Star Spangled Thank You

This card was originally made to be a Thank You for one of my customers that sent me something. Well, I didn't like it and the pieces just sat on my desk for months. I finally finished it and it turned out not so bad. 

Do you ever start cards and not finish them?


Ingredients: {Paper} Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP {Ink} Cherry Cobbler {Stamp} Alphabet Soup (retired) {Extras} Stars #2 die, Pattern #1 texture plate

A Big MOJO Thank You

My job is probably one of the most stressful jobs I've ever had. However, there are a few customers who are really amazing and I wouldn't trade for the world. During Christmas one of those wonderful customers sent a few of us a gift basket as a thank you. It had all all kinds of yummy goodies in it.

As a thank you, I used MOJO Monday sketch 222. I also used the new Sale-a-bration paper....I love the new paper, very light and airy!



And in case you hadn't heard, the new Occasions Mini is out! Check it out by clicking the link on the sidebar. Don't forget Sale-A-Bration starts January 24th and you get a free SAB item with every $50 you spend. Who needs Christmas when you have SAB?!

Happy Friday everyone.....I love Fridays!!!!!!

All supplies SU!
{Paper} Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Everyday Enchantment (SAB)
{Ink} Early Espresso, Peach Parfait
{Stamp} Sincere Salutations, Baroque Motifs
{Extras} CB Swirl embossing folder

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

MOJO #213

It's Sunday! It's raining! The only thing more perfect is if tomorrow were a holiday and I didn't have to go to work =)

I'm feeling a little craftier this weekend so I've been making some cards. I really need to be making my Christmas cards but I keep avoiding making them like the plague. I just don't wanna do it, maybe I won't send any out.....yeah that won't happen but I threaten every year.

I love this Spice Cake DSP in the Holiday Mini catalog. I didn't get it at first, but I gave in. I'm so glad I did, the combination of colors is just so warm and inviting. Very fallish.




Sketch comes courtesy of MOJO Monday #213

I embossed the More Mustard piece on a texturez plate and then rubbed it on my More Mustard ink pad to make the embossing stand out. It was my first attempt and I kinda like the way it came out. I also kinda snapped my C plate for my Cuttlebug in the process. But I'm ghetto and glued it right back together! Who needs to buy something new when you have E6000 glue and some vices?!

It's sporadically raining here today in SoCal so I'm staying in, avoiding the crazy drivers and enjoying the coolness. Oh and the Chiefs game =)

Happy Sunday!

Ingredients: All ingredients SU! unless otherwise noted
{Paper} Soft Suede, Pool Party, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Spice Cake DSP
{Ink} Soft Suede, More Mustard
{Stamp} So Happy For You (retired)
{Extras} Extra large oval punch, large oval punch, Damask texturez plate, circle cutter, Prima flower, brad

A Hot Wheel Thank You

When we were at the Hot Wheels convention, we attended the dinner there and it was in honor of the collector this year being it was the 25th annual convention. Anywho, they give out very limited cars and Diane Strauss (founder of the HW Newsletter) came over and gave my daughter her pink car! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!! Everyone at our table had their jaws open just flabergasted!

So I decided to make a thank you card and send some of the Hot Wheels coasters I've made as a thank you gift =)



I used the sketch at Card Patterns #138 for this one. The card is actually 3"x6" and the scallop circle was 5 1/2" (cut in half) the DSP circle is 5" (cut in half)

To make the scallop, I took the guard off of my corner rounder and made the half circle scalloped. Check out THIS post at Splitcoast for instructions.

Have a great Tuesday everyone!


Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Spice Cake DSP
{Ink} SU! Soft Suede
{Stamp} Tiny Tags
{Extras} SU! Jewelry Punch, corner rounder punch, early espresso bakers twine, random ribbon

Amazing Friends

I had two amazing people order from me over the weekend. My awesome friend Kristin and her great friend Tiffney sent me an order the first day they could out of the new catalog!!!!

I had to make a card using the Blossom Bouquet punch 'cause it was staring at me on the desk so it worked very good as thank you cards =)

I really like the way they came out, very simple, but it works.




Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Play Date DSP
{Stamp} SU! Sincere Salutations
{Ink} SU! Chocolate Chip
{Extras} Brads

Simple and Cute

I'm back...(gasp) on a Sunday! Now this is totally out of the norm but like I said yesterday I want to try to remember what sketches I use and post them to the challenge.



I discovered this blog a few moths ago and absolutely love the sketches. They are simple and easy and I can add as many layers as I want and it always has a clean look. The sketch I used is from CardPatterns sketch 105. I was going to make it a square but it ended up a normal size A2 card.



I love my owl punch! I need a name for him though, he just can't be Mr. Owl...I'm going to have to give this some thought =) I thought since yesterday's cupcake being popped up didn't look too hot I'd try it with the owl and it looks much better. This was the effect that I was looking for. So simple and easy, took me less than 30 min total to put all together. That includes punching and then loosing the eyes for the owl =)



Happy Sunday everyone, we're off to the swap meet to find goodies! Well, when everyone wakes up. Insomnia is not fun, I miss sleeping =( I think I might work on some boxes for tea lights today. I made some tealights and now they need boxes. I'll have to share that too =) Hope everyone has a wonderful day!




Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Chocolate Chip, Real Red, So Saffron, Whisper White, Old Olive, Play Date DSP
{Ink} SU! Chocolate Chip
{Stamp} SU! Fun & Fast Notes
{Extras} SU! Owl Punch, scallop border scissors, twine, pop dots

Frilly Thank You

Do you ever notice those $1 dump bins of stamps at JoAnns or Michaels? Of course you do! How can you resist filling your hands with stamps for only a buck?! I love these things because I feel like I'm getting such a deal. This Thank You stamp is one of my buck finds.

Ingredients:
Paper: DCWV Summer Dream stack

Ink: Martha Stewart

Stamp: Michaels