Yay!!! Today is the day we've been waiting for!!! The new 2013-2014 Catalog is up and ready to go! There's amazing stamps, beautiful paper, fun accessories and so so so many great samples that will leave you inspired!!! You can check out the catalog here OR contact me if you'd like your own copy! You can begin ordering from the new catalog at noon (MDT). Guess what I'll be doing at noon :)
These one layer cards have been all over the blog land and Pintrest. I think they're great! And it's a great way to just showcase our amazing ink and stamps! For this card I used a bunch of new colors, Strawberry Slush, Soft Sky, Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana! They go so well together! I have to mention that this card doesn't have any dimensionals-I know that 2 cards in one week! I might need help! The local demonstrators in our group know what a HUGE fan I am of dimensionals. They know I ALWAYS have some if they run low (I tend to stock pile them-in the event of a dimensional emergency! So it's a very rare occurrence if I don't use dimensionals on my projects :) 
The card base of this card is vellum. It's make such and elegant card base. The outside layer is slightly smaller than the inside layer. It make is look a little shaded. I love that! For my card I used post it notes to mask the center of the cardstock. Then I stamped all my flowers. Then I removed the post its and stamped and finished my greeting. It's that simple! Go try it!!! 
I sure hope you're not tired of the Mosaic Madness stamp set yet. I think it's going to be one of my favorites! Guess what else I just LOVE?! The new Pistachio Pudding In Color!!! I love this green. It's not to bold or bright it's just the right balance of green! I LOVE LOVE IT. All the in colors this year are amazing, it's hard to choose a favorite! This card was pretty simple and quick to put together. The large label is from the Apothecary Accents framelits (LOVE)! I added some light splatter to that with my aqua painter and some Pistachio Pudding ink. 
I love the greeting on it. Remember that's a hostess only set, so book your workshops or classes today to make sure you get that set!! It's another quick post for me. School has been out a week and we've already been super busy! This may be the summer of the quick cards :) 
The DSP in the new Soho Subway collection is so amazing! It makes amazing cards with nothing else added....well almost nothing. I just LOVE this DSP though, it's so vintagy, the colors are all fantastic together and every pattern just gets better! There was very little done by me on this card. The DSP speaks for itself. The only stamping I did was the 'smile' greeting. I dug out a scrap of paper and stamped it and then stapled it on. How easy and fun!!! 
I did add some torn Summer Starfruit cardstock to the bottom of the number strip and to the top of the faux wood piece. I think it frames the Summer Starfruit DSP great, and I didn't want the edges of the DSP to look 'unfinished' just stacked up on each other. Plus it gives off some nice shadows and adds to the texture of the card, which we all know I love!!! There is one thing missing on this card.....dimensionals!!!! This is the first card I've made in, gosh I don't know how long that didn't have diemensionals. Can you believe it!!!??! I sure can't, must have been an oversight on my part :)
It's a short, quick post today. It is a holiday after all. Happy Memorial Day to my American friends! Today's card is pretty simple, there is some NEW DSP on this card. Isn't is great!!!?!! I got the inspiration for this card here. I loved her card, but I wanted to keep mine simple. This would be a great make and take or card for a class. That's it I told you it was quick! 
I got an order in earlier this week that has some of the new hostess sets from the upcoming catalog. By the way we're only 1 week away from the release of the new catalog!!!! Whoooo Hooo!!! This new banner greeting hostess set was one I was pretty sure I wasn't going to love-boy was I wrong!!!!!! I earned the set free during Sale a Bration-I'm not one to pass up a free stamp set :) When I started using it I LOVED IT!!! The banners are so easy to cut out, it takes seconds! The writing is so pretty and there's pretty much a saying for any occasion! You'll be seeing this set A LOT!!! No joke-I made a bunch of cards and I used it tons-prepare yourself :)
The rest of the card was inspired by Kimberly's card. Check out that fun button too, that's some of our new foam. The button mold is sooooo cute!!! I'm such a fan of the new foam! I've made a whole stack of buttons and flowers. Then when I'm ready to use them I can just color them with a marker, aqua painter or just leave them white! It's perfect!!!! Do make sure to make a bunch ahead of time, otherwise you might be a victim to some drying time! Have great holiday weekend for my USA friends. Be safe out there. 
I know it's been a while since I broke out my new stamps so I thought I'd share a quick and simple card that you could make in no time. These would be great to make a stack and hand them to a teacher, co worker, friend, etc. I started with the note cards. I LOVE the note cards. Half the work is already done!!! I used some of our new DSP. This DSP is from the Gingham Garden pack. I LOVE it!!! 
I punched the label punch out of the front of the card and stuck the greeting onto the inside of the card so it peeks out but when you open it it's still there. Fun!!! To get the ribbon through the edge of the card, I just pulled out my hobby blade, any cutting blade would do. Just cut a small slit and thread the ribbon through. It's the first day of Summer Vacation, let's hope we're off to a good start!
I have one more fun card any teacher would love to get (I hope)! This is yet another Pintrest inspired card :) Of course!!!! I love Pintrest. Where else can you get a bazillion great (and some not so great) ideas, recipes and more!!!! But I loved the idea of this card and used it as inspiration! So let me tell you about my thought process on this card. Bear with me :) 
Because I wanted the window sheet panel on the front I wanted to make sure it was lined on the inside so the writing didn't show through the front, that wouldn't be pretty. So I added another layer in the card. Of course there would be a gift card in the card so I had to have a pocket for that. So in the end I used a 12x5 1/2 piece of cardstock for this card. Score on the 12 inch side at 4 1/4 and 8 1/2. 
So when you fold it, the bottom will fold up, and the top, will fold over that. I added some DSP to the inside panel of the card. The white was too white (I know that sounds silly). I wanted to apple to 'pop' and it wasn't doing that on the white, so I added some DSP and it really changed the entire look of the card. Plus I had ribbon to match :)
So that part unfolds, and the gift card is there. I added a piece of cardstock with sticky strip for the gift card. It's nice and secure so you won't loose the gift card :) There's plenty of room to write.
The last card was my 'girly' card. I seem to always have a girly card at my classes I think this is it for this class. We used the Just Believe set. It's a great set with lots of elements. We used the marker to color the stamp, then added the splatter to it with an aqua painter and ink pad. Just like I did for this card. I think it's my new favorite way to add splatter, I had to figure out a new way since the color spritzer is gone :( 
Can you believe we're less than 2 weeks from the release of the new catalog?!?? Whooo Hoooo!!!!! But there are some great sets that we're loosing. My May class on Saturday was all about the stamp sets that are leaving. I chose 4 of my favorites. The first one was Button Buddies! How can this one go? I just love it! this card is simple and sweet! You could make a stack of these in no time! Also leaving is the stamp set Curly Cute! It's one of my favorite greeting sets! 
The next set is Perfect Punches. This set is such a great set to own. It has images for every occasion and they coordinate with some of our most popular punches. This card could easily be a masculine card just leave off the flowers and add some linen thread and/or our natural buttons. Easy to switch out! I'll have the other 2 cards from the class to share with you tomorrow! 
Welcome to our monthly blog hop! If you just hopped over from Michelle's blog WELCOME! If not make sure you hop around the loop, you'll see some amazing projects! We are only 2 weeks away from the new catalog, I'm so super excited!!!! I can't wait!!!! But as it always is, with new you have to say good bye to the old. So this month's hop we're saying good bye to our retiring stamp sets. For my card I'm using the Forever Young set. I actually got this set for free when I won a monthly contest offered to demonstrators (a long time ago). However I didn't use it until my 10th anniversary class 2 months ago! I might have used it before here and there, but 2 month's ago I fell in love with it and started using it ALL the time! So of course it ended up on the retiring list :( But it also means I get to share it with you today! This card was inspired by Kimberly Van Diepen. I love her vintage style of cards :) I CASED this card pretty closely. I just loved hers why change it! :)
You'll notice that this does say Mother's Day, but this would be a great card for a new mom, birthday or maybe just a Wednesday :) I added a little new product on the card! Did you notice the Summer Starfruit rose? I again used the new clay and molds that I LOVE!!! Once the clay was dry I used my marker and colored the rose. It's just that easy! If you're interested in the clay and molds you can get them in only 2 weeks! 
This card is inspired by this card that I came across on Pintrest. There's one more new product on this card. Can you spot it? It's the button! I've become a huge button fan, but I'm also a button hoarder. I'm really working on it though, so hopefully you'll see me use more and more buttons :) We'll see how that goes.
The end of the school year is rapidly approaching. Logan only has one week of school left! YIKES! So that means it's time for teacher gifts! Of course I appreciate his teachers year round but I always try to give gifts at the end of the school year :) This year it's all about the gift card :) They're easy and when I polled my teacher friends that was the number one gift teachers want. I saw this super cute punched creation on Pintrest, and came up with this sweet version of it.
The worm is simply done with a variety of sizes of circle punches and an oval punch for his head. I do adore his little glasses though! Aren't they just the cutest!!!?!?!? To get his glasses I punched the small circle from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack, then I punched the 1/4 inch (I'm pretty positive it was the 1/4 inch--I made this a few days ago and now seem to be questioning myself--but I'm pretty sure). Then for the sides of the glasses I just used a tiny strip of black cardstock and folded it over the edge of the circle. Just gluing it on didn't work well but when you fold it over it works well. the books are made with the word window punch. The apple is, well, the apple frame lit :) Why reinvent the wheel? 
I added a little pocket in the inside of the card for the gift card. Gotta love the gift cards! 
