RainyDay Stamper

Last day of the year

Another revolution around the sun- seems to go by faster as I get older!  I am so excited for the new decade, 2020.  It is like we will have perfect vision for this year!

Beautiful You is a stamp set that I really don't use often, funny how we purchase sets and they sit so beautifully on our shelves.  I have a few sets that really do need to see more ink so my goal is to get them inky while I wait for my new stamps to arrive, since I am not going to order until January 3 and then it takes about a week to arrive at my doorstep, I will have some cards to show you.

For this card I used the Bird Ballad DSP again, except for some of the Speciality DSPs, Stampin' Up's papers are double sided.  Normally one side is larger patterns and the backside is smaller patterns or solid colours.    The white pattern on this Daffodil Delight sheet kind of looks like bird footprints to me but it works with this card.  I do love the brightness of the Daffodil Delight with Gorgeous Grape and then I toned it down just slightly with some Highland Heather.

Our beautiful woman is coloured with Highlander Heather blends and with the card I also made a matching candy bar wrap.

Have a wonderful evening and ring in the New Year in style!

 

Happy New Year!

Free as a Bird

Hope that you had a good weekend, it was a bit chilly here but I guess it's winter so we can't  should not complain! Truthfully, I was super lazy this weekend, didn't get my normal chores done but I managed to get some play time in my craft room, and that is all that counts. 

My goal for 2019 was to use more Designer Series papers, no more stockpiling.  I have all of this years papers in a bin and when I was going through the bin, hmmm, my pack of Bird Ballad.  I used it for while and then new packs went over the top of it and it got forgotten.  So out it came and the top piece was the sheet with the larger birds.  Out come my paper snips and voila, how about this cute little notecard.

I used one of our Whisper White notecards and then Balmy Blue card stock ran through my Big Shot with the Subtle embossing folder and then I used the Layering Oval dies to make the pretty bird really stand out on the card.  The sentiment is from Free as a Bird, the coordinating stamp set, and is the only stamping that I did.

Happy Stamping,

Little Ladybug

Are you confused as to what day it is too?  It's Friday but feels like a Monday  as we had Christmas and Boxing Day off, and then all the regular TV shows are off till mid January, our routine is a little skewed, but it is  back to work today.

It is that special upcoming Sale-a-bration set and it is a perfect set for Thank you cards.  Today I used our Notecards, one of the best value items in our catalogue.  You get 20 thick Whisper White (or Very Vanilla) notecards and envelopes for $9.50.  The notecards are a smaller size 3 1/2 X 5 but perfectly mailable and they give you a lot of room for writing.  I used some more paper from the special 6 x 6 Saleabration sign up pack, this one is from Peaceful Poppies and then made two tags with our Scalloped Tag punch that I just realized is retired, darn, love this punch, guess I will have to get the Delightful Tag Topper punch on my next order.  The cute little ladybug is coloured with our Blends of course.  

Have a wonderful weekend

Happy Stamping,

We'll Walrus be Friends

and a masculine Thank you.  Flowery thank you's are easy to make but what about when you need to send a thank you card to a guy?    We'll Walrus be friends is perfect.  I started with a sketch, an oldie from Viva la Verve Sketches and knew I wanted the walrus to be brown or gray so I chose a piece of DSP from the Country Club pack that is in the upcoming Occasions catalogue.  

I love Blueberry Bushel with Gray Granite, the Blueberry brightens up the granite so there were my colours.Using the rule of 3, I have the Gray Granite three times and Blueberry Bushel three times, giving a very balanced card. Add texture with layers and a simple card has a lot of pop.  And don't forget to outline images with either Light Pool Party or light gray to make your images stand out.  

Happy Stamping,

Merry Christmas

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas,

Enjoy your day with family & friends

Play some games, make a puzzle,

Laugh and make new memories 

while sharing some old ones.

It's Christmas Eve

Hope that you are going to have a enjoyable, relaxing Christmas with your family & friends.  And since I am going to be needing some thank you cards that is what I have to show you today.  And check out this gorgeous piece of DSP.  It is from the new Peaceful Poppies DSP pack.  Truthfully with all the papers in this paper, you could just chop the sheets into 4 x 5 1/4" pieces, add a sentiment and maybe some rhinestones or ribbon and your card is done.  January 3, you can purchase it!

So for this card I as usual chose my colours from the paper, so Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green and Whisper White.  The little fairy is from New Wonders hostess set in the Annual Catalogue and then the sentiment is from Love What you do, I wanted a bit bigger thank you than what comes with the New Wonder set.  I have fussy cut the fairy and popped her up on dimensionals after colouring her with my Blends.

 

Wishing you  a very Merry  Christmas,

Hope that you had a wonderful weekend, we were quite mild, enjoying this little break in the weather.  And the best part about the weekend, we have now entered the Winter Solstice, so we are going to be gaining daylight everyday,  only 2 minutes more light today but times that by seven and it's 14 minutes, so in a month that's almost a hour!  This my friends, makes me happy. Ok, I have anther box for your today, it's quite a lovely size,  2 1/2 x 4 1/2 so it's perfect for so many things.  A bottle of lotion or perfume, gloves or like I have used it for, candy!

I used our Thick Whisper White cardstock so it is a very sturdy box and then the beautiful Wrapped in Plaid DSP and paired it with some retired Cherry Cobbler seam binding to hold it closed.  Our happy moose adorns the front with his matching scarf.  As I say, the packaging makes a simple gift so much more.

Happy Stamping,

It's Friday

and the last weekend before Christmas.  Just finishing up a couple of little gifts to give to a few friends.  How about this nifty box

Angie Juda showed us how to make this box on her blog.  It may look complicated but it is rather easy.  I used Blueberry Bushel card stock and our beautiful Noble Peacock Speciality DSP and it really looks festive.  The little snowman from Snowman Season twinkles with Wink of Stella.

The best thing about this box is that it stays closed by itself, no fasteners or ribbon.  Like with any box  you make, I used our super strong Tear & Tape to hold the side and bottom together, Have a wonderful weekend, 

Happy Stamping,

Little Ladybug

It's a really cute stamp set that is a special Hostess set for Sale-a-bration. It has four different super cute ladybugs, a flower, 6 sentiments and a line of tiny ladybugs.  As a demonstrator I got a chance to purchase it early.  So here is the first card I made with this set.  It is for my granddaughter.

I used a piece of Best Dressed DSP that I got from the 6 x 6 pack that is part of the Sign Up during Sale-a-bration freebie and pulled my colours from it.  Granny Apple Green card base, Petal Pink, mats, and Lovely Lipstick & Petal Pink Ladybugs.  Now, there is not a Framelit set for them but they are super easy to fussy cut. The sentiment I stamped in Memento Black and cut out with our Ornate Frames die and matted it on a Petal Pink piece cut with the coordinating die.  I did tell you that this die set carried over right, that certainly makes me happy.  It is a great set, just check out all the frames.

This set fits a lot of different sentiments, you do not have to purchase a sentiment set designed for it, just look in your stash, you will be surprised.  And inside the card

That's the line of cute ladybugs I was telling you about.

Happy Stamping,

 

Christmas Birthdays

Just because someone's birthday happens to be during the Christmas season, they do not need to have a red and green birthday card and they do need a special card just for them.  While my birthday is not on Christmas day (it's close to it) my Mum always made sure that I had a birthday separate from Christmas.  Ok, I didn't have birthday parties with friends as they were always away at their Gramma/aunt's but my special day was recognized-even if it was having birthday cake for breakfast as we were going to be travelling that day.  Trust me, nobody else in my family got to celebrate and have birthday cake for breakfast on their birthdays, so I was special, right! Well, I have a friend who has her birthday on Christmas Day so she deserves a special birthday card.  No red or green in sight here

Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather and Whisper White and even though I used the Feels like Frost DSP I don't think it feels like a Christmasy type card.  The sentiment is from Hello Cupcake, one of last years Saleabration sets.  This  year there are 4 sets that have Happy Birthday stamps in them.  Only seven more sleeps till Christmas and sixteen till Sale-a-bration starts!

Happy Stamping,