This is the card I made for our monthly club challenge.  We were to use something related to time on our card.  The clock faces were stamped and attached with Crystal Effects to the Soda Pop Tops from the Spring catalog.  It is hard to see in this photo but the piece of card stock with the sentiment is embossed.

Stamps: retired Tim Holtz set, Baroque Border wheel

Paper: Basic Black, Soft Suede, and Very Vanilla card stock

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: Soda Pop Tops, Stripes embossing folder, 1 inch circle punch, Crystal Effects

 

 

 

 

Another card we made in stamp club last month.  I used the sketch challenge at Stamper's Joy as my design inspiration.

 Stamps: Short and Sweet

Paper: More Amore DSP, Real Red Core'dinations, Primrose Petals and Very Vanilla card stock

Inks: Real Red Classic ink

Accessories: Hearts Framelits, Top Note Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Corner Rounder Punch, Real Red Satin ribbon (retired), Dimensionals, sanding block



The last three summers I have participated in an online group called VC_Rocks. This virtual celebration of Stampin' Up! was started eleven years by a group of SU demonstrators who were unable to attend the annual SU convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. It's a wonderful time of stamping, swapping, learning, and meeting new people. It opened for returning members April 15th and will be accepting new members during the month of May. If you would like more information or are interested in joining, check out our blog or home page here. We have had daily challenges these first two weeks to get us warmed up and I just finished the last one this morning. The challenge was to find a photo in a non-paper crafting magazine, select 3 colors and match them to SU colors, then create a card using those colors plus 2 different kind of embellishments. I chose the photo below from Southern Living magazine and matched SU's Early Espresso, Old Olive, and Baja Breeze with it. Here is the card I created using those colors. The design was inspired by a card in an old SU catalog. The Baja Breeze layer was stamped with the retired Linen background stamp and a piece of Newsprint DSP was added to the Early Espresso strip. The two different embellishments are the decorative snap and the ribbon.

My sisters and I get together to stamp once a month and usually have a challenge of some kind. This month's challenge was to make a card from the SCS sketch below. Here is my sister Lauren's card using the Jolly Old St Nick and Teeny Tiny Wishes sets.

My sister Sarah used a retired set to create the poinsettias on the card below. She also chose the retired set So Many Sayings and the Modern Label punch for the sentiment.

I also used a retired set, Basket Full of Fun, for my card below. Card stock used is Wild Wasabi, Brushed Gold, Whisper White, and Cherry Cobbler for the card base. The patterned paper is from my stash. The ornaments in the basket were embossed using Gold Encore ink and Gold embossing powder.

Work has kept me pretty busy the past couple of weeks but I did find time to work on this layout using a sketch from Challenge Masters.

Another challenge from Sketchy Thursdays. I've been working on family pet pages but will be working on human photos next.

I love the sketch challenges on Sketchy Thursdays. I don't always get them done in time to link to their web site, but will eventually get them into my albums. Here's one from several weeks ago: And here's my take on it:

I'm having such a good time with the scrapbook sketches on Sketchy Thursdays! Here's another one I did using some photos I took yesterday. I also took tons of photos of our 3 dogs (American Eskimos) playing in the snow an those will go into my album along with this page.

Another take on a scrapbook sketch from Sketchy Thursday. After examining the completed page there are a few things I wish I'd done differently but it will do. These photos are of my friend's cat celebrating his second birthday with a couple of catnip mice and bag full of balls.

My friend Ellen over at Blinkin', Thinkin', & Inkin' has been posting some very pretty scrapbook pages that she created from sketch challenges and has challenged her readers to try it. So I did. As Ellen said, I would have never come up with this layout on my own. If you want to try scrapping from sketches, Sketchy Thursday has some really cool ones.

This layout is the last of my Christmas 2009 pages and the last one in that album. I like the first and last pages of my albums to be special or unique and I thought these photos fit the bill!

This blog is created to share ideas and projects with you, my stamping friends. I don't know how often I'll be able to add new posts but hope it is often enough for you to check back to see what's going on in my stamping studio. Actually, I was inspired to begin blogging by the challenge cards made by my sisters in our monthly stamp club. Our challenge was to create a Christmas card using non-traditional colors. My sister Sarah chose Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay as the colors and used the ornament punch and Delightful Decorations stamp set from the current Stampin' Up! Holiday mini catalog to create this card:

I was truly challenged to come up with a card using non-traditional colors. I finally decided to use two retired colors from the first set of In Colors from Stampin' Up! - Vintage Violet and Cool Caribbean. The penguin is from the Punch Pals stamp set, the sentiment is from Short and Sweet, and the snowflakes (hope you can see them...they are embossed with Iridescent Ice behind the penguin) are from Serene Snowflakes.

Everyone's favorite card was the one created by my sister Lauren. She chose pink and brown and used the Forest Friends and Hit the Road stamp sets.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like more details on the cards shown. I have more holiday cards to share and will try to post them soon.