You're So Cool

I'm feeling a little wintry today. I just made this card with some new Lawn Fawn stamp sets for the Lawnscaping Blog Challenge. The challenge was to create your own decorative paper with stamps. 

Materials

1. Card Stock - Whisper White, Black, Not Quite Navy (Stampin' Up)

2. Dye Ink - Black (Stampin' Up) 

3. Craft Ink - White (Stampin' Up)

4. Markers - Black (Stampin' Up) Orange (Copic)

5. Stamp Sets - Critters in the Snow, Bannerific (Lawn Fawn)

6. Tape - foam tape

7. Tools - corner rounder punch (Stampin' Up), Paper Snips (Martha Stewart)

8. Pearls (Stampin' Up)

Instructions

1. Create card from black card stock - final size is 4.25 x 5.5

2. Cut white card stock to 4 x 5.25 and blue card stock to 3.75 x 5

3. Round corners

4. Place 4 small snowflakes on an acrylic block and stamp multiple times on blue card stock with craft ink and let dry (use heat tool to speed up drying time)

5. Stamp images, cut out and color in (add pearls to penguins for eyes)

6. Cut white snow hills, round corners and adhere to blue card stock

7. Adhere white card stock to card and blue card stock to white card stock

8. Adhere all images to card with foam tape

Thinking of You Birdie

I made this card with cute Lucy Bird for a contest. I know it's really simple, but I think it's cute.

Materials

1. Card Stock - So Saffron (Stampin' Up)

2. Ink - Black (Stampin' Up)

3. Stamp - Lucy Bird (Imaginisce), Thinking of You (Hampton Arts Mini Flip Flops)

4. Markers - assorted Copics

5. Green and pink rhinestones

6. Twine - The Twinery

Directions

1. Create card - final size 4.25 x 5.5

2. Stamp images and color in

3. Add rhinestones

4. Add twine

Framed Hello!!

This is a cute whimsical card I made when I first got this great background dot stamp. I just framed the scene and hung it on the card. I guess it's crooked because someone probably shut the door too hard!

Materials
1. Card stock - confetti white, elegant eggplant (Stampin' Up)
2. Ink - melon mambo, garden green, elegant eggplant (Stampin' Up)
3. Stamp Sets - Whimsical Houses (Hero Arts) Background is Life of the Party Dots (Hero Arts) Hello Again, Funky Four (Stampin' Up)
4. Die - Nestabilities Labels 8
5. Texture Plate - Distress (Stampin' Up)
6. Ribbon - A.C. Moore
7. Shimmer Brad - Black (Stampin' Up)
8. Twine - Charcoal/White (The Twinery)


Instructions
1. Create card from confetti white card stock and stamp with background dots stamp
2. Create 2 sizes of label 8 dies - the larger one in purple, the smaller on in confetti white
3. Stamp scene on white label, color and adhere to larger label
4. Attach brad to middle of card 
5. Adhere twine to back of label and adhere label to card
6. Adhere ribbon to card

Just Saying Hello!

I wanted to use my new Hero Arts stamp set called Messages and when I looked at my table I saw all these paper scraps and I thought I would make a collage background. All the papers used are from the Basic Gray/Hero Arts Life of the Party 6x6 Paper Pack.

Materials

1. Card stock - white (Staples)

2. Decorative Papers - Life of the Party (Hero Arts)

3. Stamp Set - Messages (Hero Arts)

4. Ink - Black (Stampin' Up)

Instructions

1. Start with a couple of scrap pieces of paper that are different sizes. Then, cut more patterned paper to fit in open areas of different sizes until the card is covered.

2. Stamp sentiment and cut out.

3. Cut rectangle from patterned paper and adhere sentiment, then adhere to card.

Easter Wishes Card!

Easter is right around the corner. Here is one of the two Easter cards I've created for this Easter season. I had so much fun creating this cute card! Check Sundays post for more info on blog candy!!

Materials

1. Card stock - Basic Gray, Old Olive, So Saffron, Whisper White, Decorative Paper (Stampin' Up)

2. Ink - melon mambo, so saffron, old olive basic gray (Stampin' Up)

3. Stamp Sets - All Holidays, A Good Egg (Stampin' Up)

4. Ribbon - Old Olive (Stampin' Up)

5. Punches - circle, scallop circle (Stampin' Up)

Instructions:

1. Stamp chick in egg twice, cut one half of egg out and color with markers

2. Stamp large egg and color with markers and cut out

3. Punch circle and scallop circle, stamp sentiment on circle and adhere the 2 together with foam tape

4. Cut old olive and decorative paper strips and adhere to paper, then add ribbon

5. Adhere chicks an eggs to card with foam tape