Baroque Motifs

I wish I could tell you that I came up with this card all on my own, but I didn't. I cased this card from Beate. She has some of the cutest cards ever, I just changed the colors and added a rhinestone brad to the flower. I just thought I would let you know that this will be one of the cards we will be making at Ladies' Night this week. I love the new colors that Stampin' Up! has come out with, I think I am in Love!

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Hugs & Wishes, Baroque Motifs

Paper: Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, River Rock, Close to Cocoa

Ink: Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, River Rock, Close to Cocoa

Accessories: Rhinestone Brads, Sponge

Ahoy, Matey!

My brother and sister-in-law will be having a little boy sometime in August so I am making them a brag book to add pictures to. Here is an idea I thought up while I was stamping last night. If you want to make a scrapbook for someone and you don't have their photos you can use a sticky note and write the size of the photo that will fit in the designated space. Then when they get the scrapbook they don't have to go and measure out how big the photograph has to be.

I had a lot of fun doing this map. I used my blender pen to color in the map on River Rock paper. I sponged around the map to give it a worn look and then I crumpled again and again until I got the look I was going for.
Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Ahoy, Matey!, Headline Alphabet, Euphoria Alphabet

Paper: Designer Series Paper Prints Soft Sky, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Summer Sun

Accessories: Matey's Map Jumbo Wheel, Basic Black Jumbo Cartridge, Hemp Twine,

Happy Independence Day to you all!

Be cautioned that this card does not use any traditional stamps for this festive card. If you read some of my previous posts you would know that I don't have any star stamps. One day I will do something about it. Anyway, I thought I needed to make an Independence day card anyway because I am proud to be an American and I thought I could celebrate by making a card. This is kind of what I came up with while I was taking a nap yesterday. To make the stripes I used some painters tape to go where the white lines are, then I used my watercolor joy wheel and rolled it over the exposed shimmery white card stock and then peeled off the tape. Now I have stripes! The big flower was done from Pick a Petal, I added dazzling diamonds to the polka dots, the middle of the flower and along the stripes. For the sentiment I actually took Happy from a Happy Anniversary Stamp and used my Euphoria Alphabet to put in 4th

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Pick a Petal, Hugs and Wishes, Euphoria Alphabet

Paper: Shimmery White, Rose Red

Ink: Craft Ballet Blue, Rose Red

Accessories: Watercolor Joy Wheel, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds,

College Fans!

So we are going to a birthday party tonight for one of our great friends. I am not the best at coming up with male birthday cards so I did my best with this one. It turns out that our friend is a Super UNC Fan. For those of you who do not know where UNC is, it is in Chapel Hill, NC. It is also the college that Micheal Jordan went to. Anyway, I tried to go with the Carolina Blue theme. The whole background is stamped with the Linen background stamp and then UNC is embossed with White Emboss Powder. A piece of velum is put over the top with Happy Birthday also embossed with White EP then the velum is tacked down with bashful blue brads.

Supplies:

Stamps: Headline Alphabet, Linen Background, It's Your Birthday

Paper: Bashful Blue, Velum

Ink: Bashful Blue, Versa Mark

Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Soft Sutles Brads

While we were on the subject of colleges, I thought I would share this awesome card I received in a card swap. When I did the card swap it was around the time when the Virginia Tech Massacre happened. I thought this card was very appropriate.

Kenzie's Kreations

So these are the rest of McKenzie's Thank You cards that she finished just before she left to go back to California. We both finished them in one afternoon. These cards were a whole lot faster to make than the other card she chose to make. The star stamp is an incentive stamp that I bought through SU! I gave the star stamp to my sister! Her first stamp, oh how cute. My sister loves stars! That was one of her first questions to me when we went to make her cards. "Do you have any star stamps?" I didn't think I did until she found this incentive stamp. What was nice about this card is we could change out the colors. We changed the color of the border between Pixie Pink, Orchid Opulence, and Gable Green.

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Big Deal Alphabet, Heartfelt Thanks, Incentive stamp

Paper: Whisper White, Gable Green, Tempting Turquoise, Pixie Pink, Orchid Opulence

Ink: Gable Green, Tempting Turquoise, Pixie Pink, Orchid Opulence

Accessories: Cutter Kit, Stampin' Dimensionals

The New Catalog!

Okay, so I got my Catalogs in the mail! I was so excited to see them on my door step! Let me tell you, I have gone through the catalog at least 5 times and I have tabbed it all over with sticky notes. There are so many cute New stamp sets that I can't wait to get my hands on. They also have a lot of great New accessories that I am excited to try out. I just thought I would share the picture of the new catalog and also share my excitement! Contact me if you want to get a hold of one of these catalogs!

Anniversary Getaway

Well we had a great time this last weekend. I know I said I would update on Sunday and I totally dropped the ball on that one. It took me five days to get myself back together and start blogging again. So anyway, this picture was taken in front of Hickory Nut Falls in Chimney Rock Park. This waterfall is 404' tall. You can't really see that from this photo.
Here we are at the bottom of Hickory Nut Falls. Chimney Rock was a lot of fun to visit. They had a lot of good walking trails and moderate hiking trails.


This is a view of Chimney Rock. The park has an elevator that will take you all the way to the top so you don't have to walk up a million stairs. Although think of the wonders it could do for your glutes!
Okay so we didn't take the stairs up to the top, but we seriously thought about it for, two seconds.
After we went to Chimney Rock we went to Pearson's Falls in Tryon, NC. It was a short 1/4 mile hike to get the the falls. It was really beautiful. This fall was 90' tall.

Here is a picture Walter took of the falls. He did a panoramic type picture but went up and down. He was having a lot of fun with our new camera. It was so nice to get away for a couple of days and not have to worry about the kids. Thanks Kenzie!