Tart and Tandy

I am feeling better today and at least able to move my arm enough to stamp. I had surgery about a year and a half ago for a ruptured disc in my spine. They went through the front of my neck to replace the disc. Anyway, that has really been bothering me lately where that disc was that was replaced. Plus my arm and shoulder was acting up because of it. Beings it was on the right side it was difficult for me to stamp as I am a right handed person all the way. So hopefully it is going to continue to feel better so I can play.

I got inspired from Denise Mohr. She sent me a RAK today from VC. VC is Virtual Convention on the Internet for those SU demos that can't go to convention and the ones that love SU period. Really fun group, they have a faux hotel, swaps and all kinds of fun things going on just like you was really there. This is my 5 or 6th year of being on this fun group. So thanks Denise. I am going to show her card and the one I made as I loved it so much I wanted to case it but didn't want to copy completely so put my own touches to it. Denise's is done with Strawberries and so cute and mine is the one done with orange slices.

Supplies needed:

Only Orange and Whisper White Card stock

Only Orange and Craft White Ink Pads

Ribbon of choice.

Scalloped punch I used the smallest one and then cut out my oranges and added to the scallops that way.

Crystal Effects for the orange slices

Tart and Tandy SU Stamp Set and Friendship Blooms SU stamp set

Orange Gel Pen or Marker

Directions:

Cut card stock (Only Orange) the long way at 4 1/4 x 11 fold in half and score one end at 1 1/4 inches. Cut a strip of WW at 4 1/4 by 1 1/4.

With Craft White Ink pad stamp the swirls from the Friendship blooms stamp set in various places on the front of the card and on the flap of the card. Then one image on the bottom of the right corner of the inside of the card. Set aside to dry as craft ink takes longer to dry.

Stamp orange slices on WW card stock and cut out. I did 4 oranges and got 2 pieces out of one.

Punch out 4 scalloped circles and mount orange slices to this. Add orange dots in scallops. With Crystal Effects add to the orange slices and set aside to dry.

Back to your main card, add your strip of WW to the inside of the flap. Only leave about an 1/8 to 1/4 inch sticking out. Add orange dots to this. Add ribbon to the flap.

Now with the orange slices dry place randomly on card. You will be cutting some off that goes over the edges, these pieces are really good for nothing so just throw those extras out. With the ones that go under the flap if you do it just right you can get both sides done with one piece. See samples for placement. Now glue down your flap and add a saying to the inside and your done.

So easy and such a cute card. These work up rather quickly even with the Crystal Effects waiting on it to dry. Not sure why my orange slices look dirty but they match the card perfect IRL.

If anyone is interested in joining VC this you can join by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vc_rocks/

Hope you enjoyed the project for today and thanks for sticking with me while I posted very little.

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Free Tide Stain Remover

I know not stamping or anything but hey we get ink on our clothes once in awhile too. So check this out. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to get but I can wait. LOL
http://www.boostbubbles.com/ Click on Get my Free Sample and put in your info.
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Page Sketches

I found some new page sketches some of you might be interested in.
I have a bunch of testing this week for health so won't be posting much this week, I will again as soon as I am done with all of this.
8.5 x 11 page sketches
12 x12 page sketches
More sketches various sizes
Hope you all having a good week and had a wonderful Mother's Day. Don't forget to sign for the blog candy. Ends Friday.

Blog Candy

Bet you all thought I was kidding on the blog candy. Heehe, well here is your chance to win some. Up for grabs to one lucky winner is the following:

Karen Foster Chipboard Book Kit ( Kit contains 2 covers, 8 pages and 2 rings ).

Karen Foster Jumbo Eyelets ( 40 pieces ).

15 Punched out Vases, in 5 colors, 2 designer paper ones, 2 cuttlebug embossed and one plain.

5 Cut out Metal words that are ( Traditional, Home, Happy, Festive and together.

So what you need to do to win this candy is to tell me something about your childhood that really stands out to you, but it has to be something that also involved your Mom, beings it is Mother's Day. So think hard and leave a comment to this message and I will have my youngest son pick a number out of a hat and get the winner. You have until Friday the 16th to leave a comment.

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Happy Mother's Day!

Hope you all have a safe and enjoyable Mother's Day.

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A Great Blog site with Tutorials

I came across a great blog site today and she has step by step tutorials on almost all of her artwork. I have not made it through her whole blog yet but what I see is amazing. Check it out, Michelle Zindorf does an awesome job of showing you how she creates her masterpieces.
http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
I have also added her to my blog along the right side so you can find it easily there to. Hope you enjoy her blog as much as I do.
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CBC16 Let's Play Ball

Chrissy over at Creating with Chrissy is having her weekly Belli Challenge, you can check it out here. This week she has using eyelets. Here is what I come up with for you challenge this week. I use big eyelets on this one that I got at a dollar store.

I also used a sketch from iheart2stamp, I will include the sketch here for you to try to.

Supplies needed for this project:

Whisper White, Real Red and Choc Chip card stock

Black ink

Large Eyelets

Crop-a-dile or Big Kick

Stamp sets of choice

Gamsol and colored pencils

Directions:

Cut WW for basic card at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to form card. I stamp with black ink softballs over the background of the card.

Cut 3 strips of Choc. Chip at 1" wide x 4 6/8

Cut 3 strips of Real Red at 3/4" x 4 6/8, mount to CC strips

Cut 3 strips of Whisper White at 1/2" x 4 6/8. Mount on-top the Real Red strip.

Cut Choc Chip at 3 x 2 7/8

Cut Real Red at 2 3/4 x 2 5/8 mount to Choc Chip piece

Cut Whisper White at 2 1/2 by 2 3/8 and stamp image in black ink and color in. Mount this to the Real Red and Choc Chip piece. Add adhesive to the back and add strips evenly spaced behind this. See sample for placement. Then punch holes for eyelets with your crop-a-dile or Big Kick. Add eyelets and mount all this to your main card.

I thought this turned out cute and will make a nice card for either a male or a female that plays in sports also.

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Rub-ons that Glitter

I love these, my girl friend in the cities called one day and was at Michael's and said they had really nice rub-ons what ones did I want her to get me. So this is what I picked sights unseen. I love each and everyone of them. If you haven't used rub-ons your missing out they go on so nicely. SU also sells rub-on's but not with the glitter on them. I wanted some of these to go on candles as I seen some on SCS and loved how they turned out. She got these for 99 cents each and sent them to me. I got them last week and will be working with some real soon.

Go quick and check out your Michael's or another store that might carry them and get yours to play around with. They look fantastic on candles, cards, scrap book pages, tins, you name it.

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Nobel Deer --MoJo18

I am really late on this sketch but I really like it. I got to use eyelets on it and use my crop-a-dile again. I love using both. This sketch is one of Poetic Artistry's you can find the sketch and other cards by going to her blog here.

Supplies used:

Nobel Deer Stamp Set

Patterned Paper (found at dollar store)

Brocade Blue Eyelets

Crop-a-dile

Choc. Chip and Very Vanilla Card stock

gamsol & colored pencils

Directions:

Cut VV at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to get basic card.

Cut a strip of VV at 4 1/4 x 1 1/8 and a piece cut to 3 1/8 x 3 1/8

Cut CC at 3/4 x 4 1/4 and one at 2 7/8 x 2 7/8

Patterned paper is cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and mounted to the VV main card

Now cut your another VV piece at 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 and stamp deer image on and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. Mount this to the CC piece that measures 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 and then to the VV that is 3 1/8 x 3 1/8. Mount this to the card as shown.

With the 3/4" CC piece mount to the VV that is 4 1/4 x 1 1/8. Punch with crop-a-dile every 3/8 inches you should have 11 brocade eyelets to add there. At least mine measured out to be 11. Mount to card on the right hand side.

Hope you enjoyed today's project. Stay tune this week I will be putting up some blog candy so keep checking back. You won't want to miss out on your chance to win.

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You Cured Yet? Sketch Challenge

This sketch is one by Maria Bell, I do many of her sketches. I have had to make a lot of Get Well cards lately so I went back to my set with the pig set again. For this one I used watercolor pencils and aqua painter.

Supplies needed:

Stamp set of choice

Watercolor Paper

Watercolor Pencils

Aqua Painter

Patterned Paper

Black, Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla card stock

Black Organdy Ribbon

Black Gel Pen

Black and Bashful Blue Ink Pads

Large and small oval punches

Directions:

Cut main card stock (Bashful Blue) 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half for basic card. Cut another piece of Bashful Blue at 3 1/8 x 3 3/8.

Black is cut at 3 4/8 x 3 3/8 and one at 3 1/2 x 4.

Cut Watercolor Paper at 3 x 3 1/8, stamp image on Watercolor paper and color in with watercolor pencils and aqua painter. Set aside to dry.

With patterned paper cut at 3 7/8 x 3 3/8 Mount this to the black piece that measures 3 1/2 by 4. Add black organdy ribbon to this and put ribbon off to the left side. Mount to basic card.

With your oval punches punch out largest oval punch with black card stock. Then with smaller oval punch punch out the very vanilla and stamp. Add black gel pen dots around outer area of the very vanilla and mount to black. Add pop dots to back

Now mount your dried image piece to you bashful blue piece and then on to the remaining black piece. Add dots around outer edge with Black Gel Pen. Mount to card as shown in the sample or sketch. Then mount the little oval piece.

Your card is finished and ready to go in the mail.

I have had so many relatives lately that has had surgery or just not doing good at all. 2 had heart surgery, one had stints put in her legs. One had colon cancer and one was just put in a nursing home as she is not doing well at all. And one just had a pacemaker put in his kidney. Never heard of them doing that before.

Hope your having a good weekend, it is beautiful here today.

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