Didn't I tell you I was busy?

Give me a day and I'll forget to post. I had good intentions of posting yesterday but life made its presence known. My little ones were home sick yesterday and both are home again today. It's nice having them home and playing doctor mom with them but work does need to get done. So today I'm posting another pretty little card I made. I am going to change up this card some to make a notecard set for my sister later on. She travels to and from Japan often to dance hula. I worried a lot about my family in Hawaii, as that is my home, and I always worry whenever there are tsunami warnings.

So anyway onto today's card:

I started with a piece of whisper white card stock just slightly larger than the stamp I'd be using. Then I cut out a piece of our paper vellum (101839) I prefer to use this vellum over the card stock vellum for this particular project. I then stamped the background stamp from the Fresh Cuts stamp set (111634) and stamped onto the vellum using stazon ink in black (101406) After stamping that I then stamped the geisha stamp from Dream Gardens (114395) in versamark (102283) then embossed using gold embossing powder (109129) To hold the piece down I stuck a mini glue dot (103683) right behind the geisha. I punched two holes using the crop-a-dile (108362) and punched that right at the top through the piece of whisper white card stock and paper vellum. Then I tied it off with a piece of real red satin ribbon (117286) Next I punched a strip long the same height as the whisper white piece and punched it out using the dotted scallop ribbon border punch (119275) I used some snail and mounted this to the backside of the white so that just a small section of the bumps are showing on the left side. Then this entire piece was mounted onto real red card stock slightly bigger than the whisper white and used stampin' dimensionals (104430) to pop them up onto the piece of real read. I took a smaller piece of whisper white stamped for you from the fresh cuts stamp set as well and stamped in versamark and embossed in gold. Then I stamped the small flower, also from fresh cuts and stamped it in real read. I stamped off first so the red is not so bright. Then to finish it off I put a gold brad (104337) in the center. I did the same trick with the dotted scallop ribbon border punch and punched a small section to put under the white before mounting it to the real red card stock with dimensionals. After I was done with this I put dimensionals on the back of all the pieces and placed them onto the card front. I did use basic black card stock with the intent that she could either write in them using one of those gold pens commonly used for graduation photos or a white gel pen. Either one would give a nice stark contrast. Of course I am redoing this design a little and using the fresh cuts notes (111882) instead and will play around with the look a bit before I make the gift set. I love to play with our stamps and incorporate multiple sets together.

Hope you are having a wonderful Thursday. I was just reminded that tomorrow the kids don't have school, it's an in service day for the teachers. I hope to have time to post more tomorrow but it may have to wait till after the weekend is over. I still have quite a few Easter/Spring cards that still need working on and I am sort of getting bored with looking at them already.

Thanks for stopping by.

Shimmery Wedding

I needed to make a wedding card for my husband's cousin and I wanted something pretty and elegant and shimmery all over.

Here's what I came up with:
I decided I'd use the shimmery white paper (101910) I'd purchased over a year ago. I'm a paper hoarder if I haven't already mentioned this to you. I cut a piece of the shimmery white paper 1/4" shorter on both sides and ran that piece through the big shot using the elegant bouquet textured impressions embossing folder (118964) Then to enhance the embossed flowers I used the 4mm basic rhinestones (119246) After I was done I punched two holes using the crop-a-dile (108362) into the paper at a diagonal. One is about an inch from the right and about half an inch down and the second hole is about an inch down from the right corner and half an inch in. I used this to feed our baja breeze seam binding ribbon (122331) This is still available through

the end of this month so don't forget to order some if you haven't already. There's no guarantee it will still be available after the 30th. I popped this part up using stampin' dimensionals (104430)

To finish this off I stamped the greeting from the wedding sweet set (115466) in baja breeze punched it out using the 1 3/4" oval punch (119855) and glued that down to another punched piece using the scallop oval (119856) Then I popped those up using dimensionals. To match the card I spritzed a very vanilla envelope using shimmer mist made with frost white shimmer paint (116854) and 70% rubbing alcohol. I love shimmer mist because it provides the shine and glimmer that you can get from glitter but without the mess. I still love my glitter though.

Hope you're enjoying your Monday. Come back tomorrow for another treat. Happy stamping till then and thanks for stopping by.

So much time to stamp, so little time to blog

I've been slacking on my blog posting. I do apologize. I have been busy though and I have a lot to share with you. I promise I'll be updating more over the next few days. I've been busy with a lot of projects and cards lately. Firstly I'll start by showing you the recent cards I gave out to customers who ordered from the last workshop I demonstrated for. Though this card contains a lot of elements the design is super simple and easy to recreate.

I created this card to inspire one of the customers from this workshop. She ordered the Love Letter Designer Series Paper (117162) and she also ordered the

Thank You Kindly stamp set (111700) This year it was offered for free after spending $50 per order during Sale-a-bration. Love Letter is one of my favorite paper designs as it is so versatile and goes with just about anything. Besides using the Love Letter paper I also used naturals ivory, basic black and very vanilla card stock. The only color ink that I used was basic black classic ink. I used the 1 1/2" basic black striped grosgrain ribbon (115615) and cut it in half to create a more aged and delicate look to the ribbon. I love the way this ribbon frays on one edge too after it is cut. The punches that were used are the 2 1/2" circle (120906), 2 3/8" scallop circle (118874), 1 3/4" circle punch (119850), 2 step bird punch (117191) and the decorative label punch (120907)

To finish it off I added a 2mm basic pearl (119247) and I tied a piece of linen thread (104199) and included a safety pin from vintage trinkets (118764)

Though I don't have a picture of the inside I stamped a personalized poem that I got from my good friend Holle, the poem says "Recycle this card, Brighten someone's day. Add your own greeting, Send it on it's way. I made it using one of our personalized stamps in the Tailored 4 line design. In an effort to help in recycling cards and sharing the love of card-making with others this is a great way to do it. My customers were happy to pass their cards along and do what the poem says. Our personalized stamps are awesome because you can customize how many lines you have and what they'll say.

Hope you are enjoying the weekend before Easter. I know I am and I'm getting ready to work on Easter cards tonight and have them in the mail by Wednesday. Stop by again tomorrow for the next look into what I've been up to recently.