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Snow Globes

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Here on Maui, a Snow Globe is about as close to winter as we get.  Oh, once about every 10 years or so we get a dusting of snow at the top of Haleakala.  It looks really pretty against our beautiful blue sky, but it doesn’t last.  Honestly, if it gets down to 70° here at sea level, we’re all digging in our closets for our “mainland clothes”.

As a result, I don’t do a whole lotta snowman, snowflake, or wintery cards.  But when Crystal spotted the little snowmen in the snow globe on the back cover of the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog, we both fell in love.  How could you not love a snow globe card?

Shimmery Snow Globe Snowmen

Shimmery Snow Globe Snowmen

  • Bashful Blue, Whisper White and Soft Suede cardstock
  • Bashful Blue, Soft Suede and Basic Black Classic ink
  • Frost White Shimmer Paint and sponge daubers
  • The More the Merrier Level III Hostess set, Season of Joy, and Many Merry Messages stamp sets
  • Soft Suede Polka Dot grosgrain ribbon
  • Colored pencils
  • Card template

That card template is a Stampin’ Up! demo perk.  Our demo website has a library of ideas, patterns and templates to make us each look like a creative genius to our customers.  If you ‘d like your own copy of the template, leave me a comment and I’ll make sure you get one.     The template is now available HERE.  The card fits in a regular A2 envelope (the kind you use for a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card).

Happy Hallow-Roo!

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I have had this cut-out Roo sitting on my desk just waiting to be loved for a good 6 weeks.  About two weeks ago I spotted THIS CARD and thought I might have found a use for my Roo.  I’ve never quite made peace with that bear (What?  You didn’t go look at the card?  Go see…) because, well, there’s something about his unibrow that bothers me.  But I love the Roo so the substitution seemed natural.

Halloween_Roo_crop

Happy Hallo-Roo

  • Build-a-Roo, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Pocket Silhouettes, and Holiday Best (hostess) Stamp Sets
  • Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie and Kiwi Kiss (ret) Classic Ink
  • Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive Stampin’ Write markers
  • Naturals White, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Kiwi Kiss (ret) card stock
  • Small oval and Slot punches
  • Kiwi Kiss stripe ribbon (ret)
  • Big Shot and SU Backgrounds 1 Texturz plate
  • Stampin’ Sponges, Dimensionals, Aquapainter

First, I apologize (I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry already!) for using Kiwi Kiss.  I couldn’t resist.  It was there on my desk, whimpering about being neglected, and whispering to me that it would be SO perfect.  You could use Old Olive and I’m sure it would be wonderful.  The Kiwi Kiss made me do it.

Second, I have to confess that there was surgery involved.  In fact, I had to cut the Roo in Two.  The pumpkin was too big and I would have had to hide those exuberant arms or those fabulous roo feet.

Third, the pumpkin in the patch is marked from the Trick or Treat stamp in the Holiday Best hostess stamp set.

There.  I think that’s enough commentary.

Happy HalloRoo to you!

Shimmery Dasher

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Are you ready for another Christmas card?  I know it’s early…but I like to get thinking about these things.  I like to simmer a bunch of ideas on the back burner and let the best one come to the surface.

This card uses the awesome Champagne Mist shimmer paint again.  I can’t get enough of this product – there are so many ways to use it.  I inked the Dasher stamp in Old Olive and then used a dauber to add a very light coat of shimmer on the antlers.  I stamped it on the ivory panel, then inked it again but didn’t add the shimmer and stamped it on a second piece of cardstock.  Finally, I used a dauber to add a very light layer of shimmer over the entire image.  This leaves messy edges, so I cut out the Dasher and layered it over the first image.  Finally, I used the Aquapainter with a little more shimmer to give Dasher a shimmery pool to stand in.

Olive Shimmer Dasher

  • Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Basic Black and Very Vanilla Cardstock
  • Old Olive and Encore Gold ink, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint
  • Dasher and All Holidays stamp sets
  • Old Olive 1 1/4″ grosgrain stripe ribbon
  • Aquapainter, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Stamping with friends is double the goodness

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Christmas Cards with In Color Style

Christmas Cards with In Color Style

Yesterday was my annual Christmas card list with my wonderful upline, Crystal.  It’s really fun to run a class with her – she has great ideas and her view of the world matches mine pretty well – a good mix of “just right” versus “whatevah”.  She also makes an absolutely divine banana cake (you can’t go wrong when you put chocolate chips in banana cake) and between that and a pot of Peet’s coffee we were guaranteed a great day.   Add great stamping friends and some pretty fine cards (well, hers were fine as could be) and it added up to a perfect day.

We didn’t have any glitter but we did have the fabulous new Shimmer Paints from Stampin’ Up!  If you have Glitter Issues in your house the way I’ve got them in my house the Shimmer Paints are an excellent solution.  Plenty of sparkle that stays where you put it!  If you can stand another Christmas card, this week I’ll post one with the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint that will convince you of the exalted status of Shimmer Paint.  I love a little sparkle, but my wonderful husband doesn’t appreciate finding glitter embedded in the finish of the kitchen table, or even worse, on his cycling shorts.  Glitter on the cycling shorts is absolute blasphemy.  We have to be very, very careful with glitter in my house.

  • Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Breeze, and Whisper White card stock
  • Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Breeze, and Old Olive Classic Ink
  • White Craft Ink
  • Delightful Decorations and All Holidays stamp sets
  • Old Olive narrow grosgrain ribbon
  • Ornament and Scallop Edge Punches
  • Clear Rhinestone Brads and 1/16″ circle punch
  • Stampin’ Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by.

One thing leads to another…

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These crazy bees!  There’s something a little psycho about them.  They’re sort of, I dunno, too happy.  Especially for creatures who exist to work, work, work.  All the same, they crack me up and I have made a LOT of cards using this stamp set.  These bees started out as components of the Thursday Sketch Challenge at Stampin’ Addicts but by the time I added all the layers (including over-the-top scallops) these bees were too fat to go side-by-side on a card.  I pushed them to the side of my stamping space to languish in the heap of  “stuff to make something out of”.  The muse was feeling generous, though, and before I finished for the night, the bees had been given a home.

Get Well Bees

Get Well Bees

  • Just Buzzin’ By and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets
  • Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Crushed Curry and Old Olive cardstock
  • Chocolate Chip Classic ink and Colored Pencils (just like the ones you had in grade school
  • Big Shot, SU Little Leaves Sizzlet, and SU Perfect Details Texturz Plate
  • Old Olive Ribbon from Elementary Ribbon Originals
  • Small and Large oval , 1 1/4″, 1 3/8″ and scallop circle punches
  • Stampin’ Sponge

Have you noticed that almost every card I make uses the Teeny Tiny Wishes (115370, $36.95) stamp set?  I know, I know, it’s an expensive set.  But seriously, it covers almost everything.  An excellent value.  Don’t say I didn’t tell you.

There’s one thing that bugs me (get it, bugs me???) about this card.  The bees are facing the wrong direction.  The two on the bottom have their backs to each other and need to be switched.  However, I used Tombo Multi Purpose Adhesive (my absolute all time favorite) and if you know Tombo, you know I’m gonna tear this card to smithereens if I try to switch these two.  But it bugs me all the same.

I guess I’ll just have to get over it.