Punch Pal Penguins

Happy Holidays everyone! This time of year sure gets busy at a retail store, I tell yah! I've already gotten plenty of extra hours where I work. Even went a little bit over the limit (they have a limit for part time employees), but only because a teenage girl made one too many mistakes and lost her job. I know it's sad that she lost her job....I sure hope she learned something from this because if I'd been her boss I'd have sacked her a while ago! I don't get how some people think they don't have to follow orders and rules like everyone else, think they don't have to a thing and still get paid! Well, enough of that....and to my card:

I actually made this card I think last July. The card base is Bashful Blue. I stamped the images on watercolorpaper and used my Watercolor Wonder Crayons to color them. Crystal Effects is something I just can't seem to live without. I added CE to the penguins and the sentiment. The striped background I made by using a white WWC on Whisper White cardstock and then used my brayer to cover it with Going Gray. And sponged a little bit of Bashful Blue around the edges.The "brads" are actually just punched out paper, I just added CE to make the dots look more like brads.

We still haven't been able to fix our USB but I've just put pictures on a CD at CVS and hopefully I'll have time to post soon again.
Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend and Thanksgiving!
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!

A couple of Christmas cards

I've got a couple of Christmas cards to show you. I made them before I went to Iceland and I think I might just do more.

I don't know if you see it, but I was trying to make an ornament and make it look like it was hanging on a Christmas tree. I used Coluzzle to cut the red circle, a scallop circle punch to punch the mellow moss circle and a designer label punch for the little brown piece. The colors in this card are Mellow Moss, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White. The stampset is Baroque Motifs.

Here we've got the snowmen from Holiday Lineup and snowflakes from The Snowflake Spot. The colores I used are Pink Pirouette, Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant. Not the traditional Christmas colors but I think they look good together. I used my blenderpens and inkpads to color in the image.

I just sent off a whole bunch of Christmas cards to my mom yesterday, 30 cards I think. So I've been busy since I got back from Iceland. My DS was sick on the way home but fortunately he slept on the flight from Iceland to Boston. I am so glad I didn't miss the fall colors here in the mountains. We drove around yesterday and looked for good places to take fall pictures. We ended up in Chimney Rock.

Hope you're having a good day!

TFL

Lovely Christmas 1

It's been too long since my last post. I've been so busy and don't have access to the computer as muchas I'd like. I'll head home on Monday and I'm really hoping my DS, who has a bad cold, will feel better by then. Last time I came to Iceland he was sick half the time we stayed here and was sick the day we flew back to the US and it was not easy travelling for hours with a sick child. I hope I wont have to go throught that again, this time we have to spend a night in Boston on the way home.

Anyway, here's one of my favorite stampsets, Lovely as a Tree.

I also used the retired set Snowflake Spots. The colors are Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Whisper White. I stamped the trees first and then made the sky. You can use a sponge, a sponge dauber or a brayer to make the blue sky. I used a sponge. I used a sponge dauber on the card insert. If you think it's missing something you can cover the tree image with Versamark and pour Iridescent Ice over it and heat set it and it's sparkle like a fresh fallen snow.

We've got snow here in Iceland now and my DS loves playing in it. I took him to a preschool where I used to work and he played in the snow with the kids while I caught up with my old co-workers.

This picture is from Friday afternoon, it looks likeit's taken at night but it was 6 pm and I had to use the flash because he was moving to fast for my camera.

This'll have to do for now, we're expecting company tomorrow and I've got to pack my things too.

I plan on posting again next weekend :)

TFL

Punch Pals and Monday Mailer

Finally I get a chance to blog. I've been in Iceland for a week and already seen a little bit of snow and we had an earthquake here in my town less than an hour ago, 2.8 on Richter scale. Just a small one and short.
Today's cards are from the Punch Pals stamp set. I've only got two to show you and then a couple of Monday Mailers from Jen.


The card base here is Bravo Burgundy, then we have Naturals White and Always Artichoke designer paper (retired). I stamped the penguins with Stazon and colored them in with my Watercolor Wonder Crayons and a blender pen. I do not color straight on the image with the crayons, I dab my blender pen on the bottom of the crayon to pick up the color and then color the image.

I used the same technique to color the snowman in. Except I used a marker for the holly. I popped up the image and used the spiral punch on the side. The card base is Night of Navy, then Bashful Blue and Naturals White. Stazon and Night of Navy ink. Pretty simple.


Here are the Monday Mailers from Jen. She used the Upsy Daisy stamp set on the first card and Pocket Silhouettes on the second card (third and fourth card for September). She used my favorite Designer Paper on both cards,Urban Garden, and the colors are Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss and Whisper White. She used the scallop border punch on the second card.
Very pretty cards, I think I'm going to have to get the Upsy Daisy stamp set now!

I'll try to post again soon, I've got a busy week ahead but hopefully I'll get a few minutes to use the computer.

TFL

Eastern Blooms

I had been debating whether or not to get this stamp set but gave in and bought it. And I don't regret it. My favorite is the big flower, now I just need more markers so I can try more color combos with it.

I think Old Olive and Not Quite Navy turned out good. I used a little bit of Crystal Effects in the middle of the flowers. The card base is Bashful Blue.

The colors in this card are Sage Shadow, Cameo Coral, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. I used markers to color the stamp before I stamped it. I used my Designer Label punch to make the vase, stamped the piece with one of the flower stamps and used a white Signo pen to add details. I thought the background needed a little something so I stamped the branch a few times in Sage Shadow and Cameo Coral. Added faux stitching and voilá!

I stamped this flower stamp in Always Artichoke on Pink Pirouette and cut them out. I stamped the small flower on the background in Always Artichoke on Pink Pirouette cardstock, added white dots to the flower centers with my Signo pen. The "ribbon" is Always Artichoke card stock, I just added faux stitching to it. I used Crystal Effects on the three bigger flowers.

Next weekend I'll be traveling to Iceland. My DS and I will fly from Charlotte to Boston and from Boston to Iceland. It'll be early Sunday morning when we get to Iceland. So we'll be travelling for quite a few hours. It's going to be very stressful for me since my DS is only 3 years old and I've never been to the airport in Boston, heard it's pretty big.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to write a blog before we leave.

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!