This is a combo of two sketches on Splitcoaststampers: WT152 and SC162. I love polka dots anyway, so I put a few on here. The background is a new jumbo wheel Spunky Spots....don't you just love that name? I also very lightly stamped little polka dots from Itty Bitty Backgrounds on my image with Bashful Blue ink. This little sentiment is a Level 1 hostess set this year....one of my favorites, there are 6 images in all. It only takes a $150 workshop to earn this set! Another polka dot is my ribbon. I made this myself with craft ink and SU's white grosgrain ribbon. Don't use classic ink, it will bleed through. The craft ink can be set with an iron or a heat gun if you don't feel like heating up your iron! Finally, three brads adds some more polka punch. Thanks for looking!Stamps: For a Friend, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Spunky Spots
Paper: Gable Green, Green Galore, Whisper White, Ballet Blue, Misc DP
Ink: Stazon Black, Green Galore Classic & Craft, Bashful Blue
Acc: White Ribbon, BB Brads, Markers, Jelly Roll Pen
I have been wanting to make one of these cards designed by Lauren Meader here. She is just so funny & creative! So by chance, a sweet young mom in our church had a little girl, so this is the card I made to send to her. Not much stamping, I just used Nursery Necessities for the little chick on the front. It may be hard to see, but I also stamped the little flowers from All in a Row on the sleeves. I need to get a little better at the scallops & glue---looked like a first-grader did it!Be sure to check out all the other ones Lauren has done!!Stamps: Nursery Necessities, All in a Row
Paper: Berry Bliss DP, Pretty in Pink, WWhite
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Craft White
Acc: Eyelets, 1 3/8" punch, scallop punch, 3/4" punch, 1" punch, gel pen
Well, I am not going to have time to stamp today, but I am posting an "old" card that I stamped before Christmas, and I am going to send it out in a day or so, so I wanted to share it with you.
The flower is from Enjoy Every Moment, and it was stamped off in More Mustard on Confetti White cardstock, as was the center spot in Always Artichoke. The dots are also AA, but not stamped off. I then stamped over the entire flower image with my Sanded background stamp in Sahara Sand. I did this so that it would "match" the background paper, which is Basic Grey's Figgy Pudding. After cutting out the flower, I then sponged the edges to give it that rustic look. The card base is So Saffron, and it is 4 1/4" square. I purposely did not put a sentiment on it so that I could use it for any occasion. Thanks for looking!
One of my downline, Karen, and I went around & around today as to how to make the little box on page 11 of the SAB catalog. After finally calling SU to find out that it was based on a tiny take-out box (and they don't make them any more!!!!) I found a box pattern on their website that was sort of the same, and made this little favor to showcase one of our Sell-a-bration sets, So Many Scallops. It's a little difficult to see, but the star from Nursery Necessities is stamped on the box itself. Once you cut the pattern out, the box was very easy to assemble. The hardest part was the needle & thread detail on the corners!! But it did turn out cute, don't you think? Click here for a link to the directions for the box in the SAB catalog (you can adapt yours however you want!) and here for the box pattern.
Stamps: So Many Scallops, Nursery Necessities
Paper: Blue Bayou, Whisper White
Ink: Blue Bayou, Craft White
Acc: Needle & Crochet Thread, DD Glitter, Cello Bag, Stitched Ribbon, Scallop Punch, Word Window Punch
Wow! I have been tagged by Tracy at Stampin All Seasons. She is a New Zealand SU demonstrator! Isn't that cool? Anyway, we are supposed to use the letters in our middle name to tell something about ourselves. I thought I could get out of this because I don't HAVE a middle name, but she said I'd have to use my maiden name!! Okay, here goes:
M--M&M's give me a headache. I love them, but I pay for eating them!
A--The A in my first name is a capital. Hardly anyone ever gets this right, I stopped being upset by it a long time ago!
C--Cows--I grew up on a dairy farm
K--Kissing--enough said!
E--Eating is something I do WAAAYYYY too much of! But it's so fun!
Y--Youth--mine is escaping quickly!
Well, I don't have but one other person that I know of who has a blog, and that is Alison....so, Alison, you've been tagged!
I used to get rid of all my retired SU sets, but this past season decided I would hold on to some of the ones I really liked. Of course, that means less storage space and more choices when I want to stamp a card! But I hated to see this Petal Prints set retire, because I don't have many "pretty" stamp sets and I like the watercolor effect that you get when you stamp with it. After seeing Laurie Schmidlin's watercolor technique tutorial here, and seeing Sharon Johnson's challenge here, I decided to try to combine the two. Now I am not saying I did the watercolor technique exactly the same way Laurie did, but I gave it a shot! I used some Dollar Store DP as my color inspiration and used SU's watercolor paper on which to stamp the image. I got out my beloved (retired) Cool Caribbean to stamp the flower and Always Artichoke for the stem. Taken with Teal went over the first stamped image, but it just looked too glaringly white, so I brayered it with Soft Sky, which gave it a kind of linen look. I then added some DD glitter and some (retired) velvet ribbon. To kind of tie in the DP, I also stamped it with the (again, retired) Linen background in Soft Sky. Click on the photo for a closer glimpse. Finally, I added the sentiment in Always Artichoke using Papertrey's Paper Tray set. I added "a" with my AA marker. Enjoy!
All I have been reading and hearing about is people being sick!! Today at my Stamp Camp, all I did was blow my nose....yuck! So when I saw Beate's Sketch Challenge, I decided to use my new Lockhart stamp to make this humongous get-well card. It fits into a business-size envelope, and there is LOTS of room to write a sweet note inside to someone who is a little bit sniffly! Hope all of you out there are feeling okay today!
Stamps: Lockhart, Verve Visual Wonderful Wishes, SU Short & Sweet, SU Trimtastic
Paper: Gable Green, Shimmery White, Pink Passion, Mellow Moss, Cert Celery, Misc DP
Ink: Stazon Black, Whisper White, Pink Passion, Mellow Moss, Cert Celery
Acc: Amuse Bling, Aquapainters, SU Small Oval Punch, Moss Gingham, Round punches
