Cards for Three Seasons

Well, tonight I made the last cards for my SIL's box of cards. Mom made her Valentines Day cards (or at least some of them).

Here is the whole pile.



Here are mine.



Here are Mom's.


Here are closer shots of Mom's.



Here are my beach themed cards with my Gina K stamps. They are among the final cards for my SIL.


Here is my final set of Christmas Cards. They will most likely go in SIL's box too.









Hope you have a happy holiday.

Dog Gone Good Christmas

It is shaping up to be a good holiday season. I finished my bulk card making tonight. I saw a stamp about three months ago that looked like Delilah is a Christmas setting. It also had a dog that looked like a lab and an bulldog. I have friends with both, so I jumped on the Christmas Dog Cube. Of course when I saw a super cute trio of dog Christmas ribbon, I knew I found a match for the stamps. The ribbon is the same brand as the penguins a few posts below. If only there was more theme ribbon that match my stamps. Anyway, I stamped, colored, cut, embossed with iridescent ice, embossed with the cuttlebug, layered, and tied. I think I like the results.

There is the full set.


Here are is a a shot with the three ribbons on the Delilah stamp.


Here is the close up.




I also made one with the bulldog colored like my friends dog Cookie. I think he will like it.



I made another for a family I know that currently has a white bulldog and two black labs all under one roof. I thought this was appropriate for their card.



All in all, it is a dog gone good set. Forgive the pun :)

A coold dozen

I was roaming through Michaels the other day and saw this set of ribbon for $1.99. It was the super cute penguins. I also have is great penguin stamp I bought a while back. Of course, I realized that I needed the ribbon to go with the stamp. Now, I had no idea what to do with them. Today while giving an exam, I pondered the cards. It hit me. Snow! Penguins like snow. I ran some vellum through my cuttlebug. I added some layers, and colored the penguins. I did not realize the ribbon was so short, so I modified the bows a little. I really like it better though. Add that it was faster, and it was a bonus.

Here is the whole set:


Here is a closer look at the three ribbons:



Here is a close up of one of the cards.


I hope you like them. They were really fun!!!!


Have a great day!

First batch done!!!!

Well, I was determined my first batch of Christmas cards would be done tonight. Here they are. There is a post from about a month or two ago with the initial layout that links to the card that inspired them on splitcoast. I made 32 of them. As you can see from the picture of all of the cards, I still have two sheets of the paper I used for the main images. I ran out of ribbon though. I found some thing close at Michaels, so I might make another 16 with the new ribbon since I have all the dimensions. This gives me the freedom to make what I like for the other Christmas cards I will send. I do love these though. They are on vanilla paper with gold cardstock. The snowflakes are stampin up and embossed with a mixture of gold powder and iridescent ice. There are some plain iridescent ice snowflakes too to fill in spots. I thought these would be quick and easy until I started mass producing them. It was not bad, but a lot of steps since it was embossed twice and all the small snowflake pieces are on dimensionals. Oh well, it is still better than the cards I made last year. I mass produced cards with origami Christmas trees then stamped and spounged multiple layers of paper. I have got to find someone that still has one to take a picture. They were amazing but time consuming.

Enough of that, check out these!!! Here is the group shot.



Here is another shot with the color altered some.




Here is a closer look and a shot of the Peace on Earth stamp inside.




Here is a picture of Delilah because she was standing there watching me take picture of the cards.

Hope you have a great day.

Stamp a Stack Treasures

My Stampin Up Demo rocks. She is a wonderful person and makes great projects for us. One of my favorite things to see in my email box is that she is having a Stamp A Stack. It makes me do the happy stamping dance every time. Saturday was the big day. It was a small but mighty group. Here are the treasures from the day.

First the group shot of all the cards. Aren't they pretty? I bring them home and spread them out to look at them. I always feel so accomplished.



Here are the individaul pairs. I love this marble effect that we did on these two with reinkers and alcholol. I had really thought about this set for Christmas. While I did not use it for my big set, I cannot wait to see who gets these two special ones. My bow tying is not a reflection on my demo. Any bow issues are my own :)


These two cards were fun. It never occurred to me to emboss on cards then water color. It is so much easier to keep the water color from bleeding and the cards look great! I will have to do that at home. My friend Christy suggested we make some thank yous. That was brilliant. These two are ready to go.


The day just kept getting better. I am in LOVE with these two cards. I don't know if I will give them both away, I love them so much. They are stamped then the whole image is embossed. They are amazing in person.


If these six were not enough, at the next table there were even more treasures to explore. This was fun. I have seen it on splitcoast but never tried it. We stamped on vellum then flipped it over and colored the back. My hands were hurting so my coloring is not the best. They are really cute. My super demo could tell my hands hurt so she punched the stars for me and I just got to assemble them. It was fun.


We also did these modified buckle cards. I picked Santa and the snowman to do. They are so cute. A little glitter and some coloring. It rocked!!!! I could have put something on the background of the cards, but I was a little tired and thought I would go with clean and simple.


So that is my stamp a stack day. Aren't you impressed? Don't you wish you had a demo that rocked as much as mine? It was a great way to spend the morning.