A Lil' Halloween Gal

Well, I guess this is the start of Fall.  I've been hanging on to Spring and the last bits of warm sun by posting Summer cards, but I'm afraid it's a losing battle, lol.  Today is crisp and misty.  That's OK, though, because it means I can start planning for the Fall holidays.

Here is an adorable card made by a fellow swapper that uses a stamp set I just love...Greeting Card Kids.  Isn't she adorable? 

Now that I've admitted it's Fall, I'm started to get excited about it!  I can't wait to go to the Pumpkin Patch like we do every year and pick out our pumpkins.  Speaking of pumpkins, I can almost taste my homemade pumpkin pie...

Sale on the Stampin' Up Clearance Rack!

Stampin' Up is having a Clearance Rack sale!  Click on my Online Store button at the top of my blog and then go to the Clearance Rack at the left of the page...wow!


Here are a few of the goodies I noticed at first glance:

   


Stop on by and check out these and more at super prices.  :)

So, today I wanted to share a card I made at a Stamp Camp using Glossy Paper.  I just love how brilliant the colors show up on this shiny paper.  The sun is simply a punched circle and the flowers are stamped twice, then cut out and popped up on dimensionals.  The background is sponged in blue.

This card uses a fun technique called two-step stamping, where you stamp the background of the image first, in this case solid pink, then again with another stamp showing more detail using a darker pink.  Fun!

Friendship

This is the last of my Summer cards.  I made this for a "friendship" swap.  I thought the chair looked cute in purple!  I colored it with colored pencils and embellished with the cute ruffled ribbon in Wisteria Wonder.  Love those new In-Colors!

Thank you, Susan in the Boonies, for leaving such nice comments on my posts.  I really appreciate hearing your friendly words!

Life is a Bowl of Cherries...

Well, apparently I got a bit behind in posting my Summer cards after my Dad passed away, so here are a couple that use a DSP that I really love...the Domestic Goddess DSP, LOL, what a name!  The stamp set is the Cherish Friendship set, which is so good for coloring, which I love to do.  Aren't these colors pretty?  This paper coordinates with the new In Colors...Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Daffodil Delight.  Fun!

This second card is the same, but with another set of papers from the 'Domestic Goddess' Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack.  Isn't the new Ruffled Ribbon pretty?

I used my Stampin' Markers to color my bowl of cherries (notice I changed the color of the bowl?)  I embossed the background with my Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder.  I think embossing really adds to the feel of the card...I'm into texture!  :)

I like these cards because I can use them for most any occasion...versatile and cheery!

New Holiday Mini Catalog!

It's finally here!  The new Holiday Mini Catalog is out.  I'm really excited about some of the new products, plus I love Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Click here if you'd like to take a look...

Holiday Mini Catalog

Christmas Stocking fun!

Here is the last card I made for the Hive Happening swaps.  It was for the Christmas Swap.  I love this card!  I used the adorable new Stitched Stockings stamp set from the new Holiday Mini Catalog and punched them out with the new Stocking Punch...so easy!  I used the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder for the Lucky Limeade background.  I raised the stockings up with Dimensionals and for a final touch, added some of the new Very Vanilla Stitched Velvet Ribbon...mmmmm, I love how soft it is!

Hope you're all enjoying the last bits of summer...we sure are.  I'm not looking forward to our busy schedules, but it will be nice to be back on a schedule again.  Wishing you all sunny days!

Happy Halloween in August!

Here is the card I made for the Holiday Mini Catalog Swap (this new catty comes out tomorrow!).  I used the Halloween stamp from the Festive & Fun stamp set.

I love these colors...I used Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder (purple), and Calypso Coral.  Isn't that new Ruffled Ribbon cute?  I embossed the background with the Spiderweb Embossing Folder and used markers to color in the saying.  Fun and easy!

Christmas Stocking Gift Card holders

Here is the project I made for the New Catalog Swap at the Hive Happening.  I decided to use my new Big Shot die, the Holiday Stocking from the new Mini Catalog that comes out in a couple of days.  So cute!  I really loved making this one.  I used the Jolly Bingo Bits stamp set to ink out some little holly and berries, using Versamark or Red Red and Wild Wasabi, depending on which color paper I was using. 

For this stocking, I used the new Holly Berry Bouquet DSP from the new Mini Catalog, isn't it pretty?  I love those colors, brown with the Wild Wasabi and Real Red (it also uses Cherry Cobbler). 

After I was done stamping, I used Sticky Strip to attach that beautiful new Very Vanilla Velvet Stitched Ribbon to the front and as a little loop holder, so it can be hung on the tree.

On the back side, I attached a small piece of the same colored paper as I used on the stocking itself to form the gift card holder.  The card will stick up a little over the top of the stocking, so it's easy to pull out.  Merry early Christmas!

Christmas in August?

Well, here I am back to post some pictures of the cards I swapped at the Hive Happening.  The first one I created for the Open Card Swapping.  Boy, was this fun.  As we entered the big room at 9am, we all started swapping cards willy nilly!  It helps to have a good memory so you don't swap cards with the same person twice, LOL!

Here's the card I swapped.  I used the new Letters to Santa DSP and a stamp from the Tags Till Christmas set and added some Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon.  The ink and paper are Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler.  Lots of trimming, but fun to make!

Just back from the Hive Happening!

Whew!  Was that fun or what?  I just got back from my first local "convention-like" swap/fun event.  It was great!  So many great gals to meet and lots of fun make and takes.  We all brought cards to swap, had a great lunch and watched some super demonstrations.

I'll post the cards I swapped and their "recipes" later today, but for now I just wanted to post a few pictures of some of the fun things we did...

Here we are swapping away!  This is the first swap of the day, the "Open Swap," where we could swap as many cards as we wanted to...wow! 

Here we are doing one of the organized swaps.  Yes, this is actually very organized, lol.  Very exciting, too!  Our leader told us when to start and how to do it and within a few minutes, we each had a huge batch of new cards!  Woohoo!

Here's a little sneak peak at some of the cute paper flowers we all brought for display.  This one's not mine, but I thought it was one of the prettiest!

More pictures to come soon!