Stamp Club projects

Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry are one of my favorite color combinations and it worked beautifully with this card using the single Hello stamp from the summer mini.

I just love the Faith in Nature exclusive hostess set. Here I used Chocolate chip, Pear Pizzazz, and More Mustard. The cardstock was cut 4 1/4 x 9 and scored at 3 1/2".

Here is a closed up of one of the new embossing folders called Designer Frames. It comes with two embossing folders, one oval and one rectagular.

I love the vintage look. I cased this layout from Diana Gibbs. I added the doily background, the ruffled Pool Party ribbon, and trinkets.

August Stamp Club

This month brings some fun new paper, punches and wheels to try out.

Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Naturals Ivory, Elegant Soiree dsp.

Two-Step Owl punch, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, wide oval punch, Word Play stamp set, texturz plate

Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzazz, white cardstock, builder wheels: birthday and candle crazy, Pear Pizzazz 1/2" stitched poly ribbon

Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Elegant Soiree dsp, Extra large scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, two step bird punch, antique brads, victoria 5/8" crochet trim, espresso 1/8" taffeta ribbon.

I've been enjoying my summer with the family. My youngest son is moving his family from the DC area across the country to Mission Viejo in Orange County California. This is a job and career change for him. He just finished his 5 year commitment with the Navy. So they are driving across country this week and stopped over this weekend as they passed through Houston. They were only able to stay two days, but it was great to see the grandkids!!!! But now I have to get busy with stamp club, swaps, workshops and open house!!

Vintage Nature

This is one of the three cards my club members made last weekend. I saw a layout in the April/May issue of The Stampers' Sampler. Susan Eubanks did some wonderful cards with this set and technique. She used glossy "book paper" which I guess means magazines. But none of my magazines had full pages of type that were suitable for stamping the image on, so I made my own with the En Francoise background stamp and glossy card stock. Stamp the words on the glossy first. Rub on color where the blooms will be. Stamp the image in versamark and clear emboss. Brayer over everything with Chocolate chip ink. Wipe off the excess ink and you're done!

Club projects and convention swaps

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted but I have a really good excuse: SWAPS!!!!!!!!
That's right, I leave on Tuesday for the Stampin' Up! convention in Salt Lake City. It;s like CHA for SU demonstrators, lol!!! Oh and by the way, you can become a demonstrator right NOW for only $85!!! Just go to my SU website (link is on the right) and sign up, it's really easy. Anyway I have been working on my swaps the last two weeks and getting ready for stamp club. I also want to tell you about the SASSSC weekend, but that will be later (we had a blast!).

So first I'll show you some of the swaps I've been working on.

This one is for general swapping on the convention floor. It's from the Halloween Hoot set and uses the designer paper from Cast a Spell.

Next is a little goodie purse of kisses and also features Halloween Hoot and Cast a Spell.

This next one is for the WOW swap and is also a club project. I love the new butterfly punch. And now I will use my Flight of the Butterfly set more. I hate to hand cut anything, especially butterflies (or flowers), so this punch is GREAT! The pop-up was something I saw at the Heirloom Stamp show and was very easy to do! I used every bit of the olive glitter that comes in the glitter collection and I was probably wearing half of it!!!

These next two cards are also club projects.

I love the Dasher stamp! It is a single stamp that is in the under $10 section of the NEW SU catty. The club will make this one using real red and old olive. It also uses the new scalloped square die for the big shot and the perfect details texturz plate (both wonderful new additions)

I got this layout from a fabulous fellow stamper in my side line (thanks Terri)!It is hard to see, but the cardstock under the deer has been embossed with the perfect details plate.

Here is a trio of the same card using different color combos. Terri made the one with Soft Suede and Ruby Red. There is also one with Always Artichoke, mellow moss and Bravo Burgundy. I used the Quickie Glue Pen to trace the antlers and apply dazzling diamonds for some sparkle.

I am also swapping at the SCS dinner, a punch page swap, and a single layers swap. I ran out of ribbona nd old olive paper BUT my shipment is supossed to arrive today. I'm keeing my fingers crossed.

Mojo 84 sketch challenge

I made this card for my stamp club that is meeting this weekend and I used the mojo Monday sketch. I saw this glitter technique over on Paper Pleasing Ideas blog. She did a great tutorial that you can see here. I used the Friends 24-7 stamp for the flowers, and the pink and olive super fine glitter from Stampin' Up! The designer paper is from the occasions mini called A Walk in the Park. I wish you could see this card in person because the glitter is so pretty and sparkly. It looks sooo much better than the photo, trust me.

Bunny Basket

Last Saturday, the SASSSC group met. This stands for Simple and Serious Stampers Swap Club. We meet once a month and swap cards according to a predetermined theme. Someone is responsible for a make and take. This month, Annie showed us how to make cute baskets from a 9 x 9 square of designer paper. I decided this would be a great project for the stamp club to make at the March meeting. I had several pieces of leftover Raspberry Tart, the pieces I didn't like for card marking. But I didn't have enough for 20 baskets, so I decided to make them smaller. I actually like the smaller size better as a party favor or Easter treat. I cut the designer paper 6 x 6. That way I could get four out of each sheet. I also cut 1 x 12" strips and then cut them in half to measure 1 x 6" for the handles. I used my score pal to score at 2" and 4" and then rotated the square and scored at 2 and 4" again. Then I made the punched bunny from yesterday's post to decorate the side. I used the boho blossom punch and punched out three of the largest blossom. I left the bottom one whole and cut the other two between every two petals. I layered them and attached it to the back side of the basket with a vanilla brad to make a bunny tail.

Here is a photo of the punched pieces I used to make the bunny.

Scalloped circle, large and small oval, 1/2" circle punch, 5 petal flower punches used. The nose is just the tip of one flower petal. I used whisper white, pnk pirouette, and black cardstock.