CAS Cardinals

Hello Everyone! 
We are on Snow Day Number 4; I am hopeful that tomorrow things go smoothly.  Today I decided to whip up a few simple Thank You cards for some of the students at school.  This is what I came up with~

Very quick and easy, I stamped the Serene Silhouette image in Stazon black on the cs.  Then I inked up the cardinals with a red marker, followed by the branches with a black marker, and stamped it on another piece of white cs.  I inked up the En Francais image but purposefully did not get full coverage on the stamp.  I stamped off once and then stamped image lightly over the solid black silhouette image.  The sentiment was inked up with Stazon and stamped. The red cardinal image was cut out with a Deco Label Die and popped up with dimensionals over the base image. 
I tend to be a very slow stamper; this is probably one of the fastest cards I have made and is very easy to duplicate.
Hope you are staying warm and have a blessed day!

Lee Ann  :)

Supplies Used-
Stamps- Serene Silhouettes, En Francais, One in a Million
Paper- Whisper White
Ink-Stazon Black, Smoky Slate
Other- Deco Label Framelits, Dimensionals, Real Red and Black markers

Poppy Geraniums

This is the second of two cards for the counselors at school; tomorrow is School Counselor Day.  Thank your children's counselor(s)!

I started by coloring the image with markers, then stamping on Whisper white.  I cut the image out with an Oval Framelit and sponged Daffodil Delight in towards the center of the image.  I cut a second oval and turning it into a frame, embossed it with the Oval Holiday ef; I then brayered Poppy Parade ink over the embossed frame.
The background panel is embossed with the Polka Dot ef.  The image was adhered to the background panel and then the frame was popped up on dimensionals and placed.  The bow was made and accented with a Vintage button and a brad.  Finally, the sentiment was stamped in Stazon black and a banner created by punching both ends of the sentiment strip with a square punch.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a Fabulous Friday!  

Lee Ann :)

Supplies used-All Stampin' Up
Stamps-Serene Silhouettes, Curly Cute
Paper-Whisper White
Ink-Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Poppy Parade, Stazon Black
Other-Oval Framelits, Polka Dot ef, Oval Holiday ef,  1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Vintage button, brad, dimensionals, brayer, square punch, sponge

Wanted: MOJO

I seem to have misplaced my MOJO.  Have you seen it?  And while you are at it, if you see any creative bones out there, let me know because I don't seem to have a creative bone left in my body!
As this is the week of Thanksgiving, it seems a good time to ponder things I am thankful for.  I am thankful for my son and our home-that we even have a home and that I have been blessed with a good job. I am thankful that God loves me even though I do such a lousy job of loving Him.  I am thankful that he has faith in me even though I usually rely on me rather than Him. I am thankful that He has given us the ability to be creative.  And I am thankful for this community of crafters/stampers in blogland and at SCS; who knew we could have so much fun sharing with people hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away?!
Now on to stamps!  The Shining the Light Challenge at ODBD this week is to use silver or gold on our card.  Sounded easy enough, but without MOJO, not so!!

Edit-11/18/12-5:50pm
I have been having a rough time getting good pictures of cards lately, so I was playing with the settings on my camera to see if I could brighten up the photos.  Here is a retake of the one above-it may be too bright!  At this point my eyes are so blurry from looking at pictures I don't know what looks good and what does not!

 I wanted to make an easily mailable card, so that meant it would be flat.  I seem to be gravitating to nature lately, enjoying all of the beauty that God has for us, so I chose pine branches to frame my scripture verse.  My background is embossed in silver and my pine branches are glittered with silver Stickles, but it really is not showing up in the photo.  The scripture verse is stamped in Bravo Burgundy craft and clear embossed.  Though simple, I still like how his turned out.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Enjoy this week of Thanksgiving and the official start of the Christmas Season!

Lee Ann :)

Supplies Used-
Stamps-ODBD Worship the Lord, Stampin' Up Watercolor Winter and Sanded
Ink-Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgandy
Paper-Whisper, White, Bravo Burgandy, True Thyme
Other-silver ep, clear ep, silver stickles

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This card is for the Featured Stamper challenge at SCS.

  I just LOVE the dsp that comes in the Holiday Mini Scrapbook kit!  Gray and cream are sooo pretty together. I scored around the edges of the white card base and highlighted the edges of the Pool Party panel by heat embossing it with silver ep. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies used (all Stampin' Up)-
Stamps- Teeny Tiny Wishes, Serene Silhouettes
Paper-Basic Gray, Whisper White, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, dsp
Ink-Versamark, Basic Gray
Other-white and silver dsp, Window Framelits, Simply Scored, Polka dot ef     

A Little Paper and a Fresh Sketch

I had to step back from the Christmas cards for awhile and get back to all things summery and bright and the colors at The Paper Players fit the bill.  I also liked the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week, so used it. 

As you can see, I flipped the sketch.  I got to play with another new stamp set, Serene Silhouettes.

Supplies used to make this card include-

Stamps-Serene Silhouettes, Trendy Trees

Paper-Whisper White, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, polka dot dsp

Ink-Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade

Other-Polka Dot ef, Beautiful Wings embosslit, Simply Scored

I used a Chocolate Chip marker to color the tree trunk and the sky is sponged with Daffodil  Delight. 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Lee Ann :)

Go Team OWH!

While most of the country is watching football( I think it is the superbowl!?), I am working on Mother's Day cards for OWH.  I do not know what is taking me so long to fill a box, so today was the day to "light the fire" so to speak.

First up, the sweet bird from SU's Nature's Nest.  I stamped a Lablanche stamp in Old Olive across the bottom of the K and Co dp I have had in my stash forever and then used Old Olive and stamped the Serene Silhouettes from Sweet N Sassy Stamps above the Lablanche stamp.  The bird is mounted on Certainly Celery and that is the card base as well.  The Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes from SU and is stamped on a Very Vanilla tag and tied to the beautiful dark green satin bow with embroidery floss.
 

Next is this sweet SU set, A Flower for All Seasons, stamped with Memento black and colored with copics. 

Sorry for the wonky photo, thought it looked OK when I took the picture...The card base is SU So Saffron and the layer is Ruby Red stamped with SU's Hello Doily in Real Red.  The red paper was then embossed with a CB ef.  the image was cut out with a Spellbinder and the edges were inked with So Saffron while the paper was still in the die.  This is layered on paper from Cosmo Cricket.  It is finished off with yellow satin ribbon, red gingham ribbon and a button tied with blue baker's twine.

Next up,  Sketch Challenge 107!  Tried to keep this simple and went for REALLY bright!  

The card bases are SU's Pool Party layered with Lucky Limeade.  The sentiment is stamped on Whisper White, which was pre-stamped with a Tim Holtz background stamp in So Saffron.  A few Lucky Limeade and Pixie Pink flourishes and flowers were added to the sentiment panel but are kind of covered up by the organza ribbon.  Sentiment is from SU and is in Pixie Pink.  The dp is K and Co. and is mounted on So Saffron.
Lastly, another card using the sweet A Flower for All Seasons set.

 The card base is Bashful blue and dp is Echo Park's, For the Record.  The image is stamped on white and colored with copics.  It is cut with a circle cutter and mounted on the beautiful die cut from Memory Box, Quinn.  That is mounted on whisper white, cut with a Spellbinder Die and stitched with white thread around the edges.  A wide yellow ribbon is sewn to the top edge.  The sentiment is SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes.  A dimensional to "pop" the image and 3 eyelets finish this card. 
Whew!  Done!  Sorry for the length, but I have been busy, Sandy!!!  Thanks for stopping by and as always, thanks for your comments.