Welcome Baby

Hello Peeps! It's Saturday and the weather is great and SAS is this afternoon, all is good!!!


Today's card is a cute little baby card made with the DS paper and ribbon from SAB.

Yesterday while blog surfing I visited Toy's Haven. One of my all time favorite stampers and a really sweet person! Holly is a Stamping Rock Star. And speaking of Rock stars yesterday she had a sneak peek of some fun new stamps soon to be released by Our Craft Lounge. I simply fell in love with her cards, especially this one. I love the colors and the design.

My card today is based on that design. I used her layout and the same MS edge punches, just changed the colors to fit my baby card.

Not alot of stamping on this one, the sail boat is made with a circle punch and a couple of rectangle pieces of card stock cut at angles. I have seen this done alot around splitcoast and blogland. The colors I used are bashful blue, certainly celery and so saffron. The designer paper is from the new SAB pack as is the certainly celery twill ribbon. That ribbon is really nice, has a great feel and ties well.

The sentiment is from the SU set short and sweet and is stamped in black and punched out with the word window punch and is mounted on dimensionals. Alot of paper piercing done with my piercing tool and mat pack. The sailboat is also on dimensionals and I punched three circles with my 1/4" punch out of bashful blue and use some saffron brads in the middle and mounted them under the ribbon knot.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Retirement Congratulations

TGIF Peeps! Hope your week was good and your ready for some weekend fun, it is suppose to be very nice here this weekend and on Saturday afternoon I am going to my friends SAS. I am looking forward to it, we have fun and always make great cards!

Today's card is CAS (clean and simple) card. I have a hard time not adding alot of layers and embellishments. I based my card on this one, on Jenn Diercks' blog "Stamp Your Heart Out". She has an amazing talent and I love her blog, she is so sweet.

I loved how she had outlined the flowers with a bit of chocolate chip and wanted to try myself. The flowers are from the SU set "Petal Pizazz", you know I love that one, and they are stamped in riding hood red, tangerine and pacific blue. I used my chocolate chip marker to outline the outside of each flower. The riding hood red one is stamped directly onto the white piece of cardstock and the other two where stamped onto white scraps and cut out and mounted on dimensionals. They each have a white brad in the center.

The sentiment is from the SAB set "Congrats: and is stamped in chocolate chip ink.

I pierced around the outside edge of the white panel with my piercing tool and mat pack anf then mounted the white onto a piece of tangerine cardstock and then mounted that onto the base which is made from chocolate chip.

The card was really fast and easy and I like how it came out, altho I tried for a while to add more to it, nothing looked quite right, so I just left it like this, clean and simple.

I am going to use this card to give to a friend I went to high school who is retiring this month after 28 years with the postal service. The inside reads "let the relaxation begin" (Happy Retirement) and is also a stamp in the same SAB set.

Well, that is all for today, I am happy to report that the "uglies" are lifting!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!!

Vicki

Another Mother's Day

Hello Peeps! It's Thursday and we are on the downhill slide to the weekend!

Today's card is made with the same sketch as yesterday's card. I really like the sketch and the big tag on the front.

I used the same stamp set, "Pocket Silhouettes" and the sentiment is from "All Holidays", I changed up the colors, this time using some more of the in colors, kiwi kiss and riding hood red along with whisper white and some of the Bella Rose DS paper. I used silver brads and a silver mini library clip. I added a kiwi photo corner that I had pierced. No ribbon on this one, but I was thinking I might add a small piece if riding hood red on the clip.

Still not feeling myself again today, the "uglies" are still here and it is definitely effecting my stamping! :(

I have a few new items arriving today, SAB stamps and ribbon and paper, hope to have some of that to show you tomorrow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!

Vicki

The Uglies

Happy Hump Day peeps! Hope your week is going good so far! I have had a "nasty" case of what I have been calling the "uglies" lately. I do not know why but I have been very testy and emotional and the slightest things upset me, even my family is annoying when this "nasty" bug hits. It has finally made it's way into my crafting area.

I made this card for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. Don't get me wrong I like this card but I trashed at least three attemps with this sketch, before I finally got this one done. I took alot of inspiration from this card made by Karen Giron. I used her idea of the tag on the front and the same stamp set.

I flipped the sketch and used elegant eggplant, more mustard and whisper white cardstock. I don't have the tag nestibilities so I made the my tag with the SU tag punch.

I think I also achieved another SU only card. The only thing that might not be is the white grosgrain ribbon, I am not sure where I got it from.

Here is a look at the inside:



So hopefully the "uglies" will not hang around to long and not effect my stamping any more.

That's all for today, thanks so stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Sweet Sketch

Hello Peeps!

Today's card is made with the sketch on Karen's Blog "The Sweetest Thing".

I started my card with the DP paper from SU called Candy Lane and I just used the colors from it. Very vanilla, riding hood red, pink pirouette and close to cocoa. The base is close to cocoa followed by riding hood red and then the designer paper. I again used the flowers from the Petal Pizazz set and layered them up with dimensionals. They just begged me too!!! LOL! :)

The sentiment is from the set "All Holidays" and this particular stamp had never seen ink, so it was about time.

The flower center is a brad from the silver hodge-podge kit and the center is just a small circle of RHR with some crystal effects on it. I also made some "faux" brads the same way. I just punched a few circles with my 1/4" punch attached a small glue dot to them and put them on a sheet of the slick paper I had saved from the dimensionals, so it would be easy to pull them up when dry, and added some crystal effects.

I added some pink ribbon and a little pirecing to finish it off. I finally was able to complete a Stampin' Up only card. Everytime I try, I seem to always add something that is not, but this time I did it! My friend Lois told me yesterday to quit trying so hard and then I could do it! LOL!!! Funny, I didn't even think about it with this card and I did it!

Well that seems to be all for today, thanks sooooo much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

2 Cards for 1 Sketch

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!! Hope you all had a great weekend! How about that Super Bowl? I was so disappointed that the Cardinals didn't win, but it was a really great game!!!

I made a couple of cards during the pre-game and game to show you today. Both of the cards was made with Jen's Sketch for you to Try..

When I print out a sketch, I always start thinking about what set I would like to use with it. My first thought was the flower from the SU Hostess set, Dream a Little. When I sit down to make it, I totally spaced that out. I pulled out the SU a Happy Heart Set and wanted to try to use the butterfly from it for the circles. I used some Washington Apple DS paper and riding hood red and bashful blue cardstock and altho I like this card the next is my fave.




This is the card I had first thought about when I saw the sketch. I stamped the flower from the SU Dream a Little Hostess set with black stazon on watercolor paper and used my markers and aquapainter to color the flowers. I used rose red and old olive. Every time I sit down to make a card recently I have been trying really hard to make a SU only card and I always fall short. I reach for my cuttlebug embossing folders or a non-SU punch. I am ordering those embossing plates from SU so that will help and my new decorative edge SU punch is on it's way to me now.

Well, that is all I have for you today, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki