To a Classic Get Well

Happy Monday to you!  Hope you had a great weekend.  Mine was another busy one but a fun one.  Had the granddaughter overnight Fri until Sat morning.  Later that evening I picked up my sister-in-law from the airport.  She spent the night so we had a wonderful time visiting and catching up.  Sunday we drove to Alton to meet up with her sister and BIL.  They were taking her home - about a 2 hour drive.  Before they headed out, we had brunch at Mac's on Third St.  It's a sports bar atmosphere.  The interior just rambled on -  it didn't look that big from the outside.  The brunch buffet was delish, too.
I'm off and running this morning but wanted to stop long enough to post a card that was sent to a friend's husband after his surgery.

Had this card that I saved after making it at Pam D'Urso's Demo Stamp Camp.  Well...the opportunity presented itself for the need of a masculine get well card.  So glad I had one!  The stamp set was in the previous catalog and is now retired.  Sorry.  Those cute Trinket Keys are available, though, and can be used in many ways - a new driver, a new house, key to my heart to name a few.

Sorry for the short post.  Need to scoot.  Have a great day and thank you for stopping by today!

May Demo Stamp Camp Samples

Hi everyone!  Hope you had an awesome weekend.  Mine was pretty busy.  Spent Friday at a crop from 10 am until 11 pm.  Our granddaughter spent the night and was asleep when I got home.  Grandpa enjoyed his quality time with her while I was cropping.  Saturday Granddaughter and I played until her parents came to pick her up.  I then went to have my car door window repaired.  It is a mystery as to how it shattered.  Poor car was minding it's own business just sitting in the driveway!  Sunday I ran a couple of errands before our Demo Stamp Camp at Pam's.  The projects were great, the food was great,  but most of all the company was great!  I love hanging out with these ladies!  Wanna see what we did?  Here are three of the masculine cards we made.  Pam always has awesome projects!

Best Dad Ever set from 2011 Summer mini & First Edition DSP (carryover item from Occasions mini)  The ties were heat embossed.  Doesn't that pearl just set off the tie?  Too cute!

Travel Log stamp set from 2011 Summer mini (notice the Trinket Key - another carryover item)

Engraved Greetings set (IBC -  big catalog) & First Edition DSP

Must sign off for now.  Hope you have a great day.  Thanks for stopping by!

Altered Creations (a bit late)

Happy Friday everyone!  Hope you had a good week.  I had promised to show you our first Demo challenge that my friend, Jayne, initiated.  She challenged our Pieces of HeART team to alter the notebooks she provided.  The pressure!  And who knew it would turn into a monthly thing!  The anticipation to see everyone's creations makes our meetings even more exciting.  Participation is optional, of course.  Jayne handed out the notebooks when we met at her house to carpool to the Branson Regional in March.  We were to bring our altered creations to the April Demo dinner meeting.  

Look what we came up with.

 Jayne's notebook - made from Love Letters DSP, the Fun Flowers die, the Dotted Scallop  Ribbon border punch, Scallop border punch, and the Round Tab punch

Pam's notebook -  made from layered strips of various border punches.  A trinket key dangles from the vintage flower she made from circle punches.

Another version of Pam's.  It was difficult to capture the IRL beauty.

Patty's notebook - she added dimension by using our Backgrounds 1 Texturz plates, the flower image is from the Because I Care stamp set. Pearls were the finishing touch.  Sorry for the blurry photo

My notebook - made from Greenhouse Gala DSP, Bold Blossom, Apple Blossoms, & Nature Walk stamp sets, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch

Greeting Card Kid with Inlaid Technique

Hi there!  Been busy with preparations to "hunker" down for the ice/snow storm the weather people have been forecasting.  I just hope their prediction of power outages won't become a reality!  Fortunately, I went to the grocery store on Friday because some stores now have empty shelves of staples such as bread.  I remember the blizzard of 1982 and that is what this storm system is being compared to - the last I heard.  OK, enough weather talk.  Let’s get on with the card for today.

I decided to try the inlaid technique that I read about on Glenda Calkins blog here .  I had some Chocolate Chip triangle pieces left over from another project.  A triangle was paired up with the Certainly Celery card base since those are the colors used on the little girl and to create an interesting look (hopefully).  Pretty in Pink and Very Vanilla hearts were punched out with the Heart to Heart punch and glued to the Chocolate Chip triangle. After all the hearts were adhered, it was placed in the Square Lattice embossing folder, then ran it through the Cuttlebug (don’t have a Big Shot….. yet), and voila!  You end up with this cool inlaid technique! The really neat thing about this technique is that you can use ANY shape to create the inlay. Give it a try.  Stay warm and thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Word Play

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, watercolor paper

Ink: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, black StazOn

Tools: Heart to Heart punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Mat Pack

Other: Vintage trinkets