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Noel

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I created this card for my mom’s 12 weeks newsletter. It went out a few weeks ago, so it is safe to share this on my blog now. This card made me a fan of Poppy & Pear – they are such a great combo.

The ornament is glittered and popped with a dimensional.

Noel
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Big on Christmas;
Colors: Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzaz, So Saffron, Whisper White;
Other: Poppy ribbon, glitter, Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder;

Country Christmas Charm

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I know it is bad form to love all over your own cards, but I *love* this card. It is my favorite of the three I made, but not only did mom pick a different one, but my whole family did too! Oh well – difference makes the world go ’round.

I started with a PageMaps sketch and flipped it upside down (Sept 2010). I chose to use lace because it reflected the look on the ornaments well.

Christmas Greetings
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Tree Trimmings, Grateful Greetings;
Colors: Kraft, White, Real Red, Soft Suede;
Other: Old Olive ribbon, Lace, Button, Twine;

Pretty Ornament

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I really love Christmas cards that don’t use the ‘normal’ color scheme. That is how I started with this card. The layout was inspired by a PageMaps sketch, but strayed quite a bit by the end, lol.

I’ll admit I didn’t want to like the latest InColors – especially Pear…it just seems to close to Celery. But dang, it is an awesome color!

I finished off the ornament with a few Pearls.

Merry Christmas
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Tree Trimmings, Christmas Greetings;
Colors: Pear Pizzaz, Blushing Bride, White;
Other: Bride ribbon, Scallop Border punch, Leaf die, Pearl jewels;

Big on Christmas

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Wow, between my kid’s birthday and PTA events, my little blog has been neglected! It doesn’t help that when I have been able to stamp, I’m working on stuff that shouldn’t be published.

See, I’m helping mom put together projects for her 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter. The newsletter starts the first weekend in October, which, since I have the first couple of weeks, feels like it is just around the corner!

My first week will be a card using Big on Christmas. Since I can’t share my newsletter card with you yet, I thought I’d share these cards that I cased from Splitcoast. For this first card, I CASEd this card. I kept the layout & stamp set, but changed the colors. I really liked how the layout was simple and made for an easily mass-produced card.

For the second card, I CASEd this card. Again, I kept the layout and stamp set, but changed up the colors. For coloring the letters on this one I watercolored and did a faded effect. I think it goes with the fun feel of the colors in the paper. I love the right-flush of the layers on this card. And then to have the ribbon jaunt out adds another fun element.

** Photography Tip **

I am no expert. And try as I might to read my camera manual, the stuff just doesn’t stay in my head. Well, I stumbled upon a little button on my point-and-shoot (Panasonic DMC-something) that makes my final image so much better.

My shooting setup consists of a couple sheets of cheap white cardstock and a couple goose-neck lamps with compact fluorescent light bulbs – not to mention all this glorious Hawaiian natural light 😉 I learned about fixing white balance within Photoshop and it produced what I thought were good results. Sometimes my colors didn’t turn out, but I figured it was user error.

The other day my thumb wandered around the back of my camera looking for a good holding position and happened to push the “Backlight” button. Well, I took a couple photos but then turned it off because they seemed a bit washed out (like the flash was on) – but that was just on the little camera screen. When I took those photos into Photoshop and did the magic, those “backlight” photos had better color! I’m assuming it has to do with all the light bouncing back to the camera from my white background paper, but I’m just glad it works for me!

So check your camera and see if it has a “backlight” shooting feature and turn it on – it may surprise you. The obvious disclaimer of ‘results may vary’ does apply, lol. I’d love to hear if it works for you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gettin’ Gifty

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I know this isn’t a card, but don’t be too shocked. I’m trying to get ahead on my assignments.

This altered tin will be made at Mom’s October 3D camp. This is a DVD-type tin with a few 3×3 cards. It would make a great gift that could be put together relatively quickly.

I went pretty simple with the tin relying on the pattern paper for interest. The cards are so tiny I found it hard to design. Again I kept them very simple.

To make the flower for the tin’s belly band, I punched 2 flowers from the DSP using the Extra Large Flower punch. The bottom one I left as is; the top one I cut into it to make petals and folded them a bit to give some dimension.

Altered Tin with Notecards
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Sincere Saluations;
Colors: Baja Breeze, Vanilla, Always Artichoke;
Other: DVD-tin, Elegant Soiree DSP, Leaf die, Tag die, Build-a-Brad, Extra Large Flower punch;

Unfrogettable Birthday

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The latest One-Layer Wednesday challenge is to use border stamps (olw17). I own a ton of wheels and don’t use them as often as I should.

Once I picked a wheel to use, the rest of the card fell together. Of course, after it was all colored I realized I should have added spots to the frog…but done is done – and it can’t be all bad…my youngest kiddo has already claimed this for their own birthday (9 months from now, lol).

I guess practice does help – I am definitely feeling easier about making one-layer cards.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hoppy Birthday
Stamps: Unfrogettable, Lily Pad wheel (SU);
Colors: White (PTI); Bashful, Celery, Coral, Olive (SU);

Skeleton Walk

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The skeleton image from SU’s Scary Skeleton is normally doing a jig. I’m not sure why, but it definitely makes working with the image a bit more difficult. For this card, I preformed surgery. I stamped the image a few times and cut it all up and rearranged the bones in a somewhat more natural appearance (just don’t look too closely 😉 ). It was a pain, but I would probably do it again because I love this little dude!

The top bit of the card was stamped with a stripey pattern then I went back over some of the lines with a glittery gel pen and other lines with a glossy gel pen.

Thanks for taking a peek.

Happy Haunting
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Scary Skeleton, Haunting Hill wheel, Background Sampler;
Colors: Elegant Eggplant, Black, Old Olive, White;
Other: border punch (EK Success); Gel Pens;

Wicked Cool

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I’m starting my Halloween cards (hopefully you won’t be sick of them by the time I’m done posting – I’ll try to post some non-Halloween cards to break it up). I loved this StampinUp set when I first saw it, but man, I found working with it to be somewhat difficult. Thankfully I found an awesome sketch from PageMaps (June 2010) that helped me lay this one out and I love it!

I colored the image with markers and cut them out. The ribbon is a fine fabric sorta thing. The SU Holiday Mini will have some cool black lace that would really work well on this card.

I think I am finally getting the hang of my sewing machine. While these lines are not perfectly straight, they are definitely much better than my usual!

Wicked Halloween
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Wicked Cool;
Colors: Black, Vanilla, River Rock, Going Gray, Pumpkin Pie;
Other: NewsPrint DSP; black ribbon (stash); Mat Stack 2 die (PTI); buttons (PTI); sewing machine;

Delightful Halloween

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I’m trying to get ahead on my assignments. This card will be for mom’s October stamp camp. I needed to create a card using Batty For You. I used a lot of white space in this card, but I love the results. I don’t have any current paper, so using the wide stripey ribbon helps give the card some interest.

I love spooky Halloween cards, but sometimes I need some friendly ones. I think the bright colors and cute image really make for a friendly card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Filled with Delight
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Batty For You, Grateful Greetings;
Colors: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, White;
Other: Daffodil ribbon;

Clean meets Cute

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The latest challenge at Embellish Magazine Blog is a Cute & Clean style. I can do clean and I love cute, heck even the colors for the challenge were awesome.

The shading on the sentiment was done by coloring a bit with the Versamark marker.

My niece is heading back to college this week. I thought this card would be a good way to let her know that we’re thinking about her.

Hello
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Doodle This, Outlined for Fun; Library Ledger (PTI);
Colors: Crumb Cake, Groovy Guava, Baja Breeze; Rustic Cream (PTI);
Other: Baja ribbon, white gel pen, blue rhinestone, Spiral Border punch;