Praying for you

This is a quick card that I put together using the set Thoughts and Prayers that I showed my mounting solution to in my last post.

I'll be making multiples of variations these for the church card ministry, so I needed them to be fairly simple and gender-neutral. I love the colors and patterns in this pack of paper - ETA - the name of the paper is SU's Bella Bleu. It has very calm colors with an upscale, decadent feeling.

The buttons are from Stampin' Up's Button Latte collection and they have paper "strings" in the button holes. The ends are tacked down on the back with a glue dot and then another dot to attach the button to the card front.

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From double-mounted to single

This isn't to say that I'm not irritated that I had to spend additional money to have my stamps single-mounted, but since Stampin' Up has promised NOT to double-mount sets other than alphabets/numbers, I've decided to just move on and deal with it.

This post doesn't even have any stamping in it, other than what I stamped on the blocks. I stamped on the blocks to show the full-size image, because when SU double-mounts a set, they give you labels that are more what I'd consider to be indexes, rather than full-size, since both sides of the block are covered with a stamp, leaving no room for a full label. You can see these little labels at the top of the picture immediately below.
The photo above is the set as it's mounted single-sided. To have enough blocks to mount them, I resorted to hitting the clearance section at Michael's and the Dollar Tree's stamp section.

The cheapest, largest stamp that I found to plunder was marked down to $3.99. Considering that I thought it unlikely I'd use the set nearly as much with the double-mount setup, I think the $3.99 was worth it. If I'd looked longer/other places, I might have brought my price point down further, but was it worth it to waste gas/time on that? Didn't seem like it, so I bought my stamp, took it home and sanded the other stamp's image off the block and peeled the stamp off the other side. This left me with a great block, ready to mount to.

I got out my Stazon permanent ink, laid out the tree image,

inked up the rubber

and carefully pressed the new naked wood block onto it. I repeated this process with the branch stamp as well. Once they were stamped, I mounted them like I would normally. I did this with the rest of the set as well.

Some of the other stamps could just be separated out among the provided blocks by cutting them in half, and others were mounted onto other dismantled stamps that I'd bought previously at the Dollar Tree store.

I marked where the block should be cut, and Ky cut them apart on our chop saw. I sanded the edges with a sanding block which is a sand paper adhered to a sponge so that it can follow contours - I like them because they don't have to be plugged in and are very low tech and user friendly.

It's better that you not have to deal with purchased stamps this way, but if it will help you use your sets, do what you need to to make them work for you!

Quickie birthday card

I showed you the card I had ready for my goddaughter's birthday, but when we bought the presents, they wrapped them for us, and they were done in primary colors. Hmmm ... that didn't go with my original pink/brown/orange color scheme.

Sooo, I whipped up a card for the new color scheme using Washington Apple designer series paper from Stampin' Up and paired it with the hostess set Window Dressing from last catalog.

The sentiment is from the set Big Birthday Candle, and it shows through using the Word Window Punch. I covered up the "to" from 'to you' with a little touch of ribbon because it just barely showed (and I didn't want it to).

The window is raised up on dimensionals and to make it look like it took longer, I added some layers and finished it up. Then I ran out the door to the party!!

Hope you're having a good weekend and spending time with those you love. :)

Wagon card

This first photo has better color because I took it this morning in more natural light. It's the one you'll want to look at for the most true color representation. :)

I was blog hopping and saw this little Easter wagon. Unfortunately, I don't know who's special enough to get this, for the amount of time it took to make it! :) I'm wondering if I shouldn't frame it and enjoy it that way.

I used the set A Good Egg for the eggs and chicks. The paper is Delicate Dots (item #114674)- a free Sale-a-bration set w/ $50 purchase. It's a huge pack of paper for a freebie! You still have time to earn some of this paper for yourself through the end of March, but then it's gone! You can visit my demonstrator website to shop online day or night, and with $50 purchase you could pick this free paper up for yourself. Just click on shop now to enter your order.


Not sure why the color is so off between these two pictures taken at the same time with the same camera, but they allow you to see some of the egg detail anyway.

Here you can see one of the wheels and some of the glittered and punched details. The buttons are not Stampin' Up. I'm not sure where they're from ...

Thanks for looking!

Simple birthday card

This card was paper-pieced using the set Simple Birthday Thanks. If you've seen it in the catalog, you'll recognize that it usually has a simple thank you note for kids' use in the middle of the cupcake base. When paper piecing, that part wasn't necessary. I colored the edges with markers so that I only go the outline to cut around. The designer paper used on this card is called Tea Party, and it has such wonderful springy colors.

I used my paper crimper on the base, added some glitter and Crystal Effects to the frosting and cherry and called it done!

The ribbon on this card is from the Sale-a-bration ribbon bundle (item 114618) and it is SUCH nice ribbon. You still have time to earn some yourself through the end of March, but then it's gone! You can visit my demonstrator website to shop online day or night, and with $50 purchase you could pick this ribbon up for yourself. Just click on shop now to enter your order.