Envelope Pocket Card

I found this great idea for a pocket card using an envelope on Jennifer's blog and knew I had to come up with my own!  I am seriously IN LOVE with the French Foliage stamp set from the current Holiday mini.  I want to stamp ALL my cards with it right now!  And the new crochet ribbon – gorgeous!  Hope you like the card… and hope my club members liked it last night too!

What I used to make this card…

•Base: Whisper White medium envelope
2nd layer: Pear Pizzazz  (5.5”x 4”)
3rd layer: Peach Parfait (5.25” x 2.75”)
4th layer: Naturals White (5” x 2.5”)
5th layer: Chocolate Chip (3” x 1.5”)
6th layer: Naturals White (2 7/8” x 1 3/8” and scrap)
Stamp Sets: French Foliage and On Your Birthday
Stamp Pads: Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz and marker, Poppy Parade, Soft Suede Accessories: 1” circle punch, blender pen, crop a dile, mini glue dots
Embellishment: Bold Brights buttons, crochet trim ribbon, linen thread, jumbo eyelets

Tess and CAbi

Love Tess!!!  So a couple weeks ago I had a CAbi party.  I love clothes, especially now that I am no longer pregnant or nursing as it seems that's all I was for about 8 years!  Anyway, I had the party, had a great time with the girls who came, bought some fabulous clothes and thought I'd give them a hand stamped thank you when I handed them their new clothes.  Now I have zero "clothing" stamp sets, do you have any?  The only one I could think of was Totally Tess and I don't own her!  But my friend, customer, and AMAZINGLY talented stamper Christy has her and let me borrow her.  THANK YOU CHRISTY!  Below is what I came up with.  I paper pieced the pants from some the Sweet Pea designer series paper from (I think) the Spring mini.  The Baja Breeze background was run through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder.  The purse I stamped on some retired Rose Red designer series paper and cut out.  The ribbon is the amazing Chocolate Chip satin ribbon we had in a Holiday mini once that I HAD to stock up on because I love it so much.

It was funny, while I was stamping I totally felt like a customer because I kept thinking "I have to buy this set.  Why wasn't I drawn to her before?  This is a great set!"  LOL  I laugh because time and time again I hear from my customers how they never even noticed such and such in the catalog or didn't actually like something they saw in a catalog until they come to my Suite and stamp with it!  Then they jokingly (I hope!) sigh when they hand me their order and purchase the item they didn't think they HAD to have!  Well, I hear ya girls!!!  I now HAVE to add Totally Tess to my collection!!

Now of course I'm feeling a little guilty because I had a CAbi party in February of this year too and didn't make those girls cards!  NOT because they weren't fun (actually they were hysterical!) but because I didn't think of it!!  Shame on me!  Sorry girls!!!!

Anyway, hope you are well and enjoying fall!  Now go out and do some back to school clothes shopping for YOU!! 

Four Square Day of Gratitude

Another Fall card using the Day of Gratitude stamp set and the Stampin' Pastels.  Loving this stamp set!  I also used a big designer button from the Deck the Halls assortment in the Holiday Mini and some Pumpkin Pie 1/8" Taffeta ribbon.

Fall and Birthday Stamp a Stack cards

Last week the first Stamp a Stack of the new Stampin' Up! year was held.  The themes were Fall and Birthday.  I LOVE fall and coincidentally LOVE fall cards.  I could make autumn cards all year long!!!  The cards shown here use new stamp sets from the Holiday mini.  This Holiday mini is putting a serious dent in my wallet!!  EEK!  There are just so many awesome things in the mini! 

Birthday cards are certainly always handy to have around and so are male ones, right?!  Male cards are absolutely one of my weaknesses.  I saw a slightly different version of the Totally Tool card above on Stampin' Up!'s demo website and knew I had to CASE it.  And then you can't go wrong with a simple, floral, female birthday card. Right?

Supplies Used:

Stamps:
French Foliage, Day of Gratitude, Pick a Petal, Totally Tool
Embellishments:
stampin' pastels, large buttons, aquapainter, Champagne mist shimmer paint (highlighting the colored petals), various brads, striped ribbon, hemp twine
Colors:
Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Real Red, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, Concord Crush, Daffodil Delight

Make sure to check the CLEARANCE RACK!

There are some retired colors of card stock now on the clearance rack, and yes, some of them were "sold out" before.  Here's SU!'s explanation on that…

"The answer is simple: this card stock, which is available now in very limited quantities, was earmarked to support sales in the European market. Now that this card stock is no longer needed in those markets, we can make it available to you at a significantly discounted price through the Clearance Rack!"

So hop on over to the Clearance Rack and see what you can get before it really is all gone!