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It's coming...

The spring and summer catalogs are here!

This baby boy card is made with Nursery Necessities, one of the sets I preordered. I made it for a Stampin' Up! demonstrator swap group I've been in for years, Jenni Reling's WOWswappers. I haven't been able to participate while I've been in school. How lucky that I have a break just as we are getting new sets!

I received a cute "onesie" card at convention from ________and I pretty much used that as my pattern. (I'll edit that name in when I uncover the card on my desk). Anyway, I did use the 1 1/4" circle punch for the neck and, after making 20 plus of these, started using the 1/2" circle punch for the top of the crotch which gave a much cleaner looking cut. The edges of the card are sponged at the neck, under the arms, crotch and sides for dimension. For this card I sponged the edges of the star with Only Orange for a little added dimension.

Stamps: Nursery Necessities
Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White craft, Summer Sun Classic
Paper: Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Large Star punch, button - Bold Brights, White Signo Gel Pen, sponge, Stampin' Dimensional, White embossing powder

Wintergreen anyone?

I know other bloggers have been showing the lovely wintergreen designer papers from Stampin' Up for quite a while now but I'm playing catch up here. We used them at my Stamp Club last month and I brought them out last week to do a sympathy card. I wish I hadn't waited so long. A few of the cards I made are posted here - the others are in wintergreen album I'll put together soon. I didn't get a picture of the square sympathy card but before I cleaned up the counter I decided to make up similar "bases" of cards to add images to later on...and then proceeded to finish them up instead of wrapping gifts!

Stamps: Fun and Fast Notes
Paper: Whisper White, Always Artichoke, WIntergreen DS
Ink: Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Certainly Celery
Accessories: White Signo gel pen, Aquapainter, White taffeta ribbon, Corner rounder for scallops

Stamps: Farm Fever (RETIRING SOON!)
Paper: Whisper White, Always Artichoke, WIntergreen DS
Ink: Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Certainly Celery, Blush Blossom, Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Aquapainter, celery button and frayed grosgrain ribbon.

Stamps: Circus Train (ALSO RETIRING SOON!), Happy Everything
Paper: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow WIntergreen DS
Ink: Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Aquapainter, Jumbo pewter eyelets, Crop-a-dile

As you can see there were a few retiring sets I couldn't resist. These were so fun to watercolor!

Oh yes! The stamp club card that got me started with Wintergreen was very quick and easy. The pearls and glitter added glamour without fuss.

Stamps: Holy Tryptich
Paper: White Naturals, WIntergreen DS
Ink: Sage Shadow,
Accessories: Pretties Kit, 2 way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, White taffeta ribbon

Christmas blessings to you all!

I'm Baa-ack!

I'm on break from school and finally rid of a nasty cold/whatever bug. I've got lots to post but am charging the old camera and still need to get pictures taken and edited (definitely not my favorite part of blogging - I so appreciate those who regularly invest the time to post new artwork!). Stay tuned...

In the meantime I would like to share a link to Jeanna Bohanon's great twist on the cereal box stencil card. I just love her cut-out butterflies!