Christmas in July - July 19, 2015

 Here I'm back to some of my favorite Stampin' Up! stamps.  I love this version of a Christmas card. 

I call this card Musical Trees.

The background music stamp is named Alegro.

I also used the stamp sets; Lovely as a Tree, and More Merry Messages.

March 2015 Christmas Cards

This month I've got another set of blue cards...  definitely a darker tone than February's cards!

Only 2 colors here as well - Night of Navy, and White.

 I embossed the trees from the stamp set Lovely as a Tree in White with some Iridescent Ice sprinkled along the tops of the trees.

I got out my Spellbinders Dies and played around with some shapes.  The inking on the Merry Christmas piece is done with the Stampin' Up chalks in Night of Navy to highlight the edges.

Stampin' Up Card Club Cards - May 2012

This is an awesome card - we used gold embossing powder, but no VersaMark ink, Craft ink, OR Heat and Stick powder.  The ink was just "juicy" enough to allow us to get enough powder on the tree to give us this amazing image.  We used Mocha Morning DSP, and lots of other little techniques.

I really LOVE this card!  Here we are using the retired stamp set "Vintage Vogue"  The colors:  Regal Rose (F, small mat, and large flower), Pretty in Pink (small flowers, and card base) Pear Pizazz (mat, glimmer brad, and vines).  It took a little placement to get everything to fit nicely, and everyone chose different sentiments to add to their card.  I've always liked the big Friends from that set.

 Please enjoy!  Kathy, our Stampin Up Demonstrator, and my upline always does a FANTASTIC job picking cards and choosing great color combos!

Your comments are always appreciated!

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Housewarming Party Thank You's

We had our housewarming party a few weeks ago, and I made these cards to thank our guests for coming. We had a wonderful time, and were so happy our friends and neighbors could stop by.
I had a blast cooking... and my husband took care of the beer, water, and sodas.

We're ready to host/hostess another party soon!

I used lots of techniques on this card...
watercoloring, burnishing with inks, doodling, marker coloring, stamping... so much fun!



The trees in our area are just starting to turn their lovely fall colors so I had a good time with the leaves.

Your comments are always appreciated!

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Stampin' Up Club! ~ August and September Projects!

The last two months of Stamp Club have been GREAT!!! Kathy's showing us some AWESOME techniques! I'm always so excited to go because the girls are so much fun... and we get to create beautiful projects! How could that EVERY be a bad thing!!



This card was created with the ever versatile Versamark ink, and chalks!! We used the daubers and the SU chalks to color in the daisies, and then stamped and distressed the remaining areas of the card. I still can't get over how pretty this is in person!!



I always LOVE the stairstep cards! Here we used the black Staz-On ink for the trees on acetate film, set the ink, and colored the trees in with some fall colors. All that was left was to just assemble all the other parts of the harvest-moon card.


This was actually our September card... lots of techniques here, plus a Scor-Pal! I chose to score every line diagonally at 1/2 inch, then stamp the blue baroque swirl. Then, Versamark the entire surface, and then add clear embossing powder for a shiny, glossy finish! There's also a clear brad we made on the medallion!



This one is also a September card!! Guess after 11 PM is just too late for me! Plus, it's been a long week!

Isn't this just the most adorable card? I'd seen that Just Buzzin' By set, and thought I didn't need it... WRONG! I sure love it even more now I've used it... sneaky! :)

Can you see the shimmer on the wings, antennae, and flower? That's the new Champagne Mist shimmer paint. Perfect for this project!!!

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