Stampin Up Only Challenge, Embossing

Well here I am again. how great is that. I am playing almost everyday with my stamps for at least 30 minutes or so.  I am just looking at my stamps and picking one.  Here is one I used called Apothecary Art, and then I water colored the flowers with a blending pen. tThe sentiment in the middle came from  Messages for Mom, another old stamp set.  I then used an embossing folder from Stampin Up, unsure of name, ran it through the big shot and then ran my white ink pad over the top.  You  just got to love it.  Thought this card would be great to send out for some encouragement right now.  

I am using this card for the Stampin Up Only challenge.  Hope you enjoy!

Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day!

Apothecary Art and Blendabilities

Happy Sunday!  Thought I would make this quick post before I head out to church.  Played a little more yesterday and am trying to use some stamp sets I just have on my shelves.  Don't know why I keep ordering as I have more than I can ever use.  Lord help me!  Anyway, I used my Apothecary Stamp set yesterday and used the blendabilities to color in.  I am getting better.  See for yourself.

Here is a close up and yes, I need more practice, but I am getting better.

As you can see, I used some of my wonderful thinlits and embossing folders I haven't used in a while either and why I don't know, but I do love them.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

TSSC265 Challenge

Good Monday morning and Happy Memorial Day all! Hope you had a wonderful weekend and hope this holiday is wonderful.  First let me remind you that our LNS challenge is now going for two weeks and if you are looking for that challenge, see this post!  This card of course was inspired by this weeks sketch over at Techno Stampers.  Please join us this week for this fabulous sketch.  Since today kicks off our beach season here in Wilmington, NC, I thought I would use the seashells that we have. I just love them.  What I did here was to used the embossing technique two ways.  I used heat embossing on the sentiment and the shells and of course used the perfect polka dots embossing folder for the background.  Here is my sample!

Here is a close up of the embossed shells and sentiment!

A close up side view!

And a side view of the card!

And the inside of the card!

Lots of photos this time as I was having fun with this card!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: By the Seashore, Apothecary Art (outside sentiment), Create A Cupcake (inside sentiment)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Pool Party, Crumb Cake

Designer Series paper: Comfort Cafe

Ink: Pool Party, Versamark

Pool Party Embossing powder

Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

Shimmer Spritz for sand effect

Thanks for stopping by and hope you play along with our Monday Lunch Time sketch this week!

Secret Garden Birthday

Good Morning all and happy weekend!  I got up and decided to play this morning before I started my bedroom clean up!  And here is what I came up with thanks to the sketch this week from Freshly Made Sketches and all my new items from SU! Yea!! That is if I can upload my photos.  OK, changed to Google Chrome and here it is!

And the side view of the card!

Aren't these framelits just the best!!!!

Inside and envelope!

All items are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Secret Garden, Apothecary Arts, Outline Occasions (inside)

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze

Designer Series Paper: Tea for Two

Ink: Melon Mambo, Versamark

Embossing Powders: Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi

Framelits: Secret Garden, Finishing Touches

Thanks so much for stopping by today and hope you enjoy your Saturday!  Now it is time for me to get to work!!!!!

Another One Layer Card - WOW for LNS

Good Morning and hope your week has been blessed.  Today I want to share with you another one layer card and another technique I learned.  It is called "Embossing with Framelits."  You can find a video here as to the layering and how to emboss.  I just love the look of it and thought about adding ribbon or something but it seemed to take away from the finished product, so I kept taking it off and just left it as is.

Here is a close up of the embossing!

And a side view!

Isn't it the neatest. I have been wanting to do it for a while and finally decided to go for it this week.

And actually since I used the white natural paper, I decided to do the inside, but did not add the layering to the bottom inside.  Here is the inside.

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp set: Apothecary Art

Card Stock: Naturals White

Designer Series Paper: Festival of Prints paper stack

Ink: Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple

Labels Collection Framelits

Markers for Coloring

Thanks for stopping by!

Road to Happiness!

Well today we were suppose to have our stamp crop at the church, but due to vacations and other summer activities did not have enough people, so I decided to still work on some of the projects I need to complete.  But as always before I get started on the birthday scrapbook for my wonderful granddaughter, I had to do a card for the sketch at Stamping 411.  Love there sketches!  I also needed a birthday card for my sister and was so excited to be able to use my new stamp set, "Road to Happiness."  I am going to love this stamp set.  Do I say that about all my stamp sets?  Yes!!!!  Anyway once I  got started I realized the new Fan Fair paper I had was perfect for the card as one side is a map.  I was so excited and it just went together perfectly.

Here is the side view of the card!

And of course the inside!

And a close up of the stamped image.  I was a little off on getting the presents exactly right in the car, but that just makes it unique.  Right?

All items used are stampin up unless otherwise noted

Stamp Set: Road to Happiness, Apothecary Art (inside happy birthday)

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Designer Series Paper: Fan Fair

Classic Ink: Basic Gray, Island Indigo

Markers used for coloring and coloring the car image on the stamp

Fancy Fan Folder

Sizzix 3" scallop bigz die

Circle Cutter

Scallop Trim Border Punch

1/4 Pink Pirouette grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for looking and please stop back by!

True Road to Happiness!

"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.  Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.  But take heart, because I have overcome the world."  John 16:33

Having Fun with a new Style card

This week our Demonstrator, Nancy Lewis who took over my workshops, showed us 2 beautiful cards and this Swing Fold card was one of them. Nancy said she got the idea from one of her downlines. The card below is the one I did in our workshop on Tuesday Night.  Boy was I impressed with this card.  Even after being a demo for the last 5 years, I am still learning from Nancy now!  You never learn it all!

So impressed that I decided to make a retirement card for a co-worker of mine and we are doing the retirement party here at my house around 12:00 today, so I had to get this posted and get some house stuff done before they come.  Anyway, here is the card I did last night for her.

Is it not just the cutest card.  I actually went through my retired papers to pick out one piece that I thought would be perfect for this design card and this paper just called my name.  Again, I am using the Ice Cream Parlor Designer Paper that was a Sale-A-Bration item last year.  As I show you the photos following, I am going to show the same shot with the card I made at the workshop. 

See how you can decorate the inside of each card.  The bottom one already had some design in the paper which I did not want to cover up, so I cut my inside piece a little shorter to show off the design.  I also used a retired stampin' up! set called Pedalling Past which I have not used in a long time and love.

And here are both of the cards totally closed!

So there you have it.  So easy and quick to make.

Now I am going to give you the measurements and hope you can figure the rest out.

Cut a piece of Designer Paper or any Card Stock to 5 1/2 X 12.  With paper the long way on the scorer, score at 2, 4, 8 and 10.  That leaves the inside at 4". 

Then from the bottom of the paper on each side you will measure up 2 3/4" and make a dot.  Now at the workshop we cut with scissors from the dot to the 4" score line.  But, I placed mine in my cutter and cut the diagonal piece from the 2 3/4" to the 4" score line.  You can kind of see what I am talking about by looking at photo # 2.  Then using the pieces you cut out on the diagonal, you can adhere to the bottom of the card, as you can also see in photo # 2.  That just gives a little more color to the card.  I am sure you could leave that part off, but why would you unless you really like the look of your Designer paper.

Cut your inside piece of card stock to the desired size and make an outside piece and voila, you are done.

Hope you enjoyed the post today and now I need to get to work on this house.  Let me know what you think and God bless!

SU LateNightStampers Challenge/Go Green - Recyle

The challenge this week is to go green - recycle.  So when I was over at Splitcoaststampers, I saw where Jill Parker had made a flower using the dryer sheet and I decided to case her card which you can find here.  I used the Sizzix die Flower Layer #3 for my flower and the leaves are a sizzlits called "little leaves."    I did use the boho blossoms punch and a brad for the center.  I could not believe what a cute flower these dryer sheets made.  I will be making more.  I also made a spritz from the regal rose refill and added water and spritzed the flower.  I was not patient though and used my heat gun to dry the flowers.  Maybe because I wait to the last minute and have to get it done quickly. lol  Thanks Jill for this great technique and for your beautiful card.

Here is a side view of the flower!

I will do this again and now I need to keep all my dryer sheets.  Now on to the inside where I am trying to use up some old retired paper.

Remember this paper which was one of the celebration papers in 2011.  It had the regal rose and the green in it, so it worked out perfect for the inside.

All items used are Stampin' Up! except for the dryer sheet!

Stamp Set: Apothecary Art

Card Stock: Regal Rose, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Ice Cream Parlor

Classic Ink: Regal Rose

Spritzer and Regal Rose Refill with water to spritz the dryer sheet

Flower Layer # 3 Sizzix Die

Little Leaves Sizzlits Die

Thanks for looking and hope you have a wonderful day!