Elements of Style Meets Symbols of Solicitude

WOW! It's been a while since I've done my "Julia/Julie" challenge. You can read more about that by clicking here.

The set in question here is the retired "Symbols of Solicitude." I wanted to catalog a current set and found I have no room for it. I remembered I had started going through my stamp sets and was going to make a card with it and then sell the set. I didn't plan to do this in a year like Julie did in the movie by going through the "Joy of Cooking" cookbook. My plan is to go through my retired stamp sets and sell them to make room for the stacks of new and other current ones I have. I need to get more organized. It's not working though. I have too many cards I want to make from other sets and lets not leave out the forgetful part either. I totally forgot I was challenging myself here! SO on with the challenge.

I made this card using the current "Elements of Style" set. I used the "Direct to Rubber" technique. I colored directly on the rubber with markers. Because it was such a big image and it took a little while to color it all in, I huffed on it before I stamped it to remoisten the ink. The image stamped perfectly. I LOVE how the colors turned out. And this image fit the "Symbols of Solicitude" set perfectly!

When I looked at the stamp set the "friendship" image was the only one I ever used from that set. So sad!

My card stock color is Regal Rose but it came out looking like Cameo Coral! Must have been the flash on the camera bouncing back. I need to try to take my pictures with the Ott light and see if that makes a difference. Maybe they should make Ott light flashes on the cameras!!!

The black dots on the edges are 1/4" round pieces of Basic Black card stock. I punched them out and glued them in place. Those edges needed something and that is what I came up with!

It was a fun card to make and it was quick too. Coloring on the rubber does take a little bit of time but this card was done in less than 20 minutes! I consider those "quick cards." If you check the side bar and scroll down you will find a label with lots of cards you can make in 20 minutes or less!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Julia/Julie Stamp Set Challenge 2

Ok, I pulled the next set off the shelf and sat down to play. Now this is a set I did use a lot when it was available for purchase. I kept it because I made a lot of little notebooks with it. I have sat here and thought about if I was going to keep it or sell it. It was a very tough decision to make and I have decided it will be sold too.

For those of you who don't know what the Julie/Julia Stamp Set Challenge is you can go here and read about it. I have made a label for this challenge so in the future you can click on the Julia/Julie label and see all the posts for this adventure!

This little notebook was very fun to make. I love making notebooks and to play with this set again was fun. I mean fun to the point to where I thought I may keep the set!!! The goal in this challenge is not only to go through all of my stamp sets but to remove the ones I no longer want so I can make room for the ones in stacks awaiting a better place to be displayed! Anyway, this little notebook will be included with the stamp set. I will be filling out the information for the web store so it should be in there after this entry is posted. There will be no photo with it right away. It takes a day or two for the web master to get that in the store. But all the info is there and a photo (the same one that will appear in the store) so you can see all the images in the set.

I also made a card with the set. The card will not be included. It went out in the mail on Friday morning. Along with a bit of home that it gets to it's destination on Saturday. But a belated Mother's Day card is better than not getting one at all, right? Now there isn't a lot of thrill to the card. I kept it plain and simple. In real life it has a nice elegant look to it. Sweet and to the point. Plus the writing on the inside would compensate for anything on the outside!

For the coloring on both items I just used markers, no blender pens. Plain and simple. Just stamp and color. I love simple!

This little notebook measures 2-1/8" x 3". Isn't it just sweet? Don't agree with me too much, I may decide to keep the set!!! NOOOOO, don't keep the set! LOL

Be sure to check the web store for this set. It's called "Doodle That" by Stampin' Up!

Thank you SO much for visiting today, Wanda

Julia/Julie Stamp Set Challenge 1

Ok, I headed on over to my bookshelf that holds 3/4 of my stamp sets. I have a smaller one that holds the rest on and a shelf on the wall that now holds my clear mount stamps. They are all over the room!!!

SO I pick up the first stamp in the stack and it's the "Happy Winter" one. A retired set that I decided I would be selling. I went to the web store to enter in the information and I didn't know my password so I had it sent to me and I'm still waiting on that. I'll be talking to the webmaster tomorrow and get it straightened out so the set will be in the store. It's easier to sell it through the store because it figures out the postage by reading your mailing address. It's just SO slick (when I can get into it).

In the meantime I will share with you the card I made, which will be going with the stamp set in the mail!!!

I surprised myself on this one. I actually used every stamp in the set. That was not my intention when I started the card but I was glad I was able to do that.

The base of my card is made using Always Artichoke. Inside I added a piece of white card stock. On the front I have a piece of retired decorative paper from the "Summer Picnic" package. I still have a few pieces of that fun paper left. I'm sure I'll be finding other things to do with it. Hmmmm, maybe my next challenge should be to use the retired papers in all of my cards and get it used up! Do you ever use up all of your decorative papers??

I had stamped the tree on the bottom left of the card and that made the top so empty looking so I took the Snowflake punch and some white card stock and added a snowflake to that area. It's just what that space needed. I used a light blue rhinestone in the center of the snowflake. The card needed a little bling!

The set has some fun little snowflakes so I stamped them above and around the snowman. I also stamped them in the area inside the card that you see when the card is closed. If you click on the photo you will see that in more detail.

I colored in the scarf, buttons and added a bit of Bashful Blue to the words and that was pretty much it. It was actually a pretty quick card to make. This is a set I had used quite a bit when I got it and then other winter/snowmen sets have come along and I have ignored this one. As I was looking at the card this horrible thought came to mind. "Maybe I should just keep the set." I'm such a snowman lover. But it really is time to say goodbye to it. It it's posted in the web store now. There is no photo posted there yet but the description and other details are all set up. Here is the link to the web store. You can always get to it too by looking to the right of the blog in the side bar, it's the first item listed.

Tomorrow is the Sketch Challenge at SplitCoastStampers. I may use the next set on the shelf but I'm leaning towards one of the newer sets in the mini catalog for that. I do need to keep a variety or I could loose interest in the project!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda