Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Another flower soft card for OCC sketch

I think this is one of my favorite ones with the flower soft and that is a hard choice to make, because I love all of them...

I used the stamp with the sketch on Card Patterns27.

















Leafy Tree Stamp by Impressions Obssessions
Autumn Flower Soft
Another thing I bought at the stamp convention was flower-soft. Has anyone played with it?

Flower Soft is a pot of coloured sprinkles that allows you to create 3D designs and miniature floral embellishments, it’s acid free and easy to work with. It comes in several solid colors and even some mixed colors.

I picked up the Autumn colors, orange, sweet pea (which is a spring mixture) and Delphinium Blue (which is blue and white). I want the Christmas mix and the polar white mix next. I have a couple of stamps that I could use them with.

I have a couple of cards already made and I have at least one more I want to work on....





Bicycle Stamp by Great Impressions
Porch w/Flag Stamp by Impressions Obssessions


Monday, August 10, 2009

New Addition to Page

Good Monday Morning...I have added a card count on the side. I am hoping it will encourage me to get a few things done. Normally, I don't start holiday cards this early, but I bought some new stamps at the convention last week and I want to work with them so as I make the holiday cards, I will post how many I have made. Plus I really need to work on my son's scrapbook. Graduation is 9 months away and I know it is going to take me a while to get all the pages done.

I will be back later today with some pictures of the cards I have made recently.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Blog Hopping

This morning I am going to spend some time just surfing through some blogs. I thought I would list a few of them as I go. So this post will get updated as the morning goes along....

Crafting C's Crafting Library - Today is the first day, I have been to Claire's site, but I loved looking through everything. She is giving away some blog candy right now. I would love to win but I know I probably won't. Claire, thanks for all of your inspiration.

Now Libby's Crafty Scraps, it great if you like cuttlebugs and I do. I love my embossing folders and I enjoyed seeing what some one else had done with them. If you are new to using a cuttlebug, check out her tutorials.



While playing around, I ran across the SU INK blog hop. I won't list all of the sites, but take a look, I think you will enjoy what you see...

The last blog for today is Capture the Moment. Especially check out her tutorials. Lots of wonderful ideas.

I hope everyone has a good day. I am off to buy groceries.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

New Stamp from the convention

I bought this chickadee from Impression Obsession. I wasn't completely sure about the stamp when I bought it but when I started playing with it, I began to really like it.

On the green one, I used crystal lacquer on the ornament. There is also a gold thread through the red ribbon that doesn't show up when I scanned it.

With the red one, I used black on my layering just because I thought it was not a traditional Christmas color. The bird and ornament are both cut out and popped up with foam tape. The ornament has pastel crystal glitter on it.

I can't believe that I am working on Christmas cards, usually I wait until after all of my Halloween and Thanksgiving cards are finished.

I hope everyone enjoys the cards I have made recently.





Stamps: Impression Obsession F7023 Ornament Chickadee

Another printworks card


Here is the last card with the set. It is time to put it up for a while. Maybe I will pull it back out next spring.

I also used this card for the color challenge over on OCC. It looks blue but everything really is purple.







Stamp: Printworks JB3301 Life is in Bloom

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Novi Convention

Both of the cards I posted today, I made earlier in the week. Today was the Novi, Michigan Stamp Convention. It is a huge convention and so much fun to attend. I always come home with so many ideas and a long wishlist.

The picture doesn't show everything and you really can't tell what everything is, but this is what I bought home....Lots of stamps, three stencils, an inkpad, 4 different colors of soft flower, a copic marker, and some embelliments. I am sure there was more but that is what comes to mind. Over the next few weeks, I am sure you will see cards made from some of it.

I have already got the first card started. I will posted it tomorrow, after I get the kitchen counter cleaned off.

Same Stamp Different Layout


Here is the next one. I really liked this one. The vase is 3ds on this one and I used the cuttlebug dot background on the dark pink cardstock. Everything is colored with copic markers.

I made two more cards with this stamp set. One is for the OCC Color Challenge and the last one I haven't quite finished yet. Hopefully you will be seeing it by Monday.

Printworks Again



Okay, here is the first card I made with this stamp. I love the little seed beads in the smaller flowers. It is hard to see from the picture but the green pot is cut out and pop up with 3d foam and there is a yellow eyelet in the center of the flower.




I will post another in a little while. I just need to put the finishing touches on it.