Kindness and Papillons card ....

As promised, this is the third card we made in my February Stress Free Stamp-A-Stack class. . . . . . .

I got the original card at the Stampin' Up! 2013 Convention in the general swap.  Swapping is a BIG thing at convention, and it was pretty amazing last year as there were 6500 Demonstrators, and a huge quantity of them were swapping.  Even so, I did manage to get some duplicates!  I know, can you imagine!!!!  This was a card I received from Kivonne Tucker. It is very striking as Kivonne used a lot of bling on her card.  It took a bit of stamping to achieve the same effect.  When I did the class, I had to borrow two more flower stamps from some customers, or the class would have lasted long enough that we could have all had dinner together!  LOL  The bling is achieved by inking the same flower stamp in VersaMark ink and using Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder by Stampin' Up!  This was another well requested card from my Inspiration Wall.  Thank you to my customers, who "forced" me to recreate this card.

  Stamps:  Blooming With Kindness, Another Great Year, Papillon Potpourri
  Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder, VersaMark
  Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White
  Other:  Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Bitty Butterfly Punch

Even the butterfly has bling on it as it was covered in VersaMark ink after it was stamped, then some Irridescent Ice embossing Powder was poured over it before it was punched.  Yippee I love bling.....

Happy Blingy Stampin' .... 

Petite Pocket Thank You card - cased

Time for another "cased" card to share. CASED means Copy And Share with Everyone!

                                                            

 

I cased this from Patty Bennett for a Hostess for one of my Workshops (Hi Betty!).   The flowers are made out of the Filter Paper Stampin' Up! carries in it's Annual Catalogue.  HERE is a link to a tutorial on Patty's blog on how to make the flowers and the card holder itself.  You could make this into a gift card holder, what a pretty birthday gift that would make!

   Stamps:  Blooming Marvelous, Blooming' With Kindness

   Ink:  Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade

   Paper:  Calypso Coral (yahoo still available even after these In Colours retired), Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Summer Smooches DSP

   Other:  Petite Pocket Die (R but you could just hand cut your cardstock), Bird Punch, Petite Butterfly punch, Champagne Mist Spritz (R), Basic Pearls, Filter Paper, Stampin' Spritzer, Floral Framelits dies, Secret Garden Dies, 70% Rubbing Alcohol

Such a pretty card and there is so much you can do with the Filter Paper (Item #129393 - $3.95 - pg 156 Annual Catalogue).  Did you know, no matter how wet this paper gets, it will never break down????  Gotta love that!

Happy Stampin' ....                     

My Convention Swaps

I was in two organized swaps at the recent Stampin' up! Convention.  For the first swap I made the following card ....

I used the following supplies:

Stamps:  Blooming With Kindness

Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:  Whisper White, Crisp Cantaloupe, Wisteria Wonder, Pistachio Pudding, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush

Other:  Needlepoint Embossing Folder, Mosaic Embossing Folder, Bitty Butterfly Punch, Basic Pearls

I love the clean lines of this card, don't you?  I swaped for about 70 (ish) cards, so have lots to share and lots to use for classes this fall.  The other card I swapped was shared in THIS POST.

Stay tuned for my class schedule, maybe you can join us.

Happy Stampin' .... 

Floral 3D Hostess Thank You

I recently had an in home workshop and made this up for my Hostess .......

These plastic 'button' containers from Stampin' Up! are just the right size to decorate many, many ways for my Hostesses.  This container happened to contain some of the soon to be retired Soda Pop Tops.  Oh how I will miss these little gems.

   Stamps:  Blooming With Kindness
   Ink:  Cherry Cobbler
   Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Old Olive, Baked Brown Sugar
   Other:  2-1/2" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Petals Punch, button container, Large oval punch, Vine St EF (R), Soda Pop Top - large

To make the leaves, I punched Old Olive cardstock with the large oval punch, ran them through the Big Shot with the Vine St embossing folder and folded them in half.  Turned out great!  The center of the Soda Pop Top is stamped with the Blooming With Kindness stamp in Cherry Cobbler and punched out with the 1" Circle Punch.

Happy Stampin' .....  

Butterfly Wishes On Your Birthday - cased card

This card can be done with any DSP, and any colour combination!

I cased this card from Lee Conrey from Stampinglee Yours.  You could use any designer paper you have on hand, and any colour scheme for the butterflies and ribbon. The sky is the limit, and a wonderful way to use up your left over DSP.  The dimensions for the DSP is 2-3/4 x 2 so you don't even have to have lots of it left, just a small piece.  But it makes a huge punch surrounded by all that white.

   Stamps:  Blooming With Kindness (R)
   Ink:  Island Indigo (now in the Regals Colour Collection)
   Paper:  Whisper White, Island Indigo, Summer Smooches DSP (R), Daffodil Delight
   Other:  Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon (R), Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Basic Pearls

How about cleaning out a bit of that DSP and making a few of these cards to package up and share with someone special who is having a birthday, who needs their day brightened a bit, or make some thank you cards and give them to the soon-to-be-Mom or Bride.

Happy Stampin' ... ... ...