fresh & fun

Sorry I have been so quiet. My neck is better, just a little twinge left when I turn my head too far. But with these gray skies and cold weather, I just can’t get into the stamping mood. I do still have a card to share with you though. I made as a sample for what you can do with Martha Stewarts Punch around the Page punches.

For this card base I started out with a 5″ x 10″ piece of Chocolate chip cardstock folded in half. The edges were punched with the Topiary Corner and Border punches from Martha Stewart and sponged with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

A 3 5/8″ square of My Mind’s Eye Pretty Please Patterned Paper was embossed with the Fleur De Lis Cuttlebug Embossing folder and sponged with Vintage Photo Distress ink. It was stitched to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Vanilla cardstock. Ivory Silk Ribbon from May Arts was tied around both layers before they were adhered to the card front with dimensionals.

For the centerpiece I cut the same piece of My Mind’s Eye paper (pattern from the other side) with Octagon Nestabilities, stamped a heart from Verve’s Hearts on Fire on the upper half, the sentiment from Kindred Spirit on the lower half with Vintage Distress ink. The layer was stitched to a Vanilla Octagon and then adhered to a sponged Rose Red Scallop Octagon. I stamped the heart image again on the front side of the paper, cut out the heart, embossed it with the Fleur De Lis embossing folder, sponged it with Vintage Photo ink and adhered it to the front with dimensionals. The heart was then covered in Crystal Effect and sprinkled with Dazzling Diamond Glitter.

The inside of the card is kept very simple. I stamped the heart/swirl image on the bottom of a 3 3/4″ Very Vanilla Square. Next I added a embossed and sponged heart of the My Mind’s Eye paper (orange dotted side) with dimensionals. The heart was also covered with Crystal Effect and Dazzling Diamond Glitter. The edges of the paper were sponged with Vintage Photo.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Here is a video for the visual learner:

Check out the beautiful card I received from Lacey Stephens. All the details look amazing! Thank you Lacey!

Tonya Klar sent me this beautiful card! Thanks so much, Tonya!

Lynn Put sent me this beautiful card. Thank you Lynn!

Finally I can say I made a card in 15 minutes. LOL….But only because I already had the snowflake medallion sitting on my desk ready to go. I don’t know what I will stamp after Christmas is over. I LOVE making Christmas cards. And with snow in Texas and our forecast calling for cold with a possibility of snow, I thought this card was perfect for today. Of course I had to change the sketch up a bit and turn it into a square. It’s almost a sickness. LOL

My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocoloate Chip cardstock folded in half.  A 3 5/8″ square of Bo bunny paper was punched with Martha Stewart’s Deco Shells border punch and sewn to a 3 7/8″ Whisper White square.

The sentiment is from Verve’s Snow Wonderful and was stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento ink directly onto the Bo Bunny Paper. Red May Arts Silk ribbon was tied around both layers before they were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

The snowflake medallion was cut with Spellbinders Create a Flake 1, sponged with Willow Adirondack ink and topped with Shard Glass Vintage Glitter.

The inside is pretty simple. A 1 1/4″ x 3 7/8″ piece of Bo Bunny Paper was sewn to a slightly wider strip of Real Red cardstock that had been punched with the Deco Shells Border punch. The white square measures 3 7/8″.

Have a wonderful Friday! Stay warm (my space heater is working overtime!). Hugs and smiles

This will be the last weekend sketch challenge for this year. We will be back with new sketches in January. Jenn created the sketch based on THIS card in Edna15’s gallery .

To participate in the challenge, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.
If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC108 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 108) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once! Add a link to your card to either Mr. Linky, or as a comment to this thread so I can go and check it out.

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer

Laurie Schmidlin 

 Lori Craig

 MaryJo Albright 

 Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

I am so behind in sharing my RAK’s with you. Here is a super cute one Charmaine send me for Halloween.

I am sorry I am so quiet. The weather has been gray here for most of the last three weeks. It is getting to me. I bet you can tell in my videos how gloomy it is outside. Although…when I shot this video it was sunny.

After Thanksgiving I started with a stiff neck. That got REALLY bad last weekend. It felt like I got a nasty cramp in my neck everytime I moved. So not fun. Now the pain is back to just being a stiff neck. I am getting old! Although I just blame it all on cold weather. LOL

Yesterday’s tutorial on SCS was written by Sharon Johnson. She created a beautiful Altered Tin. The one I created for the video tutorial is a bit on the funky side. Rebecca helped me with the label and decoration. It will be on her desk holding her pens and other “supplies”.

What can I say? She likes pens, pencils and markers at least as much as her Mom does. The paper used for the can is from My Mind’s Eye Pretty Please kit. We added some Prima Daisy Doodles and Kaiser Rhinestones to finish off the can.

Here is a video for the visual learner (please excuse the loud amulance at the end of the video. I live very close to the hospital on base and I didn’t have another can to alter):

We needed a video for the gift card holder tutorial for last weeks newsletter. For my sample I used Penny Lane My Mind’s Eye Paper and Lizzie Anne Designs Love & Joy Labels.

Here is a video for the visual learner:

Here is the sketch for this weekend’s challenge:

To participate in the challenge, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.
If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC108 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 108) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once! Add a link to your card to either Mr. Linky, or as a comment to this thread so I can go and check it out.

 I am sorry, I didn’t get to stamp a sample for this sketch yet. My in-laws are visiting since Tuesday. I hope to post a sample tomorrow. To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer

Laurie Schmidlin 

 Lori Craig

 MaryJo Albright 

 Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions