Gorguss Girl for Emily

Here is a card I made to send to my Emily away at school.  I love Susan Wodcott's Gorguss Girls as anyone who reads here knows-my diverging from a SU stamp is an unusual occurrence.  I used some of the new "in colors" and the Razzle Dazzle stamp set.  The flowers are Hero Arts-I colored with Copics-I was experimenting with matching up copics to the SU colors-challenging!

DD Challenge-Gatefold Card

The latest Challenge for the DD group was to make a gate fold card-Well here it is! Inside and out side-The images are Sugar Nellies colored with copics.  The Paper and button and Die are all Stampin' Up!  

I finally got my All in on printer working!  Thanks to 5 hours of tech support from Epson and Apple yesterday!  What a Day started with a needle in my mouth (had a tooth filled) ended with tech support-you don't even want to hear what else I had to endure just suffice it to say-it weren't pretty!  Oh I made this card Sunday night so it was spared my ugly day!

Razzelberry lemonade-AGAIN

Okay-here is one more card using Razzelberry Lemonade DSP-are you sick of it yet?  This one does look different-there is no Razzelberry  I used papers that only show Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry.  I stamped the Razzle Dazzle stamp set on the textured card stock-I love that the in colors are available in 8.5 x 11 texture card stock!

Challenge Yellow and Purple card

I'm finally posting the challenge from a few weeks ago it was to make a card with a neutral base and purple and yellow of any shade.  All products are again the sneak peek for SU!  The Top note is DSP the Very Vanilla layer is stamped and sponged the Rich Razzelberry and Crushed Curry work just fine for purple and yellow.  

ATC

So one of the SS challenges was to make an ATC-I never made one before-so her is my first try!  I used all Stampin' Up! Sneak Peek products-"in color"'s papers and ribbon are yummy!

Scrappling!

Well I haven't posted in a week-first I wasn't feeling well then my scan wouldn't work then my camera's memory card was corrupted!  Issues with technology continue but I did manage to scan this picture to share-It is of my scrappling-I did the pair-the square card and the leftover also known as a scrappling-and I put a magnet on it to make it a bookmark.  These are for my secrete Sister!  I used all Stampin' Up new to be released on July 30th products!  Including new "in colors".

Stationary Basket

Hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable weekend-We had a lovely visit in New Mexico -after the worst adventure getting there last week-Tuesday was not the day to be flying!  took us 18 hours to get from Philly to  Albuquerque.  So tonight I'd like to share this clipboard and magnetic clip-  The clipboard is SU!-I colored the edges and a border around the front with craft ink and a sponge dauber I was happy with how it turned out as far as helping it look more finished-I think this would look cute with a picture or memo clipped on it can hang on the wall or in a cubicle, the clip is from Walmart and I punched the hole for the ribbon with the crop-a-dile I used crystal effects to glue down the paper in the circular indentation then sealed it all over with a heavy coat of crystal effects!  All stamps, inks and paper are Stampin' Up!  I love this set of woodland animals-I'm so happy they made the new catalogue!  but I am sad this paper will be retiring, along with the Baja Breeze color that it features, although SU did say to hold on to our retired "in colors" so who knows what they have up their sleeve for next year!!!!

More Stationary

These are two more of the projects from the stationary basket-this is two of the cards from the set of six and a journal with matching pen.  This is Bella Blue Paper-Very Vanilla and Not quite Navy along with Craft Paper!  One cool thing that I did was for the piece of paper over the top of the book I ran it through the xyron with laminate/adhesive so it was more durable and had greater flexibility.  The ribbon is not on the cards it's around the box.

End of the Year Gifts!

If you've been wondering where I've been the last few days-here is your answer-making end of the year gifts-Reilly wasn't any to happy about delivering-she wanted nothing to do with them-especially since I put Love You! on the tags for the librarians and the school secretary.  I found these notebooks in the art store they had simple paper covers on them and have thick cardboard backing-all I had to do was tear off the covers and use them as a template for scoring-I used the cover weight DSP from Stampin' Up!  I am so happy to have found these acetate boxes the larger note books fit right in them!  I couldn't take pictures of everything before I sent it out Reilly was was too cranky-I had to bribe her with a mani and pedi to get her to deliver-poor baby is so shy-sad thing is she gets it from me-notice I'm not delivering the gifts!  Do as I say not as I do!  Ugh!

more stationary

The next set of cards was this blank inside set of 6.  Close to cocoa and very vanilla card stock close to cocoa ink.  They are simple but elegant-I put just a touch of glitter on the center of the largest flower.  This background stamp is retired but one I won't be parting with soon!

Stationary Basket

Well I have been very busy stampin' the last week-I had a class last wednesday night -then I had to have a handmade basket of stationary put together for the Beef and Beer this past Friday night.  I will post over this week pictures of the contents of the basket.  Here is the first set of cards-it's a set of six Birthday cards-all products Stampin' Up!  except the acetate box.  

Blogger Group Challenge

The latest challenge was to make a red white and blue card-here she is!  Real Red, Brocade Blue and Whisper White.  the main image is from Sugar Nellie-These came to me by Royal Post...I had such a moment of weakness when I saw these-reminded me of my own scraggly-haired girls.  Colored with copics and sponged with Classic ink old olive and bliss blue.  

Whiff of Joy 2

Here is the Second set of Whiff of Joy cards I did again colored with Copics-everything but the image of the girl is SU!  I sponged Classic ink around her to give a background of sky and earth.  my daughter loves these Whiff Stamps.  I feel like such a traitor.  ugh! the guilt.

Whiff of Joy

I have been dying to play with the meager 12 or so Copic Markers I bought at the art store-but I didn't have and good stamps to color so I finally broke down and ordered some non-Su stamps-and here are my first attemps-every thing except the image of the girl is SU! and she is colored with Copics-I only have a few random colors so I had to get inventive with my DSP-all in all I'm okay with how I did so far.

Secret Sister Challenge Card!

Challenge week three is to make a Birthday Card-Well I knew right away I wanted to use my new cupcake die cut set for the big shot!  I sent the cupcake base through the Big shot with an embossing plate and I think it looks super cute!  Close to cocoa and pink pirouette for the cupcake and Regal rose for the card base and candles.

SS Challenge week two-

Week two's challenge is to make a box or bag that you never made before-well I had this match box die sitting around for a couple months and hadn't touched it-I mad it from SU's new cover weight DSP-it's so great for this type project-I made this and went right on line and ordered more pattern's!    The flower is also cut from the same heavy weight paper and it curled beautifully with the bone folder and held it's shape!  The paper is chocolate chip and soft sage and the tag is a rub on-it says happy day!

Kristi's Challenge

My Blogging group has a regular challenge-this week was Kristi's turn to host-her challenge was to alter something-and make a holiday theme.  Since I need instant gratification I had to pick the next closest holiday and That was Memorial Day-will also be good for Independence day!  I altered 7 4x4 coasters covering them with real red and brocade blue DSP from some hostess packs I had left from last year, I cut the letters on my Cricut with the Mickey Mouse Font cartridge, the stars are from the Simon Upper Chipboard Letters from SU!  I inked them with Whisper White craft Ink and heat set Iridescent Ice embossing powder over the craft ink.  The blue ribbon is some old stuff from my scrap stash-non-SU!  and the striped gross-grain is SU!  I used the mat pack to help me place the holes and punched them with the crop-a-dile.  Everything is adhered with SU! glue stick except for the chipboard for that I used our Tombo multipurpose adhesive.  I drew in the little stitching lines with SU!'s white gel pen.  

So Sorry Card Class

This is the first peek at my card class the last Wednesday of the Month-it will be a set of cards for sympathy or encouragement.  

I used Classic ink over water color wonder crayons on water color paper-all products are SU!

Secret Sister Challenge Card!

Here it is my Secret sister Challenge card for Designing DIVA's!  I wasn't going to bed till I figured it out!  Challenge was to use as many flowers as possible (I think that's what it said)  I've been so behind I've read about a hundred posts!  Anyway-I think it pretty cute.  Hope she likes it!

Bleach Technique Class

Tonight is my monthly Techniques Class-I had a request for bleach-I made four cards-The class will make just the one card and an image for their technique book.  They will be making the Certainly Celery Card with the Black scallop oval.  The image is stamped in basic black craft ink  and embossed with clear embossing powder.  The background is stamped with bleach.  I don't care much for using bleach personally-one because I always wreck something-my clothes the rug etc.., two because it is unpredictable-as you can see on the two certainly celery cards one bleached white and one a saffron color-the two pieces of paper most likely were from different runs.  After the bleach is good and dry you can color on the lightened area-it gives a cool effect it almost looks paper pieced to me.  the lightened area look a little glowie (if that's a real word)!  All the die cuts and embossing plates I used are Stampin' Up!  As well as the images, paper, markers, and accessories!