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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;

Animal Stories

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All these cards use the Animal Stories set by StampinUp. I designed these (and 2 CASE cards that I won’t bother posting as the originals are better, lol) for an upcoming stamp camp my mom is holding. The idea is to make 5 cards using the same stamp set to show its versatility.

 
 

This first card uses a bold color scheme and some of the products from the Occasions mini (pom-pom trim and large buttons). I had fun stamping this one out.

I tried to keep this next card simple as most of the others have a lot going on. I really love the Paradise leaves paired with the elephant.

 
 
 

I made the third card because I just had to do the cute cart that I found at Lisa Young’s blog. Such a cute idea.

Thanks for stopping by!

All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Happy
Stamps: Animal Stories, Define Your Life;
Colors: Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Black, White;
Other: Melon button, Melon pom-pom trim, Black grosgrain ribbon;
Thankful Elephant
Stamps: Animal Stories, Paradise, Short & Sweet;
Colors: Peach Parfait, Sahara Sand, Old Olive, Early Expresso;
Other: Pear Pizzaz ribbon;
One Little Baby
Stamps: Animal Stories, Curvy Verses;
Colors: Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzaz, white, White Naturals;
Other: Twine, Curly Label punch, Circle punches, Oval punch, Scallop Oval Punch;

Winter Thanks

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I created this card months ago, for my mom to use as her final project for the 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter.

I started the card with the torn, glittered hills. I chose to use Marina Mist because there was ribbon that matched. The final touch was to emboss the card base.

Thanks
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Sincere Salutations;
Colors: Marina Mist, White;
Other: Sq Lattice embossing folder, 3/8 Taffeta ribbon, Scallop Oval punch, Oval punch, glitter;

Pause

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I created this card to send to my mom. I like to make my cards for her using just StampinUp products so she can display them to her customers. This was my first inking of Elements of Style. I love the set, but I feel everything has been done with it already. Not that what I do is ever unique, but my preference is to come up with something of my own. Anyway, I do like how this turned out – and more importantly, mom loved it!

To make the background, I stamped the “gratitude” stamp from Define Your Life and then went back and overstamped with the flourish image from the Elements of Style set.

So, the title of this post is “pause” for a reason. This is my last post for a few months. In December we will be moving to Colorado. I still think we are nuts for moving in winter from Hawaii to Colorado, but I’m not in charge of the schedule, lol. While I get to fly on a plane, my craft supplies will be boxed up and then taken on a boat – for 6 weeks! If I really wanted I could probably try to make a few packets of stuff to take with me, but really, that is just more trouble than it is worth (especially as I only own one trimmer and it is a gargantuan).

I appreciate those of you who come and visit my blog and I hope you’ll come back in February when I should have some fresh cards to share.

Life Moments
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Elements of Style, Define Your Life;
Colors: Expresso, River Rock, Sahara Sand, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Vanilla;
Other: lace, button, Linen Thread, Lots of Tags die;

Friendly Four

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I CASEd this card from the StampinUp 2010 IB&C (pg 74). Since the card is for my mom’s November stamp camp, I had to leave off the sewing. Hopefully it still works.

I love the colors in this one. But I want to point out that I ended up using Pear Pizzaz on the card base stamping. The olive was just too dark.

Friend to Friend
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Funky Four, Teeny Tiny Wishes;
Colors: Old Olive, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip;
Other: 2 1/2″ Circle punch, Modern Label punch, Linen thread;

Joy

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I had fun making this card. I used a sketch from PageMaps (March 2010).

The card base uses textured card stock. The pattern paper is the Presto Patterns DSP with Razzleberry ink sponged on. Love that paper!

My mom die cut the letters for me. I really need to get a die alphabet – it makes creating so easy!

joy
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Tree Trimmings;
Colors: Always Artichoke, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White;
Other: Presto Patterns DSP, glitter, Razzleberry 1/8″ Taffeta; Scallop Border punch, Naturally Serif sizzix die;