You put da Lime in da coconut....

I made this card as part of the gift box I am making for Bethany's teachers. I will post the rest of the box and cards a little later. I used SU!'s Tart & Tangy Set that is in the Occasions mini catalog. It is such a fun set especially when it is matched with the Summer Picnic Designer Series Paper!

I want to first start by saying that I saw the layout and even the color combo on another blog (I'm sorry I can't remember the name but if you email me, I will be more than happy to link your blog and give you credit).

For this card on For this card I started with a Whisper White base and topped with a layer of Old Olive. I stamped the wording in WW craft ink and added the silver brads using the paper piercing tool (great for getting the spacing right) for the lime image, I did a OSW (one sheet wonder) because I was also using it as a swap card for my stampers 10 group. I love the clean "refreshing" look to this card. It could be flowers, or it could be limes....hmmmmm.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

InKredible Swap Box Information

I registered for the Stampin' Up! Convention last week and am soooo excited! It is SU! 20th Anniversary and it should be a BLAST! Which leads me into the realization that if I'm going to convention, I am certainly going to need to have something to get all of my swaps there in one piece.

In March at our Stamp Share, this swap box was introduced. We got to try it and look at it up close and personal. Please read more about it HERE

I know I am going to order one!!! It comes with a sleeve to keep it from spilling your swaps all over the place and can hold 300+ swaps.

Stamper's 10 Card for tonight

Ok, so I love glitter and swirly designs!!! This card looks much better in person because the halogram highlights glitter is a little more subtle and the pretty in pink stamped flowers show up a little more clearly. But, you can get the jist of the card.

Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs
Ink: Pretty in Pink, versamark
Paper: Certainly Celery, Berry Bliss DSP, WW
Accessories: Hologram Highlights embossing powder, heat gun, pink taffeta ribbon, ticket corner punch.

The fold of the card and design elements, I CASED from another blog yesterday and thought I would give it a try I changed the DSP and stamp set but went with the basic layout and added the ticket corner(I'm sorry I don't remember who had the tutorial on it if you email me, I will link your site if you want me to). It is a 4x12 base and you score at 4 and 8 and then diagonally in the middle section. This will give you a 4x4 card when closed.

Stamp-A-Stack

Good Afternoon, I finally got my printer reinstalled to be able to upload these cards. I had my quarterly Stamp-A-Stack last Sunday and have been busy cutting paper. Originally, I had cancelled it because of lack of interest. (Not one person RSVP'd) But, on Thursday before the event, I had 6 people say that they were coming. Well, needless to say, I didn't have anything prepared or an order placed for supplies. I told the ladies I would see what I could come up with. Well, I called my wonderful upline and asked her if she had cards designed for her upcoming stamp-a-stack. Of course, being the organized person that she is, she did! She let me borrow the designs (which are posted) Isn't she super talented? Thank you Nancy! 8o) She did say that one of the cards (the so saffron one) is a CASE from her adopted upline. (Thank you Terri) The ladies seemed to love the designs and we had a great time.

The first 3 cards using the Tart & Tangy Set they did one of each design saving some $$$ because I didn't have to buy 3 or 4 packs of Summer Picnic DSP for one sheet out of each!

I reallly love this Just B set. The Elegant Eggplant tab is attached to a plain piece of WW cardstock and the Celery DSP is notched using just the top notch of the rounded tab punch. I sill try to remember to post this card seperate to show you the layout.

The next card, Nancy did hers in the River Rock and Very Vanilla and made this lovely monochromatic card for sympathy, wedding, birthday or whatever. I didn't have River Rock Double stitched ribbon but had 3 spools of the Groovy Guava Ribbon so I went with Guava.

Love this Sassy Susie set...........and we used another kind of paper from the Summer Picnic DSP collection.

Lastly, is the So Saffron card that was CASED from Terri. Nancy added the Jumbo Wheel rolled across the VV strip. I love how the Ribbon is set on this card!

Thanks again Nancy, you are a LIFESAVER!!!!!

New Blog Header

Ok, so I spent last weekend in Wisconsin visiting my family. Well, we had a birthday party for my niece (Hi Makayla...we love you!) and the party was at a bowling alley. Sounds like a lot of fun.....and for the most part it was.....except.....the second time my darling daughter was getting ready to bowl, she wanted to carry the ball herself. Okay, not such a bad idea...if the bowling alley doesn't have a step leading up to the lane. Bethany insisted that we couldn't help her. She tripped on the stair and landed chin first on the ball. Split her chin open and we ended up spending all but 10 minutes of the party in the emergency room. (Poor baby!) She had a concussion and a 2 inch gaping cut in her chin. Four stitches later and I'm sure the entire state of Wisconsin heard Bethany screaming. It took 3 of us to hold her down (wow, her 33 lbs sure came up with some awesome strength) They couldn't give her any more anesthetic than they did, and she felt every stitch. When we finally got finished and went back to the bowling alley everyone was waiting for us to get back because we had my nieces carseats in our car. Well, Bethany is fine now, just a little wounded that she didn't get to bowl and we have to go get the stitches removed on Friday. Thank GOD it wasn't worse!!!

On a brighter note, I was able to get my blog header changed this weekend.......no stamping done, but I think I figured out my new Photoshop Elements 6.0. Now the new task comes in scanning some SU paper and embellishments to use with it and create a SU! blog header. Hmmmmm. I got the elements for this from a digital scrapbooking kit SP ~ Promise Collection.

I also did get some of the cute little dove chocolate Easter Egg boxes that I saw on another blog done and will get them off my camera in the next couple of days and share them with you! (I had one in Bethany's Easter basket)

Back with a card and apology!

Ok, so I know I haven't posted for a little while. I am sooooo sorry. Life has happened and I seem to have been so busy lately. I have done some stamping, but I haven't uploaded anything from my computer. Today I had to make a swap card and knew I wanted to use Soft Sky and Sahara Sand. For some reason the colors just popped into my head. Have I mentioned that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the cosmo fine glitter!?!

I will be on with more when I get my camera cleaned off and I also have some stampin to do for other things so I hope to be back in the swing of things now that we are done being sick. I do have to mention that because of Spring Break, I will have my 2 nieces (3 and 5) as well as my Bethany on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Hopefully I can get them to entertain each other and get some stamping in.

Let me know what you think.

A Simple Thank You

This card was created when I needed a quick and simple thank you card. I just love the Three For You Punch Box for simplicity on a card. I just wish I could figure out how to take better pictures and scanned images. Hmmmm.....

As far as the stamp share on Saturday, I went completely without swap cards. My hubby ended up having the flu so that meant that I picked up the slack and took care of him. I did learn and see many great things at the stamp share that I am hoping I can have some creative time to play!!!! I also just got my new Occasions mini stuff to play with.