Happy Valentine's Day

Here is a quick and easy Valentine's Day Card to make using the Forever in My Heart Stamp set and the Holidays & Wishes Stamp set. I coloured the word "Happy" using my old olive marker and stamped on the cardstock. I then took my real red to colour the "Valentine's" word and chocolate chip on the words "Happy" and "Day". Give it a huff and stamp underneath the larger "Happy".

I matted my Very Vanilla cs with the old olive and a little strip of the chocolate chip. I then used my paper piercing mat and tools and pierced a row of holes.

I stamped the large polka dotted heart in real red onto a scrap and cut out as well as the little heart in old olive. I then mounted the heart cut outs using pop ups.

A very simple and quick card to make. You can even take this layout and adapt it to other cards such as a birthday card.

Here is the recipe: ~

Stamps: Forever in My Heart Stamp and Holidays and Wishes

Paper: Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip cs

Ink: Old Olive and Real Red

Other: Old Olive marker, Real Red marker, Chocolate Chip marker, piercing tool and mat

~Pat

January Xmas Cards

Here is my January Christmas Cards. My one and only New Year's Resolution was to try and keep up with making my Christmas Cards - which was to make 10 a month, so when December rolls around, I am not panicking.

I used one of the flowers from the Fabulous Flowers set. I inked it with Sky Blue and stamped it randomly on my main cardstock. I then inked it up with Wild Wasabi, Sky Blue and Purely Pomegranite ~ stamped once with each colour and added a gold brad.

I then inked up Season's Greatings with Bayou Blue. I used my SU corner punch without the guard to make the scalloped edge.

Here is the recipe ~

Stamps: Fabulous Flowers, Many Merry Messages

Paper: Sky Blue, Whisper White, Wild Wasabi

Ink: Sky Blue, Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, Bayou Blue

Other: Gold Brads, Corner Punch (to make the scalloped edge)

Thanks for stoppping by ~

~Pat

Happy Chinese New Year

or shall I say Gung Hay Fat Choy! As this year is the year of the rat, I wanted to make a card with a rat on it, but this is the closest I have to a rat. At least it's cuter than a rat.

Anyways, the lantern was made by punching out a circle (in this case, I used a 2" round circle punch). I stamped the "Joy" in black onto the appricot appeal cs and then used my crimper to crimp.

I then added the gold top and bottom using gold cs and added the gold cord at the top.

I stamped "Amanda Writes" and embossed in black. I then coloured her in using my Yellow Flesh copic and Burnt Umber copic.

I pained the pen and the bottle using sparkling H2O's.

I then masked Amanda Writes with a sticky and stamped the bamboo background using my versamark and embossed it in gold.

Lastly, I painted each individual leaf using my sparkling H2O's. I mounted my main panel onto Real Red cs and then onto black cs. I moutned the lantern using pop ups.

All in all, I am quite pleased with the results.

Here is the recipe ~

Stamps: House Mouse - Amanda Writes, All Night Media Bamboo background, Inkadinkado Joy

Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Black, Apricot Appeal, gold

Ink: Black Craft, Versamark, Black ink

Other: Gold Cord, Sparkling H2Os, pop ups

Hope you had a great weekend and found some stampin time!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Pat

Hmmm,

I guess this posting once a week is not working out as I thought I would. It has been busy getting back to work and back to the old grind. Well here is another Fabulous Flowers card. I cased this directly from last year's catty. I coloured the sentiment using two different markers, bashful blue and certainly celery, gave it a huff and stamped. Overall dimension is 4"x4".

Ingredients: Cardstocks: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, WW, Purely Pomegranate, Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon, bling, and popups. Stamps: Fabulous Flower, Canvas BG.

Blog Problems

Ok, I am not sure why when you click on "Click to view Catalogue" it does not work. I haven't been able to figure this out yet, but when you do click on it, it continues to say Loading. Just click on the link in the top right hand corner that says "Choose another Catalogue" and it should take you directly to the catologue. I apologize for this inconvenience.
Pat

More Fabulous Flowers

Here are a few more cards (single layers) just using different colour variations.

Fabulous Flowers - 4th Version

Another simple, yet elegant card using the Fabulous Flowers set. The main cs is purely pomegranite. I stamped large flower with purely pomegranite onto ww cs, and layered it with black cs. I then popped it up and adhered to the main card. Stamped the words in black.

Fabulous Flowers - 3rd Version

Ok, here is a version that does not require a lot of work. I used Groovy Gauva to stamp the little daisy flower onto the Groovy Gauva cs. Stamped the "Dare to be Fabulous" in Purely Pomegranite ink onto the ww cs and layered with Purely Pomegranite cs. I tied the Groovy Gauva double stitched ribbon and then adhered to my main cs. I then punched out the circle scallop in Purely Pomegranite, layered it with Groovy Gauva using the 1-3/8" circle punch, and the white cs using the 1-1/4" circle punch, stamped it with purely pomegranite flower. For the center of the flower, I used River Rock and then added a little bling to give it some shine.

Fabulous Flowers - 2nd Version

Here is my second attempt with this stamp set. I stamped the flower 6 times using the various colours . . . and I am not one to throw things out . . . so here is another take on the Fabulous Flowers set, just a different layout.

Fabulous Flowers

I have always wanted to purchase this stamp set ever since I saw it in the Fall & Winter Catty. Now that I have this stamp set, called Fabulous Flowers, I can't tell you how much I love this set!

I started buy stamping the larger flower in Hunter Green onto ww cs. I sponged the backgrounding using a variation of Lavender Lace, Almost Amethyst, Summer Sun and Eggplant Envy.

I then stamped the large flower four more times onto white cs using Eggplant Envy, Lavender Lace, Orchid Opulence and Almost Amethyst.

I cut each individual layers out and layered them using pop. In all, there is five layers to this card. I added sparkle glue to each of the petals and layers. Round corner punched the first layer and layered onto Eggplant Envy. I added the brads for an extra added touch and then mounted it onto the Old Olive layer and then card. I added little rhinestones to the middle of the flower.

Nuts'N'Bolts

I made these nuts'n'bolts gift bags for some of the support staff at the boys' school as well as for my co-workers. I made the little bag toppers using the penguin stamp from the Punch Pals stamp set and the "be merry" from the Warm Words stamp set.

Here is another view of the nuts'n'bolts on its own.

Teachers' Gifts

I gave all three teachers a large ceramic popcorn bowl along with four little bowls to go with it. I filled each bowls with microwave popcorn, chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds, Licorice and Water Bottles. I wrapped and decorated each item as follows. This is the popcorn holder. I used Great Impressions Snowman Trio for the popcorn holder.

For the waterbottle, again, I used a stamped from Great Impressions. I wrapped the bottle with printed Christmas paper and added the Penguin in a box as part of the decoration.

These are the wrappers for the chocolate bars. I punched the snowman using my 1-3/8" and 1-1/4" square punches. I then used my Word Window Punch to make the layers of cookies on the bottom.

Here is the finished unwrapped version so that you can see what it looks like.

This is the wrapped up version.

Pencil Holders

My apologies for not posting as often as I had promised. For the past 4 weeks, you will see why.

I was feeling sorry for myself because I had not started any of my Christmas projects. After my little episode of poor wooest me, I finally got my but in gear! These are little pencil holders I created for the boys to give to their classmates.

Each of these holders were made from 1/4 cs. I stamped each cs with different Christmas stamps, cut them into quarters and folded them approximately 1.5" from ends. Using the Anywhere Glue Stick, I glued the ends together and then used my Crimper to crimp the bottom end to close. I then crimped some pre-printed Christmas Paper (non SU) and wrapped around the holder. Stamped the various tags and punched out and tied with a silver cord. I punched the top with my 1/2" Circle Punch to give it a finished look and fill with a pencil and candy cane.