Thanks for your support... again...

Here is the third card I came up with today for the Stamping 411's weekly challenge. I used the new Rue Des Fleurs set that is available in the new occasions mini. I didn't really like it much at first, but I think I am head over heals now. I bought it because it had the sentiment "for your support," which you may recall would be great for the bra card I made a few weeks ago. Now, there are a few other card ideas I have floating around this head of mine with a few of the other images in the set. Stay tuned for those...

For this one, I started with a base of Lucky Limeade. Then I have a layer of Pool Party under the DSP. Instead of a ribbon, I stamped the decorative strip from the set. Then again using my framelits label set, I cut out a small shape in vanilla. I stamped the corset in Early Espresso, spritzed some espresso on it, and then used my blender pen and Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, and Calipso Coral to softly color in the image. Finally, I sponged the edges in suede.

Here's a close up of the corset image. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.

Inside, I have a sentiment.

Watcha think?

Thanks for looking...

Rue Des Fleurs and new DSP

Okay... here's another sneak peak! I hope I am not breaking any rules here, but I don't think I am. I saw other bigger, better SU demonstrators who have posted card ideas from the new occasions mini-cattie.

Once again, I used this week's sketch challenge over on Stamping 411 as a starting off point. Thanks for a great sketch, ladies... there are more ideas coming for this one!

So I was staring at the sketch, staring at my pile of new SU goodies, and this idea was born when I decided to use the DSP from the SAB cattie. Once I made that decision, the rest fell into place quite nicely. The base is Pool Party. The layer under the DSP is Poppy Parade. Then I used my new framelit label to cut out a piece of Very Vanilla. I struggled with the ribbon piece. I couldn't find one to use that I liked, but you can see what I ended up with... just two little tails sticking out. I like it!

Next I stamped the umbrella from the Rue Des Fleurs set in Early Espresso. Next I used the spritzing tool and spritzed the whole piece with Soft Suede (which is also the color I used to sponge the edges of the piece. Then I used my blender pen and Soft Suede, Pool Party, and Calipso Coral to color in the image.

Inside, I stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso.

Don't be sad Stamping 411... I missed you, too!

It's been so long since I've done a Stamping 411 challenge! With the holidays and my guest designer spot on The Friday Mashup in November, I ignored Stamping 411 (http://stamping411.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-sketch-challenge-235.html) . Sorry ladies... it's not personal! I also got a shipment from Stampin' Up and was not able to use it right away so this Sprinkled Expressions from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue has been calling my name, especially this star stamp, and this new star embossing folder I got was begging to be matched with it. When I saw the sketch on Stamping 411, I had a vision, right down to the colors and this is what I came up with.

I used a Whisper White base and Tangerine Tango. I used So Saffron on one card, with saffron ribbon. Then I also used Daffodil Delight on the other card, with a tangerine ribbon.

I used layers of color. I also heat embossed the star image on each card with the matching yellow ink (either saffron or daffodil) and clear embossing powder. Then I used some tangerine ink on a sponge dauber to pop that star a bit more.

On this one I also sponged the edges with the tangerine and added an extra layer of saffron.

Then I added the sentiment to the bottom part of the card with the words in tangerine and the stars in the yellow that was used on the card. Finally, I stamped some tangerine stars on some scrap white, I cut out one tiny little star and popped it up.

I can't decide which one I like better. I love the softness of the saffron, but I'm not in love with the sponging on the main sentiment (sometimes I get carried away with the sponging, but usually you can't go wrong, you know?)

I like the cleaner look of the second card. Let me know what you think! I love the comments!!!

Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year!!!!

This is the card I made for my New Year's card this year. I think it's pretty sweet and it was very easy, too. I know you can't really tell from the photo, but the top layer of blue is a sparkly blue that I got on the clearance rack at a paper supply store. Just perfect. AND... the bonus is that is is just perfect for this week's challenge over on the Friday Mashup (http://www.fridaymashup.com/2011/12/fm39-heres-to-shiny-new-year.html). The challenge is to add some sparkles/bling to a card or have a New Year's card or mash it up and do both. The crazy cool part of this card is that I made it before I saw the challenge... wow... are we connected or what? I started with a base of white. Then I put the sparkly blue layer on that I punched out with a snowflake, but I saved it and glued it inside! I also used a silver ribbon (from another clearance bin), and then I used Night of Navy to stamp the sentiment "Happy New Year" on a white scrap, punched it out with the word window, put in on a navy modern label punch and popped that up on top of the ribbon.

Thanks for looking...

But wait... there's more!

I'm feeling this one a bit more. This is my second card for both the Friday Mashup and the Colour Q challenge. The Mashup challenge was a sketch challenge, and the Colour Q challenge was to use black, white, and any other color. I'm trying to get a jump start on Valentine's cards, so red it is.

I used the new Framelits labels and then embossed it. I used a non-SU embossing folder. Then I sponged the edges with black and distressed it a bit. Then I also sponged in the hearts in real red. The rest is obvious, basic black, whisper white, word window, modern label, ribbon punch. Inside, I did stamp the "love you much" sentiment from Well Scripted in red ink on white and used the heart punch. It's very cute (sorry no picture of that!)

Thanks for looking...

I missed my Mashups!

The worst part of being MIA for the past month is that I really missed the challenges over on The Friday Mashup. I love their challenges, and I really enjoy playing along. I missed you, ladies!!! Now, with my mojo missing, I am doing the best I can. This is a sketch challenge was exactly that for me... a challenge. I was struggling. But then I came up with not one, but two ideas. So here's the first one. I also used the color challenge over on Colour Q this week. That challenge was to use black, white, and any other color of your choice. Clearly, I went with red and worked on building a stock of Valentine's Day cards.

I used a new heart embossing folder I bought in MI. I also used my new framelits labels collection. I cut out a white label, then embossed it with my hearts, then I used my brayer and rolled it out in Real Red. What's really cool looking is how you can see some hearts in the ink from where the brayer rolled over the embossed hearts. It's really very cool in real life. Then I took a strip of red, used the hearts embossing folder again and slapped that baby on. Next, I used a strip of black, punched the edge, tied a red ribbon around it and slapped that piece on. Next, I stamped a part of a stamp from the new Sprinkled Expressions stamp. I like the whole sentiment, but I just chose to use "Love you" with the hearts. I did pop that up.

I don't hate it, but I'm not in total love either. Thanks for looking!

Don't worry... I'm still alive...

I love how one of my favorite bloggers wrote, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." I know I've been MIA. It's the holiday season. I get so busy, I stop making cards for challenges and for fun and begin to make things solely for the holidays. So.... I'mmmm baaacccckkkkk!!! But my mojo is not. I tried to get it started again with the color challenge on Stampin' Royalty. I've also been fighting a cold so this may be too late to link, but I made it so I am posting it! (I just checked... it's still open! Yes! Now I'll finally get some feedback on a card!)


So I started with a base of Crumb Cake, then added a layer of Chocolate Chip that I embossed with the tulip frame folder. Next I have layers of both Pretty in Pink and Rose Red. I like to shake it up and change things for each card I make. You can see how I varied the order and size of the layers.

I stamped the flower from Sprinkled Expressions on white in Rose Red ink. On one, I just have the flower. On the other one, I used the spritzing tool and sprayed some Pretty in Pink spots and Crumb Cake spots.

On both cards, I popped up the center layer.

Also, for each card I put the sentiment on the inside, and this is a sentiment I just love! I think it's so sweet and fun.

Here's a close up of inside.

Thanks for looking!