Sweet Sunday on Monday :)

Hi there Stampers! Sorry for the later than usual post. I made a few things yesterday but then started feeling sick before I could take pics and prep for my post today.

Today's card is my submission for Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I can't believe it's been 16 sketches already! It also is my submission for a new challenge I found at the fabulous Order of the Opus Gluei blog. These ladies are FUN! They are giving away some awesome blog candy too!


I started with a 4 3/4" x 4 3/4" piece of Close to Cocoa base and added a piece of Bella Rose DSP punched with the Scallop Edge Punch along the bottom. Next I added my frame of some more Bella Rose DSP and stamped my images from the Blooming with Love Stamp Set in Black Stazon. I cut out my stamped flower pots and wheelbarrow and adhered them over the original stamped image. I colored in my flowers with my SU Markers and stamped my sentiment from the Great Friend Stamp Set in Chocolate Chip. I punched it out with my Small Oval and layered it on a Large Oval of Kiwi Kiss. I added a button from the Button Bouquet with a bit of Linen Thread tied through it as a final touch.

I think this is a perfect card for my mom who was born with a green thumb-it is obviously not a genetic trait passed on since I kill all live plants. :)

What do you think? I thought it was so cute I made a couple love notes of just the center piece for Mother's Day gift enclosures. This image is totally CASED from one of my favorite stampers, Becky Roberts at Inking Idaho, click HERE to see her fabulous card.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Blooming with Love, Great Friend Paper: Bella Rose DSP, WW, Close to Cocoa, Kiwi Kiss Ink: SU Markers, Black Stazon, Chocolate Chip Accessories: Button Bouquet, Linen Thread, Small and Large Oval Punches, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

More Stamp Camp Projects

Good Morning Stampers! Well Spring Break is officially over and I am sad to see it go. My kids did not want to get up this morning at all!!

I didn't have any time to stamp this weekend with my stamp camps and our trip to the lake yesterday but I do have the last two items we made at my stamp camps this weekend to show you. I will work on the Sweet Sunday Sketch and Mojo Monday so I'll have something to show tomorrow! :)

This was one of the favorites among my stamp camp guests. Simple but cute and super sparkly! We started with a Whisper White cardstock base, added a Baja Breeze panel that was punched with the Scallop Edge Punch and tied some Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon around it. Next we inked up the daisy image from the Upsy Daisy stamp set first in Baja Breeze ink and then used the SU Ballet Blue Marker to highlight the top edges of each flower before stamping it onto a WW panel. The highlight is very subtle but nice. We adhered that to a mat of Sahara Sand and then added 2 Way Glue Pen and Dazzling Diamonds to the daisies. Ooooh Sparkly! The sentiment comes from the awesome Great Friend set and the White Gel Pen doodle dots on the scallop edge finishes it off.

The last project we made was a flower seed packet holder made out of an envelope! I love it when great ideas come from simple things! We used the Blooms and Bulbs Wheel with a Certainly Celery ink cartridge for continuous ink. We wheeled our sealed envelopes, cut off about 1 1/4" off the side of it and then ran the two pieces through the Crimper. We ran the bigger part (the pouch) through with the opening to the side and the smaller part (the lid) with the opening facing us. Next we stamped the wheelbarrow and flower images from the Blooming with Love stamp set in Black Stazon on WW. We colored them in with our fabulous SU Markers and set a Jumbo Eyelet with a Crop-a-dile in the wheel of the wheelbarrow. We matted it on Certainly Celery and adhered it with Mini Glue Dots since the surface was ridged from the Crimper. We wrapped some retired Certainly Celery ribbon (sale-a-bration)around the lid and stamped the watering can image in Sahara Sand and the sentiment in Black over top of it. We punched it out with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch and layered it onto a 1 3/8" Circle Punch of Creamy Caramel and then onto a Cetainly Celery Scallop Circle with White Gel Pen doodle dots. We tied it to the Certainly Celery Ribbon with some Linen Thread to finish it off. Cute huh?

Ingredients #1:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Great Friend Paper: WW, Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand Ink: Baja Breeze, Ballet Blue Marker Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon, White Gel Pen, 2 Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals

Ingredients #2:
Stamps: Blooming with Love, Blooms and Bulbs Wheel, Paper: WW, Certainly Celery, Creamy Caramel, Envelope Ink: Certainly Celery Ink Cartridge, Sahara Sand, Black Stazon, SU Markers Accessories: 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" Circle Punches, Scallop Circle Punch, White Gel Pen, Linen Thrread, Certainly Celery Ribbon (SAB), Crimper, Paper Cutter, Mini Glue Dots, Jumbo Eyelets, Crop-a-dile

I hope you liked my projects today! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you tomorrow!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

To Swap or Not to Swap

Good Morning Stampers! How are you today?
I have a demonstrator event the end of this month and have been trying to figure out my swap card. I have decided I absolutely have too many stamp sets to choose from which I think is part of my problem narrowing down to one! The only guidelines we have for our swap is that we have to use only current Stampin' Up products. That leaves it pretty wide open!
So I've been playing with several stamp sets trying to come up with I card that I just love that isn't too time intensive since I have to make quite a few of them and make sure I have enough supplies in stock to make them all. I thought I'd show you a couple that I've been working on today.

This first card is in my reject pile. Too much coloring even though I do like it. I started with a Garden Green base (probably the first time I started out with THAT color!)added a mat of Close to Cocoa and stamped my images from Blooming with Love in Black Stazon. I colored them in with my SU Markers and then adhered it to my card. I added some Tangerine Tango Striped ribbon, stamped my sentiment in black after stamping the watering can image in Sahara Sand, punched it out with my 1 3/8" Circle Punch and layered it on a Close to Cocoa Scallop Circle. White Gel Pen doodle dots finish it off.

The second card I made uses my Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set. I based it on THIS one. I was resisting this set for so long but I finally caved in and bought it. I decided to make the card using Ridinghood Red since I have a full roll of the Ridinghood Red Striped ribbon. I must say I am much more drawn to the catalog sample of it in Baja Breeze and Kiwi Kiss than Ridinghood Red and Black but it is very pretty. This card came together quickly which is a definite plus when you are making 40 or 50 of them! I started out with a Ridinghood Red card base, Added a Basic Black mat and stamped my flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral set in Going Gray, Basic Black and Ridinghood Red on Whisper White cardstock. The sentiment is also from that set and stamped in black and layered with the same colors. The finishing touch is the Ridinghood Red Striped Ribbon.

This last card is my favorite though definitely not as fast and easy to put together as the Fifth Avenue Floral one above.
This card is based on THIS one I saw on Splitcoast Stampers. I started out with a Regal Rose base, added some Raspberry Tart DSP matted with Kiwi Kiss and stamped the butterfly from the Great Friend set in the new Occasions Mini. I used the rock and roll technique to stamp the butterfly by first inking it up with Regal Rose and then rolling just the outside edges in Rose Red ink. I used my Ticket Corner punch for the corners of my WW piece and matted it with Kiwi Kiss. The butterfly's trail is from the Flight of the Butterfly set and is stamped in Kiwi Kiss. I added some Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon and some flowers punched with my Boho Blossoms Punch with White Gel Pen in the centers. The final touch was a piece of WW cardstock punched with the Eyelet Punch along the bottom.

So what do you think? I have a couple more card ideas to play around with but I'd love to hear what you would vote for. Leave me a comment and let me know!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a terrific day!
Hugs,
Elizabeth