Happy Holidays

You would think I was in the Christmas mood with two Christmas cards in a row this week.  The first one, Lace Tree, I just had to play with the embossing folder once I got it.  This card is one of cards I made for my upline, Chris Shouse, to choose.  She asked me to design two Christmas cards for a training event in November.  I was asked not to post the ones that made the cut until after the training on November 8th.  So I can only show you this one and one other one we decided not to use for the training.

For this card, I used the crayon resist technique.  If you want to see how to create this technique or refresh your memory, click here to watch the video.  I wanted to use the new colors tulip and juniper for the Christmas red and green.  I love using different shades of red and green for Christmas cards and using non-traditional colors for Christmas too!  I made the background using a stamp image from the December word puzzle.  If you have not purchased any of the word puzzles, you should!  There are so many things you can do with them.  

The sentiment is from my favorite Gracious Greetings stamp set.  I stamped one side in juniper and then the other side in tulip for a two-toned look.  To finish the card, I used white daisy grosgrain ribbon and tiny, tiny square sparkles from the CTMH Idea Book.  I never use this size, so I thought I needed to for a change.  This card design is a lot like the one in my video, but if it works use it and use it and use it....LOL!

I had a request emailed to me today and I tried to reply, but my email was returned.  Here are the measurements to the Lace Tree card.  Sorry I couldn't email you personally.

Thanks for your nice comments!  I don't mind giving you the directions.  I am glad you liked the card.

 

This card is a 5 x 7 card, so that is why it is scored at 5 along the 10" side.

 

Here are the measurements:

 

Evensong Basic Collection pattern paper - 3 1/2 x 7

Cranberry cs 1 1 /2 x 7 and 3 7/8 x 5 7/8

Gold vellum 4 1/4 x 5 5/8

White Daisy cs 3 3/4 x 5 1/4

 

After I adhered the front pieces on the card base and put the ric rac on, I cut the scalloped edge along the side of my card with my fiskars cutter.  You can take whatever amount you want off the side.  It looks like I cut mine at 7/16.  I didn't measure it, I just cut some off.  I like how it matches the ric rac.

 

I hope this helps.  Let me know if you need anything else.

 

Happy Stamping! 

See Through to My Favorites

I told you I would save my favorite cards from my "see through" series and here they are:

Thinking of You recipe:

All products are CTMH unless noted

Stamp sets - Whooo Loves You, Adorning Corners, Playful Flourishes, Best Wishes

Paper - Twilight cs, Cocoa cs

Ink - Cocoa, Cotton White (Staz On)

Embellishments - Black bitty brads, Twilight Designer Ribbon, Class A Peel Stickers (Stampendous), EK Success corner rounder

Hello recipe:

All products CTMH unless noted.

Stamp sets - With Love (June 2008 stamp of the month), Gracious Greetings, Playful Flourishes, Friendship Blessings

Paper - Hollyhock cs, Blush cs, Black cs

Ink - Black, Cotton White (Staz On)

Embellishments - Pink staples, Clear sparkles, Black Designer Ribbon, EK Success corner rounder

Another view of the Hello card laying down.

Hope you enjoyed this series of cards.  Have a great weekend!

Happy Stamping!

Thank You Boom Di Ada

Happy Birthday, MOM!  

If you are reading this on Monday, September 22nd, it is my mother's birthday.  Mom, I hope you had a great day!  We tried to call, but you must be out celebrating!  Love ya! 

I just can't get enough of this design.  I needed to make 10 thank you cards, so I used this design again.  It is so easy to make and looks good with every paper set I use.

This time I used the Creative Basics Boom-Di-Ada Collection on page 18 of the 2008 CTMH summer Idea Book.  The embellishments are hollyhock twill ribbon, garden green brads and bling I had in my stash (non-CTMH).  The sentiment is from Gracious Greetings and I used the same gold paper behind the sentiment that I used on the Happy Anniversary card.  This gold paper was sold by CTMH, but is retired now.

Here is a close-up of the sentiment.  You can see that the sun makes the gold paper shimmer.  Pretty!

Happy Stamping!

Anniversary Silhouette

I think I posted this card I received from my upline, Chris Shouse before.  Chris used Silhouette Level 2 paper pack and Gracious Greetings stamp set.

I love it!  I have her card posted on my bulletin board in my scraproom, so I would use this design.  Here is mine:

  

I used Silhouette Levele 2 paper pack too and Golden Years stamp set.  I needed four anniversary cards for the next couple of months.  I think this design is so elegant.  It would be great for wedding cards too!

Happy Stamping!

Tutorial Time - Crayon Resist

Boy, I had a time crunch this morning. I had to make my card for this video, create the video and edit it before my in-laws arrived. I wasn't sure when they were coming. Luckily, it wasn't until noon...whew!

I decided to show a technique this time and this is a good one. It is simple, easy and fast...have you heard that before? That is in CTMH's mission statement. You can use this technique for solid stamps or outline stamps. It is up to you. ENJOY the tutorial!

Measurements:

Card base - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, score at 4 1/4
White Daisy cs - 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, 2 x 2 3/4
Black cs - 2 5/8 x 3 3/8
Holiday Red cs - 2 1/2 x 3 1/4
Orange cs - 2 1/4 x 3






Which color combo do you like the best? Go to the right sidebar and vote.

Happy Stamping!

Kim

Congratulations

I have not stamped for four days now...BUMMER! Omaha was hit by 115 mph winds last Friday around 4:45 pm, which was classified as a stage one hurricane. Can you believe it? We are in the middle of the states and we get hurricane winds. It was amazing! I have never seen anything like it. Along with the winds came hail, which damaged roofs, cars, etc. SOOOO...we have been busy (like the rest of the folks in Omaha) cleaning up. We had a big limb from one of our trees land on our house and puncture a hole in our roof and water in the basement. We were one of the lucky ones. Many, many people had much worse experiences and damage. This is the biggest reason my stamping was put on hold. I hope to resume on Wednesday.

Tomorrow, I will be getting ready for my stamp club meeting. We are making the big buckle card I posted a little while ago.

I was pleasantly surprised, when I got my mail on Saturday. Chris, my upline, sent me this gorgeous congratulations card for my sales. Isn't it beautiful? I am going to cardlift this one and luckily I have all the materials to do so...YAY!

Chris used the following products:

Paper: Silhouette Level 2 paper pack, gold cs, colonial white cs, black cs

Stamps: Gracious Greetings

Ink: black

Accessories: Black Collection designer ribbon rounds, red sparkles (bling)

Happy Stamping!

Hello

I don't seem to have general cards when I need them, so I decided to make the third card in the Paper Garden series to be a "Hello" card. Sometimes I just need to send pictures or paperwork to someone and a thank you or birthday card just doesn't do it. I took a sympathy card design I made earlier this year and this is what I made:


I used my cuttlebug on this one and swiped the blush embossed images with my white daisy ink pad. I really like that technique. Again, I used prisma glitter on the butterfly. This time I used Gracious Greetings, which was a new sentiment stamp set in the 2008 CTMH spring catalog. I really like this stamp set. The font is so pretty and elegant. I almost forgot to mention I used coloring pencils and my blender pen on this one.

I need to make one more card in this series for a four card workshop this time. These are a little more detailed than my last workshops, since I have been coloring and using glitter. Hope you like!

Happy Stamping!

Tutorial Tuesday - Swing Card

Okay, I got the instructions for this swing card from SplitCoastStampers and the author of the instructions is Beate Johns. Please...please...help me with the pronouncation of her first name. I butchered her name in my tutorial and I want to be able to say it the next time I use any of her instructions. She is awesome and I want to give her total credit for what she does. Please forgive the attempt on this video.

I really liked how this card turned out. I have one of these cards that my upline made and always wanted to try to make one. It really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Hopefully, this video with help you create one.








Happy Stamping!