For the Love of Stampin’

I did this card for my friends swap I do every month.  I started with a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  I stamped images from Little pieces (the solid circle) and Polka Dots and Petals.  I then layered black, white, and Creepy Crawly DP for the long panel.  I tied a piece of black gingham ribbon onto that with a little accent of orange.  I used the word window punch and punched one pumpkin pie and one with the Happy Halloween sentiment on whisper white and layered those.  I stamped the cute bat from Batty for You and punched it with the 1 3/8 circle punch.  I punched a scallop circle with the punch and added the bat on with a dimensional.  Hope everyone liked it!

I have decided there are two occupational hazards for me as an SU! demonstrator, they are one and three!  My one year old, Cody, for some reason has decided his favorite thing to do it chew off all of the rubber and foam from my stamps!  It is virtually impossible to fix them.  If anyone has a good idea let me know!  My other son, Grant, likes the stickers for the stamp block.  If I don’t have a stamp set mounted watch out because some of the stickers will be missing and I find them in the most unusual places…Hello cars, do you really need that sticker that says thank you???  Awh, but they are worth all of the stamps in the world! Have a great rest of the week!

~Staci

This is the last card I did in California.  I haven’t posted it so I thought today would be a good day!  I started with a Bravo Burgundy cardbase.  This is not a color I normally use but I thought it went so well with the basic gray.  I stamped the berry stamp from the Peaceful Wishes set in the same color all over the card front.  Next, I layered a piece of Always Artichoke and DP from the Harmony paper in the holiday mini.  I used the ticket corner punch on that and added vintage brads.  I then layered a piece of Burgundy, always artichoke and the velvet basic gray ribbon from the ribbon originals.  I did some faux stitching on the Burgundy paper with a choc. chip marker.  For the main image I layered again Burgundy and basic gray.  I used very vanilla and stamped my image, also from Peaceful Wishes,  after I markered the berries in Burgundy and the plant in always artichoke.  I sponged the image with many different colors, paper pierced and added the ribbon by punching two holes and making a knot with Burgundy grosgrain and basic gray taffeta ribbon.  I added the corner piece in always artichoke using the corner punch and added more vintage brads.  I hope to build my Christmas card stock gradually between now and December 1st so I don’t have 100 cards to make at once! 

I am praying for all of the folks in SoCal that are suffering from the wild fires right now.  How scary!  I have a workshop tonight that I hope goes well! I don’t do many workshops (usually just stamp camps) so I still get a bit nervous!  My family and I are going to Snohomish on Thursday.  I am glad to be going home and it will be nice to see my brothers and their families one more time this year before the passes get to bad to drive.  I will try to post a couple more things before I leave!  Have a good day!

Staci

Although I feel this card looks better IRL, here it is anyway I did this for the SCS SC145.  I thought is was a nice sketch with a little different twist.  I started with a close to Cocoa cardbase and cut an inch off of one side.  I stamped the Flannel BG stamp of the front and layered Old Olive, Really Rust and  Fall Flowers DP.  I used the ticket corner punch on the DP and used vintage brads and a bit of ribbon to finish that part off.  I stamped the leaf and sentiment from the With Gratitude set on to Very Vanilla using the SU! markers.  The markers I used for the leaf were (I think..) Really Rust, Ruby Red, Old Olive, and Creamy Caramel.  I blended them slightly with the blender pen and added a little shading.  I  then cut a portion of that  leaf out and layered that on really rust and old olive again.  I used the ticket corner punch, vintage brads and the paper piercer to finish off that piece and adhered that down to the card front.  I finished it off with a smaller leaf from the same set and was done! 

My parents are flying in tonight and I am excited to see them.  I hope my mom and I get to stamp a little tomorrow.  Not during the Husky game though…. GO DAWGS!!!!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Dawn, If you read this Thank you for the beautiful card.  If you don’t mind I would love to share it with everyone on here. Just let me know if that is ok! 

Staci 

I made this card last week when we were visiting my MIL and FIL in California.  We had fun stamping together!  This card started with a Basic Gray card base.  I layered So saffron onto the cardbase and added a layer of the Uptown DP and scalloped and paper pierced the DP.  One the next small layer I used Almost Amethyst and another piece of Uptown DP and punched holes and tied two pieces of Wild Wasabi Double stitched ribbon.  I then layered Wild Wasabi, So Saffron and Almost Amethyst for the main image which is on Whisper White.  I rounded a couple of corners and added the stamped images from In the Spotlight Hostess set.  I stamped a separate image of the flower and used a dimensional to pop it up and added a  brad.  The final touches were a corner piece from the new corner punch and the thanks sentiment using the tab punch.  Thanks for looking! 

This is the card that I made for the Dunn family.  I hope that it got there in time to make the box!  I hope they are filled with love and good feelings by all of the good wishes and prayers coming their way.  May the Lord bless those two little girls with health and happiness.

In this picture it is hard to see but I started with a choc. chip cardbase.  I layered and added the flower from fabulous flowers and added a little dazzling diamonds to it with the two way glue pen.  Added the sentiment hope with some vintage brads.  Hope they like it!

Each month a group of great demo’s from around the country and I do a swap.  I have made some great friends and enjoy them all so much!  Here is the card I did for September Fall swap. 

I started with a Choc. chip cardbase and stamped the swirls from the Priceless set on that in Basic Brown.  I then layered the DP from the Apple Cider onto a piece of really rust.  (I am stuck in a rut of this color combo!) I put three vintage brads in each using my mat pack and paper piercer.  I also used a piece of wide Choc. grosgrain ribbon to finish off the layer and adhered it to my cardbase.  I then layered my piece of Old Olive and Basic brown .  I stamped an image from the True Friends set after I markered it in Old Olive, Really Rust and Choc. chip.  I used my sponges and four colors (Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Basic Brown and Really Rust) to get the aged look.  I stamped the word friend from the everyday flexible phrases set and used the ticket corner punch on the this layer.  Put it all together and done! 

We are leaving for California today so I won’t be posting next week.  “See” you when we get back!  Have a great week!

Staci