Ain't Love Grand

I had spent the early years of our sons life preaching to him NOT to ever use the word "ain't."  We told him that it doesn't make you sound very intelligent if you use that word.  I even had an English teacher that preached at us as students to never use the word and reminded us that it is not even a word!!  And here it is on my stamp set!!  Well, "ain't" that interesting?!?  LOL

This is a very fun set to play with though.  It is a hostess set that is retiring at the end of the month. I have only used two of the images in this set.  Which is too bad.  I thought it was such a cute set but I just never got around to using it much.  I had too many other sets to play with!  So in a week or so you will be finding this set in my web store. I will be adding some more of my clear block sets to the store soon too.  I need to get them off my self to make room for more new ones.  

I thought I would try my hand at making a get well card.  I don't have many on hand and I figured the more I had on hand the less I would need them (according to Murphy's Law!).  

The base of my card is white.  The next layer is a piece of black card stock and then another piece of white on top of that.  I used one of the embossing folders to give it some texture.  Then I stamped and layered the image.  I colored it and set it in place on top of the layers using some Dimensionals.  

I tied a piece of black ribbon around the black and white layer before I had taped it in place.  Oh and I used some decorative paper for the colored strip on the left and under the image.  I'm not fond of how it looked under the image.  I think I would have been better off using a piece of coordinating card stock instead.  But what's done is done and I'll know better the next time, right???  

I do like this layout.  It allows you to use some of the smaller images and yet have a nice looking Clean And Simple (CAS) card.

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Fun Fold Friday Easy Events

I would like to add one more card using the very fun fold that I showed you on Wednesday.  And speaking of Wednesday, I didn't even get a chance to play with Split Coast Stamper's Sketch Challenge.  I did print it out and it's somewhere on my messy desk!

This card was made by a very fabulous and talented stamper (and wonderful friend) Ann.  She needed to make some thank you cards and this is one of them she came up with.  I am SO loving this fold.  Terri always comes up with some fun fold cards. 

The measurements to this card can be found here.  It's a very easy card to put together.  Ann even simplified it more by not adding two layers to the side panel or the ribbon and I think it looks wonderful either way!

I want to wish you all a very fun and safe holiday weekend!  For those of you who are staying home.  Be safe, have fun stamping and watch out for paper cuts!!! LOL

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Easy Events Baby Shower Card

I had gotten some requests for measurements on yesterdays card so I thought I would make another card and measure as I go.  I needed to make a baby shower card for my husband's great niece.  Yup, he's going to be a great-great uncle (again!).  And no, he's not really that old!!  His sisters are 17 years older than he is so there's bound to be some generation gaps there! 

So to make this card you need to cut your card stock as follows:

Take a piece of card stock cut 5-1/2” x 4-1/4”.  Score it in half on the long side (your score line is 4-1/4” long). 

Cut the front flap off at 1-3/4”. 

The layer behind the decorative paper is cut 2-3/8” x 5-3/8”

The decorative paper is cut 2-1/4” x 5-1/4”

Put those two layers together and tie a piece of ribbon around the bottom.  Then tape that piece to the front of the card.

The flap is cut 3” x 6” and score it on the long side.  Fold the 3” score. 

Decorate your card as you wish.  Today I used the duck from the Easy Events set.  So there you have it, now get to work on it!!!

Check out yesterdays card to see what the inside looks like.  On this card I used Petite Pairs and the words are "welcome baby."  I still need to stamp the duck on the front of the envelope and get a gift card!  But now I have my card done early!  I have one birthday and one anniversary next month and maybe I should get those cards done early too!!!  Wouldn't that be nice to be ahead of the game?

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Very Vermillion

 I don't know what goes in cyber space between my computer and Blogger.  My photos are sometimes sideways and the second photo here is actually upside down.  It reminds me of Star Trek when they would go through the teleports and come out on the other side the same as they left.  I wonder if these images make that noise before they are visible on the web page!!! LOL  

I have tried a couple of times to get that second photo to turn out right but I just couldn't get it to flip.  So just tile your head until you are looking at it upside down!!! UGH!

This is one of the cards that we made at Terri's Stamp-a-Stack.  I really loved the decorative paper that was used here.  I believe it is from the "Well Worn" pack.  One of my masculine favorites.

The card stock colors used here are Early Espresso, Cajun Craze and Very Vanilla.  I do have this bird image and I have used it a couple of times.  I think I will hang on to it for a little while longer.  I just have not played with it enough!  

This card is not only pretty but look how fun it is when you open it!

I didn't stamp anything on the inside of mine because I wasn't sure what occasion I wanted to use it for.  I'll just add the wording when I know.

This is a very quick card to make too.  Not just because all of the stuff was cut for me in advance, but because it went together so easily.  Isn't this a wonderful masculine card.  

Thank you SO much for visiting today,

Wanda

A Stamp-a-Stack Birthday!

Today’s card comes from Terri’s Stamp-a-Stack I went to last week with my sister.  We always have a great time at those.  She is now hooked on them and can’t seem to get enough of them.  She actually arranged her schedule so she can attend them!!!  She’s not only funny but dedicated!!! LOL

The set used here today is “Fox & Friends”.   I don’t have this set and that is another reason why Stamp-a-Stacks are great.  You get to play with stamp sets you don’t own!  I didn’t order it this time around either.  I don’t have any little kids around and I didn’t see myself using it very much.  But it was fun to play with it Thursday night.

I have a few more cards to show you from the Stamp-a-Stack.  I have some of my own that I want to make and show to you first though!!  But I promise I will share the ones from Thursday night with you.

Well, I'm off to spend a few minutes on a project I've been working on a bit at a time.  And of course I will share it with you!!

Thank you SO much for visiting today!
Happy Stamping,
Wanda

Bye Bye Baroque Motifs

I have had a lot of fun with the Baroque Motifs stamp set.  From wedding cards to just fun beautiful and elegant cards.  I'm not sure if I'm going to part with the set right away though.  But time will tell, won't it?

For this card I used Pacific Point for the base and on the circle behind the computer generated words.

On top of the base card stock is a piece of brushed gold card stock.  I also used the brushed gold on the round scallop.

I used the Dotted embossing folder and white card stock for the next layer.

On top of that layer is the Cherry Cobbler and the gold embossed Baroque Motif image.

The butterfly was set in place with Dimensionals and 3 pearls were added.  This was a very fun and easy card to put together.  This would also be a pretty wedding, anniversary, sympathy and get well card too.

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything set is one I have hardly used too.  I saw a card much like this at Terri's Stamp-a-Stack and of course I took a photo of it.  I do that for future reference.  I have thousands of photos on my computer of card samples and I often wonder how far into the future I was thinking when I took all of these photos!!! LOL

So since Thursday was only 3 days ago and I'm making the card, I think I'm doing well.  The set hasn't retired yet so I'm doing well there too!  Many of those stamp photo images are of cards that the sets have retired.  Some I still like to look at for reference for a different set but I never get around to making the cards.  Today I thought I would make this one and delete the photo from my phone!  

I didn't have the same decorative papers but I did find some that were close in color and colors I liked and wanted to work with!  Here I used Old Olive and Calypso Coral.  I added a piece of chocolate ribbon on top of the seams to hide them.  

The base of the card is Chocolate Chip with a layer of white card stock on top of that. Then the decorative papers were added.

I stamped the image on white card stock.  I used markers and colored in the image.  The "Direct to Rubber" technique.  And I did the same with the bird.  I huffed on the images and stamped them.  I punched out a flower for the tree.  I set the flower on a foam mat and took the end of an ink pen and rolled the pen around the center of the flower until the flower started to spin a little.  Once it does the spin thing I know it's curled up on the sides.  I set it in place and added a tiny pearl in the middle.  I stamped the words on (but don't look too close, they are crooked!) and that was it.  This was very fun to make and extremely easy!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Cheery Birthday Wishes

I was hoping to get this posted before the storm rolled through but alas, I'm typing with lightening all around me!!!  So then I got smart and went on the laptop on battery power!  

My sister and I was at Terri's FABULOUS Stamp-a-Stack on Thursday night and this was something like one of the cards she had on display.  I didn't have the same decorative newsprint paper for the bottom but I did have some printed out from the Night & Day download so I used that instead.  You can use whatever paper you have, anything printed like a newspaper will work there.

The words are from the "Happiest Birthday Wishes" set.  I didn't think I had those words and when I was looking through my stamps I found it so of course I had to use it!  

The flower was done by using a couple of punches and adding a rhinestone brad in the middle.  

The black strip in the back is a piece of ribbon.  

The top is a white piece of card stock that was dry embossed with the dotted folder.  

There isn't a lot to making this card and it did go together rather quickly.  The original card is an easel card.  There were two small flowers at the bottom that held the card up when it was opened.  I opted to make this into a regular normal fold card.  The original card was made by one of Terri's downline. I don't know who the talented gal is but if you do, please let me know so I can give her credit!

This was a very fun and cheery card to make!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Smarties Graduation Cap Party Favor Weekend Project

I cut a strip of black card stock 3/8” wide by 3-1/4” long.  I wrapped it around the Smarties package and poked a hole in the top one that went through the other end of the strip behind it but not all the way through.  I didn’t want it to poke a hole in the candy wrapper.  Then I punched out a 1-1/4” square and poked a hole in the center of it.  I took a brad and poked it through the square and then the two strip ends.  I folded over the brad ends and then slipped the band over the candy.   And the final touch is to tie a piece of Baker’s Twine around the brad to make it look like a tassel.  And that’s it.  These are SO simple to make and fun for that graduation party.  And it’s not chocolate so you can set them outside and not have to worry about them melting.

This was not a bit project I had brewing but it was sitting on paper for a few weeks now waiting for me to find the time to put it all together.  Lucky you, today was that day!!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Have a Heart

Saturday is a benefit for my co-worker Caron. She needed a pacemaker and was scheduled to have one put in but her doctor backed out.  Caron has no insurance and when the doctor told her he was not going to do the operation we were all not only surprised but worried for Caron.  The battery in her current pacemaker was expired and she was just told that if anything happens to just call 911.  

Some time had passed and a new doctor stepped up and did the operation.  Caron is doing fine and this Saturday is the benefit.  I made two bracelets for the silent auction.  Both have hearts on them. The first one was just like this one except I used gold beads up the spine and some cranberry lined (greenish looking) for the leaves. It was pretty but not as pretty as this one turned out.  I LOVE the white background here.  I had gotten these hearts many years ago and in my sorting project (ongoing project) I have been putting all the heart beads I run across in a container.  I was surprised at how many I had.  The container is full.  I used one of the long Stampin' Up! clear containers to hold the heart beads.  I am having mixed feelings about these red hearts.  I have a few left and I wasn't sure if I wanted to know if the ones at Bead Basics were the same size and color as these are.  Do I want more hearts? Do I want more beads?  Want??  Ok, the correct word here is need!  Well, of course I don't "need" any more beads.  But want!  Yup, I always want more beads!  What beader doesn't?  I will more than likely get some more just to have them on hand.  It kind of defeats the purpose of using up things.  But then again I did have some left but not enough to make another bracelet.  See the battles I have with myself?  LOL  If I get some more I will make another bracelet like this one and put it up for sale in my web store.  I need to start getting more bracelets and other "stuff" in there so I can get some more fund generated to buy nice gifts for the family we shop for at Christmas time.  

I'm hoping that the bracelets go over well at the silent auction.  If you are in the Golden Valley Minnesota area on Saturday, stop in at Schuller's Tavern (7345 Country Club Drive) and check out the auction items!

I will have a very fun project for you to play with tomorrow so be sure to stop back!

Thank you every SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

A Zoo Review Birthday

This was another fun card I made with the Zoo Review stamp set.  The sketch I used here was #104.  It was one I had not used before.  I began doing the sketches at #126 so the ones before that are new territory for me!  I look forward to giving the other sketches a try!

I used the same Well Worn papers as I did yesterday.  But today I only used 2 of the colors and I used the fun giraffe image.  Yesterdays card was a Father's Day card so today I thought I would make a masculine birthday card.  

The words were made on the computer.  I print off a page full so I have more ready when I need them to put together a quick card.

I have just the person to give this card to!  I think I'm going to make another one because it's always great to have some masculine cards on hand!  I never seem to have enough masculine cards.

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Zoo Review Father's Day

I have a confession to make.  I am late posting because I got stuck playing a game on the computer.  Something that I rarely do but when I do run across this game I just have to play it.  And then a half hour to 45 minutes go by and I'm behind on what I was planning on doing.  UGH!!  But what is important is I'm here now!  LOL

Last week I was very busy with the neighborhood garage sale and I didn't have time to play with the Wednesday Sketch Challenge on Split Coast Stampers.  So today I finally had a few minutes (minus that game) to play with the sketch!

I really liked this layout and it will work with TONS of stamp images I have.  I did cut my #4 panel a bit smaller than the original one is but I needed the lion from the Zoo Review stamp set.  I had mixed feelings about this set but the more I saw cards done using it the more I knew I needed to get it.

I used Well Worn for my background papers.  I had purchased the download so I am able to print out paper anytime I need it.  Ya gotta love that!  I know I do.  I always print these papers on 28 or 30 pound copier paper.  You want a thicker paper for this.  It will have a better look to it.  The colors will be more vivid and not so washed out.  And it will have a nice firm feel to it like the decorative papers do.  30 pound is my paper of choice.  It's a bit expensive but you don't use that much of it so it does last a long time.

The "Happy Father's Day" was done on the computer and punched out.  

I had a lot of fun making this card and knowing that I have a lot more images that will fit in the #4 panel.  The card went together rather quickly, which is another reason why I'm going to use this sketch again!

Thank you SO much for visiting today,
Wanda

Kindness Matters

See, I told you I had the Kindness Matters set.  At first I didn't think I did because I couldn't find it.  But I did find it. It was with the clear mount stamps. I was looking for wood mount.  Don't you hate it when you are sure of what you are looking for and it turns out to be something different?  I always have that problem when looking for my portable hard drive.  I swear it's black but it really is silver tone.  The base is black. But every time I go to dig it out I overlook it because I'm looking for black and not silver!  You'd think I would just take any electronic thing out that is the size of a book and at least look at it, wouldn't you?  But no. I don't do that because I'm SO sure of myself that it is black!!! 

So with that said, lets move on to my card.  It's a simple card and one of my favorites.  I made the mistake of taking the photo of it on some craft paper and it didn't do the card justice.

The colors I used here are Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush.  I was going to use Eggplant Envy but it just didn't go with the Wisteria Wonder as well.  And I got to use some more of my decorative paper from the In Colors pack.  I hope Stampin' Up! does it again with the next set of in colors!! I LOVE having decorative papers to play with.  

For my butterfly I just stamped it on a small scrap piece of white card stock and set it in place with Dimensionals.  The top two layers were taped together and then the butterfly when behind them.  The ribbon was also added and then Dimensionals were added to the back of those pieces and set in place.  Like I said it was a very easy card to do and it really doesn't take all that long to make.  The measurements to make this card layout can be found here.  I have made a lot of cards using this layout.  It's a perfect way to highlight those little images.

I'm working on a project to share with you in a few days.  Hopefully all will go well so I can get it done soon!

Thank you ever so much for visiting today,
Wanda

Happy Mother's Day!

I would like to wish you all a very Happy Mother's Day.  I hope that you will be doing something fun today.  Our son is having us over for dinner.  He's cooking. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not.  I have not eaten his cooking since he was in middle school and had to cook in home economics class.  I'm REALLY hoping that he has improved his cooking skills since then. Though I have been told he makes a wonderful mac & cheese (not from a box either).  I will not be posting a card or project here today.  I'm going to be seeing my mom in the afternoon and then visiting with our son in the evening.  If you do not see a post from me tomorrow then you will know his cooking has not improved!!! LOL

Happy Mother's Day!
Wanda