Sympathy Cards

It's always good to have a couple sympathy cards on hand, so we'll make two in the next stamp camp in August.  I used the Love & Sympathy stamp set.

 On the second sympathy card, I used the Lovely as a Tree stamp set for the tree.

The card below is a wedding card I made for the blog hop for July.

The wedding card was inspired by one I saw on the Stampin' Connection, a Stampin' Up! website for demonstrators. Shelly Johnson posted the original card.  It's hard to see in this photo, but I embossed the bride's dress and put five pearls down the front.

Products used:  

Paper:  Brushed Silver, Whisper White, & Basic Black cardstock, Twitterpated DSP

Punches:  Heart, 1 1/4" circle, and 1 3/8" circle

Stamp Set:  Petite Pairs

Accessories:  Pearl Basic Jewels

Embossing Folder:  Vintage Wallpaper

As always, thanks for visiting my blog.

Tina

Planning for Christmas

We'll be making three different Christmas cards at the July stamp camp.  I love all three of them (plus a few other designs I decided not to make in class).  Why are Christmas cards so darn much fun to make?

The embossed snowflake card below is made with a choice of two mat colors (and ink colors for the greeting)--light blue (Bashful Blue card stock) or dark blue (Night of Navy card stock).  I think I like the light blue one better.  The SEASON'S GREETINGS comes from the Curly Cute stamp set.

I used the new Open Sleigh stamp set for the card below.  I embossed the top design using gold embossing powder.

 I made two versions of the card below.  I embossed the background mat (I love my Big Shot) with the polka dot embossing folder on the first card.

The second version of the card simply uses a polka dot background paper from the Summer Smooches Designer Paper Series.  I also used a different sentiment.

To those who live close by, I hope you can make it to July's Christmas card stamp camp.  To those who live far away, I wish you could come and join us.  And, to my good friend, Gwen, thanks for suggesting that I do Christmas cards in the summer.

Tina

The Open Sea

My stamp camp made the card below earlier this month.  They could either make it a Father's Day card or a birthday card.  It's one of my favorite cards -- and the stamp campers loved it, too.

A couple days after class, I was using the Big Shot to cut some cardstock (I used the NEW Large Scallop Edgelits) and realized that the pieces left looked like waves.  So, I made the card below using the same Open Sea stamp set.

I also made some new teabag holder cards.  Several stamp camp members asked for me to repeat that class, so I designed some new cards for us to make.  I do love teabag holder cards...

It's a beautiful day today here in the Seattle area, so I should get off the computer and go enjoy the sunshine.

Thanks for spending time with me.

Tina

Join in the Blog Hop!

A new blog hop started the first of June and ended June 30.  One person was randomly chosen to win a prize from those who left comments.

One of my cards for the blog hop used the Big Shot to embellish the front.  I sponged a bit of color on it.  It was a simple card to make, but I love it.

Butterflies and Boats

I've been planning the next two projects for stamp camp.  For one project, I decided we'd make a matchbook sticky-note holder.  I got the instructions from the May Stampin' Up magazine, Stampin' Success.

The picture shows what I decided we'd make in class.  The "matchbook" opens and there is a sticky note pad in there.  It's perfect for a small gift, to keep on your desk, or even to keep in your purse.  I used the Big Shot to emboss the front.  I love using my newest "toy," the Big Shot.  The yellow (cardstock and stamp pad ink) is one of the new colors this year, Summer Starfruit.


We'll also make a masculine birthday card in class.  I ordered The Open Sea stamp set this afternoon, so it should be here in time for me to design the card and for us to use in class.  It'll be something like the masculine cards I've pictured below:

A new stamp blog hop will begin on June 8.  Visit my blog for the info.  If you "hop" on all the blogs I list and leave a comment, you'll be entered to win a prize.  So, be sure to come back on June 8.

Back from New York

Being HUGE fans of the TV show Survivor, we were thrilled when one of this season's contestants turned out to be someone who worked for our son.  We got to meet Michael Jefferson a couple months ago.  He had two extra tickets to the finale of Survivor in New York City, so we couldn't pass up the chance to go to the live show.  It turned out that we were on TV in the background when they showed the wife of one of the contestants, Leif.  Very cool.  To thank Michael, I made a never-ending thank you card.

Here is the front of the card.  You'll notice I stamped different ways to say "thank you" throughout the card.  That's Michael in the picture.

 As you open the front of the card, I put more pictures on the inside:

 Below is what Michael will see when he opens the card:

The top right has a picture of the buff after the tribes merge.  The bottom left is the buff of the men's team at the beginning of the season.
Now the card opens again from the center as you see below.

When the card is opened this time, you'll see some different photos.  One photo is of all the Survivors at the finale.  The center photos were taken during the game.  The left is when Mike and his tribe won a reward challenge.  The other one is of Big Mike carrying a large block in a challenge.

But wait, there's more!  The card opens again to the next panel that continues to thank Mike.  Hey, we really appreciated that he gave us the tickets.  Tickets to the season finale are hard to get.

 Here's what the card looks like on this side.

Now, incredibly enough, the card again folds to another side -- the beginning.  It'll just keep folding and showing all four sides.

I found the directions to make the never-ending card on the web.  I just Googled "never-ending card directions" and had my pick of instructions.

Sadly, Mike didn't win.  He did make it to the jury, though. 

I used Twitterpated Designer Series Paper on this card.  I got all the pictures from the Internet. 

Easy-to-Make Cards

I'm having a group over in May to do some stamping.  I made the two cards below as possible cards that we'll make.  Simple and pretty.  I used my Big Shot to embellish the polka dots on the purple card.

The second card is another simple, clean-looking card.

Both cards were made using the Easy Events stamp set.  I'm glad it's not retiring and will be in the next catalog (coming out June 1).