New Goodies and a CAS Card

It was like Christmas at my house yesterday! My goodies arrived from Stampin' Up's Spring/Summer 2009 Catalogue! What fun! I thought you might like to see a photo of my loot!

This moring's LSC was perfect for me because it stipulates the use of a CAS .... Clean and Simple card. One of my new tools is a die for the Big Shot called 'Movers & Shapers, Curly Label' so I've put it to good use! It really was quick to use ... but now I need to go and get Sarah up and make her lunch for school!

Recipe
Card #1: Stamps: Fun and Fast Notes/Cardstock: WW/ Ink: Choc Chip/Accessories: Retired Blue Bayou Ribbon, SU Markers, Movers & Shapers Curly Lable Die
Card #2: Stamps: Together Forever/ Cardstock: WW/ Ink: Choc Chip/ Accessries: Pretty in Pink Taffetta Ribbon, SU Markers, Movers & Shapers Curly Lable Die

House Mouse & Gruffies

Today's TLC on Splitcoast was to use pleats in our cards. I was a little stumped so I just did a basic folded pleat and secured it at each end ... problem! How to attach the image to the pleats? Tombow Mono Adhesive is working (so far) but we'll have to see if it'll stand up to the test of time!!! This one's for my friend Pegg (twinwillowsfarm) who raises her own sheep ... it's so bitterly cold in Northern Michigan that I thought she'd appreciate this! Here's a close-up:

Recipe
Stamps : Gruffies Wool sew for Friends
Cardstock : Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Almost Amethyst DSP
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Acccessories : Copic Markers

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Sometimes we are just blown away by our friends ... like me! A few weeks ago I drove down to help out my friend Michele (myoos913) who'd had a flood in her basement. We had a lot of fun and we did a little bit of work too ... then this w/end I got a HouseMouse parcel with a stamp inside and a message from Michele saying how much she appreciated my friendship ... how sweet is that?! So last night I made her a thank you card and here it is:

All my friends know I'm obsessed with Tea ... Yorkshire Tea to be exact ... so she got me a teapot stamp ... I LOVE IT! Thanks so much Michele! It's on its way!
Recipe
Stamps : House Mouse 'Chamomile Tea'
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Cardstock : Whisper White, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
Accessories : PTI Ribbon, Copic Markers

New Stamps to Play With

Morning! I can't believe another week has flown by! Yesterday I received some new stamps in the post ... love that! My friend Sharon had made a beautiful card and she told me the stamps were from a company called Rubber Stamp Tapestry ... so I visited their site and purchased a set called Pottery Garden. So last night I played around and made this monogram card for my sister, Sarah.

Then this morning over on SCS the LS challenge was to use black as the base for our cards ... so I used the same set in a different way. I love the stamps, but I realise I do need a little more practice ... which is something I won't mind doing!

Recipe
Stamps : Pottery Garden by Rubber Stamp Tapestry
Cardstock : Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla
Ink : Tangerine Tango and various SU colours for the greenery and flowers
Accessories : SU Scallop Edge Punch, Gingham Ribbon

H&M Old English Charm

... I wanted to use the cottage from Old English today ~ yesterday's card used the lamp-post from the Old English Accessories set and this is one of the cottages that goes with it! Mum, I tried to get the colour that same as The Thatched Cottage (that was the name of the house my parents used to own) ~ if I get time later on I'll scan in a photo of it so you can see the similarities, I'm due out in 30 mins so don't have time right now unfortunately! Anyway, enough prattling, I hope you enjoy this card!
Recipe
Stamps : Old English from H&M Stamps
Cardstock : Dp from Wild Asparagus, SU Sage Shadow and River Rock
Ink : StazOn Black

Accessories : Primas with brad, watercolour crayons, aquapainter

H&M Sketch

I love Wednesdays because it's the sketch challenge over on SCS. Today's stumped me a little ... I couldn't get inspired to find just the right image for the tall skinny panel ~ then I remembered one of my H&M sets which had an old fashioned lamp-post ~ perfect! The set is from H&M Stamps and can be found here ... it's called Old English Accessories. It pairs up with another great set Old English which I'll use tomorrow.

I kept it super-simple, the large panel just had the fence stamped onto it, then I layered the tall skinny panel over the top of it, and just coloured that portion. I really wanted the lamp to be the focal point. I printed out the sentiment onto Vellum cardstock and tore the edges, then plonked a prima flower down ... easy peasy!

Recipe
Stamps : Old English Accessories (H&M Stamps)
Cardstock : Very Vanilla, Kiwi Kiss, Vellum
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories : Copics, Primas, SU Brad

YUCKY Mosaic

Happy Monday! I wasn't sure whether to post this or not because I don't like how it turned out ... but it took ages so I'll go ahead! Today's TLC on Splitcoast was to make a mosaic card. It's quite simple, you cover a piece of cardstock with sticky strip and peel back the liner, then you stick down random pieces of paper and pour embossing powder over the whole thing. I spent hours and hours cutting and trimming my paper but it appears that the gaps in between the paper weren't quite wide enough for the embossing powder to cling to ... hence this messy background of uneven embossing! Yuk. Anyway, it's good to show you stuff that doesn't work sometimes!!!

Recipe
Stamps : Love you Much
Cardstock : Pink Pirouette, Not Quite Navy, Bella Rose DP
Ink : NQN
Accessories : Sticky Strip and Embossing Powder

A Few Things to Share

I wanted to share a little project I worked on last week. In March a gang of Michigan Splitcoaststampers are off to Bay City for a weekend 'Mingle'. As part of the lead-up to the event, PattyB has hosted a couple of challenges. One was to make a pie box. I thought you might like to see what I put together!

Recipe
Stamps : None
Ink : None
Cardstock : Kiwi Kiss, Bella Rose DP
Accessories : Pink Pirouette Taffeta Ribbon, Felt Fusion Flowers, Designer Brads (all SU)

The second project I wanted to share is a VERY simple little card I made ~ it's smaller than the standard size, I just trimmed it down to accommodate the image. I matted the image which was stamped with StazOn onto watercolour paper and then I just used reinkers and an aquapainter. So super-easy to do. This set is going to be available in the new catalogue which goes live on Monday.

Recipe
Stamps : Sweet Stems
Ink : Timber Brown StazOn
Cardstock : Whisper White, Watercolour, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red
Accessories : Reinkers, aquapainter, RHR Taffeta Ribbon, gold beads