It’s almost 1/2 way through the year and here’s my first Christmas card! Usually I try to make a couple holiday cards every month, but I haven’t been able to do that this year. I’ll just have to do a marathon session in July or whenever I can get some time to crank out some cards. I love making holiday cards, so it shouldn’t be difficult!
Don’t forget this week’s challenge at Michelle Perkett’s Challenge blog – Flowers Galore!
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Supplies:
Michelle Perkett Studio rubber stamp available at Faerie Song Art Stamps
P K Glitz glitter and embossing powder
Tacky Tape
Clean & Simple Stamping sketch FTL140
There’s this new blogging event thing that Shimelle is starting called “10 things”. It looks like fun and I couldn’t resist joining in!
On the 10th of the month you’ll find a list here from me about some 10 things. 
To start it off, I’ll make a list using one of the latest cards that I made that I really am happy with! It’s a new Ippity Stamps set called New Season, New Wonder. A super cute and versatile 6 image set that is all fruity! Take a peek:
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Supplies:
Ippity Stamps, IPK-148 New Season, New Wonder
Ranger ink & embossing powder
Spellbinders dies
My Mind’s Eye paper
Ribbon
Mojo Monday 194 sketch
Play Date Cafe Challenge 84
Unity Tooty Fruity Challenge
Now my 10 Things list on why I love this card:
- the colors! so spring-y and bright!
- the stamp images themselves, so cool! Love that distressed look
- I used clear heat embossing powder on the fruit
- that cute mini gingham bow is so cute!
- gotta love those Mojo Monday sketches!
- gotta love My Mind’s Eye patterned paper!
- Spellbinders dies are indispensable
- I used paper scraps, woohoo!
- it’s easy to duplicate
- because it is just plain SWEET!!
I joined a couple more Artist Trading Card (ATC) swaps at Rubber Stamp Chat last month. Here are the ones that I made for the Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz and Horse themed swaps. The Alice stamps are from Lost Coast Designs, the witch and horse stamps are from Starving Artistamps.
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It’s that time of year again when graduation ceremonies are cropping up everywhere, summer is coming and the end of the school year is in sight.
I love this school house digital stamp from The Stamping Boutique! You can do so much with it! I’ve used it here for my graduation card.
I used lots of circles since that’s the next challenge at TSB. Circles on patterned paper, cut out of paper, embellishments or even the shape of the card – USE CIRCLES and lots of them!
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Supplies:
The Stamping Boutique digital stamp
Copic markers
My Mind’s Eye paper
P K Glitz embossing powder
Ranger ink
Chipboard and Fiskars dot embossing plate
My Mind’s Eye Blog challenge #23
The Stamping Boutique Blog challenge #6
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Here’s an Ippity Stamps only card. It’s a simple one using this week’s Card Positioning Systems Sketch and Play Date Cafe’s colors.
I heat embossing the chandelier in clear, inked with the metallic ink then rubbed the ink off of the embossed image. Voila!
Supplies:
Ranger embossing ink and powder
Tsukineko Encore metallic ink
Ribbon
CPS sketch 211
Time for an ATC (artist trading card) update. My ATC club is meeting this weekend, so I needed to prepare my ATCs for this month. The theme is “hearts” – so many different possibilities!!
I decided on a super cute Unity stamp, heat embossing, an awesome new heart corner punch, baker’s twine and WOOD! YES, the tree trunk is real WOOD! Isn’t that cool??
and some Unity rubber stamps!
Here are some projects that I’ve shown on my sister blog, Ippity Stamps over the past couple of weeks.
Hope you like them!
I love making cards!
It’s Virtual Stamp Night this past weekend on Splitcoast Stampers, so I thought that I would indulge myself in some stamping just for the fun of it.
So, VSN has various challenges under this month’s theme of You Make My Heart Sing. The hostesses are extremely creative with their challenges all relating back to the main theme. Great job ladies!
Here is another card to see!
Supplies:
Stampin’ Up! Pinch Proof rubber stamp set
P K Glitz embossing powder
Ranger embossing ink
Border punch, epoxy stickers, ribbon
Mojo Monday #180
FEB11VSNM challenge
Some products mentioned on this blog have been provided to me by the vendors mentioned in the supply lists.
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