Oriental Vase

Here is a fun card I did for a color swap; the card had to have Red, Black and Yellow on it; this combo screams Asian to me; so I pulled out the Eastern Blooms and Tiny tags stamp sets, I used Real Red, So Saffron and Basic Black card stock, the Scallop Trim border punch from SAB and the Ornament punch that is still available as a write in on an order and the Medium Jewelery Tag punch from the Ocaisions mini catalogue.


The small flowers are from the trio flower punch and a miscellaneous punch that I had, a few black brads and I used a thin strip of card stock to tie the tag to the vase which was created by punching the ornament shape from some so saffron card stock that has been run through the Big shot with an embossing folder, then I cut a bit of the bottom off and Voila! a vase. It's very plain but effective. I liked it.
The strip of yellow on the black border is also DSP from the SAB Welcome Neighbor paper stack.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Sharri

3D Paper flowers

I've had some fun playing with the 3D paper flowers that you are seeing everywhere. I punched 4 scalloped circles from Sending Love DSP in the Occaisions mini catalogue, spritzed it with some water and then crunched it up into small balls. I then straighten them all out and layered them one on top of each other. I made a hole with a paper piercer in the center and added a Pretty in Pink Corduroy Button/Brad to it, these are available as well in the Occaisions mini catalogue. Next I placed it on a card front cut from Sending Love DSP as well and stamped the Friend image from With All My Heart stamp set.
In the above picture you can see that I also made a flower from the Welcome Neighbour DSP in the SAB catalogue and put a punched flower in the center from a co-ordinating paper from the same pack.
These are simple to do but add so much dimension to your cards and projects. Have fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great weekend.

Sharri

Mini Milk Cartons

This die is so much fun to play with. I've had great fun with it. I created a little basket to carry the pairs in. They're so cute!

This first set was created with the Sweet Pea DSP from the Occaisions Mini catalogue and Chocolate Chip C/S there is absolutely no stamping on these ones. I embellished the milk cartons with the Sweet Pea stitched felt flowers that are also in the mini and closed them with mini library clips. I'll fill them with some goodies for someone.

The basket is created by setting the two milk cartons side by side on my grid paper and then I added 4 inches to each measurement. and cut the card stock rectangle with these measurements. I then scored each side at 1" and 2" on all four sides and created a basic box bottom. The handle for the basket is a 12" length of C/S that has been punched along each side with the scallop border punch and the Pretty in Pink satin ribbon is placed in the centre of the handle and tied at the top.

This next set I made as a hostess gift for a friend who invited us for dinner on the weekend. I used Teaparty DSP, Certainly Celery C/S and the Etelet Border punch for the handle. The ribbon is some I had in my stash that seemed to go well with the DSP. I used the stamps from 2 different sets; Four Square and a retired set and punched them out with the scalloped square punch. I used Pink Pirouette papet to embellish the bottom of the milk cartons after punching a border with the eyelet punch.

Thses were so easy and quick to make. Hope you like them and get a chance to play with these sometime too. Stay tuned for more of these in the future.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

With All My Heart/Love Easel Card

This card is a favorite of mine, it was inspired by Dawn Griffiths, http://www.dawnsstampingthoughts.net/2010/01/easel-card-video-.html

I had been wanting to try making an easel card and this looked so easy........ here is my version.
I used Bermuda Bay, Basic Black and Whisper White cardstocks, the new Scallop Trim border punch with matching corner punch, the new Heart of Hearts and Beautiful Wings embosslits, the new mini heart punch, Heart to heart punch and the full heart punch. The stamp set is With All My Heart stamped with Basic Black ink. The closed card size is 4"x4".



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Have a great weekend!

Sharri

Vintage Vogue and Butterflies

This pretty card is very simply done; colors are Whisper White and Bermuda Bay. I rolled the Very Vintage wheel inked in Bermuda Bay across a piece of Whisper white cardstock twice to create a background, this was layered onto a piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock which was then layered onto a Whisper White card base. The oval is the centre from the oval frame Bigshot die. The flowers were stamped using the Vintage Vogue set and the Bermuda Bay classic ink, the different shades were created by stamping off once and then stamping on the whie cardstock. I trimmed these out and layered the two sizes these were then placed around the oval which has been sponged with Frost White Shimmer Paint along the edges. The sentiment was also inked with the Shimmer paint. I then finished it off by adding a layered Butterfly which is composed of three butterflies from the Beautiful Wings embosslit. The stamp set, wheel and the embosslit can be found in the new Occaisions Mini catalogue. The Shimmer Paint was introduced in the Holiday mini but is still available. The other supplies can be found in the current Idea Book and Catalogue.

Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great weekend!!
Sharri

Extra Large Two Step Bird punch

I hope you've all had a good week! I had my son and grand daughter visiting from Montreal so I didn't get much chance to make anything, though my granddaughter would have loved to.....we just didn't seem to be able to fit it in.

This card was the result of the struggle I've had with the new border/corner punches. I worked for hours trying to get these to work together, I love this edge though so I guess it was worth the effort. I used Whisper White card stock and the DSP from the Welcome Neighbour paper pack in the SAB catalogue.....I love this paper! The sentiment was from the Well Scripted set in the new mini catalogue stamped in Old Olive.

Thanks for looking....have a great weekend!



Sharri

Heart of Hearts, A card from an error.....BONUS!

This is a card that I created from a missed roll with the Very Vintage jumbo wheel when I was trying to wheel the background for the card in my last post. I used the blender pens and Ruby Red and Old Olive classic inks to color the parts of the image that were salvageable.

I then used the full heart punch and punched out three hearts, layered them onto the black Scalloped Heart of Hearts cut with the Big Shot and the new embosslet from the new Occaisions Mini catalogue. These were strategically placed onto some Ruby Red cardstock. This was placed on a strip of Whisper White that has been punched with the Pinking hearts border punchon both the upper and lower rdges. Then it was all placed onto a basic black card base. The sentiments are from the With all My Heart stamp set that is also available in the new mini catalogue. It was a nice mistake and a very striking card.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sharri

Vintage Vogue

This card was made for a color swap;black and white. I used the new Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel and the Vintage Vogue stamp set, both are found in the Occaisions Mini catalogue. The whell was inked in Basic Black and then rolled horizontally across the Whisper White, it was then layered onto a Basic Black card base, I then took a strip of black CS and used the scalloped border punch along the edge and placed it midway on the card front. I stamped the Friends image from Vintage Vogue, rounded the corners and layered it onto a rounded piece of black; this was all popped up on dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped with the shimmer paint which pulls in the half pearls that fit nicely in the scallops. These were from my stask and are non SU but I think the half pearls from the Pretties kit would work as well.

Hope you have a nice weekend,

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

Iris Folded Valentines

These are a couple of cards I did for a swap, the theme was Iris or Teabag folding. For these I used the new paper pack from the SAB Welcome Neighbor, the flourish from the Messages for Mom set in the new Occaisions mini catalogue. This was used to create a background paper by stamping it randomly on Melon Mambo and Whisper White cardstock. A little Melon Mambo grosgrain ribbon finishes it off. The "Bling" in the middle is just a bit of my stash that I picked up ages ago and I'm not even sure where it came from. The heart shape was punched out using the Full Heart punch. The sentiment is also from Messages for Mom.

Thanks for looking!

Have a great weekend,

Sharri

White, Blue and Silver Hearts

One of the groups I belong to has a monthly swap and these are the cards I made for the Blue White and Silver swap. I got to play with my new toys....I love pretty much everything in the new Mini catalogue.
Both cards have the same elements, Night of Navy and Whisper White card stock, Night of Navy Classic ink and the Silver Shimmer paint. The Small Heart, Large Full Heart, Heart to Heart punches and a border punch. The stamp sets were I{Heart} Hearts and Vintage Vogue.

I created a background with Night of Navy and the floral flourish from Vintage Vogue by randomly stamping all over the Whisper white CS, next I stamped the friend heart onto the center of the background. I used the silver shimmer and applied it with a sponge dauber to the patterned heart in the heart set and stamped them onto the Night of Navy CS then punched them out with the Full Heart punch. I used the sponge dauber to color a small piece of Night of Navy CS and then punched out with the small heart punch, the smallest heart from the Heart to Heart punch was layered on top.
I placed the punched hearts as you can see in the picture and trimmed the excess off, popping up the small hearts with dimensionals. Punched a border along the bottom of the Navy layer and used the sponge dauber again to sponge Silver shimmer paint on the punched border. A Whisper White satin ribbon finishes it off.

The border of this first card was stamped onto the Navy CS using the border from Eggcoutrements stamp set which was then punched out with the Scalloped border punch, it fits very well.

For the second card I used the ticket corner punch and the new Scallop Trim punch, it is otherwise the same

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Sharri

New Punches......new ideas? Very Versatile!

While I was away on the weekend ........playing with my new toys.....I realized how versatile the new corner punches actually are....
Below you see two borders created from only the Scallop Trim and Pinking Hearts corner punches. I did this by pushing the paper to the back of the punch and punching. Turn the punch over and continue using the pattern on the bottom of the punch.

Next : for the Scallop Trim punch I moved the paper along the back of the punch until I could see just the tip of the last triangular cut out and then trying to keep the paper straight I punched again and continued until I got to the end.

: for the Pinking Hearts punch I moved the paper along and aligned the last two hearts and pinked points of the first punch with the same that were on the punch itself then punched. Continue along to create your border.

A closer view of the two borders.

This is a card I made from the Welcome Neighbour DSP paper pack in the SAB catalogue, the Extra large two step bird punch, new Small Heart punch, the smallest heart from the heart to heart punch and a border from the Pinking Heart Corner Punch.

This card again uses the paper from the Welcome Neighbour DSP pack, the extra large two step bird punch, the small heart punch, the wing and the small hearts were punched from a wheeled image with very vintage wheel that wasn't good enough to use for a card so I recycled it and used it here.

I appologise that I don't always explain things very clearly but I'm sure if you play with them you will see what I'm talking about.

I haven't seen anyone else doing anything like this so hopefully someone will try it and be able to explain it better than I have.

I love love love how versatile these punches are. You just need to play with them and you'll be amazed!

Thanks for looking!

Sharri!

Wonderful Weekend!

Well, the weekend was wonderful and fun! Not much sleep though I think I got more than most. The weekend was a crop hosted by my upline, Evelyn Wood. I don't do much/any scrapbooking and that is what everyone was doing there. I had no idea as I had never been to a crop before. Ha! Ha!
I took some tools, two stamp sets ( Vintage Vogue and With All My Heart) and some white, black and Bermuda Bay cards stock with me, as well as the new SAB paper pack Welcome Neighbour. All my stuff fit into the Big Shot Doctor's bag; most of the others looked like they had moved everything they owned into the hall where we were staying. There were 20 of us so there were lots of paper and tools everywhere.
There were a two Make and Takes which I did and an amazing goody bag; I knew ahead of time there would be a card swap so I figured I would work on those there as well.
This is one of the cards I came up with with limited the supplies I had.
It was really fun and challenging at the same time.

This card is using the new SAB paper pad( three different designs), the Butterfly Wings Emboslit, Bermuda Bay and Whisper White card stock, the large oval and the scalloped oval punch, the sentiment comes from the Vintage Vogue Set in the new Occaisions Mini Catalogue.

I will show you more as the days go on over the next little while so stay tuned.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

Giant Acrylic Clothes pins

I found these giant acrylic clothes pins at our local dollar store and decided I could alter them with paper.
Well this is what I came up with and they are very cute/pretty if I do say so myself.
They came in different colors but I picked up the clear ones and they measure 6 inches long by an inch and 3/8.

There is a space on the back side of these so the DSP just slides into it and I secured it with some mini glue dots ; I then just added punches and ribbon to decorate them.
For the pink and red one I used the new Sending Love Specialty paper and the With All My Heart stamp set, the new Extra Large Flower punch, Pretty in Pink Epoxy Brads and the Beautiful Wings embosslet all from the new Occaisions Mini catalogue.I added a Real Red gross grain ribbon bow( I haven't got the new satin ribbon yet, but it is on it's way), there is also some dazzling diamonds on the red areas of the flower at the top but the picture doesn't show this.




The second one; I used the Tea party DSP from the IBC, I stamped the scalloped circle from the Vintage Labels set in the SAB catalogue in Certainly Celery then added a Cameo Coral mini flourish and a basic black "friends" from the Tiny Tags stamp set in the Occaisions Mini, a celery ribbon from the retired SAB from last yeat and a tiny tag "for you" punched with the new punch in the new mini was tied on with a small piece of linen thread.

Hope you enjoy!
I am off tomorrow for a stamping/crop weekend retreat that my upline is having. It should be a blast and I hope to get alot of stamping done. I will share when I get back.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

FINALLY! I got to play....

Well I finally found the time and my back has permitted me to play for a bit today. I've had some of the new items from the new mini catalogue just crying for me to come play with them.
This card is one of the results!

I think this should fit the sketch for the Stamping 411 challenge as well.

I really like how it looked in the end.

It uses a bashful blue card base, I played some with the new pinking hearts punches; will have to practice alot more with these; on Melon Mambo cardstock, the background is DSP from the SAB paper pack, Welcome Neighbor, I LOVE the new Extra Large Two Step Bird punch, this is also from the SAB paper pack. Melon Mambo ribbon and the sentiment comes from one of the new stamp sets; Well Scripted. Hope you like it!

I also have to say that I love the new clear mount stamps and am sooo happy that SU has finally gone this way. The storage system for these is so great as well, much more efficient use of precious space. :-)

I did make a few more things that I will share with you later in the week.

Thank you for your patience and for stopping by.

Sharri

Hi everyone, I'm so sorry there hasn't been a post for a month or so. I was away for the holidays and since we've been back my back has been acting up.
That'll teach me to take a vacation!
I can't sit or stand very well for any length of time. It was getting better and I did manage to get my craft room straightened up a bit yesterday and then last night it went again and I'm back to popping muscle relaxants and pain pills and spending time with my heating pad. I will get something posted as soon as I can.....thanks for your patience.

I have some new toys to play with and am chomping at the bit to get at them, soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharri