Stamping 411.......Many Thanks

Happy Monday Peeps and Memorial Day for all of us here in the US.

Love this holiday, a three day weekend, the official start of summer and the day to honor our Veterans.

Today I am sharing a card made using the sketch this week on the Stamping 411 Blog.

I can not even tell you how obsessed I am with Geraniums. A fave summer flower of mine. 

I think of them as old fashioned, the remind me of a favorite Aunt, she always had a flower box full of them on her front porch every summer. 

I especially love the red ones, and I wanted to try to make some.

 I really dislike that SU does not have some pretty old fashion flower stamps, some with clay pots or flower boxes and geraniums.......oh well! :)

I am not sure my final creation looks alot like a geranium, but I still like the outcome.

I used one of the punches from the "Itty Bitty Punch Pack" to make my flower head. I punched alot of flowers using both real read and cherry cobbler card stock. I used my cushioned foam piece from my mat pack to lay the flowers on and pressed the center in. I punched a circle with scrap paper and curled it by using the foam mat and my stylus, going around in circles from the edge to the center and then used a couple of dimesionals to add it to my base piece. I then just started gluing on my little flower heads all over the circle, overlapping to cover the circle.

I then used some always artichoke scraps to make my stem and leaves. the leaves are punched with the butterfly punch and then embossed with the square lattice EF.

The clay pots was made using some cajun craze card stock, I cut a square and then angle cut from the top to bottom to make the flower pot. I added a small strip across the top of that piece. I sponged the edges heavily with cajun craze ink.

One thing I know about geraniums is that the little flower heads fall off alot, so I added a few random flowers around the bottom of the pot.

The sentiment is from the "Petite Pairs" stamp set, I used my 1" circle and 1-1/4" circle punch for the sentiment and mat.

I colored several small pearls with a copic marker to add to the flower centers and to the corners and sentiment piece.

So what do you think, does it sorta resemble a geranium?

Well, thanks so much for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Dynamic Duos.........Birthday Flowers

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week on the Dynamic Duos Blog.

This week it is Monochromatic Colors.

I CASED a card by my sweet friend Heather Klump, 

I loved her card the second I saw it on her blog back in January, I changed up the colors and a couple other details, but the rest is about the same, why mess with perfection?!!

The base of my card is Confetti Cream card stock. I followed that with some marina mist card stock and the DSP comes from the Soft Subtles Paper Pack.

I used confetti cream for the doily die cut and the lace punch strip. 

I added some Marina Mist satin ribbon, man I am gonna soooo miss the satin ribbon, I am holding out hope for some in the Holiday mini, fingers crossed!!!

I made my rolled roses using bashful blue and marina mist. I punched out circles with my 1-3/4 inch circle punch. I added pearls to the centers of the rolled flowers. I added them to my card using my glue gun.

I used some crumb cake card stock to make the leaves and the butterfly.

The sentiment comes from the hostess set called "Happiest Birthday Wishes'.

Well, that is all for me today!

thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

OCC......Shabby Thanks

Happy Saturday Peeps!!

It is time for another new challenge at Our Creative Corner.

Our hostess this week is the uber talented Susan Butler and she has a fun challenge for us this week.
Here it is in Susan's own words:

 The theme this week is unequivocally 'Shabby Chic'.This means the shabby part of Vintage! The challenge requires you to pull elements together, the more old/worn and distressed the elements/images the better; think of muted colours, layers, roses, burlap and pearls. 
You do not have to use all of these elements. 
The effect you are aiming for is a soft warm palette. 

Shabby chic is not my usual style and I put off tackling this challenge all week until down to crunch time and I had to put something together. Not sure my card is completely what one would call shabby chic but it does have a few of it's elements.

I keep my colors muted and I added some pearls and a scrunchy bow with and antique brad.

I have a few of these decorative pins in my stash and added them to the bow. 
The flowers are from the retired hostess set called "Love & Care" and I stamped them onto my whisper white top note die cut piece with Pink Pirouette ink and the stems are Pear Pizzazz. 
The sentiment is from the "Kindness Matters" stamp set and I stamped with soft Suede ink.  
The DSP on my card is from the Beau Chateau paper pack. 


I decorated the inside to match:

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge. 

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Paper Players........Celebrate

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week on The Paper Players Blog.

The challenge is a Clean & Simple card with polka dots. Yup, I can do that!!!

I started with a base of White card stock and then a layer of Real Red. I then used the dot EF on the next layer. The DSP is from the Summer Smooches pack.

I always love Americana decor and cards. So when I choose the DSP the rest was fairly easy.

I added a few Night of Navy stars made with punches.

The sentiment is from a retired hostess set called "Something to Celebrate".

 I added a few silver pearls and it is done! Very Easy Peasy!!

Thanks for stopping by and

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Dynamic Duos.....Happy Birthday

Happy Hump Day Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made using the Dynamic Duos Challenge this week.

This week it is Daffodil Delight and Basic Black.

 I CASED a card I made last summer, you can see it HERE.

I love this retiring flower set from Stampin Up called "Flower Fest".

I stamped the large flower four times onto daffodil delight card stock with versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I cut the flower out reducing one layer each time and used dimesionals between each layer.

The sentiment is from the Curly Cute stamp set and I used my stamp a ma jig to line it up.

The DSP is from the Floral District paper pack and will be available June 1st.

I added some Little Leaves using black card stock, also some daffodil satin ribbon and black brads was used.

Well, that is all from me, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

P.S. for all those who said they would like a tutorial on the pinwheel, I will get that together and have for you later this week, hopefully.

Stamping 411......Happy Birthday Pinwheel

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week on the Stamping 411 Blog.

After looking at the sketch a bit I decide I would make a pinwheel, they are very popular right know and even tho I have a die from another company that makes the cutesiest pinwheels, I decide to make one on my own. The kind that any one could duplicate, weather they have a die or not.

This one is made by starting with a 3 inch square of DSP . So cute and so easy.

I used some of the new Floral District paper that will be available from Stampin Up when the catalog breaks the first of June.

The base of my card is white card stock and I used Rose Red card stock for matting my layers.

The sentiment is from the Friendly Phrases stamp set. I matted the sentiment piece with Pumpkin Pie card stock.

I used one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Punch pack to make the little flower accents.

I used a wooden skewer for the handle to my pin wheel. I glued the pinwheel to the skewer using my glue gun and I used the glue gun to attach the pinwheel to the card.

There is no way this card would fit into a standard envelope. It is one of those cards that would be best hand delivered or attached to a present or gift bag.

I think the pinwheel turned out so cute!!

 I will do a little tutorial on making these pinwheels if anyone is interested. Just leave me a comment.

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

SSSC159......Birthday Wishes

Happy SundayPeeps!!

It is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the SWEET sketch Karen has for us this week:

A fun sketch with lots of layers and accents....my favorite kind!!!

I started out with a base of rich razzleberry card stock. 

I once again used pulled out the Stampin Up Floral District DSP and the "Betsy's Blossoms" stamp set. Both of these are just a tiny sneak peek of what is in store for you when the new catalog comes out June 1st.

I pulled my colors from this fun DSP, rich razzleberry, daffodil delight, old olive and whisper white.

Isn't that little bird so cute? Love the floral wings! 

I added some little flowers using one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack, and some 1/8 inch razzleberry taffeta ribbon. I stopped myself from making a sentiment flag, which is something I tend to do way to much, I stamped this sentiment, which comes from the retired "Occasional Quotes" stamp set,  with black ink directly onto my main panel. The bird and the wing are on dimesionals. I used the Pinking Heart edge punch to add the little element on the edge of the main piece.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.

OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team, and Guest Designer has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing 

Jen-JenTapler Designs-on vacation

Karen-Paper Playhouse-

Lynn-The Queen's Scene-is celebrating her 20th anniversary this weekend but will have her card up on Monday

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell 

Dana-Dana's House of Cards

and this week's Sweet Guest Designer: Melissa Hubert

Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki