Feeling Sentimental

This is still my favorite Sale A Bration set, I love it! I decided to do a little playing with paper tonight, just for me..... Sale A Bration is almost half over, have you gotten your free sets yet?

Hugs!! Angi

Artisan embellishments

I am working on this card class using Artisan Embellishments and I am loving the way they came out....Hugs!! Angi

Introducing: Photopolymer Stamps by Stampin' Up!

Introducing: Photopolymer Stamps by Stampin' Up!

I'm excited to announce...Stampin' Up! is introducing a cool new Photopolymer stamp choice.  Download: Photopolymer Flyer

What is it and what makes it so great?

• They're entirely transparent for perfect placement every time! 
• They are durable. The photopolymer material is designed to last. 
• Stamps stick amazingly well to our clear blocks and are easy to place just where you want them
• They're age tested. They won't yellow or cloud up over time. 

They are starting off with one stamp set and plan to offer a new one each month on a trial basis.  Now Stampin' Up! offers options for every kind of stamper: wood-mount, clear-mount, and now photopolymer!  

I cant wait to try these out!

Hugs!! Angi

A CASE of By the Tide

As I am certain I have mentioned before.. I love the ocean, I love being in the water, looking at all the beautiful colors so far below, looking at the varied sea life............... Alas, I currently live in El Paso, so... I have to live vicariously through TV, Great Vacations and well... Stampin

This card is a complete CASE from Amy Celona, she recently had a class in PA (my home of origin) which featured this set and the masking you see here..... I loved it so much, I decided to give it a whirl. Mine has a little different effect from hers, but is very similar and I am still happy with it.... The last minute coral at the top was meant to be a little lighter but, I am still happy with it. I think I may go back and for a re-look at my painters tray from the other day and implement something more like this, somewhere in there... I have been wanting to use the sponged ocean picture a little bit lower in the tray anyway..... Ideally, I would love to use the two center spots for the blue ocean, but I am not really sure how that will look.. More to come.


Hugs!! Angi

Ears to you!!

I have seen this set done in color and they look great, but I just think of chocolate bunnies when I see it, what about you? Do you see chocolate or do you see color?

I tried a little spring colors, but they just don't feel as good to me as the chocolate bunnies. I also tried a little mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate and white chocolate, but I just couldn't get the white chocolate to come out... So.... I went with some caramel instead and I actually think this is my favorite of the three... what do you think?

Hugs!! Angi

A little more of the open sea...

The Open Sea is by far one of my favorite stamps sets in the entire SU catalog! I am loving it! As I described yesterday, as a scuba diver, this set is close to my heart! I cannot believe it has taken me so long to play with this set! I really love it and wish the catalog had more nautical themed stamps! I used an old sentiment, but I am not sure what set it comes from, because I have taken my retired sets apart and have them filed by theme, so if you know what set the sentiment is from, feel free to give it a shout out, I haven't a clue!

Hugs!! Angi

A couple embellished events

I am always trying to come up with simple cards that aren't supply intensive to do with customers to convince them to stamp and of course purchase products. Of course, I am never happy with the simple cards, I started an entire class and ended up doing only these three cards before tossing the rest of the class........ Grr.... Oh well, it was a rough day and sometimes, I just need to play with paper to feel better, even if it doesn't amount to the best projects

Don't forget to comment now thru Feb 14 so you can enter for a chance to win this set..... You can comment on any post from now until then, each comment will win you an entry.

Hugs!! Angi

Samples for my first workshop

My first workshop is coming up at the end of the month and I have been laboring away at samples, make and takes and the like. Pinterest has been a life savor at inspiring me! Just a few samples for our make and take station, I am so excited.... If one of these is your design, please let me know so I can give you credit, all of you inspire me so much!

We are working with the Delightful Dozen set and I am trying to show several techniques. I am so excited, which one do you like?


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

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Bloggers and Facebook Family, it's ridiculously early Christmas Morning, but I am still up with my usual insomnia, merrily stamping away the early morning hours, even procrastinating getting those last gifts wrapped and under the tree. Just a few more Christmas Cards to share: One more using Candlelight Christmas DSP, yep, I am still using the same half a pack I started with ( I think I am up to 12 so far, but I have seen one stamper who gets 35 from half a pack, I have some work to do, although I am still working at it)

The second card is my version of a Blue Christmas, or maybe even a white Christmas, which we will rarely have here in El Paso, don't get me wrong, I am not really a fan of the snow, If I could have a white Christmas and have it merrily melt away Christmas Night, that would be the perfect scene for me! Anywho, I digress, I got a little carried away with this blue Christmas card, a little too much going on here, I know... I started with and idea and just got carried away, trying to add dimension to it....  The good news is, I have some ideas using what did work and I will get rid of the rest... Live and learn right...


Now, off to get those last couple of gifts wrapped.. or.... maybe I will just stamp a few more cards... at least two of my three heathens are still up and digital, got stay up awfully late.. or is it early? to stay up past my kids to wrap those last few gifts..




Hugs!! Angi

It's Christmas Eve and the kids are all plugged in as usual, so I am happily stampin away while watching "A Christmas Carol" on the tube. I am so loving pinterest, I could spend all day on there getting inspiration for cards I will never create ;) I am still using my first half back of Candlelight Christmas DSP and loving all the inspiration I am finding. My craft room is a disaster and my sweats are all inky and glittery and there is nothing I would rather be doing, whilst my children are busy with their own passions except maybe spend some time with my special someone, who is out of town with family this week and so, this is the best "me time" I could ask for!

 All cards were created using Candlelight Christmas DSP, which of course, is available here. The top right is rolled DSP punched with various sized circle and scalloped circle punches, the top left is simply scalloped circle punches wrapped around a hand drawn tree, the quilt card to the left is a Top Note die and the bottom card was just a simple bunch of squares, all of these cards were inspired by others seen on pinterest.















Hugs!! Angi

My Card Closet

I have been working on this for a while now, I am excited to share with you my closet of cards.

The closet is a standard sized A2 card box, I used Natural Composition DSP to line the closet and give it a natural wood look, some retired corduroy brads as door knobs and some ribbon to keep it closed. In retrospect, I would have made one door a little larger, to overlap and a temp adhesive or some velcro to keep it closed, but I was making it up as I went along.

 Of course every girl's closet needs a dress and an evening gown and these two beautiful pieces were a pleasure to make, I pleated day dress using some retire DSP and an embossed Brushed Silver Dress with velum pleats, both adorned with Pearl Basic Jewels.


 Next up, a pretty little embossed vellum nighty, kissed with some smooch spritz and a retired edgelits punch

A pretty set of pink undies and bra, embossed and trimmed in black lace (retired punch) . Below is a sexy little number in Very Vanilla, embossed in pink and trimmed with some lacy ribbon which will be available in the new Spring Catty.

A pretty little hat, also adorned with some trimmings from the new spring catty and lastly, no girls closet would be complete without a hot pair of shoes, embossed with clear embossing powder for that patten leather look.

What do you think about my closet? Leave me a comment for some blog candy, a free tutorial for the closet and all of its contents. Be sure to leave a comment by New Years Eve for the blog candy!


Hugs!! Angi