Double the Thanks

I think the following cards are my favorite yet. The reason why you ask? The ribbon! I colored it myself.

Since I'm kinda still acquiring a stash of Stampin' UP! stuff I only have 2 rolls of ribbon. One is the satin ribbon I got in my starter kit and the other is this 1/4" grosgrain that I just ordered. One day I will have more ribbon but now, I will save some money and color it myself. I just simply took a sponge and got the color ink I wanted onto the sponge and just ran it over both sides of the ribbon until it was dark enough of a color that I wanted. Easy, peasy.

The big scallops are also just 1" circles cut in half and adhered to the edge.




I used the sketch at A La Card Monkey this week and honestly I wasn't sure if I could come up with something, but I did and they are very fallish.

Ingredients: All items SU!
{Paper} Blue card: Soft Suede, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Spice Cake DSP; Green card: River Rock, More Mustard, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla, Spice Cake DSP
{Ink} Blue card: Pool Party, Soft Suede; Green Card: Pear Pizzazz, More Mustard
{Stamp} Blue card: Baroque Motifs, Tiny Tags; Green Card: Alphabet Soup (retired), Tiny Tags
{Extras} 1/4" white grosgrain ribbon, jewelry punch, 1" circle punch, bakers twine, pearls

Deck the Halls

A quick card today, it was super easy thanks to punches and circle cutters.

I used the CardPatterns 140 sketch and turned it on it's side. The card started out like the sketch but something about the balance of everything just looked cooky so I turned it.

I was so proud of my wreath! I keep looking at all kinds of punch art on Pinterest but honestly I don't want to spend the time to punch, cut, and adhere little pieces of a punched piece. Lazy, yes. Now this wreath was super easy! Scalloped circle punch and 3/4" circle punch and ta-da....easy wreath =)

Ingredients: All items SU!
{Paper} Early Espresso, Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Letters to Santa DSP
{Ink} Riding Hood Red
{Stamp} Merry & Type
{Extras} 1 3/4" scallop circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, flower from Itty Bitty punch pack, scalloped edge punch, circle cutter, dazzling details, whisper white bakers twine

Poppy Goodness

This migraine still has my head feeling like its in a vice so I thought maybe making a card or two might get my head feeling better......yeah didn't happen. But I did make a card I'm kinda happy with =)



I made it using the Monkey Sketch over A La Card Monkey and then realized I was too late for the challenge, eh, the story of my life, a few hours short.

It's Friday so hopefully my day can go fast so I can get home and rest this weekend. My goal, to be able to feel normal again without the monkey in my head banging on the bongo drums =)

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Sunny Garden DSP (retired)
{Ink} SU! Poppy Parade
{Stamp} SU! Simple Sentiments
{Extras} SU! Lg oval punch, dotted scallop ribbon edge punch

Test Tube Fun

Since test tubes are the latest rage I sent the hubby out in search of them last weekend. He did not disappoint and brought me back 3 packs of 'em! I had heard rumors on Pinterest of Martha Stewart having new test tubes out. The rumors are fact people! And I got the last 3 packs our Michaels had!

And just when I thought I was going to have to make my own tutorial for a test tube holder, low and behold the magicians at Splitcoast already had one! You can go HERE and get the deets (details) on making your own.

ENJOY and have a great Saturday!




Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Baja Breeze; Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Paper
{Extras} 1" circle punch

Diamond Fold Card

Ok, normally I don't do special "fold" cards. Thanks to my new addiction to Pinterest, I keep seeing all kinds of cool folds that I want to try.

Have you check out Pinterest yet? You must check it out! Go, hurry.....it's awesome!

So I pryed my self from Pinterest long enough to do this card. It's called a Diamond Fold and you can see the tutorial HERE at Splitcoast Stampers.

I honestly couldn't make heads or tails from the written directions so I'm glad there was a video tutorial. Usually instructions are all I need, but I was so lost by step 3 I had to watch her make the card.

This card is so easy I'm thinking of making it my Christmas card. Not much to it, just folds, punches, and dies. If I find me some square envelopes I think I have a winner!





Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Baja Blue, Lucky Limeaid; Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Paper
{Ink} SU! Lucky Limeaid
{Stamp} SU! Delightful Decorations
{Extras} SU! Ornament punch, white bakers twine; Spellbinders Labels 1 dies

SSSC 136

So it's almost October and I have no clue what to do for my Christmas cards this year. Sad huh? When we moved down to SoCal 3 years ago, Christmas cards were done, addressed and ready to go minus pictures in them. I was so ahead of the game then!

I used the sketch from Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #136 for this one.

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Play Date DSP (retired)
{Ink} SU! Basic Grey, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Versamark
{Stamp} SU! Merry & Type
{Extras} silver embossing powder, SU! Decorative label punch

CP Pumpkins

This pumpkin stamp from the Button Buddies set reminds me of Cinderella. I think it's the whole curly vine thing going on on it. Who know, but it sure is cute!




I made this simple one from Card Patterns sketch 134. And yes, I know I'm supposed to put buttons on the pumpkin part, however I'm outta orange buttons =( It looks cute no matter what, thanks to the curly Q's.

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Old Olive, Play Date DSP (retired
{Ink} SU! Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
{Stamp} SU! Button Buddies
{Extras} Bakers Twine, EK Success Icing border punch, corner rounder punch

Red & White

Monday is upon us again. But this Monday means only 7 work days and I'm on vacation! Yippee!!!

My latest card is courtesy of the sketch over at Clean & Simple #159





I used my bouquet blossoms triple layer punch. I used #1 in red to give me the base and #3 in white to give me the punched out flower. Put a dimensional in between the two to give it some depth and added a rhinestone for bling. As my kids would say "easy peasy lemon squeezy".

This card is going straight to work today, it's the boss' birthday and I hope she likes it. Even though she said I was never allowed to do the running man at work again, she still gets a card =)

Wanna play too? Here's the sketch:

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Real Red, Whisper White, Play Date DSP (retired)
{Ink} SU! Real Red
{Stamp} SU! So Happy For You (retired)
{Extras} SU! Triple layer Bouquet Blossom punch, rhinestones, satin ribbon

Sweet Holiday

Yes, another post this week! Wahooooo

This is one of my favorites, I may use this next year for my gingerbread theme...then again it was a lot of coloring so maybe not =)



I used the sketch for this weeks A La Card Monkey Challenge and then realized my theme didn't match the challenge.....oh well, cute card anyway =)

Have a Happy Friday everyone!

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Real Red, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
{Stamp} SU! Sweets for the Sweet, Sweet Holidays (retired)
{Ink} SU! Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Garden Green; Colorbox White
{Extras} SU! Bakers twine Cherry Cobbler, 1" punch

Flowers for SSSC 135

Here's a color combo I love but rarely use. I think its just a little bright for most things...



For the 2 flowers stamped in Pumpkin Pie, I inked the image and stamped lightly on a scrap piece of paper then stamped on my cardstock. This way the middle image stood out but wasn't alone.

I used the sketch from Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #135

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Brights DSP
{Stamp} SU! Button Buddies
{Ink} SU! Rose Red Pumpkin Pie
{Extras} Spellbinders scallop circle die, buttons, twine, SU! lattice embossing folder, EK success border punch

Card Patterns #131

Another quick one this morning, my computer is acting so slow lately so I'mma gonna have to work on it this weekend.

Here's the card I did for Card Patterns #131.

Very Halloween! The bats are embossed with clear embossing powder and the candelabra is embossed in silver embossing powder.




{Paper}SU! Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Peach Parfait, Sunny Garden retired DSP
{Stamp}SU! Wicked Cool
{Ink}Versamark
{Extras}silver & clear embossing powder, Prima flowers, brads, sizzix flourish die, EK success icing border punch, 1/8 hole punch

Monkey Challenge #72

Just a quick post. This school/work routine is killer. This card I made for the Monkey Challenge #72

Added glitter to the bottom to look like sparkly snow, and some flocking to Twiggy to give him some dimension. I know this set is retired but I can't bring myself to put it in my "sell" pile....just too cute!






Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Pear Pizzazz, Real Red, DSP, Whisper White, Bashful Blue
{Ink} SU! Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz
{Stamp} retired Mr. Twigster, Jolly Holiday
{Extras} Bakers twine, MS snowflake punch, ornament punch (bottom only)

Anti-Bac Holder

Do you have blogs that you love? I have quiet a few =) Erica Cerwin is one of those bloggers whose projects I adore! They are always so fun and bright and very simple to do.

A few months back I found her tutorial for an Antibacterial Soap Holder I even bought the small oval punch just for this project. Well I finally made the holder and let me tell you it is so super easy! Very step by step easy to follow directions.



I made the for the kids' teachers last week for the first day of school. I want to do something for them for each holiday and things like that. I try every year but this time I'm going to stick with it!



They were a hit and the kids said they will have the best smelling teachers =)

Witchy Stamps

So when I saw the sketch over at Paper Pal Arts, I knew exactly what I was gonna do....no looking for paper, no deciding what colors, just sit and do it!

HERE is the sketch:




Here's my hats!




I used my postage stamp punch (You know, the-one-I-had-to-have-cuz-I swore-I would-use-it-all-the-time punch) with the hats and pop dotted 'em on a black square. I glitterized the bottom hat with dazzling diamonds.

I'm trying this whole non traditional Halloween thing right now. So we'll see how far it goes until I'm back to Basic Black, Very Vanilla and Peach Parfait......

**With these hat being a solid image, it's important to condition your stamp before using it. You can do this by basically taking an eraser and erasing the thin layer of film off your stamp. Trust me, night and day difference when stamping. I used THIS post over at Technique Trail for tips.**

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Basic Black, Lucky Limeaid, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
{Ink} SU! Basick Black, Rich Razzleberry
{Stamp} SU! Wicked Cool
{Extras} SU! Dazzling diamonds, Postage punch

Back in the Swing of Things

As you can tell by the sound of crickets on this blog, school is back in full swing and we're back to a routine around here. So now I need to get back in my routine of craftiness.

I used MOJO Monday #204 for my sketch:







I have wanted the Wicked Cool stamp set since it came out last year....I finally got it! It is very cool and I love the hat.

I'm off to Pinterest.....my new addiction. Have you visited pinterest.com???? Trust me, addicting but a very cool site!

{Thank you Kristin for getting me hooked!}


Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Peach Parfait, Whisper White, Brights DSP, Sunny Garden DSP
{Ink} SU! Basic Black, Old Olive, Peach Parfait,
{Stamp} SU! Wicked Cool
{Extras} Stampin' dimensionals, Curly Label punch