Love is in the air

Happy Valentines day, a couple of days early.  Today I'm going to show you some Valentines that I made for my 3 year old grand daughter to take to pre-school (or pretty school, as she says it).   It's been a tradition of mine to make Halloween and Valentine treats for my grandson Cody to take to school.  He is now in 6th grade and taking these kind of treats is no longer desired.  However, I do have three more grandchildren - ages 3 (2 of them the same age) and a 1 year old, so my opportunities for treats will last a long time.

Here is a picture of Maelyn - cute as a bug's ear:

And here are the treats I made.  They are really simple, but it involves candy and that is good to a 3 year old.

My husband pointed out that there was no place for Maelyn to sign her name.  Well, she can't write her name yet, and even if she could, the other 3 years couldn't read it!  They will be lazer focused on the sucker anyway.  

I used the red glimmer paper, the heart framelits (retired), and the stamp set Blooming Love.  I stamped the heart in Blushing Bride then stamped the sentiment in Rose Red.   Quick and easy and sure to please a 3 year old.  

May you have a wonderful Valentines Day!

Sheryl

Picture Perfect

Today I'm sharing with you a video from Stampin' Up! about one of the stamp sets in the Occasions Catalog, called Picture Perfect and it's found on page 37.  This is a multi step stamp that gives you spectacular images!  I'm really thinking this is going to be used on one of the cards I'm doing in March or April.  Take a look and see if you don't agree with me....

Hope you have a wonderful day and think about taking one of my card classes - you will love it!


Sheryl

Another Note Card

I told you I was obsessed with note cards!   For this note card, I used the Sale-a-Bration Stamp set Botanicals Just for You.  I love the bold letters!.  It's also got some sweet sentiments that go along with it.  So what do you think?  I love it!  I used Calypso Coral, Mint Macaron (love, love this color), Hello Honey and Old Olive.  I put this together in a flash too. 

Wouldn't this be a sweet card to include with a little gift or just mail it to someone who needs a lift to their day?  That's the beauty of Stampin' Up!  Beautiful stamps, color coordination and people like me to help you in your stamping journey. 

Have a wonderful day my friends!


Sheryl

My Note Cards Continue....

Today I'm showing you a masculine note card...one that could be used for valentines day.  My guy loves anything aernautical  so this is right up his alley.  Nothing foofey about this card!  I used The Sky is the Limit stamp set from the Sale-a-Bration catalog. (FYI this stamp will be going away on 2/15/16, replaced with some new exciting Sale-a-Bration products!)

My inspiration for this card came from two places;  Angie Juda and Tami White - both highly imaginative and successful Stampin'Up demonstrators.  So here it is;

The biggest challenge of this card, as in life, is not to fly the airplane upside down!   I used the lovely crumb cake colored note cards and cut a piece of crumb cake 4 3/4 x 3 1/4.  First I stamped the sentiment and the airplane on the 43/4 x 3 /14 piece of card stock, in archival black.   I then used my brayer to ink up the World Traveler Textured Impressions folder (Page 39 of the Occasions Catalog), in Crumb Cake Ink on the back side of the folder.  Carefully place the card, face down (and make sure it's right side up to the map) and closed the folder and gently rubbed it all over to transfer the ink.  Easy!  Using the 3/4" circle punch, I punched out a circle in vellum and attached it with a mini silver brad.  Using 5 dimensionals,  I mounted this to the front of the note card.  I stamped the inside and the envelope and it was done!

The world is a bit tilted on my card.  I was going for realism :)

I hope you enjoyed todays card.  Please leave me a comment, if you can figure out how to.  I love hearing from you!


Sheryl

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So Cool!

Good morning fellow stampers!

How's that for a shout out!  Wake you up? 

Today I'm going to show you a really cool note card.  I used a three of items from the Sale-a-Bration catalog (one item free with a every $50 purchase before tax and S&H).  The stamp set is called Flowering Fields found on page 12 of the catalog.  I also used the coordinating paper called Wildflower Fields Designer Series paper.  I used Black Stazon ink and stamped the flower images on the Botanical Garden Designer Vellum Stack (page 4).  I then turned it over and used my Stampin'Write markers and colored the flowers on the back of the velum.  It gives a nice soft color when flipped over.  You can also do some shading with the markers:  I colored in the large flowers with So Safron marker and then I ourlined the flower in a darker yellow - Crushed Curry.  The color markers I used coordinated with the colors in the Designer Series Paper. 

The note card size is 3-1/2 x 5.  To save the vellum paper( which is 6x6), I cut the panel 3" x 3 -1/2.  Since the card is 5" tall, I cut the DSP in 1x 3 1/2" strips.  I adhered the vellum with 4 glue dots.  Usually you can see the glue dots on plain vellum, and you have to cover them up, but because this has some white printing on it, you can't see the glue dots!  Yeah!

 Don't you just love the textured background and the clean sharp images?  I will warn you however, that vellum is a bit slippery and it doesn't absorb the ink like cardstock would.  So my suggestion to you is to make sure your stamp is fully inked before placing it on the vellum - stamp on your messy mat first - then reink.  Use firm pressure, but not too hard.  And leave it on the vellum for several seconds so that the ink is transfered.  You might want to practice on a scrap piece of vellum before trying this.  Just a suggestion. 

Hope you enjoyed todays card!



Here's another video from Stampin' Up! showing the Botanical Gardens Vellum stack.

Sheryl

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Note Card Obsession!

I've already told you I'm obsessed with making notecards.  They are little, not much surface to cover, and they go through the mail without additional postage!  What's not to love.  Here is a notecard that I made just for fun!

I used the Perfectly Artistic Paper from the Sale-a-Bration catalog.  I then used the rose die from the Rose Garen Thinlits Dies  to make an outline on the paper and sniped it out, cutting on the inside of the line.  Same with the leaf.  I used basic black cardstock to cut out the rose and leaf die to make the flower and leaf outline.  I then adhered to the paper, then trimed.  Isn't it pretty?  Much prettier in person  The Thanks sentiment is stamped with cottage greetings, a great all around sentiment set.  The inside of the card is here: 

I just love the versitility of this stamp set.  More samples with this stamp set and die to follow.  I'm on a roll.  The other thing I like it the sentiments.  Great for a sympathy card, birthday or thank you with a religious tone.  And another great bonus... you can buy the stamp set and dies as a bundle and save 15%!  Win Win!

Hope you enjoyed todays card!

Here is a video from Stampin' Up about this wonderful bundle!

Sheryl

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It's February - Time for Class to be in Session!

One of my favorite things to do is to create and stamp note cards.  It started a long time ago when I would create note cards using some of my images from vacation that I had taken with my digital camera.  Of course, I just couldn't leave them plain with just a picture on the front.  I had to do something to the inside of the card.  That's when I bought my first Stampin'Up! stamp set, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

This month, in my class, we will be stamping 20 notecards and envelopes; The note cards are sold by Stampin' Up! and are the best bargain in the whole annual cataloge.  20-  3 1/2 x 5 " cards on heavy card stock, with envelopes for $6.  We will be making 5 different designs, 4 cards each, using 4 different stamp sets.  Plus, we will be making a cute box to put some notecards in to give as a gift.   So not only will you have notecards for many occassions, but you have a potential gift to give as well.  Today, I will show you all 5 cards plus the box.  In the days to follow (and I sure hope I keep my word on this), I will show you some additional note cards that I made, plus the details of these 5. 

If you have never signed up for one of my classes, please consider doing so.  It's a fun and relaxing 4 hours of chatting and creating!  And you will be astounded at how easy it is to make beautiful cards that people will treasure.  I have just a couple of extra note card sets so if you haven't signed up yet, do so ASAP. Check out the February 2016 newsletter on the right column for dates and times.   Just shoot me an email or give me a call.