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We’ve had another busy week and I haven’t had a chance to spend much time in my craft room.  My hubby is the coach of my great-nephew’s All-Star baseball team and they have played every night.  I’ve also been working on some church projects- what can I say? – I LOVE being retired!!!  And, as you might have noticed, I have changed the look on my blog and would love to know what you think of it.  I am still fine tuning and would love your suggestions.

I’ve decided that SU!’s Parisian Breeze DSP is my all time favorite and it is being retired, so I have stocked up for the future and used a little slice of it on today’s challenge card.  It’s a two-fer, sort of.  Today’s Limited Supply Challenge was to use stamps with a different language in our design to give our cards an International Flair.  Also, I thought Tuesday’s Color Challenge sounded interesting – Breezy Ruby Whispers- so I thought I would combine the challenges.  My sweet DIL Jennifer is from Shanghai and I was glad to get to use a sentiment from an old SU! set called Kanji, along with the pretty retired set Brocade Basics.  I heat embossed the brocade image with a new to me embossing powder from American Craft’s Zing collection which is very close to the Ruby Red color.  I was so lucky to win an American Craft’s package in a Stampin’ Out Alzheimer’s drawing that included a set of embossing powders and two marvelous stamp sets.  It is just too cool to support such a worthy cause and get free stuff too!

 

Have a wonderful Father’s Day weekend!

Blessings,

Diane

Supplies:

Stamps:  SU! Brocade Basics, Kanji

Paper:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Parisian Breeze DSP

Ink:  Basic Black

Embellishments:  Baja Breeze ribbon

Accessories:  American Crafts Zing Red Embossing Powder, Versamark, Heat tool, Dimensionals

Joy and Happiness Anniversary – CAS19

It’s a quiet and rainy Monday here in Jackson and I am spending the day in my craft room, or in the “bunker” as my hubby and son call it.  My space is a small two room area off the dining room with shelves and a L-shaped craft table.  It has a window and pretty good lighting.  We haven’t found out the original purpose of the previous owners, but it is absolutely perfect for my papercrafts.

I had a marvelous day last Friday.  Two great friends from church, Marie and Pamela, came over to learn how to make cards.  I came up with a few projects and we spent the day laughing, sharing and creating.  What a blessing to have such good friends!  They are certainly a gift from God.

So, back to Monday and the Clean and Simple SCS sketch challenge that you can see here. I pulled out one of my first Stampin’ Up sets and used the dryer sheet technique that my great friend and demo Lisa taught me last year and made this simple anniversary card for my nephew and his wife-Nathan and Amber.  It was so pretty and so easy I made four of them in just under an hour.  How’s that for simple?

I hope your week is off to a wonderful start!  Our little 7-8 year old All Star baseball team play every night this week.  My sweet little great-nephew Anthony is on the team and my hubby is a coach- so I will be traveling to the ball park to help cheer them on.

Blessings,

Diane

Supplies:

Stamps:  SU! Petal Prints, Small Script, Warm Words, American Crafts Large Sentiments

Paper:  More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Soft Sky, Whisper White

Ink:  More Mustard, Really Rust, Soft Sky, Always Artichoke

Embellishments:  Soft Sky ribbon, Always Artichoke ribbon

Accessories:  Used dryer sheet, Krylon Spray adhesive, Dimensionals

Wedding Elegance – FS110

What a wonderful Sunday it has been!  We had a guest speaker at church this morning and he was absolutely awesome.  Jeff Helton from Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee spoke on “Afflictions” from Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians.  The message is on our church website and I encourage you to visit and listen.  Are you a Timothy?

I have worked on this card while watching Phil Mickelson at the Doral today.  The SCS Featured Stamper is Stacy Morgan, aka Twinshappy and her gallery is incredible.  I chose this card and used a different flourish image and changed the black to gold, plus changed the sentiment.  Her card is perfect in black and white and I love the clean, sharp and simple style.  The photo didn’t turn out real well- the gold embossing doesn’t show up very well, but IRL this is a very pretty card.

Thanks for dropping by and Blessings,

Diane

Supplies used:  Stamps:  Priceless, Warm Words; Paper:  PTI White, Wausau Royal Metallics; Ink:   PTI True Black; Accessories:  Versamark, Gold Ultra-Fine embossing powder, heat tool, sheer ribbon, dimensionals.

Lovely Light – SC182

It’s wonderful weather here in West Tennessee- a tad hot, but plenty of sunshine and cooler nights. I’ve been working with my sisters on my niece Jill’s upcoming wedding and it sure is fun. I am the official Wedding planner and even though I’ve never done this before I’ve always been an “organizer” so I am enjoying keeping everyone on track!

What a cool sketch from Rox today- there are some very creative cards in the gallery, but mine is pretty simple. My sweet hubby and I both love lighthouses and the sea, so this will be my anniversary card to him later this year. I know he will love it!

Supplies: Stamps- Northwoods Rubber Stamps, Winds of Grace,  sentiment by See D’s; Paper: Blush Blossom, Not Quite Navy and Whisper White; Ink- Not Quite Navy; Silver HPH.

Love is in the Air – CC171

I sure hope everyone had a great weekend and that the week is starting out great! We celebrated Father’s Day at my parents and it was just grand getting together with the family.

Wonderful colors today- Soft Sky, Basic Black and Kraft. I’ve been anxious to use this gorgeous image from Inkadinkado and it fit so well with the colors. I used black detail embossing powder on Soft Sky, then stamped with Stazon Jet Black on a piece of vellum and overlayed the Soft Sky layer. Then stamped the sentiment on the vellum, added some neat flowers, black satin ribbon and brads and this just may be my new wedding and anniversary card! It is really pretty and so easy to put together. Hope you like it too!!!

Supplies: Paper- Soft Sky, Basic Black, Kraft, Clear Vellum; Birds Galore clear stamps by Inkadinkado, Sentiment from See D’s; Ink-Stazon Jet Black and Versamark; Black stain ribbon and brads; Flowers from Spare Parts; Dimensionals;

Blessings,

Diane

Anniversary Cards – June 2008

We will be celebrating two important wedding anniversaries in our family in June and I didn’t want to wait ’til the last minute for these special cards. Niece Marcie and hubby Michael celebrate their FIRST anniversary on the 2nd and Nephew Nathan and his wife Amber will celebrate #3 on the 18th. Take a look at their photos and cards:

Michael and Marcie Williams- June 2, 2007

Supplies: Papertrey White cardstock, Basic Black cardstock, Inkadinkado Birds Galore image, Black ribbon, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Imaginisce Black Tie Optional Designer paper.

Nathan and Amber Carter- June 18, 2005

Supplies: Certainly Celery, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Whisper White cardstock, Afternoon Tea DSP, Inkadinkado Birds Galore images, SU! Always, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, Green satin ribbon.

Golden Medallion Flap Fold – TLC161

We were out of town most of last week and I really missed doing the SCS challenges. Hopefully I can go back and catch up soon. I celebrated my 60th birthday last week- WOW-and we took a short trip to Memphis- ate LARGE and Bob treated me to a trip to a great stamping/scrapbooking store near Wolfchase Mall. Eclectica has great stamps, paper, and everything else inky and sticky. I had a ball and purchased a medallion stamp from Holly Berry House. I have had my eye on it for awhile, but thought it would be a long and hard process to do it justice. So when Monday’s Try a New Technique challenge was posted, I knew it was time to give it a whirl. We were to make a flap fold card and the tutorial was supplied by Rose Ann Reynolds of Scor-Pal.

I altered the size a little to fit my medallion and the finished size is just over a 5 inch square. I stamped the entire image with Versamark on Whisper White and Gold Metallic cardstock twice, then just the middle part on white once and gold twice. I embossed each layer with Ranger Ultrafine Gold Embossing Powder using a heat tool. Then I began to cut carefully around the area for each layer. There are six layers in the finished medallion, not counting the small gold circle in the middle. I used a 1/4″ hole punch for it.

I then built the medallion (dry run) so I could eyeball where I needed glitter on the white paper. The gold was pretty and looked great without glitter. I used the fine tip of a Zig Two Way Glue Pen and Stampendous Ultrafine Multi Glitter. After the glitter was completely dry, I added pop up dimensionals to the back of each layer. Then, standing up and looking down, I positioned and placed each layer, lining each up carefully.

With the medallion completed I moved on to the cardbase and coordinating pieces of Anna Griffin designer paper to cover the entire flap and front of the card. Used a corner rounder to soften the corners and added a small strip of gold cardstock to the top and bottom of the flap and front.

I affixed the medallion as shown in the photo, adding two sided sticky strip to the top half of the medallion. I added a small velcro circle as a closure. It’s pretty awesome in real life and quite easy peasy, if you like to cut and I do- always liked cutting out paper dolls and their clothes!

You can check out the entire challenge gallery on SCS here – it’s awesome.

Supply deets:

Stamps: Holly Berry House Sweet William Medallion

Paper: SU! Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Anna Griffin Designer Paper, Gold Metallic Cardstock

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder, UltraFine Glitter, Corner Rounder, Glue pen, Dimensionals, Velcro closure