Smooched

Good evening! I have more retired or retiring papers on my card for today. The base is Very Vanilla, the mat is Creamy Caramel(which is retiring), and the Top Note is DP(can't remember the name but is retired). This was a very quick and easy card, I tried a ribbon technique I have been seeing around. I am not sure how others are doing it but I put a layer of sticky strip across the paper and just pleated the ribbon onto it. I used a LOT of Vanilla Smooch on this card so it is really sparkly in real life. I put my sentiment on the inside . Thanks for stopping by!

Elements of Style

Good morning! Today I have a card using the stamp set Elements of Style. I love that this stamp can stand alone or be colored in and looks good either way. This was a quick and easy card, I cut the scallop circle and circle out with, stamped my flower image, ran the white piece through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder, layered the card with a piece of retired Sweet Always paper, add a punched sentiment and done! Oh, one other thing, I spritzed the stamped image with Glimmer paint/alcohol mixture.

I forgot to mention yesterday...a HUGE thank you to Joe Emery for fixing my camera! He is a genius!!!

Sweet Sunday Sketch

Good afternoon, I had a few minutes to stamp between loads of laundry so I thought I would give the Sweet Sunday Sketch a try. I really like how it turned out, I used mostly scraps left over from Technique class on Saturday. My new favorite stamp set right now is the Watercolor Trio from the Summer Mini. The paper is from Island Oasis, I have used almost the whole package and will be ordering another for sure.

If you want to play along with this challenge all you have to do is make a card using the sketch and link it up here . Thanks for stopping by.

Wedding Fever

Hope you have had a good weekend, I have had a busy one but I have still got a lot accomplished. I am working on a wedding order, 150 shower invitations. I have all the card stock cut and scored, the dresses cut out, and most of the tuxedos cut. I have about 25 put together and plan on shipping tomorrow if all goes well. I have another order waiting in the wings as soon as this one is complete so never a dull moment. This card was made using a free template that I found on Lynn Pratt's Stamp-n-Design blog, she is a very talented stamper so make sure you check her out. I had Technique class yesterday and Sadie had a birthday party to go to and then today was baby dedication at church as well as Mother's Day, life is busy but good!

Favorite Thoughts

Whew, I am aggravated at my poor broken camera! I haven't been able to photograph anything in two days, I am long overdue for a new one but the budget says no right now. Anyway, here is a card a made a few days ago with the stamp set Favorite Thoughts. It includes 4 cute sayings about women. I used some retired paper again and used the crown from the stamp set Princess Time. I have been working on some other items to go with my Tikki Hut but can't show you until I get my camera worked on.

Don't forget about the special I have going on , check here for all the details! And don't forget you can play along and win prizes at the Paper Cubed blog, the challenge this month is to create a shadow box. Check it out here.

Tiki Hut

I thought of this in the middle of the night and soon as I got out of bed started to work on it. Now, it is not exactly as I envisioned but I am still working on it. I designed it around a bird house I made a while back which I CASED from Teresa . I think the Square Lattice embossing folder kind of looks like tree bark so that is where the idea for a tiki hut came from. I have a lot more to show you that goes along with this but I will have to load it a little later since I am still having a few camera problems.

Workshop To go

I wanted to repost some information about an idea I came up some time ago since I had a request for one today(thanks Donna). I do what I call a "Workshop to Go". This is where someone decides to host a workshop at their house but they live too far for me to drive to them, so I prepare all the materials for 3 projects and mail it to them, they invite their guest over for a fun workshop and take orders, I submit the orders to SU and then they are mailed directly to them by SU. I have had quite a few of these and they have all been successful so if this is something you think you might be interested in, shoot me an email... dls8383@gmail.com.

MOJO Monday

Hi, I'm back with my card for the MOJO Monday sketch. I combined stamps from two sets for this one, First Day(one of the qualifying stamps for the free brads) and Go, Graduate. I used more retired paper, I really need to get some paper used up before the next catalog. You can check out all the other cards at the MOJO blog by clicking here.

Sweet Sunday Sketch

Hi, I am posting twice today, that is unusual for me but I wanted o show you what I whipped up for the Sweet Sunday Sketch. I don't do very many Mother's Day cards. I lost my mother 29 years ago when she was only 44 so I just struggle even making them. Hope you like it. You can check out the other cards made using this sketch here on Karen Giron's blog.

For all You Do

Good afternoon, hope you have had a good weekend. I am trying to use up retired papers so I used some Sweet Always DP for this card. The stamp set is For All you do. The embossing is done with a new embossing folder from the summer mini called Square Lattice and the butterfly was done using the Beautiful wings embosslit.


Did I tell you that you can win prizes by playing along with the challenges over at the Paper Cubed blog. The challenge for May is to create a Shadow Box. So get busy and make one and link it to the P3 blog!