The Sky's the Limit Note Pad

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a fun little notepad I made a few weeks back.

I saw the idea for this little kite HERE! It is so cute I had to make one!

I was making a few of these little note pads, tutorial by Nancy Riley found HERE, for a couple of  friends that had ordered some for gifts and so I had to try the little kite on one. 

I had to keep it for myself cos I loved it so much.....lol!! 

Any of you that visit me regularly know that I enjoy making these notepads and I think the kite is a fun addition!

The kite is really simple to make, the top portion is just a 1-1/4" square cut in half at an angle and the bottom portions are 1-1/4" x 2". I used a small scrap of card stock to build the kite on, matching the points together to form the kite. I used the Stampin Up Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch around the edges, this just makes the kite pop! Click on the link above, she has a little picture tutorial. 

I used some bakers twine to make my kite's tail and hand cut the little tail pieces.

The sentiment on here is from the Stampin Up set called "Up in the Air"

If you have any questions or would like me to make you some of these just shoot me an e-mail!

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Stamping 411......Miss You

Happy Monday Peeps!

How was your weekend? 

We had a great one, got alot accomplished and did just enough of nothing to make you feel good.

I have been working on some primitive wood pieces, I may show them to you later.

I also got a Kindle Fire for Mother's Day! I am so stoked about this.

But onto today's card, I put this together yesterday using this week's sketch on the Stamping 411 Blog.

I pulled out a retired hostess set called "Up in the Air", I loved this set because of these flowers, but I do find myself passing it over time and time again for some reason. So I tried to give it a go again to make soemthing I liked with it.

I stamped the flowers three times across the main panel, masking of the butterflies and sentiment that are part of this stamp. I then stamped the flowers a couple of more times onto some scrap paper. I colored the flower heads with my aqua painter using my daffodil delight ink pad. I then cut out a few from the scrap stamped ones and added them to my panel with some dimesionals.

I used some old olive for my stems and leaves.

The base of my card is daffodil delight card stock, I then used Early espresso card stock for the next layer and the DSP on here is from the Summer Smooches and First Edition paper packs.

I used some Daffodil Delight seam binding across the middle and I tried to get a bow on here like the sketch, but it was just not happening.

My squares are made up of  confetti and early espresso card stock. I used my square lattice EF on those.

I added some butterflies made with the beautiful wings embosslit die and finished it off with some basic pearls.

I am eagerly awaiting a box from Mr. Brown today with some new goodies, so stay tuned1

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

CC363.....Sending Many Thanks

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the Color challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers. The colors to use are Pretty in Pink, basic gray and Pink Pirouette.

I knew right away when I saw the colors that I wanted to use this DSP, it is the Stampin Up Lap of Luxury it is retired but I love it and it has the pretty in pink and basic gray.

I used the new Up in the Air hostess stamp set from Stampin Up.

The sentiment on here is from the Petite Pairs stamp set.

I stamped the image with black stazon onto the white card stock and colored it in with my aqua painter and ink pads. 

I did add a bit of old olive and island indigo besides the challenge colors while coloring.

I used some basic gray satin ribbon across the bottom of the image panel and tied a bow.

I added a punched border across the top and the pink pirouette is matted directly under the main image panel.

I used a punch from the Itty Bitty punch pack to make the little flowers on the image and sentiment piece.

I finished it off with some pretty basic pearls.

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

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki