Christmas Cards Again

Here is a card I've finished tonight, I used the bells and boughs set from the Holiday Mini last year. The ribbon is the cherry cobbler seam binding and I used the vintage wallpaper embossing folder for the background, and the sentiment is from the Sincere Salutations set. I also used some vanilla smooch spritz on it after it was done, gives it a nice glimmer. I used the sketch from the Stamping 411 site. Thanks for looking
Cindy

Sketch Challenge

Here is a card I made for this weeks A La Card Monkey Challenge. I wasn't able to do any challenges last week, as I was busy doing a street sale here in Aurora where I live, and then this past weekend I went to a class/seminar put on by the wonderful Heather Summers. It was great we did a number of projects, and I learned a lot while I was there. Anyway this is using some retired designer paper, along with the Birds and Blooms die, which will be retiring at the end of this month. I really like these little flowers, but I guess everything has to have a goodbye at some point. I used Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Pretty in Pink card stock, I inked the edges of the flowers in Regal Rose and Soft Suede to give the flowers a bit more definition, I then put them together using brads from the soft subtle collection.
Thanks for looking.
Cindy

skiing snowman

This is my submission for the Friday Mashup challenge this week, which is snowman
The snowman is one of the first stamps I bought, don't remember what company it is from,
but anyway. He's so cute and I love using him even now. I paired him up with Lovely As A Tree, and Sincere Salutations.
Thanks for looking.
Cindy

Scalloped flower

Hi Everyone,
Well these cards came about using the sketch from CPS- Sketch Challenge, I came with the idea of the flower as I've seen a number of them made and just had to try it. Very simple to make using the Stampin' Up Scalloped circle punch, Punch out 5 of them and then scrunch them all up and then unscrunch them and layer them put a brad through the middle and rescrunch the center one and voila the flower is made, I just love the look of them.
They are all made with copy paper and then sponged ink on them the first with So Saffron, and Bravo Burgundy, The second one with Rich Razzleberry, and the third one with Bashful blue and Ballet Blue.
The first and third I added the get well message to them sponging the darker color along the strip of paper, the middle one I used ribbon instead of paper. Also the middle on I used Stampin' Up Cottage Wall DSP. The other two are from my stash.
Anyway thanks for looking have a great day.
Cindy

Stamping 411 Challenge

This is the sketch this week at Stamping 411.
This is the card I made for the sketch.

For this card I used the cupcakes wheel for the image, and sincere sentiments for the greeting.
Colored in with SU markers and used glitter on the tops of them. The rest is pretty simple.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

scrapbox

Hi Everyone, Well this is just the coolest thing I've seen in a while, I was at a convention early in the month of August and we had some make and takes to do. Well I never finished mine until I got home and one of them was the scrapbox. It's is a 12 by 12 scrapbook page made into a box, of course there is a lid to it so it's a great idea for a small gift. I think for grandkids to grandparents, put their pictures in it and a little something extra, or a baby shower, make it so when the new mom gets it she can fill the page with baby photos. Anyway I did the one from the convention and it was for Christmas and now I've done this one The first picture is the top of the box and the second is when it is open, the squares are to fill up with pictures and the center bit is for journalling.

Materials used:
Stamp: Sincere Salutations
Card Stock: Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence, Sage shadow.
DP: Cottage Wall, Just love this paper
Dies: Emboslits flower, birds and blooms flower, and Little leaves
Accessories: glue, sticky tape, pearls and sizzix machine, scalloped oval punch.
Thanks for looking and have a great week
Cindy

Fifth Ave Floral Thanks

These are a couple of rose's that I watercolored, not exactly happy with the results, but I can live with them. I did a couple of more which I think turned out better, and will post when I make cards from them. These two are made into thank you cards.

The blue card is embossed with the Manhattan floral folder by SU and the Thanks So Much is from the Sentimental sayings set. The leaves are the small leaves from sizzix available through Stampin Up, and the sentiment is punched with the scalloped oval punch from Stampin Up as well.

The turqoise one is embossed with cuttlebug folder thanks and then sizzix die cut leaves and the rose, Simple but effective cards I think.

Thanks for looking Cindy

Ribbon Border Cards

After seeing Julie's card with the bunny and the ribbon border, I just had to give this a try the first one, I didn't like so much because I used the slot punch and I guess it made it too big so the ribbon didn't see as nice, or at least in my opinion.

The first card is made with whisper white and pink passion. The background was made using the flowers from the bird on a branch set and the main image is from Embrace life, It was colored in using prisma markers and the stamp was the same ink as the marker I used.

The second one is stamps used from Crazy for Cupcakes, the background was done using Whisper Violet ink and the cupcake is colored with prisma markers as well. Then I used glue pen and dazzling diamonds glitter for the icing.

Cindy