Double Embossing

Today's post brings a technique I've just recently tried out!

The technique is called double embossing. If you'd like to give it a try yourself, scroll down for directions!

Stamps: Occasional Quotes

Ink: StazOn Black, VersaMark

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Love Letter DP

Accessories: Glimmer Brads, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Black EP,

3/8" Pretty in Pink Taffeta Ribbon, 1/8" Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon

Color Time at GAB!

Hey everyone!

It's time for a color challenge over at GAB this week!

This week's color combination is Sahara Sand, Tangerine Tango and Baja Breeze. My son Caiden will be 2 on Monday so I thought I'd take this color combo and make him a birthday card using on of my favorite stamp sets on the Last Chance list, Greetings, Earthlings.

Be sure to post your creation on the GAB site by Midnight on Thursday June 9th! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!! ALSO, we are currently looking for some new Design Team members to start in August, so if you'd like to be on our DT check out the post HERE!

Mom...

It's time to celebrate MOM over at Stampin' Royalty this week!  I made this card with the flip flop stamp from the NEW Sunny Fun set from the Mini Catalog. Since mother's day has come and gone, this is going to be my Mom's Birthday card! = )

Hope you like it!

Supply List:
Stamps: Sunny Fun
Ink: Basic Black, Blushing Bride, Perfect Plum
Paper: Whisper White, Pale Plum, Basic Grey, Lap of Luxury DP
Accessories: Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Pearls, Concord Crush Ribbon, Pastels, Blender Pen, Vintage Wallpaper EF

Diva Coffee Break meets Color Throwdown Challenge

I had to pull out my Sweet Summer SAB set for the Diva Coffee Break Sketch and the Color Throwdown color challenges this week! I just LOVE this set! I WISH it wasn't SAB because I'd love to use it ALL year long in classes!!

Anyways... here's what I've come up with! ENJOY!



 Supply List:
Stamps: Sweet Summer, So Happy for You
Ink: StazOn Black, Rose Red, So Saffron, Old Olive
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Very Vanillla, Watercolor Paper,
Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots EF, Square Lattice EF, Rose Red Seam Binding, Medium Rhinestones, Aqua  Painter, Dimensional,  3" Circle Die Cut



Happy Mother's Day!! - PPA92

Happy Mother's Day to all of you fantabulous mother's out there!!!

This post is going to be short and sweet because we've got to go get ready to head to my Mom's today! = )

I woke up this morning and had to make a card to get my stamping fix for the day... SO I looked around and decided to make a card for the Pals Paper Arts color challenge! I have fallen in LOVE with the In Colors the more and more I've used them so I was SUPER excited to see the color combo!

Here's what I came up with... my sister is turning 15 next Friday! SCARY!!! The older she gets the older I get... I can't believe she is a Freshman in high school and only a year away from being able to drive... That's when all the madness begins!

I know the picture is kind of hard to tell... BUT there is Dazzling Diamonds on each pair of flip flops and I watercolored them with my handy dandy blender pens and ink pads! I also popped the flip flops up of the card with dimensionals. I'll be back later with more details! Thanks for stopping by!!



Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays is celebrating one year!!! Amazing how fast time goes! The challenge this week is Anything Goes so I decided to make a Birthday card to celebrate! Take a moment and go see the wonderful samples the DT has created and celebrate!

Tess is one of my new favorite stamps! I thought she'd be just perfect holding a cupcake in her hand so I stamped and colored a tiny cupcake from the Short & Sweet and made it pop with a dimensional. I added a Marina Mist grossgrain knot and finished it off with the "Happy Birthday (Call me when it's time for cake.)" sentiment from the Afterthoughts hostess set.

Happy 1st Birthday Sentimental Sundays!!

Stamps: Tote-ally Tess, Short & Sweet, Afterthoughts

Ink: Basic Black, Regal Rose, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, So Saffron,

       Cherry Cobbler, Blush Blossom

Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Marina Mist Grossgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals

Birthday Card Buffet

Today I'm sharing some cards that we made in my Birthday Card Buffet class.

ENJOY!

Stamps - Birthday Bliss
Paper - Tempting Turquoise, Newsprint DP, Pumpkin Pie,
Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Ink - Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories - 2 1/2 Circle Punch, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grossgrain Ribbon

Stamps - Birthday Bliss
Paper - Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Pear Pizzazz, Bashful Blue,
Celebrations DP, Whisper White
Ink - Real Red
Accessories - Square Scallop Punch, Real Red 1/4" Grossgrain,
2 1/2 Circle Punch, 1 3/4 Cirlce Punch, Dimensionals

Stamps - Birthday Bliss, Something to Celebrate
Ink - Poppy Parade, Concord Crush
Paper - Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories - Tag Punch, Square Lattice EF, Hemp Twine, Silver Brads

Stamps - Bring on the Cake
Paper - Marina Mist, Whisper White, Basic Black, Sahara Sand
Ink - Basic Black, Marina Mist
Accessories - 1/8" Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon, Daubers, Dimensionals



Stamps - Four Frames, Short & Sweet
Paper - Peach Parfait, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Paisley Petals DP, Whisper White
Ink - Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler, Peach Parfait
Accessories - Decorative Label Punch, Whisper White 1/4" Grossgrain,
 Vintage Wallpaper EF, Modern Label Punch



Birthday Fun!

Stampin' Up! Grab Bags - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

I'm doing a Birthday Class this evening and thought I'd share a card I made recently. This isn't one of the class cards, as I don't want to spoil the class for my stampers BUT I don't think they'll be disappointed with the cards they'll be making! I'll share those with you all tomorrow!

Inspired at GAB

Pam (dsp245 on SCS) inspired me during our embossing challenge last week with her beautiful card! I ordered the Elegant Bouquet EF and put this card together today based off of hers! I just love the colored rhinestones for the flower centers!!

Pam (dsp245 on SCS)

Stamps: Bring on the Cake
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron
Accessories: Elegant Bouquet EF, Rhinestones
Non-SU: Pink Permanent Marker

Happy New Year!!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you all had a very Happy New Year celebration! It's 12:44 here in AZ right now... I rang in the New Year with my two boys (they were and are asleep of course!) as my boyfriend took an extra shift this evening...

I just want to take a moment to share a few of my New Years "goals" with everyone...

1. Lose 20 pounds.. (baby weight)
2. Make and post AT LEAST one card a day
3. Take part in more challenges! I follow TONS of them but hardly do them...
4. Make the GAB Challenges site a success! We are set to start our challenges on Feb. 5th. If you like to play along in challenges please follow us! We would LOVE for you to play along!
5. Find a part time job.. I love being a SAHM but it's nice to have a little extra spending money. My hobby is getting EXPENSIVE! LOL

SO.. Here I am working on two of my goals already! (So much for the first one! LOL) I've been sitting here playing around with some more challenges... I've made this card with the ColorQ 65 challenge and the Sweet Shop 89 sketch challenge. This one actually proved to be a challenge for me as I went to gather my supplies I realized I was out of Basic Grey CS! I was sooo disappointed but I made do without it by stamping with grey instead. And the sketch wasn't exactly easy to me either! I LOVE the layout it just took me a while to figure out how I wanted it!

Enjoy!

Stamps: Afterthoughts, Bold Blossom
Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Old Olive, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Victoria Lace Ribbon, Polka Dot EF, Dimensionals, Large Pearl

Courtney

My first MDS creation!

Ok so for today's birthday share I have a card I made using MDS last night! It's nothing spectacular as I'm still trying to figure out how to use everything! If anyone out there has some pointers or would like to share their fave things to do with MDS feel free to let me know!

Courtney

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Todays the day! I'm officially 24!

I'm so lucky! I get to spend the day with my boys! And my weekend with my amazing boyfriend cause the boys are off to visit their grandparents! Yay! 2 whole days baby free! I'm so excited for this break! I'm definitely going to miss them! Being a SAHM is the most rewarding job in the world and a true blessing! I wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world! Every now and then it's nice to have a break though! = )

Oh! Before I forget again... The other day I made a comment about how I actually remembered my age... So earlier this year I was at a get together with my uncles family and his sister and I were talking. I hadn't seen her since I was about 13 or so. In the midst of our conversation about how crazy it was that she felt like it was just yesterday that I was a child and now here I was a mother to a 10 month old she asked how old I was... I seriously just stood there are froze. I COULDN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER MY AGE! Talk about embarrassing! After a minute or so I said 22 then I spit out 24 because I did the math in my head but then I remembered I hadn't had my birthday yet so then I yelled out 23! FINALLY I had my age right! It was so sad but so funny at the same time! I couldn't believe I had to stop and think about it as long as I did let alone think about it period! I think that's what kids do to you!

Good times! Good times!

So back to todays birthday share, I thought I'd put some butterflys in the air! hehe! I actually made this card last week but I absolutely LOVE it and wanted it to be my birthday post so I delayed posting it! It's pretty simple and easy but it's one of my favorites!

Birthday Squared

Welcome back for you guessed it! Another birthday card in celebration of my birthday week! Yay!

This was actually created for a sketch swap on a yahoo group I belong to. I posted a Christmas version a week or so ago and decided I needed a birthday one too because I like the sketch so much. At first I had a hard time deciding what paper to use but then I remember a post I saw the other day over at Anne Maries blog. She made a beautiful Christmas card with some DSP she had hoarded from last year so I decided to use up some old paper for this quick and simple card!

Thanks for inspiring me Anne! It's definitely time for me to stop being such a paper hoarder otherwise everything I have is going to be old and retired!

MM#2 Birthday Upgrade!

As promised, here is my birthday card for today! It's actually my card from the MM#2 sketch at GAB Challenges with an extra addition! I decided it simply needed a little more! It's so amazing how something so small can change the entire look of a card! I've posted the orginal first and the upgrade below!

Which one do you like best? Leave a comment telling me which one you like better and you may just be the lucky winner to a surprise blog candy!

MM#2 - GAB Challenges

Hey everyone!

It's another Manic Monday sketch challenge! Go check it out at GAB Challenges! Here's one of my creations for the challenge!

Birthday Bliss

Yay!!

That's right! It's my birthday week! I'll be 24 on Thursday! I actually remembered my age! Ha! I'll explain that one in a later post for those of you who are wondering...

Anyhow, in honor of my birthday I'm going to be posting at least one birthday card everyday this week! For some reason I find birthday cards to be challenging. I'm not sure why. I have tons of older SU! birthday sets but I'm not too crazy about many of the new ones... That may be my problem!

Anyhow here is my post for today! I'll try to get info up soon!

As always thank you for coming by and checking out my blog! Don't forget tomorrow is Manic Monday at GAB Challenges so be sure to stop by for a new sketch challenge!

Finally Friday Sparkle Challenge

Hey everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We got to spend time with all of our family!

Here is a card I made for the Finally Friday Sparkle Challenge! Go check out the site if you like to do challenges! We've got some great ones in store for you! The challenges will be up for two weeks so you'll have plenty of time to link your posts!

I can't wait to see all of your creations!

Couple More Birthday Bakery Cards...

So I had another circle I had punched and colored... I couldn't waste it so I made another card using other colors...

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This next card isn't exactly what I had in mind but I used up some scraps so it is what it is! LOL

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Hope you enjoyed seeing my first creations with the Birthday Bakery set!

Come back soon to see a FANGTASTIC Halloween card!