Day 3 of Delicate Doilies

Some old and new with this card. Colors include Whisper White, Basic Black and Melon Mambo. The stamped doily is in Melon Mambo embossing powder. This can be found in the Summer mini catalog. It was punched with the Doily Triple Layer punch. The Designer Series paper behind the doily is new and it is called Flirtatious!

Come back tomorrow and see 1 more card with this stamp set. It's my favorite!

Stamp Club projects

Well another year of stamp club has come and gone. I can't believe how fast that year went. I had a lot of fun with everyone! Last night was our last night and here is one of the projects that we made:

This card is using the bleach technique. Some of my clubbers had never used bleach on cards, so this was fun. All you do is make an 'ink pad' using a small foam plate and a folded up paper towel. Pour a little bleach on it and viola, you have an ink pad. Each color card stock looks different when using bleach. Last night we used the hostess set from the Summer mini catalog called Love & Care and stamped a flower on Elegant Eggplant using the bleach. It looks kind of pinky.

We used markers to color the main flower stamp - Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze and Elegant Eggplant and stamped on to Whisper White card stock. We tore a piece of Certainly Celery for the layered piece. We punched a Scalloped oval piece in Baja Breeze and layered it with the sentiment, which is stamped in Elegant Eggplant, and punched with the large oval punch. The button is Elegant Eggplant also.

They were all amazed at what the bleach would do and that you can actually use it with your stamps. If you have a slightly stained stamp, it will actually clean it. You do however want to clean your stamps after using bleach, because it will dry the rubber out and make it crack.

The next project I found on the front cover of a magazine called 'Stampin Success', which is a monthly magazine only Stampin'Up! demonstrators receive. I had received that magazine in the mail the day before and just had to try one of them. Unfortunately I cannot post a picture of the front cover of my magazine because it shows some of the new product from the upcoming new Idea Book & Catalog, but I can post a picture of the flowers we made:

These flowers are made with only using 4 different punches -

Large Heart punch
Heart to Heart punch
1 3/8 circle punch
3/4 circle punch

The magazine showed these flowers on a wire flower stem, but we just made them without so they can be put on a card, scrapbook page or even a box. I had everything punched out for them when they arrived, so they were very easy to assemble.

Stamp club may be over for this catalog year, but another starts up next month with the new Idea Book & Catalog. I still have a few spots left if you are interested in joining. We have a lot of fun! Even if you live far away and can't make the meetings, contact me and we can work something out! Remember when you join, you receive all the catalogs for FREE!!!

If you don't want to commit to a stamp club, but would like a FREE catalog, all you have to do is have a workshop of your own, whether it's a in-home party or a book party. It's a great way to earn what you want for FREE!!!

There she is!!!!

I know, I've been a lot MIA lately. It's just been so busy.

Well I did have to stamp yesterday because I had stamp club and as of yesterday morning I really didn't know what we were going to do. But I pulled it off and we had a great time last night.

Here is the first project we did. I did copy this from a fellow demonstrator, Connie B. I wanted to show some of the new product in the Summer mini catalog, which by the way can be found in the left column of my blog.

This card uses one of the new fabulous punches called Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch. It's 3 punches in 1!!!!

I started with a Soft Suede base of 8x9 to make a larger card of 4x9, which will fit in a #10 envelope. I then ran a piece of River Rock through the bigshot using the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and rounded the corners. The flowers are punched with Daffodil Delight with a Soft Suede center, punched from the Boho Blossoms punch and Whisper White. I sniped the Daffodil flowers to give them a little dimension. The leaves are punched with the Bird punch and the stems are just cut from Always Artichoke. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and punched with the small oval punch.

This is not a card you would want to make a lot of, but the result is beautiful!

The second card we did was doing a technique - crayon resist. We also used a couple of new stamp sets - Flower Fest and Happy Greetings.

We started with a Wild Wasabi card base and layered it with Glossy White cardstock. Using the Flower Fest stamp set, we stamped in Tangerine Tango, Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo. Once that dried we took a white crayon and make marks where we wanted the cardstock to show through. We then took sponge daubers and sponged ink over the images. Then we took a tissue and wiped off the access ink and crayon to reveal where the crayon marks were.

We stamped the butterfly in Melon Mambo and to Melon Mambo cardstock and punched it with the butterfly punch. That's what's great about this stamp set, it coordinates with so many of Stampin'Up! punches.

For the sentiment we used Melon Mambo again and stamped on Whisper White cardstock and punched using the Decorative Label punch. We punched another using Melon Mambo, which we cut in half and layered under the sentiment.

I hope you find some inspiration with these cards and I hope to post more often.

Watercolor Trio fun fold card

Don't you just love how this card opens? The top piece open to the right, then the next piece opens to the left to reveal the inside. And the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper goes so good with this stamp set, which by the way is available in the Summer Mini catalog. Go check it out. You can view the mini catalog in the left column.

Envelope Watercolor Trio

This card is made using some card stock but also using an envelope. The pocket for the card is the envelope.

Eisle Cards

My uplines seminar was this weekend and this was one kind of card we made. They are very simple to make. The first one is using the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and the second one is a man card and uses the new King of the Grill stamp set found in the Summer mini catalog.

This one uses So Saffron, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock, also the So Saffron and Old Olive stampin write marker.

This one uses Silver, Basic Black and Whisper White cardstock, also Silver encore, Real Red, Night of Navy, Chocolate Chip and Basic Black classic ink with the aquapainter.

Love this kind of card and I hope you give it a try some time. Contact me for the instructions.

OK, one more post :-)

I wasn't going to post again until after I get back from my cruise, but I've decided to throw out a little incentive while I'm gone. Here it is:

Place an online order with me starting Saturday night April 24 at 9pm until Sunday May 2 at 9pm of at least $50, and pick out anything from any of the catalogs for $5.95. If you place a $100 order, you may pick out 2 items for $5.95.

Now you will need to send me an email with your $5.95 item because you won't be able to add that to your order. I will order and send that to you separate after I return.

Remember that the Occasions mini catalog ends Friday April 30, so if there is something from there that you have wanted, now's the time to order it before it's gone. But if you want to wait until the Summer mini starts, which is Saturday May 1, you can also do that. The Summer mini can be viewed here, or click on the picture of the Summer mini in the left column to view it.

Also remember that if you want some of the retiring colors, now's a good time to order those before they are gone. Stock up on card stock and of course throw in a re-inker or 2 for your favorite color. You can look at which colors are retiring from my previous post here.

So get those catalogs out and start marking items that you want and come back on Saturday night and get those orders in. Thanks to everyone for all you do and have a fabulous week next week. I will miss all of you!

Another Motorcycle card chromed out!

Here's another card made with the single Motorcycle stamp. This one I stamped in Silver Encore to make it look chromed out. A motorcyclist dream! This is a very quick and simple card that any guy would appreciate.

You could color this stamp in like I did, or even more or just leave it plain. Very easy stamp to use.

This is the last post for just over a week, until I get back from vacation. Unless I decide to stamp on the ship, I may post, but I doubt it :-) I'll be too busy laying by the pool. But I promise I will come back with some great ideas. Thanks for stopping.

Motorcycle sneak peek

Here is a single stamp coming in the Summer mini that my husband told me I needed to get. Him and my son love dirt bikes and motorcycles. This makes great Father's day or masculine birthday cards. This card is paired up with the Extreme Elements stamp set from the Idea Book & Catalog:

I think next time I make this card I will heat emboss the bike in black to make it pop more. But I'm happy with the way this turned out anyway.

One more Elements of Style card

Here is another card made with the Elements of Style stamp set. This also uses some other new goodies. The designer series paper is new and it's fabulous. It has designs on it that you won't see real good until you either stamp on it, brush it with a sponge or brayer over it. So cool! the other cool new goodie is Smooch Spritz. Can you see the sparkles on this card? I spritzed it with the Vanilla color and it just adds that sparkle. Love this stuff!!!

The colors used on this card are Soft Suede and Riding Hood Red. Yes that red is coming back!! I love it!!

I hope you found some inspiration from these last 2 cards with this set. I will have one more set in the next 2 days, then I am off to the Stampin'Up! cruise with my friend Jackie and won't be posting until after I get back.

Thanks for stopping today.

Elements of Style sneak peek

As promised, here is a different stamp set from the upcoming Summer Mini starting next Saturday!! This one is called Elements of Style. I used Bashful Blue classic ink and Whisper White craft ink for this project. The card stock is Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand and Whisper White. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the image to stamp with the Blue and White. Come back tomorrow for another card with the very vintagey stamp set.

Last Sweet Scoops car d for now

This is a last Sweet Scoops card for now. I do have more, but I will change stamp sets tomorrow. This card does feature some of the Sweet Pea paper from the Occasions mini, that you can still order until April 30, but you could use any paper for this card. I picked up colors found in that paper for the ice cream.

Come back tomorrow and I will start showing you another sneak peek stamp set.

Another Sweet Scoops card

How do you like this one? I ran the card stock through the bigshot with the Perfect Polka dot embossing folder after I stamped the ice cream and then took the chocolate chip marker and colored in the 'chocolate chips'. The ice cream is embossed with Whisper White embossing powder.

Another Sweet Scoops card

As promised, here's another Sweet Scoops card. This one uses So Saffron as the card base and of course the Square Lattice die. This is a very simple card, which I am trying to stick with. Hope you like it.

Sweet Scoops Sneak Peek

Here's a card using the new stamp set Sweet Scoops which will be available in the Summer Mini starting May 1. This is a fun set. I am having fun using it. Come back tomorrow for another card.

Mostly Vintage Stencil Card

This card using a new Decor Stencil coming in the Summer mini catalog starting May 1. I was able to order it early. Would you like to order stuff before anybody else? Contact me soon, I have a special deal for you.

Anyway, this card also using the new Stampinup exclusive embossing folder called Square Lattice for the background. Love this, and just to be warned, you will be seeing it a lot more! The colors used are Kraft and Rich Razzleberry. The words are from another new set called Watercolor Trio, which I will show you more images from that set later.

I hope you found some inspiration today. Thanks for stopping.

Summer Mini Sneak Peek

Well I received my pre-order from the Summer Mini Catalog 2010 yesterday and had time today to stamp with my friend Jackie. This card is using a brand new embossing folder called Square Lattice and it's exclusive to Stampin'Up! The little butterfly stamp is from a set called Itty Bitty Bits and the were punched out using one of the punches from the new punch pack called Itty Bitty Shapes. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. The colors I used on this card are: Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand, So Saffron and Whisper White. All these colors will be carried over into the new catalog in July.

I hope I have given you some inspiration today and if you would like to order any of this product starting May 1, you may visit my website.