Sympathy Card

I had a fun Stampin' Up party last night! Oh boy, did I ever have to hold on tight to my money. There are so many cute stamp sets, as well as accessories. I'm sure I really need one of most everything!

I do have a new stamp set from PapertreyInk called "With Sympathy." I had to try it out this afternoon and make a quick card as I needed a sympathy card any way. The paper is ocean tides, as well as the ink color. The brown is stampin' up and I sponged some Ranger distress inks around it, especially towards the edge. I also sponged on a bit of VersaMark Dazzle in Champagne to give it a bit of sparkle. I also used a gold Spica pen to add a bit of sparkle in the flowers. The ribbon is a satin chocolate chip from PaperTrey also. With Sympathy stamp is from Stampin' Up set "Warmest Regards."

Finally, another post!!

Hope you all had a great holiday time and are having a happy new year!! I haven't taken time to post anything lately. Even more recently, my main work computer has been down with a virus and that has totally messed up my work flow in my photography business!

These are a few cards, and a bookmark, I put together recently. I love the baby card. The pink was embossed with swiss dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. I stamped the baby buggy with chocolate chip and colored it with copics and added a little bling. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Sugared (I love their 6x6 papers!) and the brad is from Making Memories. All the buggy and sentiment are from Bitty Baby Blessing from Papertrey Ink. This is such a cute set! The ribbon is just a brown satin ribbon...yeah, I know it looks black in the picture.

The bookmark was a just for fun project. The stamps are all from stampers anonymous. They are embossed then distressed with the Tim Holtz distressing inks and I also rubbed on a bit of stickles in a couple areas with my finger to add a bit of sparkle. I used my Crop-a-dile Big Bite to attach the eyelet. I totally love this thing...I used to had using eyelets but this truly makes it easy, plus the hole punch works great on most anything!

The final card is only partially finished as I couldn't decide what I wanted to put on it for a sentiment.....I decided to just wait and see what I might need this card for as it can be used many different ways. My motivation to make the card was simply to use this stamp and my doodlebug brown flocking on the cattails. The design was stamped with Versamark and embossed the Stampin Up copper, then colored with copics before applying the glue and adding the flocking. I loved how it turned out.

Thanks for checking in!!

Jo

TECC43

I made this card for Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #43. I kept this pretty simple for lack of time but I still liked how it turned out. Paper is from Memory Box Winter Wonderland Collection. Sentiment from Stampabilities. Snowflake is punched out and I rubbed it on my Versamark pad and embossed it with holographic embossing powder. Snowman on the inchie is from Lockhart, colored with copics and a few touches of glitter pen. Then, I topped it off with the three blue robin eggs.

Now I gotta head to bed and get some sleep!

I got some of the "new release" stamps and a couple snowflake punches at Papertrey a while back so I had to give them a try. The swirl is a doodlebug stick with it with Martha Stewart glitter. I used Versamark Dazzle to stamp some snowflakes on the background. The sentiment is from Stampabilities.