Wendy's Little Inklings

Stepping up to a wonderful birthday!

I've never tried creating one of these cards before.  They seem to be rather intimidating, but in reality they are not all that difficult to create.  All you need is a paper cutter with a separate scoring blade.

The general pattern for this style of stair-step card can be found all over the internet.  The design of this particular card was based on a similar card created by Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Barb Mullikin.  On a Pedestal was used to create the wonderful birthday cake, while the sentiment is from the On Your Birthday stamp set.  

One more Fancy Folds Stamp Club card to come... I'm going to post our wonderful April promotion tomorrow, but come back on Saturday to see what the girls created with paper, ribbon and stamps.

Happy Stamping! 

Just Believe & Folded Up Butterflies

We created this wonderful card at our March Stamp Club gatherings.  It is very easy to make, and has great visual impact. The original version of this card was created by a UK Stampin' Up Demonstrator.  Jenny has a fabulous blog, and a great style to her. 

I have mentioned before that Just Believe is a favourite stamp set of mine.  Here it has been paired with Teeny Tiny Wishes, and the Dot Dot Dot stamp sets.  Jenny's original card used a butterfly stamp that I don't have in my collection, so while playing with our stamps and designs, Colleen came up with the idea of stamping the polka dot stamp on a piece of scrap paper, and then punching it out with the Butterfly punch.  Brilliant! 

This month was all about fancy folds, and I'll post another card tomorrow that features a different fold to it.  

Don't forget... only 24 hours left of Sale-a-Bration!  I have one order waiting to go in, so give me a call if you would like to add anything to it.

Happy Stamping!

Just Believe... with a Clear Block Background

All of my creativity of late has been focused on my scrapbook pages as I'm currently working through all of the photos that were taken in Florida last summer.  Well, that and one of my kids has been pretty sick, so I've been pretty busy with other things.  As a result, I have been doing a lot of blog surfing, looking for card samples that I really like.

Lynn Pratt had a card sample on her blog that used Just Believe (one of my favourite stamp sets) that I just had to try.  Splitcoaststampers had posted a tutorial at some point in the last little while that showed how to use your clear blocks to create block backgrounds on your cards.  Lynn created a background for her card using this technique that I loved.  My card is quite similar to hers, but as usual, I changed things a tad.

The colour combination of Elegant Eggplant, Garden Green, River Rock & Very Vanilla isn't one that I would have ordinarily tried, but it works for this project.  Word Window & Modern Label punches were used for the sentiment, which is another stamp within this set.

I will hopefully be back tomorrow with the first of this month's Stamp Club cards.  It all depends on whether I can get my act together before tomorrow evening's fantasy baseball draft.

Happy Stamping! 

A Sweet Sew Suite Card

One of the stamp sets that I really love from the Occasions Mini catalogue is Sew Suite.  In my business, I try very hard to choose stamp sets that I love, and will use repeatedly on my cards and in my scrapbooks.  As I'm a sewer, (and a papercrafter, and a stitcher, and a gardener...) I know that I'll be able to use this one in the future.  I was hunting around on blogs last week looknig for some samples that I love, and I came across this design on Mary Brown's blog.  I rarely do paper piecing on cards, but I think that I need to do it more often.  I love the effect!

The forms were stamped on Whisper White cardstock and cut out using sharp scissors.  I then stamped them again on three different patterns of Sweet Stitches Designer Series Paper, and cut them out, carefully piecing them on top of the original dress forms.

I added a bit of Rose Red cardstock, and some Daffodil Delight 5/8" Satin Ribbon, and an easy but cute card was created.  Mary's original card included a sentiment on the front, but I thought that I would leave it as is.

Only 8 more days of Sale-a-Bration... let me know if there's something on your wish list that you REALLY want!

Happy Stamping! 

 

Spring Tulips - A Flower for All Seasons

I really like this simple card that I discovered on Sarah Wills' blog recently.  Spring has sprung (although it is supposed to snow tomorrow!), and I love the tulips in this basket.  They remind me that spring is around the corner, and that I should probably plant some tulips this year.  The stamp is from the set A Flower for All Seasons, a very versatile stamp set, and one of the sets that can be found at the back of the Sale-a-Bration brochure this year. 

 
Markers were used to quickly colour the image, which was layered using Stampin' Dimensionals onto a square of Pretty in Pink cardstock.  The coloured cardstock was in turn layered on the punched cardstock using additional Dimensionals.  It gives the card a nice lift.

I have been turning a lot recently to the Designer Series Paper Pack Stacks that can be found on page 175 in the Idea Book & Catalogue.  It is nice to have Designer Series Paper in each colour at your fingertips.  The piece that is layered behind the image on this card is Certainly Celery, from the Subtles Pack.  At $24.95 for 40 sheets of paper, it is a great value.

Only 9 days left in Sale-a-Bration!  Have you got everything that you want?  Let me know if you need something.

Happy Stamping!

Scrapbook Sundays - Gatorland & Flamingos

Those of you that know me, know I LOVE flamingos.  When we were at Gatorland in Orlando last summer, I was happy to see a whole flock of my favourite birds.  They were surrounded by alligators!!!  I was a bit scared for them, but everyone seemed to exist in harmony.  That and I think there were fences separating them from each other.

Last Sunday I posted the first layout from Gatorland, so here's the second.  There are a few flamingos on these pages :)

Tomorrow is Stamp Club day.  It's also supposed to rain, so I likely won't take any decent pictures.  But, I may try with oodles of light sources.  We shall see.

Happy Stamping & Scrapbooking!

Digital Baby Girlie Girl Page

I recently designed a single page layout on My Digital Studio for a friend and his beautiful baby girl.  He's a tad camera shy when it comes to photos, so I've saved it without the photo.  It can easily be printed, the photo added, and then framed in a 12x12 frame. 

After a couple of productive stampy kind of days, I actually have something to post on my blog!  Now, I need to take some photos before I can do that, but at least there's content kicking around out there.  I'll be back tomorrow :)

Happy Stamping!

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My very late March newsletter will be going out tomorrow.  It's slim, but because I sort of dropped off the earth for a couple of weeks, it contains a special draw for newsletter subcribers ONLY.

To be eligible, make sure that you sign-up for my newsletter ASAP by adding your e-mail address in the box on the left!

I've been papercrafting again, as well as doing a small bit of digi-scrapping, so I should be able to start posting original content again shortly.

Thanks for your oodles of patience :)

Happy Stamping!!!

 

 

Scrapbook Sundays - Extreme Gators

Bonjour mes amis!

Yes, I know that my posts have been erratic of late.  I've done a bunch of scrapbooking, but absolutely no card-making.  Oh, and my husband had pneumonia and an extreme allergic reaction to his first batch of antibiotics.  He's on the mend, but it's been a very tiring 2+ weeks.

Tonight I'm posting another set of Florida pages.  I'm pondering the creation of a separate blog for these, as they won't feature a lot of Stampin' Up! paper.  Let me ponder that one for a bit.  In the meantime, here's some Extreme Wildlife that could easily take a bite out my pages.

I'll be back this week with more samples.  Promise :)

Happy Stamping!

Scrapbook Sundays - The Beginnings of the Disney Scrapbook

It has taken me awhile to become organized, but I've finally started working on our Disney scrapbook.  I should have taken a photograph two weeks ago when I had everything laid out on my living room floor.  Paper, photos, and titles were all laid out in an effort to make sure that I had everything I needed, and that I didn't duplicate too many things on successive pages.

This is the first two pages of the album, which will be very stuffed when it's finished.  The Harry Potter scrapbook paper that I ordered last week is on its way, and I'm not certain that there will be enough space for all of these pages to be added into the book.  I don't want it to pop open!

At this point I'm not sure what's on tap for tomorrow's post.  We shall have to wait and see :)

Happy Scrapbooking!