Trick-or-Treat

Here's what you can expect if you stop by our house tonight to Trick-or-Treat.

I put together little treat boxes with assorted chocolates. The die for the favor box is from Clear and Simple Stamps, the papers are from Authentique's Glowing collection and the stamps are from Whipper Snapper - Anna Wight's cling set Spooky Expressions. I added googly eyes to the little bats for some added fun.

I put each one in a clear bag and stapled the top closed in hopes that they would stay together until the trick or treaters get them home.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Halloween!

Batty for Halloween

Another simple Halloween card to share. This one uses the Clear and Simple Stamps set Taglines: Critters.

Another Valentine's Day Card

I have another Valentine's Day card to share with you today. This one uses are a variety of papers from My Mind's Eye, heart dies from Clear and Simple Stamps, a circle Nestabilities die, pink sorbet twine from The Twinery and a sentiment stamp from Paper Smooches Word Salad set.

 

For the largest heart, I ran it through my paper crimper after die cutting it. To make the sentiment flag I just cut a strip, stamped the sentiment, added a gemstone and then trimmed the end with the corner of a square punch.

 Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

XOXO

Today's card uses papers from My Mind's Eye Love Me 6x6 pad. The grey strip is actually two strips of washi tape under the chevron patterned paper strip. For the heart, I used the largest die from the Clear and Simple Stamps heart dies and then ran it through my paper crimper to give it the corrugated look. I also swiped it with a ColorBox Frost white pigment ink pad to tone down the kraft cardstock. The flower is made from the My Favorite Things mini rolled rose die. I cut the paper flag and repeatedly stamped the xo stamp from Paper Smooches Chubby Chums. Finally I added a bow with Stone twine from The Twinery.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a fabulous Friday. Happy Stamping!

Celebrate today and everyday

Today I have two more cards that use the Blush papers from the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found 2 collection. They also use a sentiment from Paper Smooches Pretty Phrases and a heart die from Clear and Simple Stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a great week. Happy Stamping!

Celebrate Love

I used three stamp sets from Paper Smooches to create this sentiment panel - Celebrate from Sentiment Sampler, Love from Word Salad, Now and Forever from Simply Said. The papers are from the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found 2 Blush collection. I also added a couple of die cut hearts (die from Clear and Simple Stamps), pearl pins, and some ribbon.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

Batty For You Chalkboard

After seeing several cute cards that used the chalkboard technique, I had to give it a try so I pulled out some black cardstock, white embossing powder, white ink and some Paper Smooches stamps. I stamped the branch and bat with Frost White Colorbox pigment ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I stamped the images slightly off center a second time with the white pigment ink, added a border to the piece with a white colored pencil and then swiped my white pigment ink pad around the edges of the piece to complete the chalkboard look. I'm definitely going to try this technique again. The patterned papers are from the 6x6 Love Me pad from My Mind's Eye. The heart was die cut with Clear and Simple stamps heart die and then run through my crimper to give it some texture. I stamped the sentiment on a strip of kraft cardstock and mounted it on the heart. For the finishing touch, I wrapped some May Arts burlap string around the card.

The images are all from Kim Hughes. The branch is from an old rubber set from her time with Cornish Heritage Farms. The bat and sentiment are from her Paper Smooches Falling For You set.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a terrific Tuesday. Happy Stamping!

Friendly Little Challenge

Today I have some cards to share with you that use the My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found 2 - Blush 6x6 collection. My friend, Kim Howard and I challenged each other to make some cards using that collection since we both happened to have it in our collection of 6x6 pads.

I ended up using up my paper pad and making over 20 cards so today I will share five of the cards with you. All of these cards have sentiments from Paper Smooches.

For the first card, I stamped the LOVE sentiment from Paper Smooches Good Gab set and colored the letter with a Copic. I paper pieced the heart. The flowers were punched with an EK Success punch and paper from the Blush collection. I added Queen & Co pearls to the center.

 

I added several flowers to this card and then added the label piece which was cut out from another piece of paper from the collection. I stamped the LOVE sentiment from Paper Smooches Word Salad set and colored it with a Copic. For the finish touch I tied some linen thread around the card.

Card three has an embossed sentiment, some pearls, a piece of paper doily and die cut hearts. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Simply Said set and the hearts are die cuts from Clear and Simple Stamps.

I'm always in need of belated birthday cards. Despite the fact that I make cards all the time, I'm not very good about getting them in the mail so I thought I would add one to my collection of cards. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Word Salad set. I added more of the same flowers like on the first card and some burlap twine from May Arts.

Finally, I made a very simple congratulations card to have on hand. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Simply Said set. I added more May Arts burlap string, some punched flowers and a scallop border that was a die cut from AMuseStudios.

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my challenge cards. Don't forget to check out Kim's blog now. I can't wait to see what she came up with for the challenge.


Happy Stamping!

Are you ready for Father's Day?

Have you made your Father's Day cards yet? Here is the card that I made for my Dad.

 

The card base is kraft with designer papers from the 7 gypsies Maison Variety Pack. The fish stamp is from Eureka Stamps but I looked on the website and I don't see it so it may not be available any longer. The Dad stamp on the front is from Clear and Simple Stamps Hero Dad set. 

 

I even stamped on the inside of the card. I used A Muse Studio Slate ink to stamp the fish image on the inside of the card and then I added the father's day sentiment from A Muse Studio's Essential Sentiments set. I'm entering this card in the Masculine Card Blog Challenge for CutCardStock.com.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a terrific Tuesday. Happy Stamping!

Quiet Essence

Today I have two cards to share with you that use the Quiet Essence set from Unity Stamp Company. The first card is a clean and simple style using a pink card base from AMuse Studio cardstock and some patterned paper from My Mind's Eye. The flower was stamped on white cardstock with Versamark, heat embossed with white embossing powder and colored with Copics. The sentiment is from an older retired set from Stampin' Up.

The second card has the same flower and My Mind's Eye patterned papers but I used kraft for the card base and added some burlap, machine stitching, DMC floss and a button. Also, the sentiment is from a limited edition set by Clear and Simple Stamps and was stamped on a flag and tucked under the button.

I'm really happy with how both versions turned out. It's fun to try different styles using similar products.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

Valentine Treats

This weekend I put together 20 Valentine treats for my nieces, nephews and my friend's children. On Sunday, my husband and I delivered them all. I used the Party Favor #1 and Heart die cuts from Clear and Simple Stamps. I ran the cardstock through my Cuttlebug with the Party Favor #1 die and then again with the heart die. Next I doodled around the heart with a white gel pen and then I added a piece of clear cardstock from Papertrey Ink to the inside front panel to cover the heart cutout. I also added a smaller die cut heart to the clear window and then spelled out each child's name with letter stickers from October Afternoon. For the finishing touches, I filled them with candy and tied ribbon and bakers twine to the handles.

You can find a similar version of these Valentine treats on this post.

Thank you so much for stopping. I hope you're week is off to a good start. Happy Stamping!

Birthday Wishes

Today's card has a little bit of everything, a border die and frame die with matching stamp from Papertrey Ink, heart dies from Clear and Simple Stamps, a sentiment stamp from Lil' Inker Designs, papers from Crate Paper, ribbon flower from American Crafts, leaf die from Spellbinders and some gemstones from Michael's. I really like the way all of these different elements came together on this card.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you're having a great weekend. Happy Stamping!

Trust with your Heart

Are you familiar with Unity's Stamp of the Week offering? This card uses the stamp from Week 3. I paired it with a variety of papers from Crate Paper's Random collection and a heart die from Clear and Simple Stamps. 

For my second card, I used papers from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Two "Blush" collection, some vintage lace, bakers twine and Petite type alphabet stickers from Authentique. Apparently I was channeling Yoda when I made the second card and got the idea to change up the message.

That's it from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you're having a great week. Happy Stamping!

Valentine Favors

I put these together using the Party Favor #1 and Heart die cuts from Clear and Simple Stamps. I ran the kraft cardstock through my Cuttlebug with the Party Favor #1 die and then again with the heart die. Next I doodled around the heart with a white gel pen and then I added a piece of clear cardstock from Papertrey Ink to the inside front panel to cover the heart cutout. For the finishing touches, I filled them with candy and tied ribbon and bakers twine to the handles.

I really like the detail that the white gel pen doodles give the front and that it doesn't take any time to do so these would be great for mass producing.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you have a marvelous Monday. Happy Stamping!

Crazy for Owls

Have you seen the Build-A-Critter Owl dies from Clear and Simple Stamps? You can make adorable owl cards with it. I pulled out my Alphabet Soup papers from My Mind's Eye and made up this cutie.

After looking on Pinterest the other day, I noticed several cute samples of owls with big eyes so I decided to try tweaking my little owl card. I used a larger heart from the Clear and Simple Stamps Heart dies for the nose and added a 1 3/8 circle punch of choc chip cardstock around the eyes to create the second owl card.

And then because I was having so much fun, I made several of the big eyed version with a variety of the Alphabet Soup papers.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a HOOT of a day. Happy Stamping!

From the Heart

 

Just a quick post to share a card that uses one of the new heart dies from Clear and Simple Stamps and a sentiment from Clear and Simple Stamps Icons Extras set. I also added a couple of Prima flowers and a button.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a terrific Tuesday. Happy Stamping!

Valentine Critters

Today I have a group of 3x3 valentines I put together using the newly released Taglines: Critters  and  Shapes: Hearts (Die Cut Combo) sets from Clear and Simple Stamps. I stamped the critters on white cardstock, colored them with Copics and cut them out. I used the die cuts for the hearts and stamped them with the coordinating outline stamp. Then just added a sentiment strip on a 3x3 card base of American Crafts Tropical cardstocks.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Happy Stamping!

Runway Inspired Challenge

Today's card is for the ric#4 - Christopher Kane Resort 2012 challenge posted on the Runway Inspired Challenge blog. Since Clear and Simple Stamps is the sponsor of the challenge I used their stamps for my card.

  

For the images I used the Across the Miles set from Clear and Simple Stamps and in keeping with the rainbow image from the challenge I colored the hot air balloon in a rainbow pattern with Copics. I added a  green mat to my card in honor of the green shoes the model is wearing in the inspiration photo.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day. Happy Stamping!

Across the Miles

The Across the Miles set from Clear and Simple Stamps is still one of my all time favorite sets. I just love the hot air balloon and sentiments in that set. Today's card features that set along with some fun papers from the Oliver and Olivia collections by Basic Grey and cloud dies from Papertrey Ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy Stamping!

SCS Sketch Challenge Card

Today's card is for the sketch challenge (SC361) posted yesterday on Splitcoaststampers. It's a great sketch for using up scraps. For my focal piece I went with a paper rose. To create the rose I cut two pieces using the MFT large rose die and then ran them through my crimper a couple of times to give them some added texture. I rolled the two pieces together to get a fuller flower. The leaves are from the Spellbinders Foliage set and were also run through my crimper. The tag is from the Tiny Tags Cuttlebug set and the greeting is from a limited edition stamp set from Clear and Simple Stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day. Happy Stamping!