Archive for June, 2007
Beautiful Beach
Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | Comments
Beautiful Beaches & the terrific “Cheesecloth” background stamp are both retiring this Saturday with the retirement of the 2006-07 Idea Book & Catalog.
This is one of the best seashell sets we’ve had in awhile and I am sad to report that there isn’t a comperable set to this one in the 2007 Fall/Winter Collection (duh, it’s Fall/Winter!)… you’ll have to wait until January or April of next year!
This card is a sample from my “Retiring Sets” Stamp a Stack of Stuff that I am hosting this evening for the last time. The colors are Creamy Caramel, Bashful blue & Brocade. The main shell is embossed in white, cut out, and tucked in and the other stamping is with white crafters ink (but the saying is in Close to Cocoa).
Seaside Sketches (Retiring Set)
Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | Comments
I will very much miss the Seaside Sketches set!
This is one of the cards that I am doing at my Stamp a Stack of Stuff this month (my Wilmington, DE class still has openings this Thursday). All projects (cards & 3d project) will feature sets and accessories that are retiring.
To give you a bit more background on this card, it is a vellum cardstock overlay that has the girls stamped in Basic Black and colored in with our Stampin’ Write markers on the front. The greeting is also stamped on the front.
Under the vellum, I tore Creamy Caramel and Brocade blue strips for sand and waves. I made the clouds with 
a sponge dauber on Bashful Blue ink.
The vellum overlay is adhered with black brads from our Vintage Brads pack.
I love this card with the two little girls, it reminds me of my neices in North Carolina!!! I may have to stamp them some cards like this… although I am lucky to get them birthday cards in the month that they are born, LOL!
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Yet another set of stationery!
Posted: Saturday, June 16th, 2007 | Comments
Okay, so I broke my own promise–for two reasons–I was told not to stop sharing them, LOL, and I wanted to share the one that I would be featuring at my Stamp-A-Stack of stuff next week!
I have always loved this set (not as much as DD Grapevine which is long gone but not forgotten). I think my downline love it as well since I am sad to report I can only find ONE sample of the many nice cards I’ve made with it so I had to start from scratch on this… I’ve got to stop lending my samples out!!!
I usually start a gift bag & stationery holder from inspiration from a card. You can see the card in the bottom left hand corner. I did 3D it with the 3rd bunch of grapes. I think making one bunch of grapes 3D is more effective on this than masking.
The gift bag has one bunch of grapes popped up as well as the large grape leaf (at 5:00) and the smaller grape leaf (at 11:00). The gift tag is a large grape leaf stamped on a folded piece of cardstock to make a “card”.
I used an “oatmeal” colored tissue (you can find wonderful shades of tissue at party stores) for the stamped matching tissue paper. The bag is kraft colored and there is sponging of More Mustard (hence the mustard stripe in the gift bag top & bottom) to give it an “earthy” feel. The grapes are stamped on vanilla rather than white as well.
Okay, I will start sharing other cards & projects as the week goes on!
Yet another gift bag… promise it’s my last!
Posted: Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | Comments
Okay, okay, this will be my last, I promise! These were done with the “Mixed Bouquet” set of stamps and matching jumbo roller wheel (discontinuing 6/30/07).
I don’t know if you can tell that the roses were embossed in gold and sponged in with daubers in So Saffron and Rose Red, the green is Mellow Moss and the accent color is Chocolate Chip.
The pocket “postcard” was a last minute addition and I really like it! I just folded up and then folded down (and tore the edge) of a strip of cardstock. It is held closed on the sides by brads.
The tissue would have been too much work to emboss, so I stamped it in Chocolate Chip and then sponged it the same as I did the embossed ones on the cards & bag.
There is a matching set of stationery in the bag
, but I figured you got the idea already.
Well, I gave one of them to a teacher today, and she asked my husbnad about whether I made the gift myself and my husband said “oh yeah, this is what she does” (meaning, for a living).
Then she spoke to me about it (and told me what my husband said to her) and I told her that ‘yes, I do classes’ and she could come to one if she wanted to… and she just laughed, like I was joking or something.
Hmm… this job doesn’t get a lot of respect a lot of times, but that takes the cake this week.
Oh well… maybe just knowing she could take a class made her happy? I’ll just think that!
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