Holiday Blitz

I had to make a Fall card for a swap I'm in.  I have to admit that it got me very excited for Fall weather - my favorite time of year!  This is a pretty simple card.  I stamped the leaves in Dusty Durango, Soft Suede and More Mustard and then used the Aquapainter in the same colors to color them in.  I decided to offset the circles a little for a funky look.  I did some paper piercing added the mustard grosgrain ribbon and put it on the Soft Suede card stock with the Sanded background stamp.

Upsy Daisy

Oops!  I meant to post this card AFTER the one we made at Stamp Club (below).  I still don't know what I'm doing in the blog world - I may never catch on!  Anyway, this is my card swap for Stamp Club.  A different way to do the Joy Fold.  The pattern paper is from The Razzleberry Lemonade pack.  The colors are Crushed Curry and Pumkin Pie.

Circle Circus

For Stamp Club this month I thought it would be fun to use all new stuff from the catalog.  So I used my two newest sets - Circle Circus and Teeny Tiny Wishes - along with my new pattern paper Razzleberry Lemonade and the cute new polka dot ribbon and showed them how to make a Joy Fold card.  The colors are Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry and Melon Mambo.  They turned out really cute and the Joy Fold was a big hit!

Circle Circus

I had some leftovers from another project so I used them to make my cards for a swap I'm in.  The ribbon and pattern paper are from the last Sale-A-Bration mini catalog, but everything else is current.  I love the slide from the Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware kit.  It matched perfect with the Scallop Circle punch and the pattern paper.  I used the 3/4" circle punch to punch out the matching center for the flower.  And the greeting is from the new Teeny Tiny Wishes set.

Holiday Blitz

I guess I'm a little excited for my kids to head back to school.  I'm already thinking of teacher thank you cards!  I had a lot of fun making this one.  I colored the apples with markers, using Chocolate Chip for the stem, Garden Green for the leaf and Summer Sun, Green Galore and Real Red for the apples.  After that I put Crystal Effects on the apples and let it dry for the 'shiny' look.  Then I punched each apple out with the 1" circle punch.  Using the piercing tool I pushed holes into the apples to make them look like buttons and added string.  The Spiral punch makes a great 'school' paper look.  And the paper clip also looks schoolish.  Along the top of the card I did some faux stitching by using the paper piercing kit and the the white gel pen to do the stitches.  Such fun!

Wanted

I love the little paisley out of the Wanted set and also the cute paisley paper from the To the Nines specialty paper pack.  The paisley was first stamped in Versamark and then in the Always Artichoke pad.  After that I sprinkled on some clear embossing powder and heated it until it was shiny.  I colored in the scalloped part with the Artichoke marker and then punched it out with the             1 3/8" circle punch.  I distressed around the edge and then used a sponge dipped in the Chocolate ink to color around the edge.  That was layered onto a Chocolate and Vanilla Scalloped Circles (sounds so yummy).