Hubby's Valentine's Card

I was surfing some other stamping blogs a little while ago and I came across one by Dawn Griffith, I saw so many great ideas on her site. I now check it daily. Anyways, she had done a card using a 3x3 envelope for the inside. I really liked this idea and decided to try to make one myself. I made this card for my husband for valentine's day. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. There is a little 3x3 note card inside the envelope that you can slide out to write your message on.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Dream Come True, Holidays & Wishes
Ink: Rose Red, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Mellow Moss, Whisper White, Rose Red DS Prints
Accessories: 3x3 envelope, Stampin' Dimensionals, Vintage Brads

First Class

Last Saturday I held my very first Stampin' Up! class. The theme was heat embossing. I had a small turn out but this made it very informal, which is where I feel so much more comfortable anyways, so that worked out fine with me. These are the three cards we made:

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Embrace Life
Cardstock: Taken With Teal, Chocolate Chip, Apricot Appeal, Whisper White
Ink: Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Taken With Teal Marker
Accessories: Black Embossing Powder, Apricot Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals

Card was cased from inkerzaway at SCS:

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Ink: White Craft, Bashful Blue
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Chocolate Chip Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Sponges, Stampin' Dimensionals

I cased this card from slschaf771 at SCS. I just changed the colors.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Moss Grosgrain Ribbon, Old Olive Brads, Mat Pack

Christmas Catch-up

So much for my goal of trying to post once a week. I have already broken it since it has been almost two weeks since my last post. Opps. The past couple weeks have been really busy and stressful with my day job and when I get home, I just veg out. I have barely stamped anything other than planning for upcoming classes, so I don't have much new to share. I am going to hold off sharing the class projects until I have the class. So for now I am going to share a few of the Christmas cards that I made this year. The snowman from the set Merry & Bright is one of my favourite and needless to say I used it a ton on my Christmas cards this year. I am so sad that Stampin' Up! retired this set this year. I really liked the layout on this card, so I tired it with a bunch of other colour schemes. I like the way they all turned out but this first one is my favourite of them all and I made a ton of them.

New Year - New Goals

It has been a long time since I last posted. The past few months have been crazy busy. Thankful I had some time off over the holidays and was able to relax, catch up on sleep and spend some time in my scrapbook room. Just like most people I do have a few New Year's resolutions - 1. To scrapbook more this year (I didn't do much scrapbooking last year.) and 2. Post to my blog more often. I am aiming at at least once a week.

The New Year started off great in regards to my first goal, but isn't that the way it always goes ... you make a resolutions and start out really good meeting it and then somewhere along the line it dies out. I spend the first few days of this year in my scrapbook room, I got alot accomplished and so proud of myself. I got a cricut create for Christmas and I must say I think just wanting to use this really put my in the mood to scrapbook. I did about fourteen scrapbook pages in three days and I used the cricut on 75% off them. I am loving it. Below are pictures of the pages that I did, I am not going to include a supply list for each page because that would take way too long for me right now, however if you are interested in knowing any of the supplies I used, feel free to leave me a comment and I will let you know what I used. The layout for the first Christmas page was taken from Stampalooza's June scrapbook sketch challenge on SCS. The layout for the birthday page was cased from Luv2Stamp&Scrap and turned into a two page spread. The K on the Kincardine page is one of the sticky cut letters by Stampin' Up! covered with micro beads and glitter. I have to say the Toronto Zoo page has got to be my favourite, I got the sketch from a Simple Scrapbooks magazine (not sure what month it was in). Okay I am done talking about the pages now for the pics...

Christmas Card Stamp A Stack

At the beginning of the month I hosted a Christmas card stamp a stack, and then did another one last night with a few more people. It was so much fun. I love making Christmas cards and every year make I always make too many.

Here are pictures of the cards that we made:

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Simple Season of Grace
Ink: Night of Navy, Old Olive, Summer Sun
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Old Olive, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Accessories: Night of Navy Grosgrain Ribbon, Photo Corners Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals

This card was cased from justbehappy at splitcoaststampers.com. I made a whole bunch of different colour schemes of this card before decided on which one I was going to use. I will share pictures of the other cards in the next few days.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Merry & Bright, Holidays & Wishes
Ink: Black StazOn, Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Real Red
Cardstock: Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Ski Slope DS Paper
Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon,1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Blender Pen, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals

This card was cased from Linda Heller at www.stampingschool.com.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Punches Three
Ink: Always Artichoke,
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Silver Cord, Scallop Square Punch, 1/8" Circle Hand Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals

Gift for Club Members

As promised here is a picture of the little gift that I gave to the members of my stamp club as a thank you for spending the year with me. The template is called 'mini pizza box' and I got it off of splitcoaststampers.com. I filled the inside with a few pieces of ribbon, a bunch of different brads, and a small stamp.

Supplies Used:

Stamp Sets: Fresh Cuts

Ink: Rose Red, So Saffron

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, So Saffron

Accessories: Fresh Cut Notes, Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon, 5-Petal Flower Punch, Silver Brad, Paper Piercer

October Stamp Club

Today was the last meeting for the year of my stamp club. I am sad that it is over for the year, but am looking forward to starting another club up in the new year. I made a special little gift for each member as a thank you for spending the year with me. As I write this though I realize that I haven't taken a picture of it yet. I will make myself a note to do this and hopefully get it posted tomorrow. On to the projects we created today. The first project is a gift card holder. I got the template for this project from Linda Heller at stampingschool.com.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Punches Three, Priceless, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip Marker
Cardstock: Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Scallop Square Punch, White Grosgrain Ribbon

The second card is a acetate card. This is the first time I have made one and I love the way they look. It works great for the a Christmas card, and I just might make some more for my personal Christmas cards.

Supplies Used:
Stamp Sets: Lovely As A Tree, Merry & Bright
Ink: Old Olive
Cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Glue Dots, Chocolate Grosgrain Ribbon, Paper Piercer