Yes, it’s been 24 days since my last post!!  Life is crazy – but I love it and wouldn’t want it any other way (well, except for a little more stamping time thrown in each day of course!).

Here is a card we made a couple weeks ago…

I’ve been really trying to make some more boy birthday cards lately and find that apparently red and black are my ‘go to’ boy colors!   LOL  Not sure why that is but I think it works!

What I Used:
Card Stock: Real Red, Basic Gray (3 7/8" x 4 1/2"), Whisper White (1 3/4" squares)
Stamp Sets: Just Soccer, Starring You
Punches: 1 3/8" circle,  1 1/4" circle, star
Embellishments: Basic Black narrow grosgrain, Basic Black brad

How I Created it:
Stamp shoes and soccer balls on SCRAP white.  Punch soccer balls out with 1 ¼” circle punch.  Cut out shoes.  Adhere these onto the white squares with adhesive.
Stamp birthday star on scrap white and punch out with 1-3/8” circle.

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

Okay, sorry to go MIA on ya for a week there!  And I was doing so well!!!  Aaah well… life goes on…

Here is another awesome card we made at my team shoebox swap.  This was created by Mandi.  Again a terrific display of the new Sweet Pea designer paper in the Occasions mini and the new Sale-A-Bration scallop trim punch.  It uses the With All My Heart stamp set that I’m totally adoring these days.  Cute, isn’t it?  You could whip up a bunch of these in no time, stamp any sentiment in the bottom, and have cards for all occasions!  Thanks Mandi!

As promised here is another shoebox card we made the other night.  This one features the new Sweet Pea Designer paper.  I didn’t own it at the time but it’s on its way to me now!  LOL  Isn’t this card sweet?

Other products used -
Stamp Set – Great Friend, Love Bandit (Occasions mini 2010)
Card Stock – Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Taken With Teal, Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand
Punch – scallop trim (SAB), 1 1/4", 1 3/8", and 1 3/4" circle punches
Ribbon – chocolate chip satin

Okay, are you sitting down??  Check out this amazing card Christy whipped up the SAME day she picked up her club order!!!  This is an awesome display of masking (getting Tess to hold the cake and the birthday bag and the balloons) and a VERY CLEVER way to use the Bitty Birthday stamp set.

In Christy’s words:
I’ve been very busy going through my loot…..what fun! As I was stamping all my stamps to catalogue them I realized that the Bitty Birthday set would work great with Tote-ally Tess…..I’ve attached a photo to show you what I made. I also used the Happy Birthday stamp from Vintage Labels.

Remember, Vintage Labels and Bitty Birthday are Sale-A-Bration stamp sets right now that you can earn for free like Christy did!

Thank you for sharing your talent with us Christy!!!

And if you’re wondering what awesome Designer Paper that is – it’s Thoroughly Modern.

First off, a little business to take care of… click HERE to see the latest update on the Product and Ribbon shares happening now.

This is so weird.  I KNOW I wrote this entire post on Monday of this week and had it set to publish for Tuesday.  However I have no idea where it went!  Anyway… here we go again…

The card below I CASED from Patsy Waggoner on the new Stampin’ Up! demonstrator only Stampin’ Connection web site.  She did it with a slightly different color scheme but when I saw it I immediately fell in love with it and knew I had to make one too.

So, thanks to Tracy on my team letting me borrow her new Extra Large Two Step Bird Punch and Welcome Neighbor designer series paper pad I was able to create this card.  Some fabulous girls on my team and I got together Tuesday night for a shoebox swap and this is the card I had prepped for all the girls to create.  You should see the cards the other girls brought that I got to make!  They are truly awesome and I promise I will post them on my blog over the next few days so you can see the talent on my team!

Other products used:

Stamp Sets: Upsy Daisy, Happy Moments (SAB 2010)
Punches: Spiral and Extra Large Two Step Bird
Embossing Folder: Petals a Plenty (did you know you can still order this?!  It was featured in the Holiday mini 2009 but is still available for purchase! (Item #116824 $7.95)
Embellishments: Ice Rhinestone circle brad (I took out the bling and used a glue dot to attach as an eye.), Bashful Blue grosgrain ribbon
Card Stock: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Always Artichoke 

Here’s what you missed by not coming to my SAB class yesterday!  I have to say I really had fun playing with the Happy Moments  stamp set and loved, loved, loved using the Good Neighbor Designer series paper.  If you think that paper is all about houses, don’t be fooled!  There’s a TON of great colors and patterns in there.  (Although the houses are super cute too!) You can’t go wrong.

It’s funny, while I was creating these cards (which were mostly CASEd from other cards I’ve seen recently) I noticed I’m a white fan these days.  I used to always lean toward Very Vanilla as I thought Whisper White was too harsh.  But I’m finding I really like the clean, crisp, fresh look of Whisper White these days.  Anyway… just a random thought I thought I’d share.  Change is good! 

Here’s a card I made for today’s Sale-A-Bration class using this week’s Mojo Monday sketch.  It’s very quick and simple even though there are a lot of elements on it. 

Supplies Used:
Stamp Set: Happy Moments (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
Card Stock: Ballet Blue, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Designer Series Paper: Welcome Neighbor (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
Embellishments: Pumpkin Pie corduroy button, Brocade Blue 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, Chocolate Chip flower brad
Other Items: Ballet Blue stamp pad, corner rounder punch, glue dots