Olympics of Stamping - Christmas Card

Hi all. I'm back with my last card for the Olympics of Stamping Contest over at the Moxie Fab World Blog. Today is the last day to submit so I thought I would go out with a Christmas Card. I love making Christmas cards, and I love even more using nontraditional colors. I don't know that I have ever made a Christmas card with red and green as my main colors.



I was going to stamp a few of these pink ornaments and just cut them out and adhere to my card. But when I was stamping them on my cardstock, I thought that they fit so well stamping them in layers with the shape of the ornament that an idea was born for this card. I did cut out one of the ornaments but only to make the sentiment pop a little. It is amazing where ideas can come from when you are least expecting them.

Thanks for such a fun challenge, Cath!!

Supplies:

kraft cardstock - Stampin' Up!

all other supplies - Papertrey Ink

Spring is in the Air

Nothing is better than the happy thoughts of spring. Even though we still have many inches of snow on the ground, I can't help but think of the colors of spring and everything being renewed. Just brings a smile to my face. Even now, the sun is shining and the temps are warming up, all is good.

Here is a springy card for you. The black doesn't really a spring color but I added for some boldness and to make the card pop a little more. And isn't that border awesome. I made that with my new scalloped border die from Papertrey Ink. They have three different scalloped sized to pick from.

Supplies:

cardstock - Papertrey Ink

stamps - Hero Arts (background of buttfly and card), Stampin Up! (sentiment)

twine - Stampin Up!

ink - Papertrey Ink, Tsukineko

die - Stampin Up! (butterfly), Papertrey Ink (scalloped border)

circle punchs - Creative Memories

Birthday Wishes

Monday already! I was just getting used to my weekend, it stinks it always has to end.

Here is a card for the Olympics of Stamping contest. My fourth one so far. I'm sure I will slow down now that the weekend is over but I had the itch to keep creating and so I went with it. Any excuse to stamp, right?!?!

I don't know what happened to my pictures lately and I'm not a photo expert, but I can't seem to get rid of the blue tint to my first picture. It is bugging me and I wish I knew more about photography to help myself. My pictures usually never turn out like this, not happy. I hope you can still get the full effect of the colors in the picture below, that turned out a little better.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun creating this week.

Supplies:

cardstock, ribbon, ink, stamps, buttons, twine - Papertrey Ink

gems - KaiserCraft

embossing folder - Cuttlebug

embossing machine - Epic Six by Quickutz

corner rounder - EKSuccess

Happy Happy Birthday

Wow, the weekend is almost over. But I will say that is was a lot of fun not having any plans and just spending time together as a family. We are back to busy next weekend, so I will savor this moment now.

Here is another card for the Olympics of Stamping Challenge over at the Moxie Fab World blog. So sorry for the poor picture. The is such a bright, cheery card but I couldn't get it to look that way in my photo. I think I bought almost all the new sets from the Papertrey Ink release this month. Here is another new one, Dot Spot, love the backgrounds you can create with this set. And that frame stamp and sentiment stamp (Fillable Frames #1), and die are also new at PTI. Fun!! Fun!!

This photo below is a little brighter but still not what I was hoping for with my picture. At least it was still tons of fun to make this card and I enjoyed every minute of it. And that is all it literally took for me to make it, minutes. Double bonus!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps, ink, frame die - Papertrey Ink

circle punch - Creative Memories

scalloped punch - EKSuccess

die cut machine - Epic Six by Quickutz

Happy Birthday Card

Happy Friday to you!! I am back with another card for the Olympics of Stamping Challenge at the Moxie Fab World blog. I love any excuse to stamp so this challenge is tons of fun!!!

For my card today I used the new Butterfly Dreams stamp set from Papertrey Ink. And anyone who knows me and my craftiness, I love to use butterflies. When I saw that this stamp was going to be released this month at PTI, I knew it would be mine. So many wonderful images and the sentiments are great too.

It is extremely rare for me to make a card this shape and size, but I wanted to try something different and I had the design already in my head and this size of card suited my ideas best. Of course, I used some of my new copic markers to color in the butterfly and isn't that border punch by Martha Stewart just the best, love it.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

cardstock, ribbon, stamps - Papertrey Ink

ink - Tsukineko

gems - Hero Arts

circle punches - Creative Memories

corner rounder - EKSuccess

border punch - Martha Stewart

The Olympics of Stamping Challenge

Hi everyone. I am so happy to be able to participate in this Olympics of Stamping Challenge. Over at the Moxie Fab World Blog there is a great challenge going on where you could win a gold, silver, or bronze medal by creating mostly stamped cards in these five categories: Birthday, Christmas/Season's Greeting, Hello/Thinking of you, Thank You, and Love. Click HERE to check out the challenge.

My card is a Thank You card as you can see. I was so happy to use my new Year of Flowers: Violets stamp from Papertrey Ink. The stamp is big enough to cover a good portion of the card and it is so fun to color. Love IT!!

I love purple as a color by itself but to make cards with it is another thing. I have made very few of them but I really love this one. This card has a great springy feeling to it and I could really use some spring here in Iowa. I think that is why I like it so much, it helps me think of warmer days ahead, hopefully soon. :o)

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a happy days ahead of you.

Supplies:

cardstock, patterned paper, ribbon, stamps - Papertrey Ink

marker - Copic

border punch - Fiskars

ink - Tsukineko