Stampin' Up Sneak Peek Jingle All The Way Stamp Set and Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies

Heavy card white card stock, gold foil paper, Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, Snowflake Card Thinlits  dies, and frosted sequins embellishments.

Night of Navy paper splattered with bleach and white acrylic paint.  Whisper White card stock, Diamond Stickles painted on with a paint brush.

Art Anthology Under The Sea Treasure Box

This year at the Scrapbook Expo in Santa Clara, California, Stayce DeWitt, Owner/Director of Education at Art Anthology gave this Under Sea Treasure Box class   Stayce is an independent business owner working out of her home and her paints are fabulous.  This class was way outside my comfort zone of neat and clean crafting, but it turned out wonderful and it only took 5 days to get all of the ink out of my cuticles. (I took gloves, why didn't I use them!!!)  It was so much fun playing with the paints and stencils and other materials.

I used the Tim Holtz die cut of the Seahorse given in class, using molding paste to add some depth then painting with orange paint.  

I did not have time to complete my tags during class, so I brought them home and finished them with what I have on hand.  

The seagulls, starfish and sand dollar were cut out on the Cricut using the "Life Is A Beach" cartridge.  The small seashells on the tag were from my stash, gathered on our local, Shell Beach.

Thank you Stayce for showing me that we can play with paints and the results are awesome.

Paintball Star Birthday Boy Card

I love this colorful card for the Birthday Boy, so fun!  Paintball anyone?

Papers:  SU Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, and Crushed Curry.
Inks:  Same as papers.
Stamps:  Gorgeous Grunge, Perpetual Birthday.  Tags are computer generated.
Accessories:  Star punches and die cuts, gold thread.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Card

Stamping Bella

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" to celebrate a birthday!  

Stamp Set:  Uptown girls VICTORIA and JULIETTE'S NIGHT OUT by Stamping Bella

Papers:  Stampin' Up Basic Black and Melon Mambo.

Inks:  Momento Black and Copics

Accessories:  D'vine Swirls by Cuttlebug

Happy Birthday Party Animal

This card was designed by Andrea Borries and can be found on her blog Snippets here:

http://snippetsbyandrea.blogspot.com/2012/10/masculine-birthday-cards.html

I love this stamp set "In The Wild" (retired) and needed a masculine birthday card for last month's card club, so I searched online and found Andrea's great design.

Papers:  Stampin' Up, Basic Black, Old Olive and Naturals (retired)
Inks:  Staz-On, Old Olive, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie
Stamp Sets:  In The Wild (animals, retired); Button Bear Accessories (balloons, retired); Something To Celebrate (gift box, retired); Morning Meadow (Happy Birthday, also retired); From the Herd (party hat).
Inside of the card I stamped "Party Animal" using the Alphabet Rotary Stamp (retired).

I know, I used so many of our retired stamp sets for this card, but I can't bare to part with all of my favorites.

I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the hats and present and hand drew the balloon lines.

Thanks Andrea!

Painted Blooms Birthday Card and Re-cycled Lipton Tea Box

Birthday Card and Gift Box

Lipton Tea has changed their packaging to include three 1 3/4" x 5 3/4" x 2 3/8" boxes that hold the teabags encased in gold foil.  I thought the boxes would be the perfect size to hold small items, candy, or other treats so I designed a lid to fit the box base.

Lid measures 3 3/4" x 7 5/8" scored on all four sides at 1"

Papers:  Whisper White, Mossy Meadow and Painted Blossoms DSP; Paper Pumpkin tissue paper

Inks:  Mossy Meadow

Punches:  Pansy

Stamp Sets:  Birthday Blossoms and Vintage Leaves + Leaflets Framelits

Bags Made From Wrapping Paper

Paper Bags made from wrapping paper purchased from Marshall's.  Bags were made to fit for orders for last month.

Papers:  Wrapping Paper, Basic Black, Basic Gray and Whisper White
Die Cut:  QuickKutz, Banners Framelits (SU)
Accessories:  Black Twine

Stampin' Up Thanks Card

Papers:  Hello Honey, Whisper White and Sahara Sand
Inks:  Sahara Sand, Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey
Stamp Sets:  For All Things and Kindness Matters
Washi Tape:  Color Me Autumn
Accessories:  Linen Thread, yellow button, white embossing powder

Awesomely Artistic Dragonfly

This is for Dragonfly Journeys, color inspiration Challenge #17 to use goldenrod, turquoise, and ruby.   Difficult challenge for me as this color combination is outside my comfort zone.

Stamps:     Stampin' Up Awesomely Artistic (Dragonfly), Gorgeous Grunge (flower dot background) which was stamped in VersaMark and heat set with Crushed Curry embossing powder.

Paper:  Stampin' Up, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise and a goldenrod from my stash.

Accessories:  Stampin' Up inks in same colors as the papers; flowers were made with circle punches and tiny pearls, hand drawn stems and leaves.  Clouds were made using sponge dauber and scalloped circle punch.  Dotted lace ribbon in Delightful Dijon.  Dragonfly was stamped in Staz-On black then highlighted with the Turquoise marker, a white gelly roll pen and glazed over with Wink of Stella.

Head on over to Jeannie's blog at http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/
and make your own contribution to this challenge, you could win a nice prize!

I like Your Face!

I found a similar card on Pinterest and CASED it with a few changes.  I absolutely adore this Lama which is part of a larger stamp called "From The Herd" by Stampin' Up.  He makes me smile! 

Awesomely Artistic Wedding Card

All Stampin' Up Products used:  Whisper White, Blushing Bride and new Kraft Corrugated card stock.  Inks are Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride.  Stamp sets are Awesomely Artistic and Petite Pairs.  Project Life and Ovals Collections dies.

Holiday Happy

This is for Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #16 - Christmas in July

http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com

All Stampin' Up products used here.  Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Crumb Cake  and Whisper White card stock with a touch of silver sparkle and old olive.  Frame was cut with the On Film Framelits Dies.  Stamp Sets are Hardwood and Mingle All The Way (retired).

Silk Paper Stamping

This is a project for the Starlight Stampers Club meeting tomorrow.  Our "homework" was to make something with a piece of "Silk Paper" from China.  This paper is like tissue paper but is of a heavier weight and an off white-natural color.  I chose to stamp on the paper by first, carefully, gluing it to SU Very Vanilla Card Stock and used a brayer to mesh the two papers together.

Stampin' Up small Watercolor Wonder Butterfly was stamped onto Silk Paper with Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry inks, then die cut.  Box was cut from Melon Mambo card stock with SU Baker's Box Thinlits die.

Taking a cue from fellow Stampin' Up Demonstrator, Patty Bennet, I die cut my own butterfly stamp from "fun foam" with the small Butterfly Thinlits die and stamped on the Silk Paper.  The large butterfly was also stamped onto the card stock mounted Silk Paper and die cut.  Stickles added to the body and wings.

I am not much of a pastels person, so I duplicated the card in darker colors and die cut the top of the butterfly separate from the base and glued the bodies together.  Just a little too busy for me, so in this case I do like the pastel card better.  "Spread the love" is from SU Sprinkles of Life stamp set.

This this last card I stamped and die cut leaves to look like trees and sponged a background onto Whisper White card stock.  Butterfly was stamped and then punched out.  Hello is from "All Shook Up" Paper Pumpkin Kit.

Shoe Shopping

This is for Challenge #14 "If The Shoe Fits" over at Dragonfly Journeys found here:

 http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/07/challenge-no-14-if-shoe-fits.html

Stampin' Up card stock in Melon Mambo and Coastal Cabana.  DSP is "A Girl's Life" by Pressed Petals.  Stamp set is Stampin' Up "Totally Cool" (retired from 2004).  Colored with Copics.  Handmade "Shoes" tag for the bag.  Cotton Candy Stickles added to her glasses, earrings, purse and clogs.

Stampin' Up Gifts of the Orient

This is an 8 x 8 page for my scrapbook Cookbook featuring my most favorite recipes.  Actually, this is my husband's favorite soup, probably because it has a kick from the curry and flavor of peanut butter.

The stamp set is Stampin' Up "Gifts of the Orient" (retired), I thought they were perfect for this recipe page.  Colors are SU Real Red and Crushed Curry.  Stamps were colored with Copics and trimmed with a Gold pen, the fish kite was covered with glitter.

I am entering this in the Dragonfly Journeys Challenge No. 13 - Kiss the Cook

Thanks for looking.