Stitched Exotics

I hadn't used the stamp set, Stitched Exotics for a while and decided to pull it out from the bottom of the pile. I wanted to use the stamps directly onto a piece of cardstock that is the main focal point and not cut an image out and then pop it up with a dimensional (which I do a lot of the time). Well I managed to do that on one card (congratulations card), but not on the other (may all your wished come true card).




Supplies:


Stamps: Stitched Exotics, Stitched Background, Hugs and Wishes
Paper: Bashful Blue, Basic Grey, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Ink: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Basic Grey
Accessories: 5/8" Grey Grosgrain, Sponge Dauber, Certainly Celery Marker


4.25 x 5.5 card





Supplies:

Stamps: Stitched Exotics, Stitched Background, Heard from the Heart
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Cameo Coral, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Ruby Red
Accessories: Paper Snips, Dimensionals,


4.25 x 5.5 card


Both of these two cards are cased off of Splitcoaststampers. The info of whom I cased is in my gallery on SCS.


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Celebrate Simply

One of the blogs I check out regularly is This n' That. (Okay, okay, there are quite a few blogs I look at every day or two.) A lot of Gretchen's cards are clean and simple but have that added touch of ribbon. And I can't do without ribbon on a card!! I cased THIS card of hers.

I made two. The first card shown is actually the second card I made. I really like how it turned out with using shades of brown and I LOVE the polka dotted ribbon. I can't stand wearing polka dots, but I love looking at them. Go figure.

I added small making memories flowers to this card. I felt I needed to add them to the "blank" spaces on the card.

Supplies on both cards:

Stamps: Celebrate Everything
Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Kraft

Ink: Brown Stazon, Black Stazon

Accessories: 7/8" Brown Polka Dot Ribbon (Michaels), 1" Blue Satin Ribbon, Paper Flowers (makingmemories), Silver Brads (makingmemories), 1/16" Hand Held Punch, Stampamajig

4.25 x 5.5 card

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Rosy Wishes

This was such a simple and quick card. I love it when that happens. I do have to admit that I didn't come up with this card on my own. I cased THIS card from Splitcoaststampers. By the way, this card will fit in one of those small letter envelopes (not sure what to call them??).

Supplies:


Stamps: Heard from the Heart, Petal Prints (retired)
Paper: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red
Accessories: Pink Striped Ribbon (Michaels), Stamp-a-ma-jig

6 x 3.25 card

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Dragonfly Birthday Wishes

I found these cute acrylic stamps at Superstore. I made this card earlier in the summer and by seeing it again I can hear the bugs calling for me to use them again. :) They will have to be inked up soon!

What you can't see in the picture is that I stamped the dragonfly in Not Quite Navy on the large piece of Naturals White cardstock. Then I stamped again, reinking my stamp, on a "scrap" piece of Naturals White and cut it out. I popped it up with a dimensional over the first stamped dragonfly. Everything else on the card is fairly straightforward and self explanatory by looking at the supply list.

Supplies:

Stamps: Patterned Bugs (Inkadinkado), Circle and Dots (Inkadinkado)

Paper: Naturals White, Not Quite Navy, Patterned Paper (unknown - from my scrap pile)

Ink: Old Olive, Not Quite Navy, Black Stazon

Accessories: Olive Satin Ribbon (Gale's), Sponge Dauber, Paper Snips, Small Corner Rounder Punch, Dimensional

4.25 x 5.5 card

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Dream du Jour

I can't believe summer is over. My oldest began grade one this morning and he will be staying for lunch. It feels kind of wierd that I won't see him until it is time to pick him up at the end of the day. (I am also feeling a little guilty that I won't be picking him up for lunch like some of the other stay at home moms are doing. But my "excuses" are that lunch recess is a time when he can play with his friends [socialization] and it also conflicts with when I need to pick up my other son from preschool.) I hope that he loves school - that is my "dream du jour". Of course I want him to do well, but if he doesn't like school it is twelve years of misery minimum!!

On to the cards....

There are a number of blogs I check every day. One of these is Pickled Paper Designs. I pretty much love all the cards Amy makes. These two cards are cased from her card HERE.

Supplies: (listed for both cards)

Stamps: Dream du Jour

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Pink Double Side Patterned Paper (My Mind's Eye??), Green Textured Patterned Paper (unknown from Michaels - from scrap pile)Ink: Black Stazon, Pretty in Pink, Old OliveAccessories: Mega Marvy Punch, Jumbo Circle Punch, Paper Snips (ie. SU scissors - love them), Blender Pen, Dimensionals, White Satin Ribbon (Michaels), Black Brads (makingmemories), Black Ribbon (Gale's)

4.25 x 5.5 card

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What the Heart Needs...

Summer, sun, friends, swimming lessons and lots of activites.... At least that is what is making us happy lately. I can't believe summer is almost over. For some reason July was pretty low key and now we are trying to pack in all the fun stuff in before school begins....in two and a half weeks. Aaaaah!! But they will be good ones!

But back to stamping.... I am so glad I got this stamp set, Serene Spring. I really love it and am having so much fun watercolouring with my Aquapainter. For this card, I was inspired by scrapnextras card on splitcoaststampers.


Just a few details about how I went about making this card: First, I stamped two of the same images on a piece of Whisper White card stock and used the Aquapainter to colour in the image. I used the 1 1/4" Square Punch to punch out three different parts of the image. Then I punched out pieces of Pumpkin Pie card stock with the 1 3/8" Square Punch and cut out pieces in Whisper White at 1 5/8". I taped those all together and added dimensionals to the back and popped them up over the orange ribbon.

I used the Stampamajig to line up the sentiment into three lines (the stamp comes as one long line) and cut it out to fit under the hodgepodge hardware. Unfortunately I do not remember what kind of Designer Paper I used. I found the piece in my scrap drawer.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serene Spring
Paper: Whisper White, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Designer Paper (unknown - from my scrap drawer)
Ink: Brown Stazon, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron
Accessories: Aged Copper Hodgepodge Hardware (retired), Orange Ribbon (Gale's), Dimensionals, 1 1/4" Square Punch, 1 3/8" Square Punch, Stampamajig (I am tired of putting in the hyphens! LOL)

4.25 x 5.5 card

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Simply Serene Spring

It has been so long since I have made a post that I wonder if I remember how to do this! It has been a good summer despite the boys having chicken pox at different times in July and attending an aunt's funeral (although I did get to visit with family in BC). I finally got my New York scrapbook completed but I haven't even started on the jean rag quilt I want to make. But, hey, there are still three weeks before school begins. LOL. We hope to do some camping, go to a friend's cabin and paint our house before summer is over. Think all of that will happen??

On this card I really wanted to focus on the stamp and watercolouring. So I kept it fairly simple. I used the Polka Dot background stamp with VersaMark on the Kraft card base. For the main image, I stamped on 140 lb weight watercolour paper (2.25" x 3") with Brown Stazon. I used various colours from the Earth Elements and Soft Subtle families in the Classic Ink to colour in the image with an Aquapen. I adhered it to a piece of Chocolate Chip and then popped it up with Dimensionals.

On the one card I just tied the ribbon around the corner in a knot. I taped it in the back so that it would stay. On the other card I used an Aged Copper Spiral Clip with the Moss Gingham ribbon tied to it and placed it in the same corner.

It really didn't take me that long to make this card. The hardest part was colouring in the image but I did them both at the same time which definitely saves on time. This would be a card that I think I could mass produce. It is simple, but not tooooo simple where it is boring.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serene Spring, Polka Dot
Paper: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Watercolour Paper
Ink: Earth Elements and Soft Subtles Classic Ink, Brown Stazon, VersaMark
Accessories: Moss Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals, Aquapen, Aged Copper Spiral Clip (retired)

4.25 x 5.5 card

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