Stamping anyone?

So I've been busy over the past few months with stamp club, ladies night and other additional classes that I offer for free on a weekly basis. Come and stamp with me and you'll see more great things that you can create besides the ones you'll see today.

This project was originally our June stamp club project.  I absolutely love making 3x3 cards. This little love note box was created using our new delicate doilies stamp set (122592) When I made the original sample the love note box looked like it does in the sample with the love notes. When I was putting it together during club the box felt incomplete as is so I added the monogram to it to mimic the love note monogramed cards that went in it.

We used basic gray classic ink (109120) and stamped it onto bashful blue card stock. Next we punched a piece of basic gray card stock using the  2 3/8" scallop circle punch (118874) Then we used one of the smaller doily stamps and stamped it on bashful blue using basic gray. We punched it out using 1 3/4" circle punch (119850). Next we punched out a piece of very vanilla card stock     using the 1 3/8" circle punch (119860) and finally we stamped a monogram using the Lovely Letters Alphabet set (115030) I got it free for recruiting during Sale-a-bration and I am so happy I got it. This is a really nice alphabet stamp set. We stamped again on bashful blue card stock in basic gray. We punched this out using the 1 1/4" circle punch (119861) We layered the bottom two layers with snail and the top two layers with snail then we used dimensionals in between these two new layers. Next we punched holes in the top and bottom scallops using the smaller hole on the crop-a-dile (108362) Lastly we fed a piece of very vanilla tafetta ribbon (this color ribbon no longer available, but we do still carry tafetta ribbon in other colors) through the scallop circle and tied it off in a bow at the bottom of the scallop and attached this using dimensionals onto the center of the lid of the box.

For the 3x3 love notes we did the same thing as we did on the box, but when it came time to add the ribbon we made sure to secure it to the card by wrapping the tafetta ribbon around the entire card itself.

Another thing we changed up on the finished card and box is that we added a little bit of bling, using one of my favorite must have products, basic rhinestone brads (119246) This product is fabulous. You get 150 pieces for $4.95 and a little bling, goes a long way. :)

I'll be updating with additional photos from clubs and free classes shortly so come check in again soon and see what you've been missing.

Till next time, Happy Stamping.

Long time no post

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Life just gets away from you sometimes. I'm sure you all know what that's like. It happens to me often. Of course I have been busy stamping off and on over past few months.

Here are a few of my favorite samples using my current favorite a la carte stamp from our current Summer mini catalog. I forgot to update those images and links so they are now updated and available for your viewing pleasure.

This first card took me awhile to come up with a design. I had picked the stamp before I had even gotten it. We had a group swap for the summer mini catalog and I wanted to use the stamp because I thought it had lots of potential.

I used a few products from the new mini as well as several of my old time favorites. First I stamped the sailboat in early espresso classic ink onto naturals ivory. I let it set up for a few hours before coloring it in. I used the water color crayons along with a blender pen to fill in color where I wanted. For this scene I used cherry cobbler for the sail, early espresso for the boat itself and bashful blue for the waves. Our water color crayons are so light and easy to use and it makes coloring things in a breeze when used in combination with a blender pen. Next I inked up the En Francais background stamp in early espresso and lightly stamped it as the background to this card. It adds another dimension to the card itself. This piece was then mounted onto cherry cobbler card stock. I then added a strip of Night of Navy card stock towards the bottom and added some of our silver brads to the bottom to give it a sort of nautical feel to it. Brass might have been nice too but I used the brushed silver. Then I used the thinking of you greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes and stamped that in early espresso then I used the new postage stamp punch to punch out the greeting. I wrapped some of the new cherry cobbler bakers twine around the front and back of the postage stamp to give it a little something. Then mounted this onto a punched square of early espresso. This entire card was held together with stampin' dimensionals only yet I'm not sure you can tell by this photo.

This second sample I did for a shoebox swap and I wanted to use a similar idea. I needed to come up with an idea for a Father's Day card and I didn't really have a lot of sets that were very masculine looking but I thought of this stamp again immediately. I decided to use a different background stamp for this one though. I used early espresso to ink up the scene and stamped it onto very vanilla card stock. I used marina mist and baja breeze to color in the sail on this one. This time around I used the early espresso bakers twine and punched holes at the top of the sail and the bottom of the boat itself to create an extra layer to the card itself. Then this was mounted on baja breeze card stock The DSP used in this sample came from elegant soiree. Unfortunately this paper is no longer available. The idea though is that you can use any colors you see from a pattern of DSP to create your card. I stamped Happy Father's Day from Teeny Tiny Wishes in early espresso and punched it out using the word window punch. Then I punched out a piece of baja breeze card stock using the modern label punch. I used silver brads on this card as well to finish it up. My friend Mary loved my card so much she took it home to finish it. We only do card fronts when we swap cards to help keep the costs down.

Thanks to my friend Holle for lending me copies of the photos she took of my cards. If I haven't already mentioned this before, I misplaced my digital camera. :( I am fortunate enough however to have a new cell phone with an 8MP camera so I will be using this from now on to update my blog. I hope to have some new pictures up soon.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping till next time.