Summr Fun Scrapbook Pages

These are the pages that we made in Scrapbook class this month. I love the combination of Island Indigo and Pool Party cardstocks together. The ice cream "cone" is made using Pennant Parade stamp set, and the Scoops of ice cream uses the Cupcake Punch! The stamp set that i used for the apron and the bbq grill is a retired Stampin Up set. The little kids - swing and slide--are from the set, Recess, that is in the Summer Mini Catalog. The checked paper is from the DSP pack, Domestic Goddess. The hamburger and hot dog are made using punches. I love the hamburger.Ii will post better pictures of the tomorrow so you can see them more clearly. Thanks for stopping by. Happy stamping!

Masculine Card with Anchor

Thanks for stopping by today. We have been unindated with Thunderstorms this week, and has made posting kind of hard to do. This is one of the cards from my Masculine card Class yesterday. (Or as one lady's husband said "So you are going to a man card class, huh?") lol
Anyway, this is a quick and easy card, using the Nautical Expeditions Designer paper in our Summer Mini catalog. The Anchor is also from a set in the same catalog. The Baker's Twine is the Expresso Twine, which also comes in Cherry Cobbler and White. I only bought one package of the Expresso Baker's Twine, because normally I am not a fan of brown. Would you believe that my brown is almost gone and I still have alsmost all the Cherry Cobbler left?
I brought out my crimper to make the small piece across the botton of the card--I think it looks a lot like ruffled ribbon.
Thanks for stopping by, and happy Stamping. Brenda

It's Raining, It's Pouring!

Tonight, just as I was trying to get an order put in, a huge thunderstorm rolled in, and the thunder went on, and on, and on. And so did the rain! We lost power, phone service, and worst of all (lol) the computer! I don't have a card sample, since I had no light to see by, so I will post what the little creek behind our house looked like. If the water in the foreground of the picture had gotten much higher, the water would have come down through the yard and gotten into the garage and the playhouse. That happened last summer and we had a horrible muddy, yucky mess to clean up. so thankful that didn't happen again this time! God is good. Thanks for stopping by. Happy stamping. Brenda

Whooooos Using new Products??

Loved these little owls as soon as I saw them. They are cut from one of the sheets in the "Nursery Nest" Designer Paper. That is the most awesome paper!!! And I don't even have a baby to use it for scrapbooking. Nice pastel papers. Love the rick rack sheets, and the birds are really cute too.

The stripes will make nice masculine cards. i designed this card for one of my stamp groups. One of the ladies, as I have mentioned before, really loves owls. So Jean, this one is for you! I stamped the little hello stamp on white cardstock with Marina Mist and then ran it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice die. (This is the one that one of my customers calls the Viva folder--because it reminds her of the texture of a paper towel! I think that is so funny.) I cut a quare of 4 owls from a sheet of the designer paper and just made borders for the square. I used a little of the Early Espresso bakers twine for a "Limb" for the owls to sit on. The striped paper is also from the Nursery Nest DSP. very little stamping today, but a fun card none-the-less. Happy Stamping! Brenda

Daisies a work in Progress

Good morning! Today's card is a Work In Progress. I cased the basic idea for this card from Stampin Connection. I loved the quilted effect that you get when you use the Square Lattice Die on the whole card. I need something to put in the center, some sort of greeting, but am too brain dead today to figure out what! I love the look of the center of the daisy. It is made by punching the Scalloped Circle die, and then putting the paper back in the punch and punching again, this time with the pointy parts punching in the rounded parts of the previous punch out. It requires a strip of post it note to be able to hold on to the punch while you repunch it. The daisy petals are one of the punch outs from the Blossom Petals Builder Punch. When I get the center figured out, I will repost the finished card. Enjoy your day!

Brenda

Fabulous Florets

Good Morning! Thanks for stopping by. I used the new set, Fabulous Florets, for my card today. I made the frame for the flower using a 3 1/4" square of Marina Mist Cardstock and the Decorative label punch. I punch it horizontally and then vertically to get the "Framed" look. (OK, so it is a square, and there is no discernable horizontal or vertical--just arbitrarily call one horizontal and the other vertical!) I stamped the flower and the Hello salutation on the white cardstock and then ran it through the Big Shot with the new Stripes Embossing Folder. I then stamped the flower and the stem on another piece of white cardstock, cut them out, and mounted them on top of the frame. Thought the 3-D effect was nice. I added some glitz with Dazzling Diamonds on the flower. Enjoy your day. Brenda

Cherish Friendship

Today's card uses the new set "Cherish Friendship", and I think this is an appropriate card for today because it is Convention Week! And that is one of the very best things about Stampin Up--the friendships we make both with our customers and with our fellow demonstrators. i so hate it that I am not at convention this week! I miss seeing all the freinds that I have made through the years at Leaderships and Conventions! Anyway, that is why I chose this set of stamps for today.

The chair is from "Cherish Friendship" and I watercolored the chair and used markers to color in the basket and the flowers. The "hangy downy" things are from the set My Friend. (Again an appropriate stamp set choice for Convention week! lol) I inked the stamp with Versa Mark and then immediately inked it again with Island Indigo, and then added Irredescent Ice embossing powder and heat set it. The brownish smudge above the chair is all me--got my finger in the ink, as usual, and thus I have left my signature fingerprint that seems to be mandatory on each card I make! Grrr. I love the use of the Scalloped Border Corner Punch. I used two of our new in-colors for this card also --Calypso Coral and Island Indigo. Thanks for stopping by. Happy Stamping. Brenda