Giggle and Love Some More….

Here's the third card that we did for Giggle Greetings:

This is a card within an envelope…made with the envelope maker.  I found the directions on pinterest and then made mine the size that I wanted.  Since I wanted to make it easy to cut my paper, I started with a 6 x 6 piece of designer paper and just followed the directions on the envelope maker.  My favorite part of this is the hairball--I took a small piece of linen thread and shredded it and stuck it on a glue dot.  Here's a picture of it closed….

I used the Happy Birthday from "You're Amazing."

Here's the card from "Love You More"

This is a total CASE from Shirley Pumpkin.  Her blog address is:  www.lookatmycutestuff.blogspot.com

I changed a few things:  the background addition of real red, the embossing folder used, the framelit, cutting out the globe and the addition of crystal effects on my heart.  

I'll be back tomorrow with the last of the cards we made.  I'm off to create--it's a snow day for me!

Giggle Greetings and Love You More Part 2

Here's the second installment of my January Stamp of the Month cards…..

Love, love, love the look of cheese made with hole punches in the background and sponging!!  I found this card on pinterest and I cased it from Donna Kish.  Unfortunatel, my sample card here got a little bit of ink on it when someone was watercoloring their cheese with the tempting turquoise.  

This was totally cased from Stamping School which I've often said is one of my favorite sites that I pay to belong to!  It's worth the money!!  You get a video and all instructions needed with each idea created on this site.

Giggle Greetings and Love You More...

These were the two stamp sets that I picked out for my stamp set of the month club.  The ladies that attend get the stamp set and make four cards with it….great fun!  It's a time when we try out different card formats and/or techniques.  Over the next 4 days I'll share a card from each set that we made.

Both groups made the double pocket card--yay--I could use some of my retired designer series paper.  (I have a d.s.p. problem--I buy it then don't use it because it's too cute and then I end up with tons of paper--totally makes sense--right?)  The tutorial for this was on Dawn's Stamping Thoughts here.

Love this color combo and I love that paper--I think it was the SAB paper from last year?

Here's the same card style with the Giggle Greetings stamp used:

I changed out the baker's twine for some retired ribbon that looks much nicer when we made the card.   

The cherries on the left tag were from the cupcake punch and had crystal effects on them.  Very cute!

I'll be back tomorrow with the next installment!  Off to work on school stuff now.

Happy Birthday, Mya!

We celebrated the first birthday of this little sweetheart this weekend!  Mya Jean is just starting to walk and chatter and she has one of the sweetest smiles I've ever seen---but then again, I'm a bit biased as the grandma.

She might have inherited a love of sweets from Grandma….

• Here's the birthday I created for her….I cased the punched animals from a pin on pinterest by Doris Denman.  
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I hope I'll be back this week with more stamping!

Snow Banner with Festive Flurry Snowflakes

Our family is blessed in so many ways and to be honest--we don't need anything.  So instead of exchanging Christmas presents we take the money would've spent and give it to a charity of choice.  This year we gave to Heifer International.  I've said all of this because I'm trying to explain about our "white elephant" gift exchange.  This year I made 2 banners using the banner kit, festive flurry snowflakes and punched out snowflakes from an old big shot thingy.  I forgot to take a picture of the first one and then quickly tried to snap a photo of the 2nd before I wrapped it up…but the exposure was horrible!

Sorry--it's the best I could do!  They turned out really cool, but to be honest--I should have made one for myself--because now I totally don't want to make another one--those little snowflakes were a pain in the butt!

Calm Christmas

Every year a Dr.'s office in town asks me to make their "bonus check" Christmas cards and every year I say yes, but always wait until right when they need them to get busy with the cards.  So this year I had a SU Party at my house and then had 10 cards to make….and was up until 2:30 a.m. finishing them.
Here's what I came up with:

I will say that they did look better in real life--not sure the colors are true in the photo.  Here's the inside of the card…

I sprayed a bit of sparkly over the front of them and they really were quite striking.  

Joyful Christmas Stamp Set of the Month

Hey all!  Sorry it's been so long since I've posted…it's just a busy time and with Thanksgiving and Christmas so close together it seems even more busy!  Here are the cards we made for the Joyful Christmas set.

This uses gold embossing powder on vellum and then the backside of the vellum is either sponged or colored.  I had a horrible time getting my vellum to dry so it was difficult getting it adhered to the card…anyone else have this trouble when using the stained glass technique?  I cased this card from Natasha at inkingoutofthebox.com

This one is so striking, but very easy.  Silver embossing powder on vellum, rhinestones and the beautiful Frosted Finishes embellishments.  I cased this, but it didn't have a watermark so I don't know who did it--but it's awesome!!

This is simple, but understated….I changed the ribbon and designer paper in my final--thought this one was just too….blah.  This was cased from Natasha at the same link as the first card.  

This is probably more my style than any of the others--love the real red agains the crumb cake.  I cased this from Sabine who is a demo in Germany.  Here's a link to her site.

I'll be back tomorrow to share the cards I did for bonus checks at a Dr.'s office using Calm Christmas.