Fly fishing

Here are a few fly fishing cards that I made. My husband fly fishes, so I always have a few fishing cards on hand!

The fishing stamp sets I used are from old SU sets that I bought on E-bay. I used earthy colors on these cards, because I think that the colors go well with the theme of the cards. If you have questions as to which exact colors and stamp sets I used, please let me know.

Layered Upsy's

Happy Thanksgiving (yesterday)!!!

Here is another simple card that could be for any occasion if you were to change the greeting.

The colors in the card are Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White and So Saffron. I first stamped the Upsy Daisy stamp in the So Saffron ink and stamped it on the Whisper White (you need to re-ink and stamp your flowers twice in order to get the flowers to go all the way across the card stock) and then stamped the Pumpkin Pie flowers and then the Chocolate Chips ones last. I did sponge around the edges with Chocolate Chip in to give it more of a softer look. I used one of the mini clips in the SU Clips Assortment embellishment pack to tie a few pieces of coordinating ribbon on to and then clipped it to the bottom of the card to finish it off.

Simple Cattails

I saw this idea on Splitcoast and I thought it was such a great idea. This is an easy and fast card to make that can be for any occasion.

The colors in this card are Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke and Very Vanilla. The cattails are made by punching out Chocolate Chip card stock with the Horizontal Slot puch and then gluing them onto the blades of grass from the Inspired by Nature stamp set.


I used the new Chocolate Chip felt ribbon from the Holiday Mini along with a little snippet of Always Artichoke ribbon to finish off the card.

Snowflake Shimmer's

These are the Snowflake Shimmer Decor Decals from Stampin's Up's Holiday Mini Catalog! I wasn't going to get them, but them I decided why not! I am happy that I did order them, because I really like them. They are removable and reusable! It is hard taking a picture of them, but I think you will get the idea.

I put 6-8 snowflakes each on our bigger windows in the two opposite corners. So 3 to 4 snowflakes in the upper left corner of the window and 3 to 4 snowflakes in the lower right corner of the window. I did this so you could still see out the window with out seeing huge snowflakes all over! I think they look good, and not too over powering.

First $5 Firday Night Stamping!

I decided I needed to start another stamping night for people that are not in my club, and don't want to place an order every month or even come to the meeting every month, so I started $5 Friday Night Stamping! I am going to do this once a month and we are going to make 2 cards for $5. I recently had my first one and I think it went well. Here are the cards that we made.

The first one is a pretty simple birthday card. The stamp sets used was Fabulous Flower and Happy Everything. The color's used were Elegant Eggplant, Taken with Teal, Old Olive and Whisper White. I used the scallop edge punch to scallop the bottom the the Taken with Teal paper and the ribbon used was the 5/8" Old Olive Grosgrain.

The second card we made was a little Christmas card that had a Rub On on it. Through November 30, Stampin' Up! is offering 20% off all their Rub On's if you spend $20.

This card measures 4" X 4". The colors are Riding Hood Red and Whisper White. The Noel stamp used to make the back ground is from the Many Merry Messages stamp set. The flower image in the middle is from the Hidden Garden Run Ons. The Ribbon used is Riding Hood Red 5/8" Striped Grosgrain. For a little added bling there are some Dazzling Diamonds in the middle of the flower adhered with Crystal Effects.

November Club Cards

Here are the cards that we made this month for my club.

The first card features the Cracked Glass Technique. You do this by "smooshing" Versa Mark ink all over your stamped image and then sprinkling Glassy Glaze Enamel over that and then embossing it. You do this three times, so you have three layers of Glassy Glaze Enamel on to your stamped image. You then put your paper you just embossed into the freezer for about 5 mins. When you take it out you just crack the "glass" by bending the image in a few different directions. Here is a close up of the crack glass.

The card stock that I used to make this card were Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. I used Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow and More Mustard classic ink to stamp the images and Glassy Glaze Enamel and Versa Mark to make the "glass". Other accessories I used were 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip ribbon, Linen Thread, the Scallop Edge punch, the 1 3/8", 1 1/4" and the 1/16" circle punches. To make the background image I used multiple stamp sets, they include Itty Bitty Backgrounds (little dots), Priceless (little flower), and Season of Friendship (the leaves) and the sentiment is from the Hostess set called Best Yet.

((You may recognize this next card from an earlier post on my blog, this is the card I submitted for the soshelli.com creative challenge, but I liked it so much I wanted to share it with my club!))

This was the Thanksgiving card that we made. The main image (the Pumpkin) is punch art. It is made by punching out five Wide Ovals sponging around them and gluing them together in a pumpkin shape.

The card stock I used for this card is Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie (how appropriate! :) ) and So Saffron. The pumpkins stem is made with a little piece of 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon folded in half. The Vines are made from the 3/4" and the 1/2" circle punch punched out and then cut into a spiral shape. The "hay" is the So Saffron paper cut into thin strips and then crumpled up.

There wasn't much stamping on this card, but the stamp sets I used were Celebrate Everything (Celebrate) and Fundamental Phrases (thanks). I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the two words.

The last card that we made was a simple Christmas card. It seems like Christmas is so far away, but it will be here before we know it!

The paper used for this card is Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White and Holiday Treasures DSP. The ribbon is the 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain. The cute little reindeer is from the A Holly, Jolly Christmas stamp set.

I stamped the reindeer in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and then clear embossed it. Then I colored in the nose and put a drop of Crystal effects on his nose! I think you can tell which reindeer he is!

Thanks for looking!