Shoebox Swap 1: Currently Fabulous

Title comes from the fact that I did not design these cards, they come from my upline/shoebox swap mentioned on Saturday, and these use mostly current products that will also be in the new catalog!

This card is absolutely fabulous! So simple but gorgeous!

Designed by Pam Morgan

Supplies: (to the best of my memory/guessing ability)
Paper: Epic Day DP, Vellum card stock, Whisper White card stock, Brushed Gold card stock
Accessories: Elegant Butterfly Punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Big Shot, Staples, Dimensionals

This card is so bright and happy, I love it for a baby card!

Designed by Sheila van Uitert

Supplies:(to the best of my memory/guessing ability)

Stamps: Oh Baby (single stamp!! - Available til July 31)

Ink: Black Stazon

Paper: Quatrefancy DP, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black card stocks

Accessories: Large Rhinestones, Floral Fusion Sizzlits, Big Shot 

 

This card took some time, but check it out!!

Designed by Ashley

Supplies:(to the best of my memory/guessing ability)
Stamps: Create A Cupcake
Ink: Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Melon Mambo
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Melon Mambo & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Cupcake Builder Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Extra Large Oval Punch, Modern Label Punch, White Organza Ribbon, Rhinestone Jewels, Stripes Embossing Folder, Big Shot

I think this one is so pretty. It uses the same colors and DP as my card (the same sheet of DP too) but gives a completely different look!

Designed by Heather Faldmo

Supplies:(to the best of my memory/guessing ability)
Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Sweet Essentials, En Francais
Ink: Calypso Coral, Pool Party
Paper: Epic Day DP, Calypso Coral, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: White Taffeta Ribbon, Square punch (for pennant sides of greeting)

You know I'm going to love this one- this is one of my favorite stamp sets ever!

Designed by Julie Wadlinger

Supplies:(to the best of my memory/guessing ability)
Stamps: The Open Sea
Ink: Midnight Muse, Pool Party
Paper: Print Poetry Paper Stack (spring mini), Cherry Cobbler, Midnight Muse & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Mini Brads, Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine, Linen Thread, shrinkydink

This card I didn't make quite like the original because I was running out of time and put it together after I was home. You can see the original HERE.

Designed by Michelle Stoll

Supplies:(to the best of my memory/guessing ability)
Stamps: Make a Cake, Remembering Your Birthday
Ink: Pool Party, So Saffron
Paper: Very Vanilla, So Saffron & Early Espresso card stocks
Accessories: Pearls, Linen Thread, Finishing Touches Edgelits, Big Shot

With all these fabulous samples, are you inspired to join my team? Maybe you're simply inspired to go create something lovely! Now's your chance...! *grin

Week 18!

Here's the page for Week 18. It is very simple, but I like the pink and gray, and I love the font, haha.

Supplies:
MDS

During the month of May, print prices are discounted. I went ahead and printed off my weekly pages that I've done so far and stuck them in an album! Its so fun having completed pages sitting on my shelf! And my kids love it! I see us having a fun little family activity on New Years Eve. *grin You should get some pages printed too!!

A Shoebox Swap!

Today my upline had a quarterly meeting, and I finally got to attend. This time it was a shoebox swap and I was super excited because it was a huge help in filling my display board with the new catalog! After the retired lists struck, it was looking awfully dismal... haha!

A shoebox swap means that everyone designs a card and brings enough supplies for everyone else to make it. The supplies box stays put and people move around putting together each card. There were 18 cards there and they're all so fun and pretty! Today I'll show you my card, and I might share the other cards in the coming days too...but first I need to know who designed which card!!

I stewed about this a lot. A silly lot! I tell my friends "stamping is fun, not stressful" all the time, and most of the time it is, but since this was for other demonstrators I wanted it to be impressive, haha. You'd think that after 9 years of doing this I'd be confident in my skills, but maybe not.

Anyway!! Here is what I put together:

Supplies:
Stamps: Creative Elements
Ink: Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake
Paper: Epic Day DP, Crumb Cake, Calypso Coral, Pool Party & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Very Vintage Buttons, White Bakers Twine, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

I showed both sides of the DP, so people could choose, and both possible word choices. There were plenty of comments that people liked it so I was happy about that, hahaha....

I had a lot of fun today! You know you could join my team and attend these fun meetings along with me...its a great chance to learn a lot from other people's experience, and to spend time with people who GET your hobby. *grin. Until May 30th, you can get a free $30 extra towards your Starter Kit! What are you waiting for??

Week 17 - Lemonade!

Today's weekly page made me laugh... I didn't take a lot of pics this week, so I settled on these two. Then I was looking for some fun, doodle-y kind of images to put with it. I ended up creating a page using the Lemonade Stand content disk (Sale-A-Bration only) for two pictures of my kids having a lemonade stand! *giggle Anyway, its fairly self-explanatory...

Supplies:

MDS, Lemonade Stand content disk

 

And don't forget- Stampin' Up! offers fresh downloads every Tuesday! Go HERE to see the latest, and don't miss the freebies! *grin!

Stamp Set Class: Lovely As A Tree

Happy Monday to you! Today we're supposed to be WAY above normal temps and it should feel like summer! I suppose that's not all bad, right? *grin

Last Friday was my May Stamp Set Class, and obviously from the title, I featured Lovely As A Tree. This stamp set was one of the first my mom bought from Stampin' Up! and she didn't even get it from me! haha! And! its going to be in the new catalog again, haha! I have plenty of samples here on my blog using this set HERE, but since it is neither autumn nor winter, I tried some new ideas with the set! Yeay for changing things up!
And again, with this style of class I'm sticking to the basics and working my way up to more tools and supplies, so that even a novice stamper can find ways to use their stamp set with what they have! We did make a retiring-supplies card, but two of them can go on my display board!

This card uses the sponging technique to make a springtime scene.

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely As A Tree
Ink: Early Espresso, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Stamping Sponges

This card uses the 'thumping' technique, which is just tapping different green markers all over the leafy area for a summery tree.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely As A Tree

Ink: Pear Pizazz, Gumball Green, Always Artichoke, Soft Suede markers

Paper: Pear Pizazz, Always Artichoke, Whisper White card stock

Accessories: Natural Ribbon

And this final card uses two accessories and the Big Shot! It uses the exact same layout I have for Christmas cards, but with the brown in place of red it makes a good thank you or masculine card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely As A Tree

Ink: Old Olive

Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip & Whisper White card stock

Accessories: Linen Thread, Natural Buttons, Big Shot, Woodgrain Embossing Folder

Mother's Day Dress #2!

Happy Mother's Day to you!
Today I have a very quick post with another dress I am in love with. This time with a cute jacket, and more of that same embossed detail, which is hard to see... I have to say, the embossing is my favorite idea ever, haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Creative Elements
Paper: Melon Mambo, Basic Gray & Whisper White cardstocks, Sunshine & Sprinkles DP
Accessories: Dress Up framelits, White Organza ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Mother's Day Dress #1!

You knew those dresses were going to come back for Mother's Day, didn't you?? Today and tomorrow's cards I am super excited about!!

First up, this sweet apron over a classic print dress!

I distressed the DP with some Crumb Cake sponging to age it, and clear embossed this fun detail onto the apron, using the edge stamp from Creative Elements. I seriously love it! You might have to click on the picture to see it better...
Come back tomorrow to see another fun idea!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Creative Elements
Ink: Basic Gray, Versamark, Crumb Cake
Paper: First Edition DP, Marina Mist, Basic Gray & Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Dress Up framelits, Big Shot, Crochet Lace, Vintage Trinkets, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Masculine birthday

Today's card is perfect for a man, and full of retiring products, lol. Its a quick and simple one too, but with just a touch of color to fancy it up. I'm enjoying getting good use out of all my soon-to-be-gone items, and having something to share with you most days!
Today's card also uses the current Retro Sketch, tho I did turn it on its side for my card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Countryside, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: More Mustard, Not Quite Navy, River Rock card stocks
Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Linen Thread

Welcome Summer!

Or spring...whichever...lets just bring some sunshine! It keeps raining here, which is not really bad at all, I'm just missing the sun today.
I had fun with the latest Clean & Simple sketch. It really was such a quick, easy card and I love how bright and happy it turned out! What are you creating today?

Supplies:
Stamps: Creative Elements, Summer Silhouettes
Ink: Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise
Paper: Melon Mambo & Whisper White card stocks

Note Cards of Thanks

On Saturday my daughter chose to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. {More info on that HERE.}

This is a really big deal so all of her aunts, uncles and cousins were invited, along with some other relatives who live nearby-ish, and of course her grandparents. Not all were able to come, but in addition to traveling and bringing food for a pot-luck lunch afterwards, some gave her little gifts as well. This means she needs to send out a lot of thank you cards!

I came up with two styles of thank you notes, completely inspired by Becky. These are such a great idea, especially for kids with a lot of writing to do. I've made them before for my kids to use and my daughter just loves them. So here's the bunch...

(please forgive the lighting!!)
and here are the closeups:

Supplies:
Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Collage Curios, Forever Young (all retiring!!)
Ink: Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Bashful Blue (retiring!!), Certainly Celery (retiring!!)
Paper: Whisper White, Bashful Blue (retiring) and Certainly Celery (retiring!) card stocks
Accessories: Sycamore Street Ribbon (retired), Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon (retired)

Week 16!

Today I have another weekly page for you. I thought it was time to change up my color schemes and picked an elegant brown/gold combination. The bronzy-gold color is one I 'created' myself using the picker tool. I found that shade somewhere in the lids of jam jars and thought it went very nicely with the DP.

Blog Hop: May Day!

Welcome to our Blog Hop!! This month's theme is May Day projects, because, after all, today is May Day! Be sure and hop all the way through and see everyone's fabulous May Day creations!

I think flowers are what comes to mind for me when I think of May. I didn't find a sketch that worked for the flower stamps I have, but when I found THIS sketch I thought this fun, flowery DP would work nicely. And since I need a birthday card very soon, that's the greeting I chose!

Supplies:
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Midnight Muse
Paper: Patio Party DP, Baja Breeze & Midnight Muse card stock
Accessories: Bitty Buttons, 1 3/8 inch square punch, Glue Dots


Next, I had the idea for this page and thought it suited a May Day theme well, so I saved it to share with you today! The sunshine is finally here (hopefully to stay!) and the flowers are blooming! I stamped the "raining flowers" in Tempting Turquoise onto the Tempting Turquoise card stock for a bit of happy fun. I traced a buttons container to make the Daffodil Delight sun and sponged it a bit with Daffodil Delight ink. Then I dragged the Daffodil Delight 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon across the page as sunburst lines. Finally I added the sweet Paper Daisies and the Brights Buttons!
This page is my daughter's spring picture, just like THIS one of my son. My daughter got two pictures because she forgot to take off her jacket and asked for a quick retake, haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Million Dollar Moments
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Certainly Celery, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight card stocks
Accessories: Daffodil Taffeta Ribbon, Paper Daisies, Brights Buttons, Glue Dots
(everything marked in italics are all retiring at the end of May, or while supplies last! Grab them fast!)

Now go see what everyone else has created for May Day!