Rainy Days

 While many places are counting inches of snow, I am watching the rain fall.  While watching the rain, I also made a couple of cute cards.  The umbrella and boots on each card were cut using Sunny Studio Stamps' newly released Rainy Days die set.  For the card with the checkered boots, I typed the sentiment on WORD.  I opened a new document, inserted a text box that would fit on the front of a card, typed the sentiment in just about the right places and printed that out.  After brushing light blue ink in the center of that white cardstock, I added the boots and umbrella along with a few rain drops the same color as the ink.  

For the card with the flowered umbrella, I inked the background of white cardstock and then added raindrops, boots and umbrella.  The sentiment is from a stamp set from Simon Says Stamps.  The paper I used on this particular card is from Stampin' Up is long-retired.  That being said, I think that this particular paper collection is my all-time favorite of paper from Stampin' Up.  

Keep dry and warm!  Have a great week!

Well it has been a while since my last post.  We had a wonderful Christmas and we are enjoying the New Year.  Since my last post, I have been busy with Christmas cards, Valentines, thank you cards and just using new stamp and die sets.  Today I am posting a simple card I created using Stampin' Up's Regency Park Designer Series Paper.  The sentiment is from Sale-a-bration's Beautifully Happy stamp set.  The sentiment was stamped on white cardstock and then cut using one of the dies in the Stampin' Cut & Emboss set, Ornate Frames.  The ribbon does not show well, but it is very pretty Balmy Blue and white ombre.  The ribbon and paper are from the new Mini Catalog and  the Beautifully Happy stamp set is free with a $100 order placed at Stampin' Up.  Have a great week!

Christmas Joy In My Scraproom

The last few weeks have been spent making Christmas cards, favors, wrapping gifts and enjoying this time of the year.  We have many dreary, rainy days, but they are sweater temperature days so I am not complaining!

I have purchased two new tools for my scrap room and both have made card-making so much easier.  The first and most appreciated item is the Tim Holtz version of the Big Shot Switch Plus.  I have looked at it for awhile.  Scrapbooking Made Simple had it on sale for $199, so I broke down and purchased it.  The machine has made card-making much better on my hands.  I do not miss turning the handle on my original Big Shot at all!

Then I was in Hobby Lobby and they had Spellbinders Hot Glimmer Machine for $75.  I had a gift card and decided to purchase it and some of the foils and hot foil plates.  At first, I was not impressed.  I felt like it was a lot of work to hot foil.  After playing with it for more than a few times, I found it to be very useful.  Granted, the hot foil plates are expensive but finding them on sale or by using one plate for 40 cards, it is more than worth the cost.  Not a needed tool by any means, but my Christmas cards turned out to be very pretty with the foil.  Following are two pretty cards I created using the Big Shot Switch Plus for all of the cutting and the Glimmer Hot Foil machine for the area surrounding the word "JOY" on the card to the right.   

Have a great Christmas week!

Anniversary

 A few weeks ago, Jen and Mark celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary.  Today's card is the first one I made for them.  Then I decided I should make the same card using Rich Razzleberry~~the color her bridesmaids wore on their wedding day.  Of course, I did not take a photo of that one, so in your mind imagine this card is Rich Razzleberry, a Stampin' Up color.  I foolishly spent too much time trying to make the strips for the top layer on the scalloped heart to be precise.  Eventually, I told myself to just adhere alternate strips of white embossed cardstock and pattern paper to a piece of cardstock and then die cut that using heart dies from Stampin' Up's retired Be Mine Stitched Heart die set.  Rhinestones, hearts and ribbon completed the card.   It looks perfectly fine!

Have a great week!