Colour Blocked Flowers

For some reason I love to do black card bases for cards. When you add colour to the card the black really makes it stand out. This card was actually very simple to make. All I did was take a piece of White cardstock and attach the strips of coloured cardstock to it and then stamp the flower image with White craft on them. I just love the look of this card. I was just thinking maybe I will do a class using this card and colour blocking. Hmm....

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: White Craft, Black StazOn
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo
Accessories: Word Window Punch, Modern Label, Stampin' Dimensionals

Faux Linen

It took me a while to get the stamp set Freinds 24-7 because it wasn't one that really caught my eye at first, but after seeing a ton of great cards made with this set, I decided to get it. Now it is one of the sets I tend to reach for first when I am stamping. Funny how that works sometimes. This card was cased from Dawn Griffith, I just changed up the colours. The background with the flowers uses the faux Linen technique, it is hard to see it in the picture, but in real life it gives the background a really soft look.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin Up!)
Stamp Sets: Friends 24-7, Friendly Words Jumbo Wheel
Ink: Ruby Red, Old Olive Marker, Ruby Red Marker
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Photo Corners Punch, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Tissue Paper, Stampin' Dimensionals

There are so many great samples of cards, scrapbook pages, and 3-d items in the catalogue to use for inspiration or to copy. I cased the following card directly from the catalogue. This card uses a few of my favourite things - Kraft cardstock, Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Old Olive and the 5/16" Neutrals brads.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: A Beautiful Thing
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
Cardstock: Kraft, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Old Olive Prints
Accessories: 5/16" Neutrals Brads, Chocolate Chip Narrow Grosgrain, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin' Dimensionals

Big on Christmas

This is the fourth card we made at my Christmas card Stamp-a-Stack. I love this card. Each person could choose which card they wanted to make and if they wanted to make one of each they could. If they wanted to make two of one design and one of the other designs, they could. This was one of my favourite cards that I used it for a lot of my own Christmas cards. These cards were cased from Renaelindzey at SCS.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Big on Christmas
Ink: Black StazOn, Markers - Basic Black, Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Only Orange, Summer Sun
Cardstock: Old Olive, Real Red, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Merry Moments DSP

More Christmas

Here is another card we did at my Christmas Card Stamp-A-Stack. This card was cased from Marlenelo over at SCS. I love how you can use the exact same supplies on each card and yet they each look different. This was such a simple card to do, but turned out great. I love it when cards come together so well.

Supplies Used:

(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Simple Season of Grace, Four the Holidays, Season of Joy
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive
Cardstock: Real Red, Old Olive
Accessories: White Gel Pen, Eyelet Border Punch, Silver Brads, Mat Pack, Paper Piercer, Stamp-a-ma-jig

Happy Birthday Sue

Today I would like to say happy birthday to Sue and I am going to share the card I made for her. We both got a Big Shot for Christmas, so I knew I wanted to do something with it. I also got the Curly Label Movers & Shapers Die so that's where I started with this card. I hand cut the little flowers out, this was alot harder than I thought I would be but I love the way it turned out. The first picture is a view of the card with it closed so you can see the inside and the second picture is of just the front so that you can see the window.

Supplies Used:

(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Embrace Life, Little Flowers, A Little Birthday Cheer
Ink: Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry
Cardstock: Kraft
Accessories: Big Shot, Movers & Shapers Die, Elegant Eggplant Grosgrain Ribbon, Transparency Sheet, Glue Dots

Well, it has been quite a while since I posted. The last few months have been very busy for me, however I have been stamping, I honestly kind of forgot about keeping my blog updated. Now that a new year is here I am planning on trying to commit to my blog more. I really like to keep a record of cards I make and what better way than a blog. For this first blog entry in a while I will show you some of my Christmas cards. These are two of the cards we made at my Stamp-A-Stack in November.

This first card was cased from hoefaser at SCS

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Delightful Decorations, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Patterned Pines
Ink: Night of Navy
Cardstock: Night of Navy, Certainly Celery, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, Mistletoe Ribbon, Silver Cord, Ornament Punch, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Modern Label Punch

This second card was cased from Juliestampsx3 over at SCS

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Tree Trimmings, Four the Holidays
Ink: Ballet Blue, Real Red, Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig