Super Quick Sympathy

I realized late last night (tonight, as I'm doing this post!) that I didn't have a card to share today.  I have been busy the last few days working on my calendars for next year.  (I make 12 sets of them.  I have four months done now.  Yippee!)  So, I made this card really, really quickly.  Honest!

The embossed portion was in my "card parts" pile.  (It had been done with a QuicKutz folder.)  I had gone through it again recently and pulled out a few things that I wanted to use soon.  I cut a piece of white cardstock to fit into the opening.  I thought about this grassy stamp that I got from Technique Tuesday, and wanted to use it. I punched a circle out of a Post-It note with a Marvy punch and stuck it on the white.  I brayered with Bliss Blue, Buckaroo Blue, Almost Amethyst and Vintage Violet - all from Stampin' Up!  Then I removed the circle and brayered with the ever-so-slight violet that was still on my brayer.  I stamped the sentiment and the grass (both from Technique Tuesday) in Vintage Violet.  I matted with Vintage Violet, as well.

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Repeat Impressions WHAT IF? Wednesday Sketch

Today is a WHAT IF? Wednesday from Repeat Impressions.  Wendy gives us a sketch, and we create our cards.  AND we ask you to play along!  Here is the sketch for this time:

Isn't it a fun one?  Create a card using this sketch and link it up to the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built.  One lucky participant from this month will win a $25 gift certificate for RI stamps - how awesome is that?  Check out the details and the other Rock Stars' samples.

Ayana ~ Dana ~ Darsie ~ Harriet ~ Joy

Julie ~ Makiko ~ Michele ~ Robin

Here is the scoop on my card:)  I stamped the image (3414-I, Arbor Fence) with PTI Fresh Snow ink.  I added detail white embossing powder, then brushed it off of the grass.  I heated it, then added the grass back in with a green marker.  I did a little piercing in the corners that the stamp didn't reach.  I used Circle Nestabilities to cut the white mat and the green scalloped mat.  I sponged Old Olive on the edges of the white circle and the Kraft square.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions, also.  It's stamped with Old Olive ink and cut out with a Spellbinders tag die.  I sponged ink on the edges of that, too.  The ribbon is Old Olive and I believe the patterned paper is SU!, also.

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SplitCoastStampers Featured Stamper Challenge

I made this card for SplitCoastStampers Featured Stamper #193.  You check out the FS gallery and choose a card to case.  The FS was Laurie (IMAMUTTNUT.) I chose to case this card.

The stamps I used are all Technique Tuesday. I stamped the flower with Rose Romance ink, cut it out, and mounted it on Dimensionals. I stamped the stem and the sentiment with PTI New Leaf ink.  The matting is Sweet Blush cardstock from PTI and the border is punched with a Fiskars border punch.  The ribbon is from Papertrey, also, and I added pearls to the flower. The background is a separate piece and is embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Round Pumpkin

Monday means returning to work for lots of people, but it also means it's Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week time!  This week's stamp is 2318-G, Round Pumpkin.  You can find it (and all the other stamps I used, too) on this page.  Visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for details on how to get this stamp for 50% off this week only.  Be sure to check out the other Rock Stars' creations, too!

Dana

Harriet

Julie 

Makiko

Michele

Robin

For my card, I used three different faces for the pumpkins.  I first stamped the faces and the pumpkins on the pumpkin-colored cardstock.  I also stamped the faces on yellow and the stems on green.  I cut out the pumpkins, the stems, and every little piece of the faces:)  I glued the face pieces and the stems on to the pumpkins and put them on two different heights of Dimensionals - the middle pumpkin pops out a little bit more than the other two.  The bottom piece is torn along the top and embossed with a "leafy" Cuttlebug folder.  The top of the card is a light-blue textured cardstock.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions, also.

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One-Layer Christmas

I made this card for Susan's (Simplicity blog) - and now Jennifer Styles' - One-Layer Wednesday. You can find the challenge here.  The challenge this week is to make a holiday card without using a red, green, white or cream base. I kind of feel like I cheated, but she didn't say "no Kraft!"

My snow globe image and the candy canes inside it are from Repeat Impressions. I stamped the snow globe with black ink and colored the base with a Creamy Caramel marker. I stamped the candy canes with white and embossed with detail white embossing powder and colored with a Real Red marker. EDITED TO ADD: (In answer to your question, Annie - I used a Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the candy canes inside the snow globe.)  The sentiment (two separate stamps) is from Technique Tuesday.

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For Baby

This card is for our daughter-in-law.  I am going to a shower for her this morning.  How fun!  Less than two months now til the arrival of our third grandchild:)

This image was in my "card parts" box.  I had stamped it and colored it over two years ago when our Yahoo! group met in Des Moines.  At that point, there weren't many Copics there.  However, we were each given one Copic marker, donated by a stamping company.  (I don't even remember who that was.)  (EDITED TO ADD:  The markers were given to us by Maryann Walker of I Like Markers.  Thanks for the info, Sheri!)  I used the limited Copics there to color this cute House Mouse image.  So all I had to do was cut the image and the mat using Nestabilities.  The patterned paper is from a stack from Deja Views that I purchased at Archiver's a while ago.  The "for" is part of a stamp from a Stampin' Up! set.

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SplitCoastStampers Color Challenge - Two Cards

The colors for the Color Challenge this week on SplitCoastStampers are Pink Pirouette, Real Red and Pear Pizzazz.  I don't have Pear Pizzazz so I used Certainly Celery on this first card and Kiwi Kiss on the second card.

The flower on both cards is from Technique Tuesday's Spiro Garden. For this one, I stamped with Real Red on Pink Pirouette and cut it out. The leaves are punched with an EK Success punch from Certainly Celery. The background is embossed with a QuicKutz embossing folder and matted with Pink Pirouette. Before I embossed, I brayered Pink Pirouette on the folder. You can see it in real life, but it's very hard to see in the picture. It's matted with Pink Pirouette. The sentiment (from PTI's Birthday Basics) is stamped with Certainly Celery and matted on Celery, too. The button is from SU! and I also used grosgrain ribbon.
 

I had done this card first, but I wasn't real pleased with it - that's why I did the second card:)  However, I'm going to share it with you anyway!  I stamped the flower and leaves (from Technique Tuesday's Spiro Garden set) with Pink Pirouette and Kiwi Kiss and cut them out. I glued the leaves on and mounted on Dimensionals. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions and is stamped with Real Red. I matted with Kiwi Kiss and added some dashed lines with a Pretty in Pink marker. (I know - you can barely see them in the picture.) EDITED TO ADD:  Sorry - I forgot to say that I used the Clean&Simple blog's Fall-To Layout #111 from last week!

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Simple Thanks

Another simple card. It's really late (I'm pre-posting) so I'm just going to paste what I wrote for SCS.

I stamped the image (from Inkadinkado) on the textured white cardstock, and again on a scrap of plain white. I colored the plain white one with markers and also "painted" over the whole thing with a wet paintbrush and Mellow Moss and Bashful Blue inks, and cut it out. Then I covered it with Versamark and embossed with Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder. Then I used Versamark again (twice more) and Deep Impressions embossing powder. I mounted it on Dimensionals. The sentiment is from Verve (a thank you set.) I matted the textured white with Mellow Moss and mounted on the card front. Oh, I also added tiny gems for the flower centers.

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Thinking of You

Another quick card.  :)

The image for this card is from an Inkadinkado set.  I colored it with markers and then added Stickles to the flower and butterfly.  I scored a double line under the image and then scored the lattice pattern under that.  I matted with a textured green paper.  That's all there is to it!

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Flowery Thank You

Another card for today using my new Technique Tuesday stamps.

I stamped the flowers (from the In Bloom set) with VersaMagic inks - Sea Breeze and Aloe Vera. I matted with (I think!) Wild Wasabi and Baja Breeze. I scored some lines with my Scor-Pal and punched a border with a Martha Stewart punch. I also threaded ribbon through the punching and added tiny Twinkles (from Taylored Expressions) to the flower centers. The sentiment is from TT's Simply Stated set and is stamped in Baja Breeze.

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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Dracula's Face

 

Another Monday - another Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week!!  This week's Stamp is 2311-G, Dracula Face.  You can find it here - just scroll down a bit on the page.  He's pretty spooky looking:)  To get the details you need in order to purchase this stamp at 50% THIS WEEK ONLY, just visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, and follow the instructions.  Also, be sure to visit the other Rock Stars' creations.

Ayana ~ Dana ~ Michele ~ Joy ~ Darsie 

For my card, I stamped the image on white card stock and added some black and red with markers.  I also added Diamond Glaze on the eyes and bow tie.  I cut him out with a Nestability die.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions, also.  I added some dashed lines on both the image and the sentiment, and I used Dimensionals to mount them.  The background is Basic Black and is embossed with a Fiskars texture plate.  I added Stardust Stickles on the spider web for some shimmer.

Don't forget, you still have time to make a card using the WHAT IF? Wednesday sketch.  If you do, and upload, you will have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions.  If you use RI stamps, you get TWO chances!  You can find the details in this post.  I'd love to see what you do with this sketch.

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The Time to be Happy - Technique Tuesday Challenge

I made another card for Technique Tuesday challenge #6 - to use words. You can find the challenge here.

The flowers were in a goody bag I got from Taylor this summer when our group visited her. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s Garden Whimsy set and is stamped in Perfect Plum. The grass is a stamp from Repeat Impressions and is stamped in Certainly Celery. The matting is Perfect Plum and the buttons are from Lasting Impressions.

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Ribbit, Ribbit ... and an Honor

I have a little announcement to make.  I get to be a guest designer for Technique Tuesday for this month.  How awesome is that!  I applied for their design team and was not selected.  However, they asked me to be a guest "Stamping Tech" and of course I said yes.  They have clear stamps that are very high quality.  I got some in the mail yesterday and they are super!  You can find the store here.  (You can read the announcement on the SCS thread here.)


This is the first card I made with my new stamps.  They are all from the little set called "Ribbit" which you can find on this page.  I used VersaMagic Spanish Olive ink for the frogs, and Versafine Onyx Black for the eyes.  (I stamped them on scrap paper and cut them out.)  The eyes on the middle frog are mounted on pieces of Dimensionals.  Also, the middle frog itself is cut out and mounted on Dimensionals.  Aren't those little flies cute??  I matted the whole image panel with black.  

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Heartfelt Thanks - Technique Tuesday Challenge

I made this card for Technique Tuesday's challenge for this week, which is to use stamped words on your card/project.  You can find the challenge on SplitCoastStampers in this post.

Since I use a sentiment on nearly every card I make, I wanted to use the words in some sort of a special way.  I thought of Heartfelt Thanks from Stampin' Up!  I used SU! inks, also - Rose Red, Rose Romance and Mellow Moss.  The matting cardstock is from SU! as well.  The butterflies are punched using a Martha Stewart punch.  I mounted them on pieces of Dimensionals and added pearls to their bodies.  I added a little bit of scoring around the edges.

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More "Card Parts" Cards

All of these cards were made with pieces from Stampin' Up! cards that I "dismantled."  (They were cards that I did not make.)  The sentiments are mostly from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set.  I also used an Inkadinkado set for the "THANKS!" and a Nestability for the embossed frame on one card.  It's hard to tell, but some of them are white and some are ivory.

An update on my mother-in-law:  She continues to do VERY well.  She has been recuperating in a nursing home for a week now.  We're not sure how long she will be in there, but the expectation is that she WILL be going home.  Also, we had a wonderful - but much too short - visit with our daughter, son-in-law, grandson and granddaughter.  They have to be the cutest and smartest kids ever.  Well, maybe except for YOUR kids and grandkids! LOL!!

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Repeat Impressions WHAT IF? Wednesday Sketch

Today is another WHAT IF? Wednesday challenge from Repeat Impressions.  Every other Wednesday, Wendy has a sketch challenge for us.  And YOU are all invited to join us! :)  Here is the sketch for this week.

We'd love to see what you can create using this great sketch.  Just make your card and upload a link to it on the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, by Tuesday, October 19 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.  If you use an online gallery such as SplitCoastStampers, please use the keyword O610.  One random winner from the month of October will win a $25 gift certificate.  Definitely worth a try!  Check out the great cards from the other Rock Stars, too - you WILL be impressed!

Ayana Posadas

Dana Joy

Darsie Rose Bruno

Harriet Skelly

Joy Hadden

Makiko Jones

Robin Kirkpatrick

For my card, I used stamps from the recently-released stamp sets.  You can find them individually here and here, or the whole sheets are available here.  The penguins and the snowflake are from the penguin set and the sentiment is from the snowglobe set. The embossing was done with Cuttlebug folders - a snowflake one and a winter border one.  The matting is SU! Real Red.

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Male Birthday Card

A quick post for today.  This card is for my neighbor.


Several years ago when I became a Stampin' Up! demo, the woman who I signed up with gave me a whole bag of cards and card fronts.  I had never gotten around to going through them until a couple weeks ago.  I tossed a lot of them, and I have a lot of them to donate to a local paper company that is going to donate them to the Troops.  However, there were a few that I dismantled and saved the main image panels from.  This is one of those images.  I think I have about ten of them, and will quickly make them into cards and share them soon.  However, since I've been VERY short of stamping time lately, I'll have to share this one by itself.  I only added the scoring and the sentiment, which is from Papertrey's Birthday Basics.

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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Candy Corn

Even though I don't have a card to share with you, I wanted to remind you that today is the beginning of a new Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week!  This week's stamp is called 2306-D, Candy Corn.  You can find it on this page.  To get all the details necessary to get this stamp for 50% off, please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built  There you will also find links to the great samples made the the RI Rock Stars.

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Happy 2nd Birthday, Andrew!

 Besides being my mom's birthday, yesterday was our grandson's second birthday!  Unbelievable that he's two already!

Here is the card I made for him.  The image stamps are from Recollections.  The sentiment stamps are from Stampendous, and the alphabet stamps are from a dollar set from JoAnn's.  I colored with Stampin' Up! markers.  I cut his mouth out again, and mounted it on Dimensionals.  I used googly eyes, too.

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is my mom's 80th birthday.  All of my siblings are in town, as are some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  We'll all be going out to eat dinner at the Pizza Ranch and we'll have a great time!

The card I made for her is an easel card.  You can find a tutorial on SplitCoastStampers here.  The one I made is for a full-sized card.  The dimensions for that are at the very bottom.

The main image stamp I used is from The Paper Studio.  I colored the images with Stampin' Up! markers.  The sentiment is from PSX.  I used my Scor-Pal to add some definition to the white space, which I had masked off.  The butterflies are punched with a Martha Stewart punch.  The letters are cut with a Cuttlebug alphabet set, and the border on the inside is also done with a Martha Stewart punch.  I added Crystal Stickles to the letters, the butterflies, and the flower centers.  The butterflies also have gems for their bodies.

One last view - this is what it looks like when you can only (mostly) see the front.  This card is also for Flutter By Wednesday, which this time is to use glitter and bling!

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