The Cat's Meow.....You're the Bestest

I think this turned out pretty cute! This is a sketch from Maria at Stampin Inspirations. I will include her sketch here. I made two of them 2 different shapes. I love this sketch you can do many sizes in it.

For this one I used the following supplies:

Pumpkin Pie, Choc Chip & Whisper White card stock

Choc. Chip, Whisper White Organdy Ribbon 2 sizes 3/4" and 1/4"

Gamsol and colored pencils

Cat stamp is Penny Black stamp called You're the Bestest

Black Stazon

Directions:

Cut PP card stock at 5 1/2 x 11 and fold in half to make a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 card. Stamp with a small background stamp the background, I used little dots and used Choc. Chip ink. Cut a strip of CC card stock at 1 1/4" wide by 5 1/2. Add CC ribbon 3/4 wide on that and mount to PP card front.

Cut 1" piece of CC and WW ribbon that is 1/4" wide. set aside.

On WW card stock stamp image with Black Stazon. Color in with desired method. Trim down to measure 3 5/8 x 3 1/2. Mount this to a piece of CC cut at 3 7/8 x 3 3/4. Add ribbon pieces to the upper right hand corner. Mount to card. Your finished, this card was so simple to do. Love this sketch.

Hope you enjoyed the project.

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Stamp sets that can be used with our Scalloped SU Punch

Got this from one of my yahoogroups and figured some of you might be interested in this. These stamp sets work for our Scalloped SU Punch. Hope it helps some of you.
PAGE # SU STAMP SET
SIMPLY SENT
14 Lifelong Notes
15 Friendly Notes
16 Simple Delights
HOSTESS SETS
19 Make It Count
23 Infinite Goodness
23 Cause For A Celebration
SU STAMP SETS
29 Pinch Proof
30 Never Ending Joy - the word stamps
31 Give Thanks
34 Punch Pals
42 Voila
42 Voila To Go
45 Refuge & Strength -God is our word, God is not to great & God is stamps
46 To Have & To Hold - looks really good on the champagne glasses
49 Simply Said
50 Dilly Dally51
Enjoy - the words and the stamp with the lines for journaling
52 Greeting Galore - the images look great but the words do not fit
53 If The Halo Fits - words
56 Fun & Fast Notes - the images look great but the words do not fit
56 Perennial Favorites
58 God Is Love - perfect fit!
60 All Through The Year
61 Unforgettable
65 A Little Birdie Told Me - words
66 Pun Fun
68 Sweet Thing
70 Bugs & Kisses
76 Seriously Sassy
82 A Beautiful Thing
83 Amazing
85 Best Kind Of Friend
94 Big Flowers
96 Garden Whimsy
98 A Tree For All Seasons
100 Wildlife Refuge
104 Touch Of Nature - flower
107 Wanted
108 Priceless
109 BoHo Backgrounds - this looks awesome with this set
110 Sprinkles - and this looks awesome with this set
116 Big Pieces
118 Kind Thoughts - perfect fit
119 Carte Postal
122 Think Happy Thoughts
123 Seeing Spots
130 Sweet Celebrations
132 Perfect Timing
133 Sweet Sampler - sweets stamp
WORDS SETS
140 It's Your Birthday
142 Hi & Hello
143 Circle Of Friendship
144 Much Appreciated
144 Warm Words
146 Short & Sweet
146 All Holidays
147 Sweet Serendipity
147 Curvy Verses
148 God's Blessings
148 Elegant Cheer
149 Sincere Salutations
150 Spring Pictogram's
150 It's All Good
152 Bursting With Joy
152 Lovely Labels
153 Taking Care Of Business

Nancy
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Feathered Hope CBC13 & Techno Stamper Sketch Challenge

And she's back! Sorry everyone it was almost a week before I have been able to stamp. Heaven forbid!!! The weather has been fantastic here in Central MN the last day or two. Well all but the wind but you can't have everything.

As many of you know that has been with me for awhile now, that I do sketch challenges that I find on the net and send to a couple of groups. Well here is one of them. We did this one yesterday, well I did mine tonight but you get the idea. So my sketch this week for them was to do one from Techno Stamper sketch challenges she has such neat sketches. Although I am not sure on the Certainly Celery of my card for the background. But, it's ok, I can live with it.

This card is also a UFO project which Chrissy is having a challenge on her blog for UFO projects so this counts for that too. I have had this image stamped for awhile but never put to a project.

Supplies needed for project:

Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Basic Black and Read Red card stock

Scrap of designer paper

3 brads

Crop-a-dile

Stamp set of choice ( I used Feathered Hope) Retired SU Set

Gamsol and colored pencils

Black Stazon Ink Pad

Directions:

Cut WW card stock at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to make a card of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut Black card stock at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Mount to the WW card front. Cut CC at 4 x 5 1/4 and mount to black.

Cut a piece of black at 2 1/4 x 5 1/2 and then with the designer paper cut at 2 x 5 1/4 mount on one an other and then to the CC on the basic card.

Next your going to stamp your image on a WW card stock piece that measures 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 with black ink. Color in with your gamsol and colored pencils or method of choice.

Cut RR card stock at 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 mount stamped piece to this. Then cut a piece of black card stock at 3 x 3 3/8. Punch evenly space 3 holes for eyelets. Place in eyelets and attach this to the bottom of your stamped image with the RR. Mount to the middle of the card as close to center as possible.

Your masterpiece is now finished and ready to send on or display for yourself.

Hope you enjoyed today's project and for your understanding of me being sick and not keeping up with my blog.

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Triangle Box Gift Card Holder Tutorial

Looky what I found on Techno Stampers Blog! Your going to love this. She has awesome directions and a tutorial on making these boxes so easy. Thought I would share with everyone.
If you make one please share with me by adding to the comments on this message.
I will be trying this at a later date but so wanted to share for the rest of you to see and created.
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Sorry been MIA.....

Sorry haven't been around the last few days haven't been feeling well. I finally got into the doctor today and will be having some extensive testing done to find out what all is the problem. This should of been done years ago but you know how that goes unless the doctor comes up with the idea it isn't a go. Well this time he finally woke up that something isn't right. I will be having fibromyalgia testing done and a sleep apnea test done for two of the things he has in store for me. He is also doing a bunch of testing on my 20 year old son. He has one kidney that is smaller than the other by an inch. The artery going to that kidney is not open to what it should be so the blood flow is not what it should be to that kidney which they feel is causing high blood pressure and diabetes. Hopefully we will have answers soon for the both of us.
I will try and get back to my stamping tomorrow, but have been hurting so bad and having some major headaches again so haven't been able to get anything done.
Hope you all are doing much better than we are.
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Button Bear Celebrates

This card could be used for a few different things. Get Well Wishes, Birthday, Congrats for Baby. I really like how this one turned out. I used Julee's sketch from Poetic Artistry. What a neat sketch this one is. Julee is having a contest on her sketch, you might want to check it out. I have included Julee's sketch here.

I am also doing this one for the Ways to use it Challenge WT161 on SCS. I used eyelets and brads on this one and the challenge is for eyelets. The white dots on the black strip really made the card to add more dimension.

So on with the card you will need the following supplies:

Whisper White, Basic Black card stock

Scrap of designer paper

Button Bear Stamp set or your choice of stamp set

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

White Gel Pen

3 white eyelets and 3 balloon brads

gamsol and colored pencils

crop-a-dile

Directions:

Cut a sheet of Whisper white in half so you have a 2 pieces at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Fold one in half to get your main card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut the other piece in half at 4 x 5 1/4 this will be run though with your embossing folder. Last white piece cut at 2 3/4 x 2 7/8. Stamp image on this piece and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. With crop-a-dile punch 3 holes on upper right hand side for balloon brads. Add your brads.

Cut basic black at 3 x 3 1/8 and mount image to this and set aside. Cut one piece at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and add to main card front. With your embossed white piece add to the black.

Cut a piece of designer paper at 3 1/2 x 3. Mount this to a black piece of card stock that measures 3 3/4 x 3 1/4. Add this to you card on top the white. Now cut another black piece at 1 1/2 x 4 1/4. Add dots with white gel pen around edges. Next take your crop-a-dile and punch 3 holes evenly spaced on the left side. Add white eyelets. Mount to the card. Then add your stamped image and your done. See sample for placement of these pieces if you don't understand my directions.

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April Showers

Wish it was showers we was getting but like earlier in the week we are getting more snow starting tomorrow according to the weatherbug news. I'll take the April Showers.

This is another creation for two reasons. 1. Chrissy's Belli Challenge #12. 2. A sketch challenge from Jen del Muro from iheart2stamp.com. Please take some time and check out Chrissy's blog and Jen's blog. Both are very talented lady's. And go ahead and take the challenges they both have going.

I used some of my scraps and a image I had stamped and colored in already but didn't know what to do with yet. Well both of these challenges made this card come to life.

Supplies used:

Read Red, Whisper White, Basic black card stock

Gamsol and colored Pencils

3 Black eyelets

crop-a-dile

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

Black Ribbon with white lines

Black Stazon Ink Pad

Stamp set of choice

Directions:

Cut main card with Whisper White at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to get your card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut Real Red card stock at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 add to main card front.

Cut Whisper White card stock at 4 x 5 1/4 and run though with embossing folder. Use punch for corners and mount to front of card on the Real Red.

Stamp image on Whisper White with Stazon Black ink. Color in with Gamsol and colored pencils (Gamsol Magic). Trim down to 2 1/2 x 3 1/8. Cut Real Red at 2 3/4 x 4 1/8. Add image to upper half. Measure and put in eyelets with the crop-a-dile, just under image. Then add ribbon to the bottom. Layer this on a piece of black card stock that measures 2 7/8 x 4 4/8. Mount this in the center of the card and your finished. Very simple but cute card.

Hope you enjoy today's project and be sure to take the challenges on both Chrissy's and Jen's blogs.

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Button Bear is Back

I love this set and finally dug it out again as I had a bunch of scraps to use up and wanted something that would be easy to work with for my scrap papers. Be sure to check out Chrissy's blog for a Scrap Challenge. Her Challenges is posted on Wed. check them out and join in on the fun of the challenge.

So for this project I used a sketch from Poetic Artistry. MojoMonday22 Sketch Challenges. I love her sketches.

Supplies needed:

Remember now this is a good one for scraps

Designer paper scraps

Whisper White Scraps

Choc Chip card stock

Ribbon Scraps ( this piece was only 6 inches long)

White Gel Pen and Brown Gel Pen

Small Scallop circle punch

Gamsol and colored pencils

Stamp set of choice ( I used Button Bear SU Retired)

Pop dots

Crystal Effects

Directions:

Stamp image on White card stock and color in with gamsol. Trim to 2 3/4 x 2 3/4". Add brown gel pen dots around the corners. Mount to a piece of choc chip card stock that is 3 x 3.

Stamp the honey pot on small scrap of white. Color in and add Crystal Effects to the honey and then on the bear on his paw pads. Set these aside to dry while you work on the rest of your project.

Punch the small scallop and add white dots with the white gel pen to each scallop. You will mount your honey pot on this when dry with pot dots.

4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card will be use to mount the choc chip to, this is cut to card size of the front of the card. Next you will cut your designer papers at 1", 1 1/8", 1 3/8' and 1 5/8" wide and they are all 4 1/4" long. Mount in any order on your choc. chip piece. Add ribbon across middle and add to the basic card front.

Next make sure your Crystal effects is dry once dry you can mount to you card. The bear goes to the right of the card centered on the right edge in the middle. The honey pot is mounted to the small scalloped circle with pot dots and then pot dot the back and mount to left of bear upper area of image.

Your card is now complete and ready to send. Hope you enjoyed today's project and got some of those scraps used up.

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Tagged by an Angel

Okay, here are the rules, my dears.
1. Link to the person that tagged you and leave a comment on their Blog.
2. Post the rules on your Blog.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself on your Blog
4. Tag 7 random people, linking to their Blog.
Kelly my sweet friend tagged me, I am so honored! Gosh I get to pick 7 bloggers! So I will pick for this time, this is so hard to do. I don't want to miss anyone but can only pick so many.
Karen Gibson
Amber Porter
Holly
Chrissy
Teri
Carol M
Corie

Fact 1: In case you haven't guessed I love angels. And have one that watches over me daily from heaven.
Fact 2: I am a Disney movie junkie. I love most the movies that Disney has put out. I also have a large collection of Disney movies either on VHS or DVD.
Fact 3: I have nieces and nephews older than me, which is strange when you come from a small family and marry into a large family.
Fact 4: I am disabled.
Fact 5: I love to shop and have no self control. Gets me in a lot of trouble at times. ;)
Fact 6: I am allergic to chemicals so am unable to dye my hair, wear make up, perfume or anything like that. Can't have no fabric softener, bleach, in my clothes. Can only use hypoallergenic shampoo's and soaps. Its a real pain!
Fact 7: My best friend lives in the Osseo and we chat on the net almost every night. She is a real sweetheart an so dear to my heart.
Now that you know 7 facts about me girls it's time for you to do your 7 facts. I look forward to hearing about you.
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Question Answered about Gamsol

I hope I can answer this good enough for those wondering about the gamsol and colored pencils. The gamsol is a medium that blends the colored pencils.
Here is two tutorials on it. One on SCS and the other is Heartprints. I love the Heartprints one as she has a video on it and really shows you how to use it.
I hope this answers your questions about this product and how to use it.
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