Ruby Red I {heart} Hearts card

This one was inspired and partly cased from Carol'Anne a truly amazing stamper. She shares the most amazing tutorials almost every day. Anyways, here's my card:

I used a non SU embossing folder to texturize the Ruby Red layer. You can't see it, but there is actually a piece of Basic Black Satin ribbon running along the black border piece over top of the Ruby Red section. I wanted to showcase some of the new SAB and Mini Catalogue items and this is the second card for my Stamp-Of-The-Month club. My SOTM for February is the I{heart} Heart set. Stampin' Up! is donating $2.00 from each stamp set sold to the Haitian Relief Fund. So I decided, I would donate 10% of the stamps price to the Haitian Relief Fund (Canadian Red Cross) for each of these stamp sets I sold this month. I am also having a FREE class for anyone who purchased this stamp set from me.

I used:

Stamps: I {heart} Hearts, Whimsical Words

Ink: Basic Black, Ruby Red

Cardstock: Basic Black, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red

Other: Scallop Trim Border and Corner punches, Heart To Heart punch, Full Heart punch, Small Heart punch, non SU embossing folder, Basic Black satin ribbon

I wanted the medium stamped hearts to stand out a bit on the creamy caramel piece so I ran the basic gray marker around the outside of both of the hearts after they were punched out. It worked! I was so pleased. The small ruby red heart (from the Heart To Heart punch) is layered on a black heart punched from the Small Heart punch and they are popped up ontop of the fancy heart with a dimensional.

Off now to bed for the night. Tomorrow is my Monthly Punchie Class, the Baby Bunting and the Mermaid. Should be a fun filled day of Stampin', Chocolate, Laughter and Friendship. Ah what a wonderful life!!!! Glenda Mollet

Valentine's Goodies

This post has pictures of the Valentine's Day goodies I made for our children and their families. The idea for the first one came through Patty Bennett and it uses the Fancy Favor Die. It is supposed to use the Heart Shaped Sweet Treat Cups, but the chocolate Lindt hearts don't fit in the heart shaped ones, so I had to use the round ones.

The first set uses Sending Love Specialty DSP, the second set uses Flock Together DSP. I just love the new satin ribbons from the Occasions Mini catalogue. This one uses the Real Red ribbon. Of course I did not find out that the chocolate hearts don't fit into the heart sweet treat cups until after I punched the holes in the pouch, so I had to fit some circles around the round treat cups to hide the little bits of the punched heart that was left after I punched the 1-3/4" circle over top. Oh well, they turned out ok! I used some non SU brads from my stash.

This is the box of treats I made for the most important little boy in the world, our Grandson, James! We had the blessing to have him for the day on Friday. He is at that cheeky impish almost 2 yr old stage. He loves to tease, play hide-and-seek and tromping through mud puddles (which there was a plethora of yesterday, let me tell you!). Oh what a treasure he is, we had such a fabulous time with him. This box uses the Box#2 die for the Big Shot. I decorated it simply with some punched out hearts. The embellishment on the right hand side is a piece of leftover Sending Love Sp. DSP I cut out, then I added some punched hearts using the new Small Heart punch and some paper from Welcome Neighbour DSP from the SAB brochure. I added a non SU flocked heart brad in the middle. Its simple, but he is more interested in what is inside, than outside!!! The cardstock is Real Red.

Thanks for looking, have a great day!........... Glenda Mollet

Good Neighbors Card

Last night - along with battling a mini-migraine - I managed to put this card together. I bought the Good Neighbor stamp set and Welcome Neighbor DSP Pad from the 2010 SAB Brochure. I just loved this set. It is way too fun! 3D-ing is so easy as the images are very nice to cut out. Here's the picture of the outside: and inside too!

I did not put the sentiment on yet as I don't know what I will use it for, but it will go in the Whisper White word window blank that is on top of the Basic Gray Modern Label punch.

To create this card I used:

Stamps: Good Neighbor

Ink: Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Paper: Welcome Neighbor DSP Pad

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray, Bashful Blue, Whisper White

Other: Dimensionals, Scallop Trim Border, Word Window and Modern Label Punches

I made the little scene on the front using Paper Piecing and dimensionals. I hand cut out the two curvy hills from Old Olive cardstock, then put faux stitching along the curves with the Old Olive marker. I wanted the front hill to be out from the back hill for definition, but I did not want it as high as on a dimensional, so I just cut a smaller piece of Old Olive cardstock and put it behind the front hill and taped it on. It worked like a charm, I just made sure it was s mall enough that you can't see it when you look at the scene up close. The house is actually the taller house as I liked the look of that one, but it was too tall, so I just cut off the top storey and popped up the roof on dimensials. The trees also have their "crowns" up on dimensionals. The images on the white paper underneath are actually the Welcome Neighbor DSP sheet. I stamped and masked the clouds in my little scene as well.

The products in this year's SAB brochure are so darned cute, I just love them all. Isn't it great that we can earn them for FREEEEE!!! How much better can it get than that?

Ok, now off to create another card. Be back soon with the details and pictures!

*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* Hugs, Glenda Mollet .*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*