I'm back

I'm getting back into the swing of things this week, and that includes posting to my blog. I have done some stamping the past week and I'm excited to share some of the projects. Last Monday I received a box of new goodies from the upcoming mini catalog. and I've started to play with them a little. The card in the picture was made on my quest to go through my stamps sets alphabetically and use each one. I'm still working on the H's. This stamp set is Heard from the Heart. It has four great sentiments that can be paired with flowers and other embellishments. I used the pretties kit to dress this card up.

Is Christmas in your Heart?

I love this sentiment. "Welcome Christmas into your heart".

This is another card we made last week. Card base is real red 6x6 folded in half. This will fit in SU!'s long envelopes or a regular bill envelope. The sentiment was stamped in old olive and the heart which is from an old retired set is stamped in real red. We used a piece of ski slope designer series paper (it's beautiful, I almost didn't want to cut it) and used the scalloped edge punch on both top and bottom.

Stamper's Block

For two days I've been trying to make swaps for a training event that I'm going to tomorrow. I feel so uncreative. I came up with several different ones--I didn't love any of them. But this is the one I decided to use as my shoebox swap. Simple but with fun accessories

Stamp set: Heard from the Heart
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Card stock: kiwi kiss, baja breeze and chocolate chip
accessories: scalloped edge punch, ice rhinestone brads, pretties kit. I dyed the flower using the baja breeze reinker.

New Catalog Party Samples

Here are three of the four cards we made at Friday's New Catalog Party. We had a great time stamping and ohhing and ahhing over the new stuff. If you weren't able to make it to the party but want a copy of the catalog make sure to contact me, you might be eligible for a FREE catalog.

I love this card, it is so bright and cheery and easy!! I've never been one for a lot of layers but I think all the different color cardstock looks great!
Stamps: Happiness Always
Ink: chocolate chip, tangerine tango, kiwi kiss, pacific point
paper: tangerine tango, kiwi kiss, pacific point, whisper white
accessories: silver brads

The circles are really big in this catalog. It must be the "new thing". So we used the coluzzle to make this circle then paper pierced around it.

Stamps: Heard from the Heart

Ink: baja breeze

Paper: pink pirouette, baja breeze, whisper white, apricot appeal dsp

Accessories: scalloped edge punch, coluzzle, paper piercer

This card was simple, and beautiful. I wanted to make a card with some of our traditional colors just to remember that all of our colors are beautiful!!

Stamps: Wow flowers

Ink: bashful blue, always artichoke, close to cocoa

Paper: always artichoke, close to cocoa, confetti cream, bashful blue dsp

accessories: mellow moss ribbon

Heard from the Heart

Stamps: heard from the heart
Ink: pacific point and baha breeze
Cardstock: whisper white, pacific point

Stamps: heard from the heart, sock monkey

Ink: Tangerine tango, chocolate chip

Cardstock: tangerine tango, whisper white, chocolate chip

Accessories: 1 1/4 circle punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, scalloped circle punch, blender pens

Well I think most of you know how much I love simple one layer cards. Sometimes the stamps are just enough. Although neither of these officially fall into the category of one layer, they are close. I added a layer of Pacific point cardstock behind the card on top. I love the Pacific point color. It's not like any other color stampin' up offers.

On the second card I did make the cupcake pop by using my favorite punches and stampin' dimensional. I colored the cupcake by dipping my blender pen into the ink and coloring like a marker.

Both of these cards are very easy to make--I hope you will try.