Another "Two-fer" Day

Two cards today using the same stamp. It was a stampoff from a friend, so I don't even know who makes it.

The first card is done using paper piecing. Sheri (Thanks, Sheri) even sent me the dresses stamped on patterned paper. All I had to do was cut them out! I added a little bit of color with markers. The background paper is really different. It's a kind of home-made-feeling paper, almost like a very heavy mulberry. It was sent to me from Thailand a few years ago. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder, then rubbed a Real Red ink cube over the high areas and edges. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I mounted the image and sentiment with Real Red.

For the second card, I colored the dresses with markers and added dots to the one dress and piping to another with a white gel pen. I cut the image and matting out with Nestabilities. I used a Swiss Dots folder on the background. The colors are More Mustard and Old Olive. The sentiment is by Stampendous.

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Super Simple!

I was just sitting here waiting for my sister-in-law to come up for the weekend. I figured I could just as well make something, so here is my super-simple card.

The main panel background is a card from Martha Stewart. I think it was supposed to be a placecard or something. I got it quite a while ago on clearance, figuring I could do something with it some day. (I think I have 24 or 48 of them - four designs.) I matted it with a retired Stampin' Up! In Color. I'm pretty sure it is Cool Caribbean. The "warm wishes" sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s Beautiful Borders set. I stamped it with Versamagic Sea Breeze. The ribbon is from a local paper company. The flowers were clearanced at Michael's. (I LOVE a bargain! A whole big bottle of Prima flowers was $1.99!) I added some scored lines with my Scor-Pal and called it done!

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Casing SusieB!

I got a VERY pleasant surprise in my Inbox yesterday – it was an email from THE Sue Nelson – SusieB on SplitCoastStampers! Talk about making my week – or should I say month or year! I LOVE her gallery and she has been my inspiration for so many cards. She has totally influenced my cards since I first set eyes on her gallery about a year and a half ago. You can check out her SCS gallery here, or her website gallery here. You will be amazed!

Well, I already had a recent card of hers in my Favorites (on SCS) so I decided it was time for me to case it. Here is the card I cased. The matting is Stampin’ Up!’s So Saffron cardstock. The circles are embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The daisies are stickers from Martha Stewart. (I had read that some people had gotten Martha Stewart things at Big Lots, and we came across a Big Lots on vacation last week, so I had to stop.) The Happy Birthday stamp is from a dollar set from JoAnn's in a set from Dimensions. The fence is punched with a Martha Stewart punch and backed it with Old Olive cardstock from Stampin’ Up! I used my Scor-Pal for the lines beside the ribbon and my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder for the bottom. The ribbon is Mellow Moss from SU! That’s it!

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Butterfly Birthday

Well, we’re back from vacation and I finally got a chance to stamp again. It was nice, and I’m looking forward to doing some more. Just before we left, I won some more blog candy – I’ve been very lucky that way lately! This is what I won from an on-line friend, Julie. (Thanks again, so much, Julie!!) If you are a fan at all of the Twilight series of books, you will LOVE her blog. Actually, you will love her blog even if you’re not!

I haven’t really had much chance to use the stamps yet, but I did use some of the ink. I just took the Weathered Wood ink pad and rubbed it directly onto some white cardstock. Then I stamped using a Stampendous butterfly stamp and Versafine Onyx Black ink. I liked it, but couldn’t leave well enough alone. I stamped the butterfly again, this time using the Weathered Wood pad. It was a little dark, I thought, and didn’t like it very well. But, it lightened up as it dried and I like it much better. I used my Scor-Pal to add some diagonally scored lines. I wasn’t sure what to do next! I knew I didn’t want to cover up much of the background. So, I stamped “Birthday Wishes” (from the Inkadinkado set from Julie) on white and again rubbed the paper with the Weathered Wood. I mounted both of the pieces on black and added a couple butterflies (punched with a Martha Stewart punch) with pearl bodies.

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Crocheted Flower Anniversary

An anniversary card for another Yahoo! group member. Their anniversary was on July Fourth.

Not too much explanation necessary, so this will be short. The flower is crocheted using directions from Nichole Heady’s blog. You can find them here. I did the “one-layer” flower for this card. I added a brad in the center, and attached it to the base which I had stamped with my JustRite Stamper. The leaves are punched with an EK Success punch. I sponged the edges and mounted it on a scalloped circle, also sponging the edges. The border is embossed with a Cuttlebug border embossing folder and I added some lines with my Scor-Pal, both on the border and on the card base.

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