Cupcakes!

Woohoo! I got another cupcake stamp! One you've never even seen, unless you're a fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator! This cupcake comes from a set that will be in the new catalog on August 11th! Plus its perfect for Taylor's Cupcake Challenge!

Wish you could see stamps first too? You could always sign up to be a demo!

So back to the card... First I chose the ribbon so I have a Regal Rose base to match it! The card front is Close to Cocoa card stock and I stamped the cupcake image with Chocolate Chip ink randomly all over, and added 4 silver brads to the corners. The front rectangle is Whisper White matted with more Regal Rose card stock, and the birthday sentiment is stamped in Regal Rose. The ribbon comes from the Fairy Tale Ribbon Originals set, then the circle image is the cupcake (stamped in basic black and colored with markers) layered on to the Scallop punched Cocoa card stock and I used my tiny hole punch to add the dots around it.

...I think my explanation was more complicated than the card!

A Mojo Saturday!

It took a while, but I got to participate! I even used the Meet the Diva's color challenge! That kind of made it easy- colors and sketch were already done, (all from Julee's blog!) and I only have a couple tall stamps to choose from so here's what I did:

So Saffron base, and mat for the main image, Chocolate Chip card front, Pumpkin Pie wavy part, Old Olive ribbon and they all show up in the stamped image too!

Can you see what I did with the flower? A very forgotten technique- actually watercoloring with my Watercolor Wonder Crayons! Duh! Sheesh! I was sitting there wishing I could do the Rock & Roll technique backwards, having the darker shade on the inside of the petals when it hit me- I used to use the crayons this way! So I had to find my watercolor paper, colored on the stamp itself, spritzed the paper with water and voila! Cute cute. And easy!

I also used my Hodgepodge Hardware on this card. If "this finish" is going away, I may as well use it up. Then maybe I'll need more! LOL!

Challenges!

Two posts in one day! That's because kwerner's color challenge #15 is due in 25 minutes! Since I'm participating on time, I should post it on time, right? She challenged us to use Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Really Rust, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. I got them all in there!

I also used the OCC sketch from Saturday for the layout! So, I have my Close to Cocoa card stock base, and I stamped the Canvas background on it with Chocolate Chip ink. Next is the layer of Really Rust card stock and I stamped the flowers from Pretty Amazing in Rust ink on that. Then a super thin layer of Certainly Celery card stock beneath the white, which is stamped with the vines and Celery ink. I cut out the two Rust butterflies (...because I didn't get enough cutting in last night?) and tied on some Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon! And I'm posting just in time!

Complicated Cutting...

...is NOT my thing! Wow! I've really been inspired by other people's scrapping and I always think I should do "more". I got these pictures printed a while ago and hadn't had a fun idea for scrapping them til the other night. I wanted to do kind of an antique-y color scheme to show the differences between the old kind of trains we saw at the museum this day, and the brand new commuter rail train that hadn't even been used yet! But there is the issue of using what you actually own...and sometimes that makes for a challenge!

So here's what I came up with. And cutting out those letters was something I regretted almost as soon as I started! LOL! I think it looks cool but that is NOT fun. Yikes...! Anyway, back to the pages! I have 12x12 bases of Almost Amethyst card stock. The titles are stamped in the Taffy alphabet with Creamy Caramel ink and the photos are matted on Caramel card stock. I have the retired Circus Train set stamped along the bottom of the first page. The train is colored with my Watercolor Wonder crayons and blender pens, and then the paper is all crumpled up, then I swiped Caramel ink across it to make it look old and/or dirty. I added Caramel buttons tied with Linen Thread, and even used some of my Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware! (this is on sale this month, don't forget!) And I have two more pages done! Wooohooo!

Scrapping with Red, White & Blue!

I got it done! I got to scrapbook MY stuff, I got to hold a scrapbooking class AND I got to scrap an event less than a month after it happened! WOW! (its been a while, can ya tell?)

So here is my layout for my class last night, that was inspired by Jen's Saturday Sketch! Oddly, there is NO stamping involved! I used my 2 Way glue pen to write the number 4 on the chipboard star, and then put Dazzling Diamonds glitter on it to make it sparkly. A girl at my class outlined her start with the glue and glitter and her's looks a lot cuter! Love the sparkle!

If you have any questions about what I used, just let me know! (If you wanted to come and couldn't, you can buy the supplies for these pages for $5.) More scrapping to come...!

New In-Colors!

Wanna see, wanna see?

Okay!

Here they are!!!

Tangerine Tango

Riding Hood Red

Pink Pirouette

Pacific Point

Baja Breeze

Kiwi Kiss

Which one is your favorite?

Tagged!

Chelle tagged me a while ago and this one is pretty easy, so now that I have a chance, I'll play along too!

1. Because I'm in "soundtrack" mode, as it turns out, I really enjoy sword fights in movies! This is really weird if you know me and movies...I don't like intense movies, I don't like scary anything, I don't like a lot of action or violence...unless its swords! How odd... (Yes, yes, Yvette, cute guys winning the sword fight helps...! And they have to be FUN movies (not scary!): Princess Bride, Pirates, Star Wars, Zorro...)

2. I really am NOT an "orange" person. I have a hard time liking it...and yet the first ink I picked from the new In Colors is Tangerine Tango! (and I do love Stampin' Up!'s Pumpkin Pie too)

3. I LOVE mail. When I was little I once sat down and wrote a personal letter to every single one of my aunts and uncles, hoping for anybody to write me back! Later, I had pen pals in 4 different countries at one time: Scotland, Australia, Germany and Egypt.

4. On mine and Burt's first date we went grocery shopping...twice! And I asked him out!

5. I like to dip pretzel sticks into peanut butter. It's a great snack!

6. I love having new shoes, but I reeeally love to be barefoot!

7. I was tagged a month ago and there's a thing about to-do lists. I love to cross things off my list...that list a month ago? I've gotten TWO things done! ACK!

I tag YOU: Dawn, Marcy, Melissa, Yvette, Darci, RaeAnne & Carrie!

Pink birthday!

Here is my second card from the other night! I needed a birthday card for a friend and thought I'd feature more retiring products! And it comes from Jen's Saturday Sketch to Try. (My scrapbook class this Wednesday comes from the same sketch!) I have a Pixie Pink card base, the side squares are punched from the Wild Wasabi Prints paper (hostess level 1) and I have three little black buttons on the squares too. The main image is the flower from Time Well Spent (hostess level 3). I stamped it all with Basic Black ink, then colored with the ink pad (Wasabi, Pink and Yoyo Yellow) and blender pens. I matted the White paper onto Basic Black card stock and wrapped it with (retiring!) Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon. Then I stamped half of this greeting stamp from Its Your Birthday in Pink Passion ink. Went pretty quickly too!

Back to Stamping!

Yes folks, I do still stamp! LOL! It feels like its been forever! So last night I got two cards done and I am excited! Today I'm just showing the first. Its for Taylor's Cupcake Challenge and I even have a cupcake stamp!!! (big thanks to Lindsey for pointing out we have a cupcake in the give-away stamps we may have as demonstrators and bigger thanks to RaeAnne for giving this to me!)

So here is a close-up of the really cute, tiny cupcake...

And here is my card! (Oh, I also used kwerners color inspiration #13 which I missed by a long shot.) This was a lot of fun to make, possibly because I haven't stamped for FUN in so long! I have a Purely Pomegranate base (retiring!), a card front of Regal Rose card stock, that is wrapped with a piece of (retiring!) River Rock double stitched ribbon, and has four silver brads in the corners. Then the focal point is all matted on Wild Wasabi card stock (retiring!) which is pierced down the middle-ish. The greeting is stamped in Pomegranate ink and comes from the old Send A Celebration set. And the cupcakes are stamped in Basic Black and colored with Watercolor Wonder Crayons and Blender Pens and punched out with the 1/4 inch circle punch. I also used my 2way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the tops of the cupcakes. Cute, cute!

Soo Busy!

Seriously! I would like to just SIT for a while with nothing to worry about getting done! Since we're still working fast and furiously on the foreign exchange stuff, I'm not getting anything else done. So I'll just leave you with this cute little title on an otherwise extremely boring page! ha ha! Really, white paper, three pictures of her with my son...and a fun title!
I used the retired Circus Train set (have I mentioned his love of trains? LOL!) and just outlined parts of the giraffe car for the three cars holding his name, which I stamped in Ballet Blue ink. Needless to say, he loves the page. So long as somebody does!

Hopefully I'll be back with something new to see on Saturday! Oh! if you want to attend my scrapbook class this Tuesday, please RSVP by Monday so I can get your supplies cut! Thanks!

Monday Mojo #44

Here is my take on Julee's Monday Mojo sketch. I didn't even bother last week, but this one I was looking forward to getting to try. I'm not convinced that the flower pattern 'goes' with the argyle but they're all Rose Red so that makes it ok...I'm sure of it! LOL!

So yes, base of Rose Red card stock, a card front of Whisper White, with corners from the Rose Red Prints Paper. The flower print comes from Cutie Pie, which has been around for a while so it COULD retire, folks! I topped it with a White rectangle matted onto Rose Red, and then did the same with the circle piece. The heart comes from (the retiring) Time Well Spent and is stamped in Rose ink then colored with the Rose and So Saffron markers. The greeting comes from Sweet Thing, and I am going to miss using that!!! Then I just added three Rose buttons and that was that!

Lauren's two-fer!

Yep, Lauren posted a two-fer! She had a sketch AND color challenge! The sketch was easy for me, the colors were not. I do NOT care for Taken with Teal. I dunno, maybe I got burned out on it when it was HUGE in junior high...everybody loved Teal. And Burgundy. And both at the same time. Remember that? Well I do. So anyway, that one is hard for me to work with. The colors she listed were White, Teal, Sky and Guava. So here's what I did... The card is Whisper White. I stamped the circle from (the retiring!) Sweet Thing in Groovy Guava ink (also retiring!) to do the scalloped edge, but its on the inside of the card! I just trimmed a little off the front half! (here's a better view...)

Then I added a front of Guava card stock, and wrapped that with White grosgrain ribbon. The focal point is an image from the (retiring!) hostess set For A Friend. I inked the flower with Guava, the stem is Always Artichoke and the words are in Taken with Teal. I then swiped the White card stock edges in Guava ink, matted it onto some Teal card stock, and matted that on Soft Sky card stock! Super simple!