Patterned Pines in red

Here's a quick and easy Christmas card. I LOVE the Patterned Pines hostess set! I stamped the images in Real Red onto Whisper White, then trimmed each tree out - leaving a tiny white border. Then they were put on Real Red card stock and I trimmed around them, leaving a small red border. Punch the corners of the Whisper White card stock, attach the trees, tie the ribbon and adhere to card base. Just like that, the card is done!

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit. I have a few more Christmas/holiday cards to post in the next couple weeks, so make sure to stop back again.

Here's another Christmas card that I made "just for fun". I absolutely LOVE this Dasher stamp. It is so elegant in its simplicity and is easy to create cards with. All stamped images and paper are Stampin' Up! The paper is from the Merry Moments paper pack and the sentiment is in the From the Heart set. Ink and scallop are Soft Suede.

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Playing with Stampin' Up! ornament punch

I love punches!! and enjoy finding new ways to use them. I made this card using the ornament punch in the Stampin' Up! holiday mini catalog. After punching the ornaments out of Old Olive, I used a scissor to cut U shaped pieces out of the ornament to create the leaves. The berries were made from Real Red with a 1/2 inch circle punch. Holly is attached to the SU top note die made with the Big Shot. Sentiment is from the SU holiday mini catalog set Four the Holidays.

New Blog Banner!!

I am really enjoying learning how to use My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up! I have created a photo book of my son's graduation photo proofs and did it ever turn out WONDERFUL!! I submitted it to the Stampin' Up! website and the book I received in the mail was top quality! Everyone who has seen it has also been impressed. Tonight I created a new banner for my blog using My Digital Studio. Creating the banner design was so simple and fun. This new program really is a great tool to use in papercrafting. I won't ever be totally converted to digital. I would miss the feel of the paper texture and the enjoyment of the actual physical creating. However, after using this program, I do see where digital has a place in the papercraft world. My next digital creation is going to be a card sketch that I can use in one of my workshops. I'm looking forward to manipulating all the elements without actually wasting any paper in the process. I'll let you know how that goes as well.

Christmas Card Workshop

Here are the cards we will be creating at my November Card Workshop. I sure had lots of fun coming up with the ideas and hope those who attend enjoy making them. Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Cards from scraps!

Greetings - here are two cards that I shared as examples at my classes last week. As I was preparing papers for my workshop/class I had scraps of SU Fall Designer Paper left. As you may recall, it is tough for me to throw out those small scraps so I came up with a use for them. In this case I used them for a mosaic look, cut out the top note shape and used both the cut out and the frame for my two cards. The materials used are all Stampin' Up! The ink and cardstock color is Always Artichoke and the scrap DSP is from the Autumn Designer Paper pack. The stamp set used for the images was Autumn Days. The sentiment came from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set. Thanks for stopping by to visit!

Thanks!

I'm excited to be hosting my first Stampin' Up! class/workshop this Tuesday. I have five gals coming on Tuesday and two more on Friday. In honor of my first workshop on Tuesday, I am giving one lucky attendee the Elegant Thanks stamp from Stampin' Up! along with these two cards.


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Christmas cards

Greetings - I've been busy making Christmas card samples, trying to decide what cards to offer for my November card-making get together. These two cards didn't make the cut. It's very interesting to me how creativity works. These were two of the cards I was SURE I was going to have participants make (already had it all figured out in my mind) and I am finding that I like some of the other cards (the ones I didn't have planned out) more than these two. I guess sometimes we just need to jump in, get started to get the creative juices flowing and not start with preconceived ideas. Blessings to you!

It's been awhile...

...since I have been on my blog. The past several weeks have been hectic. School started for all of us and that makes our life busier with school activities and other commitments. We're starting to establish "school year routine" again, so that's good.

I have now become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and have been working to get going with that as well. I'm very excited about this new venture in my life and look forward to see where the path leads. I will hold my first card making workshop in about two weeks, so have been working on my samples. Here are the cards we will be making

I'm absolutely in love with the Autumn Days stamp set. Three of these cards are made with stamps from that set. It is a very versatile set and a great one for making masculine cards (of which I need many of). However, with just a change of ink and card stock color, the images can be geared towards a more feminine look as well, as seen in the Razzleberry thank you card.

Thanks for stopping by to visit. Blessings to you!!

Butterflies and flowers

It has been awhile since I have had time to play with challenges, but have a completed card for today. This card is for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and Pile It On. The Secret Crafters challenged us to use anything with wings on it (my butterflies). Pile it on challenged us to add lots of dots (circle) - the general shape of my flowers and center of my butterflies.

I used SU cardstock, Barely Banana and Night of Navy. Flowers are SU Eastern Blooms, stamped with Night of Navy ink, then cut out and attached to Night Of Navy card stock strip trimmed with deckle scissors. Butterflies were punched from an old SU punch. I rubbed my Night of Navy ink pad on the Barely Banana paper, then punched out the butterflies. I folded the wings forward and attached just the center of the butterfly body to the card. I added "sparkle" with 3 clear rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by to visit. Sorry the posts have been so few, but life has been super busy in our household. Tomorrow my husband and I both go back to work - this week is teacher workshop. In another week, the students (including my son who will be a high school senior this year) return for another year of learning. Blessings to you.