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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;

Irish Luck

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Lucky Me CardI really love the Stampin’Up! St. Patty set – Pinch Proof. I made this card for one of mom’s upcoming stamp camps. We used this set last year, so I wanted to use the other images from the set. I also wanted the card to be useable even if the person didn’t want to send it for St. Patrick’s Day.

Many of the cards in the February camp use a square, so instead of making another, I turned it a bit and made it a diamond. After stamping, I added a rhinestone for a bit of fun. I popped it up on dimensionals so that the ribbon could be threaded behind the image. The clover in the background is stamped with Versamark – the Kiwi ink was too dark.

Lucky Me
All products are Stampin’Up!
Stamps: Pinch Proof;
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Versamark;
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, So Saffron, Whisper White;
Other: chocolate twill, square rhinestone brad, dimensionals;

Card Set – Birds

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Card SetI have a family friend who loves birds. I wanted to make her a gift set of cards that could be easily sent through the mail without requiring extra postage. I knew I needed to skip the knots/bows and all lumpy embellishments. This was hard for me – but I love how these cards turned out! I popped the focal image up on dimensionals and still managed to work in some ribbon.

kth_cardset_extrasI kept the sentiments somewhat generic so the cards could be used for whatever came up. The pattern paper is actually made with the Stampin’Up! Beautiful Borders – I love that set! I just repeated the border to make the background. I also used that same border on the inside and envelope.

Bird Card Set
Stamps: All Things of Nature (TAC), Beautiful Borders (SU), various sentiments (PTI);
Ink: Sage Shadow (SU); Burnt Umber (Palette), various colors to watercolor;
Paper: Sage Shadow (SU), Chocolate Chip (SU), Naturals Ivory (SU), Taken with Teal (SU);
Other: Chocolate twill (SU), tags (Cuttlebug);

Birthday Notations

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Birthday CardI have a love of any and all office supplies! I get it honestly – my mom has the same obsession! So it just goes that I love stamp sets that are “officey”. When I start a card I generally look through my electronic index and pick a set and SU’s office Accoutrement set really popped out at me, so I went with it. Then I had to find a layout – so I opened my notebook that contains all the sketches I collect and found one (unfortunately I didn’t make a note as to which/whose sketch it was – sorry!). I grabbed my SU Notations paper and that gave me a color scheme.

Card Inside & EnvelopeAfter stamping the calendar, I used the SU Certainly Celery marker to mark the date of the birthday. I used my SU flower punch to punch out one flower. To make the smaller flower, I stamped the flower from the set and cut it out. I wanted texture, so I used the fuzzy inside of the paper (crimp the paper over and over and eventually you can open the paper up). Here is a shot of the inside and the envelope.

Birthday Notations
Stamps: Office Accoutrement (SU), Get Punctual (Leave Memories), Lined Paper (CHF);
Ink: Grey, Burnt Umber (Palette), Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise (SU);
Paper: Taken with Teal (SU), Notations DSP (SU), So Saffron (SU), White (PTI);
Other: ribbon, rhinestone brad (SU), sprial punch (SU); scallop edge punch (SU);

Tropical Wishes

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Tropical Birthday CardI made this card way back in November for my sister-in-law’s birthday. She always strikes me as a fun and festive chick, so I wanted a bright card – and I went with the Cheers set from StampinUp. I created patterned paper once before and I really liked it, so I wanted to do that again. I choose a Mojo Sketch to get me started.

I stamped the images with Noir Palette ink and colored with my SU markers. To make the drink more focal, I added crystal effects to the glass and a tiny bit of glitter around the lip of the glass.

Inside the CardI even decorated the inside and the envelope. I’m really starting to enjoy doing that…it is like another little canvas. For the inside, I made the bottom part with masking and a stripey stamp from SU – then I just used a marker to draw the blue dividing line.

Tropical Wishes
All Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Cheers to You, Cheers (wheel), Background Sampler, Fresh Fruit;
Ink: Noir (Palette), Markers – Real Red, Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow, Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise, Lovely Lilac, Pixie Pink;
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, Turquoise Patterns DSP, White (PTI)
Other: Yellow polka-dot ribbon (nonSU), crystal effects, diamond dust glitter;

Teacher Gifts, part 2

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Altered Lunch BoxToday’s post is another Lunch Box gift ensemble for a teacher back home. Mrs. A is a wonderful teacher (first grade) and a wonderful person. Because she is such a star, I went with the ‘star’ theme. She also loves rainbows (no wonder I like her so much 😉 ). I didn’t have the paper I wanted to use, so it took me a few days to mourn that and move on. I ended up choosing a favorite paper of mine from Stampin’Up! – Cutie Pie – it is so bright and cheery…just makes me smile! I don’t have the new teacher set from PTI yet, so the sentiment for the box was done on the computer and cut out using a Spellbinder’s Label 2 die. The star stamps are from Verve and they fit wonderfully in the punches from SU!

Note cardsFor this gift ensemble I even got the cards to match, hee hee. I wanted the cards to be mailable in case she didn’t want to just use them for school, so I did a very simple design with no ribbon knots. Did I mention the Verve stars fit into the SU punches? {I love that!} To do the sentiment I used a couple different PTI sets to get just the words I wanted – and since they are clear stamps, lining it all up was a breeze.

Post-it Note Holder and SweetsFinally, the gifties for inside the lunch box. I did a acrylic Post-it Note holder and a bag of cookies (her favorite). I used the same paper so it would match the lunch box. Putting them together is pretty straight forward.

Altered Lunch Box
Stamps: Seeing Stars (Verve);
Ink: Certainly Celery (SU);
Paper: Cutie Pie DSP (SU), Certainly Celery (SU), So Saffron (SU);
Other: Label 1 (Spellbinders), star punch (SU), brads, chipboard, star punch (SU), ribbon (various), computer font;
Note Cards
Stamps: Seeing Stars (Verve), Star Light (Verve), words (various PTI);
Ink: Bashful Blue (SU); Certainly Celery (SU);
Paper: Cutie Pie DSP (SU), Bashful Blue (SU), So Saffron (SU);
Other: star punches (SU);
Notepad and Bag Topper
Stamps: Mixed Greetings (SU), Seeing Stars (Verve);
Ink: So Saffron (SU), Rose Red (SU);
Paper: Cutie Pie DSP (SU), Bashful Blue (SU), White (PTI), So Saffron (SU), Certainly Celery (SU);
Other: star punch (SU), oval nestie (Spellbinders), pen, beads, acrylic frame, celery grosgrain (SU);

Teacher Gifts, part 1

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I normally don’t do big Christmas gifts for teachers, I prefer to spoil them during Teacher Appreciation week. But this year I knew we wouldn’t be around during that time and we had such awesome teachers that I *had* to do something at Christmas time. We miss them something bad right now! *sniff*

Altered Lunch BoxOn to the projects. I’ll post in two pieces – some today, some tomorrow. First up is Mrs. B (third grade). She likes school/office stuff, so I made an altered Lunch Box using some old Stampin’Up! Notations paper. I too love office stuff, so making this box was pure fun for me 🙂 As soon as I saw the paper, I knew I had to use the ‘ruler’ part around the center. The ticket (from the Stamp of Authority set) was added because tickets are a big deal in Mrs. B’s class – you earn them and then can use them for fun stuff – like sitting at the teacher’s desk!

GiftsInside the lunchbox I included a matching post-it note holder, made from an acrylic frame, and a matching beaded pen. Of course for the pen I used the “number” paper….forgetting that once you bead it you can’t read the numbers any more…oh well! I also created a tea-bag book. For the tea-bag book, I used a template by CookieStamper that I found on SCS. The tea cup is from a BlockHead Stamps set.

Note CardsFinally, I also included a set of note cards. I knew I wanted to use the doggie image – my kiddo says Mrs. B. loves her dog. My attempt to make the cards (sorta) match the rest of the ensemble, I added the notepaper background. The dog is colored with Stampin’Up! markers, if you work fast enough, you can get it done without the marker lines.

Altered Lunch Box
Stamps: Office Accoutrement (SU), Stamp of Authenticity (SU);
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU), Cool Carribean (SU), Certainly Celery (SU);
Paper: Notations 2 DSP (SU), So Saffron (SU), white (PTI);
Other: ribbon (various), circle punch, silver brads, chipboard, Take Note? rubons (SU);
Notepad and Tea Bag Book
Stamps: Coffee & Tea (Blockhead Stamps);
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU);
Paper: Notations 2 DSP (SU), Certainly Celery (SU);
Other: pen, beads, acrylic frame, red sticky tape, Celery ribbon (SU);
Note Cards
Stamps: Ruff Day (SU), Crayon (Clear Dollar Stamp), sentiment (Rubber Stampede), Notebook Paper background (CHF);
Ink: Lovely Lilac (SU), Close to Cocoa(SU), Creamy Caramel (SU), Bashful Blue (SU), Noir (Palette);
Paper: white (PTI);
Other: purple ribbon;

A New Nest

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First off I have to give a great big thanks to Joyclynn who sent me a whole set of bird stamps. They are the cutest things! She sent them a couple weeks ago and I really wanted to use them, but I just haven’t been in the mood to stamp. But I found out a friend of mine just moved into a new place and I wanted to send her a congrats card. So I had to use the new bird set! One of the images had a bird in a nest – which of course made me immediately think of the “new nest” sentiment. On the inside of the card I stamped the branch image from the bird set. The image is watercolored – just ink and a brush.

Supplies:
Stamps: Bird (Inkadinkado), Sentiment (PTI), Alphabet-nest (Purple Onion);
Ink: Brown (Palette), Baja Breeze (SU), Cocoa (SU);
Paper: Kraft (SU), Vanilla (SU), Baja Breeze (SU), Manchester DSP (SU);
Other: Baja Ribbon (SU); Corner Rounder (to make scallops);