Webster's Pages Blog Hop!!

Hello friends!!  Hope you have had a wonderful week!  I'm so excited because today the CardMaker blog team is participating in a blog hop with the Webster's Pages design team!1  How fun is that???   We will be showcasing the new Webster's Pages Family Traditions collection.  This collection is absolutely YUMM-O!!!   If you got here from the blog of Webster's Pages design team member Emeline Seet then you are on the right track.  If not, you will want to head over to the CardMaker blog and start there. 

As I indicated above the Family Traditions line is absolutely gorgeous and I just couldn't make one card... so I made two!!   The first card is a fairly simple one based on the sketch from Seize the Sketch.   The minute I saw the sheet of red gingham paper that is part of the collection I knew I had to make something with it.  I cut a 3 3/4 x 5" piece and matted it with white cardstock.  I cut one of the phrase strips from the "Family Time" sheet and then topped it with the yellow polka dotted paper from the "Fall Leaves" sheet that had been die cut with a My Favorite Things Fishtail Flag Stax die.  I adhered these pieces to the gingham piece and then added the little resin leaf from the Family Traditions Perfect Accents collection.  As a final detail I added one of the little apple clips from the Family Traditions line and then mounted everything on a bright green card base.  Squeee!!  How cute is that little apple clip???   LOVE!!!

My second card uses the gorgeous resin frame and cameo that is also contained in the Family Traditions Perfect Accent pack.   I cut a piece of white cardstock and distressed the edges a bit.  A piece was trimmed from the Family Time sheet and the edges distressed, as well.    A strip of paper was trimmed from the "Thankful" sheet, cut down, one side punched with a spiral binder punch and then the edges distressed.  I adhered that strip to the white cardstock piece and then layered the woodgrain piece on top.  A fishtail banner was die cut from the "Fall Leaves" sheet, the edges distressed and adhered.  The word "happy" was trimmed from the "Harvest" sheet, the edges distressed and layered on top of the fishtail banner.  Finally I adhered the frame and the cameo.  My goodness... how gorgeous is that cameo???  LOVE!!!  The entire piece was also mounted on a bright green cardstock base.
Your next stop on the hop is the blog of Webster's Pages design team member Diana Brodeur.   Make sure that you stop at the Webster's Pages blog because it will be worth your while... they are giving away the entire Family Traditions collection!! 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & simply chartreuse; Papers and accessories:  Webster's Pages Family Traditions line; Punches and dies:  My Favorite Things and Stampin Up!

a card and a quick note...

Hello friends!!  Popping in with a little Christmas card that I made with a new Penny Black Christmas and an old Penny Black Christmas stamp.   I also wanted to let you know that I have a post up over at the CardMaker blog so I hope you will check it out!

My card is pretty simple.  I stamped the newly released PB image "flourish holly" using  Memento Bamboo Leaves.   The sentiment (an older PB stamp) was stamped using SU!'s Cherry Cobbler.  Once the sentiment was stamped I added little dots of dark red glitter glue and the bakers twine bow.   Love how this turned out and because it was so simple to put together I think this may be our Christmas card this year.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Penny Black; Ink:  Memento and Stampin Up!; Glitter glue:  Stampin Up!, Green Bakers Twine

CCC #65... a crisp note

Hello friends!!  Hope your week is going well.  Tuesday has rolled around once, again, and that means time for a brand new cue word.   Loved viewing all the beautiful "harvest" inspired cards that appeared in the gallery.   This week our cue word is "crisp"... hmmm now that is a cue word to really make you think outside the box!   This week we have a sponsor, Uniko Studio and our lovely guest designer is Valerie.  All the details can be found here.

Now honestly when I saw the cue word only two thing popped in to my little ol' noggin and those two things were leaves and apples... you know kicking your way through crisp fall leaves or eating a nice crisp apple.  But I had already done leaves and apples and really wanted to something, anything, different.  Thank goodness for a long walk with the dog on Sunday morning to provide me with my idea!!  As the dog and I toiled along I thought about other things that are crisp and hit upon a crisp white sheet of paper.  Bingo!!   Couldn't the card right away as I had several other things to do beforehand (thank goodness we go to church on Saturday night... one less thing!), but once I got everything done I was able to quickly put together my card.  Pretty self-explanatory.  Stamps are from the Verve set Take Note.   Color combo is courtesy of Dynamic Duos.  Die cut the notebook paper using my PTI notebook die.   Once all the stamping was done (and the pencil trimmed out) I adhered the note book page using foam dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by... I cannot wait to see where this week's "crisp" cue word take you!  In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Jen and Tracey and our guest designer, Valerie!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Verve; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Die:  PTI

best of everything...

Hello friends!!   Here with a little card that was super quick to make and uses the current CTS sketch and the color combo from CAS Colours and Sketches.

After seeing a ton of fabulous cards made with the SU! set Mosaic Madness I finally broke down and bought the set along with the matching punch and embossing folder.  When I saw the new CTS sketch I knew it would be the perfect set to use.  Then I checked out what the new CAS Colours and Sketches challenge was and yay... it was colors this week (pale blue, grey and dark red) so I combined the two challenges.    I decided to use only one image from Mosaic Madness to keep my look very tailored and cohesive.   I stamped each color, punched them out and then popped them up on the white cardstock using foam dimensionals.  The sentiment (from the SU! set Best of Everything) was stamped using black ink.    Not a super clever card, but then I'm not a super clever paper crafter... just a simple stamper! 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  SU! Mosaic Madness & Best of Everything; Inks:  SU! Cherry Cobbler & Soft Sky; Memento London Fog & Tuxedo Black; Punch:  SU!

let me count the ways...

Hello friends!!   Hope everyone has had a good week... we are finally drying out a bit here in the Pacific NW, but unfortunately the rain is due back on Sunday.  Anywhoo... have a little card that I made using this week's ColourQ combo and the October Reverse Confetti Sketch for You to Try.

For my card I combined two Reverse Confetti sets, Count Your Rainbows & Forever Fall.  I stamped the woodgrain heart image from Forever Fall in yellow, orange and red and then trimmed them out.   A strip of white cardstock was stamped with the word "count" in black in and then the phrases "let me" and "the ways" were stamped using red and orange inks, respectively.   A piece of SU!'s  Cool Caribbean was embossed using a woodgrain embossing folder and adhered to a white cardstock piece.  The sentiment strip was added along with the hearts.  A few yellow sequins were added and the piece was adhered to a Cool Caribbean card base. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Cool Caribbean; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Sequins:  Lawn Fawn; Embossing folder:  Stampin Up!

CCC #64... harvest

Hello friends!!  Wow... we have sure had some wild and wooly weather in the Western Washington over the last few days.  It rains in Washington, but not the way it has been coming down the last few days!  Hopefully it will easy off as the week progresses.  Anywhoo.... today is Tuesday and that means time for a brand new CASology challenge and continuing along with our fall theme our cue word is "harvest".   This week our guest designer is the very, very talented Gay!!   You can find all the details for this week's challenge here.

 

This week's cue word gave me a bit of trouble as I don't have a lot of harvest-type stamps and as of Saturday night I still hadn't come up with an idea.   After a little bit of a rummage through my stash I finally came up with my very simple design.  I used the PTI set Fall Elegance and a small piece of patterned paper from the PTI paper pad "Autumn Abundance".  I trimmed down a piece of kraft cardstock to 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 and then adhered a strip of the oak leaf paper from Autumn Abundance" to the kraft piece.   I added some stamping along the other side and then added the sentiment.  Three Stamping Up! candy dots were added under the sentiment to finish things off.   For additional contrast I mounted the piece on a cream card base.

Thanks for stopping by...I cannot wait to see what fun "harvest" ideas all you super talented paper crafters come up with for this challenge!! In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Jen and Tracey and our guest designer, Gay!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream & kraft; PP:  PTI; Stamps:  PTI; Inks:  SU! Pumpkin Pie & Real Rust, Memento Rich Cocoa; SU! Candy Dots - Brights