May's $5 Friday- Flower Frenzy

Here are the two flower-y projects that my $5 Friday group made this month!

The first one is this flower pot card. I saw Rose's Terra Cotta Flower Pot card on Splitcoast and loved it so much I knew I had to CASE it. I like how she put two different flowers together and the colors just pop off the page. The colors are Apricot Appeal, Rose Red, Old Olive and Really Rust. The ribbon is 5/8" Chocolate Chip. The center of the flowers are the 5/16" Whisper White brads.
The flowers were made using the Big Shot Daisy's #2 die layered on top of the Flower Layers die. The leaves are from the Bird's and Blooms Sizzlits die.

Here is what the card looks like when it is "open".




Here is the other card we made. You may recognize this card from an earlier post and you should, because it is what I made for Stacey's Jewelery Color Inspiration Challenge and Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge a few weeks ago.

The colors are Going Grey, Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. The DSP is from the Urban Oasis paper pack. The grey ribbon I died my self using the re-inker and water method.

Thanks for looking!

April $5 Friday- Cameo Crazy

Do you recognize this card? If you looked at my blog a few days ago, you should! I made a very very similar card to this one and liked it so much, I decided to do it for $5 Friday this month.

You know when you make a card the first time and then go to make it again, you tweak it, well, that is what happened to this one! I changed the card size to 51/2" X 41/4", changed the leaf color, stamped a different sentiment, added different ribbon and added some more paper piercing.

To get this custom "Basic Gray" ribbon, I dyed white ribbon and it came out perfectly! I haven't done very much dying, but the few times I have dine it, I have been very satisfied!

(All you do to dye ribbon is add a little water to a small plastic container, I used an old embellishment container from SU!, and then add drops of classic re-inker to the water until the mixture is a bit darker than you want the finished product to be and then dip your ribbon in and pat it dry with a paper towel and then speed up the drying process with a hair dryer!)



The second card we made this month is this Cameo Coral Birthday card.

The white daisy and the pearl center is from the Pretties Kit. The DSP is from the Raspberry Tart paper kit and I layered some Velum Card Stock over it to lighten it up a bit. I stamped the birthday sentiment from On Your Birthday on the Velum using Black Staz-On.

The Whisper White card stock on the bottom is embossed using the Big Shot and the Large dots texture plate (it's hard to see in the picture).

(I haven't used the big daisy from the Pretties kit very much, because I always find that it is "floppy". So I was thinking what I could do to it to make it not so "floppy" and I thought if aerosol hair spray! So I sprayed the daisy and then hit it with the hair dryer a minute and it seemed to help! I was also just thinking, I wonder if you could use starch as well...ummm...I will have to try that next time!)

Thanks for looking!

March $5 Friday

Here are this month's $5 Friday cards.

The first card we did is this simple cupcake card made using the Stampin' Up! Big Bold Cupcakes sizzlits dies and the Big Shot.

The Colors are Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White and Kraft. The sentiment stamp on the bottom right is from the stamp set On Your Birthday. The Chocolate Chip flower button is from the Button Latte button pack and the pink button is from a button pack that is now retired.

In this close up you can see I used the Weave texturz plate from the Texture Plates Kit #4 (I love all the texturz plates!!) from SU on the Pink Pirouette paper. I also used dimentionals on the white "frosting" to make it pop off the card a little bit.




The second card we did was this card made using the Pretty Amazing stamp set. I saw a card very very similar to this one on Splitcoast stampers and I liked it so much, I decided to do it for one of the cards.

The colors on this card are Old Olive, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Whisper White and Chocolate Chip. The DSP is from the Urban Garden paper pack. The ribbon is the Taffeta in Chocolate Chip and the flowers are from the Flower Fusion Too (felt flowers) kit. I used silver brads to mount the flowers on the paper. The sentiment is from the Fresh Cuts stamp set.

Have a great week!

February $5 Friday!

Here was the first card we made for $5 Friday this month. This card uses the stamp set Flight of the Butterfly, which I have never really played around with until the other day, and it is a fun stamp set!


The card's main colors are Riding Hood Red, So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie. The DSP is from the Washington Apple pack. The ribbon is the 5/8" Striped Grosgrain in Riding Hood Red. I used my Crop-A-Dile and three white eyelets to add the finishing touch to the card.






The next card we made was this card using the new Branch Out Stamp set. This set has soo much potential and I will be using it a lot more!

The colors for this card are Basic Black, Bordering Blue, Whisper White and Kraft (I really like all these colors together!)

The Kraft paper comes from the new Taste of Textiles paper from SU! I used my Big Shot again with the Stampin' Up! Background 1 (biggest dots) texturz plate (I love those dots...they seem to go with everything!) to texture the Bordering Blue card stock. The ribbon is the new Organza ribbon in Whisper White. The sentiment came from the stamp set Mark the Date.

I think this card could easily be used for a man, it is not to girly at all!

January $5 Friday!

This is the first card we did at $5 Friday this month. I really like these colors (Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip) together. I think they all complement each other very nicely! The cute little apple is from the Tart and Tangy stamp set and the sentiment is from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set. It is hard to see in the picture, but the Baja Breeze paper is stamped with Baja Breeze ink using the Canvas Background stamp. What a cute and simple card!




The next card we made is this Love (heart) U card. This is my favorite Valentines day card I have made this year by far! It uses the Parisian Summer DSP and the coordinating colors for that paper pack (Bravo Burgundy, Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla). The card base is Sahara Sand and then layered with Bravo Burgundy and then the DSP. The big scallop circle and the chipboard "U" covered in Sahara Sand card stock are made using the Big Shot. The heart is a chip board heart that came from one is SU!'s On Board Chipboard alphabet packs that I covered with Pink Pirouette card stock. The ribbon is the 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette grosgrain ribbon.

This second picture shows the chipboard better.


Have a great day and thanks for looking!

December $5 Friday

Tonight was $5 Friday! (Click here if you want to know what this is all about!)

This is the first card we did. It maybe a little hard to tell in this picture (there was no natural light to take with picture with, because it was snowing out) but the colors are Basic Black, Sahara Sand and Whisper White. The stamp set's that I used were Wonderful You and Fundamental Phrases. I used the 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches for the saying and two little black brads in the top right corner.









The second card we did was this bright birdie card! The DSP is from the Hawaii Papaya pack. The main card is Tangerine Tango and the other colors are Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss and Whisper White. The stamp set is from the A Little Birdie Told Me. The punches are the scallop, 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches. I paper pierced the bird from one of the papers from the DSP's in the Hawaii Papaya pack.

Thanks for looking!

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.