Solemn Stillness GOLD

The gilded age has returned!  

I love the sparkle, especially the Zing! Glitter Finish Gold embossing powder!  I'm not certain I'm impressed with the Mister Huey Gold.  In the right light, it shimmers nicely; otherwise, meh.  While I wish I had tried it without the Mister Huey Gold, I'm very happy with how it turned out otherwise! Mister Huey plays a big role in this card though.  LOL. Maybe it will grow on me some more.  

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Stamps: SU! Solemn Stillness
Paper: SU! Very Vanilla & Brushed Gold
Ink: Brilliance Galaxy Gold, Versamark
Accessories: SC Mister Huey (Gold); SU! gold cord, Gold Glory EP; Zing Glitter Finish Gold EP

Inspired!

I decided to check out the regularly scheduled challenge on Splitcoaststampers dot com.  It was the color challenge.  Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight!   So, I went to "my favorites" to see what I had saved to CASE...decided on SU! Inspired by Nature stamp set....and came up with this.

I used SU! markers to color the image, "huffed" on the colored image and stamped! 

 

I really do like this stamped on the SU! Newsprint DSP!

 

The bow with a button in the middle was the "extra credit". 

Hope you enjoyed today's project.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a moo'valous day!

SUPPLIES

Stamps: Inspired by Nature

Paper: Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade, Newsprint DSP

Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Button (from Brights), Linen Thread, Daffodil Delight Seam Binding, Markers (Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight)

Peace on Earth

I love this stamp set.  It was a hostess set named Peaceful Season.  Paired with Letters to Santa DSP and some NEW Blushing Bride pleated satin ribbon.  OK.  I'm so not the PINK gal!  But I love this stuff!  Take a peek!

Check out the amazing details & textures on the card!  The blue panel I received through SCS Wish RAK several years ago.  It's pressure embossed with snowflakes on textured CS.  That snowflake...is not really a snowflake.  It's a doily.  SU! has a triple layer doily punch...I tell ya...they look like durn snowflakes.  I have yet to use them as doilies...and why buy a snowflake punch when ya already got a great substitute!?!  LOL.  Saving those FRNs.  ;-)

Speaking of FRNs...everything on this card...I guess...was from stash.  I DID buy the Letters to Santa DSP because I didn't have any Christmas DSP.  The pleated ribbon IS new...but it's more of a repurpose...it's not advertised as being used on Christmas cards.  It's not available for purchase by the general public until January 2, as it's featured in the upcoming SU! Ocassions Mini.

It's so luscious!  I loved rubbing my finger across the pleats...sigh...nice stuff!  Truly.

Inside, I stamped a snowflake trio and a sentiment!  The sentiment is from a virgin stamp set (not seen ink yet) named Season of Simple Grace.

I'm mailing these out in clear envies!  Since I gotta pay an extra 20 cents for the bumps...the brad & ribbons...I'm gonna use a clear envelope!  A first for me, as I've not mailed anything in a clear envelope yet.  It's actually kind of cool.  I received a card with a button in a clear envelope the other day!  Cool!

I made SIX of these.  I think SIX is a good number to "mass produce".  I tried that mass produce thing one year...with embossed images.  I wonder why I have not used EP (embossing powder) lately.  LOL.  I do have some NEW scented EP from SU!  I hope it smells good.  And heck naw...they didn't put out chocolate scented EP.  More like cherry, orange & melon.  Those are summer scents.  Maybe we'll get chocolate next time.  :-D

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Phillip @ 13

A western themed photo...taken at the age of 13.  I dug out some SU! Outlaw DSP, and paired it with some Chocolate Chip and PTI Ocean Tides.  I'm pulling out the "antique green / gray" in the background of the photo as I do not want to compete with the red shirt. 

Green and red are complementary colors - they are opposite each other on the color wheel and they bring out the best in each other. Kind of like best friends! They are high energy colors, but this subdued green doesn't compete with the red. 

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Phillip is TWO!

If you've been following my latest series of posts, I have been scrapping the formal birthday pictues of Phillip.  You can check out previous posts HERE. 

Today, I showcase age TWO.  And John Deere! 

Don't you just love that DSP?  It's from the mollymoo store.  Ok ok...ahem...it's counterfeit.  LOL.  Creative Imaginations John Deere stickers...I have...ahem...FOUR sheets of them.  So...I just randomly attached stickers to a 12 x 12 piece of Whisper White! 

For this layout, I omitted the 2 inch strip that is usually on the 7 1/2 inch panel...why cover up all those nice John Deere images?

The "O" looks off...but it's not...maybe it should be off so it would look straight?  I dunno...but it's straight.  I used a ruler. 

I hope you are enjoying the series and will be inspired to scrap your own formal photos after they have been enjoyed hanging on the wall...you can then open your scrapbook and enjoy the pictures AND your DSP / embellishment stash.  ;-)

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a moo'valous day!

Farm Friends

This card, I made several years ago.  If I'm remembering correctly, it was a case of something Gina K Designs related. 

The patterned paper is actually Basic Grey paper - from the Blush collection and it coordinates very well with SU! Real Red and Close to Cocoa.  The designer paper covers a piece of chipboard from SU!'s On Board Accents.  The animals are from an older SU! set that I no longer have.  The animals were colored with markers and the sheep has Tulip White Puffy paint on it.  According to the sticky note inside the card, (which, by the way, doesn't list the SU! set, but lists all the other supplies.  LOL) it appears the card used to have a prima flower or two and some fibers...I think it looks fine without 'em.  They sure weren't on there when I pulled the card out of the card drawer. 

Thanks for taking a trip down the memory lane with me.  It's fun to look at projects created a while back. 

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Quick Thank You

Just a quick post to show ya a quick thank you.

I am making thank you cards for ny niece's baby shower...I already had an idea in my idea book...then I hopped over to Nicole Heady's blog to check out the Stamp-A-Faire posts...and saw THIS challenge.

Clean, simple & quick!  Plenty of space for a personal note to be written inside. 

This was NOT my original plan, but did I mention, it was clean, simple & quick.  LOL.   I'm using supplies on hand - my new PTI Text Style Big & Bold Wishes and my new SU! Nursery Additions. 

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Paper & Pockets - Part 2

This is the pocket part.  In yesterday's post, Paper & Pockets, I shared my faux spiral notebook paper.  I needed that pocket die so I could slip in the paper.  I need another hole in my head, too.

I discovered that library pockets are not hard to make at all.  A simple library pocket is all I needed.

My finished NON-die cut library / journaling pocket.

 How'd I get there?

Let's start with my choice of materials.  Last week, I got two boxes of letter sized manila file folders at Office Depot...FREE after Rewards.  YAY! for free craft stuff!

Free after rewards!

Guess I best start cutting these up!

Library pocket dimensions, cutting & scoring guidelines.

 Simple cutting, scoring, snipping and taping.

So...put 'em together and whaddaya got?

Bibbity bobbity

Bibbity bobbity

Bibbity bobbity

BOOOOO!

Goodness!  I love 'em! 

Not boo...I do like Cinderella...who says shoes can't change ya life!?  Anyhoo...yay, for shoes changing your life...and for NON die cut library pockets!  I can decorate them and journal...looking forward to using these in my SMASH book and to using the same idea to create journaling cards / pockets for my son's baby book! 

So, in two days, I've effectively talked myself out of THREE PTI purchases:  (1) the spiral notebook paper die, (2) the library pocket die, (3) and the stamp set that stamps the lines on the paper. 

Supplies.

Whacha think?

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Mr. & Mrs.

I believe this is the first wedding card I've ever made.  LOL. 

My first wedding card.

It was inspired by the CAS July 4 Holiday challenges on SCS - this one was TEA.  So I decided to do some tea staining...the SU! way.  Although, I do have some coffee stained workpapers at work...hmmmm...

This was steppy...and yep...had a craft-splosion.  Bigger than yesterday's...and nope...didn't take a picture. 

I break out the Bella Toile and the SU! markers.  Color the stamp...tap on versarmak...and STAMP!

Supplies.

Pretty.

 Grab the powder pal tray...dump on clear EP...hit it - the card (wink) - with the heat gun...and viola!

After embossing, before tea staining.

Not sure this is my style...but I'll carry on.  Out comes the SU! Distressing Essentials....and I found the cube of Tea Stain.  tee hee.

After tea staining.

WOW.  I was approaching shock territory.  I had to take a break.  I went to fix some supper.  Ham & cheese calzones, with a rabbit salad...I'm tired of salad...I'm growing long front teeth or somethin'.  :-p

After supper, I finish up my card. 

Love the elegant popped up sentiment.

Sentiment inside.

 I love the simplicity of the sentiment and the look of the inside after the business of the outside.

This card is going to work today...it's for a co-worker that got married over the holiday weekend.   SURPRISE!  Indeed. 

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Scrap Pile

Remember the scrap pile from my last post:

SU! punched pieces...soon to be embellishments for my SMASH book!

Die Cut pieces from PTI's It's A Jungle Out There die.

I punched the TAR out of the scraps.  LOL.  NOW...big thing here...is use them!  ;-)  For time being...I have stashed the SU! punched shapes here:

Punched shapes in small tin.

I think I had purchased these tins from the SU! Clearance Rack a while back.  I just simply shopped in my craft closet...ahem...hall closet for a storage solution.   It's portable...thin...space saving...and I can leave it right there and it won't be in the way...but I know I have some neato embellishments...ok...they are still plain right now...but not for long...neato embellishments right at hand for my smash book.  YES!

I have:

Arrows.

Large & small stars.

Modern labels.

Photo corners.

Small hearts.

All tucked away in here.

All tucked away.

I will be sharing the Decorative Labels all dolled up...and y'all thought I was gonna leave 'em all white?!?  LOL.  ;-) 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a moo'valous day!

Counterfeit SMASH Book

The latest craze - SMASH Books from EK Success - is a throwback to the old days of scrapbooking.  Remember when scrapbooking was taping & gluing memorabilia in a scrapbook; photo albums were for photos?  That's the SMASH craze.  SMASH items are sold out online & I have yet to see them in the local big box craft store.  Hmmmm....my senior year of high school, I made a SMASH album.  The scrapbooker in me...cringed...the smashbooker in me...delighted!

My counterfeit SMASH notebook is a 9 x 12" sketch book.  And in my favorite color!

Each week during summer break, we try to do something special.  We went to the movies.  I always intend to scrap my ticket stubs...but that don't happen...sometimes I wind up throwing them away & even forgetting about it.

Now, I did fix this page about a week after the fact...and I fully intent to put pictures of Johnny Depp on the page.  ;-) 

Lookie:

I got out stuff I haven't used EVER! Like Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Snowflake, like Changito Pirates...I had made manila tags a few weeks ago...got those out...wow! I cut into the new Nautical Expedition DSP from the SU! Summer Mini...I love that paper. I stamped the DSP with the compass face image from Changito Pirates in Black Staz-on in a random pattern.

Remember, blank spots are for photos of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack.  :-D 

I sprayed this tag with Glimmer Mist and then crumpled it.  Dried with the heat gun.  Just look at that shimmer!  The tag was cut out of some old manila folders from work...one day, I just cut some tags and shaped them.  I have a bag of 'em. 

I just love the title, created with my Dymo label maker...now if that's not a blast from the past...I don't know what is.  Dymo label makers were the label makers of the 80's, back when scrapbooking was smashbooking. 

I love using what I have!  The only moo'la I'm out is the price of the sketch book & I used a 50% off coupon on that!  I think this is going to give me a chance to try new techniques & design ideas, as well as use up my stash.  Many times I like a product, purchase it and then find I really have no pictures to scrap with it or have an item I feel it's not something that needs a full page scrapped. 

So, whadayathink?  :-D

Counterfeit Buttons

That same release I mentioned here had me tempted with one more thing...a button die!  Oh goodness...I can make buttons from chipboard...felt....basically anything.  Yes, you can make buttons with DSP, cardstock and punches.  I haven't been brave enough to try to punch a piece of chipboard.  ;-) 

I got to thinking....hmmmm...I have that circle die...it has four sizes of circles....

'The details at this point...one 4 x 4 chipboard square covered all four circles on my die.  After die cutting, I ran one through my Xryon and made a sandwich.  After I had doubled the thickness of the cut out, I used my sanding block to "blend" the edges, round the edges and distress the flat surfaces. 

Using Tangerine Tango and the medallion from SU! Charming, I stamped the circles that were slightly smaller than the stamp.  Then...

Center a hole from the mat stack over the center of the button and make a dot in the middle of each of the two adjoining holes. 

Now the fun part...crop a dile time!  Remember to keep the fingers out of the way.  I noticed yesterday, I WAS keeping my fingers out of the way.  A pinch from the crop a dile is quite painful. 

The finished product!  Now, I really don't need a button die! 

Over the last two posts, I have shown how I talked myself out of a $54 plus shipping new release order.  I already had the stuff...and it really didn't take longer to D.I.Y. as it would to use the ready made products.  Plus, some of these steps...are fun....for me at least. 

Have a moo-valous day!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps - SU! Charming
Ink - SU! Tangerine Tango
Accessories / Tools:  SU! Big Shot, Chipboard, Sizzix Circle Die, SU! Crop A Dile, SU! Mat Stack, SU! Sanding Block

Tag, tags and more tags

Vintage...valentine...I love it!  I wanted a simple quick project - tags fit the bill!   I didn't want to go buy shipping tags, so I made my own with my Sizzix Tags die and SU!'s Very Vanilla cardstock.  I even made my own "reinforcements". 

I love the collage effect.  This would be great on a smaller scale as a Simply Adorned locket insert!  I made eight tags total, distressing three of them by wearing down the edges and...gasp...spraying with water and crumpling!  Some red ink did bleed a little bit, but it really enhanced the distressed look of the tag.

I think these turned out great!  I believe I am going to use these as tags for Valentine Day treat bags.  If I do, I'll be sure to take pics of that project!  I could even flip them over and journal on the back...using these for a scrapbook page.   You'll probably see these pop up on a project soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps:  Artistic Etchings, French Script
Ink:  Basic Black, Basic Grey, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:  Sizzix Tag Die, Big Shot!, brayer, 1/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, Tombow Mono Multi.  For tags that were distressed - SU! cutter kit, Ranger mini spray bottle, water.

Scrap Card

Do you need a great card idea to use up your long scraps?  How about these?

Purty, aint' they?  I wanted to make some Christmas cards.  I had some Fruitcake strips & scraps.  Basic Grey Fruitcake, that is.  I got the idea from Andrea Walford, a Canadian SU! demonstrator.  I made eleven cards in all!  Whoo hoo!  It took ALL freaking day!  OMG!  Who would've thought it would take all freaking day to make 11 cards?  It was fun and I really really do like the result! 

There were lots of combinations of paper patterns to choose from to mix and match.  I think some of the cards look like a cottage roof! 

SUPPLIES
Stamps: Christmas Greetings
Paper: SU! Soft Suede, Basic Grey Fruitcake
Ink: SU! Soft Suede Classic
Accessories: SU! Tasteful Trim XL Die, Big Shot, SU! 5/8" Old Olive Satin, SU! Sherbet Button Boutique, SU! Linen Thread, Mono Multi, Glue Dots, Stamp-a-ma-jig

SSK Christmas Cards (Day 5)

Supplies:

- Stamps - Dasher
- Paper - Very Vanilla CS, Old Olive CS, Real Red CS, Christmas Jingle SSK
- Ink - Old Olive Craft
- Accessories - Clear EP, Heat Gun, circle & scallop circle punches (Marvy)