AWS Stamping Class on Nov. 11

Below are the three cards we'll be making during our stamping class on Wednesday. There are two holiday cards and one birthday card.

The first Christmas card features three triangular trees that have been textured and distressed with gold ink in the Cuttlebug. You'll also be punching a border with a Martha Stewart snowflake edger. The sentiment stamp, 'A Very Merry Christmas,' is from the SU Punches Three. After stamping, it was punched out with an SU scallop square. The SEI red glitter paper makes a stunning background!

The holiday card was made with the SU Season of Joy Christmas tree, which was stamped in Wasabi ink onto Whisper White card stock and then trimmed out. Happy Holidays sentiment stamp is from SEI, and it was stamped with Memento Lady Bug Red onto a gorgeous Bazzill gold toned cardstock. In addition, a Spellbinder ribbon buckle in gold adorn some double dot BoBunny green ribbon. Creative Imaginations whimsical Christmas paper creates the background.


The quirky and fun birthday card features a QuicKutz die and DCWV Green Woodlands Bird paper. The sentiment stamp is from Inkadinkado.

Santa Calling!

This latest card features BoBunny papers and their sweet nostalgic Santa Dear collage stamp, as well as a Stampin' Up sentiment stamp.

After Santa Dear was stamped in memento ink, I then colored him using Copic markers. The paper was then torn and antiqued using Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distressing Ink. BoBunny dotted red ribbon was used an embellishment, and a green button was sewn on. The Stampin' Up sentiment, 'a very Merry Christmas to you,' was stamped, and several oval punches were used for layering. The BoBunny snowflake trimmed paper was punched with a Martha Stewart lacy punch.

The inspiration for this card came from BoBunny.

We will be making this card at our upcoming Wednesday Rubber Stamping Class.

BoBunny's Falling 4U Clear Stamp Set

I knew I was going to love this stamp set the first time I saw it used on the BoBunny blog spot.

The owl is really cute and quirky . . . and I love that the leaves and the tree are two stamps, so that you can use different ink colors. Very clever the way the leaves looks like a chrysanthemum.

Around the time I received the Falling 4U stamp set, I had a mingle card to make for an art swap with our England Stampers Yahoogroup. The theme is trees of any type. Also at the same time, I saw two Michelle Zindorf projects that featured a similar tree, but from Stampin' Up. If you go to her blog, you will see the two tutorials I used to create the two cards attached.

Direct to Paper Mountain Scene

In addition to the BoBunny Falling 4U stamp set, I also used the sweetest SU set called, Best Yet. I love this set of six sentiments, which include this stamp that says, "So Glad We're Friends," and another that says, "Just Because I Care." These are perfect sentiment stamps when you are mailing a note, card or small gift to a friend.

Windy Tree


I plan to offer to teach the card above to my rubber stamping class on October 7.

Scary cat & pumpkin

In the UK, they call these stamps Stick Leg Chicks; in the US, they are known as Karen Stolper's stamps. Whatever you call them, I am sure you'll agree that they are quirky, unique and worth a giggle!

I used Karen Stolper's scary cat and pumpkin stamp to create these very spooky ;-) cards for an art swap with my friends in the England Stamping yahoogroup.

In addition, this will be one of the cards available to make at my October 7th Rubber Stamping class for American Women of Surrey.

For those of you planning to attend the class, you will have a chance to color with Copic markers and cut out and antique a die cut pumpkin.

Autumn Notebook

There's a change in the air and the kiddos have returned to school . . . enter my favorite time of the year: autumn

With that in mind, I decided to create an autumnal notebook. This will be the free make-it-and-take-it project that I will demonstrate for my Introduction to Stamping Class, which I am offering through the American Women of Surrey.

I've used Inkadinkado clear stamps, Bazzill Cardstock, and Stampin' Up ribbons to create this easy-peasy book.

Elzybells Challenge 26

Elzybells Blog Challenge 26 is to create your own stamped patterned background paper.

Yesterday, I ordered some of Elzybells brand new stamp sets, which feature my favorite things: stamping and crafting! I had to have them (especially the stamp that says: My husband lets me have all the craft supplies I can hide). I was thrilled when they arrived in the post this morning -- all ready! Yippee!

As you can see, I used Elzybells new stamp sets to create this card. I love the manic crafter!

The patterned background features Nancy Judd's Scrappy-Spots technique published in Techniquejunkies newsletter, and it is a type of masking.

The primary colors used are Stampin' Up's Barely Banana, Really Rust, and More Mustard. A selection of Copic Ciao markers were used to color the Elzybells image.

More 3 by 3 Cards!

I've been working on projects for my autumn paper crafting classes.

Here are three 3 x 3-inch cards, which come with handmade envelopes, that are using some brand new Imaginisce clear stamps. In particular, I love the little polar bear!


I used Copic Ciao markers to color the images. As you can see with the polar bear, much of the coloring is a slight shade on the edge. Very easy.

I cut out all the pieces for my future students; these cards with envelopes will be a snap to put together.