Lion in the Grass

This card was one I created for my masculine card class last week. the cardstocks used are Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake and Bashful Blue. I used one of our 5/16" neutral Jumbo Brads as the "nail" to hang the picture! lol The chord is Early Espresso Baker's Twine. The background of this card is stamped on Crumb Cake Cardstock using the grass stamp from Inspired by Nature with Versa Mark Ink. The lion and the words are stamped with chocolate chip ink. This was another quick and easy card. Hope you enjoyed it. Stop by again. Brenda

Simply Scrapping Kit - Different Use

Good morning! Just wanted to share with you a different use for a Simply Scrapping kit, in this case, Playful Polka Dots, which is in the Summer Mini Catalog. My upline, Jan Wakeland sent us the Word Document with the phrase on this Oats box. The idea is to save our CHANGE all year so that we CAN have the money to go to Convention next year. I thought that was a very clever idea. Don't know if it was hers or someone else's, but here is the can that I decorated to save my change in! I used the Playful Polka Dots kit to decorate my can. I love the cheerful striped paper and the cardstock weight "stickers"! Now to start filling it up! These kits make great cards as well as scrapbook pages--and also cans. Hard to tell how many things you really might be able to use them for! Enjoy and happy stamping!

Brenda

Set Sail

Here is another card from my Masculine Card Class. It uses a set fromt he Summer Mini Catalog, The Open Sea. The ship and compass are stamped in Night of Navy, and the Happy Birthday is stamped in Real Red. The Happy Birthday is from a new set, Perfectly Penned. This was my chance to showcase our new denim ribbon, and it was perfect for this card. The red scallop was made using the Big Shot die, Tasteful Trim. The base of the card is Night of Navy and the top part of the card is Whisper White. thanks for stopping by. And happy stamping. Brenda

Summer Fun, Hamburger and Hot Dog

These are the hamburger and hot dog that I used in yesterday's post of the Summer Fun Scrapbooking pages. The hamburger is made using the large oval punch. I punched the "buns" from Crumb Cake cardstock, the "burger" from Early Espresso cardstock, the lettuce uses Certainly Celery Cardstock. The "Cheese" was just snipped from a scrap of Daffodil Delight Cardstock, as is the "tomato" from Real Red Cardstock.

The hot dog is made using the Word Window punch, using Crumbcake Cardstock for the bun, and Cajun Craze for the weiner. Thanks for stopping by! Happy stamping. Brenda

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