Mother's Day Card

Here is the card I made my Mom and my my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day.

It is a pocket card and holds 2 inserts. One insert is for a written message and the other is a packet of flower seeds. I did lots of layering, sponging, and dotting with my markers. I love the way this card turned out. Appearantly so did my Mother-in-Law. She kept raving about how great it was, all the while my head kept growing in size. hee, hee, hee.

These are the inserts for the card. This was a fun card to make. I only wish I made an extra one to keep on hand.

All products used: Stampin' Up!

Convention Time!

I woke up at 5 a.m. to register online for Stampin' Up!'s yearly convention. And I'm in!!! I am in track 2, and am super excited. My upline and her upline will be going on the same track too. I went last year when it was in Denver and just had a blast. Click here, here, here, here and here to view my experience. Since I live in Utah and only live 15-20 minutes away from the convention center, I for sure had to go this year. Can't wait for July!

Chalkboard Technique

On this card, I thought I'd give the Chalkboard Techique a whirl. If you've never seen it, your images are supposed to look like....well, you guessed it! Chalk on a chalkboard. To get this effect I used black cardstock and stamped my images with craft white ink. I then took a q-tip and loaded it with chalk (Stampin' Pastels) and colored over the wet white craft ink. When you do this, you see that it kind of smudges a little just like chalk does. To remove some of the excess chalk, I just took a tissue and wiped off what would come off.

To finish the card off, I stamped little flowers for the background and used my white gel pen to do the centers making them pop. I also added a black panel to the right inside of the card. Tied it off with some mellow moss ribbon and ticket punched the the corners of the front layer.

When doing the chalkboard technique, you can use a color other than black. It should be a dark color for best results, like brown, or burgandy.

Peppermint Patty Favor

I made these little favors for the ladies in my stamp club. I wanted to give them an idea for a cute party favor. In addition, something that was super fast and super easy to make! Stampin' Up! has fabulous punches that make these a breeze to make. I used the 1 3/8" circle punch, the 1 1/4" circle punch, and the scallop punch. I chose my colors, punched away, and then layered them. Easy, breezy, beautiful, right? They are a perfect fit for York Peppermint Patties. I must say I had quite the feat in getting the mints for my favors. Click here for the rest of the story.

Club Card

Tonight at club we are going to be learning different ways to use the Stampin' Pastel chalks. This card shows the chalks being used with a blender pen. I picked up chalk color with my blender pen and colored in the bird and the flower, making sure I "scribbled" the color off on a piece of scratch paper before picking up a new color. The card below is the one the ladies will make tonight.

All product Stampin' Up!
Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, So Safron Designer Prints Paper
Inks: Black
Stamps: Fun and Fast Notes
Accessories: Grorain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Blender Pen, Stampin' Pastels, Brad, Corner Rounder

Just trying out my new Tart and Tangy stamp set and Summer Picnic dsp. Love these stamps and paper. Saying says, You're so Thoughtful from the Absolutely Fabulous stamp set.

All product Stampin' Up!
Paper: Whisper White, Real Read, Old Olive, Summer Picnic dsp
Inks: Real Red & Old Olive markers, Old Olive
Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Absolutely Fabulous
Accessories: Wide Old Olive Grograin Ribbon, Scallop Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder to do Scalloped Edge

Club Cards

Here are a couple of cards that we made at club the other night. A lot of my club members are new to stamping so I started off with something really simple. Yes, it is simple, but I LOVE this card. I love these colors together, and I love the Absolutely Fabulous stamp set.


On a side note: I know the girl who designed this stamp set. She works for Stampin' Up!. I met her last year when she posted that she was looking for a roommate at convention. (For more pictures click on the convention 2007 link on the right hand side of my blog under categories.) I got lucky and ended up being her roommate not knowing that she worked for Stampin' Up! at the time. Some of you may know of her. She has a blog that is absolutely fabulous (how convenient that that's the name of the stamp set). Check her blog out at kwernerdesignblog.

Now back to the card: This card was so fast and sooooo easy. I just stamped the flower from the Priceless stamp set on Whisper White cardstock using Chocolate Chip ink, and punched it out with my 1 1/4" circle punch. I put a brad in the middle and then layered it on pretty in pink cardstock that I punched out with my 1 3/8" circle punch, and layered that on chocolate chip cardstock that I punched out with my scallop punch. Using my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, I put the saying You're absolutely fabulous on under the flower.


Still keeping it simple for my club members, I used the same flower but added to it and changed the saying. I stamped the flower in Pretty In Pink, then took my Chocolate Chip marker and colored around the outside of the flower to bring in another color. This is called the stamp to marker technique. After I got the brad in and the layering done, I took my 1/16" hand punch and I punched in the center of each scallop "petal". I used dimensionals to adhere it to the card. For the stem, I used Whisper White craft ink. I also used the same ink for the saying at the bottom. I added some Pretty in Pink grograin ribbon, rounded the corners off with my corner rounder and called it good!