Gift Card Set ~ using Stampin Up’s Afternoon Picnic DSP

December 17, 2013December 17, 20134 Comments

Inspired by the set I made by dear friend last week (which she loved!) I decided to make a second one as a hostess gift for the upcoming holidays.

This one uses the same two stamp sets as the one I made last week, Best of Shelli’ and ‘Petite Pairs’ but I used the ‘Afternoon Picnic’ DSP with Wisteria Wonder and Pear Pizzazz Cardstock and inks. Pretty pleased with the result!

Petite Pairs is a very versatile stamp set – with sentiments covering most occasions, one for the outside of your card and a complementary sentiment for the inside….. it is one of my ‘go-to’ sets when designing my cards.

Like the recipe for this card set? Simply ‘follow’ my blog, ‘like’ and ‘comment’ on this post and I will be happy to send it to you 🙂

In the meantime, Happy Stamping !

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Gift Card Set ~ using Stampin’ Up’s Venetian Romance DSP

December 11, 2013December 11, 20132 Comments

A dear friend is celebrating a milestone birthday later this month, but she doesn’t want any fuss, no buying of presents, parties or cake etc. Well I certainly cannot let such an occasion pass me completely by, so ……………

I love to make cards and 3D items, so the project I chose as my gift to her brings both of these aspects of paper crafting together! She is an avid letter writer so I decided to make her a set of 10 cards in a neat little folder. I have met her restriction of not ‘buying’ anything – ‘cos I made it all of materials I had in my ‘stash’.

My three main colors are Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe and Soft Suede. All the sentiments were stamped in Island Indigo with some sponging in Soft Suede. These are the colors in the Venetion Romance DSP I chose to use.

The sentiments were from ‘Petite Pairs’ stamp set and the Artisan Label Punch used to layer them.

Each card was stamped with the ‘swirly’ image from the ‘Best of Shelli’ 25th anniversary set.

The front cover of the folder used ‘Chalk Talk’ stamp and matching framelits.

If you ‘follow’ ~ ‘like’ and ‘comment’ on this post I will happily send you the recipe for this set of cards with the matching holder. Not a bad deal…….. !!!!

Ice Storm in North Texas = Stamping Christmas Cards!!!

December 8, 2013Leave a comment

On Wednesday, December 4th we were basking in 80 degree temperatures, this morning (Friday 6th) we wake up to an ice storm which left about 3 inches of ice and sleet on all the roadways.

This is the state of our mail box…… it is frozen solid, sure hope the mail man has nothing important to deliver today!

As we cannot we cannot go anywhere, and to be perfectly truthful, don’t need to go anywhere, today I decided to get stuck into making my Christmas cards. So I have about 60 in 4 different designs, some to go to friends and family, some for my wonderful and very supportive customers and then the cute little snowmen are for the grand-babies. Here are the fruits of my labours………

Now to sit down to write and address them ready to post when the ice melts and it is safe to go out again.

Punch Art 2 ~ Bear

November 24, 2013November 24, 2013Leave a comment

Here is the second in my series of punch art embellishments, this is based on ‘Bertie Bear’ by Pat Carr (an Australian SU designer)

As you can see the Owl punch has come into play again for the body and the little fur tuft on the top of his head. The arms and feet use the ‘wing’ from the Bird Builder Punch.

All the pieces are cut from Crumb Cake and were sponged in ‘Soft Suede’ ink. The nose and tuft were cut from Soft Suede card stock. I used the Chocolate Chip stampin marker to put on his features and cute little toes.

This turned out to be a very versatile embellishment as I used the him for a recent scrap book layout:

….. as well as a card for my recently arrived great-niece, Isla

Stampin’ Up holiday sale

November 19, 2013Leave a comment

We all love a good sale and a great bargain, here is a great opportunity to stock on some Stampin Up products at wonderful prices….. Everything from stamp sets, ribbon, scared stock, framelits!!!!!
Discounts range between 20 and 50 percent – yummy
Discounted products are available on all order types (customer, workshop, and online).
There’s no minimum purchase required to participate in this promotion. Sale on!
For product bundles, you need to use the bundle item numbers provided. If you use individual item numbers, you won’t get the discount-bummer.
You can buy additional products from any of our current catalogs on the same order.

Click on my link to go to my on line store….. Use hostess code KWH4TKW3 and some lucky person may be the lucky recipient of the hostess benefits for this promotion.

Punch Art – Book worm

November 17, 2013Leave a comment

I love to make my own embellishments for my scrap book pages. This often involves pulling out all of my paper punches and scraps of card stock and to footle about until I get something that looks good and is repeatable in my scrap camps.

At least one of my pages contains a punch art embellishment. To help my ‘scrappers’ create their own little gem I create an exploded version for them to follow. I thought I would share some of these in a series of posts.

This little guy featured in the ‘school days’ scrap pages in the October scrap camp. He is made from a series of Stampin’ Up’s circle punches as well as the eyes from the Owl Punch

And here is the finished scrap book layout:

Stampin’ Up’s ~ Gorgeous Grunge & Oh Hello

November 14, 2013Leave a comment

Gorgeous Grunge…… curious choice of words… I have to admit that I did not really see the stamp set when the new catalog was released in June, I am more into flowers and doilies than splodges and skid marks!!! However we were given this set as part of our Convention 2013 goodies and I bought it home and put it in my stamp cupboard.

In late July I was designing some scrap book layouts for my August Scrap camp ~ the theme was ‘fun in the sun’ – I was looking for something that would give me a ‘sand-type’ texture to add dimension to my crumb cake cardstock ‘beach’ I browsed thru my stamp sets and there was ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ sitting there waiting patiently for me…… the little scattered dot pattern stamp gave me a perfect effect.

In August I was working on my September Scrap Camp designs, this time a travel theme, again looking for texture to add interest to the background of my pages…. there was Gorgeous Grunge again….. using the kinda ‘tyre skid’ effect at the bottom of my pages. I was really beginning to warm to this stamp set!

I also used the small ‘splodge’ on the Thanksgiving Banner featured in an earlier post.

November, December and January bring a lot of birthdays for the fellas in my family…… so out came the Gorgeous Grunge once again!

………. and again for a couple of ‘thank you’ cards same layout at the guy cards but using more ‘girly’ colors and the pretty flower from the ‘Oh Hello’ stamp set (which I got as part of my materials at Leadership training way back in January

So I guess the moral is to never judge a stamp set by it cover ~ this little DVD case was full of little gems! 🙂

Another day of Stampin’

November 7, 2013Leave a comment

Today is my birthday, I will not share which one it is but suffice to say I have had a few of them and this one is not a milestone year!

I spent most of the day preparing for a craft sale this coming Saturday ~ the Bobcats Bazaar at Celina High School in Texas. I really enjoyed making a bunch of these cute snack packs for puppies and NOEL, home decor banner.

Stampin’ Up ~ Joyful Christmas

November 5, 2013November 5, 2013Leave a comment

I went to an inspiration night last week and I have to say I was well and truly inspired by the projects we made.

This one used the Joyful Christmas Stamp Set. Heat embossed in silver on Shimmery White cardstock. We then spritzed it with water before using an Aqua Painter with Coastal Cabana and Island Indigo ink to flood in the color. After it was dry (which only took a few minutes) it was out with the scissors to ‘fussy-cut” the flower before adhering to Coastal Cabana cardstock with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The center was finished off with a bunch of rhinestones to add some extra bling!

Stampin Up Best of 25 years ~ November

November 2, 2013November 2, 2013Leave a comment

Is it winter yet? Even if snow isn’t on the ground yet, you can still celebrate the first snows of winter with some of our favorite snow images from the past 25 years! With the Best of Snow set, you also get the never-before-seen Let it Snow image which coordinates perfectly with the Bracket Label Punch. Announced today ~ a great new set for November’s ‘Best of’ Series

These sets are available until March 2014….. they contain a lot of past favorites as well as one brand new design each month. Each has a little ’25’ sticker, collect 6 and get a free stamp set to the value of $14.95….. a great deal.
oooo, just realized – this is my 40th post……. 🙂