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Fabulous Mojo

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This card took me forever to complete, but I am so happy with it! I started with the recent Mojo sketch. I knew I wanted a really pretty card I could send to a friend for her birthday (I know quite a few folk with March birthdays!!). Picking colors took a long time because I don’t have a lot of embellishments the same color as the ink/paper I chose, but I worked it out.

Before I packed up I received some new rubber from Stampin’Up, but I didn’t have a chance to play, so this is my first inking of Echoes of Kindness, and I love these images! I really enjoy watercoloring, so line-art is usually a good choice for me.

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I also bought an Ornare template and this is the first use of that as well. The piercing really gives it a nice touch. Once I got everything stamped and pierced, I wasn’t sure where I was going to put the sentiment, but I liked adding another layer to the focal panel. The trick became finding appropriate fasteners. When will SU realize that we *need* brads in InColor colors?? These little rhinestone brads by Making Memories were close enough in color I could get away with it 🙂

The inside is becoming another little canvas for me…so fun to decorate!

Absolutely Fabulous
Stamps: Echoes of Kindness (SU), Mixed Messages (PTI);
Ink: Cameo Coral, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss (SU);
Paper: White (PTI), Cameo Coral, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss, NQN patterns (SU);
Other: ribbon (PTI), rhinestone brads (MM), tag die (CB), piercing template (ornare);

Bloomin’ Spirelli

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Spellbinders is having a contest (check it out)! Most of the Spellbinder dies I have are nesties, but I wanted to do something different. One die I do have is from the Spirellabilities collection. I really love spirellis – I’m not much of a fiber artist, but these I can do 🙂 I checked out the Spellbinder thread that I have and decided on purple. I don’t have much in the way of purple paper, but the Guidelines stack from PTI was perfect.

I’m still working on purchasing a good collection of “focal” sentiments. I only have one and it didn’t really work here (the font was wrong). So I improvised. I liked the scripty font used in the PTI Spiral Bouquet set. To fill up the other space on the white panel, I stamped a old background I have from ScrapGoods – it is a listing of flowers in latin. I topped off the spirelli flower with a metal flower embellishment from K & Co.

This layout fit perfect with the spirelli flower I created! The layout is a Sketch For You To Try (from i{heart}2stamp). Jen is also giving away blog candy this week – so check it out!.

Bloom
Stamps: Spiral Bouquet (PTI), background (ScrapGoods);
Ink: Plum Pudding (PTI), Spring Moss (PTI);
Paper: (all PTI) Lavendar Moon, Plum Pudding, Spring Moss, White, Guidelines patterns;
Other: Spirellabilities die (Spellbinder), leaf die (Spellbinder), spirelli thread (Spellbinder), metal flower accent (K&Co), ribbon (PTI), stickles;

Cheers Pattern

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I stamped the drink images on a panel the other day, but the scale was off for what I wanted. Then when I checked out the Limited Supplies challenge over at SCS (LSC209), I knew I would use the panel. The challenge was to create your own pattern paper. Coloring this was a pain, but I love how it turned out – so while I wouldn’t do it all the time, I’m glad I did it. I kept the rest of the card really simple so the pattern paper would stand out.

Cheers to You
All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Cheers to You;
Ink: Noir (Palette), More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Baja Breeze, Old Olive, various SU reds;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Pumpkin Pie, White;
Other: scallop punch, circle punches, baja striped ribbon;

Simple Sofa

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Last week I stumbled upon a (new to me) blog – Clean and Simple Stamping. They host challenges that encourage clean and simple cards. I love the look of clean and simple, but struggle sometimes to really do it…so I definitely wanted to watch this blog and participate.

This card was made for challenge #FTL31 (sketch challenge). I have an anniversary card to make. I’m not sure how/why, but the sofa image from Stampin’Up! jumped into my head immediately. I am learning that I like fun and cute more than elegant. After I selected my images, I checked out my paper stash and found this fun pattern that reminded me of buttons (and the color scheme was perfect for the recipients). I really really wanted to add a button to the paper, but it needed a bit a twine, and then I just felt that was too much. I really like how this card turned out!

Happy Together
All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Please Be Seated, Happy Everything;
Ink: Sage Shadow, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip;
Paper: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Autumn Vine DSP, Vanilla (PTI);
Other: mustard grosgrain;

Birthday Greetings

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CPS is doing a PTI challenge with a PTI prize pack. I couldn’t pass that up! I needed a birthday card and the challenge is a sketch, so half the card was already decided for me. I wanted a cheery card but not overly girly. I selected the Mailbox Greetings set from PTI – that seemed to work nicely with the sketch. Since I am mailing the card, I didn’t want it too bulky, so this is just layers and some popped butterflies.

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** ETA**

I had to do a little more – the inside was just a bit to plain 🙂 With a little masking, I stamped just the end mailbox and some grass on more white paper. Then I colored and cut. I added an envelope with a letter inside. It isn’t much, but I’m happy with it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday
All supplies are PTI unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Mailbox Greetings, Birthday Basics, Butterfly Kisses;
Ink: Burnet Umber (Palette), Summer Sunrise, Kiwi Kiss (SU);
Paper: Summer Sunrise, Chocolate Chip (SU), White, Bitty Baby Blessings;
Other: watercolor crayons (SU nuetrals), brown Twill (SU);

Garden Elements, part 3

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If you missed my other Garden Elements cards I made with the Roof Garden Accents and Elements kit, make sure you check out part 1 and part 2.

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First up is a simple card with lots of details. I wanted to use the great big flower from the Elements kit, but it was so big and plain. I decided to emboss the Kindred Spirits stamp set onto it. I liked it, but the shine wasn’t noticeable enough, so I sanded it down. I really liked those results! I added a Kiwi circle and a Navy button. I drew some dots on the button with a white gel pen. To finish the accent off I added some tiny satin ribbon .

The stitching around the DSP layer is faux stitching. Since sanding the EP off the flower made the flower edges distressed, I used the SU Cutter Kit to distress the edges of the DSP panel too.

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This is the final card I want to show you. I was going for a mod graphic type design. I’m not sure what I ended up with, lol. I added the large leafy Element to the Kiwi cardstock. It needed something else so I outlined it with Not Quite Navy. It still didn’t seem right, so I overstamped the Element with the En Francais background stamp. I decided I wouldn’t do any more to that!

I love stripes, so the stripey paper from the Urban Garden DSP pack needed to be used and I thought it would go well with whatever it was I was doing on this card. The final step was to add the sentiment. I knew I wanted it to overlap the leafy Element, so I anchored it to the stripey strip with some brads.

Well, I hope you enjoyed these cards. I only used ONE THIRD of the contents of a kit – so they are definitely a value! Of course, there aren’t any other Accent and Element kits in the new catalog, bummer – but if you are like me, you have one in your stash 😉

All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Kind Thanks
Stamps: Kindred Spirits, Thank You Kindly;
Ink: Versamark, Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, Baja ribbon, Navy button, white gel pen, tiny white ribbon (source unknown), paper piercer, distresser from Cutter Kit;
Happy Days
Stamps: Happy Everything, En Francais;
Ink: Not Quite Navy, White;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, brads;

Garden Elements, part 2

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If you missed the first three cards I made with the Roof Garden Accents and Elements kit, make sure you check out yesterday’s post.

This first card was fun to make. I found some cool geometric paper within the Urban Garden DSP pack. I thought the wavy lines from the Elements kit worked well with that. I decided I wanted a big focal sentiment and created one using Elegant Greetings and Fundamental Phrases. I offset the sentiment and left room to add a leafy Element. I popped the leaves up and added a little detail with the white gel pen.

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This is another of my favorites. When I saw the daisy paper from the Urban Garden DSP, I just knew I needed to use it. I’ve been ogling mom’s Top Note die cut so I grabbed that too. I used taffeta ribbon to hide the seem of the cardstock and pattern paper. Next time I will trim off the pointy parts from the die cut so the ribbon lays better. I popped a couple flowers over the ribbon.

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So, using the daisy portion of the patten paper in the above card left some great wavy lines behind in the scrap pile. I thought they would make a cool border. Again I used dimensionals to pop the flowers up. For the sentiment, I used the corner rounder and tucked it under the border.

That is all for today. I have two more cards to post – some come back tomorrow to check them out. Thanks for stopping by!

All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Birthday Wishes
Stamps: Elegant Greetings, Fundamental Phrases;
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, white gel pen, dimensionals;
Thanks
Stamps: Thank You Kindly;
Ink: Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, white taffeta, Top Note die cut, dimensionals;
Glad We’re Friends
Stamps: Best Yet;
Ink: Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Basic Grey, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, corner rounder, dimensionals;

Garden Elements, part 1

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Mom’s January stamping event was a new catalog party. One of the things she did was to give away a Roof Garden Accent and Elements kit. She asked me to make some samples using the tin so the person who won would have some ideas. I ended up making 8 cards! I’ll post a few today, a few tomorrow, and the last couple on Wednesday. The three I have today are all CASEd, but the posts for Tuesday and Wednesday will be mine.

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The first card was cased from luv my dolly (SCS). I changed the elements and sentiment used, and added a rhinestone brad to the flower center. What I CASEd was the overall layout and colors – I really love the smaller panel with the scallop edge and the idea of layering a flower over a strip.

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My next card is one of my favorites! It just feels so formal and crisp. I again cased the layout from luv my dolly (SCS). To do the ribbon, I punched a little slot in the focal panel and threaded the ribbon up and made my knot. Also, I didn’t want the leaf sticker to be flat, so I cut a dimensional up into pieces and placed a few under the leaves to give that piece some dimension.

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The final card (for today) is cased from stampin mama (SCS). I used the layout, but changed up the colors and the elements used to decorate the sentiment. This isn’t the best picture, but it is the best I have – the ribbon is Kiwi.

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see three more cards made with the Roof Garden Accents and Elements kit!

All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Absolutely Fabulous
Stamps: Absolutely Fabulous;
Ink: Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, rhinestone brad;
Wonderful Friend
Stamps: Wonderful Favorites;
Ink: Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Basic Grey, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, gray taffeta, slot punch, dimensionals;
All the Best
Stamps: Elegant Greetings;
Ink: Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Urban Garden DSP;
Other: Roof Garden Accents & Elements, oval punch, dimensionals;

Cherished Motifs

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While I was at mom’s making stamp camp cards, I was very inspired to make other cards. This is one of the cards I made. I honestly have no idea how this one came about! I think I was trying to figure out a way to use up some of her pattern paper. We decided against this card because there were already a couple other green cards.

I left the card with mom since all my stuff was already packed for moving. I hope it gets used – I really love how it turned out!

Cherish
All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Baroque Motifs;
Ink: Old Olive;
Paper: Olive Olive, Very Vanilla;
Other: vanilla tafetta, oval punch, rhinestone brad, dimensionals;

Thankfully Floral

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This was a quick card I made a couple months ago. The flower center has Fun Flock on it for a touch of texture. The leaf images available in the PTI Flower Frenzy set are striped, so I used striped ribbon too. The blue is Cool Caribbean, a color for which I have a lot of cardstock 🙂 For the outline flower and sentiment I used Taken with Teal – a great complement to the Cool Caribbean color.

Sometimes I like to offset the focal panel so it doesn’t feel so symmetrical and formal.

Thanks A Bunch
Stamps: PTI Flower Frenzy (PTI), Dotted (CHF);
Ink: Cool Caribbean (SU), Taken with Teal (SU), Kiwi Kiss (SU), Close to Cocoa (SU);
Paper: Cool Caribbean (SU), Chocolate Chip (SU), Confetti Cream (SU);
Other: Kiwi striped ribbon (SU), Fun Flock;