May Winter come soon!

I've been cranking out some cards.. it's meant some late nights, but it's fun!!! Granted, since I've actually been creating, I've forgotten to update the blog... I know... strange...

This is a card I made for some of the Dare to Get Dirty challenges on SCS. This card actually covers 4 different challenges. My little snowman is covered in Polar White Flower soft. The snow man himself is 11 separate pieces (I think). It's one of the Cut and emboss folders from provocraft... let me tell you.. I have never been so happy for the quickie glue pen.. It was perfect for those teeny tiny pieces. His eyes are pearls, nose is twinkles, mouth is rhinestones. His hat , arms and pipe are colored with Copic Spica pens.

I was really scared of trying to make a center-step card that I found on SCS, but it was easier than it looked and it's such a fun little fold. I'll have to re-use this one for sure!

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Recipe:
Stamps: SU Sentiment, CHF Trees BG
Paper: Pure Luxury In the Navy, Silver linen, Moonlit Fog, Layering White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog
Accessories: Snowflakes EF, buttons, Spellbinders - Fancy Tag, Lacey Circles, Standard Circles; Provocraft Snowman Cut and Emboss, Flower soft, Smooch Spritz, Silver ribbon, Blue Silk ribbon, Black Pearls, Red Rhinestones, Orange twinkles, Copic Spica Black and Chocol
Techniques: center-step card

Pink Chickadees

First let me say, that I do know that this is not the appropriate color for Chickadees, but I was in a pink mood, what can I say!



This was really a fun card to make and color. I used.... guess.. c'mon, just guess... A DTGD sketch! HAH! Anyway, I got this chickadee circle from Northwoods Rubber stamps. It's called Circle Spring Chickadees (PP7427). The Butterfly in the upper right is cut out of another Northwoods image (Asters with 3 Butterflies P7296). I used the feathering technique that I learned at the Copic class for the butterfly, I am pretty pleased with the results :-) The layers are scored with the Scor-Pal to add a little texture. There was some time involved in this one, but overall, I think this would make a great card for different occasions!

Recipe:
Stamps: Northwoods Rubber Stamps; Sentiment (Gina K)
Paper: Innocent Pink, Grass Green, Chocolate Brown
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Green Stickles, double stitched ribbon (Gina K), scor-pal, Nestabilities, Copics

BOOO Episode 1

Well, after much deliberation, I am spilling some of my secrets. This is one of the items I made for the WRAK BOOO secret exchange on SCS. I don't think that my BOOO friend frequents here, so I might be safe. Even if he/she does, they won't know what's in the package til they open it! :-) One of the requirements was to send something orange and black, so this is what I came up with.


The box has letters on 3 sides, B, O, and O --really creative huh?



The lid uses a Gina K image from her Happy Haunting set. To finish it off there is some ribbon from Pinkhedgehog papercrafts.

Recipe:
Stamps: Happy Haunting
Ink: Black
Paper: SU Textured Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, and Ghostly Greetings DP
Accessories: ribbon, hole punch, Chipboard letter negative space, craft knife, Scor-Pal, Scallop Edge punch

The box is filled with some little trinkets that I really hope my BOOO friend will enjoy!
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Bridal/Bachelorette

Hi all! I had a fun weekend. One of my good friends is going to take the plunge and get married! She had a bridal shower/bachelorette party on Saturday night. Now, to a stamper, that means... OH YEAH! A reason to make cards!!!!! So I took the opportunity to make 2 cards.

This is the bridal shower card. I used the D'vine Swirl cuttlebug folder, the scor-pal AND nesties! My friend Sandy RAK'd me some of PTI's cardstock. It is phenomenal! What you see here is the berry sorbet and a piece of coordinating DP. The cake image was a RAK from my friend Jen... (I have awesome friends ) There are stickles to deliniate the tiers of the cake. I used Groovy Guava from SU! for the sponging.

The bachelorette card is an ALL SU! card. I got the template from SCS. It was used for JAN08VSNN. There is a little "Fine Lace" on the top and bottom but you can't see it very well. All in all, I thought it turned out really cute. It got a couple of laughs at the party as well. :-)

Color Challenge

Unfortunately, I don't think I will be able to stamp tonight. I've been on a roll for the last week or so and have created more cards than I have since DD was born :-) Here is this weeks Color Challenge from Splitcoaststampers - Basic Gray, Groovy Guava, and Blush Blossom. I really had fun with this challenge. I got to use one of my images from the PIF thread that I have mentioned before. Thanks to stampandweave for this one! BTW, see the cool pattern on the Groovy Guava panel? The credit for that, again, goes to Gina K and her awesome Scor-Pal 2 Tutorial.

Recipe:
Paper: SU! -Basic Gray, Going Gray, Groovy Guava, Blush Blossom, White
Stamps: SU!-Sugar and Spice
Accessories: Scor-Pal, Copic Markers, SU! Pretties Kit

I'll be adding to my tag list through the day, I hope --so check back to see some cool blogs!

My Treat Box

I have a couple of friends that I am sending RAKs to this coming week. I hope they don't know yet. One of the goodies that they are going to get is this treat box. I can't find the original tutorial that I used, but this one is very close: http://www.scor-pal.com/feb_magazine/index_files/Page663.htm --

Here is the box closed...

Here is a pic with the box open...

It ends up being a 3x3 box, pefect for SU packages of buttons or brads and Single Ghiardelli chocolate squares.. yummmm!

Recipe:
Paper: Real Red, Summer Picnic DSP, Whisper White
Stamps: Studio G Clear
Ink: Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Window Sheet, 1 3/8" Square Punch, Word Window Punch, Scor-Pal