Summer

Been absent at the blog for quite some time.  

Days spend leisurely reading is upon us, a common 

ritual here during summer.  Books are an important ingredient

for summer around here, as is pool time, lemonade 

and ice cream cones (like coffee ice cream in waffles cones).

Did, however, take the time to make a couple of bookmarks to 

match a couple of my current reads:

The Lake House by Kate Morton.  LOVED IT!  

It's her latest which was released last fall and somehow I

missed this.  Stumbled upon while searching for a different book

and promptly checked it out from my local library.  Did not

disappoint!

Bookmark using watercolor paper and using the flower image

from Butterfly Basics.  Phrase from a stamp set from 

Papertrey Ink.  Ink: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss Pool Party and

copper embossing for the bottom part.

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

This was Kate's third novel and I had already read it a few years back

but I couldn't remember all the details and decided to read

it again.  Still just as good as the first time!

Bookmark:  Stamp set Simply Sketched on watercolor paper, using

Elegant Eggplant color and Lost Lagoon ink with a watercolor brush.

Doodles are my own.

Friday is almost here.  Enjoy the coming weekend!

Last Teatime Cards

Last couple of cards I created for my Teatime class. 

Aqua gingham paper by Pebblesinc.com paper from their Basics line, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White and Crumb Cake cardstock.  Petite Petals set inked in melon mambo, pink pirouette and a retired pretty in pink.  Cup stamped with pool party ink.

Mini Drapery Fold tutorial HERE by Dawn Olchefske..

Piece of gingham was cut to 6 x 1 3/4 and scored at

3-1/4, 3-3/4, 4-3/4, 5-1/4

Proceed as her directions show.

Happy Wednesday!



Teatime Stamping

Hello!

Sharing a few pictures of a recent class with a favorite group of ladies.  I decided a spring morning tea and stamping was the thing for April and especially when I found the cute plates and napkins.  Thought it mixed well with the tea cups and saucers I already owned.  Fresh blooms from the yard along with tulips from the market kept things very springy.   Wished I had taken a better picture but as usual, my iphone was on hand at the moment.

Found this pretty non-SU! paper from Echo Park at a local scrapbook/papercraft shop and did all our projects with this along with SU! cardstock.  

First up is this cute little Tea Bag Pouch.   Inspiration for this came from Laura's Creative Moments, a stamper from the Netherlands.  Her treat holder was made using 12x12 cardstock, done in metric measurements and was a bit more embellished on the inside.  I simplified mine and used 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock.   

Love SU!'s A Nice Cuppa stamp set and the Cups and Kettles Dies!  Treat holder used crumb cake cardstock, the Echo Paper floral dsp and a gingham dsp from Pebbles, Inc.  Little flowers are pool party and the heart steam is blushing bride cs.

The pouch actually could hold a couple more tea bags and/or another cookie.  

Here's written instructions I did for myself to create the holder and the inside box in US measurements and using 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock.  The inside box was modeled after Helene den Breejen's holder and you can see her's HERE.  I fiddled with the size of mine to suit my needs.    

I temporarily have a clothespin to hold this together for the photo.  For the one above, I used my crop-o-dile to punch a small hole through both panels together and then tied it closed with some burlap twine from the Dollar Store and a spoon from the Cups and Kettles Die in crumbcake cardstock.  

The little clothespin would be cute embellished.  May try that with this sample.   Next up,  I'll share the rest of projects we did including the little tea bag holder in the above pictures.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Easter Cards

Cute little lamb for my Easter cards that were sent back in March.  Such a sweet stamp image. 

Quick iphone shots before slipping them into their envies for mailing.  Both layouts were inspired off cards first seen on Pinterest.

On the card above, the Easter lamb stamp was heat embossed with gold and then his "fur" was colored in using the white gel pen and body parts were colored using the blender pen with Blushing Bride ink.  Paper is the Birthday Bouquet DSP

This card was a case of Inge Groot's layout I had seen on her blog.  The lamb was stamped with Stazon black.  Then I used a two way glue pen to adhere some white flocking on it's body and some Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  Can't tell from the photo, but the lamb is a little sparkly.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Holiday Projects

A few Christmas projects I did with some sweet friends.  All are cased from stampers that shared on Pinterest or their blogs.  

These were so much fun to make, especially the globe ornament using SU!'s White Christmas and half globes bought from Michael's Craft Store. 

Thanks for stopping by!

A Few More Masculine Cards

A masculine birthday card and another Father's Day card using the same supplies as the last card creation I posted.  

Father's Day Card

Continuing my goal to use up retired designer series paper from SU!, I made a Father's Day card using an old A Muse Artstamps "golfer" I've had for a long time.  Paired it with another A Muse stamp sentiment inside (not shown) which reads "have a swinging day!".  

The paper is the same from my last post along with Sahara Sand and Chocolate Chip cardstock from SU!  Father's day sentiment from SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes and Papertrey Ink's dotted stamp from Faux Ribbon.

Loving that it's summer break for us.  Have a great weekend!

Hello Again.....

Funny how time flies and you forget you started a blog.   My blogging efforts went by the wayside for quite some time (okay, a really long time) but I am inspired to start afresh.  So here I am with a little paper crafting photo.  I've decided to dig into my stash of Stampin Up! designer paper and start using it up!  I can't believe how long I have had this dsp (I'm thinking about 9 years).  With SU!'s Envelope Punch Board and the Mini Treat Bag Thinlet, I think I can make a dent in it. 

All supplies are Stampin Up for the exception of the grosgrain ivory ribbon.  Paper:  Spring Flowers DSP (retired), So Saffron, Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz & Whisper White
Tools:  Mixed Bunch punch, Leaf/bird punch combo, Mini Treat Bag Thinlet, Envelope Punch Board.

Have a great day!



First Day of April

....and it's going to be a beautiful one. 

 

Here's a thank you card for a friend.  Inspired by Melissa's card HERE.  Great way to use up scraps of designer series paper.  I've had this paper for awhile now that I can't even remember the name of it.  It coordinated with one of SU's sets, Looks Like Spring, I think.

 

 

 

 

 

Made it a post card, sizing it to fit a business size envelope.  Colors are Crumb Cake, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip and white.  Butterfly punch from Martha Stewart, Espresso Twine, embossing folder on the strips of CC cardstock, and some little pearls for embellishments.  Cute and simple.

 

Hope you have a great week!

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter

 

Here's a card I had at my last stamp camp for some wonderful ladies that like to take their time and stamp with me.

 

 

 

 

 

Using SU!'s Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Bloomin' Marvelous and the single stamps set, Easter Blessing.  Colors are Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Pear Pizazz, and Pink Pirouette.

 

I did not realize before snapping the picture that I lost one of the little gems on one of the pink flowers.  Oh well. 

 

Hope you have had a wonderful Easter!

 

Blessings,

 

 

Stamping

There are some days I love to stamp, other days I read, then other times I cross stitch.  Then there are lots of days where I don't do anything!  That's been mostly the case lately.

 

But since spring break, I've been playing with my stamps.  I pulled out a set I hardly have used, SU! Great Friend, now retired.  It's one I just had to have, used it on a card or two, then it sat in the closet unused for a very long time.  Partly because it is wood mounted and I prefer my clear mount sets over the wood nowadays. 

 

 

 

 

 

So I pulled out the neglected set, peeled it off it's wood block and made it into a clear mount set using Papilio Inkjet clear static cling vinyl film using THIS tutorial and THIS one. 

 

Found the coordinating designer series paper (that I just had to have with the set!) and inked up the stamps.  Made several cards, like the ones above and below.

 

 

 

 

I'm determined to use up all of this paper, making simple coordinating tags with the scraps.  No use hoarding it. 

 

 

 

 

Had to pull out an old color to match with the designer series paper, A Walk in the Park.  It uses the retired color Cameo Coral.  Good thing I hadn't gotten rid of it yet.  I am getting ready to clean out my stamp room and do away with the old colors and coordinating cardstock. 

 

 

 

Going to find another old set to redo and give it a little inky love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Spring Tea

Happy Spring! 

 Popping in  to share with you a  little gift for my sister who loves to drink tea as much I do.

 

It's one of our favorite daily rituals. 

 

Packaged up a tin of Harney & Sons tea called "Paris" with a tea themed card.

 

 

Used the SU! set called Tea Shoppe.  I cased a card I made awhile back but used Wisteria Wonder color scheme to match the tin. 

 

 

 

 

Enjoying a break from school; we are on our spring/Easter holiday break. 

Love having this time at home but it's going by way too quickly for my liking!

 

 

Have a lovely day!

 

 

Season's Greetings

 

 

 

Good Morning!

 

Here's another holiday card for you.  It uses SU! Beautiful Season set. 

 

 

 

 

Image stamped in Stazon black and colored in with a blender pen.  Used the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder on the cherry cobbler strip, Scallop Trim Border for the white and Labels collection framelit for the image panel.  Colors, are green gumball, basic gray, cherry cobbler, so saffron and pumpkin pie.  Can't see it in the photo hardly, but there is ulta fine glitter, applied with a two-way glue pen, on the leaves and berries. 

 

 

 

 

Have a great Friday!

 

 

Keeping Calm..........

Hello Friends!

We are back into the swing of school time!  Whew!  I'm trying to "Keep Calm" as we carry onto the new school.  My boys started 6th and 4th grade and I've got 14 new little ones in the preschool class I assist in.  They are precious!  

Things have been busy and I have been super tired lately with getting adjusted into our school routines.  Things are settling down now and everyone is happy in their places.  

Back in July, I sent a little gift to my sister.  It was a book entitled, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', a historical fiction novel, that is charming and full of quirky characters telling the time when an English island was occupied by Germany during WWII .  An English themed book, the card I enclosed with it was a perfect match I thought.   

All supplies used are from Stampin Up! 

We are already looking forward to a three day weekend with Labor Day coming up!  Just 4 more school days.  Woohoo!

Take care and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Carry On

Paper: midnight muse, whisper white & real red

ink:  real red, white craft, gold metallic ink

accessories:  1"inch circle punch, clear jewels





Little Owl Pillow Box

I found a cute pillow box owl via Pinterest (where else these days?!) awhile back.  Of course I had to pin it and make one of my own. 

Sweet little thing; perfect for housing a little gift of somekind, like jewelry or a gift card.  Maybe even a chocolate nugget or two.  And so easy to make!

I used the SU! Pillow Box Die to make the box.  Used various punches to make the eyes and "wings", Heart to Heart punch for the feet and the 3/4 punch to make the circles for the "body feathers" (could use a scallop die or the scallop punch as well).    

Paper used was Pink Pirouette cs for the box and designer series paper in the same color for the body feathers.  Little bit of bling for the twinkling eyes. 

Here she is in her "nest" before being sent to my niece with a little bracelet inside for her birthday.

Here is a link: KERRY'S CRAFT BLOG where she has a whole bunch of colorful ones and a newly made video tutorial explaining how they are made.

                

Thanks for stopping by!