Lakeshore Stamper

O'Christmas Tree O'Christmas Tree

Today's card is one that I CASEd from my up-line Ruth - she makes the most beautiful and elegant cards!  This card uses the Dashing Designer Series Paper - another great reason to take advantage of SU!'s special this month (buy 3 pkgs of DS and get 1 free).  I used Very Vanilla card stock for the card and also used a 1" strip of it across the center of the card.  I dry embossed the raised dots using the Crop-a-dile and the paper piercing template (this helps you line-up the raised dots perfectly)...be careful not to press to hard or you will make a hole in your card stock.  I layered the DS paper and the strip of Very Vanilla onto a piece of Old Olive card stock.  Then I stamped the swirls and Merry Christmas from the Season of Joy stamp set onto the Old Olive card stock with Old Olive ink.  I also used a piece of Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon above the strip of Very Vanilla. 

I inked up the Tree stamp with Old Olive ink and then used Q-tips to remove the ink from the star and trunk of the tree.  I used my Marvelous Markers and colored the trunk with Chocolate Chip and the star with Summer Sun and then stamped the image onto a 2 x 3 piece of Very Vanilla card stock.  I used the Ticket Corner punch on all the corners and layered onto a 2.25 x 3.25 piece of Real Red card stock which I also used the Ticket Corner punch on.  That's it the card is done!

But wait...I wanted to add some sparkle and shine to the card so I used my clear Spica glitter pen (non SU!...I know how dare I use a non SU! product) and traced the dots of the swirl stamp as well as the Merry Christmas, the tree trunk and the star.  You can't see the sparkle in the above picture, but you can see some of it in this picture (below).  Thanks for stopping by!

Season of Joy Card Tote

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I was incredibly busy last week.  My CT friends came up this past weekend for their annual trip to Maine, so...I had lots of cleaning to do around the house.  My daughter also came home for the long holiday weekend.  She usually takes the train back and forth on her trips home, but yesterday we needed to drive her back to Boston as her roommate officially quit last week.  Her roommate had the TV, so now my daughter had to bring back her TV and DVD player as well as her Dell laptop and printer we had order back in August before she went off to college.  It would have been difficult to bring all that back by herself on the train and then take the T and shuttle bus back to college.

I also had to get ready for my Stamp-a-Stack on Saturday for World Card Making Day.  Although I didn't have the turn out I had hoped for; we still had a great time and I think the girls who did come enjoyed themselves and liked the cards we made.  As an added bonus we each made this cute little card tote to put our 16 cards in.  To make this tote we used an 8½" x 11" piece of Purely Pomegranate card stock and scored it 1¼" on both long sides and then turned the card stock and scored at 4½" on both of the short sides.  Hold the card stock so it's landscape and cut the score lines that you made at 4½" on each side up to the score lines you made for 1¼".  I may not be explaining this well enough for you to understand (heck I've confused myself), to see a diagram of this click here.  I used Sticky Strip to adhere the sides of the tote together and trust me you will want to use Sticky Strip not a glue stick or Snail (mono-adhesive) because they just won't hold together like the Sticky Strip.  I then cut a 2¾" square piece of Whisper White card stock and used my Marvelous Markers (Old Olive, More Mustard, Brilliant Blue and Rose Red) to color on the stamp for the Season of Joy set.  I layered this on a 3 1/3" square of Brilliant Blue card stock.  For the scalloped edge on the top of the tote, I used two 8" x ½" strips of More Mustard card stock and used my 3/16" corner rounder without the guard to create the scallops.  I then scored each strip 1" on each side and then adhered to the top of the tote.  I then used Old Olive ¼" Grosgrain ribbon about 21" long and adhered to the sides of the tote with Sticky Strip.  It's really very easy to make!  Make one and leave me a comment to let me know how your tote came out!

Season of Joy Wreath

I created this card for 2 purposes...I needed a swap for an SU! team meeting yesterday and I needed to create a card for my upcoming National Card Making Day Stamp-a-Stack class I am having on Oct. 3 and Oct 6.  Any time I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone I'm all for it!

I created this card using SU!'s Season of Joy stamp set (which is in the current mini catalog).  The wreath was created using the swirl stamp you see at the bottom of the card.  I stamped the swirl using Always Artichoke ink on all 4 sides of the Whisper White card stock and then stamped the swirl kitty corner on all 4 corners - thats 8 times I stamped the swirl.  I then stamped the poinsettia in Purely Pomegranate ink 8 times around the wreath.  I also stamped the Merry Christmas in Purely Pomegranate in the middle of the wreath.  I used the Ticket Corner punch on each corner.  I layered the Whisper White card stock on a piece of Purely Pomegranate card stock.  I then got out my brads and tried several colors but just couldn't find one that satisfied me...so I decided to emboss the brads with white embossing powder - this was exactly what I was looking for!  However, when I finished my sample card and started making 30 of these cards (to swap) I realized I needed 120 of these embossed brads!!!!  Well with the help of my DH we finished all 120 of them...well actually 121...guess we can't count! LOL

I used Always Artichoke card stock for the card and stamped the swirl and snowflake with VersaMark ink and embossed with white embossing powder - like I didn't already do enough embossing with the brads!  I am happy with the way this card came out.  I also got a call from one of my up-lines last night telling me I won the prize for the best swap yesterday...although there really was no prize other then the phone call.  ha ha ha!  But I was pleased that she took the time to call me and tell me she liked my card!

As always thanks for stopping by and looking.  Now, I need to come up with 3 more cards for my class next week, so I need to get busy and stay focused!