Christmas Cardapalooza Day 1

For the next 10 days I am going to show the Christmas cards we did last weekend at a stamp a stack. And I am going to predo all my posts today so they will actually be there. *insert rolling eye smiliey here*.



This card uses Baroque Motifs and I think the sentiment is from To You & Yours. The colors are Real Red, More Mustard, Old Olive and Whisper White. All SU!

I wasn't fibbing!

I really do have lots to show, but I was going to post and then wanted more love on my funky flower so I thought I would let it sit another day or so and then I got sidetracked. So now back to our regularily scheduled programming....

This was a make n take at the crop and stamp I went to a few weeks ago. Everyone loved it.

This was my other make n take. Isn't it cute. They liked this one too!

Funky Flower

I made this card using a flower stamp from The Rubber Cafe. I believe it is called Lace Flower. I can't find it on the site at this moment because they are still in the process of loading all of their stamps to the redesigned site.

I got to try out my new copics on it. I think I still need some work, but they are fabulous markers. On the flower inside the flower I added some sparkle with the Atyou Spica Clear Glitter pen.

I was Sworn to Secrecy

I participated in a swap hostessed by Jami Sibley. She is like a famous stamper and known for being a swap nazi and all these famous stampers participate in her swaps. My pal Crystal has done some of her swaps and always gets fabulous stuff so when Crystal told me there were some openings for the current swap I jumped right in. I think I followed all the rules and got them in on time so hopefully I will get asked to play again. Hee hee! You can't upload your swaps to your blog or SCS until everyone starts receiving them back so that is why I was sworn to secrecy.

This card wasn't anything totally earth shattering, but I think it turned out nice. Next time, if there is a next time, I'll have to try and come up with something more fabulous cause I think mine is kind of plain compared to the others I am seeing. I did emboss the little birdie up there, cut him out and put him on a dimensional.

We had to decorate the inside of the cards too so here is the inside of mine.

I don't have my cards back yet, but I bet they will come today or tomorrow.

I was busy prepping for a stamp and scrap thing last week and now that it is over I have some stuff to show. So look for more posts soon!

Swirled Dove by The Rubber Cafe

Two posts in one day!

I made both of these cards using the Swirled Dove from The Rubber Cafe. Be sure to check out their site because they just did a fabulous redesign and have a shopping cart now and there is a sale on the wood mounted stamps!

Both of these cards have the same layout and have the swirled dove image heat embossed in white. It is such a beautiful image.

On this one I stamped the main image repeatedly on the card base to give it some texture.

This card uses the Night Sky shimmery paper from PTI. Isn't it fabulous? Thanks Emma for giving me a piece!

Tagged!

I was tagged over the weekend by Becky in East Tennessee. Check out her blog. She has a really cool design!

I did this one not too long ago, but I am up for it again. It is the tell 7 things about yourself and tag 7 people one.

1. I moved a lot when I was younger and went to a total of 7 different schools by the time I graduated high school.

2. I had my 1st child when I was 24, my mom had me when she was 24, and my grandma had her 1st child when she was 24.

3. My favorite TV shows are Desperate Housewives, CSI (the original), House, and How I Met Your Mother.

4. I love Brad Paisley and hope to see him in concert one day.

5. I love Chinese, Almond Boneless Chicken. Yum. I think I want that for lunch or dinner.

6. I'm hot in the morning and cold at night. My DH is the opposite.

7. I need to go on a real vacation that doesn't involve camping. I can't remember the last time I went on one of those.

I forgot to say... Consider yourself tagged cause I am too lazy to go out hitting up more people. I don't think half the people I tagged last time played. Party poopers!

Altered Mini Journal

This was my 3D swap for the Mini Mingle. It's a Mini Journal and a matching pen. Both items were purchased at the dollar store. The journals came in packs of 4 and the pens in packs of 5. Add in some paper and embellishments and you have a cute little gift for coworkers, bus drivers, etc. for under a dollar.

Spooky Treats

I made these little buggers and gave one to each person at the mini mingle. They are cute and quick. These would make a great little treat for coworkers or classmates. I saw them on SCS and modified them a little (made mine simpler, by not layering color on the legs).

These are made with the scallop circle punch, photo corners punch, 3/4" circle punch and then I drew in the black on the eyeballs and the white eyebrows. There is a peppermint patty in there, but you could do it with other candies that are shaped that way. Or even round erasers.

Name Tag and Door Prize

This is my name tag from the mini mingle. I received the silver letters in a PIF. They were too big to go all the way across the top note so I had to improvise with some of the other letters.

This is the bag I put my door prize in. A lot of the gals were not brave enough to pick it not knowing what was inside. Hee hee!

This is what was inside of the bag. A designer brad bracelet.

I've Been Holding out on You

This past weekend was the SCS Michigan MINI Mingle. I had been busy making swaps, a door prize and a name tag for the event, but I didn't want to show it until after the event. Here is a card very similar to my swap card. For my swap card I heat embossed the flowers in white instead of doing the faux dry embossing you see here. Can I tell you how much I love the Top Note die? It is awesome and it kicks butt in my cuttlebug. I can't afford the Big Shot, but I am glad it works in what I already have.

Bag in a Box, Box Bag, Whatchamacallit

This is the other one of my projects for the stamp camp. For the sample I used some retired paper cause I wanted to save all the current stuff for the attendees. This little ditty is cute, quick and easy! And it is a little ditty. It is hard to tell from the pics you see on line, the base ends up being a 2.5" square and it is only 5.5" tall. Cute for a little gift. Maybe even the bracelet below wrapped in some tissue paper.
I found the directions here...http://dianagibbs.typepad.com/stampin_with_di/box-in-a-bag/ and there are some variations posted here...http://valeriestangle.blogspot.com/2008/07/mini-box-in-bag.html
and here...http://andreawalford.com/?p=665

A new twist

Lookie what I made! It is a bracelet with the designer brads from SU! We are doing these at our Christmas giftables camp. Isn't it purty?

Masculine

This is a manly card, no? I was going to title this post Doe a Deer... But then I realized this is a buck so that wouldn't work. On this card I used the Deer & Fence stamp from The Rubber Cafe. I created the background by going direct to paper with the close to cocoa classic and vanilla craft ink pads. I stamped the image with chocolate chip and then used a blender pen to pull some color into the fence and the deer's body.

Santa Doing The Hula

I finally got a chance to try out my new stamps from The Rubber Cafe.

On this card I used the Lg Palms and Hula Santa. I had fun building the scene with some sand paper and a sun made with a flower punch and a circle punch.


On this one you can see how the grass skirt tilts. Splitcoast Stampers has a great tutorial for the tilt card HERE.

Tagged Twice in One Day

First, I was tagged by Dawn Marie and then by Tiffany in VA. Lucky for me they were for the same game.

Here are the rules of the game:
Link your tagger and list the rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Now let's see...

1. I love to eat popcorn and M&Ms when I am watching a movie. I need a little of both at the same time.
2. I have to sleep with a fan on at night. My DH started that and now I am addicted.
3. I need to get my brows waxed bad.
4. I've got two sets of holes in my ears for earrings, but I rarely wear earrings in my 1st set of holes. I always wear the diamond studs my mom got me for graduation in my second set of holes.
5. Speaking of holes in my ears, when I was in high school I let my friend put a third hole in one of my ears with a pin. It was crooked so I let it close up.
6. We have a new dog. His name is Ozzy. My DH traded Ace for Ozzy last night. He is a younger English pointer. He barked all night. I can't keep up with DH and his hunting dogs.
7. Today is my dog Bailey's birthday. She is two. My youngest daughter, Morgan, will be two on Thursday.

I'll tag some of my new SCS Swap Moderator buddies and some of my new Rubber Cafe DT buddies.
Michelle
Julie
Karen
Lisa
Sparkle
Amber
Dorinda

Cupcake Card

This was my other card for Crystal's new catty swap. I don't know how I ended up with this color combo. I wanted to use Pacific Point and I wanted to use the Pink Pirouette ribbon. I think when I added the glitter I ended up with the Rose Red. I wasn't totally feeling it at that point so I added the sentiment on the key tag punch and attached it with some black hemp and then I felt better about the whole thing. The cupcake is paper pieced. That is a lot of cutting for me, but I only had to make 6 of them so I went with it.

Don't look!

If you are in Crystal's swap with me and you want to be surprised. This is one of the cards I made...

Toot! Toot!

I really don't like that word, but nothing else fits better. I am tooting my own horn today. I got the go ahead to tell you all.

I made a design team!!!! A week or two ago I saw a design call on SCS and all you had to do to apply was send them a link to your blog. Easy-peasey. How could I pass that up? So I sent them a link and they loved my stuff and I am now on THE RUBBER CAFE design team!!!! My new stamps are on the way. I can't wait to get them and start playing. They have a wide range of stamps. Lots of unique stuff. I'm not going to tell you what I am getting yet. I'll let that be a surprise. So check them out. Melissa and Diane recently bought it and are in the process of revamping everything. I am so excited to be a part of it!

Stamp Camp Cards Revisited

Last week was a good week stamping wise, not so much because of the time I got to stamp (I should say lack of time), but because of some other news I got. I got an email that I was accepted for a design team, but I don't know if I can share info on that yet or not so look for something posted on that soon. I also got an opportunity to represent SU! at a local stamping and scrapping event. I'm excited about both of these things. I would love to build my "creative resume" and build my SU! business. Stamping is what I love to do and it would be so nice if I could make something of it.

Friday night was the 1st session of our September stamp camp. I tweaked the cards I showed you a little while ago just a bit.

For the 1st one I added the designer button to the center of the flower, but when I did it didn't look like Baja Breeze. It looked more Bashful Blue so I switched up the colors on this card.


On this one, I added the polka dot background.

Everyone on Friday really enjoyed these cards, and the gift card holder and double pocket card that my upline Tracy provided as her projects. The emerging colors card was like magic to most of the campers. When they were stamping the smaller flowers on the white they couldn't figure out how it was all going to end up looking like the samples I had out. A few of them thought they were going to cut out each petal and paste them on Not Quite Navy cardstock. Hee hee! If you have never tried the emerging colors techinique check out the tutorial on SCS...HERE.

I did manage to get one card done for my pal Crystal's swap. And I started on the second last night, but I am not loving it. I'll have to play with that one a little more. So look for cards with some new SU! stamps coming this week!

Wowee!

I was just catching up on my blurfing and look what I saw on the 7 kids blog...

http://7kidscollegefund.typepad.com/7kidscollegefund/2008/09/first-new-ram-stamp-cards-coming-in-finally.html