Happy Anniversary!

 

My sweet friend Leah asked me to make a special card for her friend's anniversary.

This is what I came up with.

I used the Wedding Sweet set, along with the Calendar background stamp.

The inside phrase reads "...and cherish it in your heart...forever.    Happy Anniversary"

The inside stamp was a personalized Stampin' Up! stamp.  I used the 4-line address stamp.

I also used the White Organza ribbon and

slipped a hatpin with beads (from the Pretties Kit) through the knot. 

The heart is from You & Moi.

Everything is stamped on Whisper White and layered on Groom paper and then a textured real red card.

Winter Post

I made this card using my Big Shot & Top Note, the oval coluzzle, vellum card stock.  I stamped the couple in black craft ink and embossed with black EP.  Then, I turn the vellum over and using my stamp-a-ma-jig, stamped the "reflection", making sure the skates touched on the tips, like they were on the ice.  I colored the back of the vellum (non-embossed side) with Stampin' Write markers and assembled the card using night of navy, and black.  Very easy and pretty cool!  Hope you like it!  :0)

Punchy Christmas Card!

Here is one of my recent Christmas Cards.  I traded this with other SU! demonstrators all over the country!  It showed up on Patti's Blog (look for the link to her blog over there on the left-hand side somewhere!)....thanks for posting, Patti!  This is one of my favorite cards this season.  I love using the Photo Corners punch to make the tree!  Such a great use for scraps!  Hope you like this one!

Cupcake anyone?

I got this picture from my friend in Australia, Christie...She made these for her daughter's birthday party. Aren't they cute? What a great idea, using different papers and then just mixing and matching!

CONVENTION 2009

Well! I'm home from Convention 2009 and boy, am I tired!! What an amazing 4 days! You'd think it was impossible to cram so many activites, classes, information, swaps and fun times in those four days, but stampin' up!, as well as my favorite demonstrators have done just that! I hope to post a lot of pics, as well as pics of swaps I received over the next couple of days....

Check back soon!

Vinyl & my Big Shot...

I bought a huge jar from Target (around $13) and filled it with all kinds of sweet incentives for my stampers who purchase $50 or contribute $11.95 to send a box of cards to the troops.

Tonight I was inspired and put my Big Shot to good use. I used the Go Go Boots Alphabet dies, the Serif Essentials Alphabet dies, along with the Decor Elements Sheets in Chocolate. I cut out the letters needed for "Stampers' Treats" and very easily arranged them on the transfer sheet and applied them to the jar. So SIMPLE! and FAST -- the entire project (including clean-up) took about 20 minutes.

I am inspired now, to put up more customized vinyl throughout my home. Maybe put the kids' names on their doors, or a favorite quote on the wall... not to mention all the great shapes SU! has for the Big Shot! The possibilities are endless...

For more information on using the Big Shot or Decor Elements, contact me or check out my SU! website which has some great videos to show you just how easy both are to use!

Wedding Guest/Gift/Shower Book

I made this book for a friend of mine whose daughter was getting married. The wedding was fairly small and all the guest books they looked at were for over 100 people. She asked me to make a book for the guests to sign, as well as to list the gifts at the shower/wedding and also a section for the guests to write an encouragement or wish for the couple.

The supplies that I used were:

Eggplant Envy CS - covers and dividers
Eggplant Envy Textured CS - covers
Whisper White CS - pages and cover
On Board Long Board - covers
Eggplant Envy Classic Ink & reinker
Pretties kit - flower and rhinestone brad
Baroque Motifs - swirly stamp
"Champagne" font - dafont.com (free download - awesome website!)
Bind-It-All machine