Paper Roses (these are actually pens)

Happy January 2nd! Today, I have had to actually work on my real job a little, but I did get a chance to make a few pen roses for my first workshop (still haven't set a date, but I will be all set with samples!
I made all of these roses using my ornament punch, glue and crop-a-dial. These are so easy to make and what a great way to use up my left over card stock!

Hugs!! Angi

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Hugs!! Angi

More Cards for my card closet

Remember this post, and the great little card closet I made? Well, I spent my evening making some more beautiful dresses for my card closet, so have a look.



























First off, I made a beautiful New Year's Eve dress, thinking about the party I could be at, if my SO was home, instead, I promised to stay home with the kids for family game night, which they all backed out of, lol, so I imagine myself wearing one of these beautiful dresses and dancing the night away.

























I just had so many templates ( I actually still have quite a few I haven't used yet) I just couldn't stop making beautiful party dresses, imagine being Bell of the Ball in one of these beautiful gowns. I just love the Stampin Up Glimmer paper, don't you? The brushed silver and brushed gold paper make perfect gowns and the sizzix embossing plates make them look so beautiful! The Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle added a nice touch to the blue gown, don't you think?? The Wish Big dress used the Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle also, only, I opened it up and used a cotton swab to brush it on and bring out the embossing details. I did the same technique with the Worth the Wait dress top, to make it really sparkle!

The purple dress just reminded me of something to wear out with the girls or out on the town, maybe a date night, so I couldn't resist using the Carry On Stamp set with that one, I used a little bit of Lavender stickles on that one, just brushed on to give it a little detail, copic markers to give the dress some shape and the rest of the items are all Stampin Up.






You cant really tell the dress to the left is baby blue, and it really is a beautiful color, I wish it would've come out better in the picture. Again, I brushed on some of the dazzling details to give it a little shimmer. In order to give the dress some shape, I

rubbed the heck out of the paper with the bone folder to separate the two layers and then glued the bottom layer to the paper and the top layer, I crumbled up and spread back out and glued it back down before rubbing on the shimmer. I also used Copic Markers on this dress, to give it a little shape. I really love our SU Markers and how they are all color coordinated, but the copics blend in just enough that they can give your card some added dimensions, the SU markers just cant add.
 I added the butterflies at the end, just to give it a little something more.








These two templates didn't come out as well as I hoped, but, I guess they can't all be perfect ;) I used the build a flower punch for the purple dress and embossed the dress with an embossing plate.



















 Finally, I had some shimmery pink shimmer in my stash that I was saving for some kind of dress, the top of the dress got a little ridiculous as I just kept working it and adding things to it to make it look better, not really certain I am happy with the way it came out, but my favorite, I think is my Be My Valentine Dress I used some of the red glimmer paper and a little silver ribbon trim I had laying around.


What do you think of my new card closet? Would you wear any of these dresses? I am really trying to get my readership up this year and get the comments rolling, so tell me which is your favorite and I will try and get some templates posted over the next few weeks for these dresses.

The Stamp sets used for these dress sentiments: Wacky Wishes, Word Play, Elements of Style, Carry On and Feel Goods.

Sizzix Supplies Used: Manhattan Flower Folder, Large Scallop Edgelits, Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (New Spring Catty), Elegant Bouquet Folder, Elegant Lines Folder, Vintage Wallpaper Folder

Punches Used: Bitty Butterfly, Blossom Petals Builder, Elegant Butterfly, Scallop Oval, Scallop Circle, Scallop Square, Curly Label, Decorative Label Small heart

Other: Red Glimmer paper, brushed Silver card stock, brushed gold card stock, Silver sparkle dazzling details, Cherry Cobbler dazzling details, Silver Foil Smooch Spritz, Gold Glow Smooch Spritz, Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz

Misc: Various retired cardstock colors and ribbons, stickles, copic markers.

Wanna see a tutorial for any of these dresses, please leave a comment and tell me which one is your favorite!


Hugs!! Angi

Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year 2013! My SO has been out of town with family all week and my sons were too involved in their own lives, so I didn't get my New Years Kiss, or my bottle of champagne, so instead, of course, I happily created some cards... First up is a Champagne bottle card, I really do like the way it all came out. All products are SU except the cork looking parts (the cork top and the cork label) Those were just some paper in my stash that I thought looked like cork.

Speaking of the New Year, don't forget the Single Stamps sale is almost over. So Rush on over here and grab your favorites before they are gone... Well they really won't be gone,  you will just have to purchase the set in it's entirety.




Hugs!! Angi

A couple Valentines Cards to Share

All of my time has not been spent on Christmas Cards, during this week off, I got a lot done, organizing my Craft Room, to be more SU friendly (moving all my SU stuff close at hand, reorganizing all of my retired sets from the last time I was an SU demo and of course I have come up with about 100 project ideas, if only I didn't have to work to pay for my Stampin Up hobby and my scuba diving hobby ;)
Anywho, I do have a couple of Valentines cards to share with you tonight before I hit the sack, dreaming of stampin up projects I can do and staying awake because I dont have a enough time in the world to get it all done!

I like the way the malt card came out, I used velum and Sparkly red paper and embossed the topping, I always get carried away with distressing ink though, don't ya think? Both cards are real cards, that fit into a standard A2 envelope.

The lips card came from an idea I saw on interest (boy do I waste a lot of time there) The paper was one of my retired reds and I kept working it with copic markers trying to make it look more realistic, and I added some red dazzling details to make them shiny. I was trying to keep the center of the lips a little lighter, to look like the lips were parted in a smile, but I eventually gave up and went to bed, lol, A little more black distress ink of course, a little too much, I just love to distress my cards and never know when to stop and the worst part is my inky fingers, while I love getting inky, I have got to remember to wipe them up a little before I move on to the next color.

What do you think? What would you have done to make the lips look a little better?

Hugs!! Angi

Holiday Ornament Card

SU recently had these great little Ornamental Elegance Kits on sale, right before Christmas to create Ornaments like this. I purchased the kit with the intention of giving the ornaments to my neighbors to maybe drum up some business for my first workshop and, well, it didn't work out so well... I never got to them. So... I ended up making just one, to see how they looked (mine doesn't look as great as the ones on the front page of the Holiday Catty, but I am still happy with the way it turned out.) 

Anyway, I decided to try a smaller version on a card, and I really like the way it came out. I know I should move to my Valentines and Spring cards, but I still trying to use up my Christmas supplies, to make it worse, I spent the weekend cleaning out my scrapbook room and came across a lot of old supplies from when I was a demo before and well, now I feel compelled to use it up to. I am thinking of maybe making all the cards and bagging them up in groups of ten to give as door prizes or book to look prizes or something of that nature, what do you think?

Hugs!! Angi

My Sketch World DT app

Greetings, I decided I would like to try and get on a design team or two and just happened to have a DT announcement in my inbox this week, So, I whipped up a couple cards based on sketches in the past hour and submitted my application. Wish me luck! Leave me some comments wishing me luck and I will have a great little bit of blog candy for you, which will be a cute little Happy Hello, Simply Sent kit from the new Sale A Bration Catty from Stampin Up.

This kit includes everything you need for creating a great little cards. As a bonus, If I get selected for the DT, I will add a free little sentiment, so be sure to wish me luck!

While we are on the subject of Sale A Bration, for every $50 you spend during the Sale A Bration period, you can get a free item from the Sale A Bration Catty, this is just one of the free items you can select.

Sale A Bration starts Jan 22 and ends Mar 24, that is a lot of time to gather all the goodies in this great little catty.

Plus, if you join SU as a demonstrator during Sale a bration, you get 25% more in your starter kit, what a great way to start!



But I digress, Back to my DT application. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of several projects right now and I wanted to hurry and get my application in, so I whipped up 4 cards super fast (literally within the hour)

So, I put in my application with My Sketch World and you can find all the sketches here and finally, using scraps from the projects I have been working on and the scraps in my scrap bin, I whipped up these 4 little cards.

Hugs!! Angi

Single Stamps.. time is almost out

Hurry and grab some of these stamp singles from your favorite sets before time runs out!

SINGLE STAMPS

This

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JANUARY 2, 2013. 

 

BLOOMING WITH KINDNESS: FLOWER CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $6.95	BOLD SNOWFLAKE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $5.95	CHRISTMAS LODGE: TREE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $7.95	EVERYTHING ELEANOR: LABEL CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $5.95
LAYERED LABELS: FOR YOU CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $5.95	LOVE HEART CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $4.95	NEW YEARS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $6.95	PERFECTLY PENNED: CELEBRATE TODAY CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP Price: $5.95
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This is a one time opportunity to grab some of your favorite stamps, at the single stamp price! Offer ends on Jan 2, hurry and get yours today!



Hugs!! Angi