Random Act of Kindness

Hey there stampers! Sorry there was no post yesterday.  The day got away from me and I never got around to it.

Today's card was one I received yesterday from my terrific upline, Janelle!  She sent me this card and some die cuts that she got in a Big Shot Swap she participated in.  Isn't that so sweet of her?!?!

 

INGREDIENTS:

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• STAMPS: Good Friend
• INK: Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip
• PAPER: Whisper White, Creamy Caramel, Kraft
• ACCESSORIES: Brads
• TOOLS: Large Oval and Scallop Oval Punches, Paper Snips

It's so nice to receive a RAK (random actof kindness)in the mail!  I think I'm going to have to send someone somethng too as a way to "pay it forward". :)  Have a great day!

Hugs,

Color Throw Down and a Sketch in Purple

Good Morning Stampers! Thanks for stopping by on this Memorial Day weekend!

Today's card is another 2 sketches combined. I took the colors of this week's Color Throw Down of Lovely Lilac, Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive
and combines it with Kerrin's weekly sketch over at Stamps, Paper, Glitter.
I still had some Glossy Cardstock on my work table so I took my Sponge Daubers and inked them up in Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant and Lovely Lilac and randomly colored in my panel. Then I went back and stamped the leaves from the Great Friend set in Old Olive and the butterfly in Elegant Eggplant. You have to be careful when stamping on Glossy Cardstock or your images will smear.


After letting it dry for a bit, I added my brads using my Piercing Tool and Mat Pack, matted it on a piece of Elegant Eggplant and adhered it to my Lovely Lilac card base stamped with Elegant Eggplant leaves. I added the Elegant Eggplant strip and the sentiment was stamped in Elegant Eggplant and Lovely Lilac for the frame and popped up with Dimensionals. I am happy with how this turned out.

Hope you have a terrific rest of your Saturday! I am looking forward to my 2nd Stamp Camp this afternoon!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Card and a Bookmark CASE

Good Sunday Morning Stampers! Thanks for checking in with me today!

So today's card is one I completely CASED (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit)from one of the blogs that I check out regularly, Julie's Stamping Spot. I thought it was such a cute idea I just had to make one (or two) myself!

I started out with a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock measuring 3 1/4" x 11" folded in half and added a pocket of vellum with some white eyelets set with my Crop-A-Dile. I adhered a piece of Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon around the bottom and covered where the ends met with my sentiment from the Oval All set stamped in Baja Breeze. My sentiment was punched out with the Large Oval Punch and layered on Cameo Coral punched with the Scallop Oval Punch. The little flowers are from the Boho Blossoms Punch with a white brad in the center and adhered with a Dimensional.









The bookmark is a piece of the fabulous Walk in the Park DSP from the Occasions Mini catalog matted on a piece of Cameo Coral cardstock. I added a White Jumbo Grommet by punching my bookmark with the 1/2" Circle Punch and then feeding the "spokes" of the grommet through the hole and pushing them flat with the end of my scissors on the backside. The butterfly is stamped in Baja Breeze (what am I going to do when this color retires next month!!!)cut out and popped up with another Dimensional. The final touch is the super silky White Satin Ribbon also in the Occasions Mini.

Adorable! Thanks so much Julie for sharing this project!

Hope you have a terrific rest of your day-I'm off to spend time with my family in the jacuzzi with my cup of coffee! :)
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Diva Coffee Break Challenge

Hi there Stampers! Thanks for stopping by!
As I was blog surfing yesterday I came across the Diva Coffee Break Challenge for the week and of course had to play along! I had such fun using such simple colors that I had to make two cards!

When I saw the colors were white, black and gray I knew I wanted to ink up my much neglected Pocket Silhouettes stamp set!


I started with my typical WW base, added a panel of Walk in the Park DSP from the Occasions Mini Catalog and tied some organza ribbon from Michael's. I stamped my images in Basic Black on Whisper White (WW)and matted them on Scallop Squares of Basic Black. I popped them up on dimensionals and then added my butterfly from the Great Friend stamp set (I cannot get enough of this one!).

My second card starts with a WW base with a panel of Rockabilly DSP.
I added a strip of WW and some ribbon and stamped the happy birthday circles from the Wow Flowers stamp set in Basic Black and Going Gray. I punched them out with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch and matted them on Basic Black Scallop Circles with Dimensionals. The final touch is the silver metal stickers (Colorbok). Kind of funky but I like it. :)

Ingredients #1:
Stamps: Great Friend, Pocket Silhouettes Paper: Walk in the Park, WW Ink: Basic Black, Going Gray Accessories: Dimensionals, 1 1/4" Square Punch, Scallop Square Punch, Organza Ribbon

Ingredients #2:
Stamps: Wow Flowers Paper: Rockabilly DSP, WW, Basic Black Ink: Basic Black, Going Gray Accessories: 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Silver Metal Stickers from Colorbok, Striped Ribbon, Dimensionals

Hope you enjoyed my cards and give this challenge a try!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Mojo Monday Wednesday!

Good Morning Stampers! Happy Wednesday!

Today's card is my submission for the Mojo Monday Sketch of the week. I used the Great Friend stamp set from the Occcasions Mini again. I just love this set! Remember you only have 8 more days to take advantage of the Get connected promotion where you get to pick a FREE item from the "Under $10" section of the Idea Book and Catalog when you spend $40 out of the Occasions Mini catalog. Who doesn't love FREE stuff?!?

I started out with a Whisper White cardstock base, aded a panel of Certainly Celery and then some Regal Rose stamped with the leaf image from the Great Friend set. I punched the Pink Pirouette piece with my Eyelet Border Punch and stamped the greeting and the butterfly in Pretty in Pink. I cut the butterfly out and used dimensionals to pop it up and used the Ticket Corner Punch on my Certainly Celery mat. The button from the Button Bouquet is added with a Mini Glue Dot and has a bit of Linen Thread tied on it.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend Paper: WW, Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose Ink: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink Accessories: Dimensionals, Button Bouquet, Linen Thread, Mini Glue Dots, Eyelet Border Punch

Thanks so much 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

Diva Coffee Break Designs Challenge

Good Morning Stampers! Thanks for stopping by!
Today's card covers two challenges, one I've played along with before and a new one I came across while blog surfing! You know how much I like these challenges so I'm pretty happy to have found another one to play with!

The first challenge is from the divas over at the Diva Coffee Break Designs blog


The second challenge is from the Color Throw Down blog, number 38 for them and uses Basic Gray, Ruby Red and Baja Breeze this week.





I started my card with a Whisper White base (what a surprise!) and then put together my mats and strip with Basic Gray then Baja Breeze then Ruby Red. I've been using the butterfly from the new Great Friend set in the Occasions Mini so much that my butterfly from Garden Whimsy was feeling neglected and was screaming at me to ink it up! Poor thing!;) So I inked her up in Baja Breeze and glittered her up with my 2 Way Glue Pen and some Dazzling Diamonds.
I punched the corners with my Ticket Corner Punch and added it to my mat. The sentiment is from the Great Friend set (had to use at least SOMETHING from that set!)and is punched with the Small Oval Punch, matted with the Large Oval Punch in Basic Gray and finished off with the Scallop Oval Punch in Baja Breeze. I used my 1/2" Circle Punch and my 1/4" Circle punch for the three circles in the corner and added White Gel Pen dots to the centers and to my Scallop Oval.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend, Garden Whimsy Paper: Ruby Red, Basic Gray, Baja Breeze Ink: Baja Breeze Accessories: 2 Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Small and Large Oval Punches, Scallop Oval Punch, 1/2" and 1/4" Circle Punches, White Gel Pen, Dimensionals, Tombow Multi Glue

It's a simple card but I like it! While I had these colors out I made a couple other cards so come check them out tomorrow!

Have a great day!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Mojo Monday on a Wednesday!

Good Morning Stampers! Happy Wednesday to you! I can't believe we are already half way through our spring break from school! Have you gotten your taxes out? I did ours back in Feb thank goodness-I hate taxes!!


Today's card is my submission for the Mojo Monday Sketch of the week. These are always fun to play along with!

I started out with my WW card base, added a piece of Candy Lane DSP and two different strips of Candy Lane punched with my Scallop Edge Punch. Next I added some Pink Pirouette Striped ribbon and my first square of more Candy Lane DSP matted with some Pink Pirouette. My main image from the Great Friend set in the Occasions Mini is stamped in Close to Cocoa on Whisper White also matted with some Pink Pirouette and the Ridinghood Red butterfly is popped up on Dimensionals. The sentiment which should have been stamped off to the right side is stamped in Chocolate Chip on the main panel. I just didn't think it would show up on the dark DSP and didn't want to make the card any busier by layering it with the oval punches or something else. Not exactly like the sketch but that's the fun part of doing a sketch, you make it your own!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend Paper: Candy Lane DSP, WW, Pink Pirouette Ink: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Ridinghood Red Accessories: Pink Pirouette Striped Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Dimensionals

Hope you have a super day! See you soon!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Great Friend

Good Morning Stampers! Hope you had a terrific Easter Weekend! I must say I enjoyed being lazy this morning and not rolling out of bed until just a little bit ago! :)

Today's card is one I made a few days ago. I am still trying to figure out my swaps for an upcoming demonstrator event I am going to. I do like this card and I think it just might be the one I will make to swap.


I started out with a Baja Breeze card base, added a strip of the new Walk in the Park DSP from the Occasions Mini Catalog and used my Eyelet Border Punch to make a lacey border along the bottom. I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to stamp the three butterflies from the Great Friend set in Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand and my sentiment comes from the Oval All stamps set also from the Occasions Mini. The sentiment is layered on a piece of Baja Breeze punched with the new Scallop Oval punch and is adhered with a dimensional on a piece of Certainly Celery Grosgrain ribbon.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend, Oval All Paper: Walk in the Park DSP, WW, Baja Breeze Ink: Sahara Sand, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, SU Markers Accessories: Scallop Oval Punch, Dimensionals, Large Oval Punch, Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Eyelet Border Punch

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Two Challenges in One!

Good Morning Stampers! Hope you are enjoying your Easter weekend! Thanks for stopping by!


So yesterday after stamping my card using the colors from Kristina Werner's Color Challenge of the week I decided that they were a fun and challenging combo that really stretched me! Guess that's why they call it a "challenge" duh?! ;) So anyway I thought I'd have a go at that color combo again this time with a sketch challenge from Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge. I usually am a total CASE-r, that is my creations are almost always copied with slight changes from other creations I've seen out there in blogland and on my beloved Splitcoast Stampers and the Stamper's Showcase on the Stampin' Up website. The terrific thing I have found with doing these sketch challenges is that the creations are all my own! Whoo hoo I CAN actually come up with something original!
So today's card started out with a WW card base. I added a strip of Pacific Point cardstock with a little Kiwi Kiss Striped Ribbon running down it and then stamped my main image using Black, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red and Pacific Point and the Eastern Blooms stamp set. The corners of it and the Rose Red mat are punched using the Ticket Corner Punch and then added to another mat of Basic Black. The large flower is from the Sizzix Bigz Die called Daisies #2 and the leaves are from the Sizzix Sizzlits Little Leaves. I layered those all together and then added a Rose Red flower from my Boho Blossoms Punch and added a little shine with a Metal Sticker from Colorbok (in the $1 section of our local Joann's). The sentiment is from the Great Friend set from the new Occasions Mini.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Great Friend Paper: Pacific Point, Basic Black, WW, Rose Red Ink: Pacific Point, Basic Black, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss Accessories: Sizzix Bigz Daisies #2, Sizzix Sizzlits Little Leaves, Kiwi Kiss Striped Ribbon, Metal Sticker, Dimensionals, Ticket Corner Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch

I have to say I really like this card. Judging by my total lack of comments on my Swap or Not to Swap post (click HERE to see it)I'm thinking you guys hate them but are too nice to tell me! ;)

Hope you all have a great Easter tomorrow and that the Easter Bunny brings you lots of goodies (all fat and calorie free of course!)
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

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

Good morning stampers! Hope you had a nice weekend!

Today's card combines two challenges once again! I really liked the color combo of Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White from Kristina Werner's Color Challenge for the week so I decided to use those colors again this time with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.
I started out with another square card base of 4 3/4" x 4 3/4" in Baja Breeze (using another one of those CD envelopes-maybe I'll have all 200 used by next year!!) I stamped a background using a small flower from Eastern Blooms also in Baja Breeze. I stamped my two panels in Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, and stamped off Chocolate Chip in various flowers from the Eastern Blooms set and matted them in Chocolate Chip. The butterfly is from the Great Friend set now available in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I stamped it in Kiwi Kiss, cut it out and stuck a jeweled brad (Making Memories) in the center and adhered it with a Dimensional.
The sentiment is from the Only Ovals set also from the Occasions Mini Catalog and is stamped in Baja Breeze, punched with the Large Oval Punch and matted with a Scallop Oval punched piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. I added White Gel Pen doodle dots around the border of the Scallop Oval.


Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend, Eastern Blooms, Only Ovals Paper: WW, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip Accessories: White Gel Pen, Dimensionals, Jeweled brad (Making Memories), Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by and feel free to comment on my card! I love to hear from my readers! :)
See you tomorrow!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Great Friend Thanks

Hi there stampers!
Hope you are having a great weekend so far!
I made this card last night when I needed a thank you note and I really wanted to ink up my new Great Friend set from the Occasions Mini. I started with a Certainly Celery base, added a Cuttlebugged panel of Baja Breeze, and stamped my butterflies and cut them out. I added the jeweled brads to the centers of the butterflies and stuck them on the card with dimensionals. The sentiment is from the fresh Cuts set and punched with the Large Oval Punch and layered on the new Scallop Oval Punch. I've decided this set is in my top 5 of favorites now!
Ingredients:
Stamps: Great Friend, Fresh Cuts Paper: Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze Accessories: Large Oval, Scallop Oval, Dimensionals, Birds and Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Jeweled Brads (Michael's)

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Elizabeth