Neopolitan Ice Cream

Here’s a card I’m actually happy with to make for my convention swaps 🙂  I think I’ll do this one and the Christmas postage one I did last week for sure.

Stamps: Pennant Parade, Tiny Tags

Paper: Crumb Cake, Pretty in Pink patterns DSP, Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Soft Suede

Accessories: Pennant punch, create a cupcake punch, dimensionals, 2-way glue pen, dazzling diamonds glitter, ticket corner punch, ribbon border punch, jewelry tag punch, linen thread, perfect polkadots embossing folder

Anniversary Hearts

This is the anniversary card I made for my husband of now 2 years 🙂 I used some fun big shot toys that I’ve had sitting around for awhile, so I’m happy to have finally taken them from the wrapper to make this semi-masculine card.
Stamps: Something to Celebrate (Hostess)

Paper: Marina mist, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Versamark

Accessories: Heart Pressed letter press plate, scallop heart of hearts embosslit, heart punch, dimensionals

Jolly Postage

Too early for Christmas? Well, yes, I suppose it is, but its almost July, and people do Christmas in July type things right?  This is actually just an idea for a convention swap, I think I’m going to go with it, and a few others if I can muster up the time.

Stamps: Jolly Bingo Bits, Merry Message

Paper: Soft Suede, Real Red, Naturals White, Real Red Patterns DSP

Ink: Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Postage punch, dimensionals

Time flies! Today’s fast-paced world has made people busier and less willing to commit their time to a traditional classroom degree program. Taking online college classes is a great way to finally fulfilling your dreams, perhaps gaining an online social work degree. Maybe for Christmas this year, after making and giving cards, you could give yourself a gift of higher education.

Pressed Flowers

I used the pressed flower technique once I finally got the new triple layer blossom bouquet punch. I really like how the square lattice embossing compressed the flowers onto the paper 🙂 This card uses the new hostess set available in the 2011-2012 catalog in July called Happiest Birthday!

Stamps: Happiest Birthday

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, First Edition DSP

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, dimensionals, ticket corner punch, scallop circle punch

Fun Folds Class this Saturday

Want to learn some Fun Folds?  Here are the ones we’re learning on Saturday!

Side Stair Step, Hidden Message, and Mens Shirt Fold!  Check out my facebook event to come and become my fan on facebook to be notified of events and see fun projects!

Pennant Parade Birthday

Want another peek at what’s to come in July?  Here’s a couple of the new colors and stamp sets!

Stamps: Pennant Parade, Happiest Birthday (Hostess), Dot, Dot, Dot

Paper: Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight

Ink: Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Pennant Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Create a Cupcake Punch

Precious Butterflies

Want to see something new? Of course you do 🙂 how about a new hostess set and a new color that you’ll see in July?

Stamps: Precious Butterflies (Hostess)

Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Island Indigo (New!), First Edition DSP

Ink: Baja Breeze, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Frost White Shimmer Paint, Decorative label punch, Wide Oval Punch, dimensionals, Ribbon Border Punch

Mourning my retiring stamp sets

Just wanted to remind you of some of the lovely stamp sets we’ll be bidding farewell to at the end of this month… I’m happy I got a chance to play with them before I knew they were leaving!
All Holidays

Birthday Bliss

Eastern Blooms

On a Pedestal

Friends 24-7

Always

Forest Friends

A Flower For All Seasons

Party Hearty

…and many more INDEED!  Check out the list of retiring products here. And let me know if anything is on your wishlist ASAP!

Manhattan Flower cut-out Wedding Invitation

This is another wedding invitation sample I made for my friends Sarah and Nate. They wanted a more simple and traditional wedding invitation style as far as color went, so I used the Shimmery white, which has a great weight for the card base with a subtle shimmer. I cut out around the rose and magnolia flower shapes and tied the ribbon around the front of the card so reply cards and any other inserts will have something to be held within the invitation.

Stamps: Elements of Style

Paper: Shimmery White, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Vellum

Ink: Bravo Burgundy

Accessories: Silver Brads, Manhattan Flower Embossing Folder, Basic Gray Taffeta Ribbon (retired)

Wish Big Triangle Tri-Fold

I thought I had an example of a triangle tri-fold for my demonstration and it turned out that I had something similar but didn’t quite have the impact I wanted, so I searched for a tutorial that I could try out and found this great one.

Stamps: Word Play, Circle Circus

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Elegant Soiree DSP

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Dimensionals, Basic Rhinestones