Balloon Ornaments

Using the hot air balloon in the Up, Up, and Away set, I stamped them upside down and made them Christmas ornaments instead. This looks so cool in real life with the hanging "icicles" whih I made from this image using the new My Friend set. Embossed it in silver and then used Crystal Effects and Dazzling Diamonds, it looks like a glass bubble. Hard to get a picture here today with no sunshine.
For the hanger and line I embossed the bottom of the balloon basket and drew a straight line up with my Versamark pen, embossed in gold.
Lovely As A Tree in Olive and Artichoke, sentiment in Cherry Cobbler is from Christmas Greetings.
Ornaments stamped in Eggplant, Cherry Cobbler, Wisteria WOnder, and Poppy Parade.

Simply Soft

This is another new set coming up in the new Stampin' Up catalog, a hostess offering called Simply Soft. Clean and simple card on Whisper White with taffeta ribbon and hello sentiment from the new Pennant Parade.

Delicate Doilies

Delicate Doilies is another new Stampin' Up set soon to be available with the July catalog.
All supplies are Stampin' Up. Inks: Razzleberry and River Rock, stamps sets Delicate Doilies, Itty Bitty Bits, and Style Beautiful. I had to add a razzleberry button near the sentiment since I smudged the ink :) This is a case of a card by Vicki Dutcher, today's Queen for the Day at SCS.

Elements Window Card

To create the window I punched a 1 3/8" square in the front of the Pink Pirouette cardstock. The sentiment is on the inside using a 1 1/4" whisper White square over a 1 3/8" gold square. Elements Of Style flowers and sentiment were embossed in gold. Coloring done with Copic markers. Vine image was clear embossed. This makes a quick and easy one layer card, very easy for mailing. All supplies except markers are Stampin' Up.

Ruffled Ribbon Thanks

For today's Splitcoaststamper's Clean and Simple challenge to ruffle some ribbon. I ran a strip of sticky tape across the top, laying down ribbon and looping every little bit, tacking down each loop with glue dots.
All supplies are Stampin' Up:
Whisper White cardstock stamped with Bold Blossom in Old Olive, Pumpkin, Daffodil, Poppy Parade, and Melon Mambo. Daffodil taffeta ribbon.

Medallion Day Of Gratitude

For this one layer card I combined the Medallion stamp in So Saffron and the new Day Of Gratitude stamp over top. This one was stamped using Ruby Red, Olive, Orange and Saffron. Sentiment stamped in Dusty Durango.

Country Birdhouses

A simple one layer card colored in Copic markers, stamp is a very old one by Stampendous.
Off to Seattle to play for the day!

Easy One Layer Thank You

Whisper White card base and Occasional Quotes (new level 3 hostess) from Stampin' Up. Flowers and vines stamped on border are by Inkadinkado.

Pretty Petals

All supplies are current Stampin' Up.
I first inked the Pretty Petals background stamp in Pretty In Pink and then went over stems and leaves in Certainly Celery. I used markers to color butterflies and tiny flowers in Lavender Lace and then thumped on Regal Rose marker to large flowers, Bashful Blue to butterflies, and Old Olive to leaves. Simple Friendship butterfly added.

Masked One Layer Autumn Days

This cardstock looks so cool in real life,like suede. I masked off a scallop oval on Very Vanilla cardstock and brayered Crushed Curry ink over fron and sponged on Only Orange and Dusty Durango. Spritzed on some Rose Teas glimmer mist and Adirondack Terra Cotta color wash. Stamped berry spray all around reversed oval mask. Stamped wheat in stamped off More Mustard, stamped pheasant in Durango, Soft Sueded, and bermuda Bay.

Eastern Influences Chinese Lantern

TEMPLATE (on red background)
An all white one layer card, this opens at the bottom. Stamped and colored images with markers, edged in gold pen, sponged edges, and then ran through crimper. Easy as can be!

One Layer Cards

I love the way this card looks in real life, I used Pebbles Inc. Pearlescent Chalks to shade the sun and sky and it has such a pretty shimmer hard to see in photo. I used Garden Silhouettes on Whisper White cardstock. Inks and markers were used for flowers- Celery, Mustard, Ruby Red, Old Olive, Ballet Blue, Lavendar Lace, Apricot Appeal. I also used Art of Life for sentiment and Happy Hamony and Watercolor Minis for flowers. My favorite part of this card is that it reminds me of an Impressionist style of painting. I used the leaves stamp from Branch Out and stamped repeatedly in stamped off Soft Sky and Cool Caribbean. For the grass I did the same with Kiwi and Celery.


This was a super quick 10-15 minute card. I used the retired Looks Like Spring set on Naturals White cardstock. Inks were Coral, Pretty In Pink, Saffron, Celery, Cameo Coral, and Amethyst. Layered a silk flower, a button and a pearl.