Happy Monday, blogger friends

My Diva swap cards - finally finished so off to the postoffice with them.  Don't know if you can see the "sparkle" on them or not.  Hand painted the flowers for the March, Best of Flowers stamp set.  Used pumpkin pie, Daffodil yellow, and clear Dazzling Delights and Olive green for the background.  Used the masking technique on the triple layered card.  Hope you like it.

This might be a little easier to see the "sparkle"  This was time consuming but I like the finished product, do you?  Happy Stamping!

Happy Wednesday, blogger friends

Love the "crisp" look of this card.  Had been wanting to try out this technique using the inkpads directly to the acrylic blocks.  Decided to do it for my 1 hour "WOW" workshop this evening.  Love the "Best of 25 years March stamp set.  Added a little "bling" to the hydranga.  Have some people new to stamping coming and can't wait to show them the "World of Stamping!"

This is the "stepped up" version of the above card format.  Will do this in my next class using the "masking technique". Tell me what you think about the cards.  In the meantime, Happy Stamping!

Hi, Friday blogger friends

This was the card that I had my fellow SW demonstrators do at our meeting this month.  I used a color combination that I don't use very often but sure liked how it came out.  Step by step instructions follow:

 

 

 

Supplies  used:  CS: Basic Gray, Daffodil delight, Very Vanilla, Ink:  Basic Gray, Stazon Black

Stamps: SAB Vintage Verses, SAB Feeling Sentimental, Embossing Folders: Fancy Fan, Delicate Design, Apthecary Accents Framelits.  Mini silver brads, basic black 1/8" ribbon. Embosss the daffodil yellow in 2 steps- 1st use the delicate design and then the fancy fan EF.  A fun card to do.  Happy Stamping!

Happy Thursday, blogging friends

Aren't these 3 x 3 cards adorable?  These are CASED from our SW demonstrator  February
meeting that Kadie Labadie shared with us- It was our Make & Take for the evening.  Love the honeycomb embossing folder and the Pretty Petites stamp set and Petite Curly Label punch from the SAB catalog.  Am sad that Sale-a-bration will be ending next week.  It went too fast! I was having some trouble when I used the embossing folder with the 2 standard cutting pads with the big shot- some of the "honeycombs" were cutting through the cardstock so switched to using the premium crease pad on the top aned it worked perfectly. I would love to hear any comments.  In the meantime, Happy Stamping!

Can You Believe This?

This was our weather in Tucson in February- can you believe this Snow. . . and it stayed for several days.  It was a "winter fairyland" Just getting around to putting it on my blog. more to come. . .

 

                                                                           Finally it's warming up- (March 3)  so hope that the warm weather continues during March Stop by tomorrow to see some of the stamping projects I've been working on.  I finally purchased a Laptop  so have been playing around with it to get more comfortable . It's been a real learning experience(lol).  Stop by tomorrow to see what I've been working on. In the meantime Happy Stamping!

More flowers from Maui

Thought the "flower" in the middle of the pic. was so unusual. 

Doesn't this flower look like an "ear of corn"  It almost looks like it's growing out of a pine tree.

                      Not sure what this flower is but looks like a primrose.   More coming. . . be sure and check back.  In the meantime, Happy Stamping!

Happy Tuesday, friends

Loved taking pictures of the gorgeous flowers on Maui.  More following . . .

The above pics were taken at the Lavender farm.