CHRISTMAS CARD

Hi! Hope your week is going well!!!

Here is the other card that we made in stamp class on Monday.....

The card was so easy to make and yet it turned out soooo good!!!! Just goes to prove (again) that stamping and making a dynamite card doesn't have to take hours or be complicated!!!

We started with a half sheet of Night of Navy cardstock.....which we stamped with Night of Navy classic ink using the snowflakes from the Snow Swirled stamp set. Then we used a scrap piece of paper punched with the 1-1/4" circle punch adhered to our piece of whisper white cardstock.....which we die cut with the Top Note die using the Big Shot. Once our "moon" was in place we sponged Night of Navy ink across the top. Then we sponged Rose Red (actually, I can't remember exactly) in the middle and finished up by lightly sponging Night of Navy on the bottom. We removed our mask and than stamped Santa from the Wandering Words stamp set that is in the Occasions Mini. We also stamped the group of trees from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set....both of which were stamped using Soft Suede. I sponged a bit of Soft Suede on the bottom around the trees.....just so it would look more like the ground. We finished the card off by tying a piece of white organza ribbon around it and adhering it to the card base with dimensionals. Love it!!!

Thanks for taking the time to pop in......until next time....

Blessings..........Cindy

A FRIEND'S CARD & A USEFUL TIP

Hey There!!

Today, I wanted to show you a card made by my friend, Karen Albin....she is a fellow SU demonstrator and also in stamp class with me on Monday. The photo didn't turn out that great, but in person this card is STUNNING!!!

Karen shared a GREAT tip with me.....one which maybe you already know, but I didn't!!!

Anyway, I asked her how she was able to emboss with Iridescent Ice using a Classic ink pad. Well, here's how....... she first inked the stamp with VersaMark and then immediately inked it up using a Classic ink pad. Voila!! Instant Craft-like ink!!! By using a VersaMark pad first you can then change any classic ink pad you have into a color that you can emboss with. JUST BE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR STAMP OFF BEFORE YOU RE-INK IT WITH YOUR VERSAMARK.......I'm sure you wouldn't want Rich Razzleberry or any other color on your VersaMark. :-) I thought this was pretty cool!!! I'm going to give this a try!

Well, that's it for me today. The rest of this week is going to be fairly hectic. My daughter is turning 12 on Saturday and we are having a birthday party for her. I think there will be about 10 screeching, giggling, and kooky girls here on Saturday evening. All of her friends, believe it or not, LOVE to stamp and they usually wind up making something when they are here.....so we have a FUN project planned for them. I'll be sure to take pictures of them and their creations.

Until next time....find some time for stamping!!!

Blessings...........Cindy

NEW CLASS CARD ~ POST THANKSGIVING

Hello Friends!!! I pray that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.....I know we did. We all ate way too much, but it was GREAT to be together with family!!! Here is a picture of me with my mom and sisters.....for some weird reason while taking photos we forgot to get an entire family picture which we try to do each year since Thanksgiving is the one time during the year that we are all together.

We usually do a "nice" picture....and then we have to do one like this......

There's nothin' like family!

OK......Yesterday was my stamping class......it was so fun to be with the other ladies in the class! I thoroughly enjoy my time of stamping and visiting! It's worth the class just so I can see these ladies each week!

During class we made two very cute Christmas cards. The one that I will show you today was made using the Build A Bear dies which we mounted to a side step card. There were LOTS of little pieces to this.....but it turned out very cute!

Not very much stamping on this card......we did use the Punch Pals stamp set for the wreath, tree, and the greeting....pretty much everything else was die cut.

Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow I will post the other card from class. Have a GREAT day and until next time.....

Blessings......Cindy

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Just wanting to wish you all a most blessed and bountiful

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Until next time....find some time for stamping.

Blessings.......Cindy

HUGE SALE....ENDS NOV. 30!!!!

Who doesn't LOVE a good sale?!

Just wanted to remind you of the FANTASTIC SALE that is going on JUST THIS WEEK at Stampin' Up! They are offering some real "doorbuster" deals and you don't even have to get up in the wee hours of the morning and wait in the cold for the store to open!!!

Click HERE to see all the items on Stampin' Up!'s customer website.

30% OFF 40% OFF

These are GREAT deals!!!! Remember that these prices are only good until NOV. 30th!!!!

Well.....I better get going and start my Thanksgiving cooking!

Until next time.....find some time for stamping...

Blessings.........Cindy

ELVES SHOES

Well.....I couldn't resist posting this card. I had lots of fun making it. My card's inspiration came from Marie....her blog is Stamping Inspiration....I just recently stumbled upon her blog and have really enjoyed looking through all her creations. I am going to be adding her to my Blog List.....it's going to be a great resource for ideas!!!

My card is a bit different from Marie's original. I didn't take the time to cut small strips for the socks.....I just cut a strip of striped DSP. I drew in laces with a white gel pen....but I think I like her buckles better. I also added a skirt and the shoe pompoms are bigger.

I cut her shoes using the Top Note die....just use about a 1-1/2" or 2" strip on the long side of the Top Note.....after it's cut then fold in half. While folded punch out the shoe's tops. The leg holdes are punched with the 3/4" circle punch and then the top of the shoes are punched with the 1-3/8" punch. Be sure to punch these while the top note is folded so that they match.....Also, be sure to punch the leg holes pretty close together to the folded edge. Then sponge all around the shoes.....being sure to sponge the fold. The pompoms are punched with the big flower from the Boho Blossom punch. Her skirt is make out of a 3-3/4 x3" piece of Real Red cardstock....then the angled sides were cut by placing the edge of the cardstock on the trimmer's cut line and then other end on the 1/2" mark. Then I took a 4x3/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock and punch it with the Scallop Edge...Then I adhered the white onto the red and trimmed the white to match the red. Finally, the socks were made using a 2-1/2x3/4" strip of striped DSP, you might have to cut down the legs depending on how they fit. That's it......easy peasy!!

I think I will try making another one.....a boy elf next time......I will be sure to post him as soon as I make him.

Better run.....Until next time,

Blessings to you.........Cindy

AUTUMN CLASS CARD and MATCHBOX

YEAH! It's Friday and this begins a week long vacation for the kids! I know that they are ready for break....even though after a day or so they will start to say that they are bored. It's getting harder and harder to keep them occupied with those "simple pleasures" in life. I don't understand......they use to LIKE playing in the sink with the bubbles while doing the dishes :-) Oh well.....despite the boredom and the unfortunate moans and groans I'll hear from having them do some chores around here, it will be nice to have them around.

I finally got caught up in my picture taking......and so today I thought that I would post a card that I made a couple of weeks ago in class. It is very fitting considering Thanksgiving is right around the corner.......

It is a pretty straight forward card.....we used the Big Shot and the Leaves #2 die. Before we cut the leaves out we stamped the piece of cardstock with the Sanded background stamp and then embossed it. The acorns and the background images are from the Autumn Splendor stamp set that is in the current Holiday Mini. We stamped the leaves and then stamped some "texture" onto the background and leaves with the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set....this is a great little set for things like this. The acorns were also embossed and then the "nut" part was filled with Crystal Effects and tied with a smal bit of Linen Thread. The sentiment is from the Level 1 hostess set Holiday Best.....which was punched using the (sadly) retired Key Tag punch layered on cardstock (sorry....can't remember the color) that was punched with the Curly Label punch. There is also a small amount of Dazzling Diamond glitter on the leaves in the sentiment.

During the same class we made a box using the Matchbox die to compliment the card. We used almost the same supplies for this.....

Here is what was on the inside.....

Well....that is it for today. Just in case I don't get around to posting before Thanksgiving.....

Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Until next time,

Bountiful Blessings.........Cindy