My Shoebox Swap Card

Every year, my sister and SU! upline hosts a shoebox swap for her downline.  I love this event.  It's so great to see my stamping friends, get great ideas and cards, and just have a really fun time!

This year, I wanted to use all of the SU! gold items:  sparkly paper, metallic paper, and vellum.  However, when I was trying to decide on a design, the silver items ended up working better!  Plus, there is some silver ribbon that is current!

I decided to use my Happy Hour stamp set for the glasses and then stamped them out again on the back side of the silver glitter paper.  If you do this, use your StazOn ink for this.  The Memento doesn't dry on the back of the glitter paper.  Also, I used the StazOn ink to stamp the sentiment on the vellum.  Again, the Memento didn't seem to dry on the vellum either!  So, it is nice to have both types of ink!

Wow, vellum is a stinker to try to adhere!  I found that nothing worked - I tried about three types of tape and three different glues.  I read to use a glue dot, but that didn't work either.  So, I finally got smart and decided to use a brad to hold the vellum in place.  I love these candy dot brads from SU!  I didn't realize that the little pearls fit in them too - what a great discovery!  

Here is the finished product!

We also do a gift exchange.  The gifts have to be handmade.  I love that!  I used a gift bag I received from a recent store purchase and embellished it with really old SU! DSP.  The paper is so old that it only has a design on one side!  Guess I've been with SU! for a long time!

I love these paint cans.  I pulled some beloved chocolate DSP and decorated it with some chocolate stamped images.  I then put the paper on the inside of the can.  I somehow didn't center the image on the paper so ran the ribbon through the plastic (cut with Xacto) and tied a big ribbon on the side that was uneven :)  I was very happy with myself for thinking for thinking of this.  Yes, it is those little things in life!

 I filled the can with chocolates, hot chocolate, and a Target gift card :)  What girl wouldn't like that???  Here is the lid of the can.

Well, another year's meeting done! 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Regina's 2nd July Challenge Card!

Regina made another card for this month's challenge - check it out!

Isn't it pretty?  I love the polka dotted DSP and the striped DSP against it.  The scalloped border under the stripes goes so well with the scalloped circle punch.  Great job again, Regina! 

To see more on this card, please visit Regina's site here.

Thanks for looking!

July Challenge Cards

Happy Saturday!  It's a hot one today, but at least it is sunny and there is a little breeze every now and again :)

Here are the cards we made using the challenge Regina created.  The challenge:

 First up, we have Regina's adorable card!  How cute is this?  I love the colors and all of the embellishments and layers on this card.  It's wonderful!  To read more about this adorable card and to see more of Regina's amazing creations, please visit her blog here:

 Next, we have Michelle's oh-so-cute birthday card!  Look how fun this card is!  Who wouldn't feel like a kid receiving this fun card?  I love the pendant with the different ice creams and the funky background.  The balloons are the perfect focal point.  Very fun, Michelle!

 My sister Debbie joined us again this month and she and her Sister in Stamping (see card below) used our challenge for their weekly post!  You can read more about their weekly posts and see their fabulous creations on their Sisters In Stamping website here.

I love the colors Debbie used on this card and that flower just pops right off the card!  The small banner punched pieces are just too cute!  To read more about Debbie's card, please visit her amazing blog here.

 Next up is Rachel Yurkanin's card - how cute is this?  I can't even imagine how long it took to cut out those images, but it is super cute.  This would be a great birthday card for a boy, no?  To read more about this card, please visit Rachel's blog here.

 

Last up is my card.  I must have been feeling the Maritime love like Rachel!   I flipped the sketch upside down so that I could create the "waves" with a scrap piece of paper.  I pretty much only used this Maritime DSP for this card.  I only stamped the happy birthday sentiment.  I love DSP and this was a great challenge for me - it goes to show that you don't always have to stamp.  Many of the papers lend themselves to layers and creations that need nothing else!

Thanks for another great challenge, Regina!  Looking forward to the next one :)

Thank you for looking!  Have a wonderful day and rest of the weekend!

July Challenge

Happy July! 

Please join us this month in creating a card using this beautiful design by Regina :)  She's challenging us to use our scraps.  I think this is a great idea; I know I always have tons of scraps.  Looking forward to seeing what creations are made with this sketch!

June Challenge Cards

Hello Crafty Friends!  Can you believe that June is almost over?  This month has truly flown by!  So, time to post our cards :)

Here was the challenge:

 First up - Regina!  She created this sketch and chose the colors as well.  She made two cards using this challenge and I really like them both!  The first card is a baby card.  Isn't it adorable?  I love that little bunny stamp and using the smoky slate color on it is just perfect!  I also love how Regina spritzed the background piece and added the pearls.  It is just the perfect embellishment for this card.  To read more about this card, please visit Regina's blog here.

 Here is Regina's second card.  She is using a new set that just came out.  I love that little crab!  I love the "rope" used as ribbon on this card and I also really like the way Regina used the colors.  There are just hints of the purples, but it really makes the octopus and crab stand out.  This is a really cute card!  To read more about this card and to see other creations by Regina, please visit her blog here:

 Next we have Michelle's card.  I love the simple beauty of this card.  Michelle nailed this challenge!  The flowers and the sentiment stamped on the flower is perfect.  Love it Michelle!

 Here's one by my very talented sister Debbie!  Her use of color is amazing to me too.  The use of the DSP on this card really makes the sentiment and butterfly pop.  I also like the textured circle under the butterfly - beautiful.  To read more about this card and to see more beautiful creations by Debbie, please visit her blog here:

 And last up is my card.  I have done two tea parties for clients this year, so am in love with my tea stamp sets :)  I decided to use some of the stamps in the set that I normally don't use.  I created my own DSP by stamping the flower image in Smoky Slate on the Smoky Slate card stock.  I also didn't have ribbon that would work on this card, so I cheated and used card stock that I cut into thin strips. 

Thanks for looking!  Hope you'll join us next month for our next challenge!  Have a great day and week!

June Challenge

Happy June!  Here's another design challenge created by our talented Regina :)  Join us, please!

I think these colors will be so elegant and beautiful together.  I can't wait to see what everyone creates :)

May Challenge - Lots To Show!

I know we have one more Saturday this month, but I'm too excited not to post all of the great cards made for this challenge!  Here's the sketch and colors:

 First up is the first of three cards Regina made for this challenge.  The sketch is Regina's and we all love it!  Isn't this a cute card?  I love the textured looking background from stamp and love the whimsy of the rest of the card.  To see more about this card, please check out Regina's post here.

 Here is Regina's second card using the sketch and colors.  I love the twine behind the focal stamp.  It's so much fun!!!  The chevron designer paper looks great as the background with the polka dotted paper against it.  This is a super cute card too!  To see more about this card, please check out Regina's post here.

Here is Regina's third card for this challenge.  She really did such a great job on this challenge!  I love the textured background on both of the pieces.  The staples add such a fun touch.  The little flowers on the sides of the main sentiment really add just that extra something - love it!  To see more about this card, check out Regina's post here.

This next card is by Lisa Schneider.  She's on the same team as Regina - love our friends from Germany!!!  Isn't this card cute and doesn't it just scream summer?  I think Lisa did an amazing job.  If I am understanding correctly, this is her first attempt at a challenge.  She totally nailed it - amazing!!!  I think the simplicity of the card with color is fantastic.  I also love the "stitching" around the banner.  Love this card, Lisa!  Thanks so much for joining us this month.   We hope you'll join us more often :)  To see more on this card, please check out Lisa's post on her blog here.

Next up is Michelle!  The stamped image was made for this challenge, no?  I love that this card looks so clean and neat.  The textured background gives it some whimsy.  The ribbons add such a classy touch.  I love this card, Michelle - nice, nice, nice job!   Here are the recipe ingredients to Michelle's card: 

---Stamp sets: Serene Silhouettes, Fabulous Phrases

---Accessories: Daffodil Yellow Stitched ribbon, Tempting Turquoise ribbon, Pearls, Decorative Dots embossing folder,Spellbinders Big scalloped circles large & circle punch

Here we have Debbie Naylor's first card for this challenge!  Isn't this beautiful?  Debbie just has a way with colors, in my opinion.  I love how she puts them together.  It's funny because we are sisters and so different!  Debbie keeps things clean and simple.  I tend to overdo everything!  LOL!  I do love Debbie's take on this card.  It really makes the sentiment untrue - this card is perfect :)  To read more about this card, please visit Debbie's post on it here.

Debbie also made another card using the sketch because she loved this sketch so much (great job, Regina!)  I think this card is also beautiful, in that clean and simple way.  Love that use of DSP!  Debbie also made a video showing how she made this card.  Please check out her blog post and video here!

Last up is my card.  You know I love DSP and ribbon!  The ribbon is actually what helped me decide with paper to use.  I love the polka dots on the ribbon and decided to match it with the DSP.  The banner framelits sure do make this sketch easy!  I haven't used this flower stamp yet and thought it would be the perfect focal point.  I stamped the image in all three colors and then used the coordinating punches for each piece.  I popped each piece up using dimensionals.  

Thanks to all that participated this month.  If we get any others, I'll certainly be happy to post them.

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe Memorial Day and weekend.  Thanks for looking!