Hybrid Cards

I bought myself a new printer for Christmas and I must say I am in love. I'm sure you're all well aware of my love of designer papers and what could be better than an unlimited supply of digital papers. Currently I'm having a wonderful time with the Tiny Princess Patterned and Solid Papers from the digichick. Being able to print digital papers is so fun!

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by.

Baby Cards

I had a request for a baby girl card so I pulled out some stamps and put together a couple of cards. For this first one I used a little Studio G stamp and paper pieced the baby carriage.


Next I used the giraffe stamp from Imaginisce. I stamped it in Palette hybrid ink and colored it with Copics then cut it out. I mounted it to a piece that I diecut using the Nestabilities Label 1 set. On the label I stamped the word Welcome from the retired SU fancy flexible phrases set. The patterned papers are from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl collection.


Thanks for stopping by. Please check back tomorrow 'cause I heard a rumor about some blog candy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day! We're planning to spend it painting our living room. Not the most romantic thing but that's ok as long as we're together.

This is the card I made for my DH. I stamped the heart swirl background with embossing ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Next I inked the tag with Distress Inks (pink lipstick, fired brick and vintage photo around the edges). The hearts are cut out of grungeboard and painted with fired brick crackle paint. The I LOVE YOU sentiment is from a Studio G set and just stamped repeatedly on a strip of paper inked with more pink lipstick Distress Ink. I attached the tag to a Kraft card base, used my cropodile to punch a hole in the top and added a May Arts ribbon to finish the card.

Studio G Owl

I had a 50% off coupon for Michael's that I needed to use before it expired and I had my eye on Prima's "The First Blush" paper pack so I ran to Michael's last night. While browsing the store I found this cute Studio G Owl stamp in the $1 bin and had to add it to my basket. The Prima paper pack was on sale so I ended up giving my coupon to the gal in line behind me. She was thrilled.

When I got home I pulled out my Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink, some Choc Chip cardstock, a variety of papers and made some cards with my new owl stamp. I kept the same layout for all of the cards and just changed up the designer papers.

For the first card I used papers from BasicGrey's Urban Prairie collection. Next I pulled out Cosmo Cricket's My Campy line of papers and finally cut in to them. I also used the Pocket full of Posies line from DCWV and my new Prima The First Blush collection of papers. The edges of the papers were sponged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and white gel pen was used for the wing and nose detail on the owls.

I think I'll get a lot of use from this cute little owl.

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

Supplies:

• Stamps - Studio G
  
• Ink - Colorbox Chalk Chestnut Roan, Distress Ink Vintage Photo
  
• Paper - Choc Chip, BasicGrey, Cosmo Cricket, DCWV, Prima
  
• Misc - White gel pen, Ribbon, Buttons

Not Enough

So I finally sat down to work on updating my address list and get started on addressing our cards only to discover that I hadn't made nearly enough cards for the number of people on the list. Gee, when did our Christmas card list get so long. . .

Anyway, I needed more cards so I pulled out one of the Studio G $1 sets and stamped the stocking several times with Palette Hybrid Black on white cardstock and then colored them in with my copics. I added distress stickles to the stockings too. Here are a couple of the cards I put together rather quickly.

This one uses papers from the K&Company Christmas Cheer pack. I also used the SU scallop border punch. The card bases are wonderful textured natural (cream) colored cardstock I purchased from InStyle Stamps.

For this card I used a variety of BasicGrey papers. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're able to take some time to relax and enjoy yourself during this busy season.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Studio G, Memory Box
  
• Ink - Palette Hybrid Black
• Paper - Natural textured, BasicGrey, K&Company, White
  
• Misc - Copics, Scallop border punch, Stickles, Pop dots

Have you seen it?

While reading the latest A Muse News I found a cute calendar for 2008. For a $3.00 donation I was able to download the calendar. All donation proceeds go directly to the Scleroderma Research Foundation. I thought these would make really cute gifts for the members of my book club and then I saw Linda's idea to use the calendar on a card so I had to create a calendar page for December 2007 for our December book club meeting which I am hosting. I will be using these for the invitations. I created the December 2007 calendar and printed them up on white cardstock. They measure 3 3/4 inches square and are layered on 3 7/8 squares of basic black from Stampin Up. The card base is 4 1/4 square and made from cool caribbean (retired color) also from Stampin Up. The holiday drink is a $1 stamp from Studio G. I masked off the words on the stamp and stamped the drink using Palette Noir Black ink. The image was colored using my copic markers. I was going to just use my red copic marker to circle the date but decided a stamp would be more uniform so I went through my stamps and decided on this one from the Clearly Wordsworth Vacation set. I inked it with Warm Red Chalk ink. Inside I will print all the details of our get together. Thanks for stopping.


Supplies: White cardstock, December 2007 calendar; Color printer; Studio G drink stamp; Clearly Wordsworth Vacation set circle stamp; Palette Noir Black ink; Copic makers; Colorbox Chalk Ink warm red; Stampin Up basic black, cool caribbean.