Seeing Green!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I am not a big celebrator of this holiday, (tho my husband's family likes to eat Irish food today) but I thought something to show on the blog and something fun in my son's lunch box was definitely appropriate!

The card sketch comes from Jen's SSFYTT, and most of these are colors I rarely use. That fun stripey DP is very old, but I still like it. You'll actually see more of that same pkg later this week, LOL! Its about time I'm using it! Supplies: Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Green Galore, Glorious Green Paper: Green Galore & Whisper White card stocks, Sweet DP (retired) Accessories: Heart to Heart punch

Hope you're all enjoying your day and seeing green!

A storage solution

I needed a way to organize my cards. I need to know if I have a birthday card for this person, or if I need to make a new one... Since I do have so many cards, its a little frustrating and certaintly time-consuming to find out! So, I did this a few weeks ago at my mom's, and then took pictures of the process doing it for myself.

First I punched several tabs with the Round Tab Punch, and then cut them in half. (I used retired Kiwi Kiss cardstock, if anyone wonders)

Then I used the heavier card in the back of all the DP packages and cut it into rectangles that fit my box. I stapled a tab on each of those rectangles. Then I wrote my most frequently used 'topics' (birthday, wedding/love, baby, thank you, etc) on the tabs and sorted them accordingly! It turns out I need ONE more for that stack going vertically. those are all "blank".

But now I know exactly what kinds of cards I have, ready to go! Time to get mailin'.....

The Card Class

These are the cards for my card class this past weekend. I did two children's birthday, two feminine birthday and two masculine birthday cards.

Supplies: Stamps: Pun Fun, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Basic Black, Real Red Paper: Real Red, So Saffron & Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Black Gingham Ribbon, Real Red striped Grosgrain ribbon

Supplies: Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Craft Basic Black, Rose Red Paper: Rose Red & Basic Black card stocks, Watercolor paper Accessories: AquaPainter, Black grosgrain ribbon

Supplies: Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Old Olive, Close to Cocoa Paper: Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla card stocks Accessories: Jumbo Brads, Mat Pack

This weekend is a scrapbook class!! $10 for 3 double-page-layouts (6 pages), my house!

baby boys!

Today we have baby boy cards! Two of them! This one uses an older sketch by Julee, Mojo 121. Tho the accents in the top corner are a little different. The final baby card this week uses a sketch from the OCC (a week or two ago!) and the colors again come straight from the onesie! And here's a shot of just the cards so you might be able to see them more clearly, LOL Onesie card Supplies: Stamps: By Ones and By Twos (retired), Toy Box (retired) Ink: Basic Black Paper: Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Soft Subtles Brads, Mat Pack, Celery Grosgrain ribbon, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens Baby card Supplies: Stamps: Welcome Little One (retired), Boho Backgrounds Ink: Basic Black, Bordering Blue Paper: Bordering Blue, Certainly Celery & Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens, Fresh Fav Buttons, Bold Brights Buttons (retired), Round Tab Punch, Mini glue dots, corner rounder punch

baby girl!

This card is for a friend of mine. The sketch comes from the TCP blog hop sketch, which was on Jen's blog and I liked it! :) The colors came from a little onesie I bought to give my friend.

This stamp is retired, but I LOVE it. I will use it forever! LOL!

Supplies: Stamps: Welcome Little One (retired) Ink: Basic Black, Lavender Lace Paper: Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink & Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Pretty in Pink striped grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Heart to Heart punch, Soft Subtles Brads, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens, Bold Brights Buttons (retired)

Upcoming Class

I've got a class this Friday {my house} where we'll be making some birthday cards.

heeere is the sneaky peek!

A girls night out, plus six cards and treaty snacks for only $10!

And if you don't want birthday cards, stamp a different greeting!

Birthday Cards!

Wanna see some cards I got for my birthday? My son made me this one: This one came from Debra on SCS: This came from Sandy on SCS: This came from Cindy on SCS: this is from Deb on SCS: this one is from the women at church: Plus a couple others from the store! It was a great birthday! Who complains about 30 anyway? *wink*

a sweet moment

Here's another page I got done the other night. Everything on the page is retired, but I love that stripy paper for my son's pages! And I love this picture of my son and husband together! This sketch also comes from the Soul Scrappers site. Supplies: Stamps: ABC Lower Alphabet (retired) Ink: Cranberry Crisp (retired) Paper: Cranberry Crisp & Buckaroo Blue card stock (retired), Heritage DP (retired), Treehouse DP (retired), Whisper White card stock Accessories: Cranberry stitched ribbon (retired), Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware (retired)

A scrap night!

(Scroll down for the Blog Candy!) So after being sick and having sick kids for the last two weeks, I finally got some scrapping done last night! yeay! Here's the first page: Supplies: Stamps: taffy Alphabet Ink: Basic Black Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal, Basic Black Accessories: Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon, Basic Black grosgrain ribbon, 1 3/8 inch circle punch I think I can count on one hand how many times I have used Taken with Teal. I just have a really hard time finding colors that work with it. But I saw this color combo (pumpkin and teal) in the demo magazine (there I go again!) and thought I'd try it out! And the sketch comes from the Soul Scrappers website. More tomorrow!

Birthdversary!

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today... I am THIRTY, baby! haha!

today is also... my 6th anniversary as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator!!!

I think this is a good time for a little blog candy!

I stamped this set of SIX cards (6th anniversary...) for you to win! Two are thank you's and four are birthday cards. They even work for men!

I am limiting this to the US and Canada, but all you have to do is leave a comment! I will select a winner on Monday, March 8th! Good luck!

Supplies: Stamps: Country Morning, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Sincere Salutations Ink: Basic Black, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard Paper: More Mustard, Bashful Blue, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla Accessories: Twill Tape, EE Brads, SS Brads, Mat Pack, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

thirty years

Here's a page I made at the workshop. Its a page for my parents book, actually. And technically it is a hybrid page, since I printed off another image from the Define Your Life stamps on My Digital Studio, which is the oval accent you see near the top.

Supplies: Stamps: Taffy Alphabet, Ever After Ink: Lavender Lace, Real Red Paper: Whisper White, real red, Lavender Lace card stocks Accessories: Eyelet punch, Large Oval Punch, Rhinestone Square Fire Brads, White Taffeta Ribbon, Mat pack

Paper Flowers!

I had a workshop this weekend and showed three different ideas for paper flowers. The first two came straight out of the demo magazine! If you want a FREE magazine sent to your house every month, full of ideas, during Sale-A-Bration is the best time to start your own Stampin' Up! business!

So, I demo'd these first two cards...

On the Celery one, I printed off some of the Define Your Life images off the My Digital Studio and then punched them out with the scallop circle punch! The bottom layer lays flat, and the top layer was snipped around the edges and folded upward a little. Then, you can have a button in so many more colors (black!) just by printing it off the MDS!

The second card was done by using three sizes of circle punches, snipping around the sides of all three, layering, and adding an actual button in the middle. I free-handed the leaves for this one. And the colors come from needing a shot of yellow and pink in the middle of this blaaah winter air we've been having! I thought it was nice!

And this was the Make & Take. The idea came (to me) from Becky's blog. And now you know three new ways to make a paper flower!

Supplies: Stamps: Friendly Words Jumbo Wheel Ink: Soft Suede Paper: More Mustard card stock, Autumn Traditions DP Accessories: Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon, Earth Element Brads, 1 3/8 inch circle punch, 1 1/4 inch circle punch, 1 inch circle punch, Mat Pack

Supplies above: Card 1: Stamps: Delight in Life (MDS), Teeny Tiny Wishes (I did use the retired Weathered background stamp on this to add some texture) Ink: Basic Black, Certainly Celery Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes Paper: Certainly Celery card stock, white printer paper Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch

Card 2: Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Rose Red, Certainly Celery marker Paper: Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Certainly Celery card stocks Accessories: Fresh Favorite Buttons, Linen Thread, 1 3/8 inch circle punch, 1 1/4 inch circle punch, 1 inch circle punch, Paper Snips, Mini Glue Dots