New Cards from Lisa

Introduced the triple stamping technique to Lisa last night at our crop.  She took the idea and really ran with it.  The first card she made she used the CTMH Something Splendid stamp set.

The card below was stamped with the CTMH Heartfelt Treasures stamp set.

The card below was stamped with CTMH Card Word Puzzle (I love this stamp set - the flowers are so pretty and there are soooo many words).

Lisa was also playing with her CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  Lisa started with the CTMH circle cards then cut the bird from her Artiste cartridge.  She put a big red heart on the inside of the card which makes the bird red and the inside of the card super cute.  The wing from the bird that was cut-out from the white card was glued to the red.  Such a simple card that looks great!!!!

Great job Lisa and Thanks for Sharing!!!

Display Tray using Feb. SOTM & Dakota Paper

The February SOTM - Home Sweet Home is perfect for creating home decor so... that's exactly what I did.  I used the CTMH display tray and the Dakota paper pack and here's what I came up..... 

Hope you like it.  Can't wait to try out a few more ideas that I have for this great stamp set.

February SOTM - Home Sweet Home

February's Stamp of the Month is Home Sweet Home.  This stamp set is great for your standard scrapbook pages and cards but consider creating some great home decor projects using this stamp set.

Remember this great stamp set is only $5.00 when you spend $50.00.  This stamp set is only available from February 1st thru February 28th so order yours today.

More Triple Stamping Cards...

We had fun Saturday at the crop making cards using the triple stamping technique.  Check out the cards below...

The card above used the January Stamp of the Month - Happy Valentine's but replaced the sentiment with 'Happy Birthday'

The 'i adore you' card was made using the CTMH Adore stamp set (a great value at only $6.95).

This card is a great example of how to mix and match stamp sets and colors... really, there are different colors.  The colored card stock and heart are smokey plum.  The sentiment, peacock feathers and flourishes are all stamped in black.  The sentiment is from the January SOTM - Happy Valentine's - we were able to get the words to span the colored card stock with no extra effort.  It worked out perfect.  The peacock feathers and flourishes are both from CTMH Circle of Love (retired).  The flourish was lined up and overlayed the flourish at the end of the sentiment - it gave the card just the right look.

If you are interested in the January Stamp of the Month, remember it is only available until January 31st.

January SOTM - Happy Valentine's

Once I finally finish my Christmas cards, I usually have a hard time getting back into making cards - a little stale with ideas.  I admit the cards I have made so far with the January Stamp of  the Month - Happy Valentine's were all inspired by other cards I have seen on-line.  Feels like the creative juices are finally flowing again.

First I've been wanting to try the triple stamping for a long time.  The Happy Valentine's stamp set lends itself so nicely to this technique.  These are my first two attempts with this technique so don't look to close... lol

I love all of the detail with this stamp set so I had to see how it would look once I colored it.

I know brown isn't a traditional Valentine's Day color but once I got started with the brown.....

The white daisy ink is perfect for all of the detail in this stamp set.  I love how rich these look.

My Christmas Card (a little late)

I know Christmas is over but I'm finally catching up on somethings I just haven't gotten to yet....  Below is the Christmas card I sent out this year (2012).

This shows both the outside and inside of the card.  The card base is CTMH slate grey which I scored to make siding.  The sentiment, mice and Christmas tree are all from the CTMH Merry Little Christmas stamp set (retired).

For anyone that wants to make a window card, I will share my biggest hurdle.... don't laugh.  I had all these wonder ideas but nothing was quite right.  Then I realized that the front of my card was the outside of the house and you were looking thru the window to the outside.  Once I finally realized it would work much better if I had an outside of the house and an inside of the house, the card design was soooo much easier.

Clearly the Best: Embossed Resist Stamping (S01E18)

Did you know that embossed images resist ink? Learn this fun trick to ink the areas around your embossed images to make them really stand out!