Flower Fancy

Have you ever been completely out of sync with the current season? I totally was when I made this card. Here it is spring and I was inspired by thanksgiving colors, of course that is really not all that surprising given the weather when I made it. Spring just doesn't want to come and stay. Every time it looks like it will stay nice out, it starts to snow or rain, and today we are getting both snow and rain. Looks like I will be hitting the treadmill instead of the pavement tonight for my running.

Enough of my ramblings back to the card.... I love the look of hodgepodge hardware, but sometimes there are not a lot of stamps that fit inside. Teeny Tiny Wishes is a set that fits inside almost all of the pieces. I love this set, and use it more than any other set I own. Watercoloring is such a great look, but can be hard to achieve. With the set Flower Fancy you can get the look so easily. It is a 2 step stamp, so all you do is stamp with the outline image and then stamp the solid image over top and you are done.


Stamps: Flower Fancy, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive,
Paper: Pumpkin Pie DSP (hostess paper pack), Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Whisper White
Misc: 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Hodgepodge Hardware

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Fall colors

Around here, fall is almost over, but I love the colors so much that I used them for this card. Pumpkin Pie is such a wonderful orange, and Chocolate Chip is the nicest brown and both of them are so fitting, with yesterday being Halloween.




I hope you all had a wonderful time yesterday, we sure did. I have a ton of pictures I need to get organized for scrapbooking.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

the cat's away....

Ok not really.... the only one still home is the cat, mom's cat. We are all far away for a family wedding and I am going through withdrawals.... I had my newest order arrive before I left and I didn't have time to play at all. I did drop my sister in law's order off for her and now she is making all sorts of wonderful things with them and posting on her blog to taunt me... not nice at all, LOL....... and yet nice since I can't make anything I guess I still get to see cool stuff done, and I just might have to borrow the one stamp set since I love the card she made. She is in my blogs I follow, creativecatsdesigns, so go on over there and take a look.

This is a card I made before I left and had loaded on to the laptop. I am also trying a slightly new system since the new IDA came out. I am no longer listing all the items in a card. If you would like to know what was used please post a comment and I will email you the receipe. If you like the way it used to be before with the whole list and item numbers please also leave a comment and I might just go back to the way it used to be.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Cards for my nieces

I have been in a fairly creative mindset the past few days and have actually managed a few LO's and 2 cards. 2 of John's nieces have birthdays in the next couple weeks, so I made their cards last night so he can mail them on the way to work. I have also been using embellishments that I normally don't use, not because I don't like them, but because I normally forget to use them. Catherine, I actually stamped RIGHT ON A LO!!, not even on a piece of paper, but right on the actual page, twice!! I am very proud of myself for trying lots of new things too.

Both the cards I made are all Stampin' Up!®. The first uses Almost Amethyst, Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White cardstock, Delicate Dots DSP, Almost Amethyst, Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery and Mellow Moss Classic Ink. The centers of all the flowers have Micro Beads. The stamps are Flower Fancy and Garden Greetings.



This card uses Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White cardstock, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, and Chocolate Chip Classic ink, and the stamp set is Flight of the Butterfly.


I am going to try and take pictures of the LO's I did the last few days and post them soon. Until then, Happy Scrappin'