Busy Week

You ever have one of those weeks where you're really busy but it feels like you've got nothing to show for it? That's me this week. And to top it off, I got my Stampin' Up! order today with new stamps that are just waiting to be inked up, but I had to finish the kid's Valentine's treats today so be prepared for some new stuff in the next little while!

This is a card that I saw on one of my many favorite blogs, love how simple it is, but simple doesn't mean plain by any means. I used my white gel pen for the stitching and popped all the hearts on dimensionals, very pretty IRL.

Stamps: I {heart} Hearts
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Ink: Real Red, Pretty in Pink
Other: White gel pen, Small Rhinestones

Have a great day!
Tina

Easel Card

I hope everyone had a great weekend, we had a snowy one. We had a winter storm come through Saturday evening and it continued to snow all day Sunday. So it was nice just to stay home and enjoy some quiet time.

This card is one of the 3 projects we made at my last stamp class, it's called an easel card. Very easy to make once you see how it's done! And once again I was able to use my favorite die, the Butterfly emobosslits die called Beautiful Wings and the new border punch!

Stamps: Of the Earth
Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, DSP-Sweet pea (LOVE that paper!)
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Black Grosgrain Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!
Tina

I Love Water Colouring...

I'm sure there are others out there that love water colouring as much as I do. You start with a plain image and you can bring it to life with whatever colours you choose, I especially love the shading you can achieve with water colouring, something I'm still trying to perfect. But I'm having fun while I'm doing it!

And as you can tell, once again it's another Birthday card! I think I better start thinking about Easter cards or Mother's Day...

This is a pretty basic card, I did end up adhering the pink cs using dimensionals. After add all those rhinestone brads I found that it was just a little too bulky in that spot so I went with it and popped it off the page.

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful, Vintage Labels (SAB set)
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Water Colour pp, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Basic Black
Other: So Saffron Ribbon, Clear Rhinestone Brads

Have a great day!
Tina

Birthday Overload!

Some of you might have noticed that all my cards are Birthday cards these days. My goal this year is to send birthday cards to friends and family and so that means I actually have to make them, lol. But I'm already late for one so I guess you could say I'm off to a great start.

This card happens to be for my husband's nephew who turns 6 in a few weeks. I love the Beary Best Friends set for kids birthday cards, they're so fun! I used my gel pen for the faux stitching, I love that I don't have to lug out my sewing machine for this. I also stamped a few extra balloons on water colour paper and cut them out. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the strings where I wanted them and glued the extra balloons in place. And I added crystal effects to all three of the balloons to give them that extra umph.

Stamps: Beary Best Friends, Vintage Labels (SAB set)
Paper: Taken With Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Water Colour pp, SAB paper pack
Ink: Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Ruby Red, Crushed Curry, Taken With Teal, Night of Navy,Close to Cocoa
Other: White Gel Pen, Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Black Brads, Crystal Effects

Have a great weekend!
Tina

When Hate Turns to Love

I have a confession to make, I have hate Crushed Curry since it came out! I had no use for it, until I saw this gorgeous card by Andrea Walford and just had to CASE it, it has such a striking colour combonation. This one was a lot of fun to make and I'll definitely try to give my least favorite colours another chance!

Stamps:Embrace Life, Friends 24-7, Upsy Daisy
Paper: Crushed Curry, Basic Black, Whisper White, So Saffron
Ink: Crushed Curry, Basic Black
Other: Ribbon, Black Brads

Thanks for stopping by!
Tina

Crazy for Pink

I'm sure I'm not the only scrapper that goes through colour phases, right now I'm all about the pink. Perhaps it's because we did some Valentine's projects at my last class, or perhaps I'm just in a pink mood, lol. A friend came over today and we spent the morning making cards, my kind of morning! I think I'll continue that for the afternoon and see how many I can produce, have I ever mentioned that I am a slooooooow card maker. I over analyze every part of the card, some would there are meds for that, lol.

I saw this card made by the wonderfully talented Teneale Williams and thought it was so pretty. This is pretty much an exact case, same colours and same stamp set used. Very simple but pretty. The only thing I might yet is a little dazzling diamonds to the centers of the flowers.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Upsy Daisy
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red
Other: Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Wishes

One of my goals this year is to send out birthday cards to friends and family. I always start off with the best of intentions but before you know it, everyone's birthday has passed!

Today's card is totally not my normal style but I saw it on Jackie Topa's blog and loved how it used the new tag punch from the Occasions mini. It's great when a punch has more than one use and this card shows that.

I used my brayer to ink the sky (I'll be having a class on that soon!), stamped and cut out the flowers. Used my bigshot for the leaves and of course the tag punch for the fence posts. All you do is punch out however many posts you're going to need and adhere it to a strip of cardstock, very easy!

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Sincere Salutations, Nature Silhouettes
Paper: Rich Razzlebery, Orchid Opulence, Old Olive, Brocade Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Rich Razzlebery, Orchid Opulence, Old Olive, Brocade Blue,

Thanks for stopping by!
Tina

Snow Days

I love snow days, LOVE. THEM. We had a blizzard that started yesterday evening and it's been blowing ever since. My poor neighbor across the street has a 3 foot snow bank over her entire driveway, we were spared because our house faces south, lucky us.

The kids have been playing all day, and almost no bickering. Can you tell why I'm loving this snow day! Lol. So that left me with a day of baking, cardmaking, and computer time. Perfect combination if you ask me.

Today's card is a fun card using bright colors. Another thing I like about this card is that I actually used some of the flowers from the Pretties Kit. At one point I just "had" to have that kit and find myself struggling to use some of the contents, like this flower but I really like it on this card. I used my brayer to ink it up to match the cardstock and the rest is very basic.

Stamps: Happy Moments (Sale-A-Bration set)
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, DSP-Sweet Pea
Ink: Old Olive, Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron
Other: Pretties Kit, Button (not SU!)

Have a great day!
Tina

Valentine's box

I love how versatile Stampin' Up's dies are! The scallop envelope die makes such pretty envelopes but thanks to some very creative ladies over SCS, it also makes really cute boxes of all sizes. You could use these boxes filled with candy or it would be a great box for little note cards.

For those of you that are coming to my class this Monday this is actually one of the projects that we'll be making, they are so fun to make! The hardest part for me this Valentine's, will be deciding which small gift to give to our kid's teachers.

Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts, Tiny Tags
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, DSP-Sending Love
Ink: Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip
Other: Grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!
Tina

Valentine Fever

Isn't it crazy how we crafters go from one holiday to the next! We're ordering Christmas stuff in October, Valentine's in December, Easter in February, etc. But what would we stamp without all these holidays to keep us busy! Lol.

I saw this cute idea in the blog world and I thought it might make great teacher/co-worker gifts. You can find these cute little heart shaped boxes at almost any store, these have the cartoon characters on the front. But since they get covered it doesn't really matter what the outside looks like, buy whatever is in your budget. I think I'll hunt for boxes where you can remove the chocolate lining on the inside so that I could put my own baked goodies in there.

I first traced the heart on to the designer paper and cut it out and then lightly sanded the box itself so that the glue would have something to hold on to. I used our sanding blocks to lightly sand the edges so that they were nice and smooth. And than all you do is decorate to your liking. I used the scallop evelope die and punched/cut out a bunch of hearts so that they could spill out of the envelope, just like a card I posted earlier. Some of the hearts are on dimmensionals. Wrap the heart in ribbon and glue the envelope on and you're all set!

Stamps: I (heart) Hearts, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Real Real, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, DSP-Sending Love
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Chocolate Chip
Other: Real Red Corduroy Buttons, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon

Have a great day, and kiss the ones you love!
Tina

Winter is back

After a week of + degree weather you could almost feel spring in the air, but since it's only January we knew it would be short lived. Not that it's super cold now, but it's lightly snowing and we're definitely back in winter mode.

Today I'll be posting the other two cards that I experimented with for my Demo card swap. I ended up choosing the first one in this post, made with Rich Razzleberry.

Stamps: All Holidays
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Orchid Opulance, Whisper White, DSP-Cottage Wall
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Other: Rhinestoen brad


Stamps: All Holidays
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Old Olive
Ink: Old Olive
Other: Rhinestone brad, Grosgrain ribbon

Have a great day!
Tina

Butterfly overload!

Have a I mentioned yet how much I love the new Beautiful Wings embosslit die?! So easy to make a pretty cards.

Stampin' Up! has just launched a brand new site for us Demonstrators to go for ideas and a great forum for all of us demos to interact with each other. So while I was on there one day I signed up for my first ever card swap, eek. The hard part was deciding what kind of card I should make. So that left me with experimenting, and today's cards is one of the results. I opted for a different card than this one but I still like it, it's a really quick card for when you find yourself needing one out of the blue.

Stamps: SAB set
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, DSP-Sweet pea
Ink: Chocolate Chip

Have a great day!
Tina

Sweet Treats

I saw these adorable gum wrappers from a fello demonstrator and knew instantly that I wanted to make them for my class attendants. I love to give everyone a little something fun to take home to show them how much I appreciate them coming out to my classes.

If you're in the Steinbach area why not give me a call and plan to attend my next one, January 25, 7:00pm. We'll be making 2 cards using various techniques and one
3-D project. For more info or to see the rest of my class schedule just click on the Stampin' Up! logo on the left and that will take you to my Stampin' Up site where you'll find my schedule for the next little while.

Aren't they cute?!!!!!!!!!!! I popped the hearts on dimensionals and used the new Pinking Hearts border punch. I then used the Round Tab punch to create the little tab on the side. The notch was created using the slit punch, you could use a small circle punch.
Stamps: I heart Hearts
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Very Vanilla, DSP-Sending Love
Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip

Thanks for stopping by!
Tina

Quiet Mornings

Good morning everyone! I love quiet Monday mornings, especially after a busy weekend. But having said that I really should get busy and start with my long list of to do's.

I made this card last week only never got around to posting it. I don't think I quite got it right but I do love the colour combo. I was just so excited to be able to use some of our new paper out of the Occasions mini! I stamped the main image on watercolour pp and using my aqua painter to watercolour. I once again coloured the leaves in old olive and used always artichoke to create some deeper shadows. I also used taken with teal behind the image to help the flowers pop off the paper a little.
The flowers were coloured using my brayer, I really find that to be one of the fastest ways to colour flowers.

Stamps:
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal, Dusty Durango, Whisper White, Watercolour pp, DSP-Sweet Pea
Ink: Basic Black, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Dusty Durango, Taken with Teal
Other: Brads, Latte Buttons, Pretties Kit (flowers)

Thanks for stopping by.
Tina

My love overfloweth

I spent a good part of the day playing with my new stamps, punches, etc. And I didn't feel the least bit guilty, lol. Every once in a while you have to have a day where you do something that brings you happiness and forget about what you could be doing. Although it was nice that the housework was caught up because otherwise I can't help but feel a twinge of guilt when I have a stamping day.

Today's card looks a little busy but I saw this idea using the Scallop Envelope die with a bunch of hearts spilling out of it and I really wanted to try it. I did take away a piece of dsp and that helped to lose some of the chaos. I only wish the envelop was a little more visible, but the ribbon is on there now and I'm not removing it.

Very easy card, I used the new I Heart Hearts set and the matching punches. And of course, my new favorite, the Scallop Trim punch!

And here's a shot of the inside, I love finishing the inside. It helps to balance out the weight of the front and makes the card feel finished. Plus with all the new dsp and punches it's super quick and easy!

Stamps: I Heart Hearts, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink, DSP-Sending Love
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Chocolate Chip
Other: Chocolate Chip satin ribbon

Have a great weekend!
Tina