Oh Whale Cards

If you recall, I recently posted about my spring downline group meeting.  For the meeting I made a super fun box with the fancy favor die.  You can see it HERE.  Today I want to share with you the 5 whale cards I made to fit inside the box.  After the downline meeting, I was able to hold a class at my house with my stamping friends.  These cards are made with the notecards and envelopes, so they are a bit smaller than a regular sized card.  I love them all, which one is your favorite?

This heart card would be perfect for Valentine's day.

On this Whalecome card I used a larger rinestone so it looked like a baby whale to me.

 

The waves on both of these cards were made with the wheel using versamark ink.  Love that stuff.

This Get whale soon card was the favorite at my class. 

This last card matched the box!  Love the doily waves!

Fruit please!

Here is another version with a strawberry.  I guess I took a picture before I added the pearls... but we added a pearl to the fruit.

Simple Thank You Cards

My little Brother got married this summer and asked for tons of thank you cards.  They chose the colors, and she loved this tree so I made a few samples for them to choose from. 

I actually love the white background and the simplicity of these cards. 

Doesn't the big shot make such a difference? 

Fruit & Flowers Pages

We made these pages last year at stamp club, sorry it took me so long to show them to you!  I will also share the card we made soon. 

We used the Fruit and Flowers stamp set and focused on the Stampin Write Markers and used the ruffled Calypso Coral ribbon.  We used the markers to color the fruit images (so they have more than one color) and used the markers with the spritzer to splatter the white polka dotted background.

We just hand wrote out the silly with the Stampin Write Markers... I love when the pages have hand written journaling.  It just seems to make it more personal.

These pages make me so excited for warm weather again!

Wedding Card Class

I had A LOT of requests lately for wedding cards from a group of ladies, so last month we got together and made a bunch.  I told them to stock up for a year :)  I gave them 6 choices of cards and let them make as many as they wanted of each one.   I will share with you the cards we made, if any of you would like to make some of these with a group of your friends, I am happy to help!

This Card was Cased from Shelli Gardner herself.  (she is the founder of Stampin' Up!)  She demonstrated to us at leadership and showed us a card that was super similar to this... I just changed the stamps and DSP.  The Designer Series paper I used is the Sale-a-bration paper pack that is available through this month.

This card I cased from one of the demonstrators in our group... I don't remember who made the origional card but it was a swap from one of our group meetings.  I just changed it up by adding the new FABULOUS Pleated Satin Ribbon. 

ok this ribbon deserves a close up... I had some people not sign up for this card because they thought they would have to ruffle the ribbon... but it comes already ruffled for you!

This wedding wishes card was the favorite!  I just love those birds and the pool party color is one of my favorites right now, it just screams spring to me.  This card was cased from the Stampin Success Magazine (the one that demonstrators get every month).  I loved the card and just changed the image and size of the framelit.

Love that doily!  I also had a lot of questions about the white flowers... I just punched them with the Boho Blossoms punch.  (I only used the 2 smallest flowers)

This card was their second favorite.  I loved it too.  I was inspired on this card layout by pinterest (yep love that website!)

This card you have seen... I already posted about it but wanted to keep it with the class post :)  I have been seeing a ton of bold wedding colors lately... Orange is the color of the year right?

Hope you enjoyed these cards, which one is your favorite?

Delicate Doilies

This is the card we made at stamp club back in July or August... and I still love it.  We stamped with the doily stamps, used the doily punch, and the Pennant die for the Big Shot.  We also used a strip of fabric instead of a ribbon!  Did you know that you can get this fabric free during Sale-a-Bration?  Yep, free with a $50 order!  It comes in a set of 3 extra wide fat quarters in these patterns...

Love the fabric!  We also made the banners by punching out the end of the cardstock with a square punch!  It is so much easier than just cutting it with scissors! 

Workshop projects

These are the 2 free projects we made at a couple of workshops this month.  If you would like to make these with your friends, send me a message.

Love the fabric ribbon!

Love this owl, he is a stamp that only hostesses can earn and the best part is that there is a punch that punches him out!

I like this better with candy corn... maybe next time :)

You can see how we attached the tag here... these awesome celo bags have a flap and a self adhesive strip... we just put the bakers twine between the flaps :)

It's Class time!

Saturday Sept 17th we are having a 4 for you 4 for me class! We will make 8 cards, 4 for you to keep and 4 for you to give away. (you can use any combination of these images)

This is the card holder we will be decorating (holds 4 cards). This is a perfect gift for anyone!

Details:

Cost: $12 (additional card holder is $3 if you would like to gift package all 8 cards)

Date: Saturday, September 17th

Time: 10AM

Place: my house!

Bring: snail adhesive (and glue dots if desired) if you forget to bring some, you can buy some from me at the class.

If this time/day doesn't work for you, I am happy to hold this class again for you and your friends.

Swirls & Curls

More Summer Mini projects. I guess summer really is over if the summer mini is retiring. I am still not ready for Fall! This card is made with mostly the flirtatious suite in the catalog, but the greeting is from the Swirls & Curls hostess stamp set. I love the little bird :)

Did you notice that I embossed the card after I added the Lace Ribbon Border?

My swap that wasn't

I am so lucky to belong to an awesome group of demonstrators. We get together often and this is a card swap I made. I was excited to get tons of cute cards from my friends, but unfortunately a horrible migrane hit me and I didn't finish them. So alas this is my swap that wasn't :)

School time

School is starting on Monday, which brings lots of change for us. This year I will have 2 kids going to school, (2nd grade and Kindergarten). They will be going to a brand spanking new school, and will be on a traditional schedule for the first time! I am definitely NOT ready for this yet! I LOVE LOVE LOVE summer. Definitely the best time of year in my mind. I still can't believe it is ending... I made this card to help me get excited for school time. I used the image from the Fruit & Flowers stamp set. The paper is from the Cheerful Treat DSP - it is the one that ONLY hostesses can get. I actually love it, especially this image.

School here we come!

Button Buddies class

Tomorrow I am hosting a class with this fun button buddies stamp set and I thought I should share the cards we are making with you!

This stamp set is so fun. Each image coordinates with the buttons we sell. The images look cute without a button, the button just makes it pop!

I am loving the scallop polka dot ribbon! they put 2 of my favorite things together!

ok so I have to admit... I LOVE rainbows! so this card makes me happy. I stole the idea to have the snail trail the kindness stamp. I love the new site for demonstrators! they have tons of fun ideas.

Ok so my friend Melanie totally opened my eyes. I probably would have never thought of this... a sick green pig! love it. (thanks Melanie for letting me case this card!)

Gift Bags

I am LOVING the new pennant die for the big shot, and the punch too of course. I used the smallest pennant on the die for this bag. and the medium sized pennant for this baby one. Here is a close up of the hair clip I put on the bag... I love this flirtatious fabric! It was pretty simple to decorate these bags, just paper and dimensionals! So Fun. Next time I want to try it with the punch, think of how many pennants we could add!

Spring Decor - Homemade Stencils

Now that spring is officially over... I figured I better post this! This spring my piano was in need of decorations!

I bought a white canvas at the craft store and made some stencils out of scratch cardstock with the fabulous flower folds die and then painted on some paint with a craft sponge!

Its not perfect, but that just adds character. Let it sit until it is dry and embellish to your hearts content!

The center of this flower is made using the table settings die that is retiring :( I'm so sad to see that one go!

Music Thank-You Notes

Not very often will my dad call and place an order for cards! He needed some thank you notes and asked for a music theme. I actually Love the way these turned out and the embossing made just the right touch.

This thank you stamp is retiring! So get it this month before it is gone forever!!! (the stamp set Engraved Greetings also has a Happy Birthday image) you can see it HERE.