Scallop Square Fun

A couple of weeks back I had my Perfect Punch club meeting where we made three projects using the Scallop Square punch. Here are two of them. The one above is fun and bright and uses the punch to it’s fullest with Pink Flamingo Designer paper squares. The base on this card is Summer Sun. I wheeled the large star wheel on the edge of the card and tied some dotted Real Red grosgrain on the other. On the punched out squares, I added a circle that was stamped with an image from WOW Flowers and a Tempting Turquoise Button.

Now, for a completely different look…

The base of this card is Mellow Moss and it is layered with Old Olive. I used the Very Vintage jumbo wheel and wheeled it on Whisper White cardstock using Basic Black ink. I watercoloured using a blender pen and Old Olive, Mellow Moss and Elegant Eggplant inks. To the left I added a strip of Elegant Eggplant and a faux buckle using a 3/4″ square punch (retired) and my scallop square punch. Through this I tied on some 5/8″ Old Olive grosgrain. I used the medium jewelry tag punch and the Tiny Tags stamp set to make the friends tag and tied it on with some linen thread.

Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by!

Products used on Project #1 – CLICK HERE to buy them NOW!

Cardstock: Summer Sun, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise.

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun.

Stamps: WOW Flowers, Jumbo Star wheel.

Accessories: small star punch, 1″ circle punch, 1/2″ circle punch, scallop square punch, dotted Real Red grosgrain, Tempting Turquoise button.

Products used on Project #2 - CLICK HERE to buy them NOW!

Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Whisper White.

Ink: Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Mellow Moss.

Stamps: Tiny Tags, Very Vintage jumbo wheel.

Accessories: 5/8″ Old Olive grosgrain, medium jewelry tag punch, linen thread, paper piercer, mat pack, 3/4″ square punch, scallop square punch, blender pen, Stampin’ Sponges.

All Heart

There are only a few days left to purchase the I (heart) Hearts stamp set to help Haiti! Please see the poster at the end of this post. Until February 28th, Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 from every I (heart) Hearts stamp set to the Red Cross in an effort to help those devastated by the Haiti earthquake. Please contact me (if in Canada) or your local demonstrator to find out more or to place an order.

For the group of ladies who purchased this set from me, they were treated to a FREE class using their new stamp sets. Above is a photo of the three cards they made and we decided to make one more but I don’t have a photo (but it was AWESOME). I really enjoy coming up with something spur of the moment and getting other’s input, that is really fun to do. The blue and sage card was inspired by a swap I received at Leadership from Elizabeth Martinez. I usually don’t CASE but I just fell in love with the layout of this card. I did change the colours from the original swap. Thanks Elizabeth!

I ain’t Lion….

Today I was chatting with a friend on the phone and found out that he hasn’t been stamping lately. So, I challenged him to two challenges. First, the Stamping 411 sketch challenge and second the Pals Paper Arts KISS challenge.

I started with a Close to Cocoa card base and layered it with a wee strip of More Mustard and then a larger layer of Whisper White. I used my scallop edge punch on one end of the Whisper White cardstock and then used my Close to Cocoa marker to define the scallops a bit. Lastly, I tied a bit of Old Olive 5/8″ grosgrain around the white layer.

For the little lion, well, I’ve had this idea for a while now. The Birds and Blooms Sizzlet little scallop circle is just the perfect size to fit to make a layered mane on the little lion from Fox & Friends. So what I did was stamp the lion in Close to Cocoa once on the larger white cardstock layer and once on some scrap cardstock.

I cut out a More Mustard and a So Saffron small scallop circle from the Birds & Blooms sizzlet and crinkled them up a little bit for a bit more dimension. I added them on with mini glue dots. I then cut out the face of the lion I’d stamped on some scrap cardstock and adhered with a small dimensional.

To finish this up, I stamped “hello” from Hello Again in Old Olive and added some outline with my Close to Cocoa marker and some grass with my Old Olive marker.

Thanks for stopping in today! Now get off the computer and stamp something….:-)

UStamp FREE Pass Winner is…..

Karina Loewen!

Via Random number generator I picked post number 28 and it was Karina’s! Here is what Karina had to say….

What is U Stamp, Carrie??? I think I want some
My favorite spring thing is tulips… lots and lots of them. I like tulips in a box, and I like them with a fox. I can like them hear or there, i love tulips anywhere!!!

Thank you all so much for your responses and sharing your spring wishes with me! Congrats Karina, I’ll be in touch with you privately.

FREE PASS Giveaway!

I wish to thank you all so much for your kind comments on my first UStamp project as a guest designer. It was such fun to put together and Dawn has graciously asked me again to guest design for the next edition of UStamp….Spring Soiree 2010!

I have a FREE PASS to give away and have been trying to figure out a cool way to do it but I’m tapped! So, I’ve decided to ask a question…..what is your favorite thing about spring? Just answer your question in this post and I’ll draw the winner on February 20th at midnight.

My fave thing about spring is watching all the trees bud and bloom and it has already started here!

Workshop Olympics Event #4

Today’s project is another that I’m using for a Workshop Olympics event (and also for a scallop square punch class last night!). It is a quick and simple card that uses a few great techniques and an amazing stamp set from our Occasions Mini Catalogue, With all my Heart. Here is a closer look at a few details…..

With all my Workshop Olympics Event projects, I’m not going to say too much as I don’t want to ruin the surprise at the event itself but for those of you who have picked this card for your workshops, it is now time to send this link to your guests and time to get EXCITED!!!!

Workshop Olympics Event #3

Now I’m not going to say much about these projects as I’d rather do that in person at your Workshop Olympics in-home workshop. Above is a card that I’d demo (the above one) to show how you can quickly and simply make a hand stamped card. The second is a stepped up one with some great additional accessories and products!

I’ve still got a few workshop spaces open if you are ready to enter the “games”.

On that note, our family is just sitting here getting ready to watch the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. We are all so very excited to be a part of these games as they are happening in our hometown. We got to see the torch in our little city earlier this week (so cool but super early at 6:30am!). So, over the next couple of weeks you may see many posts of the cool things going on around here as we are just so thrilled. Maybe tomorrow I’ll put up a picture of our family in front of our house with our lit up Olympic rings and all our Canadian flags – we are proud to be Canadian, eh!

I find that the Olympics always pull at my heartstrings. I am constantly tearing up watching athletes who have trained so hard at this pinnacle of sport, even the commercials make me cry! I had to go to Costco to get kleenex in preparation…..

I am also very proud to be a volunteer at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games in March so they’ll be so much more to share then!

Workshop Olympics – Event #2

I wanted to focus on occasion cards that everyone can use for my Workshop Olympics and this card will fit that bill – we all know kids who have birthdays and love getting cards!

The particular card is quite easy but showcases watercolouring which is an awesome technique to show at a workshop as everyone wants to know how to colour in line images.

The base is Regal Rose and is layered with Chocolate Chip and then Whisper White cardstock. I love using up scraps and I had a bunch around after cutting for a class so I kept them and used them in behind my focal image. They are Regal Rose, Certainly Celery and Tempting Turquoise. I ran them through my Big Shot with the new Perfect Polka Dots folder (Love this!) to give them a bit of pop.

On that I added a piece of Confetti white cardstock layered in chocolate Chip. I stamped the hippo from Pun Fun in Jet Black StazOn and watercoloured in using my aquapainter and coordinating ink colours. For a workshop, I’d most like use a blender pen and pastels but I’d have some done with various watercolouring methods nearby to show how different they all look.

I then added a little sentiment in Chocolate Chip from On Your Birthday.

Products used on this project - CLICK HERE to buy them NOW!

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Confetti White.

Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Certainly Celery, Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose, Sahara Sand.

Stamps: On Your Birthday, Pun Fun.

Accessories: Sizzix Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots folder, aquapainter.

Who’s the Rock Star?

…usually I’d say ME! but yesterday, the rock star was our friend Lubos – it was his birthday soiree and I knew I had to come up with something awesome for his card.

I was inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch and I knew I wanted to use the Extreme Guitar image.

The base of the card is Basic Gray and I layered it with some Basic Black cardstock and then a piece of Kalediscope designer paper.

The two centre pieces are done with varying shades of orange (I love to play with two shades of the same colour). The guitar player is stamped on Pumpkin Pie cardstock with Black Craft ink and embossed with Irridescent ice embossing powder. I also stamped some of the images from Extreme Elements in Pumpkin Pie and Dusty Durango ink and then sponged the edges with Basic Black ink. The word portion of this centre is Dusty Durango cardstock which was punched with the Spiral edge punch and sponged with black ink. I used a Chat Room rub on that matches exactly what I wanted to say and added a mini library clip.

Along the bottom, I added a strip of Dusty Durango cardstock which was punched with the Pinking Hearts border punch. I let just the “jagged” edge show and added some Basic Black cardstock and Pumpkin Pie ribbon.

And for the centre piece I used the cr0wn from Extreme Elements. I stamped it with Craft Black on a piece of coordinating designer paper. I punched it out with the 1 1/4″ circle and layered it with a 1 3/8″ Dusty Durango circle. It is the adhered to a tag cut using the Lots of Tags Sizzlets and I dotted my white gel pen around the outside edges to define it a bit more.

Products used on this project – CLICK HERE to buy them NOW!

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Dusty Durango, Basic Black, Basic Gray.

Ink: Basic Black Craft and Classic, Dusty Durango, Pumpkin Pie.

Stamps: Extreme Guitar, Extreme Elements.

Accessories: Chat Room rub ons, Spiral edge punch, 1 1/4″ circle punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch, Lots of Tags Sizzlets, Sizzix Big Shot, II embossing powder, heat tool, mini library clips, Pinking Hearts border punch, pumpkin pie grosgrain, white gel pen, Kalidescope designer paper.

Workshop Olympics Event #1

I’ve had many inquiries on participating in my Workshop Olympics – I think I may get my 10 participants!

Here is one of the “events” that workshop attendees can participate in at a workshop during this special time. It incorporates a ton of products I love – and I hope you do too!

The base of this card is Soft Suede and we’re using some Old Olive Designer Paper and the Good Neighbour and Whimsical Words exclusive Sale-A-Bration stamp sets. Now I don’t want to give too much away but here is a close up….

Want to participate by hosting your own workshop? Click on this link to learn more about my Workshop Olympics!