Stamp Club for September

No rest for the weary!  After Quarterly (and football Sunday), I had to get myself in gear to prep for my Stamp Club this week.  I had several new ladies join us and I hope they decide to join our group in the future.  Here are the cards we made this month:

Using Botanical Blooms and Sunshine Wishes thinlits.

•  Use Botanical Blooms leaf thinlit to cut out leaf on Sahara Sand CS.
• Stamp leaf on scrap of white (or you can line it up and stamp directly on the Mint Macaron card) with Wild Wasabi.  Stamp veins of leaf w/Always Artichoke.
• Stamp fern all over Mint Macaron card using Mint Mac. Ink 
•  Line up leaf behind the cut out and adhere to card.
• Adhere piece of Washi Tape to bottom of Sahara Sand.
•  Cut “hope” out using Sunshine Wishes Thinlits.  Adhere to middle of Sahara Sand piece.
•  Stamp “sending / & hugs” to Sahara Sand piece
• Adhere Sahara Sand cs to card with dimensionals.
• Tie ribbon or Bakers Twine into bow & adhere with Glue Dots.

• Rub Embossing Buddy all over Very Vanilla card stock.
• Stamp Floral with Versamark; pour embossing powder (copper or gold) on it & heat w/Heat Gun.
• Use Blender Pens to color flowers & leaves. (I used Flirty Flamingo on one and Sweet Sugarplum on the other)
• Stamp sentiment (leave room for ribbon)
• Adhere ribbon around Very Vanilla piece.
• Put layers together.
• Tie copper or gold bow beneath the flower stem.

This one was super easy!  Use the Aqua Brush and paint stripes onto watercolor paper.  I used Sweet Sugarplum, Daffodil Delight, Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim and Watermelon.  When the color dries, stamp the sentiment using black ink.  Adhere to your choice of colored card stock.

• Die cut large circle from Framelits
• Lightly stamp Texture Stamp onto white circle &
• Stamp floral stamp onto white circle – leaving top flower cut off.
• Stamp & cut out the top flower & adhere to card making it go off the edge.
• Use Blender Pens and color flowers & leaves with ink that is in the top of the stamp pad lid. 
•  Adhere Circle to card with dimensionals.
• Stamp sentiment onto scrap and “flag” the end.
• Adhere Washi Tape onto scrap of white cardstock & adhere with dimensionals below the flower.
• Tie bow & adhere with Glue Dots.

Painters Palette

Not to rub it in - but I am in Hawaii!!  

This is another card we made at Stamp Club last week.  It is such a simple card but I love it!

The stamp set is Painters Palette and can be found on page 119 of the Annual Catalog.  I love the little watercolor "swishes."  You can change up the colors of the "swooshes" and the DSP and totally change the look of the card.  The easel is stamped in Tip Top Taupe on the white card stock and then stamped a second time onto scrap white card stock.  The second one is cut out (just the square).  It coordinates with the Layering Squares Framelits but I don't have those (yet) and it is not that hard to cut out the square.  I used a post-it-note for the sides of the square when I stamped the "swishes" so they would not get onto the frame.  The DSP is from Blooms & Bliss (pg. 173) with the twine (retired) wrapped around twice and tied in a bow.

Sunshine!

Hope you had a good - and cool - weekend.  It has really been hot here - too hot for us to even want to go out on the lake.  Since Sonny has been playing golf 2-3 times a week, I think he is getting his share of the heat and doesn't want to go out in the heat on the weekend!  That's ok with me as I have a lot to do trying to get my swaps done along with other things made for the NC Quarterly my team will be hosting in September.  We ended up running errands on Saturday - WalMart, Total Wine, the Peach Stand (yum!) and to Fox & Hound for lunch/dinner.  That night we tried to watch a DVD from NetFlix but it kept messing up so we gave up.  We have been trying to watch the series, Homeland through Netflix DVDs.  I signed up for a free month last month but it has not been good!  We had already watched Season 1 which we owned and ordered the next disc from Netflix but it was so damaged, we had to return it and get another one.  Saturday we were trying to watch Disc #2 and the same thing - so damaged it is being returned!  I called today to see if they will extend our free month.  They won't but they are going to send us the next 2 DVDs in my queue.  Let's hope they will be ok.

This is another card we made last week in Stamp Club.  I love this bundle.  It has great sentiments that are included with the flowers and hearts stamps.  I pretty much CASEd this card from Brian King.  I would never have thought about putting yellow and pink together but love it! The Fine Tip Glue Pin really comes in handy with this card!

Supplies:

l  Stamps:   Sunshine Sayings

l  Ink:  black

l  Cardstock:   Flirty Flamingo, Black, Daffodil Delight

l  Accessories:   Sunshine Wishes Thinlits,

Measurements: 

l  card base:  5 ½” x 4 ¼ ”, scored and  folded at 4 ¼”

black layer 4” x 5 ¼”  /  Daffodil layer:  3 3/4” x 5”

Flirty Flamingo – ¾” x 3 ¾” / Black:  ½” x 3 ¾”

Instructions:

·        Die cut “sunshine” from black paper

·        Die cut flowers  one from black & one from Flamingo

·        Stamp sentiment on Flamingo strip.

·        Assemble card as shown.