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

Wow – it was both great and difficult to put ink to rubber to paper today!  It has been waaaaay too long since I have stamped.  It was awesome to sit and stamp again but very difficult to get a groove going as well.  Let’s hope I’ve worked out some kinks and the next ones come more quickly and easily.

I started with the Mojo sketch from this week (I did stray a little from the sketch but that’s okay) and knew I wanted to play with two new stamps: I {Heart} Hearts and Well Scripted.

Even with a slight loss of clear chunky glitter to my stamp room floor (thanks to my 2 year old) I like the way it turned out and hope you do too (especially my stamp club members who will be making this Wednesday night!). 

The color is a little off (got a new camera for my birthday last month and still have A LOT to learn on it!) but the colors used are Real Red, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla.

Another day, another challenge!  LOL  I wish it was that easy!  But I have designing to do for Stamp Club on Wednesday and I love starting with sketches and rolling from there so yeah me got to play two days in a row! 

Here’s my take on Taylor’s sketch challenge this week.  First time putting ink on these cuties!!  I LOVE THEM!  My Scrapbook clubbers, don’t be surprised if you see these guys next time…

Quick card highlights:

Cold & Cuddly Stamp set (in the current Holiday mini)
Holiday Lounge DSP (in the current Idea Book & Catalog)
Ice Circle Rhinestone brads
Frost White shimmer paint applied with an old blender pen to the ice
modern label punch
Circle Scissors plus
Stampin’ Up! colors used: Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, and Ruby Red

So… my friend Mary showed me some great Thanksgiving Day easel cards she was making not too long ago.  If you know Mary you know she likes the more involved, intricate type projects (remember this?) so I thought to myself, ‘must not attempt easel card.’  LOL

Well, in the last couple weeks these easel cards have started popping up everywhere in the online stamping world.  So I thought maybe I should reconsider my original thoughts on these and try something new!  And then it turned out that splitcoaststampers posted a tutorial on them and then I discovered the Crazy 4 Challenges blog posted an easel card for a challenge last week.  Of course I didn’t get my card done in time for the challenge deadline, but that’s okay.  I actually combined it with this week’s C4C Challenge of using acetate as well! 

So have you counted three reasons thus far as to why I created this card?  1) to attempt something new 2) to participate in the easel card challenge 3) to participate in the acetate challenge.  What’s number 4 you ask?  To create a project to be made at this week’s Stamp Club meeting!!  Hope my clubbers like it!!

If anyone from SU! is reading this, please don’t ever retire the ‘Lovely as a Tree’ stamp set!  It’s such a wonderfully fabulous versatile stamp set!  I white embossed the trees onto Night of Navy cardstock.  See the snowflake acetate covering the trees?  I used Frost White Shimmer Paint for the snowflakes using the new ‘Serene Snowflakes’ stamp set.  The sentiment ‘warm winter wishes’ comes from the hostess stamp set ‘The More the Merrier’ and I used the shimmer paint for that as well.  And just to add more sparkle (and a prop for the easel) I put a strip of sticky strip across the base and covered it with the Silver Glass mix beads.  That’s another product I don’t use enough!  Love how it sparkles (of course it looks better IRL, but use your imagination!) 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about product used on this card.  Take care!

I love polka dots.  I love black and white.  I love starting with a card sketch.  I love Gymboree. 

Did you read that last one twice?  LOL  Yes, I love Gymboree, the kids clothing store.  Let me explain why that pertains to this post: the colors and the patterns!  There’s this great Panda Bear line right now at Gymboree and slowly I’ve been adding pieces of this line to my daughter’s closet (even got some more today!).  So this great clothing line was the inspiration for my card.  Here’s the Mojo Monday sketch, the Gymboree line, and my card!  Enjoy.  (Click on the card for an added bonus.)

I thought this week’s Mojo Sketch was so fun!  I was happy to be able to play again and create one of the four thank you cards my Twist Club members will be making this month.

This card uses the Thoroughly Modern Designer Paper ($9.95) and the Elegant Thank You stamp($6.95) along with two of our new In Color card stocks, Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede and the scallop square punch and the 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" circle punches.  Very fun and very simple to do!

Thanks for stopping by!  For any more information or ordering information just contact me!  I’d be happy to help you with your Christmas Cards, thank you notes, etc.

Tonight was one of those nights where I realized how much I truly love stamping.  Sometimes I get so bogged down with the constant worrying of coming up with projects for all of my classes, clubs, stamp a stacks, etc that I forget why I do this.  I LOVE STAMPING and more importantly I LOVE STAMPIN’ UP!.  I love this company that can still give me butterflies in my stomach when playing with a new product.  I love this company that strives to provide us with the most recent images, accessories, embellishments, etc and teaches us ways to use them.  Okay, okay… what am I talking about? 

Well, a lot of my customers should be receiving their Holiday mini catalog sometime this week and if you buy nothing else from it (haha!  ya right!  this mini catalog is amazing!) you HAVE TO GET SOME SHIMMER PAINT.  Some of you may remember how GA-GA I was over Pearl Ex… well my GA-GA-ness is back!  LOL  I know this scan does a yucky job of showing the shimmer, but those of you stamping with me on the 24th are going to go GA-GA with me.  I know you’ll be using the product a week before you can order it, but you’ll be thanking me I’m sure!  It’s JUST BEAUTIFUL and so easy to work with.

And why I digressed… I was trying to participate in Taylor’s sketch challenge for the first time in months and I digressed from the sketch… I flipped it on its side, changed the location and orientation of the accent piece, and didn’t use two different backgrounds.  So… it doesn’t really follow the sketch anymore but this is yet another reminder of how much I love this craft that I do.  Just let the creativity flow, play with high quality products, and it just works!

I’ll attempt to get a picture of this card so you can see the leaves and butterflies shimmer as well.

Edited:  HA!  I just looked at the post and then at my card IRL… there’s just no comparison.  I wish you could all see this card IRL!  I’m not one to boast about my cards, and really I’m not here either, just in heaven with the shimmer paint and want you all to see how gorgeous it is!  I’ll work hard on taking a decent picture tomorrow!

Any better???  I know you still can’t see the shimmer on the leaves or butterfly but maybe you can see it better on the Bravo Burgundy background?

This card is serving multiple purposes!  One – to do a Mojo challenge that I haven’t done in forever!  Two – for the Stamp a Stack this week.  Three – for a little friend’s birthday this weekend!  I have to say this might be the first time in 6 years I bought a stamp set from the Retired List.  It’s been on my list forever and was just kind of waiting ’til I *needed* it for the something for the boys.  But since it’s retiring and there are no dinosaurs in the new catalog I knew I HAD to have it!  Why didn’t I get it sooner?  It was great fun and super easy to play with!

The sketch for this week:

The first meeting of the Twist Card club is this coming Monday night, so I finished designing the final card for club today and used the Mojo sketch to help me do so!  This is one of those sets I had to have months ago that I’ve NEVER used – until now.  You know you have those sets too!  Sets you have to have in your collection, can’t get rid of, but perhaps barely use!  LOL  No worries, stamps aren’t a terrible addiction to have!

Anyway… on to the card.

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Starring You
Darling Dots
Paper:
Kraft
Ruby Red
Bashful Blue
Glossy White
Whisper White
Basic Black
Inks:
Ruby Red marker
Bashful Blue pad and marker
Creamy Caramel marker
Basic Black Craft and Classic
VersaMark
Accessories/ Embellishments:
Clear embossing powder
Heat gun
Stamp a ma jig
blender pen
scallop edge punch
scallop circle punch
1-3/8" circle punch
black vintage brad
star punch
dimensionals

And here’s the Sketch for this week’s Mojo Challenge:

Got another card made today!  Wahoo!  I’ll be using this card at club tomorrow night so hopefully if any of my club members are reading this they are also liking the card!

There’s a challenge at splitcoaststampers every Sunday basically to look at a certain person’s gallery, pick one of their cards, and CASE it but also change two things.  Well, I changed many, many aspects of the card but certainly used her card as a jumping off point.

So here’s the card.  I love that Sweet Always DSP!  Love, love, love it.  The colors in it are totally me (Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip) and the patterns are just awesome. 

Ok, that’s all for tonight, I’m exhausted!  Sorry for the poor scan quality but it’s 10:30 pm so no daylight with which to take a picture outside!