fresh & fun

I am not sure about this card. This is so out of my comfort zone, it’s not even funny! The layout for this card came from the new Creating Keepsake magazine.

 I loved the way this looked. Of course I had to get our new Petals & Paisleys Designer paper out and duplicated the layout and doodled the borders just like it is shown in the magazine.

Well…..I like simple…but that looked just too simple to me. So BAM…I stamped the Flower from Polka Dots & Paisleys in black right in that lower section of the yellow paper. Later I wished I had planned the whole card out before doing something so drastic….but what can you do. It was on there. Next I used Amazing to Zany to add the words in the circle on top and Happy Everything for the happy message on the bottom. What can I say, I didn’t think it was enough yet. I am so wanting Prima flowers. Those would have finished this card off perfectly. I just ordered some yesterday and I can’t wait to get them.

I got out Looks Like Spring and added the big flower and the little one on the bottom. Lastly I added the vintage brad in the center of the pink flower and three black eyelets and the black ribbon.

So what do you think? Is it too crazy???? Usually when I am not sure about a card, I send an instant message to Jenn Balcer, my bestest friend and she helps me finish the card off. But she isn’t online! That’s just not right. So I am asking my new blogging buddies instead.

Hugs!

Okay girls! I am totally overwhelmed how sweet the blogging community is. Why didn’t I start this earlier! Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving comments. It really makes my day!

To celebrate my blog with you, I decided to give away some candy. Whoever’s name is draw will receive:

- one  So Very Stamp set

- May Arts ribbon shown in the picture (without the wooden cloth pins (thanks KimL., this early in the morning I couldn’t come up with the word…easier to ship)

- a few starburst

All you have to do to win is leave a comment! To add a comment, click on the title of the post. Scroll down the next page and you will find the comment box.

I will put all names in the basket and let Rebecca pick a name Monday morning before she goes to school. All comments that are entered by Sunday will be eligible! ?Edited on Monday Morning: I will let her pick a number from 1-however many entries and find the lucky winner by the post she made.

If a US resident wins, I will send it priority mail out the next day. If someone from another country wins, I will send it the cheapest way to you.

Thanks again for visiting!!! Hugs and smiles

Good morning! This blog has me so excited, I am living on little sleep and lots of diet coke! LOL I woke up at 4 a.m. and couldn’t go back to bed. So guess what? (think voice of Junie B. Jones, which is in my case, voice of little Rebecca. She reads Junie B. to me every day for 20 minutes. ) I started stamping. That’s what! LOL

Last night I already decided to use the polka dot paper from  the Au Chocolat Designer paper pack. I wasn’t quite sure yet how and with what stamp set though. I kind of decided that I wanted to do the closure Stampin’ Up! showed at convention. To mix it up ,I wanted to have the circle that holds the card closed on the bottom of the card. I just couldn’t decide on a set or what do do on the bottom of the page.

This morning I started browsing blogs and found a great idea for the bottom of the card. Check out this blog candy at Paper Ink-Pressions. Do you see how perfect this is????? I got all excited. I rummaged through my retired stash in the back of my closet and found my Stripe template and the foam attachment for my rubber brayer. I started with vanilla cardstock and brayered my lines on with So Saffron cardstock. (Little tip, when using the foam brayer, spray a bit of water on it before inking it up. It takes the ink faster this way)

The choice of the stamp set was decided by the blog candy as well. I wanted to have a small saying along the stripes. The smallest one we have is from the You make me Happy stamp set. I love that small saying “you make the word special just being in it”.  On the other side of each stripe I added a doodled chocolate chip marker line.

I started with a 4 1/4″ x 9 3/4″ piece of chocolate chip cardstock. I scored it at 5 1/2″ and rounded all four corners. For the front panel, I cut a 4″ square from the gorgeous polka dot designer paper. I stamped the background stamp of You Make Me Happy on it with So saffron. I also added the smaller flower with a leaf sprinkled all over on the paper. I did stamp off once before stamping the flower on the paper.

The inside has  a 4″ square of so saffron lined up on the top. I added the saying “You make me Happy” on the top right with a so saffron flower over it. I lined up my stamped paper with the bottom of the inside and then added a 4/16″ strip of chocolate between the saffron on the stamped paper.

For the closure I stamped the dragonfly of the set on vanilla cardstock. I punched it out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch, sponged it with saffron, drew a border matching my stripes lines and layered it on a 1 3/8″ circle.  I added dimensionals on the bottom of the chocolate layer. Then I used the 1 1/4″ circle punch to punch a 1/2 circle in the card front. I closed the card and positioned my dragonfly so that it would close the card.  I added some apricot and chocolate grosgrain ribbon and was done.

And to really make you understand how early I was up….I finished nine of these beauties already! Five of those will go to my top sellers in my downline beginning of next month.