Graduation!

Well, apparently, despite having taught school for 30 years, I can not count. I knew we were supposed to make 26 cards for grads at the Card Ministry meeting yesterday. I did cut 26 card bases... but I did not put together the last 10 of all the things to go on them! Geesh. So I just made ten more. On the bright side, I got to play around and do more designs:) I love that part:) I used a bunch of retired colors too:)

Project Details
Stamps	Word Play and The Open Sea
Card Stock & Papers	Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Spice Cake dsp
Ink	Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze
Accessories	Silver brads, dimensionals
Tools	Chocolate Chip Satin ribbon, dsp, 1 ¼”  circle punch, Circle die cuts

Project Details
Stamps	Word Play and Travel Log
Card Stock & Papers	Riding Hood Red, Black, Certainly Celery, black patterned dsp, Whisper White
Ink	Riding Hood Red, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze,
Accessories	brads, grommets, Real Red Ribbon
Tools	Crop-A-Dile, Two Tags Die

It's A Wedding

I just finished making this card for a wedding we're attending next week end. I don't know their colors, so I went with simple and elegant.

Project Details
Stamps	Word Play
Card Stock & Papers	Very Vanilla
Ink	Black and Primrose Petals
Accessories	Pearls & Rhinestones Basic Jewels
Tools	sponge, blender pen, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Simply Scored Scoring tool, Glue Dots, Corner Rounder punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch

Three cake layers: 1 ½” x 1 ¾;” 1 ½” x 2 ½;” 1 ½” x 3 ¾”  

For the Fisherman

My son loves to fish, and lives all the way across the country, so I made a fishing card and one to remind him of the South Carolina beaches, and that he's a Southern boy.
I used the By The Tide stamp set, colored pencils, and the Fancy Fan embossing folder.

Thanks to Cecile Ortiz for this idea:)

Card Ministry

Our church, St. John's United Methodist, sends birthday cards to seniors, as well as various thinking of you, sympathy etc. I started a Card Ministry where several ladies in our congregation make handmade cards for our Ministers and staff to send. It has been so well received and makes me very happy to be able to contribute using a hobby that I dearly love. There is also a group who makes Christening Blankets for our babies when they are baptized, who we made cards for too:)  We even made graduation cards for our seniors and some for those graduating at the Methodist Children's Home.
Some ladies gave  us some buttons that will be so lovely on these cards:)
Here are the cards we're making this month.

Project Details
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Tea Shoppe
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Regal Rose
Ink	Regal Rose
Accessories	Pearls Basic Jewels,
Tools	Fancy Fan embossing folder, Itty Bitty Shapes, Modern Label and Word Window punches

Project Details
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Tea Shoppe
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Island Indigo, More Mustard, various dsp
Ink	Island Indigo
Accessories
Tools

Project Details
Stamps	Quint_Essential Flower & Happiest Birthday
Card Stock & Papers	More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Spice Cake dsp
Ink	Pear Pizzazz, Chocolate Chip, Pool Party
Accessories
Tools	Window Frames Framelits Scalloped punches 2 3/8 & 7/8; ¾ Circle punch

Project Details
Stamps	Happiest Birthday Wishes
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, various dsp
Ink	Regal Rose, Soft Suede
Accessories	Wide ribbon, embroidery thread, various buttons
Tools	1 inch Square punch, Decorative Label punch, sponge, various embossing folders, dimensionals

Thanks to Mary Fish for this idea.

Project Details
Stamps	Word Play
Card Stock & Papers	white, riding hood red, more mustard, basic gray and Twitterpated dsp
Ink	More Mustard, Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red
Accessories	small brads
Tools	Large Oval punch

Thanks to Becky for this idea.

I kept looking at this and thought something was a bit off, so here's another take on it. I used Crumb Cake card stock on this one, and I think the warmer tone looks better:-) 

Project Details
Stamps	Happiest Birthday
Card Stock & Papers	River Rock, Garden Green
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories	Buttons, teeny tiny brads
Tools	Blossom and 1 ¼” Scalloped punches, water & alcohol in spray bottle, glue dots, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

Project Details
Stamps	Tea Shoppe
Card Stock & Papers	River Rock, Whisper White, various dsp
Ink	Baja Breeze
Accessories	Baja Breeze ruffled ribbon, dimensionals, pearls
Tools	Scalloped Oval punch, glue dots

By The Sea, By The Sea, By The Beautiful Sea...

It's a good thing you can't hear me singing :-) lol. I love working with colored pencils and blending with Gamsol. Gasp! I just realized that I made the pattern on the embossing folder go the wrong way to look like waves! arrgh!! This card is for my son, who moved to Denver when he graduated college. That Carolina boy is now living in a land-locked stated, and you should see what those poor people call lakes! They are really little bitty ole' ponds - bless their hearts, they don't know real lakes let alone the ocean. I think I'll add a greeting that says thinking of you.

Bookmarks for the New 2013-2014 Stampin' Up! Catalog

If you've ordered from me before, you'll get a new catalog for FREE. I've made  a bunch of these to put in catalogs as I give them to customers. One has a catalog index on the back and the other has a wish list on the back.

Cardigan Card and To the Beach

Project Details
Stamps	By The Tide & Fall Foilage
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party, Island Indigo
Ink	Pool Party, Island Indigo, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Dazzling Details, Rhinestones Basic Jewels
Tools	Fancy Fan embossing folder, Circle die cut,

I saw something similar to this a while back on the net. I made this using the tools I had and worked with measurements on the curved cuts and triangle etc. I made some others with tiny colored buttons. I used the Essentials Paper Piercing Pack along with the Adorning Accents edgelits to make the trim on the sweater and on the shirt.

Project Details
Stamps	none
Card Stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Twitterpated dsp.
Ink
Accessories	Pearls Basic Jewels, Vintage Faceted designer buttons
Tools	Argyle embossing folder, Adorning Accents edgelits, Paper Piercing tools, Stampin’ Scorer

New Colors! Yipee!!

I've had quit a busy couple weeks with family visiting and such. I had such a wonderful visit with my sister-in-law:-) Right now, I'm making bookmarks for my customers to show our pretty new colors. I still have to add the insides to the smoky slate flutterby, as I neglected to order that ink pad. Boy have I ever got a long list for that first new catalog order!
 
I've spent the last three days totally glued to my new toy -a  tablet. I got a Nexus 10. It is the bomb! Using the touch screen makes me feel like a member of Star Trek or The Jetsons:-)  The camera takes amazing pictures of artwork and crafts; better than my Canon or my photo scanner. I don't understand why, but I'm sure happy about it. With my Canon, I always had to edit color and light in Photoshop, but with the Nexus tablet, I don't have to edit a thing, except some cropping. There's even a good photo editing program installed on it that can be used right from the photo viewer. Here are some more shots taken with it. (I've been taking pictures of previously photographed things to compare.)