Graduation Cards

I had the need for several Graduation cards this year and just remembered that I had not ever posted them her.  I used the Blue Ribbon stamp set, another one that I've had forever but hadn't ever used.  It was silly to not have used it because it's a GREAT set.  It covers birthdays, promotions, congratulations, accomplishments of all kinds!

These turned out pretty cute and I was also able to use some of the new designer papers on one of them.  Please take a look and give me your thoughts in the comments below.  I list the card ingredients below along with item numbers for easy ordering.

Card Ingredients:
Stamp Sets - Blue Ribbon (125981C) Teeny Tiny Wishes (128748W, 127802C)
Paper - Bravo Burgundy (retired) Old Olive (100702), Not Quite Navy (retired), Whisper White (100730), Melon Mambo (115320), Pacific Point (111350)
Ink - Pacific Point (126951), Melon Mambo (126948)
Accessories - 1-3/4 Scallop (119854), 1-3/8 Circle (119860), 1-1/4 Circle (119861), Modern Label (119849), Word Window (119857), Old Olive Ribbon (retired Holiday Mini), 2-3/8 Scallop Circle (118874), Quatrefancy Specialty DSP (130141), World Bazaar DSP (retired), Gingham Garden (129310)

SSC52 Birthday Morning Meadow

This card was inspired by the sketch over at Sunday Stamps Challenge. I chose to work with some of the 2013-2015 In Colors, which by the way are beautiful.  So happy they will be around a couple of years.  I also decided to ink up one of the new Hostess sets for this year called Morning Meadow.

Banners seem to be all the rage this year and so the Hexagon punch arrived just in time so that the banner tails are so easy to make using it.  Just slide that banner strip into your hexagon line up the strip on the first edge and punch, perfect banner tails every time.   Super simple design, quick to make but oh so pretty!
As always thank you for stopping by, your comments are so appreciated.  Card Ingredients posted below along with product item number for EASY ORDERING.  See you next time.

Card Ingredients:

Stamp Set – Morning Meadows (129678)
Paper -  Pistachio Pudding (131294), Whisper White (100730),
Ink – Pistachio Pudding (131177), Baked Brown Sugar (131174), Crisp Cantaloupe (131176)
Accessories – Designer Series Paper Stack 2013-2015 (130136),  Framed Tulip Emboss Folder (121809), Chalk Talk Frames (129983), Dimensionals (104430), Silver Brads (retired)

One last picture of my crafting helper tonight, this is Baby Girl and there seems to be a consistent theme with my helpers, I work, they sleep!
Have a wonderful day!!!

Birthday Banner Explosion!

Here is another new set that will be in the 2013-2014 catalog called Banner Greetings.  It’s a fun sentiment set with lots of great greetings to chose.   For some reason when I looked at the little banner I just kept thinking of an out going explosion hence this silly card!

I used one of the new In Color choices, Cantaloupe Crisp.  Layered it on Soft Suede that looks very pretty with it and fussy cut a very narrow edge around the banner.  It was very easy to do because of the simple straight edges.

Very simple and easy to complete!  Just my kind of card.

Ingredients  -  Stamp set:  Banner Greetings,  Paper & Ink Colors:  Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla  Accessories:  Dimensionals, Paper Snips

Label Love Thank You

There was a HUGE city wide Rescue event here in Oklahoma City called Rub-a-Dub Race for Rescues.  They had a 5k walk, pup wash, dog agility demonstrations (fly ball it was very good!!!), vendor booths and lot of animal rescue groups with many wonderful dogs hoping to find their new homes!  I took Declan out there to meet a family interested in him, they had been following his progress throughout his treatment as he healed from the terrible condition he was in whenever Forever Yours Dog Rescue took him in.   And here' s the REALLY exciting news they took him home with them for weekend to see if they might be a good fit for each other.  Please wish him luck, the Mom of the family Angela is a VERY nice lady!!  Here’s Dec asking if he is new family had been found???Doesn’t he look hopeful here??

After the fun of the day I was able to make it to the craft room and work on cards!  Always fun.  I wanted to use the Label Love set and some more of the Gingham Garden DSP (which is so pretty!)  And I also needed a Thank You card to send out so this is what I came up with.

I was really happy with the way it turned out.  It didn’t start that way it was one of those that the way I was seeing in my head and the way it was turning out were NOT the same thing.  But after tinkering with it a bit I was pretty happy with it

Here’s a quick recap of the ingredients:

Stamps:  Label Love, Mosaic Madness, Kindness Matters   Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy   Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Very Vanilla   Accessories:  Gingham Garden DSP, Night of Navy Grosgrain Stitched, Artisan Label and 1” Circle punches.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, see you next time.

Diane

Royal Blog Tour

Well the Tour is over but the projects remain! I'll be posting the sizes and all on these projects by Thursay! And I'll be back just a little later today with the winner of the blog candy. See you soon!

We've been months in the planning of this Tour and the day is finally here. What fun it has been to perouse the new catalog dreaming of the samples to be made with the new sets and picking out what each of us would use to tempt you! So with out further fanfare I'm happy to present to you my samples for the Tour.

When my eyes fell upon Pendant Park on that very first pass through the new Catty back in June, I knew this was a set I must have! So please take the next few minutes to see what I have come up with for you using this most BEAUTIFUL set. I know your journey for the next 3 days consists of lots of stops so I'm not going to slow you down by listing all the products used in these cards. But never fear, just bookmark my blog or better yet subscribe to my blog and as soon as the Tour is over I will post all the details of each of these cards all the way down to the dimensions of each layer! That way if you need this set us much as I did you can order and make these cards for yourself.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I know I must let you go know as you have many other stops on this royal journey that you have embarked upon. But please don't be a stranger return often, the Puppies and I would LOVE to see you again.

Nature's Nest Birthday Greeting

Happy Thursday to Everyone! I've got a very speedy post for you guys today. So much to do and so little time. I know you guys understand!

I needed to make a birthday card for my boss, we were having his birthday lunch today and I had this new set and had been dying to use it. I could just picture these bright blue eggs in my mind! I was super please with how they turned out but the nest needs more work. Next time will be better. Here is what I used.

Card Details:

• Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Brilliant Blue
• Stamps - Natures Nest (113826)
• Ink - Black Stazon, Marvelous Markers in Brilliant Blue, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel
• Accessories - Eyelet Punch, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain, Dimensionals and Perfect Layer Tool, Watercolor paper

Well, like I said speedy! Remember the Royal Blog Tour starts bright and early on Monday morning with lots of WONDERFUL ideas and a few blog candy's too! I will be offering a $25.00 Stampin' Up gift certificate so put it on your calendar so you don't forget! You check out all the details here www.royalblogtour.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for stopping by and see you hopefully with one more post before the tour!

D is DEFINITELY for Dog

Happy Sunday and I have another new set for you today! I love sketch challenges but have been so swamped it's been way over a month since I got to do one. So I did double duty today, actually triple duty, I've got a new stamp set plus I did two sketch challenges.

Well I'm a dog person, I love dogs, better than most people! LOL So every stamp set that Stampin' Up comes out with about dogs I MUST own! This one is really cute and I think people are going to like it. It's called D is for Dog, isn't that cute?

The first sketch challenge was Mary Jo Price-Williams over at Technostamper. She has a new sketch each Monday so I'm just squeaking in at the last minute for this one. Here is challenge and it worked quite well for this stamp set. I used the new IC's Melon Mambo and Soft Suede, first time using Melon Mambo, it's a REALLY pretty color. Thanks Mary Jo for a great sketch!

Then the second card is done using the same set and was for the Stamping 411 blog. They offer a sketch challenge each Saturday but this is the first one I've had time to play along with. What a fun sketch (411-SC108)this one was. As they said in their write up about the sketch it will be one you can go back to time and time again for a quick and cute card! Thanks Ladies!

I used the D is for Dog set and paired it with the Soft Suede (this is a real must have color) and the Melon Mambo. Used lots of circle punches to showcase the little paw print and bone and then the Very Vanilla for the background, which really made the Soft Suede and Melon Mambo ink and paper POP. I was super pleased with this card too. I'm thinking that I will make a few of these for my Vet's office to use. It went together so quick! Love that!

Well that's it for this Sunday. Thanks so much for stopping by and just a quick reminder that a week from Monday is when the next Royal Blog Tour gets started, three days of NEW CATALOG projects and lots of blog candy! Please be sure to visit the Royal Blog Tour site to learn all about the tour. Until next time.....SEE YA!

Farm Life Goodness

More new goodies! Today we have a couple of cards made with the new set Farm Life (#114411). Here is a secret about me, if I could have my dream place to live, anywhere in the world it would be on a place like this at the foot of a mountain!! LOL Not a working farm per se with livestock for profit, they would all be companions just like my dogs! Oh and by the way I would have a LOT more dogs :) Needless to say this is a DREAM as you would have to be MEGA RICH to do that and I'm not even slightly rich. Like I said this is a dream!

Okay back to reality............both of these cards are water colored using chalks and a few marvelous markers on watercolor paper. Very simple technique that ANYONE can do, if I can anyone can! Give it a try if you liked to color as a child you'll love this technique now.


Card Details:
Card #1

• Farm Life (114411)
• Card Stock - Bravo Burgundy, Brilliant Blue, Garden Green, Certainly Celery
• Ink - Black Stazon, Garden Green
• Accessories - Chalks, Aqua Painter, Certainly Celery 3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Perfect Layer Tool, Dimensionals, Versa Mark

Card #2

• Farm Life (#114411) - Sentiment from Razzle Dazzle
• Card Stock - Soft Suede, Brilliant Blue, Garden Green
• Ink - Black Stazon, Soft Suede
• Accessories - NEW Modern Label Punch (#116630), Soft Suede Grosgrain Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Perfect Layer Tool, Dimensonials, Marvelous Markers

Well that wraps up this post, thank you for stopping by and remember to check the Stampin' Up deal of the week in the right sidebar, it's the Big Shot bag at a HUGE discount and don't forget about the new Demo special starting on August 15th, you can check out the post with all the details on clicking HERE!

New Goodies!! Medallion BG Stamp

Hi Everyone! Let me start first by apologizing for being away so long. I've had some great workshops that have kept me very busy and we have really been gearing up for the next Royal Blog Tour on July 27th, 28th and 29th. You will want to mark this on your calendar, there will be 4 tours of 20 blogs in each tour and it will primarily be NEW PRODUCT showcased from the new Stampin' Up catalog. I can't give away any secrets but there will be some exciting surprises in store for our ROYAL travelers! You will want to check out this blog for all the details -http://www.royalblogtour.blogspot.com/ and for some very fun interviews with some of the stampers whose blogs you will be visiting during the tour, including our featured Stampers who are really quite famous out there in our little stamping world! :)

Now on to the cards I made for you using some of my NEW stuff!!! YEAH! These are all made using the NEW In Color's for 2009/2010 and the FABULOUS new background stamp called Medallion. This stamp is simply beautiful and a must have I think for your stamp collection. Look how simple these cards are just focusing on that stamp. No kidding this 4 cards took a total of 45 minutes to make and I didn't have a clue what I was going to do when I set down to work. So that time includes design. You really are going to want to get this stamp for your own!

There are no special techniques or anything on these cards so I'll just give you the products used and I think you won't have any trouble figuring out what I did. If you do though don't hesitate to ask!

Card Ingredients:

• Stamp Set: Medallion #115223 and Thoughts & Prayers #113252
• Card Stock: Crushed Curry, Soft Suede
• Classic Ink: Crushed Curry, Soft Suede
• Accessories: Brads (regular & rhinestone), Wide Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Crop-a-dile, In Color Markers, Crushed Curry & Soft Suede Grosgrain Ribbon, Paper Piercing Tool and Crushed Curry DSP

Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy the new products, I'll be featuring something new for each post for awhile, saving one set to show you during the Blog Tour.

Be sure to check out the link above to find out about the Tour!

Also, SU has the WONDERFUL new Demo special starting on July 15th, I have all the details in the post below, be sure to check that out and if you have EVER considered giving SU a try this is certainly the time to do it. So let me know if I can help!

See you soon!

LNS Challenge #21 - Beautiful Summer

Well my long weekend is almost over and I am VERY sad :-( You would think I don't like my job when actually I love it I just like being at home better :-)

The Stampin' Up group that I am a part of called LateNightStampers (I told you about it in the previous post) offers a challenge each Monday, this week it was to make a Summer themed card. Here is my take on the challenge hope you enjoy. This card was a lot of work! All that cutting, I don't do that too much but I had this imagine in my mind and thought it would be worth the effort this time. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out be sure to leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

The card has several layers of dimension so I tried to give you a side shot of the project so you could see what I had done if you want to make this card yourself, the Butterfly's are stamped tone on tone with their orresponding color then stamped again on Whisper White in the same color ink, both are cut out and put together with a glue dot then popped up with a dimensional from the bottom. If you have any questions be sure to let me know. Here are the details:

• Finished Card - 5-1/4 X 5-1/4
• Stamp Set - Dreams du Jour (#111624 - $16.95)
• Ink - Tempting Turquoise, Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, Summer Sun Classic Ink Pads
• Paper - Summer Sun Textured, Tempting Turquoise, Cameo Coral, Ruby Red and Pink Flamingo DSP (#113976)
• Accessories - Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Perfect Layer Tool

I appreciate very much you stopping by today on your Holiday! And as I sign off I want to Thank ALL the Military people and their families for the sacrifice you all make to keep us safe here at home with all the freedoms we enjoy each and everyday! You are ALL the BEST!

LNS Challenge #20 - Color Challenge

Two posts in one day! When it rains it pours!

Seriously though I've had time to stamp this wonderful long Holiday weekend and I've loved it.

This one will be short and sweet, I wanted to take part in the LNS weekly challenge this week, it was a color challenge and I really love color and sketch challenges. The week before the RAK Team for the same group had a sketch challenge and I didn't have time to use it then so I incorporated it into this weeks color challenge too. This is a great group and if you are looking for a group that will offer you HUGE amounts of stamping inspiration in a very POSITIVE environment this is the group for you. Check it out if you get the change HERE is a link to the site, tell them Diane sent you if you decide to sign up :) Okay enough rambling, here is the card details:

• Card - 5-1/2 X 4-1/4
• Stamp Set - Dreams du Jour & Soft Summer (Mini)
• Paper - Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Ruby Red, Old Olive and Bella Rose
• Ink - Ruby Red, Old Olive
• Accessories - Wide Oval punch, Designer Label punch, Large Oval punch, EE Brads, Dimensionals

I really appreciate you stopping by, twice in one day! You guys are great.

Man's Best Friend - No Truer Words Spoken

I finally ordered the Man's Best Friend set that was new to the catalog in January of this year. I thought it was awfully cute and have been eager to expose it to ink! The layout for this card was inspired by a sketch challenge that the talented Mary Jo Price at Technostamper had on her blog more than a few weeks back. Check out her blog if you get a chance, like I said she is VERY talented.

For those who know anything about me you know that I LOVE dogs, so this was a set that I knew at some point I would have to own and that I would be able to use it a lot as a card from me with dogs on it would be, how shall I say.......giving a part of me. Now for the details:

• Card 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 Top Fold
• Stamp Set - Man's Best Friend #1132365
• Paper - Barely Banana, Real Red and Black
• Ink - Basic Black, Real Red, Barely Banana and Candy Lane DSP
• Accessories - Circle punches, Perfect Layer Tool, Riding Hood Red Satin Ribbon, Tab Punch, Large Oval

Thanks so much for stopping by, check back again. I've got several more really cute cards made with this set that I'm eager to share with you.

Three Words Bright Summer Fun!

WOW the Blog Tour was so much fun and I'm actually only just now recovering from the excitement of it all, what a ride and it was due to your support! So again I just want to extend a great big thank you to you all.

For today I wanted to bring you a card I made using my new stamp set Three Little Words. When the new catalog came out this set caught my eye right away! I just liked the sayings and the images were simple but so pretty. I was also in the mood for something by of funky and bright, hence the card you are now viewing! lol The other set I used was the True Friends set which I've showcased before, I really like that set too.

This turned out to be a FUN card, it just kind of makes you feel happy :-) The colors are very cheerful! Just one more thing I wanted to point out about this card that might not show up so great on the picture was that I just one of the True Friends stamps in Versa Mark for a tone on tone background, I love that look.

Card Details:

• Card Base - 5-1/2 x 4-1/4, top fold on the 4-1/4" end
• Stamp Sets - Three Little Words #113254 and True Friend #110378
• Paper - Summer Sun, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Pacific Point and Whisper White
• Ink - Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Summer Sun and Riding Hood Red
• Accessories - Crafter's Tool Kit, Brads, Versa Mark
  
  

Well I really appreciate you stopping by today. I'll see you again in the next couple of days! Until then here's to hoping all is wonderful in your world!