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.