Here are this month’s Stamp a Stack cards.  Guests created 12 cards, 3 of each of the designs below.  The themes were Easter and general women’s cards.  I am repeating the class next Tuesday, the 9th if anyone is interested in attending.  Just let me know!

Stamp Sets Used:

A Good Egg, Well Scripted, A Flower for all Seasons, Charming, Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel, Good For You, Kind Thanks

Here’s an adorable card for Easter.  It’s actually a hinge card.  The top portion hinges up and open and your message is stamped on the base, behind the bunny.  Too cute, huh?!?!  Nice job Tracy!

Here is another card some members of my team and I created at our shoebox swap in January.  Sorry it’s taken me so long to post them all!

Cyn created this one and I just love the combination of the two Valentine’s stamps (sentiment from Well Scripted, heart from Love You Much) and inks.  And it also showcases the designer paper in the Occasions mini right now (Sending Love); this one has lots of great sparkle!

Last night I had a fun workshop with some newer ladies (and a couple very experienced ones too) so I came up with this simple yet cute card for them to create.  What I love about it is I used some card kits I had already cut and bagged that were leftover from another workshop.  I liked the challenge of coming up with something different out of the same materials.  Maybe I should try that more often!

I used:

Stamp Sets: Good Friend, With All My Heart
Card Stock: Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White
Embellishments: clear rhinestone brad, Ballet Blue 5/8" grosgrain ribbon
Inks: Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Crushed Curry

Crazy stuff.  The last of my babies is turning one next month.  Bittersweet.  Here’s what I came up with for his party invitation.  I got the new Fox & Friends set specifically because of that adorable monkey so I felt I had to come up with a way to use him!  Hope you think it’s cute!  I am just glad to have them all made and sent!  (I’m still feeling guilty I never did make his birth announcements.  I made one, and cut a bunch of the card stock, but never finished.  Ho hum.)

I used:
Stamp Sets: Fox & Friends, On Your Birthday
Card Stock: Ballet Blue, Real Red, Whisper White
Embellishments: Real Red striped ribbon, blue wire
Punches: Scallop oval (then I simply cut them in half, well actually my 5 year old did, to make them into clouds), small oval punch, 3/4" circle, small star (for the end of the balloon), 1/16" hole punch
Big Shot: Perfect Polka Dots Impressions embossing folder
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Ballet Blue

Here are tonight’s club projects!  There was some definite CASE-ing going on with the baseball and flower cards (found them on splitcoast – I did change them both a bit) and then you saw the birthday cake one in my post from yesterday.  We put dark chocolate m&m’s in the treat cup.  Yum!
These were fun cards to create – hopefully now that the first card has been made with a hidden door for the treat cup that more of these will be created!  It’s always getting the concept for the first time that is tricky, then it gets easier, right?!?!

Stamp Sets Used: Pick a Petal, Just Baseball, Bitty Birthday
Designer Paper: Bride Specialty, Sweet Pea
RIbbons: Crushed Curry polka dot grosgrain, Old Olive wide grosgrain, Pretty in Pink satin

I love stamping!  I just can’t get to it as much as I’d like.  Can I get an amen to that?  LOL

Anyway… I got to create my own creation (versus some CASE-ing that I’ve done lately) last night and I kinda followed this week’s mojo sketch.   And this will be one of the cards for stamp club this week.  Hopefully they like it!

Supplies Used:

Stamp Set: Bitty Birthday (you can earn this free with Sale-A-Bration right now!)
Card Stock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Designer Paper: Sweet Pea (in the current Occasions mini – it’s awesome and a HUGE pack!!)
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Satin
Other: ticket corner punch, designer label punch, circle scissors plus, 1 3/4" circle punch

This month’s stamp a stack class was held on the first Tuesday of the month.  Here are the cards the ladies created.  3 each of the 4 designs.  The leprechaun (isn’t he cute?) wasn’t my original idea – I found him through Ann Clemmer.  I used My Digital Studio to print out the sentiments as I don’t have a large sentiment for St. Patrick’s Day.  (There is a nice ‘happy st patrick’s day’ in Teeny Tiny Wishes but I wanted something bigger!)  And it’s hard to tell but the three dots below the leprechaun are actually 1/4" circles punched from Brushed Gold Card stock.  And can I tell you how much I LOVE the new Polka dots embossing folder?????  It makes the blow easier to take from SU! retiring the Polka Dots background stamp on me!  I know you can’t really see it in the picture but I used the embossing folder (with the Big Shot) on the Basic Black layers and wham!  It adds dimension like you wouldn’t believe!

Other Products Used:

Stamp Sets: Bloomin’ Beautiful, Vintage Vogue, Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel
Designer Paper: Sweet Pea
Ribbons: Chocolate Chip Taffeta and Basic Gray 5/8" Satin
Brads: gold and clear rhinestones

NEXT MONTH’S STAMP A STACK IS MEETING ON TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND.   We will be creating 6 Easter cards and 6 cards geared toward women for any occasion.  Class fee is $25.  Please e-mail me if you’d like to join us!

Beautiful!  Amy’s card features the A Happy Heart stamp set (same set used here) from the current catalog.  I’m not sure you can see it but Amy took the time (and hence I had to as well!  lol) to adhere the tiny left over hearts from the new Pinking Hearts Border punch as the fly-aways from the dandelion and three more under the sentiment.  There is also a touch of superfine glitter in the center of the flower.  The flower was done by coloring the stamp with markers, misting the paper with water, and then stamping the image.  Shall I say it again? Beautiful!

I should also add that Amy had 3 Pretty in Pink brads going up the right side of the card I believe but I didn’t add them on because I was the last one stamping and wanted to let her leave! LOL  But I did love the design!

And yet another beauty from Julie (remember her Christmas card?).   Julie did what I tell people to do all the time.  USE ME!  LOL  Okay, well not really ME, but any card design I’ve done in the past!  This was a version of an open house card I did when this stamp set (Eastern Blooms) first came out.  Julie added her own touch with the sharp contrast of colors (Rose Red and Basic Black), a different sentiment, and of course a butterfly (Julie has an affinity to all butterflies and dragonflies!)!  And it works!  The butterfly comes from the new Embosslits Die called Beautiful Wings from the current Occasions mini.  Love it!