Well, it’s going to be kind of a cruddy day….rain turning to snow….I thought I needed to post something springy today.  What’s more springy than flowers?

Once again I dug out my Best of Flowers stamp set.  I think this card turned out a pretty and elegant.  What do you think?  After stamping the flowers I colored them in with my ink pads and Blender Pen.  I used the Shimmery White card stock so I didn’t really want to use an Aquapainter…..it kept getting too wet on me.  🙁

I die cut the image with my Oval Framelits and mounted it on another piece that I die cut with the Labels Collection Framelit after I stamped the card stock with the En Francais background stamp.

If you’re wondering where I got my Strawberry Slush ribbon I used my favorite trick on it.  I spritzed the Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon with some Strawberry Slush ink refill and 70% rubbing alcohol.  LOVE that trick!  I’m stocking up on Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon!

Tomorrow is Stamp Camp.  I’m basically ready for it.  I think I’ll work on a few displays for it today.  Gotta keep those stampers motivated!  🙂

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Does everyone have a birthday in March?  Sheesh!  My baby boy turns 21 in a few weeks, my niece just had her birthday a few days ago, my brother-in-law has a birthday tomorrow, more nieces and nephews later in the month, my son’s girlfriend’s birthday is on the 17th and my DIL has a birthday on the 26th!  That’s just family!  My team had a meeting on Sunday for our Stamp Camp coming up on Saturday and 4 out of the 6 of us have birthdays this month!  Wow!

Thinking about that made me decided that I needed to post a birthday card today!  This one is pretty easy to make….in fact we’ll be making it at class next week.  My favorite part of the card is the designer paper.  The Naturals Composition Specialty Designer Paper is really cool.  The darker notes on the piece on my card are shiny and embossed.  All of the different patterns are like that.  You can do some fun things with this paper….maybe I’ll have to show you sometime!  🙂

I made the birthday label from the Best of Birthdays stamp set two tone by stamping it twice in different colors and then cutting out the birthday banner from one and adhering it to the other.   This little birthday stamp fits perfectly in the XL Oval Punch.  I added an oval background to it by die cutting an oval with my Oval Framelit and paper piercing around it with the Occasions Paper Piercing Pack.  Fun and easy!  Maybe you should give this card a try for all those birthdays in your life!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s probably appropriate to have a subdued card for Ash Wednesday.  Gorgeous (in my humble opinion), but subdued.  No wild colors going on here.  Just a beautiful silhouette.

Isn’t this little bitty Upsy Daisy stamp from “Best of Flowers” adorable?  The original Upsy Daisy was great but this little one is SO cute!  I punched a tag with my favorite Scallop Tag Topper Punch and stamped the daisies silhouette in black.  Then I sponged on a little color with Pear Pizzazz and Soft Sky, just enough to highlight the flowers.

The sentiment is from “Fabulous Phrases”  I think this would make a good sympathy card too.  You could use the “with sympathy” from the “Teeny Tiny Wishes” stamp set.  I wish I could take better pictures of my cards.  You can hardly tell that I used the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder on the background.   Improving my photography is one of the many things I’d like to accomplish in my life.  What’s on your list?

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s March and Spring is (or should be) on it’s way so it’s time for some flowers!  Have you checked out the “Best of Flowers” stamp set?  You should!  This is the perfect set for Spring!

I first stamped the “En Francais” background  stamp on a piece Shimmery White card stock with Crumb Cake ink.  I did stamp off first so that it would be pretty light.  Then I stamped the Hydrangea randomly over the stamped background with Black StazOn ink.  I cut three squares from the background (ok…I used my retired square punches) making sure I had different parts of the flower on each square.  I mounted the flower squares on black and that was it.

It’s hard to see from the picture but before I mounted the black squares with Stampin’ Dimensionals, I scored a couple of lines on the Crumb Cake card stock with my Simply Scored and then centered the squares between the score marks.  It really added to the card.

The sentiment is from the “A Dozen Thoughts” stamp set.  This “just because” is one of my favorite because it’s such a cute font.  This was a pretty easy card and so pretty.  I do need to confess that I CASEd it though.  I don’t want to take credit for something I didn’t completely design!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

It’s still February so I just had to share another card made with the “Best of Love” stamp set.   OK….I do have a couple more for you but this one is my favorite!  Have you ever had that great feeling when a card just comes together and you LOVE it?  This was one of those.

I was wishing I had designed it for my Valentines class but then got to thinking….why can’t we still make it for a class?  It doesn’t say Happy Valentines Day so it could be an anniversary card or just an “I love you” card.  So, needless to say, we’ll be making it at our next class.

It did turn out cute, didn’t it?  My favorite part is the background.  After I stamped the hearts from the “Hearts A Flutter” stamp set I ran the Whisper White card stock through the Big Shot with the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder.

TSC!  Too Stinkin’ Cute!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

When was the last time you used your Create a Cupcake stamp set and the coordinating Cupcake Builder Punch?  Yep….hard to remember isn’t it?  I had originally dug mine out for a workshop I did in January.  My friend originally wanted to do a birthday card and what says birthday more than a cupcake?  🙂

Once I decided on the stamp set I grabbed my Birthday Bash Designer Paper.  Designer Paper makes card making SO easy!  It saves you the trouble of choosing a color scheme because you just go with the colors in the paper!  That’s how I came up with my combination of Raspberry Ripple and Basic Gray.  Such a pretty combination!

We made this card in classes this week and one of the gals commented on the label.  I used to use this combination of Modern Label Punch and Word Window Punch for the Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment ALL the time and now we hardly ever use it at all.  I’m sad to say it’s true.  I’ve moved on I’m afraid… It’s nice to be able to rely on old friends though when the time is right!  🙂

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

I saw this card on Pinterest and fell in love.  Isn’t this little punch art alligator adorable?  Once I saw him I knew I had to make him.

Can you guess what punch he’s made with? It’s the Pennant Builder Punch!  Punch out both pennant on the punch from Gumball Green card stock.  Run the smaller straight-edged punch through the Big Shot with that fabulous Sale-a-bration product the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder.  Trim off the long sides of the scalloped edge pennant.  Layer them.  Now, punch another scallop-edged pennant from Whisper White.  Cut off enough of  the long scalloped sides so that you can adhere them to the back of your Gumball Green pennants.  These are the teeth!.  The circles that you place the googlie eyes on are the medium circles from the Owl Builder Punch.

Just like the Geometrical card I showed you last week you trim off about 1/2″ from the front of the card a place a strip of designer paper on the inside edge so it show through.  I used the fun Watercolor Wonder Designer Paper here.  Don’t forget the fun zig-zag edge on the front of the card made with the Tasteful Trim Die.  It really adds to the card along with the great new Arrows Embossing Folder.

So many fun new products!  So little time!  What’s a stamper to do?

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Did I say TSC?  Too Stinkin’ Cute!

Wow….sometimes I think I’m losing it.  Last week I was having a hard time with Framelits.  Not using them….losing them!

Earlier last week I made this card using the “Best of Love” stamp set again.  I die cut the little heart using the heart from the “Hearts A Flutter” Framelits and then I proceeded to put the heart away….or so I thought.  I’ve been trying to be real good about putting my framelits away after I use them.  I put them back in their little package and then put the package in the box where I store my framelits.

Apparently the little heart didn’t make it in the package….in fact it didn’t make it into ANY package.  I looked and looked and looked and couldn’t find the little bugger.  I had resigned myself to the fact that I’d never see it again.  🙁

Then yesterday I lost yet ANOTHER framelit!  What’s going on with me and framelits?  A few weeks ago I shared a shaker card with you using the new “On Film” Framelits and I promised I’d write up a little tutorial for you (coming Tuesday) so I die cut a frame and took the pictures for the tutorial.  I could have sworn that I put that die right back where it belonged….no such luck.

Once again I looked and looked and looked.  The framelit had disappeared.  Now I was getting a little concerned because we’re making that card in classes this coming week and I kind of need it.   I wasn’t panicking….yet.  I decided to look in every single framelit package I had.

So…once I took all of the framelit packages out of the storage box I discovered my little heart framelit!  Woo Hoo!  I THOUGHT I had put it in the package but apparently it didn’t quite make it IN the package and was now sitting at the bottom of the storage box!  Sheesh!  Then once I started looking in all of the packages I found that I had put the frame framelit in the wrong package.  What’s a girl to do but think that she’s losing her mind? Yikes!

So now life is good.  I still think I might be losing my mind…but I have my framelits!  🙂

Enough chatter…..as I mentioned before, this card is another one mad with the “Best of Love” stamp set.  I told you on was on a roll with these stamp sets.  I know the card is kind of a valentine but it could be used as an anniversary or thinking of you card.  Besides, it’s still February so I figure I can still use valentine-type cards!  🙂  Don’t be surprised if you see a few more this week!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Welcome back to Simple Saturday!  It’s time I start getting back on schedule, don’t you think?  A few days ago I mentioned that I was starting to play with all of my “Best of” stamp sets.  Well, here’s my first sample.

I used “Best of Love” (item #132987  $14.95) on this card.  The word “love” is from the stamp set.  You can check out the whole set here.

Once I stamped the word I simply punched out three hearts from Red Glimmer Paper and adhered them to the card.  I added a few layers and my card was done!  Simple!

Now, if you’re interested in purchasing any of the “Best of” stamp sets you need to remember that they’re only available until March 31st.  After that, they’re gone!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Do you love Washi Tape?  I sure do.  Stampin’ Up!’s Retro Fresh Washi Tape is just the thing to use to make a FUN card!

I paired the Retro Fresh Washi Tape with the Starburst Sayings stamp set and it’s coordinating Starburst Framelits.  You may have heard me say this just once or twice…but I LOVE products that coordinate!  They make card creating SO much easier! Won’t this make a fun birthday card?

Did you notice that I snuck one of those fun Candy Dots on the card?  I finally got over just hoarding them and decided to actually use them!  Hopefully you’ll be seeing them a lot more!  They’re a great embellishment for any card!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Today’s card is a beauty (in my humble opinion) and once again I copied someone else’s idea.  That’s why we create…..to share!

The flowers are from the new Petite Petals stamp set and punched out with the Petite Petals Punch.  The original card had a lot more flowers and it was beautiful.  I just thought that we’d simplify a bit for class this week.

The gorgeous sentiment is from “Best of Greetings”.  This is one of the stamp sets that Stampin’ Up! came out with exclusively for their 25th Anniversary last year.  They brought back old favorites in each stamp set and introduced one new one.  You can still purchase this stamp set or any of the others until March 31st.  Be sure to come back to my blog in the next few weeks because I plan on sharing samples from all twelve of the “Best of” stamp sets.  I’m having a ball coming up with samples.  🙂

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

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