped the mittens on Baja Breeze card stock in Chocolate Chip. I cut the mittens out and stuck them on Whisper White card stock with 3D tape and made sure the hemp cord would stay in place by using just a little bit of Crystal Effects. The bottom part of the card base is from Baja Breeze Designer Paper.

These cards are not too hard to make.

Now, I don't know when I'll post again, I'll have to look through the cards I've got on the computer and see if I have any that I haven't posted yet. I'm working on a few cards but my computer's got a problem, it doesn't recognize our printer/scanner or our camera, or any other USB connections. It worked fine last Saturday (a week ago) but then on Sunday it wouldn't do anything. Since then we've found out that it's a common problem if you have Windows Vista and a lot of people have simple solutions to the problem (that worked on their computers) but we've tried all of them and nothing works for our computer :( So I'm going to try to make a lot of cards this week to make it worth $3.99 to put my pictures on a CD at Target (ridiculous price when you do everything yourself, but we don't have a photolab at our Target).....or I could pay $2.50 at Walmart and wait an hour to get it, but I don't like that choice either. I don't know my work schedule this coming week but I sure hope I'll be creative when I'm at home ;)
Well, I hope someone got inspired by my cards, have a wonderful week y'all and TFL!

Embrace Life 2

I know the weekend has come and gone and no post from me. I haven't been home. Our friends were house-sitting and invited us over so we stayed with them Saturday and Sunday. And I was working today. Now, if we had 2 computers I'd have been able to post last night (Sunday night) but DH got to the computer first :(
Anyway, enough of that, I've seen so many pretty cards with the Embrace Life stamp set that I wanted to use it again. I thought I'd be able to make a few pretty cards to show you....but my mojo took a few days off and I can't find it.

I do like this card though. I used Ruby Red, Basic Black and Whisper White card stock. The images are stamped with Stazon Jet Black ink. I stamped the flowers on WW card stock and used my sponge daubers to add pink pirouette ink and ruby red. I then cut out the flowers and glued them to a piece of ww card stock. Layered it with Basic Black and added a scallop border which I made with my Slit punch. I used my white signo pen to do the dots and used it on the leaves and flowers too. I wrote "congratulations" with the Signo pen on Basic Black and punched it with my word punch.

This card is pretty simple. The flowers are stamped on Whisper white and I used my blender pen to color them in. I used Pacific Point ink for the flowers. I then covered them with Crystal Effects. The scallop border is done with my Slit punch again, layered on Baja Breeze card stock. I used my brayer on the bottom of the card base and a little bit of white Signo for faux stitching. The card base is Naturals White card stock.

Here's Naturals White again as a card base. I masked off areas of the card and used my sponge daubers to fill in the So Saffron and Pacific Point. this card looks kind of Swedish to me, the Swedish flag colors (blue and yellow). If you don't have the card stock that matches your ink pads you can use your ink and sponges/sponge daubers/brayer to make your own colored card stock. I used my scallop circle punch and my coluzzle tool for the image and covered the image with Crystal Effects.
Now to the Monday Mailers.

This is MM#1 from Jen. She used Family Phrases, Window Dressing (Hostess set), Enjoy Every Moment and All in the Family (all stamp sets) to make this card. I really like the way she folded the card and the image fits perfectly in the circle window (I didn't do a good job photographing it). Here you can see how it's folded:

She used three punches on the card, the slit punch, scallp circle punch and a circle punch. The card stock: Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette. Ink: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze and Basic Black for the image.

This is MM#2 from Jen. Here she used Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point card stock and ink pads. The card base is Whisper White. The stamp set is Upsy Daisy. I think these colors are great together and white really makes them pop up. Thank you so much Jen!!!

Next weekend is the last weekend before I go on my trip to Iceland (my DS and I will be spending a month there with family and friends) but I'll try to post while I'm there. Next weekend I'll be using Eastern Blooms and while I'm in Iceland I'll show you a few Christmas cards I've been working on.

I don't know if you noticed that you can order Stampin'Up products online now!!! You can do it through my website, I'm still working on it but the link is http://huldap.stampinup.net/ (US customers only for online ordering please).

Have a great week and TFL!

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

Lovely as a tree

This stampset is very popular in my group of customers. It is very elegant and perfect for Christmas cards....but since it's summer time I'm not going to bombard you with Christmas cards!

Here I stamped the image with Basic Black ink on Whisper White CS. I then used my brayer to put Mellow Moss ink over the image. The card base is Always Artichoke and the designer paper too. I also used Basic Black CS and more Whisper White. The ribbon is Basic Black. I think this card could be used as a Father's Day card.

Here I stamped the image with Stazon ink on Whisper White CS and brayered Always Artichoke and So Saffron over the image. I then sponged Always Artichoke on the trees and used my white Signo pen to doodle on the trees. I then tore a little bit off the top of the image and glued it to a Brocade Blue CS. I used my Signo pen to do the Faux Stitching. I used Chocolate Chip CS and Whisper White CS on the card to. I added a little bit of Crystal Effects on the trees and the ground.

I used my markers to color the stamp (Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Really Rust) before I stamped it on Whisper White. I matted the image with Chocolate Chip and Really Rust CS. The designer paper is from Le Jardin Designer Series. The ribbon is Chocolate Chip.

This card is 5.25x5.25 in. I used the retired Designer Paper Brocade Backgrounds for this one. Chocolate Chip ribbon. I stamped the image with Stazon on Whisper White and then brayered it with River Rock ink. I then used my Close to Cocoa to color the tree trunk and Old Olive for the leaves and the grass. I colored the image making dots all over where I wanted the leaves and that gave the image a little bit of depth I think. The card base is Chocolate Chip CS.

I stamped these images with Stazon and brayered with River Rock ink. The card base is River Rock and the Designer Paper too. I also used Basick Black CS and Basic Black ribbon. This one is pretty simple and easy to make. On the image on the lower card I also used Versamark and Irridescent Ice and heat embossed it.

I stamped my image with Basic Black and brayered it with Mellow Moss. I then covered the image with Versamark and poured Irridescent Ice over it and heat embossed it. The card base is Bravo Burgundy, I also used Basic black CS and Always Artichoke designer pape. The ribbon is Bravo Burgundy. I have to admit that this one might look a little bit like a Christmas Card....or a lot! ;)

Here you can find more inspiration <--CLICK

I hope you liked these cards and next weekend I'll be using the new Fresh Cut stampset.

Fresh Cuts Promotion <--CLICK

I'm sorry I posted so late, I've got company from Florida staying with me.

TFL