Get Well

Wonderful Get Well Card using the Wetlands stamp set by Stampin' Up.  Colors used are Early Expresso, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry.

Thinking of You

 This clean and simple card makes a great note card.  Stamp setWetlands  by Stampin' Up  on Whisper White and Pool Party

Father's Day and/or Masculine Cards

Stampin' Up Crushed Curry and Island Indigo with a touch of Soft Sky and Garden Green

Masculine almost Western Flair Card for Dad

The every faithful "Lovely As A Tree" by Stampin' Up on Chocolate Chip and Garden Green.

Dad's on the road; truck by Fred She Said, Route 66 stamps set by Artistic Outpost

Goose on the Loose from Stampin' Up Wetlands 

One of my favorite stamp sets by Stampin' Up; The Open Seas 

Graduation Cards

Paso Robles High School Bearcats Crimson/White

Coast Union High School Broncos Red/Gold

Atascadero High School Greyhounds Orange/Grey

Templeton High School Eagles Green/White

Cards can be purchased at 

The Creative Stamp, 1329 Spring Street, Suite A, Paso Robles, CA 93446; (805)239-1996

and by special order to your color specifications.

Watercolor Cards

Whew, I've been down for the count with a nasty viral infection for two weeks and I finally felt well enough to crawl into my craft room and play with some watercolors.  Here are four of the cards that I created:

Flourishes - Forest of Trees

I first painted some Stampin' Up inks in Pacific Point Blue on the background watercolor paper, stamped over the top in Night of Navy and then again in Versamark and embossed with White embossing powder.  Added a SU greeting from Express Yourself, and framed in Pacific Point.

This watercolor uses Stampin' Up blues Island Indigo and Marina Mist, the sun is So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie.  The little sail boat was stamped on whisper white paper in Smoky Slate, cut out and placed on the rolled paper waves.  White acrylic pain was used for the clouds.

Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard and So Saffron inks used here.  Sizzix Branch w/Leaves and Love die cuts.  The little flowers are ann old EK Success punch.  Basic Jewel Rhinestones add the bling.

Stampin' Up Raspberry Ripple ink spread around the center of the AC Card stock, then toilet tissue was added with some Gesso.  Close To My Heart Feathers stamp was stamped on AC white and cut out and placed on to with SU Dimensionals, the word FLY is from CTMH heart set; Bird Basics.

Mother's Day Trio

My Thursday Card Club group will be making the following items for Mother's Day:

Another trio for a second class project.  This time I used the Stampin' Up Crumb Cake as a base and  "free" Sale-A-Bration" paper pack Sweet Sorbet, I love, love, love this paper.  Super simple card and memo pad.  The tea box is a little more complicated, but well worth the patience it takes to cut all of the pieces out and put them together.  Stampin' Up Tea Time Trinkets and Antique Brads were used on the box.  Stampin' Up stamp sets: Tea Shoppe, Well Scripted and Peaceful Petals.  Oval punch, 1" circle punch, and Boho Flower Trio punches.  Rosette was cut out on the Cricut, but for the class I will be using a much simpler and prettier Martha Stewart Scalloped Three Dot border punch.

Uptown Girls - Night Out

Stamping Bella - Uptown Girls - Victoria and Juliette's Night Out

21st Birthday Card

Card base is Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler, designer paper is by Adorne.  I stamped on Neenah Solar White and colored the lovely Uptown Girls with Copics using Stampin' Up Iridescent Ice on the red dress and shoes.  The Artisan Label punch was used to punch out the sentiments which were computer generated.  The inside of the card has a pocket at the bottom for "Taxi Fare" after a night out of celebrating.  A Happy Birthday to my beautiful granddaughter, Victoria.

Mother's Day Class May 3, 2014

My Mother's Day offerings for a class at The Creative Stamp 

on May 3, 2014 from 1-3 PM

Three items any Mother would love to receive on Mother's Day.  

A card, a tea box and a magnetic note pad.

We will be using other papers and stmaps for this project provided by the store, but for these samples I used Stampin' Up papers in Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Very Vanilla and designer papers from their Spice Cake collection.  I tea stained the Wilton cupcake doily. 

Join us if you can and find out how to make Mom a homemade trio of Love this Mother's Day.

Sentiments © Stampin' Up (Well Scripted and Tea Party)

Easter Class April 12, 2014

Easter offering for class at The Creative Stamp 

April 12, 2014 from 1-3 PM

Pop-Up Box Card folds flat to fit into a standard A2 envelope.

For this sample I used heavy 110# Recollections Ivory Card Stock.  (We will be using stamps provided by the store for this class.)  The designer paper is by Best Creations called Bunny Love and the bunny stamps are from Close To My Heart's stamp set "Sensational Season"  the bunnies were quite large so I stamped them then reduced their size on my copy machine, and colored with Copics.   The little eggs stamp in front is by Hampton Arts.  Butterflies and flowers were punched out of the designer paper and added to the box with strips of transparency sheet.  A little ribbon tied into a bow and a computer generated greeting with a Stampin' Up Modern Label background finish off the design.

Easter Egg Cards

Two Easter Egg cards to share today.  The first one  is a white egg card for a challenge.  We were to take the egg shaped card, chocolate bunnies, the butterflies and the grass and put together a card.  I chose to use the rickrack edge punch to cut out some trim pieces.  I also used my Spellbinders oval dies to cut out a window and frame, this was backed with packing tape and glitter was applied to the sticky part of the tape.  I punched out tiny flowers  and added liquid pearls to the centers.  The bunny is finished off with a little pearl eye.

The inside of the card was stamped with a greeting from Crafty Secrets Easter Joy stamp set.  The eggs, grass and flowers were stamped with a Hampton Art stamp in Staz-On black and colored with Stampin' Up markers.

This second card is actually the very first egg card that I made about two weeks ago.  This card was front was covered with Stampin' Up So Saffron card stock and Pool Party trim.  The little pink flower and leaves were made with my quilling tool and stylus.  The Sentiment is from Stampin' Up Everybunny stamp set.

 The inside of this card features the one of the lovely little bunnies from the Stampin' Up Everybunny stamp set.  She was masked and then I stamped the same Hampton Art stamp for the eggs.  This time I used Momento Ink and colored with Copic and Pencils

Fun and cut cards to make.  Total overall size of the card is 4" wide and 5 1/2 tall.  Fits nicely into an A2 envelope.

Spring Class for April 5, 2014

My Spring offerings for a class at The Creative Stamp

April 5, 2014

1-3 PM.

A pretty cut of tea, box holds two teabags.

A Spring Birthday Card featuring Stampin' Up stamps from Morning Cup and Simply Sketched

A spring time bird pin featuring a retired stamp set from Stampin' Up called Seasonal Birds from 2002.

Chocolate Bunny Easter Card

Chocolate Bunny Easter Card made with the Cricut Cartridge Kate's ABC's and stamps from Hero Arts, Months - April set.  Brown and white checked ribbon and a tiny pearl complete the outside of the card.  On the inside is a lovely easter egg from the Hero Arts set.

Easter Pop Up Box Cards

Two Pop Up Box Easter Cards (4 1/4" x 5 1/2")made to fold and fit into a standard A2 card envelope.

The first card used stamps by Stampin' Up from the Everybunny stamp set, I also used a CraftSmart Easter basket stamp and a little chick by Penny Black all colored with Copics.  I punched out some of the butterflies  and flowers from the Best Creations Bunny Love designer paper with Stampin' Up punches. 

My second card was made using 110# vanilla card stock by Recollections which makes the card more sturdy.  I used stamps from Close To My Heart - Sensational Season and Hampton Art, I punched out Butterflies and flowers from the Best Creations designer paper with Stampin' Up punches.

Paper Bag Birthday Card

This is a paper bag card made with a standard 5" x 11" lunch sack.  I trimmed the open edge off to make the bag 5" x 8 1/2".  The bottom of the bag was glued down on the edges to form a pocket for  the gift card, I also glued the gusset closed on both sides and made a tag for the pocket.

Stamps used here are:
 Route 66 by Artistic Outpost
 Bird Notes by Crafty Secrets
Stampin' Up Rev Up The Fun, Travel Post and
Inkadinkado Travel

Paper is Stampin' Up Basic Black, Real Red and Crumb Cake

Inks are Versifine Onyx Black, Stampin' Up Real Red, Crumb Cake and Gumball Green
Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and scallop circle dies
Stampin' Up Round Tab and Banner punches

Calendar Pages

This is my February calendar page which I will be submitting for the SCS WT468 Challenge to use something from a calendar.  Stamps used for this page are Stampin' Up Post Card, Postage Collection, SWAK, P.S. I Love You and their Postage Stamp Punch and Close To My Heart Moments In Time.  Calendar was a free download from the internet.

Here is my March page:

March Calendar Page uses stamps from Flourishes Sweet Violets, Stampin' Up Post Card and Postage Stamp Punch and Close To My Heart Moments In Time.