Big Blossom Birthday Card

I love my SU Big Blossom stamp so much that I thought I would play with it again tonight for a little bit. I'm trying to decide if this card is too busy...I think perhaps it is...or maybe the Cuttlebug embossed background doesn't even go with the stamp that I used over top of my cut out Big Blossom stamp. I think I'm just too tired...lol :) Anyway, I like these colours together and I always have fun making my own little scallops using the SU Slit punch for the flower centre. It's nice that you can make the scalloped shape whatever size you want simply by attaching the little half circles to the back of another shape, in this case the burgundy ring layer. I am disappointed over my attempt at faux stitching on the flower, though. I usually use a white gel pen, but tonight I thought I'd try a black gel pen...well, you can hardly see it and I think it just ruined it! :( Oh well...lesson learned! lol

I'm gonna hit the hay before midnight tonight..the kids ran absolutely wild today and frankly I'm wiped out! I'm sure they'll be up at the crack of dawn again looking to run all over again! Oh, if only I could bottle up some of that energy!!! :)

Thanks for stopping by! :)

I've been tagged...

So, I was tagged tonight by Julie Buhler. She's got an awesome blog. She has such great ideas, does gorgeous work and the best tutorials! If you haven't checked out her blog, pop on over, now! I'm new to this Tag scene...but apparently the tag challenge is to point out 5 blogs that I browse. I will probably tag some that have been tagged before, but here are a few of my favourites to visit. Check them out, they all do gorgeous work! :)

Tracy - Tracy's Happy Place

Alli - Card Metaphors: Create-Embellish-Adore

Toni - Inkyfingers: Everyday Art

Barb - Barb's Card Creations

Dawn - Amusing Musings & Things

Ok, Ok...I'm really going to bed, now! lol :)

A Great SU Party Tonight

We all had a great night tonight at Diana's Stampin' Up! party...well, I know at least I did! lol :) My Mum came to babysit so I could go out with the girls and have a girls night out. Bought more goodies and ate a couple of Nanaimo Bars (yeah, yeah, I know...they're not on the LA plan, but I couldn't help it, they were calling my name!)

I really like the first card that we did. I love the colours and we did another technique that's new to me. We used a SU wheel for the black strip and used Whisper White craft ink. While it was still wet, we daubed on blue chalk over some of the larger images. I'll be playing with this technique some more, I know it! Hard to see in the picture, but it's a nice, subtle look.

The second project that we did was a little goodie pouch to put whatever you want in. Maybe candy or flower seeds or specialty herbal tea, etc. as a little gift. Pretty, though. Again, I like the colours a lot on this one. This was a square piece of cardstock that with some folds became this cute little pouch and it didn't even require any glue. Quite a neat little origami project. I'll do up a tutorial in the next couple of days, I'd like to try another one with double-sided designer paper.

Well, its time for bed...thanks for stopping by! :)

Blog Candy Winner

I just remembered that I forgot to post the winner this morning. Oops! It's been a busy day...

Thanks so much to everyone for all the great ideas. I have a few ideas brewing...I'll make a decision and post my project soon. :)

The winner of my latest blog candy giveaway is:

Corinna aka MsFit

She left the following comment:
I joined a recipe book swap and you don't _need_ food images for them all.. but you can certainly find them almost anywhere. I am partial to SU! but that is for obvious reasons. Ha! (Nice blog, btw!)
(Hi, my name is Corinna and I got your blog addy from CST)

Congrats, Corinna. Please email me with your snail mail addy and I'll get your goodies right out to you! :)

Have a great night everyone...I'm just getting supper ready and heading out to a Stampin' Up! party! Yippee! :)

Big Blossom Elegance

I've been tickering with this card for a while tonight, and OMG...I just realized that it's 1:41 AM! Eesh! I have to get up in a few hours to get my daughter off to pre-school and then go pick up my Mum. She's coming up for a couple of days and babysitting for me tomorrow night...oops, I guess that would tonight now! I'm heading out to a Stampin' Up! party at Diana's and I can't wait! :)

Anyway, this is the creation that I made tonight. I'm very happy with how it turned out. I got to play a bit with a few stamps I haven't used in a bit. It's always nice to have fun with ones that you've kinda forgot about for a bit. It was my intention to make a Mother's Day card for my Mum. What do you think, does this look like a Mother's day card?

Ok, I really need to go to bed! Thanks for stopping by! I'll post the blog candy winner tomorrow morning. Nighty-night.

...For some reason, the picture isn't showing up...I've even tried adding another one in case the file got corrupted or something, but looks like it might be a Blogger problem. I'll try adding it again in the morning. Maybe you're not allowed to add pics at 2 AM! lol :(

DP that I used for my Trifold card

I've had a few people email me asking what kind of paper I used for my Triangle Trifold card so I thought I would post it to let you all know. I know I never really get into all the wonderful ways that other people do about describing their cards. I guess it's because I tend to rant so badly, that I may never get off the computer if I had to go into depth about how I made every card! lol :) I figure if anyone has any questions about how I did a card, they can always ask me. For the most part, a lot of the cards that I do are pretty straight forward and if I do something special, I add a tutorial, as well, to clarify things.

Anyway, the DP (designer paper) that I used was the gorgeous paper that I got up in New Brunswick while we were visiting my in-laws a couple of months ago. The paper is called 'Tickled Pink - Inspire" (tic-191) by Three Bugs in a Rug. They have a website addy listed on the bottom of the paper, it's www.3bugsinarug.com in case you're interested. I'm sure there are lots of places to buy this DP, but I'm still rather new to buying it, so I can usually never remember where I bought it! OMG! I just checked out this site for myself and I'm absolutely drooling! Tonnes of gorgeous paper and rub-ons...perhaps an order in the making. I tried the store locator, but it's not working, after I select my area, it's directing me to select a US State, but still in Canada! I think it's confused...perhaps I'll try again later. lol :)

For my technique, I simply used the centre strip of this sheet of 12 x 12 paper. I cut a square, then cut the square in half on the diagonal for my two end pieces. For the inside piece for journaling on, I used a piece of SU Barely Banana cardstock , it's almost an identical match to the background colour of my DP. For the three flowers going up the side of the journaling piece, I actually cut them out my hand...I cheated and only cut out two large flowers and cut one in half to use one on the top and one on the bottom. Then, I cut out the little green flowers and used my mini circle punch for the black and white ones. Easier than cutting those teeny weeny flowers out by hand! I really don't like cutting flowers out...so whatever is easiest is my preferred route! lol :) Now, for the outside of the card, I also cut out the flowers from the DP. I really love the colours and think I may try another one of these cards tonight. They're a lot of fun!

Have fun with this and hope you can find some of this paper. It really is gorgeous and nice heavy weight DP. It was a great find, I bought about a dozen sheets of it and I've been rationing it...sometimes I think it's almost too pretty to cut up, but then, I guess it would be prettier on a card or another project than sitting in my Iris drawers, eh?

Well, I'm off to create something...I'll post it later tonight. Thanks for stopping by!

Ribbon Fixed on Triangle Trifold Card

*Update: I ended up taking my card apart last night so that I could re-do the ribbon, yup...it bothered my that badly that I did it wrong that I had to make it right! It's a sickness, I know! lol :) Anyway, my camera is finished charging so I could take another pic to show the ribbon done the right way. :)