Happy Birthday Deb!

It's my friend Debbie's birthday today.   This card is my first attempt at a lollipop made from baker's twine.   The inspiration came from one of my lovely customers, Lou.  Thanks Lou for a super design.

And I hope you have a lovely day Deb - as sweet a day as you are!

Supplies used:
Stamp Set - Something Sweet (the greeting & jelly bean), Time Well Spent (lolly stick, R)
Cardstock - Riding Hood Red textured, Whisper White
Ink:  Riding Hood Red
Bakers Twine, Whisper White stitched ribbon (sneak peek from the new catalogue due out in Sept)
Modern Label & 2 1/2" circle punches
Sizzix adhesive sheets

Happy Thursday!
Karen

For Crafts Sake!

As promised, here are the things we made yesterday.  Tracy came over around 11am and we just crafted (is that a word?) all day long.   We did stop for lunch and afternoon tea....well duh!   You've got to keep your energy up you know?!

Card is Early Espresson, flower is Pumpkin Pie

We used the scallop circle die in the Big Shot (you need one of these!) for the first card.   The centre of the flower is in the new colour Daffodil Delight, cut with the Circle Scissor.  We used Terrifically Tacky Tape to punch out a 1 1/4" circle to adhere the beads.  (Beads are SU but one's I bought in the U.S.)  The sentiment is from the set Something Sweet and we used the Stampa-majig (you need one of these too!) for perfect placement...LOL.  Stalk and leaves are Old Olive, with the leaves made using the Large Oval Punch.

Card is Early Espresso, Flower is Cherry Cobbler.

The next cards we made using a stamp that Tracy got for her birthday.  It's a design by KikkiK and very cute.   The little bird is actually a separate stamp but it's made to slot into the main tree image.  And it comes in a gorgeous little calico bag.  Chosen for her by her partner.  How adorable!

Here's Tracey's card

Card colours are Ruby Red & Bordering Blue, both retired....:-((
Isn't the little bird cute?  He's More Mustard!

My card is below.  It's Crumb Cake (formerly Kraft) with the ink colours for the tree in Cajun Craze (autumn), Early Espresso (winter), Certainly Celery (spring) and Old Olive (summer).  The bird is bordering blue.   I love the paper, but it's retired - it was Autumn Vine.  Chocolate chip ribbon is always a winner.

Thanks for looking!  

Have a craft day, for crafts sake!
Karen

Sweet!

Here's a card that just kind of happened - you know the ones?  You haven't decided what you want to make, who it's for, which supplies you'll use....and so on.   Well, I decided I wanted to get the Big Shot out - you see, because it's not available here (well, at least until April through SU), I have really let it sit in the studio collecting dust.  Oh yes, I've felt guilty about neglecting this wonderful tool, but it also felt like a reminder of "crafting past" so it's been an emotional obstacle as well.   Anyway, enough postulating (spelling.....ah!).

I started with Pink Pirouette Cardstock (In Colour 09/10), and ran it through the Big Shot with a Texturz plate.  It came out really nicely too!  Then I used the Something Sweet Stamp Set from the Summer Mini and stamped in Perfect Plum Classic Ink.  That's one of my favourite colours of ALL time.  I used Mellow Moss & So Saffron on the jelly beans, and threw in some Pink Pirouette to tie it all together.   There's a Rhinestone Brad in the handle on the lolly machine.  The sentiment is in Perfect Plum again, as is the Designer Series Paper (DSP).  All tied together with White Taffeta Ribbon...and a bit of silver stretchy cord.   I used the Large Oval Punch for the greeting too.  The Whisper White CS is layered onto Mellow Moss CS.

And that brings me to the Stamp Set - Something Sweet #117699 in the Summer Mini.  There's 14 stamps in the set and it's only $44.95!  That's around $3.22 a stamp!!!   What's more, it includes 4 greeting stamps and an array of little thingys to put in the lolly dispenser.  Add the fact that it coordinates with the new 1-3/4" Circle Punch AND the Sweet Treat Cups and you've got an amazingly versatile stamp set.

Sorry the picture quality is a bit off.  I was in a hurry before the battery gave up on the camera.  And yes, that's a tissue stuffed in the box.  I do that to stop the little stamps falling over (they might hurt themselves!)
A cool tip for storing your stamps and not mixing them up, losing them or putting them back in the wrong boxes, is to cut a piece of Whisper White Cardstock to the same size as the base of the box.  Then stamp all the images and keep it in the box with the set.  That way, you'll always know what's missing - especially handy if you have LOTS of stamp sets and a bad memory for what goes with what.
And that my friends is all for now.  Stamp up a storm!