My Dear Kind & Wonderful Friend

This is a quick and easy but very elegant card, if I do say so myself...lol. Yep that's me patting my back...I truly love this sentiment "My dear kind & wonderful friend" I think it's because that's exactly how I feel about the ones I love. I feel truly blessed and fortunate to have such wonderful women in my life, with the kindest of hearts, that I am truly proud to call my friends. I wish they had this stamp but with the word Mother replacing Friend. Although I am lucky that my mom is both my friend and my mother.

So this card is made with Basic Grey and Soft Sky card stock. I am really going to miss Soft Sky when it retires in August with the rest of the In Colour family. I don't know how Stampin Up! is going to top themselves this year! The background is stamped in Encore Silver ink, with the Baroque Motifs (pg. 120 item#109403) and the sentiment (All Holidays pg. 146 item #109397) is embossed in silver embossing powder. Sheer ribbon is added for that elegant touch and voila! Quick and easy and oh so beautiful!

Happpy Father's Day!

Manly cards are more challenging than making something pretty and full of flowers and butterflies and all things feminine. Or is it just me? Maybe it's the fact that most of my stamps center on a more feminine theme....that definately doesn't help things :) On the up side that means I get to buy another stamp set...oh no! lol!

Well I figured the best place to start was with a manly colour scheme. I did the same card in two different colour ways....can you guess which one I did first? The top left card is made on basic grey, blue bayou and whisper white card stock. I used the encore silver ink pad to apply the ink all over the dotted stamp, and used the brayer to apply even pressure on the back of the inked stamp. The happy father's day stamp is from the All Holidays stamp set. This has turned into one of the most versatile sets there are! Seriously! Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Christmas, My Dear Kind and Wonderful Friend, and many more! The Happy Father's Day stamp is embossed in silver on this card and gold on the next card.
This next card uses Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Blue Bayou card stock. The background is stamped with Chocolate Chip Classic ink pad and accented with Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon. This card is so verstatile, if you change up the sentiment on the front it can be for almost any occassion. In fact some of the stampers at the Bradford Club used the Birthdays are the Best stamp on the front of the card. I should have took a picture because it turned out really good! Why is it that hind sight is 20/20 and foresight not so much? lol!

Double Stampin

Another day another card! Spring is in the air and it's raining! Yeah no snow! Finally! LOL! I've been playing with some different colour combinations and some fun techniques. This card uses Yoyo Yellow, Real Red and Whisper White CS. To start off with the base of the card is on whisper white card stock. I used the corner rounder to scallop the bottom edge of the yoyo yellow cs. I stamped the dots from the polka dots and paisley stamp set in whisper white craft ink. I used real red to double stamp this elegant flower from the heartfelt thanks set, stamped so saffron in the center of the flower and cut it out....I'm into a real cutting frienzy lately...Look out! Red twill ribbon was added across the top of the yellow to complete the front. Now for the inside.....I cut out a piece of yoyo yellow cs and scalloped the top and bottom edges. I added some slices in the center of the card to allow for the pop up sentiment. The sentiment is one of my favourites from the all holidays set, and was stamped in real red and mounted on coordinating cs. Just to show you how versatile this stamp set can be I've included another card, a little more subdued and just as easy. For this card I cut the paper 4 1/4" by 10 1/2" so that it would still fit in a standard card envelope. I folded the card off center so the front is a little shorter than the back of the card. For the center image I double stamped the flower using mellow moss as the solid stamp and old artichoke as the outline. To get the variations in colour some of the flowers were stamped two or three times before reinking. I added some eyelettes and threaded some ribbon through them. I matted the front image on old artichoke cs and added a strip of cs behind the scallops to accentuate them. The result is a very soft card that can be used for almost any occassion: birthday, thank you, thinking of you, get well, etc. I hope you enjoy my blog and keep stamping!

Easter Cards

Well it's a little late to offer much inspiration..but hey I can't be the only one leaving my Easter creations to the last minute...can I? LOL. This card is made from some glitter paper I received for Christmas....thank you Santa ;-) I thought the colours worked perfectly for Easter! The adorable chick on the top of the card is a QuicKutz(QK) die (if you've never heard of QuicKutz just ask me....but be warned I love QK and will talk until your ears fall off). I used an Easter Wishes sentiment from the All Holidays set in Perfect Plum. I punched the sentiment out with the tag punch and hung it from the ribbon. This next card uses the same glitter paper as the chick card but I scalloped the edge with the corner rounder punch. The corner rounder is a must have tool for 3 reasons: first it rounds corners which is a nice accent for scrapbooking and card making, secondly if you remove the guide you can use it to scallop corners and third it's inexpensive. Double duty tool at an affordable price...need I say more? LOL. I stamped the elephant in Tempting Turquoise, the bird in So Saffron and the Flower in Pink Passion. The animals are from the Wild About You stamp set and believe me I am Wild about this set! I cut the animals out and pop dotted them up, although you probably can't see it very well on this card. I'm actually going to use this card as an Easter card but it would also make a very cute baby card. Double duty!