Milk Carton Fun!

Sorry I've been missing for over a week!  I've been stamping, but didn't get my pictures downloaded until today!!  Too busy!  Here's an adorable little Easter chick made out of the milk carton bigz die.

Here's a card I made for Easter...I cased it from here.  I didn't have the designer paper she used, but like how mine turned out too.  It was a great layout! I really like the egg in the Easter Blossoms stamp set.

I just love the little rosette--I dyed it with regal rose reinker.  The colors I used were regal rose, crumb cake and pear pizzazz.

Sweet Tweet

The designer paper Botanical Gazette, available in the spring occasions mini has some beautiful pictures on some of its pages.  This card uses the bird---no stamping at all except the Happy Birthday sentiment.  The thing I love on this card is the bird's nest.  Soooo cute!  How did I make it you ask?  Well, I punched a 1 3/8" circle, made a slit in it and overlapped it to make a very slight cone.  I then found some burlappy (I just made that word up) looking string and coiled it around the circle gluing it in using the mono all purpose glue available from SU.  Then I took little pieces of string and glued them on top so they looked more like sticks sticking out.  Finally I nestled some of SU's pearls that I colored blue with both marina mist ink refill and a permanent marker.  I clipped off the tip on the bottom of the cone and stuck it down with glue dots.  I saw this idea here first and followed several links to discover ideas of how to do it!  Here's the card:

I forgot to say that I did color in the bird to look like a robin with ink and a blender pen.  I used chocolate chip paper along with the dsp and the crumb cake seam binding.  Hope you like it!

C'mon Spring!

I finally saw the sun again today--what a relief!  Now if the wind would die down...I sound a bit whiney don't I?  I'm starting to fall under the influence of some of my first graders!  =-)  Hopefully the warmer weather will help me get over my cold.  I'm tired of coughing all day long!  Here's the last hurrah of my Sweet Summer SAB set--really like this....today is the last day of Sale-a-Bration....farewell free stamps until next year.  I'm not so excited about the color in this.....but it truly looks better in real life.

I'm off to school--I have a sub this morning and need to get all of the plans ready for her before the day begins! 

Soooo Tired!

I had high hopes of stamping tonight, but it was not to be!  I'm exhausted after my first day back at school and the yucky weather has me feeling gloomy.  I've finished my school work and am ready for bed....here are a couple of cards that I did earlier.  Enjoy!

I used the stamp set "Inspired by Nature" and the "poppin' pastels" technique.  To do the technique you stamp the image in versamark and then pop on the pastels with sponge daubers.  It gives the image a watercolor look.

This an even smaller "box in a bag" like the one I made earlier.  Looks are deceiving, but the base of this bag is only about 2 x 3.  I just had a scrap rectangle sitting on my table and wondered if I could make a tiny bag just using scraps and the answer is....Yes!  Yes I can!  Here's hoping I can get some stamping done early tomorrow morning or later tomorrow evening.  Goodnight!

Bye Bye Vacation!

It's back to work tomorrow....I know that our school year will go quickly from now on and the rest of the year will fly by!  Here are a couple of the last cards I got made during vacation--I found this cute ribbon tutorial.  You tie knots in the ribbon--it makes for a very interesting look!

I've been seeing these butterfly easel cards all over stamping blogland--I gave one a try, but it was soooo tiny I don't think you'd be able to do more than sign your name on the inside....but it would make a cute gift card!

Well it's off to bed--I have an early start tomorrow morning!

Can't stop the sliding!

I'm taken with the slider card--here's another one that I did that I like even better than the first (and I liked that one a lot).  I got the idea for the front and slider of the card from a card in the spring mini catalog.  It uses the adorable  Eat Chocolate set from the mini catalog. (The card sample I used was on the same page--page 30).

Front of the card----pull up on the candy bar and here's what you see:

It's so fun to make it slide.....all I want to do is play with it!

Here's a beautiful card that I cased from Teneale Williams--she does gorgeous work "down under."

I was limited to the supplies that I had, but I love the sweet simplicity of the Sweet Summer Sale-a-Bration set.  You have just a few more days (ends March 31) to get this set free with a $50 order!  I'm sending an order in soon so let me know if you are interested!  

Here Comes Peter Cottontail....

It's time to think about Easter....I'm forever not getting cards made until it's too late to send them and get them there in time.  So I've been taking advantage of my spring vacation to create.  Here are a couple of things I've been working on:

Baskets and Blooms Easter Card

I saw this idea on Inking Idaho and here's my take.  I purchased Becky's tutorial (one of many I've bought from her) and I can highly recommend them all.  She does a great job giving you pictures and step by step directions....and they are very reasonably priced.  

I used:

• Stamp Set:  A Good Egg
• Ink:  Chocolate Chip
• Ribbon: Baja Breeze Seam Binding
• Punches:  Scallop Circle, Wide Oval, Scallop Edge, 1/2 circle, tiny flower from Boho Blossoms for beak
• Accessories:  Square Lattice Embossing Folder
• Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, and Nursery Suite dsp

Petal Cone Die Carrot and Easter Bunny

You just have to love the Big Shot and how easy it makes it for creating cute things!  I got this idea here, but had to change the bunny to something a bit easier.  =-)  I cut the front flap off and embossed the carrot part with the polka dot embossing folder.  Make sure you use sticky tape to seal it shut so it doesn't come undone!  The bunny was created with the scallop punch, heart to heart punch, small and medium oval punches (for face) and the boho blossom punch for the paws.  The details were added with my basic black marker.  Very cute if I do say so myself.  Oops--I forgot the carrot top--the garden green topper was made with the scallop circle and larger scallop from the #2 Scallop Circle die.  (Yep,  I got it.)