Ladystamper

This is my birthday card from Araceli. I love how she stamps! She is amazing at layers and everything she does is so professional! Check out all the punches she used on here. I think she used five different punches! DSP, punches, Ribbon....gotta love it!

This week at the bloggers challenge, we are doing "shimmer". fun! the hard part is getting it to show up in my pictures! I was inspired by some blogs I hopped this morning that had floral layouts similar to one I did. I don't remember where the blogs were...so don't ask....anyway! I tried something a bit different. Well, it was different to me. I used markers to ink up my stamp and then spritzed it with the shimmer spray from Stampin' Up! I didn't get a real even coverage because it kept clogging....need to figure out how to keep that from happening. But I like the effect! In person the flowers have nice shimmer to them. In the picture...not so much. I also added a sponging of the Frost white shimmer paint around the edge of the white. Also something not so evident in a picture but nice in person. Be sure to check out the other bloggers in the challenge. Enjoy!

Shari is an amazing stamper...she always wows me with her simple clean totally cute cards! This is the card she sent me for my birthday this year. I absolutely love how she used the buttons! (I have about 5 million buttons...) I will totally be copying this one! Thanks Shari!!

This is another card I made with scraps and left overs from my desk. Yes, I had quite a mess...don't judge! The black is a left over page from my mini scrapbook from a few weeks ago, I just cut off one edge so it would fit my card. The DSP was from another project, and the flowers are from the triple punch I'm addicted to (see yesterday's post). I had the card all done and had to actually get UP and get a greeting to put on it. I know, horrors....I stamped it in black and...yes, my black pad needs to be re inked. But I didn't want to get up again so....I used my 2-way glue pen and dazzling diamonds glitter and...you can't tell how pathetic my black ink is! yay for a dazzzling fix!

I am loving the triple punches at Stampin' Up!! I had some left overs from the scrapbook page I made a few days ago so I decided to do a "don't get out of my seat" creative session. It is a challenge for me not to get up and get more tools or embellishments when I am creating. This card is made just with left overs that were on my stampin table. I love how it turned out! I'm a bit addicted to roughing up these flowers....seems like an easy way to get a dimensional flower without having to layer or use much paper. enjoy!

Now that I am done with school for a while, I decided to jump back into the bloggers challenge group. I like having an 'assignment' each week. It helps to spur on my creative juices. This weeks challenge is an inspiration piece. We were to use the colors or feel of the picture to make our project. I used the Nautical expedition DSP from Stampin' Up! for my background and aged it with the distressed kit. The ship is stamped with Soft Suede and then I used the aqua painter and just a bit of marina mist ink to add dimension to the ship. It was a step outside of the box for me....just what I needed! Be sure to check out the other players this week or play along yourself!

My dear friend Michele sent me this sweet card for my birthday last month. I love the colors she used. The little bling on the greeting is just fun! I'm so blessed to have such talented ladies in my group!