Mother's Day cards

At my church I am one of the leaders over the 8-11 year old girls, for their bi-monthly activity. At our last activity we helped them make bath salts and cards for their mothers, as a Mother's Day gift.
(I really don't know much about the bath salts, my daughter is in this same group and didn't want me to see what she did, so I really just stayed with the cards, haha.)

I used up long-retired products for the girls to make cards with, and provided three designs. I prepped seven sets of each card and we still had a couple left over from each design, so that worked out great. And then my kids used a few of the leftover kits to make cards for their grandmothers! Super handy!

Even tho its completely retired, I thought I'd go ahead and share them here since I put time and effort in to it. *grin I just had to wait til after Mother's Day in case any of their mom's check my blog...which they might...!

Card 1:
Stamps: God's Beauty (retired)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Pumpkin Pie card stock, First Edition DP (retired)
Accessories: Peach Parfait twill ribbon (retired), Always Artichoke button (retired), Staple

Card 2:
Stamps: Crazy Daisy (retired)
Ink: Bashful Blue (retired), Certainly Celery (retired)
Paper: Bashful Blue & Whisper White card stock, Cutie Pie DP (retired)
Accessories: Whisper White grosgrain ribbon (retired)

Card 3:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy (retired)
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Paper: Whisper White card stock, Berry Bliss DP (retired)
Accessories: Early Espresso quilted ribbon (retired)

Bright, retiring flowers!

My blogger friend Susan posted a sketch challenge last week and sketches are my favorite kind of inspiration and challenge too! So of course I played along and I featured all retiring product! Don't miss out on your chance to get these fun stamp sets or simple ribbon!
And how do you like how I made my two patterns of paper? Its just one sheet, but half was stamped with a greeting and half with a flower.

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White & Daffodil Delight card stocks
Accessories: White grosgrain ribbon

A sunset!

This card is not so much distressed, as we used sponges to create a scene of sorts. But our fingers sure got messy, so I thought it fit into a distressed class. haha!
Its really such a simple thing...First we stamped the flowers. I punched a circle out of scratch paper, and laid the paper with the hole in it onto the paper with the flowers. We sponged it with Daffodil Delight for a nice, hot yellow. Then we put the punched circle on the yellow sun using Dotto because its removable and super handy like that! And we sponged the So Saffron and the shades of orange. I had Cherry Cobbler out too, but it didn't seem like it was going to work out after all. So we left it off! *grin!

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight (sun), So Saffron, Peach Parfait, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Peach Parfait, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Early Espresso quilted satin ribbon (retired!)

*The ribbon IS retired. bad me!

A pretty birthday card

Today was my birthday card class! Since there are 5 cards I now have a few blog posts ready to inspire you! hee hee. It is often said that one great thing about being a demonstrator is that there are SO MANY ideas available to us and we don't have to think up our own. This class was certainly one time I needed that! Most of the time I create my own design, and many times I use sketches as a jumping off point. While I did have ideas swimming around in my head, I had a very hard time finding the creative energy to create cards for this class...so I turned to the Stampin' Up! demonstrator website for ideas. I searched for an idea to use the Upsy Daisy stamp set and tweaked a card I found to make this:

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Sale-A-Bration Ribbon & Brads, Scallop Edge Punch

Newly Retired Items!

The supplies on this card only retired at the beginning of this month, and with such pretty autumny colors make a perfect Thank You card, any time of year! I used Jen's SSFYTT sketch for January for the layout. The night I put together this project I was all about the DP and the punches...can you tell? It's a simple card and the DP really makes it what it is.

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Early Espresso
Paper: More Mustard & Very Vanilla card stocks, Spice Cake DP (retired)
Accessories: Fancy Flower Punch, Early Espresso quilted satin ribbon (retired)

Pretty Mojo!

This card uses the Mojo 222 sketch and the new SAB products that I shared yesterday. And I love how this card turned out!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fresh Vintage, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Soft Suede, Poppy Parade
Paper: Very Vanilla, Soft Suede and Poppy Parade card stock, Everyday Enchantment DP
Accessories: Basic Pearls, Neutral Buttons, Linen Thread, Mini Glue Dots

I sent it to my bff for her birthday, and realized that we have been celebrating birthdays together for 23 years now. That floors me. Yep, we have been friends since we were very little, and still are. We live a few hours apart but manage to keep in touch online and with the phone. This is us, November of 2010 at her baby shower....

masculine birthday

I think today is the hottest forecasted day of the year so far. I think I'll spend it picking fruit and canning jam...or maybe I'll just go hide in my craft area and make things...LOL!

This Nautical set is about to go forever too....if you love it as much as I do, place your order before next Wednesday! In the meantime, here's a card I put together the other day, for my Dad's birthday actually. I used THIS sketch, and the retiring coordinating DP. And by the way, that Buy-3-Get-1-Free designer paper promotion is still running until Wednesday too! That's a great time to stock up...!

Supplies:
Stamps: The Open Sea, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Sahara Sand, Early Espresso card stocks, Nautical Expedition DP
Accessories: Silver Brads, Dimensionals, 1 3/8 inch circle punch

weird lighting

The card is actually certainly celery....but it doesn't look like it...LOL! I was trying a different color combination based off THIS card, and liked it so much I had to use it. Now its a birthday card, going to be mailed out Monday morning!

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke
Paper: Certainly Celery, textured Daffodil Delight, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Brights Buttons, Mini Glue Dot

I am on my way to a card class and can feature those cards next week! Have a great weekend!

Inspiration!

I haven't been very motivated to be creative lately. I was flipping thru the demo magazine and browsing blogs and was totally inspired by THIS POST on Kristina Werner's blog. I made two cards using her basic color scheme and embossing white line-stamp flowers on designer paper, and the second one uses a card layout from the magazine. Handy!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Peach Parfait Twill ribbon


Best part? I love these cards! They are super autumn-y but I really love them!

Birthday Butterfly

This happy card uses Julee's Mojo Monday sketch for the week. I love this striking color combination! purple, yellow and a shot of red!

Supplies:
Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Real Red, So Saffron
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, So Saffron, Whisper White & Real Red card stocks
Accessories: Wide Oval Punch, Red taffeta ribbon

Completed pages!

These are the pages I demonstrated at my workshop last week. I just completed it this afternoon. I was inspired by the scrapbook page in the current Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog on page 104, but I used Upsy Daisy instead.

Blue Bird

I am so in love with this card!!! The bird turned out fabulous and I think the colors rock together!

Supplies:
Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Night of Navy, Baja Breeze
Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pear Pizazz
Accessories: Bird Punch, SIlver Brads, Mat Pack

Birthdays for everyone!

I was asked to make a stack of birthday cards so here's one for a young boy, a young girl or even a baby, and a teenager, and one for anyone at all!

Supplies:
Stamps: Pun Fun, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Basic Black, Bashful Blue
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pens, White grosgrain ribbon

Supplies:
Stamps: Grunge Rock
Ink: More Mustard, Basic Black
Paper: More Mustard, Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Stamping Sponges

Supplies:
Stamps: Sock Monkey
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Cajun Craze, Whisper White card stocks, Wicked Fun dp
Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

Nature Walk

I love this new stamp set from the Occasions Mini!! I have played with it quite a bit, and here are the three main things I've made:

Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Paper: Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding, Stamping Sponge

Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk, Occasional Quotes, Upsy Daisy, Fresh Cuts
Ink: Pure Poppy, Always Artichoke
Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Red taffeta ribbon


Supplies:
Stamps: Nature Walk
Ink: Always Artichoke, So Saffron
Paper: So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding

Spring Cards!

Yes, yes, yes, we need springtime! So here's a bit of bright colors on a foggy day. Practically the same card, but for different people and different reasons.

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo
Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso
Accessories: Certainly Celery grosgrain, Early Espresso taffeta ribbon

Birthday sketch

This sketch comes from the OCC, and was posted months ago, but I liked it for this card:

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Teeny TIny Wishes
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke & Very Vanilla
Accessories: Artichoke seam binding, Mini Vintage Tags

Bashful Blue Birthdays

Here are two more variations on card supplies I had...

Supplies:
Stamps: Punch Potpourri, Upsy Daisy, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake
Paper: Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Whisper White

Masculine Birthday Cards

Just in case I haven't mentioned (giggle) that I had a big event in October and had a lot of left over cut card supplies, let me re-iterate. I had plenty of extra left overs but used all the bases that applied to my Christmas cards from the left over pile. But I still had the same extra focal pieces. So, see this card?

I used that same bit for the focal image and created these cards:

Supplies:
Stamps: Uncharted Territory, Upsy Daisy, Thoughts & Prayers, Sentimental Journey (retired), Happiness is A Journey (retired)
Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Bashful Blue, Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Neutral Brads, Mat Pack

A new theme!

Yep, Christmas is over. Did you enjoy yours? I hope so. We had a lovely Christmas and it wasn't stormy for travel, yeay!

One of the gifts I was working on was a stack of birthday cards for my MIL. My husband is the youngest of a large family and each of his siblings have their own family and some of them are old enough for their own family, etc. The point is, from his parents down the family is over 100 people strong. Really. And his parents send a birthday card to each and every member of this family. So I wanted to help make a dent in that! *grin

Unfortunately (for them) I only got 35 done. Fortunately for you, that means a couple new things to see! We'll start with these:

This uses Pear Pizzaz as the base, the DP and the marker color for the tray the cupcakes are on. I did one almost the same with Blushing Bride, but that photo won't load right now...

Peach & Pumpkin!

Are you ready for my classes to start up again? I sure am!!! I have missed you all this summer! So this week I'll post a few sneak peeks to my August Class! This is the first!

I used a fun little color combination. I have the brand new Peach Parfait ink and ribbon, with Pumpkin Pie card stock and ink for the words. Very Vanilla is the card front. I also used my new level 3 hostess set for the words! Yeay!