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Masculine Birthday Card - Stamping on Ribbon

The other day I went looking thru my box where I keep my cards on hand ready to ship out at a moments notice and I saw that although I have a good 15 birthday cards in there, not one of them was very masculine.  I guess that comes from having a family full of females!  So here is my attempt at doing a more masculine card with all the feminine stamps I have in my stash.

I used Versamark to create a watermark with my Baroque Motifs set on the basic gray cardstock, then I stamped the sentiment with my CTMH sentiments set right on the ribbon.  Finished it off my stampin and cutting the medallion flower from my  Stampin Up True Friend stamp set and then using pop dots to add a bit of dimension.

And as a bonus to myself I made this additional card which of course is more feminine.

Enjoy!

  

Playing with Scraps - Wishing you well

Today I didn't have school so I went to my scrappin space to clean and organize, but the best laid plans and all that...  Well I put together a large pile of scraps and ended up sitting down and playing with my stamps.  I hope you enjoy these cards. 

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Unfortunately I have no idea what the name of the DSP is since I got it from the scrap pile but I do know that it is SU.  The Cardstock is Soft Sky, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip.  The ribbons are Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla and the ink is Chocolate Chip.

Enjoy!

  

Dim Sum Valentines Layout using Stampin Up Kanji and Asian Art

Well we are having a one of the first real storms of the winter here in Central Mass.  We had a couple of minor storms earlier in the season but this one is bringing lots of wet snow and winds.  Poor Coco doesn't even want to go out to do his business.  School got cancelled so I had the morning to take a pic of a layout I did this past weekend at ScrapQueen's crop.

On Valentines Day this year DD and I went to Chinatown to have Dim Sum and walk around.  In all my years of living in this state, I have never gone to Chinatown.  Funny how we don't take advantage of the things and places that are so close to us.  Chinatown is an amazing place.  You hear very little English and the gardens and some of the architecture are very asian inspired.  It was like a mini vacation!  We started our day by visiting a bakery where we had no idea what it was that we were ordering.  We got a two yolk lotus cake.  It was pretty that was all we knew.  Come to find out it tasted amazing!  It had two hard boiled duck egg yolks waiting inside its lotus seed paste filling.  If you ever get a chance get one.  It may sound strange but it is fantastic in taste.  After tasting the cake we headed to a restaurant where we heard they had great Dim Sum.  Too bad the restaurant had a 2 hour waiting list and you had to wait on the street.  I grabbed DD by the hand and said follow me.  I had heard of another Dim Sum restaurant that was also good but that not many visitors went to due to its off the main street location as well as its run down looks.  We hit the jackpot for sure!  Most of the patrons when we went were Chinatown residents and there was little English spoken.  We just pointed at what looked good half the time not knowing what we were eating.  Everyone should go and do Dim Sum at some point in their life because its really alot of fun.  Cart upon cart of wonderous foods passes by you and you are served a small portion of whatever you want.  Think of it as a tasting menu.  Our entire brunch came to $23.  Can't beat that!  I pay that for two of us to have breakfast at Denny's with not as good food.  We ended our time in Chinatown doing some grocery shopping and Chinese Lantern shopping.  This was probably the best Valentines Day I ever celebrated.

Enjoy!

  

Two Cards One Layout with Upsy Daisy and Technique Tuesday

I had major stampers block the other night.  I wanted to make some cards with patterned paper.  I brought out my binder with old layouts from Sheetloads of Cards.  I used the October 2007 layout and then changed it up a little bit.

For this first card I used Kiwi Kiss and Gray cardstock, SU DSP, Kiwi Kiss ink, Ribbon was from Michaels and the butterfly stamp was from TT and the sentiment is from CTMH.  I added some Diamond Stickles to the gray DSP to match the bling on the ribbon.

For this second card I used Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, River Rock and Chocolate Chip cardstock, SU DSP, some ribbon I found at Michaels and some little pearl beads I found in my scraproom.  For ink I used SU Chocolate Chip and Soft Sky and the sentiment is from CTMH.  I don't know if you will be able to see it in the pic but I distressed the edge of the vanilla circle with more of the Soft Sky ink.

I ended up really enjoying these two cards and I hope you do too.

Enjoy!

  

Pocket Silouettes Cards

I was remounting my Stampin Up Pocket Silouettes stamps to go from wood to cling when I noticed I had never made a card with this set.  So I pulled out my paper and started stamping away and playing.  So here are the two cards I did this evening.

  This first card I made for my friend Jessie.  You see yesterday I had to rush my DD to the hospital with heart palpatations and tachycardia.  Unfortunatley in the hoopla of getting out of the house, I forgot to let the dog out and feed him.  Needless to say we left in the early afternoon so by 7pm I'm sure he was ready to burst.  I called my friend Jess and even though she lives 40 minutes away she came to the house and took care of the dog for me.  I am so thankful she did because we didn't get home till midnight.

This next card is my oops card. I was almost done this cardfront when I noticed I had made the cardfront too large.  So I cut the bottom of the cardfront off but unfortunately half of the sentiment went with it.  So I did what any good scrapper or stamper would do and turned my oops into something new and different from what was originally intended and like often happens I like the oops better than the original version I had planned. 

Recipe:  Basic Gray and Whisper White Cardstock, SU DSP, SU Pocket Silouettes, Technique Tuesday sentiment, Michaels Gray Satin  Ribbon (.92/yd and a perfect match!), SU Kiwi Kiss Ink, CTMH Gray Flannel Ink

Enjoy!

  

Valentines Day Card

After a couple of posts of Cricut cards I thought I should change things up and bring out my stamps.  This weekend I finally cleaned and organized my scrap area for the first time since I moved into the new place.  I gotta admit I really miss my old scrap studio in the old house but thats about all I miss about that house.  From what I heard the old house flooded again so my studio would have been under over a foot of water so glad I moved out when I did.

Its funny how when you clean out your scrap area you find things and stamps you forgot you had.  I didn't even realize I had the stamp sets I had!  I was actually looking at a stamp set last week that I already had.  Ugh.  Tools, glitter, brads all things I had forgotten I had.  I found 15 page kits that I had forgotten about too.  LOL  One of these days I will be able to get so caught up that I will actually have to go to a scrap store before I do a page.

So with Valentines day coming up I thought I would make a Valentine's day card.  I love the color combo Black Red and White so I used that as my inspiration. 

The center stamp is from Great Impressions which I got last year at a workshop I took at Ink About It. The PP is some scrap I had laying around in my scrap pile.  The CS is Red Riding Hood.  I used Martha Stewart glitter and some Diamond Stickles. The Hugs & Kisses stamp is from SU All Holidays set.

Hope you enjoy!

  

Sold..........

Hello my friends - Well I accepted an offer on Sunday night.  My home was on the market for one week.  I'm really excited about it, but I was really thinking it would take a minimum of 6 months so it caught me completely off guard.  On top of that the buyer wants a quick close, so I need to be out of here by April 6.  Yikes!  I don't know how I am going to do that.  As of right now I have no housing prospects for a home and haven't found anyplace that would be willing to do a short term rental.  Worst case senario I can go back to camp early but there won't be any water till May 1!  I was originally planning for an out of state move but some family problems have put that on the back burner for a bit. 

Another bit of great news...I got my latest shipment in from SU.  I got the Thoughts and Prayers set this time around.  I just love that tree.  Since I have to keep the house showroom nice, I am not bringing out alot of items to make cards.  Keeping to the clean and simple cards.  Here is the one I created tonight.  

Recipe is all SU

• Whisper White and Almost Navy CS
• DSP for background and butterfly  Parisian Breeze
• Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon
• Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

So now that you have seen what I created with my new set I wanted to show you how I am storing my set.  I unmounted my rubber from the foam and remounted it to EZ mount.  Then I took the SU clam shell and cut it to hold my stamps.  I used 6x6 clip it up storage envelopes to store the set.  The storage envelopes allow me to hold more stamps in less space, plus since they are all the same size, it makes them great to stack.  Here are some pics for you.

       

Well I don't know how soon I will be able to do another post so until then I hope you have a wonderful spring! Enjoy!

Free Spirit

Sorry I have been gone so long.  I was redecorating and spring cleaning for the open house I had this past weekend.  My house went on the market last Thursday.  Open house went fairly well and all comments were good so I am happy.  So if you know of a scrapper or stamper in the Central Mass area looking for a cool townhouse that's already set up with a very large scrap and stamp studio send em my way.

Now that the open house is over I have finally been able to get back into my studio.  Look at the card I made tonight.  I really like how it came out.  I got the inspiration from a card I saw somewhere online about a month ago.  I'm sorry I cant give credit since I look at so many cards on a regular basis.

  

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For this card I used my CTMH Free Spirit Stamp set.  First I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock that I got from work (which is almost as nice as Gina K's ultra smooth - but its free!  LOL), then I cut the sentiment out with my CM circle cutters.  I stamped and distressed with a dauber and CTMH Coco Ink.  Then I stamped two birds and cut them out.  I adhered the birds to a digital paper from Shabby Princess from the Sun Porch line. (I cropped and adjusted the paper and then printed it out on the white cardstock).  I popped up the circle frame with the high pop dots and popped one of the birds with a shorter pop dot.  The card base is SU's soft sky which seems to match perfectly with the patterned paper.  The last thing I did was add a bit of SU's River Rock ribbon.

I hope you enjoy this card!

Are you ready for some Valentines?

Have you done up all your Valentines cards yet?  I'm doing really well this year and all my valentines and valentines gifts are out already.  Yippee.  I'm usually at least a week behind so I'm enjoying this moment.

Here is a card I recently did for Valentines (click on image to enlarge it)   .  I used an image by Penny Black that was sent to me by my Stampin Sistah Siberian Stamper up in the great white north.  I loved this image so much that I found it online and bought it with the money I made selling all my extra stamp sets on ebay.

I used my prismas, stampin write markers to color the image.  The PP is from Stampin Up Berry Bliss, and the cardstock is SU Real Red.  The sentiment is from a Stampin up panel stamp that I cut apart to make various sentiments eons ago.  I mounted the stamps on dominoes way back when.  I found the dominoes are not sturdy enough with the way I mounted them for my liking so I am unmounting them all onto EZ mount.  The Heart stamp I used is from the very bottom of my stamping drawer.  I have no idea who makes it.  I got it at Mikes in the $1 bin.

This next card is one I did at a Great Impressions class at Ink About it in Westford, MA  I just love this card.  The image of the peacock is another one I am adding to my wish list.  The heart flourish I got as part of the class fee since it was the stamp of the month.  I stamped the images with a black Memories ink and then colored in with copics, then I added glitter to some areas to give it some pop.    I'll have to make this card again soon.  I just love it.

Sorry about the scanning.  I'm still working with my camera to get it working again.  Hopefully in the next week.  Enjoy!

Friends Forever

I got this image from the bunch that my friend Siberian Stamper up in Vermont sent me.  This is a Penny Black stamp called Tea Cozy.  Isn't it so sweet?  This was so much fun to color and then I stickled the teacup to give it a little bling and glitz.  I used my scallop nestie to frame the image.

I have a friend in Mississippi that I have known for almost 20 years now.  We have been thru so much together.  So I am going to be sending her this card to let her know that no matter how many miles separate us, we'll be friends forever.

 

Sorry I have been having to scan my pics, my camera seems to be acting like a man lately.  Maybe I just need some new batteries, haven't checked that out yet, actually just thought about it. LOL

Enjoy!