Orange you glad moms day is coming??

Tonight's card was inspired by our fab~o color wheel!! I had a girl friend at work who asked me to do a few moms day cards for her, when i asked her what colors she wanted she was like I don't know what do you got, hahahaha silly girl, pumpkin pie, choco chip, more mustard (can ya tell I was hungry)...she said it sounds more like you fridge Ally!! So I brought in my color wheel and said pick any color at all and I will base your card around that. Well her Mom loves orange and Only orange was a little to bright so we went with Pumpkin pie!! I have to be honest with you, this is not a color I have ever used in my own stampin and I do not even own the PP ink pad...GASP!!! Well lets just say it will be on my next order! I had this paper from the dots and dashes designer paper pack that was just begging to be used with this card!! I love the way it looks with my regal rose! I used the "delight in life" SAB set. I had to add some bling to the flowers and then some stickles int he veins of the flowers, I just cut out 2 and used a dimensional to make em pop!! and what card would be complete with out ribbon!! I guess this card was just meant to be!! The card base is 7 1/2 x 8 so it fits pretty well in a business sized envelope...stamped for sure...with some extra room for the ribbon and bulky stuff!! I have 2 more mothers day cards to make for my friend so I will post those when I get em done! Hope you likey!

Happy Harmony Cards!! Finally!!

Well I finally got a chance to play around with my happy harmony set I won from Lori!! I used the same layout for these cards but I just changed the colors and I really like the cameo coral one!! I used the thanks CB folder on the bashful blue one and the swirls CB folder on the cameo one!! Hope you likey!!

Tri-fold cards!!

I learned how to do this from a tutorial on SCS I believe, but if you wanna know how let me know and I can find the post for you! I just cant find it right now and I am being a little lazy!! I just wanna stamp!! Well the 1st one I did about a week ago but just never posted it. I used the 1st in fashion set! I just love it!! and the 2nd one I used the Happy Harmony set and the polka dots and paisleys paper!! I just started with the designer paper and went with the colors from there!! I love the cameo coral and the olive together!! I really and gonna have to start using this color combo a little more!! and then on the card I used some "Stickles" for the 1st time!! UMMM excuse me...why haven't ya'll told me about this stuff before?? I mean come on help a sistah out! I just love this stuff!! As you well know I am a glitter Diva!! Thanks to my wonderful upline Robyn!! May she stamp forever!! and this stuff is just to darn cool!! It comes in a ton of colors but I got the "diamonds" just to be safe!! Well lets just say I gotta get more of this stuff!! It took a little bit to dry but I really like it! I probably coulda ran the heat gun over it and sped up the process but I just let it lay out over night! I stamped the sentiment on the inside and left a little room for signing our whatever! I really liked this one!

I won a contest!!

Lorie posted a great blog about photo wallets and then issued a contest well I entered her contest and I won!!! Whoo hoo!!! This is the wallet that I made! This is Lorie's blog address http://live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com/index.html she is very very talented and she has the directions on her blog for these great cards!!

Hope you guys are having a great time, I am going to stamp some bella swaps night ya'll!

Purses and Shoes...oh my!

I truly believe that SU had me in mind when they designed this set!! tee hee hee! I just adore purses and shoes and a stamp set of them is almost better!! I use the "First in fashion" Stamp set and the "Harlequin" background stamp. I used my white siggo gel pen to kinda highlight some of the diamonds on the background and bring it out a little. I also got a chance to use my 2 super sweet tag punches that layer perfectly! I layered the group of purses and shoes on the Sarah designer paper that coordinates so well with the apricot appeal, certainly celery, and bashful blue that I used for the card. I made some of these for my regional swaps but I think I am going to whip up a few more to send to some girlfriends who might need a pick me up!! Every woman loves shoes and purses right? Now if they would just add some chocolate to this set we would be good to go!

Hope all of you are doing well and thanks for all of the great and nice comments!

At home with a sick Haley-Bug

I am home from work today with a sick little girl so in between her sleeping and syringe feeding her pedilite I decided I'd better do some stampin so I don't go crazy! I probably should be sleeping since i was up all night with her but what fun would that be? She is resting fine so I will relax and stamp! I made a few of this card for the Tampa Regional swap. I was very happy with it...so happy that I am doing it at a workshop next week which will hopefully turn into my new stamp club! I might switch the colors up a bit but I will keep with the same layout. I am sure I cased this from somewhere in someway but I love it anyway. I have enough cards now to swap out at regionals now later on I will get started on my coaster calendar swaps. Haley is stirring so I need to go tend to her but I will be back!! Hugs!!

Mustard covered copper Dragonfly...

HEHEHE sorry for the mustard humor, I for sure inked outside of my comfort zone on this one. I am usually not to into the rich earthly colors that's just not what I usually pick up to stamp with. well I wanted something different so I took out My Handy Dandy color coach and flipped it over to the earth elements rich regals side and told Presto to pick a color, he picked Night of Navy so I used the colors it said whet with that, 2 being more mustard and garden green. I decided to add some sparkle and still make it look rich with the copper. I used SU's All I have seen set for the dragonfly and embossed that with copper embossing powder. The saying which you cannot see very well, I stamped with a copper encore pad and added some copper brads at the bottom.For the background I used the Harlequin background stamp in versa mark on the more mustard.
I just love the saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen" Ponder on that for a while! Pretty powerful stuff huh? I love that I work for a company that puts Faith 1st!
Well now I am off to cook dinner and hopefully do a little more stampin tonight. I need to get these swap cards done!

Another swap card...

Last night I stamped a card for a dear friends birthday on friday! So I decided to take away a little bling and make it a swap card. This is semi-cased from someone on SCS but I cannot for the life of me find the card now to referance back to. I changed the color scheme and added the ribbon up top and changed some punching but the gereral layput os someoneelses. She did a great job. I only made 5 of these to swap cause I ran out of close to cocoa...I know I know I placed another order today. But I like the way they turned out. Now off to stamp a little more and see what I can come up with!

Regonials swap cards

So after much laziness on my part to actually get my hiney in gear and stamp some swap cards, I finally sat down and stamped 9. I have ADD when it comes to stampin the same thing over and over so I usually just do 10 or so. This is what I came up with. I used the Happy Occasions set with the matching baby rattle wheel, which I just love!! I have done this design at a few work shops and my ladies loved them so I decided to do basically the same thing. The picture does not show up to well but the sentiment is in the bottom right hand corner. and ya'll know I had to add some bling so there is glitter around the rattle. Thanks to Robyn for my love of glitter!! She taught me that glitter is not only a stampin embellishment but a fashion accessory as well. hehehe! I might do the same card with different colors using the heart stamp from this set but who knows what else I will come up with? What do ya'll think? I am going to stamp a little more tonight once the kiddos are in bed so I will post what I come up with! I still have about 29 more cards to make and 10 or 20 coaster frames. I'll be busy till the 24th.