so sweet of you

Hello! Just a quick post today - I'm not quite feeling all that great. This is the second card we made on Friday night at my class and I pretty much copied it from the Sale-a-bration brochure. I needed something quick and easy and this was it! The stamp set is So Many Scallops and each stamp coordinates with the scallop punch. The card size is 4-1/4 square and I used Groovy Guava textured cardstock as well as the prints paper and the ribbon is double stitched soft sky. Fun! I used the word window punch and the thanks from another SAB set Lots of Thoughts.

Have a great Monday!

~Karen

Valentine's stamp camp

TGIF! Tonight I had my first stamp camp since Katie was born and it was so much fun. I love getting together with my friends and of course eating all the gooey brownies! We made these fun milk boxes and two cards. Here is the first card we made - it's just a sweet little valentine card. I used the heart out of Little Pieces for the center of the build-a-brad. I finally ordered some neutrals textured cardstock and used the white here. I love the dimension it gives a card or scrapbook page. I'll have to post some pages I've done with it too and I have to say that I'm loving these build a brads! I just got them yesterday and had to think of a way to use it quick for my camp and I'm glad I did, they were a hit. The patterned paper is Berry Bliss and of course, gotta have the scallop punch again. I'll post the other card we did later - I'm so behind in my stamping that I don't have anything else to post yet, so I'll stall here and make it my weekend cliffhanger. Beate has another weekend sketch challenge too, so I'm going to cruise on over there and work on that tonight. Tomorrow is Saturday and I can sleep in for a bit, right? My hubby loves to get up with the kids and make them breakfast and bring the baby to me - am I lucky or what!? Love you babe!

Cutie Pie

I thought I'd try out a card using only patterned paper and no stamping today and I love how this one turned out! Sometimes I surprise myself, ha! This card is based on today's sketch challenge and this sketch is going to be one of my favorites - simple and fun. I grabbed my packet of Cutie Pie double sided paper and immediately wanted to use the big flower prints, but when I played with the sketch, the flowers were too big. After trying out other paper in the pack, I really kept coming back to the flowers and so to solve my "too big" problem, I just let the big flower escape out of the box. I love how much it makes the card pop! I needed a fun little accent panel to go underneath the flower, so I pulled out my Certainly Celery Prints paper (I know, I use it all the time, but it's the best!) and thought the polka-dots were fun and perfect and matched the dots in the lower strip. I added Barely Banana brads to give the naked corner a little something and spaced them evenly by using my paper piercing template.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Karen

Catching up

Hello and happy Monday! Anyone watch the Superbowl yesterday? I guess we still get to hear that cork pop out of the champagne bottle in Miami every time an undefeated team loses. I wasn't really rooting for either team, but it turned out to be an exciting game in the last quarter. Hopefully the Broncos will be better next year and at least make the playoffs. Sheesh.

OK! I'm trying to catch up on my splitcoast challenges here and so far I'm just to last Wednesday's sketch challenge. I thought this was going to be a quick and easy card, but I just couldn't make up my mind on anything and kept messing with it. Needless to say, I got to bed late last night (or is it early this morning?) I thought I'd use some more of the Fall Flowers double sided paper that I used in my last post and the flowers on the smaller panel just screamed out "use the In the Spotlight hostess set!" So I did. When I finished this card it reminded me of all the boho style sets in the catalog. Might just have to get some of those now because they would go so well with the jumbo eyelets! The faux stitching is made with my Really Rust stampin write marker and I thought it added a fun little touch. I've never used anything but my while gel pen for stitching before, so I'm glad to step out of the box. The birthday sentiment is from Hugs & Wishes. Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your day!

~Karen

happy day

I have been so busy this week and today is the first day I've gotten around to making cards since this past weekend. It's late and the house is quiet, so I'm going to post while I have the chance. This little number was inspired by Beate's weekend sketch challenge - love those! I thought I'd try something different with the designer paper and punches and use the negative image. First I punched the flower in Really Rust and then I used my 1-1/4" square punch around the flower. I place the patterned paper underneath. What do you think? This is the first time I've used this size card, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 and I like this size! I'll have to order me some envelopes to fit it. Not really sure I like all the brads and to be honest, this is the first time I've used these shiny copper ones. I'm not a big fan, but they seem to match the rust paper somewhat. The ribbon is Soft Sky double stitched grosgrain and the sentiment is from Taggers Dozen. The paper is Fall Flowers and I'm going to need to get more of that pack of paper too! I use it all the time.
Well, it's late, so I'll sign off. Have a great weekend and I'll see you back here Monday.
~Karen