Dynamic Duos Challenge #39

Hello Stampers!   Hope your week is going well!  I made some time tonight to create a card for the Dynamic Duos Blog Challenge.  I hadn't a chance to play along with their challenges until now. It's amazing how using two colors can be so inspiring.  Check out the other creations here.

I kept my design simple.  Can you guess which items I used again on my card?  The stamp set "For the Birds" is such a fun set. The base of the card is very vanilla. I paper pierced the mail box with pool party dsp. The cute buttons on my card, those are the exclusive SAB buttons only available until March 22.  

Thanks again for stopping by.  Until next time.

Chalkboard I 'heart' you

Hello stampers!  So Valentine's Day is almost here and I wanted to create a handmade card for my boyfriend. Although I like to give him cards just because not just on special occasions. I didn't want to create a frilly, fu-fu card so I kept it simple.

I'm having fun creating cards with the chalkboard technique so I used it to create this card for him.  I saw a card similar to this on an email I received from a greeting card store. I received the Morning Post alphabet stamp set as part of a birthday present perk from Stampin' Up! Love getting spoiled from Stampin' Up! I have fond memories of playing tic-tac-toe.  I hope he likes it.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Button Buddies Flower easel card

Happy Sunday Stampers!  Have you played along with us at Sunday Stamps yet? We have an awesome color challenge this week.  Melissa is our wonderful host and my fellow designers have created some beautiful creations.  Come check us out and play along with us!

When I saw Melissa's color challenge it took me awhile to think of how I wanted to use it.  Last Monday at our Shoebox Swap meeting I got a cool easel card from my fellow demo Becky and I wanted to try it out. I really like the flower stamp from the Button Buddies stamp set so I used to create a sunflower. I didn't use any ink pads for my card, just our Many Marvelous Markers!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a chance to create something this week!

Stamp Sets:  Button Buddies and Pretty Petites

Card Stock:  More Mustard, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Subtles DSP Stack

Other:  1/2 Scallop Dots Ribbon, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Neutrals Designer Buttons, Stampin' Dimensionals, Petite Curly Label punch

Freshly Made Sketch #72

Hello Stampers!  Hope your Saturday is going well.  It was a busy day for me, spent most of the day cleaning the house, although my craft room is still messy.  Hmm...creative chaos can be good right?  Well, in my disorganized mess I had room to create a card to play along with a sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.  I'm a bit late to the party as I'm barely playing with the More Amore Specialty DSP from the Spring Catalog.  I love the colors in this DSP! I'm having fun with the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and coordinating framelits dies!  The Cloudy Day EF is quickly becoming one of my favorites!  The love cup is from A Fitting Occasion stamp set and the sentiment is from Tiny Tags.

So go check out the other creations at Freshly Made Sketches here, lots of inspiration. Thanks again for stopping by!  

SAB Shoebox Swap

Hello Stampers!  Happy Tuesday!

Hope you created something this weekend!  Last night we have our downline/upline Shoe Box Swap meeting using stamp sets and items from the SAB catalog.  I got so many wonderful ideas on how to use some of the stamp sets, especially the ones that I didn't initially like.  Good thing SAB goes on until March 22!

So I used the Bloomin' Marvelous stamp set.  Love that the new bitty butterfly from the Spring Catalog coordinates with the butterfly in this stamp set.  I'm loving our new cloudy day embossing folder.  I cut it out with our label framelits in pool party and then sponged pacific point to give it more detail.  The butterflies are stamped off several times in tangerine tango and summer starfruit and then I punched out two of them.  The Sycamore Street dsp is full of awesome designs but right now I'm really liking this pattern.

Well that's all for now friends.  Gotta finish putting together several stamp sets I ordered and received so I can play with them. Thanks so much for stopping by.  Until next time!

Ears to you...

Hello Stampers!  Happy Sunday.  We have a new challenge at Sunday Stamps this week, Holly is our host.  She has an awesome sketch.  Come and play with us, here.

Earlier this week I got some new stamping goodies and one of them was this cute single stamp called Ears to you.  I love the bunnies! I used daffodil delight, pacific point and melon mambo markers to ink up the bunnies first.  Then I inked each bunny separately with our new ink pads so the image would be brighter and richer.  Using our paper snips it was easy to cut up each bunny and then pop it up with our dimensionals.  Wanna know a cool trick with our dimensionals?  If you layer two of them together creates a higher pop up!

The awesome clouds is our new embossing folder from the Spring catalog.  I created my own shimmer mist with a few drops of marina mist and rubbing alcohol. I wanted the focus to be on the bunnies so I left a lot of white area on my card.  A small strip of the new 3/8 organdy ribbon in melon mambo with the sentiment is a nice touch. I have so many ideas running through my head of what to create with these bunnies.

Ten Never-Before-Seen Images!

You wanted more? You got more! We've had a great response so far to our experiment with single stamps. So much so that we are making ten more never-before-seen images available as single stamps available through March 31, 2013.

Details

• These stamps are available on any order type-customer, demonstrator, workshop, or online. 
• You can find the stamp item numbers on the flyers.
• Single stamps can be ordered in the online store.
• These won't be sent in our typical cases or packaging; they'll be packaged in cello bags. If you'd like a case for your stamp, you can buy our Clear-Mount Stamp Cases that come in packs of four (item 119105).
• This offer is available for clear-mount stamps only.
• The stamps won't come with a Clear-Mount Block, and you'll need to buy a block separately if you don't already have one. The recommended block sizes can be found on the flyer. 
• There's no limit on how many pieces you can buy.
• These stamps are only available through March 31, 2013, so get them while you can!

You can shop for all the single stamps here from my online store. 

Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Challenge

Good morning stampers!  I know-morning!  Got up early today for a quick challenge post. I came across this sketch from the Paper Players and I had this card in mind!  Of course I used all Stampin' Up! products!  Go check out the creations from the design team here.  I'll come back later today and add what I used.  Thanks for stopping by.

Updated: So I played with the new hearts a flutter stamp set and coordinating framelits from the Spring catalog! I love both items! I know I'll be using them more.  The base of the card is raspberry ripple and the dsp is the retired Halloween from the holiday catalog.  I created the roses using our 1 1/4 scallop circle. It makes the right size roses.  I layered them on top of the large heart. The sentiment is from the pennant parade.  I really like the way it turned out, all thanks to a cool sketch.  I think I'll try stepping up this card by adding a bit more layers. Thanks again for stopping by and for your cool comments.