Crinkled In Color Flower

Made this one for today's Way to Use It challenge over on SCS: Crinkled Cardstock Flowers.
Short, sweet, and simple. You can find the tutorial for these flowers HERE, and the recipe for this card HERE.
So what do ya think? :)

Father's Day Yachts

I accomplished a great feat, for me, in the past couple of days.
I designed, executed, and JUST sent off 10 Father's Day cards.
Whew!
(and NO, I do not have 10 fathers. There just happens to be 10 special guys in my husband and I's collective families that hold the title of 'Father')
Here's what I did.
And a close up.
I really like this Father's Day sentiment from the SU! All Holidays set, but didn't feel like mixing in another set. So I went for some paper folding (also known as origami).
You can find the instructions on making these cute paper yachts right HERE. (I started out with a 2 1/2" piece of dsp for a finished 2 1/4"ish sized yacht)
Also, this was a great way for me to use up some pretty paper scraps. Well...maybe I shouldn't call them pretty. Handsome. Yes, handsome. LOL
These cards even got the thumbs up from my hubby for not being girly. Yay! LOL
So what do ya think? :)

Five Minutes for Demo Support

Took 5 minutes this morning to make this quickie thank you card for SU! Demonstrator Support. They are always so super helpful, and chipper on the phone! :)
(Hard to come by great service like that now a days...ya know?)
The apple is from the Tart & Tangy set, the sentiment is from the Smarty Pants set.
Hope you're having a great morning!!

Poor, Neglected Blog! (and NEW In Colors ALERT!)

A tragic accident occurred a couple of weeks ago. My darling 1 1/2 year old decided to come over and sit on my lap while I was on my computer and spilled her cup of water all over my laptop. Wasn't that dear of her? *sigh*
What can you do..I mean after you scream and cry, that is? Well, you try to recover what you can...even after you find out the next day that your once sweet and speedy laptop is now temperamental and full of operational obstacles. And you mourn. For a couple weeks. While having to use your husband's desktop...and conform to his set up until you can buy your own laptop again. It's going to be a little while. *double sigh*
BUT, now that I have a few KEY photo editing programs set up on his computer, I can now happliy upload what I've been up to in my stamp room. I know you want to see!
It's been quite a whirlwind of stamping goodness lately. Just ask any Stampin' Up! demo! They'll tell you! (especially if they expedited they're order...cause uh...I kinda usually do...he...yeah)
So I have allllll of the new Stampin' Up In Colors right here on my desk..along with the markers...and ribbons...and textured carstocks...and inks...and pads...and, well, I ordered it all.
And I've been playing, you see.
See?
This is the new Circle Circus set, matched up with the Celebrate Everything set, and some new yummy In Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, and Crushed Curry. Yum, huh? I'm totally in love with all 6 of these new In Colors!
Next I made this:Since I have the new 2009-2010 SU! catty right here, I can see that one of the new Designer Series Paper packs has a really cool color combo of: Taken with Teal, Ruby Red, Sahara Sand, and Basic Grey. I subed in Bermuda Bay for the Taken with Teal, the white cardstock is Naturals White, and I stamped this image from A Wish for Peace with Stazon and used my re-inkers to color it in lightly. The whole intention in designing this one is that....drum roll, please....I'm planning on going to the SU! Convention in August! (insert happy hopping around here) Thus, I need swap cards. This one was designed and shall be one of those. :)
And who, from Splitcoast Stampers could go to convention without an SCS nametag? Not me!
Belinda King created this year's design. I modified it with the new in colors, and in color polka-dot ribbon! I used the Melon Mambo as the base, Crushed Curry as the name plate, Shimmery White for the oval, Soft Suede for the ink, as well as the Soft Suede polka-dot grosgrain ribbon.

Can you take ONE more card? LOL
I had to make a quick birthday card for my Father-in-law.Isn't this new Crushed Curry color perfect for beer? LOL And the fabulous addition of the In-Color markers makes it so easy to color it in. ...OH! And see the label? That's a new punch, that I pre-ordered. It's called the Modern Label punch.
All of this new fantastica will be available to everyone on July 1st. Seriously. You're going to love all the new stuff! :)
Hugs!

You Live Once Rose

Guess who found her stamping Mojo?!?
Meeeeee!
*sniff* Stamping Mojo, I missed you. Welcome home. Don't ever do that to me again! You had me worried sick!
...
Ok. I'm back.

Friday's Limited Supplies challenge is up over at Splitcoast. So I played!
Isn't it FABULOUS?!? :D I'm just so happy to have my mojo back ya'll! (you can find this card's recipe over HERE)
When I started forcing myself to stamp the other day, I suspected something was wrong when my hand curled up and wouldn't press my images right, when my color combos suuucked...when in general my card were BLAH.
So I took today off and re-organized my stamp room. I re-organized all my card stock, stamps and tables. And VOILA! My mojo showed up. I think Disorder had taken it captive. I've heard of it doing that, but in the past I've had no issue stamping in absolute madness and piles of used rubber and bits of inked paper.
Aaaaah!
We can all sleep in peace tonight. All is right in the universe. :D
Hugs,

Celebrate Summer!

Today was the Dirty Dozen/Dirty Dozen Alumni Challenge over at Splitcoast.
I love playing along with these ladies! Some months I'm not able to, but (hooray) today I had a few minutes to put into a card! :)
The challenge this month was "H20". Christine had us use watercoloring, summer as the focus, and only 2 embellishments (I went with ribbon and half-pearls).

What do ya think? :)

You can check out the whole gallery of those who played along HERE!
Have a great day!

Bright and Charming Gardeners

Hiya!
I got to play in this week's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast! This week, Emily picked the colors Purely Pomegranate, Only Orange, and Brilliant Blue. Whew those are some bright ones! :)
I didn't have any Only Orange designer paper or ribbon, so I subbed in the pumpkin pie paper and Tango Tangerine ribbon.
This Side Kick Saying set is one of my favorite sets ever! It's a retired hostess set from...like 2 catalogs ago?...but man, I'm not sure I'll ever let it go!
I re-stamped the flower image twice more on the side of the original image to get all 3 colors in there.
It's stamped in Close to Cocoa craft ink onto glossy white cardstock, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The flowers are colored in and the words are highlighted with Copics.
So what do ya think? :)

On another note, I can't wait to stamp more often! I'm trying to get settled here in WA. There are so many things to figure out, errands to run (things we've put off during Michael's training in FL- like Dr's appts, homeschooling curriculumn research), church searching. It's a lot of work to get settled into a new place! I'll feel so much better when the last on that list is done.
Church searching is exhausting and I just want to sit still for a while. :)
Hope you're well out there!