It’s time for a December Calendar……

Posted on December 1, 2015 by mauistamper

…and I’ve turned to For The Birds one last time:

After this year I’ll have to find a new favorite – I was so sorry to see For the Birds retire.

I used the treetop from Lovely as a Tree and positioned a sticky note to create a mask, allowing me to vary the height of my trees.

A little smudge of Smokey Slate with the Aqua Painter gives my skater a little color to stand out from the snowy Whisper White background.

And a heartfelt Happy December to you all.

Visit Cheryl and Crystal to see how they’ve finished out their 2015 calendars!

Christmas Crafting on Maui – making Gift Card holders

Posted on October 19, 2015 by mauistamper

We have 4 unique and distinctive gift card holders for your crafting pleasure:

$12 to make all four projects!

Join us at Kihei Charter High School on Saturday, November 14th from 9am until 2pm.

Stillness in the trees

Posted on November 1, 2013 by mauistamper

Lovely as a Tree stamp set
Whisper White and Always Artichoke card stock
Always Artichoke and Marina Mist FFIP
Soft Suede, Always Artichoke and Garden Green Stampin’ Write markers
Blender pen
Stampin’ Sponge

It’s difficult to see in this photo, but the “sky” is very lightly and randomly sponged with Marina Mist. It was too white left as is.

Does this stamp make you think of a quiet, still wood? I can imagine myself walking here. Just the thing for a winter day. (Someplace else, of course. Not on Maui.)

Takin’ a break from holidays

Posted on September 17, 2013 by mauistamper

Feels as though I’ve been crafting in orange-and-black, red-and-green for DAYS. I needed a change of palette!

Lovely as a Tree, Woodgrain and Express Yourself (hostess) stamp sets
Whisper White, Soft Sky, Gumball Green, Baked Brown Sugar and Marina Mist card stock
Baked Brown Sugar, So Saffron, Soft Sky and Marina Mist FFIP
Baked Brown Sugar and Gumball Green Stampin’ Write markers
2 1/2 inch circle punch
Sponge Daubers
Soft Sky Seam Binding
Distressing tool

Love that distressing tool. I call it the shredder. Most of the FFIP were just a source of ink for the daubers, and I markered the trees.

I used this week’s Mojo Monday sketch – Mojo311 – as the basis for this card. Tomorrow it will be back to designing for classes, clubs and events – but tonight it was nice to take a little break.

A RemARKable Ending to World Card Making Day

Posted on October 6, 2012 by mauistamper

Well, my blog-hopping friends, we’ve reached the last moments of World Card Making Day – at least on the East Coast. Here in Hawaii, it’s time for pupu and a glass of wine, and Mr. Maui Stamper and I are heading over to the beach with our picnic basket for the sunset. I’m sure to lift my glass to all of you!! Thanks for sharing this day with all of us.

I left the neutrals for last because after my favorite blue + green combo, I love a neutral card. Granted, I often use an neutral palette to set of a pop! of color – Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist – but by themselves I find the neutrals very elegant. Tell me what you think:

Have you tried our new Core’dinations card stock yet? Hie thee off to thine own Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and order thyself some of this paper of the kings!! It is royally fabulous! And that tulle is pretty sweet too, and it sticketh to sticky strip quite welleth! (OK. Enough of that nonsense.)

There’s a little 3/4 inch circle of Early Espresso cardstock behind that Vintage Faceted Button to give it depth.

Black and white is classic, but black with Very Vanilla is just splendid – like deep, dark chocolate hot fudge with rich vanilla bean ice cream (did I send you off to the freezer there? Sorry ’bout that!) Our First Edition Specialty paper is one of my stamp room staples; it’s flexible enough for nearly any card-making situation.

Although the Neutral color family lends itself well to luxurious, elaborate cards, it certainly works well with other styles. This is about as close as I get to a Clean and Simple card, and I’m pretty sure that sparkly star at the top disqualifies me from the genre.

That’s my last card for this hop – or as Mr Maui Stamper called it the other day, the Blog Parade. We are all very grateful for each of you taking the time to hop, skip, jump and parade through our posts. If we’ve done our job well, you are inspired; perhaps you’ve left a comment or two, or pinned a few samples to your Pinterest board for later study. I’ll be reviewing some of these projects over the next couple of weeks with a little more detail – if there’s one you’d especially like to see featured, just leave a comment.

A hui hou…until we meet again.