Rock Star!

The first thing I made on this card was the embossed star. I am trying to use what I own and not just collect stuff so I wanted to use some of the large collection of chipboard I have. The rock star stamp is from the level 2 hostess set A Little Somethin'. I embossed it with black EP, inked the edges with old olive craft and added some faux stitching with the wonderful white gel pen. Then I was stuck!!! I tried every color of paper and ugh!! Finally, I got out my really rust paper which I hardly every use and thought okay this is a start. The piece of black & old olive paper and the spool of silver elastic cord were just lying on my table so I didn't have to cut anything or get out of my chair (well I did cut the elastic cord but I didn't have to measure it). In retrospect I should have wrapped the silver cord 6 times to look like guitar strings but just pretend a couple of strings broke!

The bottom photo makes me want to stand on my head for some reason but if I flip the photo the words are upside down or sideways. Have to go now getting dizzy!!!

I am loving my Big Shot!! These flowers are made with the SU exclusive sizzlets Birds & Blooms. I even cut the leaves with the Big Shot!! The only stamping on this card is the sentiment which is from the Upsy Daisy stamp set.

This is the card I made for a SAB swap. The paper is from the DSP (Designer Series Paper) that is one of the choices in the SAB brochure that is FREE with a $50 purchase. The so saffron ribbon is part of the ribbon bundle that is also FREE with a $50 purchase. The ribbon bundle includes some certainly celery polytwill also. The flowers have dazzling diamonds glitter on them.

I like the colors in this paper pack. I must admit that because of this paper I purchased my first pack of sahara sand and while it is not as wonderful as river rock (retired) or kraft, I do like it as a neutral. It almost looks like a shade of gray.

If anyone asks me my favorite color I always say pink but I do love all shades of blue. This card uses bordering blue, night of navy and pacific point. This card was inspired by a card on Fat Cat Stamper. The stamp is from the Sale-A-Bration set Polka Dot Punches. I keep grabbing the same set over and over again. I could lie and say it was because I am trying to show how versatile SU stamp sets are but the truth is I am just too lazy to get up and walk over to my stash of stamp sets!!!

The hearts are embossed with silver EP with a flower brad in the middle. I paper pieced around the edges and used my zig painty pen to edge around the night of navy layer. The ribbon is SU white taffeta. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations.

My sizzlets I purchased in an auction from you-know-where just came in the mail today and I really want to go play with them. They were such a great deal that I couldn't resist. So off to play with my
Big Shot and then to the movies to see
Pink Panther 2

Yeah!! Looky the photo I wanted posted first is posted (insert drum roll sound effect here) FIRST!!! Now let's see if I can do it again tomorrow!!

Anyway, I made another Valentine. I have seen this color combo of riding hood red and kraft on several cards lately (sorry I can't always remember where-so if it was you feel free to say so in the comments). The heart stamp is from the SAB set Polka Dot Punches and the sentiment is from a retired hostess set. Both were embossed with gold EP and cut out. I colored the heart on the sentiment with a gold paint pen and edged the cardstock with it also. The ribbon is that fabulous riding hood red taffeta (I am on my second roll). I think I might actually give this one to my DH. And yes I can post it here because he never reads my blog, never has read my blog and probably never will read my blog! Now if I included football or bowling news he might just read it.

You would think that with all the time I spend on the computer and as long as I have been posting photos on the web that I could figure out how to make my photos post in the order I want!!!! GRRRRRR!!
I am telling you blogspot has a mind of its own!! I wanted the photo of the full card to post first-okay maybe I just keep forgetting to put them in the correct order when I upload them. Perhaps I should write myself a note for the next time. . .

This is a Valentine card made without pink or red! This card is made with stamps from two different stamp sets, a hostess set called A Little Somethin' and a Sale-A-Bration set called Polka Dot Punches. Both sets are great because the images coordinate with SU punches. The front of the card is vellum, the heart images are embossed with black embossing powder. The black scalloped border is hiding where I attached the vellum to the kiwi kiss card base using double stick tape. The kiwi kiss heart in the middle was embossed with black EP and mounted with dimensionals. The ribbon is that luscious kiwi kiss/very vanilla satin ribbon! I wish we had more colors!!

Now see the corner folded over on the right? Wanna know why that is there? Because I smeared one of the embossed hearts and had to cover it up!! Remember penicillin was an experiment gone wrong!!!

Amid all the excitement over the new SU sets I decided to pull out a tried & true set, Heartfelt Thanks. I used river rock ribbon even though there is no river rock card stock. I am still hoarding my river rock paper and using it sparingly.

The crimper was one of the first tools I purchased when I started making cards. I thought it was the coolest! I would put crimped paper on all my cards.

Soon after I purchased my crimper, one of my friends & her kids came to my house for a Valentine Day Party. While she was in my basement she spotted my crimper!! She just happened to have a stash of paper in her van which she promptly crimped. And she used every single piece of that crimped paper-of course now she has her own crimper!!!
Stamps: Heartfelt Thanks, SU sentiment
Paper: kraft, not quite navy, close to cocoa, hostess prints pack
Ink: close to cocoa, not quite navy
Accessories: river rock ribbon, crimper, hodgepodge hardware,

I love making Valentines! The more glitter & bling the better the card! I enjoy working with all the color families but I do tend to gravitate toward the pastels. This is one of my favorite color combos, pink pirouette and bashful blue. I used lots of dazzling diamonds glitter attached with my 2-way glue pen. When putting glitter on a card I usually use a 2 way glue pen because it dries fast. I have used the tombow liquid glue but it is thicker & takes longer to dry. The background paper has been sponged with bashful blue & pink pirouette. You can't really see it in the photo but I stamped along the edges of the background paper with a heart stamp inked with white craft ink. This is a stamp set from the Holiday Mini catalog called Love Owl-Ways. Unfortunately it did not make it into the new catalog but maybe it will the next one. And it doesn't really matter because I like it so I intend to use it anyway!!!

The flowers were punched with the Boho Blossoms punch, I traced around the top note with a white gel pen and added a little pink grosgrain at the top. Yeah, yeah, yeah the ribbon is pretty in pink and the paper is pink piourette-I think they go to together just fine!!