Ladystamper

To be fabulous?? :o) This is one of the first sets I purchased from the new catalog. I just LOVE the word stamp in the set! I have been busy busy making swaps for convention. Here are a couple of cards I ended up with.I like this one, because of the purple! My Dear friend Debbie came over on Thursday and helped me make these. She came up with the purple effect. I love it! We started by stamping the big flower on Vanilla cardstock with Versamark. Then we used a sponge duaber and gently rubbed the SU pastels over the stamped image. I love this "poppin pastel" technique because you can easily shade and combine colors, as we did here. The next step was to cut the flowers out. Debbie did most of these. Isn't she a gem?! The base of the card is Eggplant with smaller flowers stamped in Versamark, and the stripes are from the Fall Flowers designer paper packet. The ribbon is some new Taffetta ribbon in Mellow Moss. We topped the card off with the Fabulous words and some dazzling...

Some girlfriends and I met up Saturday night to work on conventions swaps. Unfortunately....the box I paid to have overnighted to me so I would have swap materials...did not come. shoot! Oh well..I went ahead and grabbed some supplies and went. I ended up making this little gift card holder/card that I liked. I was really cute. I had finished about 8 of them before I realized the ribbon I was using had retired. Can you say "dagnabit!?" grrrr.... So, I moved on to another idea. This one is all current! Chocolate chip and blue sky cardstock, the doodle this stamped with white and chalked over. The ribbon is new, thanks Shari for letting me snag that from you! I added a bit of hodgepodge and some glitter and a warm word. I like it. I think I am going to end up having several different swaps this year. It is a good way to clean out all those scraps! I have loads of precut scraps from past camps and workshops that I am going to try and use up. We shall see.... If you are seeing s...

I found a few minutes this evening to make a couple cards with my newest stamp sets. I figured I better use them now because I just ordered more! You know, new stamps stamp the best! ;o) I decided to only use what I had on my desk so here you go! The card base is Almost Amethyst. The patterned paper is from the new catalog in the same color. To make the scalloped edges, because my corner rounder and slit punch were NOT on my desk, I used the 1-1/4 circle punch. I just punched out a bunch of cirlce, sliced them in half and stuck them along the edges of the patterned paper. I punched the holes with my cool new toy...I think it is called the screw punch? anyway, it is pretty cool and I got it for a song so, there you go. I did the faux stitching along the edges with the SU crafters kit. Have I mentioned that I love that kit and that I think I need two of them? Don't leave home without it! The rhino is stamped with black and colored in using the aquapainter and some ink from the lid of...

Happy July! I apologize for not posting lately, we have been enjoying our summer. Our Foreign exchange student arrived on Monday and we have been attempting to show her a good time. Small budget and six busy kids makes it interesting, but I think she is enjoying the ride! Here is a picture of her(Lucie), Shelby, and Mae on the 4th. We snagged a great spot for fireworks at the marina with our friends the McCarters. The weather was awesome and there weren't even any bugs! Maybe the fireworks scared them off? I was prepared to be eaten alive but wasn't! yay!! I actually had a minute to stamp for me last night. I made this card using the new onboard shapes. I love them! They are so easy to customize with our craft pads. I inked the flower with Pretty in Pink and the circle with Mellow Moss. While the pink was still wet I dumped Irredescent Ice embossing powder over it and then embossed it. I lov e the sparkle the ice powder gives! Way quicker and less messy than the dazzling diamon...