Sweet One.

I need a baby card for a co-worker--her shower is next Friday so I thought I'd better get hopping. I bought this Sweet One stamp on eBay. I know it was part of a special Stampin' Up! set, but don't know the name of the set so I'm just going to call it "Sweet One."

I started with a GP white card base. Added a layer of Pretty In Pink card stock that I'd embossed with my Cuttlebug and the Swiss Dots folder. The next layer is white, on which I used the new scalloped border punch from Stampin' Up! and on which I stamped the sentiment from a Stampendous set called Baby Invites. The little foot print came from the same set. I tied a pink tiny gingham check ribbon and bow on it and added the main element--the Sweet One imagem which is up on dimensionals. I cut that image out with a small circle Nestabilities die and I used a small scalloped Nestabilities die for the pink layer. I thought it still needed something so I added the tiny flat back pearls to the scalloped border. I think it really *is* a "sweet one."

Recipe: Stamps--Baby Invites (Stampendous), Sweet One (SU!); Paper--GP card stock, Pretty In Pink (SU!); Ink--Pretty In Pink (SU!); Tools--Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots folder, Nestabilities small scalloped and small circle dies; Accessories--ribbon (craft store), flat back pearls (Hobby Lobby), dimensionals.

Color Throwdown #8

I love these Color Throwdown challenge colors this week!!! Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, and Old Olive. As soon as I saw what they were I knew I wanted to use these butterflies from the new Stampin' Up! Flight of the Butterflies set. And I knew how I wanted to showcase the butterflies, I just needed to work on the layout. I got them started and then went out to eat with friends, planning the whole time, LOL. I love it and I hope you do too. Thanks for visiting!

Recipe: Stamps--Flight of the Butterflies (SU!) and unknown sentiment stamp; Paper--Whisper White, Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, and Old Olive (SU!); Ink--Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, and Old Olive (SU!); Tools--Cuttlebug, small square, small scalloped square, and ribbon slider Nestabilities; Accessories--ribbon (craft store) and dimensionals.

Manly birthday.

When I need a masculine card I always reach for my pad of Basic Grey's Boxer paper. I love this paper!!! This card is very simple but It's exactly what I wanted it to be. Very Vanilla base card with two layers of different Boxer paper designs, topped with a layer of Night of Navy card stock. The main image sentiment is done with a stamp I got at a craft store and it works perfectly for this card--not mushy but just right for a male friend. It's stamped on Very Vanilla card stock in Night of Navy and the edges sponged with Creamy Caramel. I'm liking it! Thanks for looking!

Recipe: Stamp--unknown craft store stamp; Paper--Very Vanilla and Night of Navy card stock (Stampin' UP!), Basic Grey Boxer DP; Ink--Night of Navy and Creamy Caramel (SU!).

Snowflakes and beads

Yep, I'm working on Christmas again :) This time, I've made ornaments from chipboard coasters. I got the idea from Laura at Scrapnextras. You can see what she did with this idea here. In past years, I've put an artificial prelit evergreen garland over the double doors that lead from our dining room into our office and hung Christmas cards on it. This year I'm doing something different. I'm going to decorate that garland with a "Let It Snow" theme. To this end, I've made some beaded snowflakes and icicles using shades of blue, and embellished chipboard coasters as ornaments. I didn't have a snowflake background stamp so I made one. I used the individual snowflake stamps from a set from Paper Studio and placed them randomly on a large acrylic block. I inked the snowflakes with my Stampin' Spots in Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, and Bashful Blue. I also stamped the letters in these colors with a retired SU! alphabet set on oval pieces I'd cut with my Cuttlebug and small oval Nestabilities. I then pasted the coaster (just smeared a glue stick all over it) onto the stamped paper and trimmed off the excess. Then I put a strip of ribbon that matches the colors perfectly. I got this ribbon at A C Moore months ago with no purpose in mind, I just liked it. Next, I cut borders in those three colors with my small scalloped oval Nestabilities. Glued them in place and made a hanger with the ribbon. So easy and, I think, so cute!

The snowflakes were done on snowflake forms and I used heavy beading wire for the icicles. They all match very nicely with the coaster ornaments.

Color Throwdown #7

The Color Throwdown challenge colors for this week are Ballet Blue, Bashful Blue, and Apricot Appeal. I decided to use the Meet The Verve Diva sketch challenge layout over at Splitcoast Stampers and this is what I came up with. My base card is Bashful Blue, followed by a Ballet Blue layer and an Apricot Appeal layer that I ran through my Cuttlebug with the D'Vine Swirls folder. The next element is an Apricot Appeal layer that I stamped in Apricot Appeal with my Stitched background stamp, but it doesn't show up well in this picture. That is layered on a Ballet Blue layer that I ran through the Cuttlebug with a long rectangles Nestabilities die. The sentiment element is stamped on Whisper White with a stamp from the Always set, layered on Ballet Blue and then Bashful Blue cut with Nestabilities dies, too. A blue satin bow and some brads finish it off. I'm going to use this for an anniversary card. Hope you like it!

Recipe: Stamps--Stitched background and Always set (SU!); Paper--Whisper White, Ballet Blue, Bashful Blue, and Apricot Appeal (SU!); Ink--Ballet Blue, Bashful Blue, and Apricot Appeal (SU!); Accessories--ribbon and brads (craft store); Tools--Cuttlebug and D'Vine Swirls folder, long rectangle, small circle, and small and petite scalloped Nestabilities dies.