Holy Triptych

This is one of my favorite cards from the Stamp a Stack in October. I really need to get more clever with my camera instead of the scanner to show you this card. I used Dazzling Diamonds on all the yellow coloring and it is so pretty, but it doesn't show here at all. I used the Big Shot Top Note die to cut the Almost Amyethist cardstock first, laid it down on the white card to find the correct placement for the stamp. Then I colored with crayons and aqua painter.........one of my most favorite ways to create the colors I want. Actually Mary's robe is a very pretty blue! Sorry the colors don't show better. I finally did get all my cards finished for sending this Christmas, I had cut lots and lots of extras to use myself and believe it or not, they are all done! Now to get them written and in the mail! Stop by again.

More leftovers!

Another find on my stacked table!! It's a good thing I hadn't sold all of last year's In Color stamp pads, because this batch of cardstock from the Stamp a Stack in June needed Blue Bayou. So.....I changed the stamp sets to Upsy Daisy and Best Yet, but used the already cut cardstock which was Celery, Bayou Blue and Soft Sky. I surely hated to see those last year colors retire, but must admit I do love the new ones this year! Yesterday I finished the last of my Christmas cards. I always make lots of extra cuts for my Stamp a Stacks and it's only taken me since early October to finish them. Well, at least they are not on my table to find next summer! I'm making progress, don't you think?

Moose You!

I found out yesterday that it is a good thing to try to unload that stamping table that gets so piled up...........I found, underneath numerous other things, a couple of packages of cardstock all cut for the JUNE Stamp a Stack. Need less to say the stamp sets that I used in June are mostly retired and gone from my shelves. So.........not wanting to waste the cardstock and ribbon that was all cut, I decided to see what I could come up with that is current. This card really cracks me up! Someone close by just bagged a moose in British Columbia, so I made this special for him and his buddy! The words are from the new Hostess set called Best Yet and I thought it quite appropriate. The cardstock colors are Creamy Caramel, Mellow Moss, Close to Cocoa and Vanilla. I had made the background with shaving cream already but it is hard to see that behind the moose. Thanks for stopping by..........I need to clean my table more often, at least before the stamp sets retire!

Snow Swirled Snowflake

This card seemed to be the favorite at my Stamp a Stack. I really thought it was too simple, but it certainly did catch the eye! The colors are Not Quite Navy, Baha Breeze and White. The main focus has two-way glue and glitter, but it doesn't show up very well in the scan. Many sets of Snow Swirled were ordered and that makes me think..........simple and quick is what we like!

Sympathy Inspired by Nature

Somehow I get the message that I'm not supposed to be blogging!! This morning I no more than got on line and started to show you this card, when the computer quit. Something happened all over the area I guess, but fortunately things got repaired and I'm OK again. Anyway, another sympathy card is needed for a long time neighbor and I decided to try the technique that we learned at the Splitcoast gathering in Syracuse. Erin showed us this great technique using the brayer on top of black Stazon. Of course she was using one of my new favorite sets called Inspired by Nature and then brayered over the top of it with Pirouette Pink, then masked the moon, and brayered again with Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue and finally with Perfect Plum. The words are from Always in my Thoughts and I used the large oval punch on top of the new large punch. It was a bit needy of something else, so I added a tiny white taffeta ribbon. I'm trying many color combinations but find her original with So Saffron first and ending with Really Rust is the most striking. I thought this was better for a sympathy card. What do you think?