Peek-A-Boo Card!

I love how this card turned out! It is one of the samples I created for a tutorial on hand-stitching that I wrote for A Shade of Blue's Blue Heaven E-Zine. Blue Heaven is a subscription benefit from which the funds go to support the site. It is a very small way to help keep the site running.








I call this style of card a Peek-A-Boo card. It opens like a standard card but there is a little card on the front where you can hide a sweet little secret message.



This tutorial is for a future issue. I'll be sure to let you know when it is published!! :-)

Details:
Stamps: Wild About You (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac (Stampin' Up!) Premium White Cardstock (TAC)
Ink: Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Almost Amethyst (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Mega Scallop Square Punch (Marvy Uchida) Embroidery Floss (DMC) Stitched Ribbon (Stampin' Up!)
Misc: Pop Dots

More stuff coming...I promise!!!

I want to apologize for being a naughty blogger!!!

DH surprised me and the kiddies with two weekends away...back-to-back...ok the laundry alone is keeping me away from my stamps...but I have got to get back to business here! Here is a pic of the kids having a great time at Story Land in Glen, NH. We were on Alice in Wonderland's Tea Cup ride.

The kids had a blast, they loved the hotel the most though...it had a zero-entry pool which was just what Zach needed to overcome his horrible fear of the water. Now you'd think he has been loving the water for years, but not so...he wouldn't even go swimming at home with me holding him in a death grip. :D

My Papertrey order came in over the weekend and I have TAC and SU! orders coming in at the end of the week. Plus I have so many other little projects to get done! Ack!!!

Butterfly Birthday

It is inevitable that I get antsy for my PapertreyInk stamps as we approach the 15th of the month. This card uses Butterfly Kisses which is so amazing! I made this card for my sister-in-law. She was an avid gardener until some life events interupted her passion. She had filled her garden with flowers that attracted butterflies. It was wonderful to stand there and watch them flutter about the blooms.

I used Green Galore, Pink Passion and Basic Brown Classic Inks. The cardstock is Pink Passion, and Green Galore (all SU!) The white cardstock is Premium White Cardstock from The Angel Company, it is meatier than SU!'s Whisper White. I like that it lends stability to my cards and other paper projects. It creases quite nicely as well. The ribbon is from Michaels and comes on a wooden spool. I think I bought the ribbon more for the spool than the ribbon itself...I have a project that I need to photograph that uses the wooden spools...Next week sometime for that one though.

We're taking the children to a couple local adventures this weekend. I hope that you are able to enjoy your family and friends and are blessed with what will become happy memories.

"See" you on Monday! :-)

One last sneak peak today...

As I mentioned in a previous post I am hosting a series of 6 monthly ATC swaps over at A Shade of Blue. I am just about ready to swap out the Summer Fun Theme cards and wanted to share mine. I LOVE the way this one turned out. It is a matchbook card. The base is Sahara Sand. I topped the front flap with Tempting Torquoise cardstock and then punched Green Galore with the Giga Scallop Punch from Marvy Uchida. I bought mine at All That Scraps. The mermaid image is from Wildflower Stamps. I stamped her on Premium White Cardstock from The Angel Company and colored her with Stampin' Up! Stampin' Write Markers. I then punched her out (that sounds funny, doesn't it?) with a Mega Oval Punch (Marvy Uchida.) I finished it off by layering her on the Green Galore and pop dotting that onto the ATC Front. I topped it with Orange grosgrain from Stampin' Up!

I love the way the colors pop on this...I shocked myself! I really like how this one turned out! ;-)

Sweet Sophia

Sophia, my almost 5 year-old, needed a name tag for her gym bag. There are three girls with the same 5$, Walgreens-purchased, bag. Go figure! So rather than just writing her name on the inside I made this name tag and placed it inside a clip-on badge holder . It needed to be quick, as we had to head out the door. This took about 10 minutes.
Details: Bdge Holder - Wal-Mart office supply section
Patterned Paper - The Angel Company
Ribbon - Stampin' Up!, Michaels
Stamps - Little Letters (Retired) Stampin' Up!, Alpha-hip (Retired) The Angel Company

Hello Froggy

Hello!

This little froggy is actually mounted to an ATC that I made for a swap I hosted at A Shade of Blue. I am in the process of hosting six more monthly ATC swaps at ASB. We just finished month three which was a summer fun theme.

Details: Cardstock - White (Premium white from The Angel Company) Cool Caribbean & Mellow Moss (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Paper - (Pocket Full of Posies Stack from Die Cuts With A View)
Stamps - Frog (Stampin' Up!) Hello (Papertrey Ink)
Accessories - Flower (Prima) Rhinestone (Target $ Spot) Ribbon (Michaels) Mega Scallop Punch (Marvy Uchida)