workshop project - elements of style

This is a card that I made for a friend of mine's workshop. It folded into a 6x3 card that will fit into one of our open ended envelopes.

They got the choice of making one of these cards or a small 6x6 scrapbook page, which I will show below.

For this version of the card I inked up the large flower with stazon and stamped it over the large and small butterfly. I then took the ink pads and a blender pen and we colored the small butterfly using Rich Razzleberry, certainly Celery and Old Olive. We then inked all edges with Suede ink and a dauber. We stamped the saying using Razzleberry and punched it out using the large oval and then punched a scallop oval out of suede. We layered all of this over rich satin Razzleberry ribbon to finish it all off. Pretty quick and easy. It showcased our punches, markers (which I used for the saying), daubers, Big Shot, blender pens, ribbon and dimensionals (for the saying). I thought it was a nice, but elegant card to make. Not to mention that some of them learned a new technique (coloring with blender pens).

I got the original idea of making this from a fellow demo named Dawn Olchefske. I changed some colors and added some items, but got the original idea from her.

So I hope you enjoy my share today.
Have a great day.

door prize notes

Hi all,
I wanted to share a little note card I made. Actually I made up several of these and packaged them up for a door prize at my last workshop. I think they make adorable little cards. With this color combination, I think they also make a great little teacher gift too. I may have to make up a set of these for some of the kids teachers. Good teachers really put in a lot of time and energy and I think they deserve little thank yous along the way. I'm hoping I'll get some extra time soon to make some as my children have some really nice teachers.
I took these cards and added an envelope (also stamped with the apple) and put it into a cello bag and made a bag topper to match. I'm sorry I didn't get a picture with it all packaged up. I was in a hurry and did manage to make an extra card, but had to hurry to get the packaging done. But I basically used the same colors and theme for the bag topper.
It's hard to tell in this picture, but the circles in the background are stamped with daffodil. The rest of the colors are Real Red, Old Olive and Basic Black. The set is a level 2 hostess set called Apple Blossoms. Something to earn with a qualifying workshop. If you are interested in hosting a workshop let me know and we can set one up.
So I hope you enjoy my little note today. Have a really great day today. Don't forget to take some time to say thanks to someone or send them an encouraging note. It only takes seconds, but can mean a lot.

tropical note happy birthday

Sorry I'm such a slacker. There has just been a lot going on. I took some pictures of some projects I've done lately so hopefully I can post more often in the next few days. Our kids started school back this past week and one is now in middle school. She is on a school sports team and she has kept us hopping with car pool duty for all the practices and such, Especially since she goes to a school 25 minutes away from our house.
So between that, work, church, and a special training that Stampin' Up! is providing for us I haven't had much free time lately. So probably until the season is over and the training from Stampin' Up! is over I won't get to post as often. Hopefully you will still visit from time to time to see what is here and it will help inspire you to create, which is the best part of it all. :)
For this project - I created a small Tropical Party 3 x 3 notecard for a make and take. I thought it ended up being a fun little birthday note to add to a gift or a package. I can even imagine a gift bag stamped with the same set. Maybe I need to stamp one of those soon.
I really like this set for summer pictures. When you stamp it with some fresh fun summer colors you can get some pretty designs.
This set is only available through the end of the month though, so if you'd like to get it now is the time to get it.
The saying is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and can really be switched out for several different sayings even as they are all about that size give or take a little.
I like these little cards. They are good for gifts or a thank you even. Just something small to say hey I'm thinking of you. We sell envelopes to go with them too, so you can stamp them to match as well. I have another one I did recently too which I packaged up into a set. I'll have to show you that little card next.
So I hope you enjoy my small share today.
Hope you have a great day.

butterfly builder roller birthday card

Hey everyone, I hope you are having a good day today.

This was another card that we did for our last club night. We used the new builder wheels with the jumbo roller. I left out the middle wheel so we could use the new satin Razzleberry ribbon in the center. It's so pretty and adds a nice shine to the card and the space looks really good with that width of ribbon. I rolled the wheels with Old Olive ink. I used the Punched Posies hostess set for the butterflies. If you don't have this one, then Butterfly Prints in the main catalog is really close. For these butterflies. We used Rich Razzleberry and Concord Crush to ink the butterflies using the Rock and Roll technique. The middle one is popped up with dimensionals to give some dimension to the card. :) I just thought this was a fun and pretty easy card for a birthday. You basically just roll it, tie on ribbon, stamp and punch 3 butterflies and your done.
Like I've said lately, I really like easy as the schedule has been a little crazy and will be even more so when school starts.
So I hope you enjoy today's share.
Thanks for looking and have a great day.

owl 3x3 for you card

I always like giving my club members a little something extra when they come to club. Just a small way to say thank you for coming and learning together with me and helping support my business each month.
This was a little card I made for them last time they came. It uses our new owl punch. I also used our bird punch (for the leaves) and I also used the Big Shot to texture his little belly area using the textured embossing folder to do that.
I also used the saying from Teeny Tiny wishes which is a great versatile set with lots of different sayings. It's one of my favorites since there are so many to chose from.
This punch is kind of fun to work with. I've also seen several other things made out of it that I'll have to try soon. I mean if you look at the base of it what can you make out? hhmmm? I see a flower, an animal head (without the feet) and possibly some other items too. I'll have to play around with it some more, so I can share some of the different items it makes. If you see something in it you'll have to share what you come up with too. That's one of the fun parts - being creative and sharing together. With our new Stampin' Connections website that demos can access there are thousands of ideas out there. I love being able to access that and getting to see and get all the new stuff first. It becomes almost like Christmas...too fun.
So anyways, I hope you enjoy my little note card. I also hope you have a great day tomorrow and are able to stay cool. Blessings.

elegant lines birthday

Seems like lately with so much going on, I'm really liking easy. To me this card is soooo simple and yet very classy. I just ran the Marina Mist paper through my Big Shot with the Elegant Lines embossing folder.
I just love the embossing folders. They give such deep rich embossing and look so pretty.
I then stamped the birthday sentiment from the Perfect Punches set in Marina mist. Punched it out with my wide oval punch. It's so much fun when sets coordinate with punches. I can't resist those types of set. :)
I then tied on some vanilla satin ribbon and tied in a little bit of 1/8" marina mist taffeta ribbon for the knot. I then added some of our new self adhesive pearls to the little circles that were embossed and that just gave it the last right touch I thought. I didn't come up with the pearl idea, but have seen it on several cards lately along with jewel brads, crystals and various items like that. I don't know who originated the idea, but I like it. For this card though I thought the pearls especially matched the paper and silky look of the satin ribbon perfectly.
So I hope you enjoy the share for the day.
Keep creating and have a great day.

scrapbooking your faith -things I love

Sorry I've been such a slacker posting lately. It's been very busy here. Last week we took some vacation time even and I used a lot of the time to get caught up on cleaning in various parts of our house. You know you are busy when you don't have time to clean. :)
We did go somewhere too, but the days we stayed home we did quite a bit of cleaning. Not that you could tell it much in our cluttered home, but it did make a dent and made a couple rooms much nicer.

So I haven't had a lot of time to create outside of class material lately it seems. Between work, having to lead a bible study at church now and trying to keep up with family stuff along with my stamping classes it's been busy. I need to take another vacation day and just create I think. :) That would be lots of fun.
So I was looking at my blog and realized what a slacker I had been with my blog and especially with my scrapbooking your faith posts. I haven't posted those the last several months and I hadn't even realized it. So here is the pages we did several months ago. We used a few sets here as well as some punches. The main stamp set we used was the Things I Love stamp set. We also used some others too, but they aren't all in the new catalog. There is a similar one though so that's good. We also used several punches including the full heart punch, large oval and some circle punches. We also inked all the edges.
We focused this lesson on the things we focus on and spend time on or with - kind of like our favorites. We put a cross near the front because I hoped those attending the bible study placed God high up in their lives as well as their families and loved ones (hence the saying, "but most of all you" punched out with the oval). The others were used mainly for favorite items, but could be interchanged depending on likes or what photos they had. I tried to pick items they might have pictures of and could journal about. I placed strips so they could add lists of favorites or multiple photos. They could do it like in columns even if they wanted to. Have pictures with lists under or around them.

I made these pages for a couple reasons. One, I thought it might help us focus where we spend our time and such. I also thought they could be fun page to look back on. Our favorites change over the years and sometimes it's fun to look back and see what we liked - what foods, what styles, what events, etc. Even what people were in our lives at the time as they change over time too.
So that's my share for the day. I hope you enjoy it and it gives you an idea to scrapbook about as well. Have a great day today. Blessings.