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!

Card Grouping

This is a group of cards I did repeating my own challenge-which by the way no one except I did!-however I don't mind because I have all kinda cute cards as a result of my insane challenge!!  The three little words stamp set is so fun I left them blank inside and will add the greeting later-I love you, thinking of you, you you you, etc..

Spring Fling Class

I know I've been away for a while-we traveled to New Mexico to see my daughter for Easter and when we came home it was one mess to deal with after another!  I finally got the cards made and uploaded for my Spring fling class-it's a five for ten tomorrow night.  I hope to get my blogger group rounds done and updated in the next few days!  Can't wait to see what everyone has been up to!

This is a clip board I made for a Stampin' Up! demonstrator contest-it didn't win so I guess I can post the picture now-I thought it would be cute to put on a desk and change out the picture when you get a new picture the way the kids are always getting new activity pictures.  All stampin' Up!  products-Always DSP-I'll have something else to post-the battery was dead in my camera when I went to take pictures of my latest.

Chipboard Techniques Class

Here are the cards we will make in my chipboard techniques class this wednesday night, we will learn four different ways to decorated chipboard for use on cards and in scrapbooks then everyone will make these four cards to take home.

Simply Scrappin' Class

This uses a retired simply scrappin' kit that I have a back log of and would like to see used!

Easter Card Class

Hey-have a peek at my Easter cards-class is this Wednesday night-I think they are pretty cute what do you think?

Sanded Texture Card

The Demonstrator Website had a video on using the new to SU texture plates and they mentioned that you can sand our DSP to get the texture to pop-so I had to try it out-and here is what I got! both background papers are old olive print pattern plain paper run through the texture plate and then sanded gently-the flower is a Pretties Dyed to match the cameo coral paper-

Pretty Pink Always Cards

Well I will thank my customers Jackie and Lori for asking me to make a flower for inspiring my retro flower card and then Geraldine  and Amanda for talking about pink and asking me to show them how to make the flower the other night for these cards.  After class I went and put the flower I made demoing how to make the flower on a card and this is what I got-and since the paper was out I decided to keep going and try out my new Butterfly die.  I learned a couple tricks as I was making these-one if you heat the pop up glue dots with the heat tool and then push the flower into it the flower holds together way better.  Both flowers are now hanging with out popping up and coming apart.  the other thing I discovered is that if I use a Q-tip to ink the edges of the die cut edge it makes a much neater well contained inking then using a sponge or dauber-and I can throw it out when I'm done-it takes a lot longer but the edges on this card were worth it since the style was fussy not antiqued.  What do You think?

Anti-hoarding Challenge

Okay here are my six cards together in one picture-don't they look nice?  and this is my favorite card it's my own take on a gate fold card.  I cut the paper to 11x4.5 and then scored it along the 11 in at 2.75 from each end.  I layered on 4.25x4 inch panel and I punched the word window twice to create the "latch" and put the label die cut popped up over the holes, I used these new over sized brads to hold the latch onto the card.  The whole thing locks together since the panels layer into each other as you close the card.  I just love SU's Bill board letters that I used for "Hello"-read the next post to hear more about the challenge.  I was thinking last night that from now on when I get a pack of new paper I will automatically cut 4 inches from one of each sheet and then cut that to 5.25, 5.25, and 1.5 and perhaps start curing my hoarding.  This was so fun-I love this paper even more-and luckily for me SU puts two of each in every pack so I still have one more piece-but I love these cards so much it was worth cutting the paper all up!

Anti-hoarding Challenge

Here are five of the six cards for the challenge I was host of-all products are Stampin' Up! of course.  I can only put 5 pictures per post so this will require two posts.  This striped paper was my absolute favorite of all the new paper-I was so afraid to mess up even one little panel-but I pushed through and it was worth it.  I found that using one piece of DSP all the way through was quite liberating and opened up the creative flow-I didn't waste time on color choices and style choices the paper dictated all that and it freed up my creativity to focus on design of layout and use of tools and so I was able to let go of some hardware and buttons and brads-I got to play with some new dies and I was pushed to be more creative because I wanted the cards to be different but the same so I looked to my tools and stamps since my paper was taken care of!  It was fun!

Celebration Class

I looked at my blog and realized I haven't posted in a week!  I couldn't believe it-what a hectic week-getting valentines done-for the mail deadline for Emily and for Reilly, David had a Semi formal Friday night and wanted an Aqua Blue shirt to match his Date's Dress-not the easiest color to procure.  I entered my Celebration Class to the Stampin' Up Class Challenge-so I won't show any detailed pictures.  But here's a little peek at what I will be making with my class tomorrow night!