Sunflower Stamping!

Bella Rose Stationery Set

So here's yesterday's post - I just now got my pictures taken! Hmm... that means I still have nothing to post for Wednesday. Oh well! Many of you will recognize this set as a class project made by the very talented Andrea Walford. Andrea originally made this with last year's Afternoon Tea DSP, which I made and posted earlier. Today's is made with some beautiful Bella Rose paper for a friend to give to her Mom for Christmas. Here are a few pictures:

I just love this stationery holder. It's a really great gift to give, and can't wait to get it in the mail to my friend! I cannot share the dimensions or instructions, as it is a purchased kit. But I hope you enjoy the photos and that you get plenty of your own ideas. And I certainly hope you are making at least some of your gifts this year!

Take care!

Frosty Day DSP & Hedgies!

Oh, how I wish they had never retired the Hedgehogs!! I saw these in my Christmas collection and just had to get them out and dust them off. And just to pair the old with the new, I used Frosty Day DSP. Here's the result:

 

I started out to make a card for this week's SCS layout of the week, but decided I didn't like the other vertical stripe that was supposed to be added, so it's no longer this week's layout. I'm still feeling a bit, well, let's say just not-so-good, so I'm just gonna leave you with this, and its recipe.

Recipe -

Stamp sets: Holiday Hedgehogs *retired*

Cardstock: Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Frosty Day DSP

Inks: Basic Brown

Accessories: 1-1/4" & 1-3/8" punches, Blender Pen, striped grosgrain ribbon - Bashful Blue

I hope you're inspired!

A Kiwi Cardinal Christmas

Hello everyone! I think I'm back from the dead finally! I just had a bad cold, but it was a miserable one! I stamped yesterday's card and today's, and it's the first stamping I've done in a very long time! At least it seems like a very long time to me - I'm used to stamping every day!

So here's my card for you, using a set I haven't used much yet, and have not used this particular stamp at all yet:

 

The branch on my card is mistletoe, so the berries should really be whitish, but in the interest of time, I just made them green. :-) I wanted to make a Kiwi Kiss-colored card for Christmas, and this one ended up being monochromatic. All it is, is a base of Kiwi Kiss, with a Whisper White layer on top of that, and some Bella Rose DSP on top of that! The mistletoe and the sentiment are from the Cardinal Christmas stamp set, both stamped onto Whisper White. (The sentiment is stamped with Basic Grey) All I did after that was to add the button and ribbon, and it was done!

That's the best I can do for you today, until I'm a little more recovered than I am. At least I can keep my hands out of the tissue box for more than two minutes now! Take care and see you tomorrow!

My Holiday Collection Penguin!

I will add more to this post later... it was all I could do just to get the card made! I am feeling better, though - finally!

 

More soon!

Peaceful Wishes Again This Year

Here is a sweet card I CASEd for my "Quick Cards" Class this month. I found it here, and just love its simplicity, colors, and the splashy red bow.

 

Don't ya just love it?! I used Always Artichoke for the base cardstock, with Confetti Cream as the card front. All I did was to stamp the pine needles multiple times on the side of the card front, making sure one of them stuck out far enough to "hang" the pinecone on. Then I stamped the pinecone in Chocolate Chip, and the sentiment in Real Red. Next, tie a bow in Red Gingham ribbon, and attach it to the top of the pinecone with a mini glue dot. That's it! A very simple and very quick card that can easily be mass-produced!

Hope you enjoy and that it solves your "how do I make a bunch of Christmas cards that actually look good" dilemma!

Beautiful Fall Season of Friendship Card

I have a beautiful card to share with you today from my friend Tracy in Montana. I love having stamping friends - they know how much fun it is to get handmade cards in the mail! I made some Fall and Thanksgiving cards too... too bad I never thought to send them out!!! I guess I'm already focused on Christmas cards once summer's over!

 

I love the colors, don't you? I didn't get any of the Autumn Vine DSP, so this is especially pretty to me.

She put so much detail into this card. Every set of leaves is cut out and popped up on the tree - that takes patience! Also check out the way the ribbon is threaded through the top layer. Very neat.

I also love the tiny little scallops around the squares of DSP. Cute, cute, cute. I'm going to have to make more cards with this color scheme: Baja Breeze, More Mustard, and Really Rust. Or am I wrong, and it's not Baja Breeze ink - it's Sage Shadow as on the DSP? The ink looks very much like Baja Breeze!

At any rate, it's a gorgeous card, and I was so happy when I found it hiding among the bills in my mailbox one day just before Thanksgiving! Thank you, Tracy! Keep 'em coming!!

Winter Post Top Notes Gift Tags

Happy Monday and welcome to December! I hope your holiday weekend was a good one, and that you're ready for the rush of the Crhistmas season! If you're a lot farther ahead of me, you might be ready for making a quick batch of gift tags. See, I'm not even ready to SHOP for gifts, let alone wrap and add tags to them!

Anyway, in case you are, here's a batch of tags I made for a class that's straight from the Holiday mini catalog!

 

These were so simple! I started with Sahara Sand cardstock (only because I was all out of Kraft!), and die cut 6 Top Notes. Next, I used Chocolate Chip to stamp the reindeer, Post Card stamp, and the 'To/From'. I took Versamark ink and stamped the Winter Post snowflake around the edges, then used either Handsome Hunter or Riding Hood Red to add the Santa Post or the 'Do Not Open' stamps. After that, I punched a hole in the corner, then tied on some of the SU! red twine, and added a punched branch (using a Martha Stewart punch... shhhhh!)

The ones in the mini cat used a jumbo eyelet for the cord in the upper corner, but I wasn't sure I'd have enough eyelets for all my projects!

These are a nice size for tags, so if you need 'em, you can crank them out very quickly! Just remember, it's always a good idea to CASE something out of the catalogs!! Hope you're inspired!