Stamping With Juanita

March Card Contest Winner

Here is the winning card for the March Card Contest. The card was submitted by Pam Johnson. She will receive 5 hand-stamped cards for winning the contest.

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SAB Patchwork

I have seen several different cards using a patchwork design and the Top Note Bigz die and have been wanting to do one for quite some time. So here is my try at it. The background is Kraft CS run through the Big Shot with the Texture Plates Kit #4. I cut out 1-1/2" pieces of the Delicate Dots DSP from the Sale-A-Bration catalog and glued them to a piece of Whisper White CS. The two center side sections were not actually square. They were 1-1/2x2" pieces. The two different parts of the greeting are from the Congrats stamp set that is also in the Sale-A-Bration catalog. I stamped them on Whisper White CS and sponged them with Night of Navy ink. The smaller tag was then punched out with the Oval Punch and layered onto a piece of Night of Navy CS that was cut with the Lots of Tags Sizzlit die. The finishing touch is some Soft Subtles Eyelets.

This is the last day that you can get the Delicate Dots DSP and the Congrats stamp set. So, if you would like to get either one of these items or any of the other items in the Sale-A-Bration catalog, go HERE to place your order. You can choose one FREE Sale-A-Bration item for every $50 you purchase.

A Cute Little Bag

Here is a cute little bag that Andrea made with the Delicate Dots DSP from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. The flowers are from Polka Dot Punches, also from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. The flower centers are Circle Fire Rhinestone brads. Then she used some Crystal Effects along the flower petals. The flowers are mounted along a piece of 1" Double Stitched Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon. The final touch is some Organza Ribbon tied around the handle of the bag.

Don't forget! Time is running out to get those EXCLUSIVE Sale-A-Bration items. Hurry and place your order before the Sale-A-Bration catalog ends on March 31. You get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item for every $50 worth of items that you purchase.

Patchwork Card

Here is Andrea's recipe for this card:

Paper- Delicate Dots DSP
          Close to Cocoa CS- embossed with Texturz 1 plates
Ribbon- Bashful Blue Taffeta
Stamp- Full of Life in Stazon Jet Black ink on White Velum CS
Sponged around the edges in Old Olive
Chip Board- On Board So Tweet - in Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, and Rose Red craft inks. The leaves where embossed with Glassy Glaze Enamel and the flower is covered with Crystal Effects.
I also used the Corner Rounder on the paper and added Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads to the corners of the tag.

I really love the way Andrea did the patchwork effect on the background of the card. She helps inspire me with her ideas and motivates me in more ways than one.

Don't forget! Time is running out to get those EXCLUSIVE Sale-A-Bration items. Hurry and place your order before the Sale-A-Bration catalog ends on March 31. You get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item for every $50 worth of items that you purchase.

Sale-A-Bration Stamp & Paper and Winner of the Give-Away

This is another project that my DD, Andrea, made for me. This card uses both the Delicate Dots DSP and the Botanical Blooms stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. She also used Crystal Effects on the flowers, even though it doesn't show up in the photo, to give them some dimension. The tag background, Certainly Celery CS, was run through the Big Shot with the Stampin' Up! Backgrounds I Texturz Plates. She used the Corner Rounder punch on both the tag and the tag background and she sponged the edges of the tag with Chocolate Chip ink. The ribbon is the 1" Double Stitched Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon layered over a strip of Close to Cocoa CS that has been torn on one edge. She also used some Earth Elements brads for the final touch to the card. Didn't she make a beautiful card?

Hurry and go to my SU Onine Store to place your order before the Sale-A-Bration catalog ends on March 31. You get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item for every $50 worth of items that you purchase.

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And the winner of the Newsletter Sign-Up Give-Away is Laura Radon. The prize is my Tailor Made Scrapbook Class Instructions, valued at $3.95.

Big Shot and SAB

This card started out as a fairly simple card, but of course I had to add to it. The card background is Not Quite Navy CS. Layered onto that is a piece of Delicate Dots DSP from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog. I used three different Big Shot dies for this card. The leaves were cut with the Little Leaves Sizzlits die from Certainly Celery CS.  The upper part of the tag was cut with the Lots of Tags Sizzlits die from Whisper White CS. And the flower was cut with the Flower Burst Embosslits die from Pretty in Pink CS. The tag background is punched out of Not Quite Navy CS with the Wide Oval punch. I did punch some along the edges of the wide oval. Then I added some veins to the leaves with a Certainly Celery marker. The brads are from the Soft Subtles Brads and the ribbon is White Taffeta.

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The New Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions Folder

I just got this new impressions folder and just had to try it out. I know with some of the embosslits, if using them with the DSP, some sanding with the sanding blocks help to bring out the detail. So after using this new impressions folder on some of the Delicate Dots DSP from the Sale-A-Bration catalog, I sanded it some to bring out the detail. It really looks much better IRL (in real life) than in this photo. I love this NEW Manhattan Flowers Textured Impressions Folder.

The background for this card is Sahara Sand cs. The ribbon is White Taffeta. The greeting is from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set.

If you would like to purchase this Big Shot item, go to my Stampin' Up! Online Store to order it. Check out the other Big Shot items available, too, including Stampin' Up!'s exclusive items for the Big Shot.

Don't forget to sign up (on the upper left side bar) to enter your name in the drawing for my Give-Away, as explained in this post. Tomorrow is the deadline to enter!

Simply Scrappin' project

Here is another item that Andrea made for me. This is a treat bag that she made using the Love Stories Simply Scrappin' Kit. She did add some brads, ribbon and tissue paper to it. Doesn't it look so cute?

For some scrapbook ideas, you can check our my scrapbook album HERE. Look for the Sept 2008 class to see the pages we made with this kit.

If you would like to purchase Love Stories Simply Scrappin' Kit, you can shop for it online HERE.

Don't forget to sign up (on the upper left side bar) to enter your name in the drawing for my Give-Away, as explained in this post.

Late Night Stamper's Challenge #11 - Card 2

 

Here is my second entry for the Late Night Stamper's Challenge for  this week. As I mentioned yesterday, the challenge for this week is to use ribbon. I had seen where someone else had tied another color of ribbon into their knot and loved the way it looked. So I decided to try it myself with this card. I really liked the way it came out. The paper is from the Delicate Dots DSP from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog. For the tag, I stamped with the greeting from the Darling Dots Hostess set then punched it out with Boho Blossom punch. Then I punched out a piece of Not Quite Navy cs with the same punch and layered them together. The background for the tag is done with the Lots of Tags Sizzlit Die. The flowers were cut out with the Flower Blossom Sizzlit Die then layered with some Not Quite Navy and So Saffron cs punched with the Boho Blossoms punch. I did add some detail for the tag background with the Paper Piercing tools in the Crafter's Tool Kit.

If you would like to order any of these items and make cards like this, click on my Order Online button on the right.

Late Night Stamper's Challenge #11

Our challenge in Late Night Stamper's this week is to use ribbon. This is the first card that I did for this challenge. The background DSP is the Delicate Dots and the greeting is Congrats, both from the SAB Catalog. I used the NEW Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions Die that was just released at the March 1. The ribbon on this one is the White Taffeta Ribbon. The tag was cut out with the Lots of Tags Sizzlit Die from Whisper White and Brushed Gold CS.

Be sure to check back tomorrow to see another entry for this challenge. And don't forget to check out the give-away at the top of the page.