Finally Friday and Love is in the Air!!!!

Hello all!! I know I have been really bad the past couple of weeks and completely forgot to post!! How could that happen? You know, that thing we call life!

Anyway, can you feel the love that is all around us right now? Valentine's Day is 29days away!!! Are you ready?

I've wanted to try the Herringbone technique in the most recent Technique Junkies newsletter and I just hadn't made time. Well, the other day I was sitting at my table and got the bright idea of trying this technique using ribbon!! I plenty of ribbon scraps in bin, and so I went looking. I pulled out red, black and white ribbons and then just followed the directions.

I started out with a 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece of scrap card stock and covered thoroughly with double sided tape. At that point I just started laying out my ribbon scraps in the Herringbone pattern. Once I was done, I trimmed the edges and then cut the card stock piece down to the size I wanted. This is the largest piece. I was able to make three cards with the pieces I had.

My card base is Shimmery White and I then used Real Red and Basic Black. The stamp set I used is Love You Much and the bird is punched using the new 2 step bird punch in the Occasions mini.

I used my distressor tool around the edges of the Basic Black panel, just to add some texture! Both the heart and bird are popped up with dimensionals. I also popped up the bird's wing. Lot's of dimension on this one!!

Happy Stamping!!!

~~~Ann~~~

Top Note Treasure Box

Happy 1st Wednesday of 2010! 

Today's post is a box created by me.  You can fill it with all kinds of treasures for your Valentine or your kiddos or yourself.  :)  The instructions are posted on my blog.

Amber, no worries.  I'm glad you posted earlier since I didn't get mine up this morning. Wow!  Such a gorgeous card, too!   I can't wait to get my bird punch this Friday so I can CASE it.  ;)

Until next week...

Happy stampin'!

Happy Almost Valentine's Day!

Today's project comes to us from Becky Roberts, our Blog Manager. It is absolutely fabulous, and you can order the tutorial on her blog, Inking Idaho.

Thanks for sharing with us, Becky! I am always amazed by your talent!

Have a fabulous Wednesday!
See you next week!

Happy Stampin'!
Elizabeth



Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla.
Stamp Sets: Loads of Love and Accessories, Love You Much.
Punches: Scallop Circle and 1 3/8” Circle Punch.
Accessories: Candy Lane DSP, Top Note Die Cut and the Big Shot, Transparency Paper, Jumbo Eyelets, Rope Twine, Flower Fusion, Pretty in Pink Taffeta Ribbon, Chocolate Chip Stitched Grosgrain, Button Bouquet.

Wacky Wednesday!

Today's projects come from Kristine Memmott. They are perfect for Valentine's Day which is right around the corner! Don't forget...the Love You Much bundle is available until January 31st! Don't miss out on the savings!

Stamps: Love You Much
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red DSP, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Key Tag Punch, Corner Rounder Punch

Stamps: Love You Much
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Candy Cane DSP, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Three Heart Punch, Word Window Punch, Mat Pack and Paper Piercer, Silver Brads

Thanks for visiting today! I'll see you back here again next Wednesday!

Happy Stampin'!

Elizabeth

Love You Much!!

Hello all!!! It's time for another Finally Friday posting!!! This Friday we are showcasing the awesome Love You Much bundle available now for our customers!!! Can you believe Valentine's Day is just around the corner??

Our samples this week come from Selene Kempton!! Wonderful samples and easily reproducible for us to show our customers!!

Both of these were made with the love you much bundle.
Stamps: love you much

Paper and Ink: (same colors)
close to cocoa
Pink Pirouette
Riding Hood Red
Love u much bundle DSP

Card 1 I used crystal effects to paint the vase and punched holes on either
side of the flower to run the ribbon

Card 2 I used crystal effects and dazzling diamonds for the bling.

Happy Friday and Happy Stamping!!!!

~~~Ann~~~

Scallop Bouquet

Welcome to another Tuesday here on the brand new Utah Divas International blog! I will generally be posting a project by a UDI group member each Tuesday, but for today, here is one of my Valentine's Day projects.

I call this a scallop bouquet since the "flowers" are created with a scallop punch. I first saw this idea on Tracey Roy's blog http://lakeshorestamper.typepad.com as a Halloween decoration. You can use a plastic or glass vase like Tracey did, or a plastic jar like I did for this sample. I had quite a few of these jars without lids for them so I thought this would be a nice way to use the jars :) You can use a variety of items as your filler inside the jar. Any kind of hard candy (but not soft as they will most likely stick and clump together), buttons, pebbles, marbles, and so much more. With a little bit of imagination, the possibilities are endless!

The supplies I used to create this project are as follows:

Stamp Set: Seeing Spots

Paper: Rose Red Designer Prints, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White CS

Ink: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink Classic Ink

Accessories: Plastic clear jar, Wood dowels (cut in half), White acrylic paint (to paint dowels), Sticky Strip, SNAIL adhesive, Stampin’ Dimensionals, 1 1/4” circle punch, 1 3/8” circle punch, Scallop circle punch, Pretty in Pink 1/4” grosgrain ribbon, Purely Pomegranate double stitched grosgrain ribbon, Light Pink gingham ribbon, Cupid’s Mix M&M’s.

Have fun stampin' and creatin'!