Birthday cards

Hello!  Hope everyone out there is doing great today.  I am heading up to WA this afternoon for my grandmother's 98th birthday this weekened.  YES - 98!  And looking and feeling great - I love my grandma!!!

 I got this card idea the other day off Stampin Connection and I changed it up just a wee bit.  I love the colors Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Rich Razzleberry together.  I embossed a piece of Crumb Cake with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and adhered a strip of Early Espresso that was punched with the scallop border punch on the bottom then adhered all that to the card base.  The 3 strips of paper were all flagged at one end and adhered  to the top of the card. The DSP strip is from the Sycamore Street DSP collection from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  Then I wrapped a piece of whisper white 3/8 taffeta riboon around it and tied a bow.  I made the top card with a cupcake from the Create a Cupcake set punched out with the coordinating cupcake punch.  I made this one for a dear friend's daughter and I think it turned out super cute.  The bottom card was more like the one I CASE'd and I used the Elegant Butterfly and the Bitty Butterfly punches as well as a sentiment from one of last years retired hostess sets.

Sympathy

Good afternoon from sunny Oregon.  It's a tad cold out but very nice blue sky.  My mom asked for some sympathy cards so this is what I came up with.  The greeting is from a retired set but the flower stamp is from a Sale-a-bration set called Madison Avenue.  I used the colors Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi.  You could do this card in any color combo you want and it would look good.  I added a rhinestone in the center of each flower to finish it off.  I am not a Stamp-a-ma-jig gal but I could certainly see how that tool would come in handy here trying to line up all the flowers.  I eye-ball everything and having this set be clear mount made it easier.  Enjoy your day!

Just Basketball

Good morning everyone.  Hope your weekend is going well.  My daughter had her last basketball tournament of the season this weekend out at the beach and so far they are 1-1.  Hope they do great on their final two games today.  Am jealous that my hubby went and not me but my daughter asked for some daddy/daughter time and I just couldn't say no to that.....so I thought it was going to be mommy/son time but that didn't turn out the way I planned - but not much does when dealing with a 14 yr old!  He ended up having 3 buddies over last night so I actually did get some "me" time in to do some stamping so it worked out just fine.

I made 3 of these cards for all of our coaches and another mom is having the girls sign them this weekend.  Dug out my old Just Basketball set and used an old layout.  I added the Decorative Label punch off to the side and I really like how it looks.  I inked up the basketball stamp with Pumpkin Pie and stamped it on a piece of Whisper White.  Then without re-inking - I stamped another basketball.  Then I stamped once more without re-inking onto the Whisper White panel that is adhered to the card.  I then punched out the other 2 basketballs and adhered the middle one with snail adhesive and then popped up the front basketball with a dimensional.  The Basic Black net and the "swish" are both stamped right onto the panel. 

Thanks for looking!

Papillon Potpourri

Good morning!  Here is a new card I just CASE'd from Stampin Connection that features some Sale-a-bration paper as well as one of my favorite sets Papillon Potpourri.  The colors used are Pool Party, Tangerine Tango, and Island Indigo.  I just got the Apothecary Accents Framelits and I really like them.  I also used the Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack to pierce the whisper white paper all around the inside edge of the framelit.  You can currently get the paper-piercing pack for FREE during Sale-a-bration. Yippee!  That's how I got it and I think I will end up using it much more than I originally thought.  Some rhinestones were added to the butterflies to finish off the card.  Hope you all have a great weekend.

My Friend

Good evening!  I hope everyone out there is having a great weekend.  My daughter's basketball team is playing in a tournament this weekend and unfortunately they got blown out twice today......wasn't much fun!  Hopefully tomorrow will be a little better.....good luck girls!

I love the colors on this card - they are 3 of this years in-colors - Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, and Raspberry Ripple (my new personal fav!).  A piece of Primrose Petals was embossed with the new honeycomb folder and mounted on Whisper White after some Raspberry Ripple ribbon was tied around it.  Underneath the ribbon is a piece of paper from the Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Pack that is mounted on Raspberry Ripple and the bottom edge is punched using the scallop border punch.  The sentiment is from the Perfect Punches set and is punched out with the Curly Label punch. An adorable butterfly was punched out using the new Bitty Butterfly punch in Summer Starfruit to finish the card off.  What I love about this card is that you can use just about any sentiment and punch to change it up.  I CASE'd this from Stampin Connection (yes I know I need to be better about actually keeping track of the lovely ladies names whose ideas I copy!!).

Happy Valentine's Day

Good afternoon!  I know I am a day early but Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow!!  I just made this cute card for my hubby.  I got the idea off Stampin' Connection (what's new......it's where I get almost all my ideas and where I mostly CASE from).  I used Crumb Cake as the card base.  I stamped the Wood grain image in Early Espresso onto Crumb Cake and layered that on top.  I hardly ever use the adorable owl punch and I need to use it more often.  I punched out one heart and stuck one of the owls inside so it looks like he is popping out of a tree.  I added a little glitter with the red glimmer paper that I punched out with a retired 3 heart punch.  The sentiment is from the retired set Short and Sweet.  I should have made the owls eyes looking up or down at each other but oh well. 

Enjoy the day tomorrow!!!  I wish you all much love!

Card #3

Good evening!  It's Friday night and amazingly I am here in the house all by myself - lots of peace and quiet!!  Kids are both at the high school basketball game and hubby is playing poker.  This is kinda nice!  I am gearing myself up for tomorrow night's festivities....it's my daughter's birthday party and there will be 9 girls over here getting their hair, nails, and make up done for her "spa" themed sleepover.  Not sure what I agreed to!!  Wish me luck......

Here is another card from my last class.  Everyone really enjoyed this card - very good one because the gals could put any sentiment on it that they wanted.  I always love making at least one card like that.  I am not sure if you can see the background very well but we used the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder and then colored in the flower centers with the Elegant Eggplant marker.  The butterflies are from the awesome Papillon Potpourri set and are punched out with the Elegant Butterfly punch.  There is a solid cardstock butterfly underneath eached stamped butterfly to give it a shaded look.  The colors I used are Elegant Eggplant, Gumball Green, and Baja Breeze.  All of this is mounted on a card base of Crumb Cake cardstock.  I also used one of the doilies from the Delicate Doilies Sizzlit.  Some pearls, rhinestones, and a small button from the Bitty Buttons pack were used as well for a little "pop".  I am pretty sure I got this idea off Stampin Connection - I apologize that I don't remember from whom.

Enjoy your weekend!

Class card #2

Happy Monday everyone! I had a great girls weekend scrapbooking with 2 of my closest friends.  We talked a lot, ate a LOT, and scrapped some :).  Now back to reality.........
Here is one of the cards we did at my recent class.  I got the general layout from the new Spring catty.  I used some of the new Core'dinations sandable card stock in Primrose Petals and the gals thought it was fun to try the new sanding blocks.  And it  works great with the new Honeycomb embossing folder.  I love the distressed look.  I added the base layer in pool party and the scallop trim edge.  I punched out  2 medium hearts from the new More Amore paper pack and 1 heart with Pool Party and then added a medium sized pearl.  The stamp is from the Hostess set Wacky Wishes.  Finished it off with some Primrose Petals ribbon and there it is!