All Seasons Branch Out

Summer: Basic Black card base with Delicate Dots paper and new Celery ribbon from bundle in Sale-A-Bration. Grass stamp (Stampscapes) in Garden Green, leaves in celery, olive, and Garden green.
Autumn:Ruby Red with Delicate Dots d.p. Edging done with eyelet punch, new Dress Up red ribbon. Leaves in Rust, Apricot, and Ruby. Birds in Chocolate and boots in Real Red. Shading done with chalk pastels.
Spring:Bordering Blue card base with Tea Party paper and Dress Up ribbon. Leaves in celery and also embossed with retired pink powder. Birds in Bashful Blue, butterflies in Amethyst and Pretty In Pink. Sentiment is from Spring Song.
Winter:Bashful Blue, Close To Cocoa, and Whisper White used with Delicate Dots paper, Dress Up ribbon and Soft Subtles brads. Tree in Cocoa, snowflakes in blue and some embossed with Iridescent Ice. Snowman is from The World Over (retired), snow is heated up Liquid Applique. Edged with eyelet border punch.
Hope you like these!

Ocean Commotion

When I randomly opened my brand new catalog this set was the first one I saw. I let out a little squeak of delight and knew this was going on my first order. It's worth getting just for the fab flourish!
Delicate Dots designer paper was used along with Whisper White, Cameo Coral, and Bashful Blue. I clear embossed the swirl on the blue, the sea life was embossed using clear powder and Blush Blossom and Certainly Celery craft inks. I sponged in addition color with coral for the fish snd one seahorse and blue for the other seahorse. I added some eyelet "bubbles" and white gel pen dots.

Belli Challenge #54 - Sweet Stems Mother's Day

Card base is Perfect Plum, Pirouette Pink stamped with Sweet Stems and dry embossed with Texturz polka dot folder. Tea Party paper at top. I added a lot of edge piercing because I just can't help myself.
This is also for a Belli challenge by Chris Dickinson to use a doily on your card.
Flower stamped in Old Olive and colored with markers. Tag corner punch used with a clip and pink taffeta ribbon.
Chris's Belli Challenge #54
Danita's card
Anne Harada
Shelly
Holly
Joan Ervin
Courtney
Ceal
Lee
Karen
Jessica

Branch Out & New SU

I tried to see how many new goodies (shown with *)I could use on today's card.
The *Branch Out set* was stamped with Caramel and Chocolate, leaves in Apricot, Celery, and Pumpkin. After stamping I ran it through the Big Shot using one of the new *textures embossing plates*. It looks really cool close up and kind of hard to distinguish it in the photo. Embrace Life sentiment in pumpkin with *eyelet border punch* SAB *Delicate Dots designer paper* was used with Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White cardstocks. *SAB ribbon bundle in celery*. Embellishment was made with a decorative silver brad and a Real Red brad adhered to it (I cut off the prongs.)The cut out branch is from *God's Beauty level 1 hostess set*. Oh, how I love new stuff!!
This is for today's technique lover's challenge on SCS to cut it out! and Julee's Mojo Monday 73 challenge.

Black & White Challenge

This week's Three Amigas challenge is to make a black and white card with a pop of red. I was inspired by this lampshade from hunkydoryhome.com












For the background I stamped the brocade style image stamp from the new Stampin' Up Friends 24-7 set in Versamark and then embossed it in white repeatedly to create the background. This took a bit since I had to re-position the image with the stamp-a-majig after each individual image embossing. I love the way the background came out though! The rest of the card was a snap after that. I stamped this same image in black on Whisper White, added sentiment in Real Red with a rhinestone brad from the Pretties Kit and some of the new Valet ribbon. This is SO pretty in real life. It is a ruched black velvet, it's a shame you can't see the detail of it in the photograph. This 3 pack of ribbon is a must have!
Please join us for this challenge. We call it the Three Amigas Weekly Challenge or TAWC so make sure you use the TAWC so we can find your cards in the SCS gallery.
Have a wonderful stamping week, y'all!

Julie's card
Sharon
Sharon Graham
Lisa
Julie Alberda
Chris

Friends 24-7

I love this new set, it is very Martha-kicked up a notch. I love the versatility of these stamps, you can either go elegant or all natural. Can't wait to experiment!
This card was for today's SCS Inspiration challenge. I used Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White cardstocks. I almost always use the Whisper White when I will be coloring. I have yet to find anything that works as well as this and I've tried quite a lot of them. I stamped the branches in Chocolate and colored them with markers. Bird was stamped in Baja and then cut out and placed on the flower branch.
The yummy ribbon is the new Valet that comes with 3 in the pack; a chocolate satin pin dot a ruched black velvety one and this Baja satin. ooo, purty. Pretties Kit pearls added to the side.

Matchbook Notepad Holder

You will get three of these out of one sheet of cardstock. You can either use them as a card or anotepad holder. I used Stampin' Up Naturals White and cut it in 3 equal parts of 3 1/3" x 8 1/2". Score each at 1/2 and about 3 3/4". Stamp as desired. Fold & staple at 1/2" fold. Insert Post Its and fold top edge into this matchbook style. I used the new God's Beauty level 1 hostess set and shaded it with chalk pastels. You can always trim a little strip off of the edge if you don't measure exactly or staple it too high at the bottom. Easy as can be!