Modern Congrats

Surprised to see an update from me?  Me too!  Summer keeps us quite busy around here, and this year spring did too.  So on to this card that I made a while back... playing around with some fun new goodies from the new Stampin' Up! catalog.  I'll stop back with the details later.  Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you are enjoying your new SU goodies.

~Kristin

Twins!

Have a friend and downline who had twin baby girls recently (hope she doesn't see this, haven't mailed it yet).  Had to rack my brain to come up with a baby card for two babies!  None of my stamps are twin related whatsoever...  Found this sketch on Freshly Made Sketches and decided to take it for a spin.  And now I'm realizing that I missed the deadline already.  I thought it was yesterday's card that I missed.  Ah well, story of my life!  

Here's a quick shot of the inside.  Thanks for stopping by!  I've got another one for you tomorrow assuming I get it photographed in time. 

~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps:  Itty Bitty Banners, Congrats (very old and retired)

Colors:  Baja Breeze, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight

Accessories:  Butterfly punch, Top Note die, Big Shot, Basic Pearls, Bitty Banner Framelits, Scallop border punch, Floral District DSP

Chevron Congrats

Finally!!  Managed to get a picture uploaded to fussy blogger.  Getting completely annoyed with these upload issues BLOGGER, you hear me?!!  Grrrr.  Anyway, after about 10 tries here is a recent graduation card I've designed.  New stuff on here includes the new Blue Ribbon stamp set, Midnight Muse stitched satin ribbon and the fun new Chevron embossing folder.  That Daffodil Delight paper is also new:  Polka Dot Parade DSP.  Maybe today I'll get a chance to play with more of my new goodies. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps:  Blue Ribbon

Colors:  Midnight Muse, Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

Accessories:  Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder, small star punch, mini silver brads, Midnight Muse stitched satin ribbon, large scallop circle punch

Wedding Wishes

Good first day of Summer!  I don't know about you but here in Ohio I am appreciating my AC today!!  And dreading sitting at yet another ball game tonight in the 90+ degrees! 

Anyway, I had some time to play with new things recently and wanted to share it with you.  Made this wedding card using the fabulous new Apothecary Accents Framelits and Bitty Banners Framelits.  Also new here is my favorite new background stamp, Pleasant Poppies.  Isn't it pretty?!  I stamped it with white ink on Perfect Plum cardstock complete with the new Perfect Plum ribbon. 

Finally, added the Beautiful Wings butterfly accent with a few rhinestones, the background stamping with my retired French Script, some sponging wtih white ink, shadows made with the Versamarker and a bit of highlight painting with some shimmer paint. 

Here is a glance at the inside.  The frame is obviously the negative of the cut out piece from the front.  Again added some rhintestones and a butterfly to finish it off. 

So what do you think?  I've got another to show you tomorrow so stop back!  Thanks for visiting. 
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps:  Pleasant Poppies, Itty Bitty Banners, Full of Life, French Script

Colors:  Perfect Plum, Pale Plum (retired), Whisper White

Accessories:  Big Shot, Apothecary Accents & Bitty Banners Framelits, Beautiful Wings embosslit, rhinestones, shimmer paint, Versamarker, Perfect Plum ribbon

The Sky is the Limit

Good morning!  Back with a quick post today before I'm off and running.  The last few days I've been stealing a moment here and there to choose favorite samples from the new Stampin' Up! 2012-2013 Idea Book & Catalog to CASE (copy and share everything).  I can begin ordering out of this fabulous new favorite catalog of mine TOMORROW, June 1, but in the mean time I'm just recreating some of my favorites samples with stuff I already have. 

This time I copied the first card on page 79.  Used a similar color scheme but different stamps and papers, and slightly different accessories.  I also separated my panels instead of having them all on one piece. 

Anyone else want to play along?  If so, choose a favorite sample from the current or new catty and see what you can do with it.  Tomorrow I'll share another one from page 71. 

Have fun!
~Kristin

Congrats, Grad!

As a high school teacher and coach my husband is easily invited to dozens of graduation parties every year.  So every year about this time I'm frantically making graduation cards.  This year I actually remembered to take some photos to share.  True to my nature I struggle making multiples of the same design, but I did.  Then came up with a few variations on the design to keep it interesting...and because gluing on all those photo corners became tedious.  And YES, if you're wondering, this is the ONLY graduation stamp set I own!  Love it though, so why not?

Here is an inside shot.  The sentiment, while the same as one of SU's sets that I don't have, is from a Verve set that I won.  Love that phrase and I think it is perfect for a graduation card. 

In case you didn't notice, the large star is punched in the inside making a window to see through.  I just glued on a strip of the First Edition DSP (LOVE that stuff!) to hold the small star in place.  Just for fun!

Here are two more versions using nearly all the same materials.  The card base on these is either Sahara Sand or Crumb Cake (ran out of Sahara Sand!).  Other colors are black and either Real Red or Riding Hood red depending on which card you're looking at.  The ones with the glitter paper circle use Real Red.

So glad you decided to stop by!  Have a super busy weekend planned so may not be back until next week, we'll see.  In the mean time, go drool over the new Stampin' Up! Catalog.  I just got my boxes yesterday and am in LOVE!  My wish list is quite a bit longer than usual.

 

Ooh, almost forgot... used the sketch from Clean & Simple for these last two designs! It was perfect!

 

~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps:  Go, Graduation; Varsity Numbers

Colors:  Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Real Red, White

Accessories:  Glitter paper, star punches, circles punches, Photo corner punch, circle brads, dotted scalloped ribbon in black

Cheers for a new year!

Hello again and happy 2012!  I'm ready for a fresh new year and some new stamping projects.  So here goes:  a card and a challenge.  Hope you like!  I've used a new set that is a preview of a Sale-a-Bration set called Fresh Vintage.  Don't you just love those mini silver brads?!  The sentiment is a tried and true set called Well Scripted.  The sketch challenge is from Mojo Monday's sketch blog.  Always love their sketches! 

 Here's a quick shot of the inside! 

Thanks for stopping by again!  I've got another card I made today that I'll save for tomorrow. 

~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps:  Well Scripted, Fresh Vintage

Colors:  Basic Gray, Pear Pizzazz, Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories:  Scallop Circl punch, Mini Silver Brads, Dotted scallop border ribbon punch, scallop border punch, Triple Layer punch

Oops, a little late on the Diva challenge!

Oops, I can't believe how distracted I've become lately.  Barely any stamping time, and I didn't notice that I'd forgotten to post my Diva card last Wednesday.  Ah well,  I guess we all experience different phases in our lives and changes therein.  Who knows what tomorrow brings, right?! 

Anyway, here it is. 

We had a lovely sketch to work with last week- and considering I have barely stamped a thing lately I'm surprised at how much I like what I came up with.  I pulled out some old felt flowers, the Finial Press embossing folder and my favorite reliable stamp set, Aviary. 

Here's a shot of the inside since I did that as well.  Hope you like it.  I'll try to be back soon.  Might not be so hard with the rainy forecast I'm seeing... although we've also got baseball games forecast for nearly every day.  Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to go visit the Diva blog to see the sketch and other fine examples. 

~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Aviary, Picture This (retired)

Colors:  Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive

Accessories:  Big Shot, Felt Flowers, Finial Press embossing folder, Scallop Trim border punch (inside)

Elegant Lines

Don't you just love using up scraps or parts of cards you start for something and end up not using? It feels so good to be resourceful and efficient! This embossed card was originally for a card I did a few days ago, but I was covering so much of the pretty embossing (plus it was supposed to be a clean & simple card). So I set it aside and decided to use it today.

This label stamp is from the new and popular Just Believe stamp set. Here I've stamped it in Rich Razzleberry and cut it out. My sentiment in Sahara Sand, is from the cherished old Fancy Flexible Phrases. Added a bit of my new narrow ribbon and called it done. Super quick and easy! Final card is 4.25"x4.25".


Hope you like it!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Just Believe, Fancy Flexible Phrases

Colors: Sahara Sand, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White

Accessories: Big Shot, Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Folder, Rich Razzleberry narrow ribbon

ETA: Thanks for your patience while I play around with new blogger designs.  I know it isn't perfect and it may take me some time to get it just so.  Thanks to Susan K for the input on the white background- good to know!!

Congratulations! {Diva Sketch}

Good morning ladies and gentlemen! Today I am bringing you a sketch challenge courtesy of Diva Coffee Break Designs! I was looking forward to this one, mostly because I hadn't stamped in a few days... but I gotta tell ya, I struck a few times before getting this one done! Fortunately I hadn't glued anything down so nothing had to be tossed, but it was UGLY! Anyway, I shifted gears and am pleased with how this one turned out.

You'd think with all the shimmery Smooch spray, shiny ribbon, embossed sentiment and rhinestones it would be a bit glitzy for my style, but I actually like all those elements together. In case you don't recognize it, the DSP on the bottom is from the Cottage Wall collection that is current still. The stamps I've used are the Medallion background (you have this right?!?) and Well Scripted. The Smooch spray I mentioned is new in the Summer Mini Catalog available NOW (I will get my link up in the sidebar soon- sorry for the delay!) and is fun to play with. I am so glad I got the Color Catcher to spray in so it doesn't fly all over the place. How helpful this thing would've been back when we did hairspray and Pearlex!

I have a Stampin' Tip for you today: If you want to emboss in a color (like Rich Razzleberry for this example) and you only have Classic ink you still can! Just ink up your stamp with Versamark FIRST then with the Classic ink THEN stamp. If you emboss with clear powder it will work just like always!


Anyway, I hope you'll play along with the Divas! We enjoy checking out all the different takes on our challenges and would love to consider you as our next Featured Artist!

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Medallion background, Well Scripted

Colors: Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spray, White Organza ribbon, Scallop Trim border punch, Square Ice Rhinestone Brads, White craft ink, Cottage Wall DSP

Three Square

I'm not sure who came up with this design idea but this card came from another that I have saved in my "Cards to CASE later" file! Since I've been busy coming up with quick card sets for the Mom's Club Craft Bazaar or whatever it is called, I have been copying some favorites that I've been meaning to try for a long time.

This one was fun and not too hard, and has great results I think. The leaves are from the Little Leaves Sizzlit which I cut out three for each card in Vanilla paper. Glue them onto whatever color cardstock you want (I've used Marigold Morning, Brilliant Blue and Old Olive here) then punch out with the 1 1/4" square punch. Layer them on a slightly bigger square and glue them on a neutral cardbase. That's it! If you have a Xyron this is the perfect time to put it to use, otherwise I recommend SU's Two-Way Glue pen for the leaves.

In this set I have a Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Thinking of You and Thank You. Each of the sentiments is from an old set called Warmest Regards, an old hostess set I believe. See, I told you it's OK to hang onto those retired stamps and inks and papers!

So thanks for stopping by. I hope you have some sunshine in your life today!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: Warmest Regards

Colors: Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Marigold Morning (Retired In Color), Brilliant Blue, Old Olive

Accessories: Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlit, 1 1/4" square punch, 1 1/2" square punch