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Birthday Candles

Monday, March 14, 2011

This is another of my non submitted cards for the Papercrafts sketch issue. I used a dollar spot candle stamp, stamped it on several different colors of cs then cut them out and adhered them to the cs. I added some Stickle flames and stamped Happy Birthday from Party This Way by SU.

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Tipster Tuesday - CS

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

This is one of my BEST scrappin/stampin tools!!!
It's is my handmade CS sampler ring!
I LOVE IT!
First I bought a sampler pack of all the SU color families.
Then I cut a 2.5x2.5 from each color and labled it, with a code in the corner for color family.
I also did this with the IN colors through the years and my PTI CS!
This way I can match ribbon if it's not on the spool, or find matching PP
or ribbon in the store!
It is one of the BEST things I have EVER done!

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Tessa

Labels:SU,Tipster Tuesday | 13 Loves

Blue Christmas

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Can you hear Elvis? LOL! This is another one of my sets of mass produced Christmas Cards for this year! It is using the SU set Snow Swirled. It is my friend Natalie's - I am so glad I got her hooked on stamping, now I don't have to buy as much! I stamped the larger snowflake in Encore Silver and heat set it so it wouldn't smear then stamped the smaller snowflake in Bashful Blue and Night of Navy. The tree image is stamped in Night of Navy on vellum then matted on Bashful Blue with some silver brads. The ribbon actually is a pale blue ograndy with the silver edges soooooooooo pretty! Simple but again when mass producing isn't that the key? Well tomorrow is our Polar Express Party at school so it will probably be a LONG day! Fun but long! We are wearing our PJ's and the kids have all earned their "golden tickets" to get to come to the movie and have hot chocolate and cookies! They are VERY excited!!!! Stop by tomorrow I have a Hip Hop Hangover post for you!

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Tessa

Labels:Christmas Card,Snow Swirled,SU | 11 Loves

Oh Tannenbaum

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

At school we do a Christmas around the world unit. We visit, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Mexico and of course good ole USA!!!! We make a passport and suitcase and everything! IT is so fun! Well next week is Germany and we talk about the origination of Christmas trees and the German tannenbaum. So this card makes me think of that with the deep green! This card is pretty simple - its another of my mass produced sets! The base is very vanilla with the big swirl from Baroque Motifs stamped in Handsome Hunter. In the corner I stamped the sentiment in the same - it's actually from Snow Swirled and the image is Solemn Stillness stamped in handsome hunter with the swirl in gold and embossed! 3 DIFFERENT sets were used and one's not even a Christmas set!!!!! I CHALLENGE you to try that! Either use a set that's not a traditionally christmas set to make a christmas card or use 3 different sets to make a christmas card! Oh and the ribbon is just some holiday ribbon from Michaels! TFL! More to come!

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Tessa

Labels:Baroque Motifs,Christmas Card,Snow Swirled,Solemn Stillness,SU | 12 Loves

Christmas Wishes

Monday, December 1, 2008

First day of December! WOW! I can't believe it! I am not sure I am ready! Only 15 days of school until Christmas Vacation (oh movie flashing through my head)! Being December it is time for Christmas cards!!!!! I love making Christmas cards! It is what got me started stamping!!!!! I wanted to make my own Christmas cards. This is my third year making my own! The first year I think back and um YIKES! I have come soooooooo far! That first year I made 30 of the same card and I had to sell the stamp set cause I could no longer stand it! So I learned my mistake! Now I make no more than 8 of a design! This year I am at 6 designs so far! Four of them are completely done! Two are cut but still need stamped and assembled. Of course I make some individual designs here and there! Here is the first of my cards for this year! I started with a red base PTI's Pure Poppy to be exact! When I got my order in November I hadn't ordered for a LOOOONG time and had to catch up on several colors of cs! When I saw the PTI Pure Poppy and Ripe Avacado together...OMGosh! I KNEW it would be used in at least one of my Christmas cards this year! Sorry if you get tired of seeing it! So the red base then layered with Ripe Avacado. The top note is in kraft. I stamped the pine image from SU's Peaceful Wishes, twice on it in white craft in from SU and embossed it with white EP. I added a bow made from PTI's Pure Poppy double stitched ribbon - it is my FAVE ribbon from them! I then stamped Christmas Wishes in Ripe Avacado from PTI's Believe set in the corner! Simple but nice! So there you have it! Card one! Be sure to come back for more!

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Tessa

Labels:Believe,Christmas Card,Peaceful Wishes,PTI,SU,Top Note | 3 Loves

Friendship Blooms

Thursday, July 24, 2008

I've been on a card making kick! This is an image I got from PIF. It was in the SU mini catalog and I really liked it but wasn't sure I needed to own the set! I watercolored this by using my SU markers and coloring onto the case of a SU set. You then use you aqua pen to pick up the color and color your image. It's one of my fave techniques. And I think I'm getting pretty good at it! This image however was VERY hard to color! It was hard to tell what was leaves and what was flowers. I went with a purple flower - think pansies - the centers are yellow - very small hard to see. I then matted the image twice and used a double matte for the card base. I stamped the sentiment from PTI Green Thumb in Elegant Eggplant and added some white buttons with some DMC floss that I attempted to color with my SU markers - not nearly as easy as ribbon or pretties let me tell you! But it worked in a pinch! I hope these are posting as we are actually on our mini vacation visiting Andrew's parents right now!

Tools:
Stamps: Bloomin Beautiful by SU, Green Thumb by PTI
Ink: Basic Black, Certainly Celery, Elegant Eggplant, Summer Sun
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Certianly Celery, Perfect Plum, Whisper White by SU
Access: White Buttons, DMC floss
Tools: Aqua Pen, SU markers, SU plastic stamp case

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Tessa

Labels:card,Papertrey Ink,PTI,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,watercoloring | 8 Loves

A Boy's First Hero................

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

..................is his Daddy of course! This layout captures that idea for my hubby and our youngest son, Blake. I wanted pics of Andrew and Blake with him in uniform but Blake doesn't like it cause daddy is HARD (the vest, the radio, the gun, you get the idea) So I took these pics one night after Andrew got off work but he still had his SJPD uniform turtleneck on. I just love how it turned out! I hand stamped the title using Headline Alpha and my stamp -a-ma-jig - if you haven't ever tried one you really should! And have someone who knows what they are doing show you - I love it cause now I can stamp perfect titles!!!!! The journaling is also stamped but it is using Papertrey Ink's Simple Alphabet. I just love their stamps! And paper and ribbon and ink! This is using SU's I'm here Boy simply scrappin kit and a Janurary sketch from Page Maps. Oh and here is a close up of the journaling. It also shows the doodleing around the letters and on the blue stars that I did for some details. Thanks for looking

Tools:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Choc Chip by SU
PP: Blue sheet with letters from I'm Here Boy kit from SU
Stamps: Headline Alphabet from SU and Simple Alphabet from PTI
Ink: Bashful Blue, Certianly Celery and Choc chip (stamp and write marker)
Other: Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, stickers from I'm here kit, Spiral edge punch from SU, kraft knife,

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Tessa

Labels:Baby,Blake,Papertrey Ink,PTI,Scrapbooking,Stampin Up,Stamping on LO,SU | 16 Loves

Basic Grey Blush Card

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Here is a card I made awhile back but I LOVE it!!!! IT is one of my favorite cards I have ever made. It uses the set Always from Stampin Up. This is quite the set! I think it has so many stamps and can be used for several different types of cards! The heart and the bird are more sophisticated while the flower and circle with the a are more whimsical. And the small circle images work with the build a brad! Funny I wasn't sure I liked it when I first saw it but I kept coming back to in and then I checked out the gallery at SCS and that was it! I HAD to have it! This card features the heart image which just BEGS to be embossed. So I stamped it in choc chip and very quickly poured clear EP on it and luckily it worked - I need to invest in some of the craft ink pads - maybe the spots! The image is stamped on very vanilla cs for a softer feel. It is then double matted on two pieces of BG Blush pp - I love how they look all distressed and painted! I did distress the edges of all three more with my Tim Holtz distressing tool - love that thing! For the rest of the card I started with a very vanilla base and on the top used a piece of pretty in pink cardstock that I ran through my sizzix big kick using the Birds and swirls cuttlebug folder. The bottom is another piece of BG Blush pp. In the middle I put a strip of striped BG blush paper and added a little ribbon ~ cause you ALWAYS need a little ribbon! When it came to placing my image I COULD have put it in the middle but I try to remember the rule of thirds and went with off to one side. That is one of my biggest tricks - rule of 3 and thirds. Doesn't ALWAYS work but pretty good standby! Thanks for looking!

Tools
Stamp: Heart image from Always by SU
Paper: All PP from Blush by Basic Grey, CS - Very Vanilla and Pretty in Pink by SU!
Ink: Choc Chip by SU
Other: Birds and Swirls CB Folder, Clear EP, Heat Tool, Choc Chip Taffeta Ribbon by SU, Distressing Tool by Tim Holtz

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Tessa

Labels:Basic Grey,card,Embossing,Love,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,Valentines | 11 Loves

Try a Technique Tuesday - Polished Stone

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

This is a super cool technique that I first saw done by my friend Jac! We then did it at club and it is soooooo easy and so cool looking. The card I have for you we also did white embossing and so it's extra special. Check out this: Polished Stone for the "original" technique using metallic ink. This card is using this technique: Magic Snowflake which is similar to Polished Stone but uses glossy cardstock, and you emboss your image in white first and then do the polished stone over the image which after wiping "magically" appears! (note: SCS tutorial says to emboss again after dabbing with cotton ball - can just wipe off) This is just so fun and can be a really intense background or very subtle like shown here!

To do this stamp a solid image in white craft ink on glossy cardstock and emboss with white EP (or I guess clear would work too). Take a cotton ball and partially soak with rubbing alcohol then put a dot of each ink you want to use and dab onto cardstock - repeat and swirl and such to hearts content. Let dry a few seconds (dries super fast) then wipe off image with paper towel - ink doesn't dry on embossed image. Trim to desired size, use to create card! Viola!

Tools:

Cardstock - SU Glossy White, Blue Bayou

Stamps - Heartfelt Thanks

Ink- Craft White, Blue Bayou stamp pad and Reinker, Soft Sky Reinker, River Rock Reinker,
Ribbon - Double Stitched Soft Sky

Other - White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Ribbon Slide from Pewter HP hardware

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,techniques | 2 Loves

Try a Technique Tuesday - Rock and Roll

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The first new technique I have for you is Rock and Roll! I read the tutorial at splitcoast and then we did it at club too!

The rock and roll technique is pretty simple but hey - anything that takes stamping to the next level is good right? Here is the link the the tutorial at SCS. Rock and Roll

You need a solid image stamp to do this. I chose the set True Friend. I love that set - even better that it is die cut!
I did the big medallion. Ink up your lightest color first - here groovy guava - then you roll the edges in the other color - I chose Close to Cocoa. Super simple!

So then I decided to do another image and make a card! I used the tri-flower and just did the tips. The card base is River Rock, then a layer of groovy guava corners punched with my CM fancy corner punch, then some Apple Cider DP (love it hope it comes out in fall catty) punched with SU's ticket corner punch. In the bottom right corner I used a sentiment from Simple Delights and stamped "Just Because You're You" in Close to Cocoa - I love that saying! I punched out the image with my PINK Marvy oval punch and layered it on a close to cocoa piece punched out using the PURPLE Marvy scalloped oval punch. I added my ribbon by punching a hole and threading it through then tying a bow I used Groovy Guava stitched ribbon. I just love this year's in colors! What am I going to do when they retire????????? Thanks for looking!

Tools:
CS: River Rock, Close to Cocoa, Groovy Guava - SU
DP: Apple Cider - SU
Punches: CM Fancy Corner, SU Ticket Corner and tiny hole punch, Marvy Oval and Scalloped Oval
Ribbon: Groovy Guava Stitched - SU

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,techniques | 5 Loves

Movin on up!

Monday, April 7, 2008

I made this card for my PPPM friend Anna. She just recently bought her first home! She's been moving and packing and painting and unpacking and all that goes with moving. JOY! I want to move soooooooooooooo bad. Maybe we will get that accomplished this summer! Anyhoo - I used my SU Neighboorhood wheel for this card and watercolored it by smooshing ink pads. I also got to use my new striped ribbon from a ribbon swap on SCS! I love getting ALL the ribbon - but not paying TONS of money! Card base is bashful blue, image mounted on groovy guava. Sentiment is from Warmest Regards I belive.

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU | 3 Loves

Blake's Announcement

Sunday, December 9, 2007

When I saw the I'm here set by Stampin Up I knew that it would be mine and I would use it for my announcements. The card is a tri-fold that I got the idea from someone on SCS. The middle sentiment is only attached to the left side so that it will open. I totally cheated and bought the cards premade at HL with velum envelopes. I need to take a picture/scan of the inside and post it as well!
Details:
Paper: bashful blue and choc chip from SU
Ink: bashful blue and choc chip from SU
Ribbon: Brown ribbon that Heather (chris1josh2) sent me for Birthday club.
Stamps: I'm here from SU

Labels:Baby,Blake,card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU

Lost my Mojo

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

So, since I went back to work (Kindergarten teacher) I have had zero, zip energy or even desire to create! Could of had something to do with being 8 1/2 months pregnant! But Blake is here (check back for his announcement) and I have energy again and I'm on maternity leave which means I have time! I have been working on getting my little scrap area tidied up and organized so that I might actually have a work surface and pretty much accomplished that still some work to be done. So last night I sat down to make a card for one of my preggo friends on SCS cause I am way behind on getting those cards out! However, nothing, nada, nunca ideas came to my brain. Oh NO! I suspected this since the other day I had downloaded the free digital card kits by Nichole over at Papertrey and was unable to come up with anything then either, I blamed that one on being intimidated by all the incredible projects in the gallery. But now I was wondering had I lost my mojo? My creative juices were they gone? If a person goes so long without crafting do they lose their ability? YIPES I was introuble! So I thought what can I do to get my juices flowin again? Hmmmmmmm I know how about a SCS challenge! I love sketches and sketch challenges usually get my ideas flowing cause they give you the layout you just add the creativity. So I went to last weeks challenge SC145 and it was a very simple yet really cool sketch! That was all it took and I made two cards last night and used a bunch of different techniques! So now I am geared up and ready to go. I even printed off some elements from one of Nichole's digital kits for a birthday card for one of my birthday club girls! But that's another post so check back then, and in the meantime tell me what YOU do to get the juices flowin!

So here is one of the cards I made.
I used Polka Dots and Paisley from SU! I just LOVE this set! I used a Kalidescope pad that I bought at HL along with Wild Wasabi and Purely Pomegranate. Used some hardware and ribbon to attach the sentiment and put stickles on the dotted strip. This will be going to someone in my birthday club on SCS!
Details:
Paper: white cardstock, purely pomegranate, wild wasabi from SU!
Ink: Kalidescope pad from HL, purely pomegranate and wild wasabi from SU!
Accessories: Square paperclip and ribbon from ????, Stickles
Stamps: Polka Dots and Paisley by SU!

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU

Birthday Candles

Tipster Tuesday - CS

Blue Christmas

Oh Tannenbaum

Christmas Wishes

Friendship Blooms

A Boy's First Hero................

Basic Grey Blush Card

Try a Technique Tuesday - Polished Stone

Try a Technique Tuesday - Rock and Roll

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Lost my Mojo

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