WOW, SIX DAYS.....

.....since my last post!  I've taught four classes in the past two weeks, and this weekend is the monthly stamp club meeting, which I haven't finished my swaps for, yet.  In addition, the grandkids are in town for a couple weeks, and they've been here visiting grandma for the past three days, while their dad is at work and step-mom goes to school.  Needless to say, I haven't had a lot of time to stamp!

However, my granddaughter made a get-well card for her uncle, who severely injured his lower leg with a tree-climbing spike (MAJOR gash, severed muscle, much too ghastly to post a pic here).

So, here's the card, completely made by her own little hands.  (No, the stamp isn't from Stampin' Up!, but most of the materials are!)

She stamped the image in Jet Black StazOn, and I taught her the Magic Colored Pencil (Gamsol) technique.  She did everything!  I even showed her how to use the Stampin' Up! Mat Pack to space the brads evenly.  I think she shows a lot of promise as a card-maker, don't you?  (Yes, I am biased!!!)

Don't forget the sweet deal if you join my Stampin' Up! team.  You can read some of the details HERE.  I'd love to have you be a part of this great organization!

Welcome Baby

It's been a long time since any of my contemporaries has had a baby, so it was with great pleasure that I made this card for a young friend whose baby is due very soon. My son won't be having any more children, and my daughter, who just completed her Master's, will probably go for her doctorate, so she won't be having a family any time soon, I fear. So, I just live vicariously through others. ;-)

I had forgotten I had this stamp, bought from a stampin' club friend. I love that sweet face, and the slightly raggedly look. I wanted a soft feel for this image, and thought black ink would be too harsh, so I stamped it in SU Going Gray Classic ink, then colored it with Copics. After cutting and embossing with a square Nestabilities die, I left it in the die and sponged Barely Banana around the edges.

I pulled the Certainly Celery and Apricot Appeal from colors in the background paper. I started to use Barely Banana, but really think the Apricot Appeal looked much better.

Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal and Whisper White.
Patterned paper: DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl glitter mat stack
Stamps: Image- JRL Designs "Josh Bear", Sentiment- Stampin' Up! Short & Sweet
Ink: Stampin' Up! Certainly Celery and Going Gray
Copic Colors used: E33, E35, E53, YG63, YG67, RV13, RV23
Accessories: Ribbon from My Favorite Things, Swarovski crystal, SU scallop border, oval, and scallop oval punches, Nestabilities dies

Got to Meet a Splitcoast Stamper!!!

Jen White, a fellow SCS member, is in town with her DH and adorable baby daughter (and 2 Great Danes!) to visit her DH's family for a couple weeks. I was so excited to get to meet her, since I feel like I already know her from her posts on SCS. She's so sweet and funny and nice! Anyhoo, we weighed in together at Weight Watchers and then went to Souplantation (fabulous salad bar) for lunch. Next week she's going to WW with me again, and then we'll hit the local stamp stores. Here's a quickie card I made using the same image from the blue Thank You card below. (I usually stamp a couple extra images as long as I have the stamp out.) This one looks completely different.

Cardstock: SU Always Artichoke and Mellow Moss
Pattern Paper: Colorbok Sage Stripe
Stamp: Stampin' Up! "Beary Best"
Sentiment: Penny Black "Salutations" stamped in SU Close to Cocoa and heat embossed with clear EP
Ribbon: Coffee grosgrain from JoAnn
Wooden heart button: Blumenthal
Stickles, Judy Kins Diamond Glaze
Spellbinders Scalloped Circle Nestabilities