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Honey of a Day

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Yesterday was a honey of a day. It was gorgeous! My hubby and I sat outside and enjoy the sun for a bit and then we took the kids to the park. I really am loving my new home and neighborhood!

Thankfully not only was the sun out, but my muse came to play too! I’m working on some more camp cards for my mom. This camp’s theme is Inside-Out. We’ll show different ways of decorating the insides of cards.

First up is a pocket card. While this may not seem like a traditional card, the “inside” is decorated – and I want to remind her folks to think outside A2 (something I don’t do often myself). Of course, we’ll just overlook the fact that the “base” of this card is indeed A2 sized 🙂

The hive was stamped onto dotted pattern paper and cut out. I just used a marker to color in the hive base (you can still see the dots of the paper). On the inside, I used a marker to color the honey, but left the pot plain. And another touch of different pattern/same color DSP.

To enlarge the photo above, just click on it. Thanks for stopping by!

Buzzin By
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Buzzin By, Sanded;
Colors: Old Olive, More Mustard, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, White, Black;
Other: Regals Patterns DSP, Olive 1/8″ Taffeta ribbon, Eyelet, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch;
Techniques: Paper Piecing, Pocket Card;

Thoughtful Garden

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This card is for the Embellish Magazine color challenge with decorative trim. Their inspiration photo was beautiful!

I wanted a mottled look for the tag, so I used alcohol and reinkers on glossy paper. Then I heat embossed the flower. < Insert many muse-less days. > A few great finds in my scrap pile later and this card is done!

It isn’t a ‘regular’ sized card – the base is 4 w x 4.5 h. Basically I laid it out and then trimmed off the white space.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thinking of You
Stamps: Many Wishes (Gina K); Background Basics-Text, Fillable Frames 2 (PTI); Fancy Phrases (dotted oval – WM);
Colors: White, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, Ripe Avocado (PTI);
Other: Glossy paper (SU); Tag die (PTI); embossing powder; label die (Spellbinders); leaf die (SU); trim (stash); ribbon (PTI);

Rainbow Flowers

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I created this card for the Make it Monday challenge (mim9) which was to use heat embossing.

I think I was feeling a bit creative tonight as I didn’t use a sketch for this card (*shocking* I know). Heck my muse was so much in charge that I don’t even remember how I got started with this one! [Now if only she’d stick around for awhile.]

I think first came the decision to do clear embossing with sponging (in a rainbow of course). Since I was going with rainbow flowers, I decided to send this card off to my niece (she’s in college-hence the “miss you”), so I kept the rest of the card bright & cheery.

Oh, and I have to tell you my “snowflake”. [Sidenote, my mom and I call it the “snowflake” technique because the first time we decided to cover up a mistake, we ended up using a snowflake.] I sponged the flower heads with the rainbow colors and then went back and added sponging to the stems. The stem sponging *so* did not look right, so I covered up most of the sponging with the ribbon.

When I was putting the card together, I did wonder whether it was balanced or not. I thought about adding something to that top left corner, but instead, I moved the sentiment a little off the card on the left and then added glitter centers to the flowers. I’m thinking the glitter helps with the balance, so the top/left doesn’t feel as empty. What do you think? Could I have achieved balance a better way?

Thanks for taking a peek!

Miss You
Stamps: All About You & Additions, Fillable Frames 2 (PTI);
Colors: Hibiscus, Sunrise, Lemon, Plum, White (PTI); Landscape (Pallette), Turquoise (SU);
Other: Chartreuse ribbon, Fillable Frames 2 die (PTI); glitter (SU); sticky shapes (O’SoSticky);
Techniques: machine stitching, sponging, heat embossing

Easter Patterns

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This card started as an attempt at the blending challenge for PTI’s Make-it-Monday, but my blended panel really wasn’t any good. The rest of the card had potential, so I didn’t chuck it all.

The layout is a CardMap from Dec 2010 (PageMaps).

The card needs something to make it pop, but I’m not sure what that thing is. If you have a suggestion, I’d love to hear it. Click on the photo to see it larger.

Thanks for stopping by!

Easter Wishes
Stamps: Mega Mixed Messages, Take Note (PTI);
Colors: Plum Pudding, Spring Moss, White (PTI);
Other: Egg Hunt DSP, Limitless Layers 1 3/4″ die, Egg die, Lavender button, Rustic White twine (PTI); Corner Rounder punch, Leaf die (SU);

Blended Thoughts

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My company has departed and the first thing I did was stamp for Papertrey’s latest Make-it-Monday challenge (mim8). The challenge was to use a sponge to blend ink colors in the background.

It took me awhile before I could come up with an idea. I think I chose my colors before deciding on doing a silhouette. I used Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, and Aqua Mist to create the background.

I’ve had an embossed frame card base in my scrap pile for months so I decided I could use it on this card. Instead of using it as a card base, I just used the frame.

When it came time to stamp the large blue stem on the front, my Aqua wasn’t up to the task, so I switched to StampinUp’s retired Soft Sky. Of course stamping with that necessitated the use of the Sky card stock for the ribbon label too.

I like how the yellow lightens up the feel of the card. Overall I’m pretty happy with this one. Thanks for stopping by!

Thinking of You
Stamps: Life, Vintage Picnic Sentiments (PTI);
Colors: Lemon Tart, True Black, White (PTI); Soft Sky (SU);
Other: Lemon ribbon (PTI); Perfect Details Texturz Plate (SU); Ribbon Label die (Spellbinders);

Masculine Style

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This is my last card for mom’s style camp. For the most part the other cards follow the PaperCrafts Magazine’s special edition on styles. But that only covers 4 styles, and mom’s camps have 5 cards. Masculine cards are always in high demand at her camps, so I thought it would be good to cover that as well.

I know everyone has a different definition of what makes a card masculine. But ‘rules’ are made to be broken! Heck, one of my rules is no buttons.

Since I do try to stay away from the fru-fru stuff, I always try to include lots of texture. I keep the layout clean and simple as well.

Thinking of You
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Plant Hope, Teeny Tiny Wishes;
Colors: Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Old Olive, More Mustard, Very Vanilla;
Other: Sq Lattice embossing folder, button, twine;

Cute Style

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Another style card. I started with a square card (4in so the overlap will still fit in a regular envelope). I added a strip of Bashful cardstock to the bottom. I trimmed a piece of pattern paper, which is longer than the card base. I added the ribbon and tied a knot. After coloring the monster, I cut him out. I adhered the sentiment panel and monster. See, simple.

I think my favorite part is the “ah-ha” moment I had when I was flipping through the paper and found the numbers and realized it went perfectly with the sentiment I had chosen (which I had chosen to go with the goofy monster I created).

Thanks for stopping by!

Goofy Stuff
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Make a Monster, Smarty Pants;
Colors: Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, White;
Other: Celebrations DSP; Red grosgrain ribbon;

Elegant Style

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Another card for the style camp. This one is Elegant/Classic. I love this style, but I am so NOT elegant personally that any card I make in this style, I just feel fake, lol. I do love how this card turned out though.

This was actually the first time I ever tried the rolled ribbon rose – and it turned out perfectly! It was *so* easy.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Mother’s Day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Bella Toile, All Holidays;
Colors: Black, Glossy white;
Other: Red satin ribbon, Black satin ribbon, White Embossing Powder, Rhinestones;

Graphic Style

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This is another card I created for the styles camp. Clean & simple is my preferred style, so going graphic was very painless. This whole card took only about 15 minutes to put together. Very simple – white embossing on color cardstock and hand-draw a couple lines with a marker and ruler.

I still have a few more to post for this camp, but I do believe this is my favorite!

Thanks
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Fabulous Phrases;
Colors: Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, White;
Other: Black Journal marker, White embossing powder.

Shabby Style

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I created this card for an upcoming stamp camp that is all about style. This card is shabby chic – not a style I do easily, but still, it is fun to do something different sometimes.

The card is pretty simple. I stamped the image multiple times on the Vanilla panel. I adhered the DSP to the bottom portion of the panel and then sponged the edges – starting off the panel and working in a circular motion. After determining where the label hardware was going to sit, I colored in just the bits that would be inside.

The Pear seam binding is done by just scrunching it down onto a strip of sticky strip. This technique was one of my requirements from the boss.

The prongs of the antique brad are through the hole of the tag and the crochet bow, then splayed apart – I suppose I could have punched a hole and splayed it behind the panel, but it would have gone through the Pear ribbon and sticky strip, so I just adhered that with a glue dot (or two).

After fixing up the sentiment label and adhering it to the vanilla panel, I attached the whole thing to the Crumb Cake base.

One thing I really like about the new First Edition DSP (SU 2011 Occasions Mini) is that the same design is on the back as the front (but in a way that you end up with a different portion of the same design). The flip side of this scrap has the vertical line more towards the left and I liked having it on the right – it helps lead the eye to the sentiment.

Thanks for blessing…
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Herb Expressions;
Colors: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla;
Other: Vanilla HodgePodge hardware, Crochet trim, Antique Brad, Vintage Tag, Pear Seam Binding, Lots of Tags die cut, Pearls, First Edition DSP, Watercolor Crayons;