Fun Flower

A quick little post tonite, but here is a card I made the other day.  The background has been clear embossed with En Francais, which you can't even see in this picture, but it really does look great!  The flower is cut from the wood sheets from Stampin' Up, then run through my BigShot with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder, sponged with Pear Pizzazz and then with shimmer paint and stamped again with En Francais.  In real life, it's a really great embellishment - something a little different

That's all for now, gotta run and get organized for my daughter's early, early morning skate!

more playin' with Spice Cake

This card was made from the new Spice Cake paper.  The colors I used here are Early Espresso, More Mustard and Very Vanilla - must be the cloudy rainy weather that has brought on the feeling of fall.  The stamp set was the Easy Events Christmas stamp, but I chose to ink only the branch and not the greeting.  Instead of using the berries that are on the stamp, I wanted to use the bitty flower punch from the trio pack.  I punched a tiny design from the DSP and layered it onto a cardstock flower.  It's really hard to get a close up of these flowers to show you the dimension it gives the card, but I love how it turned out.  The ribbon is the More Mustard dotted scallop ribbon.  I love how this can be used on either side - again just more value for your money!

Hope you are as inspired by the fall feeling weather as I have been....enjoy your Sunday afternoon before another busy weeks sets in

See you soon.....

Stolen playtime!

Well, well, well.....I've finally just given up on the house and stole a little time to play.   This last couple of weeks since the kids went back to school and their numerous activities has been quite chaotic.  The beautiful weather made it feel like summer still and we just couldn't seem to get in the groove.  I think we are finally settling in to the busyness of the fall season and the weekend has been cloudy and rainy so of course it's time to lock myself in my workshop and not come out until spring! 

 The birdhouse is a template that came from the Stampin' Success magazine exclusive to demonstrators.  It was just so cute in the article that I had to make a few of my own - gave one to my sister and downline and kept this one for myself.  Just a little bit of whimsy.  The card is a club project from a couple of weeks ago using the Pennant Parade and co-ordinating punch, a fun birthday card with the new in colors of Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo and Pool Party.

Thanks for following along and stopping by.......

Spice Cake Club Project

Hiddy ho stampers!  Here comes the Box #2 Die again, I am lovin' the endless possibilities with it and the quick and easy go together.  This little box is going to be my place setting at Thanksgiving and inside will be a chocolate turkey for everyone(if he fits!)  The paper used is Spice Cake and you are going to fall in love with this new paper.  I've used the stamp set called Gently Falling and the greeting comes from the set Always Thankful.  Such a fun little project....

See you soon, I'm off and running - as usual!

Tea Bag Holder

Hiddy ho stampers!  Here is a fun little project made with some new In Colors and the individual stamp Tiny Teacup.  The colors are Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant and Lucky Limeade.  I am going to be using this for a club project later in September.  I absolutely love the little polka dot brads and used them for the centers of my flowers that I punched with the triple layer Blossom Bouquet Punch - these are a great way to get alot of value in your punch.  If you are interested in joining a club and live in my area, contact me today as clubs are resuming in September and I will have a few spots opening up.  Clubs are always alot of fun and I really look forward to each one, it's like having a whole bunch of friends over.  Some of my club girls have been with me since I started just about 3 years ago and I have really gotten to know them and love getting together.  It's always so much fun to share what you love doing and get paid to do it - now that's a great job!

Thanks for stopping by......

Ribbon Swap

Happy weekend peeps!  I know it's been a week since I've posted and I say it everytime, but seriously, I need to hire an assistant.  I just tried to post this here and blogger lost the whole thing....don't they know I don't have an extra 10 minutes in my day!    If I didn't have to take care of everything else, like children and housework, I'd have so much time for playing with my stamps - LOL!

Here is the ribbon swap that I recently did.  The fabric is coming out in your new Holiday Mini on September 1st and just look at those huge buttons - I just can't get enough Stampin' Up.  The box is a BigShot die, Box #2 and was so amazingly easy to put together, I'm sure you'll be seeing lots more of this one around

I'm off to try and get the next month's worth of club prep done - got that back to school, get organized feeling - maybe even get another little creation done

Till next time....thanks for stopping by - hope you enjoyed your stay!

Hello with Aviary

Wow, where did that week go - I didn't really realize how long it had been since I posted something!  So I'll post a few that I've made lately.  I have had a 15 month old who I swear is getting about 6 teeth at once and I can't even walk out of the room!

So here is a Mojo Monday sketch again.  This time using Sahara Sand and Poppy Parade with the Aviary and Tiny Tags stamp sets.  These colors are really great together - thanks to my super duper Color Coach.  I just love it - always so easy to put together some great colors that you may not normally reach for.

These two are wedding cards (obviously).  I just changed up the order of the colors - one is black and Melon Mambo and the other is Melon Mambo and Black.  Can't decide which way I like it better if I even like them at all - you know when you have those, just not my fave.  I think because I like wedding to be a little more traditional, but I am seeing lots of funky colors for weddings this year so that's what inspired these creations.

Last but not least, this one took me all week.  I started, got interrupted, started again, couldn't make it work, then finally last night, I managed to pull it together - I really like how it turned out.  I used the designer embossing frames and then inked on top of it to really make it stand out.  The pumpkin is from Button Buddies and the greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes.  The colors are a little hard to tell in the picture, but again from the Color Coach they are More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy and So Saffron.  Must be the back to school feel that made me think Thansgiving already!

Happy Sunday Stampers!