Happy Mother's Day!

My eldest nephew joined a club baseball team this year. That means increased funds to support him while he is on the team. So to help out, I made a few cards to sell to support him.

I sold the cards at work, and got requests for some Mother's Day cards, and so these are what I came up with.

This card uses the crayon resist technique. Which makes the rose pop. How I did it: first, I stamped the rose in Jet Black Staz-on on glossy white card stock. Then I used a white crayon to accent the stamp. I started from the center and worked my way out. If I couldn't remember if I shaded a line, I just tilt the paper until I can see the crayon. Then, once all of the image is highlighted, I used a sponge dauber to sponge on Melon Mambo all over the image. I got the idea for this card from here.

Paper: Basic Black CS, Melon Mambo CS, Glossy White CS, Whisper White CS (For the card, I cut Melon Mambo to fit the front of the card.

Ink: Jet Black Staz-on, Melon Mambo

Stamps: All Holidays, Fifth Avenue Floral

Accessories: Melon Mambo polka dot ribbon, 1/4" Basic Black Grosgrain, Pretties Kit, scallop edge punch, SNAIL adhesive

Techniques: Crayon resist

This card was super easy! The stitched felt comes ready to use, just use adhesive!

Paper: Rose Red CS, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip CS, Shimmery White CS (for sentiment), Whisper White CS (for the card) 

Stamps: All Holidays

Ink: Jet Black Staz-on

Accessories: Dimensionals, Mini Glue dots, SNAIL adhesive, Sweet Pea Stitched Felt, 1/4" Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Trim Border Punch

 These flowers I learned how to make here. This card, I think, is beautiful in its simplicity. The only negative is that it could not be mailed in a regular envelope. It would need some sort of protection because the flower, though it looks soft, is actually pretty stiff.

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Old Olive CS, Shimmery White CS, Soft Suede CS (this time I made the card base out of a color.)

Stamps: All Holidays

Ink: Jet Black Staz-on

Accessories: Paper Crimper, Bone folder, Dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive, Silver Brad, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Very Vanilla Silk Ribbon, Water spritzer, Extra Large Fancy Flower Punch

Techniques: Extra Large Fancy Flower Punch Rose

Random Cards

You're probably just as surprised as I am, but I finally have some cards to post! This weekend several wonderful people came to my house and helped me to begin on my wedding invitations! (Special thanks to, My mom, Dad, Aunt J, Jamaal's Mom, and T! I could not have done it without you all!) The design I chose requires embossing, which means that we stamped an image using an ink that does not dry quickly and covered the image with embossing powder, tapped off the excess, and heat set the powder. When you heat embossing powder you get a nice raised image. In the case of my invitations it also becomes metallic, because we used silver embossing powder. No pictures yet, the invites are still in pieces, and parts still have to be finished, but it's coming along well!

Before I get to the cards I have a quick sneak peek for you all! Because the Occasions Mini Catalog has several Easter stamp sets in it, SU! is letting customers order a select number of the stamp sets before the rest of the catalog is available for purchase! Check it out here!

So let's get to the cards!

This card I made for a party I had in December. I actually really like this card, and it is pretty simple!

Stamps: Season of Joy, Punch Pals
Paper: Old Olive CS, Real Red Textured CS, Ski Slope DSP (Holiday Mini '08), Whisper White CS, Chocolate Chip CS
Ink: Old Olive, Basic Black
Accessories: Signo White Gel Pen, Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker, Not Quite Navy and Summer Sun Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aquapainter, Big Shot, SU! Bigs Top Note Die, Small Felt Flurries, Tag Punch, Small Tag Punch
Techniques: Watercolor

This card I made for Jamaal because he was being very good to me during a very hard day. (My dog ate my $300 phone, and then I discovered that my book collection was starting a mold collection...it was terrible for me.) I think it is really cute, and was super easy!

Stamps: Loads of Love
Paper: Basic Black CS, Very Vanilla CS, Kiwi Kiss Textured CS, Old Olive CS, Pacific Point CS
Ink: Stazon Black
Accessories: Crop-o-dile, Jumbo Eyelets in Pewter, White Signo Gel Pen, Many Marvelous Markers
Techniques: None (unless you consider paper tearing a technique)



Stamps: Forever, To have and to Hold
Paper: Pink Pirouette CS, Very Vanilla CS, Going Gray CS
Ink: Stazon Black
Accessories: Markers in Basic Black, Regal Rose, Going Gray, Clear Rhinestone Brads, Small Polka Dot Texture Plate (for Big shot), SU! Simple Flower Embosslit, Dimensionals
Techniques: None

This card I made for my Fiance's friend's wedding. I really loved the finished product! I have to say this picture does not do this card justice!

And now I present to you...

some cards!! Finally, right? I have been busy working, and not so busy stamping lately. The DB (Dear Boyfriend) doesn't like me on the computer all the live long day, so I try to limit the time I spend on the computer. I need to clean up my stamp room, because I am scared to go in there right now! I hate messes, but I also hate cleaning. Besides the fact that since my stamping area is new, I have very little storage at the moment, so that means that even if I did clean the area up, it would not be very organized. It's a work in progress, I hope that I have at least an area at our next place fit for stamping! Now, on to the cards!

I made these cards for my Aunt and her work buds. I think they turned out pretty good, and the ladies really like them! (We started with the first card, and finished with the second.) And we were cramped for time, we only had an hour to work...but everyone finished their two cards. I am going to try to present my cards a little differently. (when I have time to do this, I will actually spell out the dimensions, etc of the card. It will be more descriptive this way.


I got the idea for this card from Nancy, be sure and check out her card too!
I started with a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of chocolate chip textured cs. Then I layered a 4 1/4" x 1 3/4" piece of more mustard cs with a 4" x 1 1/2" piece of Autumn Vine DSP. I then punched a piece of more mustard cs with the scalloped square punch. This card uses only one stamp. It is a stamp from the Loads of Love Accessories stamp set. (I just got some watercolor wonder crayons, so prepare for some Loads of Love cards here soon!) On a 1" x 1" piece of whisper white cs I stamped "happy harvest" in chocolate chip ink. For the pumpkin, I punched three ovals with the wide oval punch in really rust cs. I folded a small piece (perhaps 3/4") of old olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon and used snail adhesive to attach the ribbon to the middle oval. I wrapped a very thin scrap of old olive cs around a toothpick to make the vine, and attached it to the middle oval with tombow adhesive. I added faux stitching and faux piercing with a white gel pen.
You might notice that the bottom left hand corner is smeared, which is a result of me not waiting until the very end to add the gel pen...you live and learn I guess! I just wanted the mistake FOR you ;)...


Sometimes when I make a card, I realize my mistake too late, and don't feel like changing it for my sample, instead I change it for the kits that I make after the fact. This card is an example of this. My whisper white cs card measures 4 1/8" x 5 1/8" when it should have measured 4" x 5 1/8". The reason is that I have the card mounted on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of real red textured cs, and you can only see the mount on one side of the whisper white card. I wanted the real red to be evenly around the white. Oh well...I will use the measurements for my intended card, not for the actual card shown here. First off, I sponged real red ink on the poinsettias, old olive on the tree, and baja breeze on the snowflake of a season of joy stamp. Then I cut the images out (I left the three flowers connected to make my life easier, but they could just have easily been cut apart). I then stamped the entire image in chocolate chip on a 2 1/2" x 2 3/4" piece of whisper white cs. This was layered on top of a 2 3/4" x 3" piece of real red textured cs, a 2 7/8" x 3 1/8" piece of chocolate chip cs, and a 3" x 3 1/4" piece of old olive cs. I added the previously cut out pieces using dimensionals to add a little pop. I stamped my favorite swirly image from season of joy on the card base (in chocolate chip, of course) where I thought it would show from behind the main image. I added a strip of 1" double stitched grosgrain ribbon to fit the card base and a 1 1/2" x 4" piece of ski slope DSP. Cute huh?

Not just for Christmas, my friends!

You might think that the Season Of Joy stamp set, (shown above) is only for Christmas, which, I actually thought before this weekend. I was stamping like crazy in preparation for my first workshop ever! My mom hosted this workshop at her house, and I'm not going to lie, I had butterflies during the drive over! :D

It went pretty well, the ladies loved the Country Living Promotion that starts in November, so much so that we might actually place this workshop on November 1st so the ladies can buy the Kit! :D So anyway, I was struggling to find a card to have the ladies make. I was limited by the fact that my mom wanted a Christmas card, which really isn't much of a limitation, as I have like 3 or more Christmas stamp sets....the real limitation was that I wanted to use some of the bulk buy paper I have, and was trying to force something to work. The first card I made is this one:

I didn't really like it. I thought others wouldn't like it, and so I moved on. (The more I look at it though, I really do like it.) Who would have thought that Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss would be on a Christmas card??

Stamps: Season of Joy
Paper: Whisper White CS, Tangerine Tango CS, Kiwi Kiss Textured CS, Frosty Day DSP
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Close to Cocoa

Accessories: Whisper White Grosgrain 1/4" ribbon, scallop edge punch

Techniques: Masking

The Masking Technique was actually used for all of these cards. All you do is stamp the flower, or main image on the cardstock, and also stamp it on a scrap piece of computer paper. Cut out the computer paper image so that you have a little weensy bit of white showing, this is your "mask" (in other words you can see all of the image, plus a small border of paper.) Cover the main image with the mask, and stamp around the image as desired. The mask protects the main image and makes it pop out a bit. Cool huh? And pretty easy too! :D

This was the second card I made, and I settled on it as my workshop card. I felt that it would be accepted easier as a more "traditional" Christmas card, with the typical Green, white and red colors. You might notice a little mark of red ink where is shouldn't be, that is only because it fell onto a sponge dauber with Riding hood Red ink on it...it didn't completely ruin the card so no one was injured! ;)

Stamps: Season of Joy

Paper: Whisper White CS, Riding Hood Red CS, Chocolate Chip Textured CS, Garden Green CS

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Whisper White Grosgrain 1/4" ribbon, scallop edge punch, Wide oval punch, sponge daubers, white half-pearls from pretties kit
Techniques: Masking

So once I was done with the card for the workshop, I had to start working on a card for a swap tomorrow. It is a swap with my Upline and her downline (so my "sisters") Only 6 of us will be swapping so it wasn't too difficult for my first ever swap! I hope they like the card. The theme was friendship or thank you. I looked at my first attempt, and said "that could be a thank you card!" Then I looked through my stamp sets for a "thank you" stamp and finally found one I liked in Enjoy every moment!

Stamps: Season of Joy, Enjoy Every Moment
Paper: Whisper White CS, Tangerine Tango CS, Kiwi Kiss Textured CS, Frosty Day DSP
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Whisper White Grosgrain 1/4" ribbon, scallop edge punch, pretties kit Rhinestone brad, paper piercer, paper piercing pad, dimensionals
Techniques: Masking

It was a pretty productive week, and now I've got to get to work on a project for something else! I might be able to start this week, I just need a few things first!

If you're still with me through this long post, thanks for looking!! :D

WCMD cards

I have finally scanned in the cards I made for WCMD! I think they are pretty darn cute, myself! The 4 ladies that attended really enjoyed making the cards.


Stamps: Deck the Halls, Season of Joy, Contempo Alphabet
Paper: Old Olive CS, Not Quite Navy CS, Whisper White CS, Ski Slope DSP, Real Red CS
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Ruby Red, Old Olive
Accessories: Silver Cord, Scallop Edge Punch
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1


Stamps: Scandinavian Season, Season of Joy
Paper: Whisper White, Baja Breeze CS, Real Red CS, Ski Slope DSP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Chalks, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Real Red Brad, Chocolate Chip Ribbon.
Techniques: Poppin Pastels
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1

This one I CASED (copy and share everything) from Understand Blue's Blog. You can find the original here. You might notice that I did change a few things, but I got the idea from her.

Stamps: Eat, Drink & Be Scary, Halloween Frights, Season of Friendship
Paper: Ghostly Greetings DSP, Pumpkin Pie CS, Whisper White CS, Chocolate Chip CS, Pumpkin Pie CS.
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun
Accessories: Basic Black Ribbon, Tag and Small Tag punch, Ribbon Hole Punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, White Gel Pen, Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker
Techniques: Rock and Roll
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

I CASED this card from Jenn D, here. And again you'll notice that I actually changed quite a bit. (After I made the card and went back to look at hers, I realized that I had changed more than I thought! But I was thinking about her card when I made it.) Definitely the simplest card I made.

Stamps: Tasty Sweet
Paper: Ghostly Greetings DSP, Pumpkin Pie CS, Whisper White CS, Summer Sun CS, Kiwi Kiss CS, Close to Cocoa CS.
Ink: Basic Black, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Scallop Edge punch, Scallop Square punch
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1

Easy to make cards!

Want to make Christmas cards this season? Here is a kit that is very simple and easy. And best of all cute! :D

Make 12 cards and a box for $20! I will score your cards and have them folded for you all you need to do is add the decorations.

Check out this flyer. You will receive the flyer with purchase, and can use the picture as a guide for your cards.

Let me know if you're interested, I'm making an order this friday. (Of course if you decide after friday I'll still be able to get you a kit, it just might take a little longer for me to be able to order it.)

Stay tuned for more kits like this, I'm going to make at least one more to be available for purchase.