Easy Peasy Snowflake Soiree Emboss Resist card

Another card we made at my workshop this November.  Take a base card of whisper white, emboss the edge with Delicate Designs folder.
Take another piece of whisper white, stamp the snowflake and sentiment with Versamark then use clear embossing folder to heat emboss, then use a sponge dauber to sponge on color of your choice- here tempting turquoise but melon mambo or other bold colors work well for contrast.  I tied it off with white taffeta ribbon and layered it with turquoise CS but any color ink and cardstock works.

Lynda

Believe in Santa

This was a really simple Santa Suit idea I cased from Louise Del Vecchio from Stampin Connections, a demo only site.  Super simple and so much fun.    Take a base Real Red cardstock. Stamp Believe from Snowflake Serenade with versamark and emboss with Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder to add a subtle sentiment with just the right amount of sparkle.  Punch 2 scallop circles (1 1/4 inch in the holiday catalogue)  with whisper white CS and mount with dimensionals.  Someone suggested cotton balls but I think a powder puff or pom pom would also work well here.   For the belt I took a 7/8 inch square punch (not SU- but 1" square works too) using Brushed Gold CS then I used Curly Label punch to make the buckle.  I used a 7/8 inch strip of basic black card stock and just laid the Gold buckle on top. 

It would be a really fun and easy project for kids even.
Enjoy!

Lynda 

Out of the box Beautiful Season

 This is one of my holiday cards we made for my November workshop. Love the pop of color and the out of the box technique.

Stamp the image from Beautiful Season with StazOn black or memento black Tuxedo black.  Stamp Merry from Pennant Parade set in Real Red.  Put the die from Apothecary Accents Framelits (my favorite die right now!) to see how you want it cut.

Lightly pencil in the inside margins to figure out how far you need to cut the images that you want to stick out.

Put the section you want to stick out over the diecut frame so it will not be cut (the blade of the dies should face down) and this is how it should look after you diecut it.

I used the diecut itself to make the frame.  Took a piece of real red CS same width as the diecut then traced the top and bottom with a pencil to cut it out then flipped it over to make sure the pencil mark did not show before I layered it.  The straight edge sides made it easy.

Lots of Scallops challenge

 Nothing like a challenge to get my mojo going on a Monday morning.  Even though daylight savings time is on, my body still has not adjusted and I woke up at 5 so I had some time to kill.  The splitcoast sketch challenge SC409 was turned sideways and WT399 to use no fall colors and TLC402 today was to use Layered Scallops and I was off.  Basecard is whisper white diecut with large scallop and embossed with edgelet delicate designs.  I stamped the flowers with pink pirouette then melon mambo, leaves are celery then limeade.  I layered pink pirouette and melon mambo CS diecut and scallop embossed again.  Used the Scallop rectangle Sizzlet (all SU) to add another layer of scallop. The sentiment is from the Trust God set.  I love this saying and bought the set because I loved this single stamp.  Layer it with melon and then pink pirouette.  Add another layer with scallop ribbon and seriously it was a easy peasy 10 minute card that don't look it......  Enjoy!     Lynda. 

Merry Minis

 I saw a card by Michele Reynolds and I liked the idea of stamping and punching the Merry Mini ornament in Cherry Cobbler and then doing a negative punch of the ornament as well.  But I did not have the sentiment she had and so I used Noel from Greetings of the Season.  Because the Whisper white seemed a little plain I embossed the Snowflake Soiree using Iridescent Ice. 
I thought pretty cool Lynda!
 Funny thing is that later on I was perusing Stamping connections (online site for Demos only) I found a card fromTamara Bertram that looks almost like my card. It seems that Tamara

made a card with Noel sentiment and embossed the white basecard, Michele cased it and changed it and I cased Michele and changed it back unwittingly similar to the original card. I guess Tamara and I both thought alike!  I was laughing by myself in the middle of the night.  Thought I was being original and clever but alas No.

Iridescent Ice is so much prettier in person......

Holiday Frame with stippled blossom

I think this Stampin Up Holiday frame is so pretty, I did not want to relegate it to just holiday cards.  I just got my Stippled blossoms set that I have been wanting so I used it to accent the frame.  Base card is pink pirouette embossed with the holiday frame and then I stamped the flowers in pink pirouette and melon mambo on whisper white and then embossed the oval from the Designer Frames Folder, then diecut it with one of the classic oval die from Spellbinders (which just fit the outer oval perfectly).

 I then stamped the sentiment from Made for you and stamped the little bud. The leaves are Celery and Limeade, punched it out with the Oval punch  (of course it matches perfectly on the inside ) and except for the cutting of the flowers, it was perfect.  I am working on my projects for my next workshop and I will post some of them after the party in a few weeks.

After I stamped the flowers, I wiped away the inside with the blender pen to add chocolate chip stamens with a marker to get an extra pop.

Lynda

 

Fall Leaves thank you card

My little thank you card for this month was one using the leaves made with Autumn accents dies.
I diecut the leaves using the daffodil delight CS, scored the veins using the scoring tool and sponged old olive, cajun and egglplant and stamped the waterspots from French foliage with the eggplant direct and stamped off, crumpled the corners a bit and put a sticky strip in the center to adhere to the old olive CS embossed wtih the wood grain.  Punched out word window and stamped the sentiment from Made for you in eggplant onto the vanilla basic CS .  It looked like it was floating do added the linen thread around really ties the elements together. A simple little autumn card. 
My kids had to peek around the leaf to see if it was real or not... tee hee.

Angry bird Pig Queen for Kyle

 Ok so I recycled this card idea but Tyler quickly corrected me and said I got it all wrong.
The pig queen does not get flown, they are either in the box to be hit by the birds or I guess there is different version where the queen is flying on a rocket so I had to redo the card.

Using Lucky limeade punched the face with 1 3/8 circle punch.  The snout is free cut since I had no oval that fit that size.  The rocket is Modern label- Tyler told me later it should have been a green soda bottle so I colored it in. The final sentiment is non SU.

Angry bird birthdy card

 Dylan said he wanted an angry bird theme but changed his mind at the cake shop changing it to Ninjago cake but still wanted a angry bird favor so this was his birthday card.  Real red base with bashful blue on top.  Diecut PTI grass in Old Olive.  Punch word window in chocolate and stamp woodgrain .  Make the lattice. Diecut the cake (sizzix) and color in with markers.  Bird is made from 1 3/8 circle in real red, same for the white belly piece.  the beak is summer sun (retired)  mount with dimensionals and add the flight with the white signo gel pen.   I have been getting instructions from Tyler on how to make

these cards concept correct!

Billboard letters HI

This card was inspired by a card I saw in the Scrapbooks etc magazine where they used the negative of the dies to spell Hi, and I thought it was so cute.  I took Stampin Up Billboard Sizzlit (retired) and diecut it twice with white and real red.  Punch a 2 1/2 inch circle in a real red CS and layer the sentiment behind it so it will show. (hardest part was sticking the little letter insides so it would form a complete letter- see the letter g) then I punched some pennants using the Petite Pennant Builder (only went up 1/2 way up the punch where the bend it to get little banners) Summer Smooches DSP and some Subtles DSP and layered it all over bashful blue and I don't know why but I just love it.  Today is my exam so I am posting this early. If you see this today, please pray that I pass my exams!!!!