Sending Lots of Love

Hi stampers!

I am back today with set of 4 cards. When I saw the new designer series paper Whole Lot of Lovely, I knew I had to have it, along with the coordinating set. I made few cards using my MISTI tool. It was the only way I could replicate these cards. 

What I did first I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of velum ( 4 1/4" x 5 1/2") and layered it on top of same size whisper white panel where I was going to stamp my images. The vellum piece served me as a guide where to position my images. After I stamped all the images, I lined up the sentiment on the top of the vellum, in order to be at the same position as we "imagined" and stamped the sentiment on all 4 cards using Versagine black ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. When I was done I die cut the images using the oval framelits and adhered onto the piece of dsp and then adhered to Basic Black card base. 

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Summer and Coffee and the Livin' is easy

Hi stampers! 

I have been quiet for little white, we were on vacation in FL with all the kids last week and then as soon as we got back I got some stinky nasty cold. yikes. But I am recovering and back to creating.

I have fun summery card for you today. I decided to participate in the coffee lovers blog hop and I was inspired by Wendy from Sugar Pea Designs to make this card. I used 2 new Stampin' Up! sets : Fabulous Flamingo and Coffee cafe (along with coordinating dies). I stamped the cups first with Soft suede, next I masked around the cups and stamped the flamingos (this way you don't see lines outside of the cups. Then stamped the leaves and the whipper cream and straws. . I stamped the same images onto different piece of whisper white card stock, so I can make the cozies that go around. To cut them out I lined the die cut cups over the stamped images and marked with pencil where I should position the die, next removed the cup and positioned the die and ran it through my big shot! Clear as a mud? I may do a video soon. 

I cut the rest of the images and assembled my card. 

I LOVE how this card turned out! 

Happy Birthday Gorgeous

Hi stampers!

Happy Wednesday! Today I am back with couple Stampin' Up! cards. I used the Happy Birthday gorgeous set to make these two cards. I love this set because it's so versatile. I stuck with simple cards. 

I started with a panel of Whisper white card stock that measures 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment using the MISTI tool. I stamped several panels (I made only 2 cards, but I have few more panels with the sentiment left for future use - the beauty of the MISTI tool!)

Next for the circle framed sentiment card I cut a circle using the stitched shaped framelits from sticky note and positioned it over my sentiment. Next I stamped the images (flowers and leaves) all over my panel. (when I stamp multiple images I try to stick with odd number of the same image stamped onto my paper). Next I removed the stikcy note and voila. I used some fun foam to adhere my panel onto Tranquil tide card base. 

For my second card I stamped the images on the sides of the sentiment. For the first step I stamped off on the side, then on the card stock, so I get lighter color. Then for the second step I used full intensity ink pad. (meaning, I didn't stamp off on the side before I stamped onto my card panel). When I was done I adhered my panel onto Lemon Lime Twist card base. 

These cards are so easy to mass produce, so you can make bunch and have on hand for birthdays or any other occasions. 

Fear not

Hi Stampers!

Happy hump day! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. After my half marathon I felt pretty tired, so I didn't create much last week. But I am back! 

I know many of you wondered why did I laid low the past year or so, when it comes to SU! In October 2015 my hubby lost his job, in November the same year my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. She had surgery to remove brain tumor (the cancer had spread to her brain). In December I resigned as SU! demonstrator. In January 2016 I traveled to Macedonia with my mom (and my 4 yr old) to take her back there (it was her wish). Then in early March I injured my back. On March 17th 2016 my mom passed away and I wasn't able to go to the funeral due to the injury. I changed jobs (still the same company but different position), even though it was better position, it was still a change. in May/June 2016 I signed back up as a Demonstrator, but I wasn't still up to it. So I laid low. 2016 was just a bad year and I am slowly coming back. I am happy to report that I have recovered from the back injury, as you can see I just ran a 1/2 marathon last week. That was my 2nd one this year, and bunch of 10k and 5k races since August last year. 

I have a pretty simple card for you today, but had a lot of meaning (the sentiment) during all the events of 2016. I added some coloring touch that adds extra interest. 

I used the Rose wonder set and Rose Garden thinlits. I diecut the images from watercolor paper .. Then ink pads and aqua painter I colored the diecuts and adhered them on a piece of white card stock. After that I trimmed it to 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" and stamped the sentiment with Archival Basic Gray ink pad. At the end I just mounted the whole panel onto my Smokey shadow card base.