M.A.D. Stamper

Anything but a card..how about Gerber baby food jar?

So yesterday I made a project. I was so excited about it, but it didn't come out the way I imagined. It just didn't work. So I had to find something else. No, I will not show you the original project. I am a pride girl. Have to get over it first...

So here is the one I picked instead. I used to save the Gerber baby food (mostly turkey meat sticks) jars, thinking that I will be able to used them for something. They are just so darn cute! I did manage to throw out most of them after I had some accidents baby jars falling out of cabinets, but couple of them did end up in my craft room.

This one I did months ago. My first try. Haven't done any more yet, but I like the idea of storing or giving away small items this way.

On this jar, I used SU! Simply Scrappin' Friends & Flowers Kit. I have mentioned another kit in an earlier post. I am a STAMPER, but I do love these kits for projects. I don't used them every day, but here-there it is really refreshing to play around with these kits. So I used the stickers from the kit, Rose Red paper for the base, Spring Moss grosgrain ribbon, pewter brads, and eyelets. For the word, I used SU! Rough Edges Alphabets. Cut them out and mounted them on the card stock.    

Anything goes...traveling...

This morning I was looking at some of my 'old' cards and I have found this. I just love this card. Best Blossoms was one of my favorite SU! SAB set from last year. Everything was so nice about that set. :o)

So to make this card, I used Best Blossoms, Weathered, and Sincere Salutations SU! stamp sets. The colors are Regal Rose, Rose Red, Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, and Ballet Blue, all from SU!.

I used the Rock'n'Roll technique on the blossoms. Meaning I inked up the stamp with the lighter color, Regal Rose, than 'rocked' the stamp around on the darker ink pad in a circular motion, Rose Red, trying to ink up only the edges. It is a super cool technique, very easy, and it looks really nice. You must try it if you haven't yet! Don't forget that it will only work properly with a bold image.:o) So after that, I cut the blossoms out, cut the leaves, die-cut the tag holder, positioned everything...glued everything, attached the tag with brads...

I put SU! Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter in the middle of the blossoms with Crystal Effects. It just gave a little spark to the card.

On another note ... we will be traveling in May. Yesterday I came home from my meeting and DH had our e-tickets in front of the computer. He knew I would be checking e-mails, blogs...:o). We try to go home to my home country every year... Now I have to start planning.

Well, thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow!

Oh Bella...

Finally it's Bella day. She's like my best friend these days. :o) This easy card was inspired by couple of other cards I made not so long ago. I really liked the background on one of the cards, and I wanted to do a Bella card using that same background. This is what I came up with. Isn't she pretty in her Cool Caribbean dress? ;o)

So for this card I used stamping bella from Stamping Bella and Polka Dot Paisley from SU!. The colors are SU! Cool Caribbean, and Basic Black. Easy enough. :o) I also used SU! Word Window and Ticket Corner punches to make this card.

I cut out her dress and her hair bow from Cool Caribbean, added some rhinestones, some CC and BB strips and voila...Great way of using up some scraps. My original goal was to make a card using very little color paper. 

Here are the cards that I made earlier, my inspirations for this Bella card. As I said earlier, I liked the original so much that I had to do some more, using different stamps.

I love this color combo. I will miss Cool Caribbean.

Young at Heart...THANK YOU!

Finally I made a card using SU! Wild About You stamp set. I got it couple of weeks ago. I have to say this set was not on my list to get, but I've seen so many wonderful cards made with this set. I have this list with all the SU! stamps and supply I would like to get. :o) Good luck to me getting half of it before the next catalog comes out!

I used the sketch challenge lay-out (SCS) for this card. The colors are Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, Close to Cocoa, and Mellow Moss, all from SU!. I used the paisley stamp from SU! Fresh Fillers on the background.

The spots on the giraffe are punched out, so the Close to Cocoa paper shows through. The lion is cut out, plus the head is mounted on to give an extra dimension to the card.

I used the Label Punch again (see yesterday's post) with some yellowish brads I have found in my stash. I wanted to fill some empty space again. :o) I also added some lace to the background.

----- On another note, just wanted to THANK YOU all for visiting my blog. I was going to do a blog candy first at 500, then at 1000 visitors, but I just couldn't catch it on time. I am at 1300 something and it is all because of YOU! So now I will wait until a special occasion. Stay tuned to find out what's coming!-----

Have a wonderful Sunday! Enjoy the sun here in NH. :o)

Tip of the Day-label punch

Happy Saturday Crafters! Today's tip is about SU! Designer Label Punch, which comes in the Designer Label Punch Box with 6 stamps, and 3 Stampin' Spots. I am sure many of you have used the punch, and many of you have seen or have tried this, but those of you who haven't... here it is. I love using half of he punched out design as an embellishment, just like this. I simply cut the label in half, insert 2 brads, and use it anywhere on the card. Well, I try to line it up with the edge of the cardstock. It almost looks like a hinge. I used it on both of these cards.

I just needed something extra on these cards, had to fill some empty space...

On the left card I used Like It a Latte (Winter Mini) stamp set, Close to Cocoa, Barely Banana, and Rose Red paper/ink. Plus I used Rose Red ribbon that I colored, and lots of brads. The letter U came from Rough Edges Alphabets.

For the other card, I used Happy Harmony (Sell-A-Bration) and Weathered BG stamps, Chocolate Chip, Buckaroo Blue and Regal Rose paper. Also used gold cord and gold brads. The other punch I used is Ticket Corner. Everything is from SU! except the brads.

Memories...Progressive 12x12

Scrapbooking day again. I didn't make anything new, so I was looking at my scrapbooking album, and this looked really good. Some of the pages I don't like any more. Does that happen to you? What do you do? I mean you don't just toss the page because your style has changed. Do you?!

So hopefully I will not have to 'toss' this page any time soon. :o) This page was born because I wanted to use SU! Sparkling Summer stamp set. It's not really my style, but it is very summery. :o) For the title, I used SU! Letterpress Alphabet. For the paper, I tried to let the picture determine the colors. So I picked Barely Banana, Ballet Blue, Regal Rose, and Kraft, all from SU!. I started out with a 6x6 scrabook page, and progressed into an 8 1/2 x 11, then a 12x12. I love to cut, so cutting all the stamped images was fun for me. I think it gives an extra touch to your project.

I also used Hamp Twine, Magic Mesh, and a shaker box for decoration. I used an  eyelet to reinforce the hole on the box. Inside the shaker, I put SU! beads. I suppose sand would work too if you saved any from your special vacation. :o)For the words I used SU! Rough Edges Alphabets, the cutest little alphabet set in the SU! catalog. I find that I use it all the time. You always need a small alphabet set, don't you?

I do apologize for not showing my son's face. I am really paranoid when it comes to privacy. So for now, most of my projects will not show any faces.

Holiday Thoughts...

Well, it is afternoon over here. We were running errands all morning, just got back from town. I am tired. Plus I didn't sleep well last night. (I got some disturbing news from overseas, so I was restless last night.) I just warmed up my second cup of coffee. I LOVE java. :o)

Today, my post is another simple holiday card. I love SU! French Flair (Winter Mini), and I really wanted to do something with that BG stamp. So the only card I could come up with was this one. I was picturing something simple, and elegant. On this one, I also used the 'Holiday Greetings' stamp from SU! Sincere Salutations stamp set; and Bordering Blue and Real Red ink. I stamped extra doves, cut them out, and popped them up with dimentionals. That little bit of dimension looks really nice IRL. I used some red ribbon to finish the card off.

What nice about this card is, that with changing the colors, and the saying, you can make a card for any occasions. I suppose you can add a charm, some glitter here-there, or you can do some embossing to jazz it up. For now, I will leave you with this simple version. :o)

Enjoy your afternoon, and come back soon! 

Anything but a card...

Good Morning Ladies! What a nice day here in NH. The sun is shining, and it is already 30F in the shade. It won't last long, but as Mary said, let's enjoy it while we can. :o)

Today I picked my one and only frame that I had done so far. I didn't get a real good picture of it, so that's all I have. It was my in-laws wedding anniversary, and even thought I wasn't sure if they even going to like it or care for it, I did it. I did it more for myself. :o)

I used SU! Rose Red and Always Artichoke paper; and Rose Red, Always Artichoke, Barely Banana, and Versamark ink pads. I love that color combo, plus my MIL likes that shade of red. I also used vellum and mulberry paper. Did some embossing with gold, and used a tag, brads, ribbon to embellish the project. I used some miscellaneous stamps along with SU! Letterpress Alphabet, Daisy, and Summer by the Sea.

I should do more frames. I would like to do my son's name, but it is long. 9 letters. So I will wait with that. I also would like to do some words that have to do with crafting. :o) In the future...one day...

Craft Critique...Anything goes...

Look where one of my posts ended up. Craft Critique is doing a Cuttlebug Carnival, where you can read probably anything and everything about Provocraft's Cuttlebug machine. So I e-mailed them my "Tip of the Day...brayer" post and they put it up on their blog! Yahoo! Check out all the wonderful tips, reviews, and samples!

For today, I made a card using, what do you know, one of the Cuttlebug embossing plates. I did yesterday's challenge from SCS and made a Criss Cross card. I saw so many cool cards using the Cuttlebug plate, pattern paper, and Delight in Life stamp set, that I had to combine all of that on this cards. :o)

So I used Rosey Garden Floral paper (Scrapbook Walls), embossed one panel using the Stylized Flowers plate, and sanded the raised images. For the other panel, I used the patterned side of the paper. I used SU! Delight in Life (Sell-A-Bration) stamp set, SU! French Flair (Winter Mini), and an unmounted 'Birthday' stamp that I got many years ago at a Rubberstamping Show. I stamped extra flowers and doves, cute them out, and mounted them on dimensionals. I used SU! Old Olive and Ruby Red ink colors. They really look great with this patter paper. The ribbon came from Michael's, and the brown paper is from SU!. To finish the card, I just sponged SU! Chocolate Chip ink around the edges.

I had a hard time deciding where to put the 'delight in life' stamped saying. It does cover up some of the sanded image, which I don't really like. But I did want to use it, so after putting it all over the card, trying different lay-outs, I decided to put it in the bottom left corner.

Oh Bella...Shopping...

I made my card for today's post yesterday, knowing that my morning is going to be busy. Yesterday I had a rough day. I was very tired, in a bad mood, so when it was time to pick a Bella, I had to go with Grumpabella from Stamping Bella. (I swapped some images with someone on SCS, that's how I was able to get her.) So for this card, I used some purple paper from Michaels, Green with Stripes from Paper Pizazz, and SU! Bordering Blue. I colored Bella with Prismacolor Pencils. The words are from Stampendous! clear saying. I just stamped the words from different sentences, using SU! Bordering Blue ink. I also used Small Oval , Label, and Double Rectangle punches, all from SU!. I just love their punches. They are so nice, easy to hold, and the handle makes it so easy to punch. Plus some of the punches coordinate with their stamps. I especially like the Designer Label Punch Box. It comes with 6 stamps, 6 Stampin' Spots, and a Label punch in a nice tin. I don't have my own box yet, but whenever I can get a hold of one, I am in heaven. :o)                                          

To finish the card, I used green ribbon from Michael's, and MM brads and photo anchors.

Look what I got today.                                                                                                                   I had to run some errands, and of course I had to stop at Michael's. I had a 50% off coupon. I didn't know what to buy, so I just picked up some tacky tape. I also found some nice epoxy stickers in the $1 bins, and 12x12 paper and Prismacolor Pencils on sale.