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I stamped! I stamped this morning!

Since I was such a slacker all week, I made a card to match the color challenge as well as the limited supply challenge this week on SCS along with my weekend sketch challenge.

I started with a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Purely Pomegranate cardstock. The edges were sponged.

Next is a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Holiday Harmony Designer paper. I paper pierced the edges and sanded over them with my sanding block.

I used the big swirl stamp from Brocade Basics and stamped it in Purely Pomegranate on the bottom part of the paper.

The horizontal Designer paper is from the Holiday Harmony pack as well and measures 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″.

Again I paper pierced and sanded the edges before layering it on a 1/8″ bigger piece of Shimmery White cardstock. I used the Swirl from Brocade Basics again and stamped it on this layer as well.

To make it match up with the swirl on the darker piece of designer paper, I left the 2 1/2″ wide strip longer then 3 1/2″ and cut it down later to have it match.

White Taffeta ribbon was tied around the layer.

I stamped the big flower from Fabulous flowers three times on Shimmery White cardstock. I cut all three out in different sizes and layered them with dimensionals. Then I added sparkle with my Star Dust Stickles. After it dried I attached it to the card with more dimensionals.

I stamped the saying from Warm Words in Purely Pomegranate on a piece of the lighter colored Designer paper and punched it out with the small oval punch. I sanded it’s edges and layered it first on a 1″ shimmery white, paper pierced circle then on a sponged Purely Pomegranate designer label punchout.

I really wanted to add Clear Rhinestone brads from the Pretties kit in the center of the tiny shimmery white flower. I had punched it out with the Three for you punch. But the Limited supply challenges did NOT list hardware as embellishment. Only ribbon. So I added a Purely pomegranate center, sponged the flowers edges and added more Star Dust Stickles.

I am sorry I am so quiet.

I worked on my swaps for Portland last weekend. Yesterday and today I went shopping to get ready for Portland. I didn’t get to create much.

This is a very simple card I made today.

The image from Trees from all Season was stamped in Black Stazon on a 2″ square Watercolor Paper and colored with Old Olive, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa and Soft Sky Classic ink and Aqua Painter.

It was layered on a 2 1/4″ square of Black cardstock and 2 1/2″ square of Close to Cocoa cardstock.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half. The second layer is a 4″ square of Ruby Red cardstock.

The horizontal layer is a 1 3/8″ wide piece of Petals & Paisley Designer paper layered on a Whisper White cardstock. Both sides were scalloped with the corner punch. Soft Sky Double Stitched Ribbon was wrapped around the Olive paper.

The saying is from All Holiday and was stamped in Black Stazon.

I am trying not to miss too many challenges this week. Austin felt good enough to do some make up work for school. So while he was doing his science assignments, I got to stamp!!! YEAH! I miss that.

I wrote my next tutorial and got to make a card just for fun.

I made this card for the sketch challenge layout from yesterday as well as the Way to Use it challenge from today.

I started out with a 2 1/4″ x 5″ piece of Confetti White cardstock. I stamped the horse from Wanted first full force on the right hand side of the cardstock. Then I restamped it over and over moving it a bit more to the left each time to create the illusion of movement.

The cardstock seemed too long though and I cut it down to 2 1/4″ x 3 3/4″. I did try to stick to the sketch and make it a rectangular card. It just didn’t look right!

I colored the bottom part with Old Olive ink, the sky with Soft Sky ink and Aqua Painter. Then I added a little texture to the grass with one of the stamps from Oh, So Lovely (It was still on the table). The edges were distressed with the Cutter Kit.

The cardstock was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock, paper pierced and faux stitched with All in a Row. I added a double photo corner in the top left corner. The smaller corner is punched out of Creamy Caramel cardstock,  stamped with Paisley from Wanted and sponged. The bigger photo corner is punched out of Chocolate chip and sponged with the same color.  Three Pewter brads finish off the corner.

The horizontal Old Olive Panel measures 2 1/4″ x 4″. It was stamped with the lines from Happiness in Chocolate Chip and several stamps from Wanted in Old Olive. I then sponged the whole panel in Old Olive to darken it up, distressed the edges with the cutter kit and sponged it’s edges with Chocolate Chip. The top and bottom edge were stamped with the Argyle stamp from All in a Row and paper pierced. The top has two paper pierced rows, the bottom one.

The sentiment is stamped on Confetti White cardstock in Chocolate Chip and punched out with the small oval punch. It sponged and layered on a sponged 1″ Old Olive Circle and a sponged Chocolate Chip Designer label punchout. I connected two pieces of the Pewter Hodgepodge hardware (don’t know what to call those) to the ends and ran stamped and sponged Twill through it.

The card base is a 4 3/4″ x 9 1/2″ piece of sponged and stamped (with the medaillon from Wanted) piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. The next layer is a sponged and distressed 4 1/2″ square of Old Olive cardstock.

The following layer is a 4 1/4″ square of Soft Sky Cardstock. I first stamped the Printed background on it in Soft Sky and sponged the cardstock with the same color. Next I stamped the background Sanded over it in Chocolate Chip. the edges were distressed and stamped with All in a Row.

Okay…usually I would proof read and add the links to the sets/accessories in the Stampin’ Up! catalog. But Austin is done and already loaded the game. Got to go! I hope I don’t have too many spelling errors in here.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Today I am holding my monthly stamp camp. We are making these cards.

I hope everyone will like them.

I have extra card packages with everything you need to make these cards.

If you have been a customer of me in the past, you can purchase the kits to make these cards for $10, which includes shipping.

If you are a long distance customer, who has ordered this month over $50 in product, email me and I will send you those card kits for free.

I did have to switch the velvet ribbon on the Christmas card for a Spring Moss 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon. I just don’t have enough of that velvet ribbon for everyone.

You can see the images and description of the cards here:

Joyfold card

3 x 3 Thank you

Christmas card

Bear Birthday

Simple Thanks

Sorry, the card packages are gone! Hugs and smiles

The Fall Frenzy Promotion runs from September 1 through September 30.

Spend $30 in regular priced merchandise and qualify to purchase one of each of the six promotional stamp sets listed below at 30% off!

#105355 - Bitty Boos Too (page 26)
#109284 - Haunting Halloween (page 29)
#107383 - Thoroughly Thankful (page 30)
#109373 - Autumn Fest (page 108)
#109421 - Elementary Essentials (page 91)
#110366 - Stem Silhouettes (Holiday Mini page 17)

The World Card Making Day Promotion runs for ONLY 4 DAYS from October 4 through October 8. World Card Making Day is the 1st Saturday of October (which is on October 06th this year).

To celebrate, Stampin’ Up is offering 20% off of ALL of their Simply Stampin’ Card Kits (See pages 12-14 in the Fall-Winter 2007 Catalog).

These kits are wonderful for busy stampers. You will get instructions as well all the supplies to make at least 10 cards, including ink, paper, embellishments and even envelopes.

 They also make wonderful gifts! I will purchase some for my kids teacher for Christmas.