Ink Chatter

Beautiful card from Kathy Winland

My stamping friends are sooo nice!  A few weeks ago I spent a few hours with my fellow SU demo friend Kathy Winland working on cards for the Ronald McDonald house.  Well, "working" is really not the correct word, playing is more like it!  Making cards with a friend for a good cause is a great way to spend time!  I mean we were watching Glee reruns, how can that not be fun!  Anyway, to put the icing on the cake, Kathy sent me this beautiful thank you card!  I love this French Foliage set, it's so perfect for this time of year!

Kathy is a really talented stamping artist. As soon as she gets her blog up & running, I'll pass on the link so you can see her beautiful work.

Enjoy,

Lisa

Happy Birthday Arleen!

One of the best things about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is meeting new people, especially other SU demos.  Today we are celebrating Arleen's birthday.  Arleen is a fellow SU demo and an extremely talented stamper.  I am very happy that we've met at SU meetings and I feel privileged to call her a friend.  Her creations are always gorgeous, she even tackles complex 3D items that amaze me.  I'm not sure I have that much patience yet!  I made he a quick birthday card using the Herb Expressions set.  Arleen does a lot of gardening, she even has a chicken!  So I thought this set was appropriate for her.                                                                   

I used Old Olive for the card base with Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette.  I watercolored the images, then added a few dots of Illuminate Top Coat Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink over the flowers to give them a little bling.  Then added a piece of Old Olive 3/8" Tafetta Ribbon to finish.  I had to keep the layers and accents to a minimum so that the Post Office would not complain!  They sure are getting fussing about thick or odd sized envelopes these days.

Happy Birthday Arleen!  Hope you have a great day.

Enjoy,

Lisa

 

Sometimes it's good to keep retired stamp sets

I like keeping certain retired stamp sets, especially ones with specific themes.  I used the retired Game Night set on this card for a friend of mine that celebrated his 50th birthday on 10/10/10.  His party had a game night theme with two black jack tables and a roulette table with real dealers!

It's a spinner card, the dice moves back and forth!  Cute, huh?  I included some of the words from the matching DSP on the inside of the card.

I also made a Simply Adorned charm insert for me to wear.  Had to have the right accessories!

It was a fun evening, I learned how to play roulette, I had no idea there were so many ways to pick numbers or sets of numbers.  Even though it was play money, I was thrilled when I won with a $100 chip placed on the line between 7 & 8!  Fun!  Although I would NEVER bet that much of real money, I work way too hard to earn it!

Enjoy,

Lisa

RemARKable Holiday Madness Blog Tour - Day 1

Today I have a blinged out Holiday card for you.  I love paisleys, so I just had to have the new Paisley Prints set.  It is so cool! 

I used a whole bunch of goodies (complete details below) from our new Holiday mini catalog.  Did you get yours yet?  If not, send me an email with your address and I'll be happy to send you one.

This is a fancy fold zig-zag card, so it stands on it's own:

 

Here is a close up of some of bling:

 

And here is a close up of the embossed snowflakes from the new Northern Flurry embossing folder:

 

I added a little more bling with a light sponging of Frost White Shimmer Paint and our new self-adhesive Pearls.

Paisley Prints, Sincere Salutations Stamp Sets; Marina Mist, Shimmery White, Old Olive, Whisper White card stock; Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pads; Northern Flurry embossing folder; Frost White Shimmer Paint; Basic Pearls; Silver Tinsel trim; Basic Black Embossing Powder.

Check back tomorrow for more cool ideas.  Click on the blog tour stamp below to go to the next stop on the blog tour.

Lisa

Play time!

I finally had some time to stamp again!  Non-stamping life has has been bonkers lately!  Saturday I got together with 3 of my demo friends.  We each took a technique or new stamp set from the Summer Mini and taught each other.  Here's my card using the new Candle Crazy and Birthday builder wheels.

 

and here is the inside of the card.  Scrapbookers are going to love these wheels - the complete image is about 11" long - perfect for a page border!

The builder wheel Spindle and Spacers lets you use 1, 2 or 3 of the builder wheels.  Paired up with the Triple Cell Cartridge and you have unlimited possibilities!  

I made this card "gender-neutral" by using Kraft (soon to be Crumb Cake) card stock with the new Travel Journey DSP.  And this all paired perfectly with the Birthday Block single stamp.

I'll post the other cards over the next few days.

Enjoy,

Lisa

Sweet Scoops

What says summer more than ice cream?  I LOVE ice cream!  I love this new set from the Summer mini that starts May 1!

I made this card at Diva day, a special privilege we can earn from Jan Wakeland.  When we earn it, we get to go to her stamping studio, do make & takes and then play with all her stamps and everything!  Play time for adults!  So fun!  This card uses the Sweet Scoops set and Island Oasis DSP, and glitter, of course!

Contact me if you'd like to buy this set or any other Stampin' Up! products.

Enjoy.

Lisa

Summer Mini sneak peak

The new Summer Mini starts in 2 weeks, and is it cool!  If you have not gotten yours in the mail yet, please let me know, I'll be happy to send you one.  There is so much cool new stuff, I wanted to do something fun and colorful for the swap I just participated in. 

I love the Favorite Thoughts set!  It has such cool and hilarious sayings, I know I will use it a lot.  The rest of the card uses the Island Oasis DSP and Tropical Party stamp set.  The Island Oasis collection includes the DSP, stamp set, a bigz die to make leis with, little party favor boxes and an Old Olive polka dot 6 x 6 album.  It's all so summery & cheerful!  I had fun embossing the coconut and coloring in all the little umbrellas.  I'll share some of the other cards from the swap in the next few days.

Enjoy,

Lisa

Big Shot cards

Now that the cards are all swapped out, I can share my cards from a recent Big Shot swap.  We each used a Big Shot die or embosslit with a texture plate or embossing folder.  For this card I used the Stampin’ Up! Hi embosslit and the Perfect Polka Dots Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions Die embossing . The Stampin’ Up! Hi embosslit die is so cool - it embosses and cuts all in one pass!  I kept the colors very cool and low key thinking this card would be good for either a male or female recipient.

 

For this card I used the Stampin’ Up! Flower Burst embosslit and the Perfect Polka Dots Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions Die embossing folder.  I took the color cues from the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP (love that DSP!).  I sponged a little Pumpkin Pie ink over the Crushed Curry flower to bring out the detail.

 

This card was made using the Stampin’ Up! Hearts & Brackets originals die and the paisley pattern from the Texture Plates Kit #4.  I love paisley designs, so to make the design more prominent I covered the texture plate with Very Vanilla ink before running it through the Big Shot with Creamy Caramel card stock.  It made a very nice pattern and washed off the texture plate easily!  Very cool!

Contact me if you would like a Big Shot demo or class.

Enjoy,

Lisa

Do it yourself DSP!

I love My Digital Studio!  One of my new favorite ways to use MDS is to make DSP.  I recently participated in a Black & White swap.  SU doesn't currently have any black & white DSP, so I made my own in MDS. 

It was so easy, I opened up a blank 8 1/2 x 11 page.  Added a photo box that I sized to 4" x 5 1/4".  I filled that with Basic Black Soft Flowers DSP.  Then I created another photo box sized to 2 3/4" x 5 1/4" which I also filled with Basic Black Soft Flowers DSP which I converted to "negative" by clicking on Photo Affect then Negative.  Presto - Black on white DSP from white on black DSP!  COOL!  Then I arranged the white on black DSP box on top of the black on white DSP box.  Grouped that and copied it 3 more times.  I ended up with a sheet that looked like this:

Then I printed it on Whisper White card stock, cut it into 4 quarters and I had the DSP for my swap.  All I had to do was add the ribbon and the stamped images and I was done!  So cool!

Contact me if you would like a demo of My Digital Studio.  I'm sure you will love it as much as I do!

Enjoy,

Lisa

Razzleberry Black Magic!

Ok, this is not as sinister as that sounds!  Just a card using a new technique I learned at our SU demonstrator group meeting last Saturday.  This group is another one of the perks of being a demonstrator.  Every other month, we gather in York, PA for a group meeting organized by Jan Wakeland.  We have so much fun!  This time, we had demonstrations of several stamping techniques.  This card uses a technique called Black Magic.  I think it's really cool!

 

This uses the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP that features several of the 2009-2010 In Colors.  In this case, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry.  This card also used the matching Razzle Dazzle stamp set.  Having the matching paper, stamp set, card stock, ribbon, etc., sure makes it easy to create some wonderful paper crafts!  Look for my class list to be posted soon, I'll be having a technique class which will include Black Magic and other cool techniques.

Enjoy,

Lisa