The rest of the group

I used the rest of my Illuminations to make a set. This is done exactly the same way as the post below just with different colors.

I embossed on papertrey white paper with my largest scalloped nestibilities using my cuttlebug. I then stamped the image with So Saffron, Brilliant Blue, and Lovely Lilac craft ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I watercolored it in with those colors and Always Artichoke.

Recipe:
CS: Papertrey Ink White
Ink: So Saffron, Brilliant Blue, Lovely Lilac, Always Artichoke
Stamps: Illuminations
Accessories: cuttlebug, nestibilities, embossing powder, heat gun

Hope

There is always Hope

I made this card for a friend of mine going through a rough time. I embossed on papertrey white paper with my largest scalloped nestibilities using my cuttlebug. I then stamped the image with Rose Red craft ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I watercolored it in with Rose Red, Regal Rose and Always Artichoke. I really love to watercolor and feel this turned out simple yet classy. I think there needs to be some shimmer somewhere but I don't know where yet. If I had the pretties kit I would add a pearl somewhere. Just a thought. :)

Recipe:

CS: Papertrey Ink White

Ink: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Always Artichoke

Stamps: Illuminations

Accessories: cuttlebug, nestibilities, embossing powder, heat gun

Shower door prize

I made this set for my sisters lingerie shower as a door prize for one of the games we played.

Included is a set of 12 cards, a matching pen and mini post-it note keychain. I made the matching bag for it as well.

I used the stamp set For a Friend and made 2 cards with each stamp which gave the winner a great variety. I used Papertrey Ink white paper and ran it through my cuttlebug and nestibilities. Then I ran the patterned paper from Afternoon Tea to make a rectangle smaller. After that I ran whisper white through on a smaller rectangle and stamped it with stazon. I did use a little bit of stickles to give some sparkle.

Pretty simple but just enough. :)

You are the best dad!!

I know it's late tonight (hence all the spelling errors I had to come fix the next morning) ;) and Fathers day is a few days away but I wanted to go ahead and post my dads card.

I know it seems wierd to have used the Afternoon Tea Designer paper for my fathers card but it just seemed to fit and I liked it. Plus I've been just dying to use it! :)
I used Wild Wasabi for the cardbase and Afternoon Tea DP for the background. I cut it just a little bit smaller than the card base just to cover most of it. I stamped the image with Stazon and watercolored it with Stampin' Up markers and aquapainter then I cut out the image then popped it up with dimensionals. The photo corners are chipboard covered with Afternoon Tea DP and filed on the edges to give it a worn look. Silver brads finish off the look.

Recipe:
CS: Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, watercolor paper, Afternoon Tea DSP
Ink: Stazon, Various markers
Stamps: For Father, So many sayings
Accessories: Brads, Dimensionals

Look away big sis!!

Marcie don't look!! :)


These are for my sister to use as she wishes. She is getting married in a month and so I know she'll need thank you notes and such. I do realize that 10 notecards won't get her very far but she can use them for some of or favorite people, like me... ;)

I used Papertrey white paper for the base since its thicker. The embosed rectangle is the largest of the large nestibilitie scalloped edge rectangle set. The smaller rectangle, river rock, is cut out using the next size down nestie and it is also embossed.

I got the nestibilitie instructions here: Nichole Heady

I stamped the flower and the round flower from Together Forever with whisper white craft ink. The E is from Lovely Letters and is stamped in Bashful Blue on whisper white paper. I punched it out with a 1 1/4" circle punch and punched out a Bashful Blue circle in 1 3/8" circle punch. They are popped up with dimensionals.

I'm giving her a mixture of both styles but I can't decide which I like best.

Give me your thoughts! :)

Recipe:

Cardstock: Papertrey white, Whisper white, River Rock, Bashful Blue

Ink: Bashful Blue, Whisper white craft ink

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Together Forever, Lovely Letters

Accessories: Large Rectangle scalloped nestibilities, cuttlebug

In case you were wondering

In case you were wondering why I haven't posted in a while.... THIS is why.. In case you can't tell, my stamp room is a WRECK and I have no space to stamp! I'll probably work on cleaning it up this weekend and hopefully have something to show by the end of the weekend. :)