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

Wacky Wednesday!

Hello! Happy Wednesday! Today's projects come from Carol Marbach. She is a demo in Michigan. I bet it's really cold there! ;) I had the pleasure of meeting Carol and spending some time with her at the SU! Convention in SLC just a few months ago. She is a wonderful person, and I can't wait to see her again!

This is Carol and me in SLC! Carol is the blonde.

All Carol's projects are made with one stamp set...Puns from the Past!

Here's what Carol had to say!

When I first saw the Puns, I fell in love with the set. It brought back memories of my gramma, mom and dad, as well as me, and what I grew up with. There is not one of the eight images that I haven't either seen or used myself. What’s not to smile about this set.

Baby ~ this card just screamed “well loved.” It’s a treasure of a time when a child was born. A beloved memory from the past. As I sat there “aging” my card I literally said out loud: “I can’t believe I’m doing this.” I achieved the look I wanted but had to wonder about my sanity for making this card from scratch and destroying it. :$

I used pink pirouette cards stock and 1 ¼” ribbon, chocolate chip cs, 5/8” ribbon and ink and creamy caramel cs and ink. The caramel was used to age the card with smudges of chocolate chip here and there. If I drank coffee I would have dripped a few spots on it also. I scrunched up the ribbon (which bounced back immediately), roughed up the edges and “instant age.” (The torn corner piece I kept inside the card. I just couldn’t throw it away.)

Sew ~ a bit more contemporary twist on this card. Selene got me hooked on using gray as a dominate color instead of an accent. J The sewing machine is embossed on the urban garden dsp and then I build the layers from there. The large gray cs also has the sanded background on it. A gray taffeta bow finishes it off.

Grateful ~ is my quirky card. I punched a scrap with the scallop edge punch for a template. I then dry embossed the “ridges” and smudged Night of Navy ink on them to mirror the cutting edges of the grater. Whisper White, Night of Navy, Barely Banana and Kiwi Kiss make up this card.

Sorry ~ When I first saw the Ski Slope DSP, all I could think of was the 70’s. Mind you, the names have been changed, but they are darn close to the real thing. Guess that’s why it’s call “Retro.”

Making this card made me smile because I used to use one of these erasers in typing class in high school. (A computer??? I’m scratching my head.)

Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss and Apricot Appeal helped me to make this card. As we know, hind site is 20/20. That’s why I kept this card so simple. The only stamping on it is the one image (embossed), and everything else is just layered cs and ribbon. Compared to today, the 70’s were simple. Though we were coming out of the Vietnam War, things were not as turbulent as they are today for teenagers.

Perk ~ Riding Hood Red and Bella Rose DSP created this simple card. The second image from the left is embossed.

Camera ~ Balance came to mind for the camera card. I framed the camera with a chipboard frame and added the “U” in the opposite corner. The “picture perfect” is framed with our styled silver hardware. The silver brads in the lower left corner balance the sentiment also. “Picture Perfect U.”

Fan ~ I wanted to duplicate the fan blades by using the small oval punch, bending the long sides up and down and then sponging to add dimension. The fan is stamped on Shimmer White cs and punched with the square scallop punch, as is the opening.

Type ~ Elegant Eggplant and Always Artichoke finished out the

Puns collection. I stamped little hearts from “Short and Sweet” on the textured card stock and then embossed the typewriter on the artichoke and finished off with a clip from our new “clips assortment” and added eggplant and black grosgrain ribbon.

Thanks for sharing your cards and your memories, Carol!

See you all next Wednesday!

Happy Stampin'!

*~Elizabeth~*

"Spring" into Fall

Today's post comes from Tina McIntyre who lives in Smithton, Pennsylvania.







Pennsylvania fall colors, inspiration for my pretty kind card!










I just love these side views, they really give you the dimension that straight-on photos don't.









Pretty little stitched spiral of fall leaves!
I absolutely love the inside of this card. The pop-out spiral really gives it that "SURPRISE"!!! I hope you enjoy the card
and let this inspire you to inspire everyone !!!!

Live, Laugh, & Love to Create ! Tina McIntyre

Supplies for Tina's card(all Stampin Up!):
Stamp sets: Kind Thoughts, Baroque Motifs, Stitched Exotics.
Cardstock : Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Really Rust, Summer Sun, Very Vanilla.
Ink : Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango & Riding Hood Red Classic stamp pads.
Accessories: Fresh Favorites ll brads, 1 3/8" Circle punch, Craft & Rubber scissors, Tag punch, Riding Hood Red 5/8" striped ribbon, 1/2 pearls from the Prettiies Kit, Color Spritzer w/Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write marker.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful Pennsylvania Fall with us, Tina!

See you next Wednesday!

~* Elizabeth *~

It's going to be a Wacky Wednesday!

Hello! My name is Elizabeth Harris, and I'm a mom of 2 great kids, a son and a daughter. We live in Tampa, Florida. I will be posting to the UDI blog on Wednesdays now. I have some huge shoes to fill. Leonie is so creative and did a fantastic job! October will be the official start date for my posts, but Max asked me if I would mind posting today. Of course I don't! :)

I had no mojo today, so I opened up the gorgeous new Stampin' Up! catalog for some inspiration. They don't call it the Idea Book & Catalog for nothin', ya know! I lovingly paged through my catalog, and decided to use the sketch from the Bugs & Kisses card on page 69. My card is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I used the new Party Hearty set, the new Scalloped Edge punch and some new In Colors. See a trend? LOL I stamped the cupcakes on Shimmery White paper. I couldn't capture the sparkle in the picture, but, believe me, it's there. I need to use this paper more often. I always forget I have it. Guess I should get it out of the cabinet and out where I can see it.

Have a fantastic evening, and I'll be back soon! I can't promise it'll always be wacky, but you can never tell with me! ;)

Here's what I used on my card...all SU!, of course! Stamps- Party Hearty. Paper- Shimmery White, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie. Ink- Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal, Ruby Red, Rose Red, Old Olive, Creamy Caramel. Accessories- Scalloped Edge punch, Crop-a-dile, Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Stampin' Success Saturday

Congrats to today's feature Diva, Ann Fitton, for winning the August Stampin' Success contest-Tricks and Treats. Her winning submission will be in the October Stampin' Success. I cannot wait to see what she created for the contest, but until then.....I do have other projects of hers to share with you. She even used the new sets she won*! :)

First, here's a little of what Ann wanted to share with all of you....

I have been stamping for 5 1/2 years now and a demo for 3 years. Like most of us, I went to an SU! workshop to "help" out a friend!!! One time was all it took and I was hooked! While I can't draw a stick figure to save my life, stamping gives me the creative outlet I need. And I'm not a fast stamper either!! Sometimes a card can take me all day until I am happy with it! I don't have one specific style of stamping and I like that. I want people to look at my creations and see differences in all of them, even it's just a little difference. I love to emboss and paper piece images to make them really pop on a card!

Bloom Where You are Planted Card (Above)
Stamps: None!
Inks: None!
Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper Whiter, Summer Picnic dsp, Bashful Blue
Accessories: Blooms die cuts, Summer Days rub ons, River Rock stitched (with stitching removed), Fire & Ice circle rhinestone brads, paper piercer, dimensionals, slit punch

Let's Celebrate!
Stamps: On Your Birthday*, Frames with a Flourish*, Flower Fancy* and Canvas
Ink: Blush Blossom, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa, Cert. Celery & Old Olive
Cardstock: Close to Cocoa, Blush Blossom, Ruby Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Coluzzle, scallop & 1 3/8" circle punches, white taffeta, dimensionals, scallop edge punch, piercing tool



Torn Up Love
Stamps: Dreams Du Jour, Frames with a Flourish*
Inks: Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Whisper White, Old Olive text., Riding Hood Red & Bella Rose dsp
Accessories: Scallop edge & 1 3/8" square punches, kraft taffeta, dimensionals, SU! markers, blender pens


Thank you so much for sharing your creations with us, Ann. Looking forward to seeing that winning submission.

Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday weekend.

Alicia :)

Saturday Swaps

Today I'd like to share the Convention swaps that Adriana created using new items from the 2008 Fall-Winter Idea Book and Catalog.

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red and Bella Rose DSP
Stamps: Dreams du Jour
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, StazOn Black
Tools: Mat Pack and paper piercer (from Crafter's Tool Kit), Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Blender pen


Here's what Adriana has to add about her creation....
"It's a little difficult to see here, but I cut out a second flower and attached it with dimensionals above the original image. It didn't take long and it gives the card a nice little special touch. Also, I've read a few posts about adding a light blue around your images to make the "pop" off the background - it really works!"

Thank you for sharing, Adriana.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Alicia :)