Charming, Lovely, Beautiful

Hi everyone! I've got another card for you. I'm so excited to be using this new Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Two die. This is one of the many brand new releases that are available at Stamper's Dream. My Spellbinders collection is ever expanding, I just want them all! I love the shape of this die, it perfectly framed the bird cage image from the MME Blush paper pad. I am going to use up this paper pad for my cards because I love it so much!

The edges of the papers were inked with the Distress Ink Spun Sugar. The color is so soft and it brought out the embossed edges of the die. I embellished the card with some small semi open rose buds, a clear crystal spray, some seam binding and a rose button from my stash.

On the bottom of the card I ran some Tim Holtz Tissue Tape. So there is my card share for you today, I hope that you guys like it. If you haven't picked up this yummy paper pad you are missing out....just sayin' =) Have a great rest of the week!

Stamper's Dream Products (links provided):
MME - 6x6 Blush
Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Two
Distress Ink - Spun Sugar (Out of Stock)
Other Products:
Ivory Cardstock, I Am Roses Small Semi Open Rose Buds Pink Two Tone, Cuttlebug, Dimensional Pop Dots, KARLAS001 Etsy Clear Wheat white Spray, White Seam Binding, Rose Button from Stash, Tim Holtz Tissue Tape

Happy Birthday

Happy Wednesday! It's time for a birthday card. This awesome stamp set is JustRite Shabby Chic Labels Four, available at Stamper's Dream. I love how these JustRite stamp sets are compatible with Spellbinders dies. I stamped the image on pattern paper and used the Spellbinders Labels Four Large die. The paper is MME Lost & Found Blush. I used the same card layout as my Halloween cards (original post here) but just reversed the placement. I kept this card pretty flat and only popped up the stamped image on dimensional pop dots. It's perfect for mailing.

The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is also from the same stamp set. I stamped it out on a rectangle shaped banner and cut the little ribbon tails at the end. I'm so addicted to making ribbon tails on my projects now LOL. I finished it with a mini rhinestone embellishment. The edges of the papers were lightly edged with Distress Ink Walnut Stain. A small strip of pattern paper was just placed on the inside.

Well there's my card and I hope you've enjoyed it. All the links of the products used are provided below. Have a great day!

Stamper's Dream Products (links provided):
MME - 6x6 Blush
JustRite - Shabby Chic Labels Four
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Other Products:
Spellbinders Labels Four LG, Memento Rich Cocoa, Small Brown Brads, Bazzill Brown Cardstock, Extra Small Rhinestone, Cuttlebug, Dimensional Pop Dots, Clear Acrylic Block

Revamping a Paper Bag Mini

I was going through my old projects and I came across this paper bag mini that I created in March 2009 (orginal post here). Wow, talk about plain! LOL I decided it needed a face lift. So I gathered up my I Am Roses flowers and went to town.

Before:

After:

The cover was so0 plain and empty. I added some brown trim to the side and also to the binder rings. I used these beautiful white & blue large gardenias from the Mixed Blue Gardenia Pack. They totally filled up the empty space on the bottom. A few rhinestones and some misc latex flowers finished the cover. I added several small White Gardenias and Baby Blue Gardenias throughout the pages in the mini.

Some people say to not touch your old projects, to leave them as is to see your progress as a scrapbooker, but I just had to do something to this mini. Now I can give this mini as a gift and be satisfied with the quality that I'm putting out. All I did was just add some gorgeous flowers and I think that the mini is now complete. So get your old projects out and bring them back to life. Thanks for stopping by!

I Am Roses Products (links provided):
GB4-607 Mixed Blue Gardenia
S10-15 Small White Flowers
K1-805/Z Small Natural Skeleton Leaves
GS2-1 White Gardenia Flowers
GS2-423 Baby Blue Curly Flowers
Other Products:
Misc Brown Trim, Blue Prima Latex Flowers, Completed Paper Bag Mini

Halloween Cards

Happy Thursday and it's time for another Stamper's Dream project share! It has been a weird weather week for me here in Cali, it's hot, then it rains, and it's hot again, ugh. Anyways, I was able to make these Halloween cards. The paper I chose to use is Echo Park The Apothecary Emporium. I used the fabulous new sets from JustRite Trick or Treat Borders & Centers Oval. These images were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and were colored with my Copic markers. I also used a glitter pen on some parts of the images.
I used my small oval Spellbinders to cut the images out. Then I used foam pop dots to place them on the card for that added dimension. I used the JustRite Halloween Mini Sentiments. You can choose from 18 different phrases in this set. I had cut the banners and edged all the papers with Black Soot Distress Ink. As a final embellishment, I added three brads to the top of the banner tail. I used the same layout on all four cards, which made them fast and easy to replicate.

Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Stamper's Dream Products (links provided):
Echo Park - The Apothercary Emporium
JustRite - Trick or Treat Borders and Centers Ovals
JustRite - Halloween Mini Sentiments
Memento Tuxedo Black
Other Products:
White Cardstock, Distress Ink Black Soot, Small Silver Brads, Copic Markers, Spellbinders Small Ovals, Fiskars Scallop Border Punch, Cuttlebug, Dimensional Pop Dots

Nature Card

How's everyone's start to their Labor Day weekend? It's hot hot hot! I have an I Am Roses card share for you guys today. I was inspired by a card that I saw in the 2011 Stampin' Up catalog (for those who have it, it's on page 182). It was a very simple layout and I badly wanted to cut into my MME Lost and Found Two papers =). The luscious rose in the center is from a Random Mixed Sizes of Classic Brown Tones. The bird image is from a Martha Stewart stamp set that I had gotten in clearance a while back. The white cardstock that the image is stamped on was distressed with Antique Linen and cut with the Stampin' Up! Bigz Top Note Die.

My favorite go to flowers hands down are the Small White Flowers. I paired them with the Small Ivory Crochet Flowers. To complete the spray of flowers on the card, I added Brown/Black Semi Open Rose Buds on each side. The leaves I used were the Pale Green Leaves, in which were sprayed with my Gator Gumbo Olive Starburst from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend! I hope you are able to sneak in some crafting time in. To see how I put this card together, you can watch the video here. Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

I Am Roses Products (links provided):
ZM-827 Random Mixed Sizes Classic Brown
S10-15 Small White Flowers
B0-508 Pale Green Leaves
T30-578 Brown Black Semi Open Rose Buds
ZJC1-153 Small Ivory Crochet Flowers
Other Products:
MME Lost & Found Two - Breeze, White Cardstock, Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Colorbox Chestnut Roan, Lindy's Stamp Gang - Gator Gumbo Olive, SU! Bigz Top Note Die, Cuttlebug

Be Strong Party Favors & Thank You Card

Hi and Happy Wednesday! It's the the last day of the month and I have two Stamper's Dream projects to share. I had made a card last week (blog post here) using the Be Strong stamp set and I wanted to show some other quick projects that can be created using other images in the set. There are so many to choose from but here is what I came up with.

For my first project I decided to make some favor boxes. These are perfect for those charity events/parties/crops that will be held in October for Cancer Awareness Month. For the base of my project I used a plain favor box that I found in the wedding section of my local craft store. The papers that I chose to use were from MME the Happy Go Lucky paper pad. I used several sentiments included in the stamp set. The heart tag die from JustRites Charms Custom Dies were a perfect fit. The Spun Sugar Distress Ink was used lightly around the stamped sentiments to make them pop out more. You can watch a video on how I put these favor boxes together here.

For my second project, I made these 3x3 Thank You cards. I used the same paper collection and cut it down to size. In the Be strong stamp set, I used the large ribbon image and stamped it on white cardstock and then I cut it out. I stamped the individual words "Friends" and "Strength" at the tail ends of the ribbon. Then I lightly inked the ribbon with the Spun Sugar and popped the ribbon up with dimensional pop dots. Really simple and fast projects that are easy to replicate.

I hope I was able to show you how you can make a stamp set stretch out into multiple projects. Thanks for stopping by!

Stamper's Dream Products (links provided):
JustRite - Be Strong
JustRite/Spellbinders - Charm Dies
Memento Tuxedo Black
MME - Happy Go Lucky 6x6
Distress Ink - Spun Sugar
Other Products:
White Cardstock, Bridal Party Favor Box, Black Satin Ribbon, Sm. Circle Punch, Acrylic Block, Cuttlebug, Dimensional Pop Dots

You're An Angel

Hello Thursday! Hi guys, it's time for an I Am Roses project. I've made another Christmas card, woo hoo, I'm ahead by two cards this season LOL. I had a leftover image/embellishment from a swap I did with my friend Rina, which made my whole card process go much faster. You can see my original project in this post. I layered several design papers and distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz Distressing Tool (thanks Jil - Stampyra on YouTube).

All the I Am Roses flowers that I used were all sprayed with my Lindy's Stamp Gang in Scintillating Silver. It just made the flowers pop. I used that beautiful 2" Red Rose in the left bottom corner. Two 1/2" White Paper Roses flanked both the bottom and top red roses. The flower I used on the top right hand corner is a 1" Red Paper Rose. The leaves that I used were the Small Green Leaves and I sprayed them with my Lindy's Stamp Gang spray in Gator Gumbo Olive.

You can watch a step by step video of me putting this card together here. Thanks again for taking the time to look at my project. Have a wonderful evening!

I Am Roses Products (links provided):
R40-11 2" Red Paper Roses
ZQL0-1 Small Green Leaves
R5-12 1" Red Paper Flowers
R8-15 1/2" White Paper Roses
Other Products:
Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses, Scenic Route - Garland, Martha Stewart Holidays - Scandinavian Paper PadLindy's Stamp Gang - Scintillating Silver/Gator Gumbo Olive, Spellbinders Lacey Circles, TGF Cheeky Xmas, Copic Markers, Cuttleug, Tim Holtz Distress Tool, Gold Brads, Best Creations Champagne Glitter Paper, Vellum, Diamond Dust, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, QK Banner Die, White Cardstock