RainyDay Stamper

Happy Monday

Hope that you had a wonderful weekend.  I was able to play a bit and had fun cardmaking.  Unfortunately due to our snow storm on Thursday night- Friday morning, UPS was unable to deliver my order but hey, it's coming on Monday so next weekend I will have some playtime with some more new stuff.

Today I have a darling card card made with Hippo Happiness.  I needed a baby boy congratulations card and this is what I came up with.

The striped DSP is from Playing with  Patterns and again I pulled all the colours for the card from the paper.  Misty Moonlight, Crushed Curry (maybe it is supposed to be Bumblebee but hey, I used Crushed Curry) and Whisper White.  The sentiment is from Peaceful Moments. 

Happy Stamping,

Friday The 13th!

I love these days, they always have always have been great days, lots of special things have happened.  And it's Friday, another reason to smile.  

I have a super cute card today, using the Happy Hippo from Hippo Happiness and lots of Purples, we have Purple Posy in the DSP from Playing with Patterns, Gorgeous Grape card base and tag and sentiment and Highland Heather Hippo.  We didn't have a good purple (in my opinion) for  years and now we are blessed with three!  I used Magenta Madness for the balloons and yes, the coordinating dies cut out the hippo, balloons and balloon strings.

The sentiment is from Happiest of Birthdays and it is layered onto a Gorgeous Grape Label Me Lovely label.

Well have a fabulous weekend and I will see you Monday.

Happy Stamping,

More Texture

Did you enjoy the blog hop yesterday?  There were certainly some beautiful projects.  And since I still had the In Good Taste  DSP pack on my craft table, here is another card using it.

I don't know about you but I love this DSP, the textures are incredible.  This card is very monochromatic but I think the texture really makes it not seem too dark.  I love the Way to Goat set and just wait till January, we have more animals coming our way!  

Happy Stamping,

Around the World Blog Hop - It's All About Texture

This month we are celebrating Texture.  I love texture on cards and you can get texture with layers, Heat embossing, dry embossing or Designer series papers.  Well, Stampin' Up has made this so easy with their  annual catalogue with this pack of paper, In Good Taste.

They have taken actual tiles, boards, carpet etc and taken pictures and enlarged them and printed them onto our paper.   First up, I have a a simple card with a plaster type texture.

Whisper White & Misty Moonlight and a few Silver Foil Stars are all that this card required.  Next card I used a different Plaster sheet this type brown based.  I stamped a couple of flowers from Tasteful Touches stamp set and fussy cut them and colouring them with Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody and Cinnamon Cider blends.   A simple label from the Tasteful Labels sets off the sentiment.

Lastly, I have a bag made with one of the Brick patterns. This bag has lots of texture thanks to the Linen thread messy bow, Navy Blue banners cut from another sheet of paper and a couple of gorgeous Blue flowers.

Well that's all for me, Thanks for stopping by and  now let's see what fabulous creations   Teri has for us.

If you get lost along the way, here is the entire list of participants.

Angela Meiritz-Reid - NZ

Tatiana Tobin - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Manuela Geiswinkler - AT

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Mary Deatherage - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Anne Marie Hile - US

Brenda Nelson - CA

Tricia Butts - US

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

Happy Hopping, 

Happy Mail

Do you smile when you get a card in the mail?  I hope that this card makes the receiver smile, and with such a cute dog, how could you not smile, right?

The sentiment is from Tasteful touches stamp set and it is a very simple layout,using Basic Black Whisper White and then Real Red for a pop of colour. 

Happy Stamping,

 

 

Hmmm. winter seems to have arrived early!

Gracious, it's been cold.The nights are below freezing and the days, slightly about freezing and this week that bad "S" word is in the forecast, come on, it's only November!   Oh well, nothing we can do to change it so we might as well just dress warmly and embrace it and remember it is only  7 1/2 months till summer!

So how about a kind of summer feeling card? 

Perfect masculine birthday card using By the Dock stamp set and In Good Taste DSP pack along with Misty Moonlight cardstock and blends.  

Have a great Monday,

Happy Stamping,

Yay, it's Friday

Busy week and looking forward to the weekend.  Today is the last card I have of the week highlighting the Playful Pets DSP pack.  Does this guy remind you of Tuesday's Grump cat?

but he is cute!  Again I have used that fabulous Black pattern for the background with a piece of Real Red that I ran though the Stampi' Cut & Emboss machine with the Tasteful Textile embossing folder.  I also used the Hippo & Friends die set for the label.  The sentiment is from Under my Umbrella and a few retired epoxy hearts finish of the card.

Well, have a marvellous weekend and stamp a little and I will see you Monday with some stamping.

Happy Stamping,

Stretching my colour Palette

Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo and Early Expresso is not a colour combination that I would favour but it works.

I do like this layout, uses up those pesty scraps of DSP, 3 strips 1 x 3 or you can get 4 cards out of one 6 x6 DSP sheet so four identical cards or flip your paper as they are double sided for different looks.  The Sentiment is again from Forever Fern and our beautiful stretching cat is from our highlighted DSP pack, Playful Pets.

Happy Stamping,

Tramp is back

Our super cute dog is back today with a Fancy Fold.  Again I pulled the cardstock  colours from the image, Smokey Slate, Real Red and Whisper White all from our dog.  

The card base is 4 1/4 X 9 scored at  5 1/2 so the card ends up being a regular size 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  I added a 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 piece of Whisper White to the front making our Fancy Fold,  The sentiment is from Forever Fern.  Now the Smoky Slate piece behind the sentiment has been ran through my Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine(which if I haven't told you, is the best, so smooth) and a retired Brick folder.  I didn't think it was retired till I looked up the name of the folder and found the Brick and Mortar folder is totally different than this Brick folder!  Now off to the mail with this card and hope that this card makes my  friend smile.

Happy Stamping,

The grumpy cat

Now I don't know if he is really grumpy but he certainly looks that way to me!  I think he is perfect on this birthday card.

I love the In Good Taste DSP pack, such beautiful papers with so much texture and to allow the sentiment and cat to stand out from this very busy paper I used a vellum circle to emboss my sentiment from Happiest of Birthdays. This year, Stampin' Up only has four embossing powders, White, Clear, Gold and Silver so how did I get Early Expresso?  Just stamp your sentiment in whatever colour ink you want and since I am stamping on Vellum, it dries super slowly, so sprinkle on Clear Embossing powder, heat and voila, Early Expresso embossed image.  This will work with your regular papers too but you just have to be fast and make sure that you start with a juicy ink pad.  Have a fabulous day,

Happy Stamping,