Christmas Cheer

 

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Over at The Paper Players 

they have a fun themed challenge this week:

Out comes the Snowman Season stamp set for my card.

I have barely used his set. Not sure why.

 

I stamped my image with black stazon onto a die cut thick Whisper White.

I used the Stitched Rectangle dies for both the

snowman and the sentiment piece.

The base of my card is Cherry Cobbler card sock and I used some gold foil paper and a piece

of DSP from the Wrapped in Plaid pack.

 

I finished with a white twine bow and some gold pearls.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

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Vicki

 

Happy Birthday

 

Happy  Tuesday Peeps!!

At The Paper Players 

this week they have a great sketch challenge for us.

I love a good sketch with plenty of layers!

I began by stamping and coloring my main image. I comes from the Wonderful Romance stamp set and it has matching dies. I love that it not only cuts out the image but also some select pieces within the image.

Also in this die set is the die that cuts the piece my floral image is mounted on.

I colored my flowers using Calypso Coral and the leaves are colored using Wild Wasabi ink.

 

The base of my card is Thick Whisper White and then 

next another piece of white that I embossed with the Subtle EF

The DSP on here are from the Butterfly Gala pack, I mounted both of these onto some Basic Black card stock.

I then used another piece of Basic Black for the horizontal piece. I used the scallop edge die in he Be Mine Framelits along the bottom edge.

I mounted the floral image to the circle piece with dimensionals and added it to the card with more dimensionals.

 

My sentiment is one I had already stamped in my stash, no sure the set it was from.

I added it to the card with more dimensionals. 

I stamped and colored  the flowers in the image again and cut them out to add over the base flower.

 I finished up with little basic pearls in the center of the flowers and three pretty little sticky sequuins from the Gingham Gala Sequins pack.

Thanks for coming by today!

Vicki

 

PPA131....Vintage Birthday Wishes

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card made using the sketch challenge this week on the Pals Paper Arts Blog.

I had a request for a vintage birthday card with some blue from a customer.

I started out with one of the label framelits and very vanilla card stock. I ran it through the big shot and left the die in place on top of the card stock and stamped my images and sponged all around the metal die.

I stamped the french script BG with crumb cake ink and then the flower images from the Simply Soft hostess set was stamped with timber brown stazon. I then sponged all around with crumb cake ink.

I colored the flowers in with my aqua painter using Baja Breeze ink.

I used the vintage wall EF on the soft suede card stock strip and sponged it with some early espresso ink. The DSP is from the Pocketful of Posies paper pack.

I added some crochet lace trim and an antique brad to the side as well. 

The sentiment is from the Occasional Quotes stamp set and stamped with early espresso ink onto very vanilla and sponges with a bit of crumb cake ink. I hand cut the end and matted it with soft suede. I used a punch from the itty bitty punch pack to make the little flower on the sentiment flag. I used a basic pearl in the flower center and three pearls in the top corner.

Hope she likes it, thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki 

PPA116......Season's Greetings

Happy Monday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with the sketch challenge this week on the The Paper Players Blog.

You all know I LOVE a sketch challenge. I pulled out my Stampin Up "Welcome Christmas" Stamp Set and I also used some retired Stampin Up paper from the "Love Letters"  DSP.

I started my card with a base of Crumb Cake Card stock. I used a 5 x 10 inch piece folded in half. I then used some riding hood red and a piece of the DSP. Then another strip of the DSP that is matted with basic black card stock. I stamped the silhouette image with black stazon onto very vanilla card stock. I matted that piece with basic black and added it to the card with some dimesionals. 

I stamped the sentiment twice onto some scrap very vanilla, once with black and once with riding hood red and cut out the black piece and the "Season's Greetings" piece from the riding hood red. I added it to the black piece with some dimesionals.

I used some very vanilla seam binding ribbon that I "dyed" by running it over my riding hood red ink pad a few times on each side. I then put it into a small plastic baggie and added a drop or two of watter and squished it all up. I then used my heat tool to dry it. I then made a triple loop bow and added a pearl brad to the center. Love that bow!

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

Vicki

PPA......for you

TGIF Peeps!!!!

Are you ready for some weekend fun?

 I know I am, we have plans for dinner out tonight with some friends and chillin' out the rest of the weekend. Suppose to be HOT and humid so probably spending alot of time inside with the AC cranked up!!

 What you doing this weekend?

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge this week on  Pals Paper Arts.

 I haven't participated in one of their challenges in a long time and yesterday when I was looking around blog land I came across the sketch challenge this week and wanted to play along.

I wanted to use this new Stampin Up  Hostess set I just got last week called "Love & Care".

 I really love these flowers and colors and I used another fave, the pretty "Sunny Garden" DSP. I stamped the flowers with Poppy Parade and So Saffron ink and used Old Olive for the stems and leaf.

The sentiment part of one stamp from the "Afterthoughts" stamp set another hostess set. I used my 1-1/4 and 1-3/8 inch circle punches for the sentiment.

Did you notice the pretty edging along the side. I made that with the new "Lace Ribbon Border Punch" that will be available In the new Stampin' Up idea book & catalog coming July 1st.

Don't have a demo or access to the new catalog, just give me shout out (e-mail address in my side bar) and I can get one in the mail to you ASAP!!

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by today and

 HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Pals Paper Arts Best Dressed

A little early horn tooting here! I was surprised to find an e-mail this morning from the Pals Paper Arts Team stating I had been chosen as one of their Best Dressed List of 2010.

This is the card that was choosen:




You can read about it HERE and see my original posting HERE.

Thanks for letting me brag just a bit. HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

PPA Mojo Winter Wonderland

Good Friday Morning Peeps!! It is October 1st, which is a very special day in my household. 34 years ago today I married my dear sweet husband and 24 years ago today my dear sweet daughter was born. That's right, dear daughter was born on our 10th wedding Anniversary!!!!

I guess with all that, I should have an anniversary card or at least a birthday card to show you huh? Well, not so much, I have a fun little Christmas card!!! LOL!!

This card was made with two challenges in mind, first up I wanted to use the Pals Paper Arts All Buttoned Up Challenge and when I knew what I wanted to do for that I went looking for a sketch challenge to incorporate with my idea. I found the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge and with a slight change or two I made it work with my idea of the snowman button card.

The sketch could be either a round or square card, I chose the square but used the circle center element that was on the round card. I stamped the snowman from the Jolly Old Saint Nick stamp set with some black stazon onto my whisper white card stock. I colored him up a bit with real red and basic gray and baja breeze around the snow. I added more snowflakes, around the snowman with baja breeze.

The base of the card is real red and I followed that with baja breeze and the DS paper is from the Candy Cane paper pack that is the Holiday Mini. I used three of the smallest buttons from the Candy Cane Big Designer Buttons pack. I threaded, with great difficulty, some 1/4 inch real red grosgrain thought he buttons and tied a knot. I added the buttons to the card with my glue gun. I added some red stickles to the snowman gloves, scarf and hat band. The sentiment on this card comes from the Bright Christmas stamp set and is stamped with black stazon onto the DS paper. I used dimesionals to add the snowman piece and to add the square striped piece to the card.

I think my little snowman looks very happy on his card home! LOL!! I am really loving this Candy Cane paper and have made my Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample card with this paper, you won't want to miss it. Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

PPA61....Grateful Greetings

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!!! Hope you all have some fun plans for the weekend!!

Today I have a card to share made with the Pals Paper Arts Challenge. This week it is a sketch challenge.

The base of my card is very vanilla card stock. I used Cajun Craze for the next layer and the DS paper is from the Autumn Spice Speciality Pack that is the Holiday Mini.

I used the wide oval punch to make the Pumpkin. I punched the three ovals with pumpkin pie card stock and sponged heavily with cajun craze ink. I used some old olive to make the stem and the swirls are made with old olive and the Scribbles Swirls Sizzix die. I stamped the sentiment from the "Grateful Greetings" stamp set with Cajun Craze ink onto the very vanilla panel. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up and make it two lines instead on one.




I added some very vanilla satin ribbon, that I scrunched up along the top strip with some score tape. The end of the strip and the end of the ribbon is cut in a "V". I added a piece of old olive across the bottom with a punched edge. I like how this card came out and think I will make a version of it for my Thanksgiving name cards.

Well, that is all from me today thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

PPA58-Pretty in Pearls

Good Friday Morning Peeps!!! I have two cards for ya today! Both are very similar and are made with this weeks challenge on Pals Paper Arts Blog. Their challenge this week is PPA58-Pretty in Pearls, to create a clean and simple card using pearls!

As I was thinking about this challenge, a card came to mind, I had made a similar card to this one with a friend last year, in reverse, I think. The red was white embossed with red pearls in the center and a stamped red message. So I decided to re-create this one with the challenge to use pearls. I embossed the real red card stock with the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder. I made two cards one with the bouquet from the top and one with it coming up from the bottom. I used the new, from the Holiday Mini, extra large Decorative Label Punch. The sentiment is different on each card, one is from the Grateful Greetings and the other is from Snow Swirled.

I love that SU now has sticky back half pearls!! Love them!!! So which do like best?




Both are clean and simple and both would be a fast and easy and very mailable card, no extra postage needed for these.

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

Vicki

PPA54.....Kind Thanks

Good Friday Morning Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with the Pals Paper Arts Challenge. this week is Masculine KISS, which is KISS (Keep It Simple, Sweetie) challenge,and they added an extra dimension to it and have made it a masculine KISS challenge.

Well, I started my card with a 5 inch square base of always artichoke, the DS paper is from the retired To the Nines Specialty paper, I have alot of this pack left, it screams masculine to me, a type I have trouble with. I knew this pack would help me out, I pulled my colors from the colors in the pack. The next layer is a piece of Sahara sand that was embossed with the square lattice EF. the next two layers are the DS paper. The sentiment is from the "Thank You Kindly" stamp set. I stamped with timber brown stazon onto a piece of Sahara sand. The star is punched out with the large star punch out of a wood sheet, I have had since last catalog and had never used. I added some antique brads to the center of the star and the Sahara sand piece. The star is up on a dimensional. Pretty clean and simple, altho even my CAS cards take me forever to do, and masculine. And on the plus side, this card is very mailable. Not much added to weigh it down.

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

Vicki

PPA53.....Baby Congratulations

Good Saturday Morning Peeps! Are you staying cool where you are at? It is like a miserable sauna here, sooooo HOT and HUMID!!!

Today I have a fun little card I made using thePals Paper Arts Challenge. This week the challenge is a Monochromatic Color Challenge using purple, any shades of purple!

I used the new in color Concord Crush and the retired Pale Plum, this is one color I will miss alot, I stocked up on it tho so I have a good stash. I used the new single stamp called "Baby Steps", I think it is soooo cute!! I love those little elephants. I used last weeks sketch from Taylored Expressions for my layout on this card. I am too late to link up over there but I still like this sketch alot.

The base of the card is concord crush and then I followed that with whisper white and then more concord crush that was embossed with my Swiss Dot EF. I stamped the elephants with concord crush ink onto whisper white twice. I cut out the ears and added them over the the stamped image with some dimensionals. The hearts are punched with pale plum and the Heart to Heart punch and added with dimesionals too. The "baby" is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped with Concord Crush ink onto the heart. I added some silver cording and silver pearls.

Well, that is all from me, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Pals Paper Arts.......Dear Friend

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Today I have a fun little card to share with you. This week's challenge at Pals Paper Arts is a sketch challenge, my favorite kind!

I immediately reached for the awesome set from the summer mini, Tropical Party and the matching DS paper, Island Oasis. I LOVE the colors in this paper pack. I used rose red for my base and then some whisper white and the Swiss dot EF. I cut three separate strips of the DS paper and lined the up side by side on the right.

The sentiment panel is created with the sentiment from "All Holidays" stamped in rose red on whisper white. I matted with rose red. I stamped the large flower from the Tropical Party set with pumpkin pie, tempting turquoise and rose red onto white and cut out. I added brads to the center of each flower with the same ink colors, just switching them around. I stamped the leaf three times with old olive and cut out them as well. I first added the three flowers around the sentiment piece and then stuck the leaves in behind. I then mounted this piece to the base with some foam tape.

Well, that is all from me today, be sure and come by tomorrow for my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Sample!




HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

PPA......Color Challenge Purse

TGIF Peeps!!!

Today I have a fun little purse to share with you. I found the tutorial for this little cutie here. I used the color challenge on the Pals Paper Arts blog for the colors of my purse. The challenge colors are Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede and Crushed Curry. I used the Thoroughly Modern DS paper for the body of my purse. The little front pocket is DS paper from the same pack and I added a bit of scallop trim with my Scallop Edge Punch. The crushed curry come into the purse in the form of my little flower key chain. I also used some old olive. the flower and the leaves are made with the 5 petal flower punch. I added some brads to the handles to secure them a bit more and a brad to the flower center.

I have to admit I am NOT a 3-D person. I struggle a bit with these type of things and it did take three tries for me to get a presentable one. One thing I might suggest if you go to make one of these, I found it easier to attach the top of the purse to the base of the purse before adhering the bottom together. I just thought it was too hard to get the top into the bottom when it was taped together.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

PPA44......Thanks so much

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made yesterday, with the sketch on the Pals Paper Arts Blog.

I just got this great stamp set from the mini, "Watercolor Trio". This is a fun set. I stamped the leaves and flowers with real red and night of navy, stamping a few times with out re-inking. the sentiment, from the same set was stamped with night of navy ink too.

The base of the card is night of navy and then I followed that with whisper white and the DS paper is from a retired hostess print pack.

I used the pinking heart border punch across the bottom piece and then layered more night of navy card stock. The ribbon is some I have had for ever in my stash. I added four white mini brads to the corners. I can't believe I didn't use any dimensionals on this one.



Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

A CAS PPA40 Monochromatic Blues

Yay It's Friday Peeps!!!

Today's card is made for the Monochromatic Blue Challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog.

This card turned into a long tall sally.....it is 7-1/2 inches tall by 3-1/4 inches wide. I used the Baroque Motifs stamp set and the stamp a ma jig to line the square up. I turned the stamp at an angle to make the sqaures more diamond shape. I added a sticky back half pearl to the center and the sentiment comes from the Great Friend stamp set. I stamped with night of navy ink onto whisper white card stock. I then matted with night of navy card stock and then another mat of white. The base of the card is night of navy too.

The card is very simple, CAS, the most time was used lining up those squares with the stamp a ma jig, I wasted at least one sheet of paper trying to get them perfect and then in the end I settled for almost perfect. LOL!!!

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for comming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

PPA37 For You

TGIF, Peeps!!!

Today I have a card to share that I made for the challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog. this week is a themed challenge-Flowers! You all know that I love me some flowers!

For my card I pulled out some of my favorite things, Cottage Wall DS paper, rich razzleberry and the stamps "Vintage Vogue". I used pale plum for the card base. I stamped the single stamp, "Fine Flourish" onto whisper white with old olive ink. I stamped the flowers from Vintage Vogue onto scrap white with pale plum and rich razzleberry ink. I cut them out and layered them with dimensionals and mounted them onto the BG with more dimensionals. I added some silver pearls to the center of the flowers.

I used some whisper white satin ribbon and the edge punch across the bottom is a MS punch. I added silver pearls to the center of the border flowers too. The sentiment on this card comes from the "Great Friend" stamp set and was added with black stazon and I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up.

Well, that is all from me today, I do want to take a minute to send a thank you to a few people who have sent me some sweet e-mails the last couple of days. It means so much to me that you all would take the time to send me a personal note.

HAPPY STAMPING

Vicki

PPA Color Challenge CASE

TGIF Peeps!!!

I made this card for the color challenge this week on the Pals Paper Arts Blog. When I saw the colors it made me think of a card by Karen Giron I saw here on her blog and also in the Stampin' Success Magazine. Her card used the kraft called for in the challenge and she had used old olive DS paper for her rolling hills, I just changed it up with some garden green and certainly celery DS paper. I used a different stamp for the sentiment and I added a bit of 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon at the bottom of the card.

I have to tell you sometimes CASEing a card is much harder than doing my own design. I struggled alot to get the hills look right. I like how the card came out and I can say that since I didn't design it......lol!

The tree is from the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set. I inked up the leaves with garden green ink and then used my chocolate chip marker to add the trunk and branches of the tree. I stamped the tree trunk onto the garden green DS paper and then aligned it up to the trunk of the tree that was stamped onto the kraft base. The next two layers of "hills" are mounted with dimensionals. I added the ribbon afterwards. The sentiment comes from the "Kind & Caring Thoughts" stamp set and is stamped with black stazon.

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

Vicki

PPA Spring Challenge Cards

TGIF Peeps!!

Today's cards are a CASE of mine own card seen here. I made that card back in January. I was thinking spring then, and still am!!! LOL!

When I saw the challenge this week at Pals Paper Arts was a Spring Theme, I knew I wanted to make some more of that card with the beautiful daffodils in the "Abundant Hope" SU stamp set. Love, love, love those flowers and they are one of the first signs of spring, mine are coming up and they make me smile every time I see their little green stems and buds.




The Sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" Stamp set. I used the Fleur-de-Lis edge punch and the buttons are from my stash.




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

Vicki

PPA30 On Your Birthday....

TGIF Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made for the challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog. This week is a KISS challenge, Keep It Simple, Sweetie.

The base is kraft card stock. I then stamped the balloon from the "Crazy for Cupcakes" set three times onto another piece of kraft card stock using black stazon. I masked off the middle balloon to stamp the third one. I colored the balloons in with markers. I stamped two more balloons on scrap kraft and colored them. I cut them out and added them to the card with some foam tape.

The sentiment is from the SU "On Your Birthday" set. I stamped that with black stazon using my stamp-a-ma-jig to get it straight. The ribbon is some retired riding hood red taffeta. I layered this piece onto the base of the same color. I didn't want the back of the colored piece showing, I think it just makes the card look better.

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

Vicki

Live, Laugh & Love

Hey there peeps!!!!

Today I am sharing a card that I made with three, yes count em, three challenges!!! The first one is the sketch, which I found at the Just Add Ink Blog, this is a fairly new blog as this is just their third challenge. The next is the color challenge at Pals Paper Arts The color challenge is Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink and Black, with neutrals being added at your discretion. The last one is for the Stampin Up Late Night Stampers Yahoo Group to use butterflies.

The base of my card is Melon mambo I followed that with some whisper white and the DS paper is from the Sweet Pea DS pack. The stamp set I used is "On Your Birthday" stamp set. I stamped the sentiment with black stazon and used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut out. The two butterflies are cut with the Sizzix Bigz Beautiful Butterflies die. I cut two one in melon and one in black. I used my swirl embossing folder on both. I added some melon ribbon across the middle and added some sticky black pearls.


The inside:



Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki