Jul 5, 2014 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, SU Ribbon |
I have a monthly card class for some of the ladies that work at Kennesaw State University. The school mascot is an owl so its fun to have owl themed cards as part of their class. In the new Stampin’ Up! catalog is a set called So Very Happy and it has a cute little owl in it. This month we made a card with that set –
The idea for this card came from I swap I received from my friend Connie Babbert. I made a few changes – different colors, Designer paper, ribbon and punch topper. The designer paper that I used is the Lullaby paper – which is a “baby” paper but doesn’t have any baby images so you can use it for other things. One side is the “blue” side and the other is the “pink” side of the designer paper. I have another card to share later that is a baby card and with this paper I could easily use the same card design and make it either boy or girl by flipping the paper over. For this card I used the “blue” side – so the colors include Coastal Cabana, Hello Honey, Pistachio Pudding and the Baked Brown Sugar.
One of my favorite parts is the thick baker’s twine – I used three colors of twine and pulled them trough the top of the two tags. Then tied the little knots in the end to keep them from fraying.
Enjoy your day!
Jul 4, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards |
I actually have a red, white and blue card to share today on the 4th of July!
This one uses the magical Work of Art stamp set. Why is it magical you ask? Well it is just really versatile – you can do so much with all the elements in this set and create so many different looks. This one is a patriotic card – a perfect thank you to send to a soldier. I wish I had it with me on the plane (actually I wish I had a stack of them). There were soldiers on our flight and I noticed the flight crew put together a little goody bag for each one and gave them out to them shortly before we landed. If I had these with me I could have given those to them too.
I used the same star punch as the card yesterday. I’m so glad we have a star punch and was very excited about the star framelits too! I swear I put them on my first order but no – they weren’t there. Then I was sure I had them on my second order from the new catalog – but again – no stars. So I’m pretty sure I managed to get them on my third order that I placed the other day. Not sure how they kept getting left off.
Here are all the products I used.
Have a happy 4th of July!
Jul 3, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Graduation |
Well yesterday I tried posting with the WordPress App from my phone – it looked like it worked. I just need to figure out if I can access my media library so I can add things from it like my signature at the end of my post. Any way – its good to know that it does work. But today I’m back on my laptop. I took photos of a bunch of projects from the last couple of weeks and spent the morning doing all my edits so now I have lots to share over the next while. Here we go….
With this new stamp set you will be ready to make cards for just about anything. It’ s the new Something to Say stamp set and it has 14 sayings all in one set, plus 3 images and a coordinating punch pack. Here is one card that I made with this set –
I made this probably back in May when Graduation was at the top of my mind – and thought this was perfect for graduation – Congratulations! – “now go change the world!” – exactly what I wanted to say to some of the recent high school or college graduates.
And I think almost everything in this set would fit perfectly in the banner framelits like I used on my card. You can make it too – stamp it, cut it, and embellish it – done!
Here are all the supplies I used:
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Jun 26, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, In Colors, Thinlits |
One of my favorite new Stampin’ Up! In Colors is Hello Honey. I think it’s just a happy color and perfect right now for the summer months. Here is a card I created featuring Hello Honey –
I paired it up with Soft Suede on this card. The background is pretty light but I used the Hexagon Hive Thinlit and cut a stencil from a thin piece of card board (I used the ones in the back of the regular packs of Designer paper). I sponged through it with the Hello Honey ink to create a honeycomb background.
The “So happy for you” comes from the new Bravo photopolymer stamp set. I wasn’t sure I would like the photopolymer sets but I do like them. I did find though that for me I clean them on a paper towel with some Stampin’ Mist rather than using the Stampin’ Scrub – which tends to pick up ink from all the other stamps I clean and then they stain my photopolymer stamps. I found that red and brown inks seem to leave a faint stain and its worse if you don’t clean them right away. I do like that they are see through and so sticky. I also think they pick up ink well from our new style ink pads but not so well from the older style ink pads – so I’ll be replacing the rest of mine soon I have about half of mine replaced now with the newer style.
I also included a little background sponging and a butterfly on the inside of the card peeking out in the corner. And if you didn’t notice I corner rounded just the top right hand corner. Just a little different look I thought.
Here is a list of all the products that I used –
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Jun 25, 2014 | Cards, In Colors, sympathy |
Have you picked out a favorite from the new Stampin’ Up! In-Colors? I have two favorites right now – Hello Honey and Lost Lagoon. This card features the new Lost Lagoon In-Color.
I used two stamp sets for this card – Blooming with Kindness and Thoughts & Prayers. At one of my card classes this month I had a request for sympathy cards. I designed it as a sympathy card but with the greetings in the Blooming with Kindness stamp set those that didn’t need a sympathy card could easily make a birthday or thank you card by using a different greeting.
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Jun 24, 2014 | Clearance Rack, My Digital Studio, Tags, Wedding |
I have been away for a short while spending time with family but I’m back now. Last Wednesday Kyle flew home so he could come with us to a family wedding. Thursday we left and drove to the mountains up in the very north east corner of Georgia. Greg’s first cousins’ daughter was getting married on Saturday and the weekend was full of family time. Thursday night a Bar-b-que at the lake house, Friday night a party at a marina on the lake, and then Saturday was the wedding and reception at one of the country clubs overlooking the lakes. The views everywhere were just beautiful! We spent lots of time with cousins, aunts, uncles, more cousins, second cousins, grandparents, etc. Plus we met the grooms family – with what seemed like an equal amount of cousins… And then Sunday driving back home we stopped and spent the afternoon with my family – my parents, brother, niece and nephew. Monday I took Kyle back to the airport to fly back to San Francisco. I think he had a worthwhile trip seeing almost every relative in one quick trip home!
There was a little Stampin’ Up! included in the weekend. First off I went up to the lake house and spent a day with Jan a few weeks ago – we made Hospitality/welcome bags that would be in all the guest rooms when they arrived for the weekend.
We cut tags from Very Vanilla card stock using the Chalk Talk framelits and stamped “welcome” from a retired stamp set on each tag using Early Espresso ink. Then tied Gold Baker’s Twine on each tag. We cut the Early Espresso scalloped tulle (on the clearance rack) to tie on the handle – then the welcome tag was tied on to it.
On the front of each bag I created a name and date piece in My Digital Studio and then printed it on Very Vanilla card stock. Each piece was cut to size and the top was cut with one of the edgelits and the Big Shot. Those were all glued to a piece of Old Olive card stock and then glued to the front of each bag.
I also made a sign to sit by the guest book – I used My Digital Studio and printed it on Very Vanilla card stock. I used the Fast Fuse adhesive and attached it to a think piece of card board so that it would stand up on the plate stand. I tied a piece of the Early Espresso Tulle to the stand.
And here are a few other photos I thought I would share –
the bride and groom
the next generation – the kids from Greg and his first cousins that were at the wedding lined up in age order
Kyle, Tyler, me, Greg and Ryan
my 3 boys and my niece and nephew
sisters
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