My stamp-a-stack for February took place earlier this week and featured 4 different designs that everyone stamped 4 of, going home with a total of 16 cards.
This is card #1 - it features the Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set as well as the En Francais background stamp. The colors are very unusual for me, but were part of a color challenge on Splitcoast Stampers a few weeks ago (CC256) using basic gray, crushed curry and bravo burgundy. I created this card using those colors and loved it so much it became a stamp-a-stack card this month. I teamed it with the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set so my stampers could make this any type of card that they wanted... sadly I am finding myself in need of more sympathy cards so I went that way with it. It would also make a great birthday, get well, thank you and thinking of you card. Bloomin' Beautiful is one of my favorite floral stamp sets in the catalog... you can color the single flower so quickly with a blender pen and your ink pads or watercolor crayons and the potted flower image is really easy to color as well!
Here is card #2 - it is a notecard-sized card and one I have been featuring in my workshops this month to highlight the note card set in the catalog on page 168 - great for beginning stampers. I love the Vintage Vogue stamp set from the Occasions mini catalog and I paired it with a strip of DSP from the Shades of Spring pack. The large flower paper is great because all 4 cards looked different depending on what piece of DSP you received in your pack. The scallop trim border punch was used to create the edging on the orchid opulence cardstock - it is a FREE Sale-a-Bration item if you make a $50 qualifying purchase now through March 31st!! The colors on the card are taken from the DSP - so saffron, orchid opulence, certainly celery and chocolate chip. If this layout looks familiar, that is because it was featured on the Clean and Simple blog a few weeks ago - FTL77.
This is card #3 - I wanted to feature the ornament punch to let my stampers know that this item from the Holiday mini catalog is still available for purchase and can be used for more than just Christmas cards! If you trim off the bottom point it makes a great vase for the flowers from the Happy Moments Sale-a-Bration stamp set. This card is a CASE of one I received from Michelle Halleen in a swap... can't remember if it was during Convention or Leadership. Can you see the textured crushed curry cardstock on the vase - isn't it great? The other colors on this card are all In Colors - bermuda bay, melon mambo and rich razzleberry. The sentiment is from the Well-Scripted stamp set in the Occasions mini as is the Perfect Polka Dots texture folder used on the bermuda bay mat piece. I don't know if you can see it or not, but the flowers have dazzling diamonds on them. Whenever I have a stamp-a-stack that my good friend Carolyn North comes to I HAVE to have glitter on at least one card - she is my Glitter Queen!
And here is the final card for the night - it is a CASE of a card I received from Denise Jorgensen last year. Her card had kiwi kiss squares on it (one of last year's In Colors) so I switched it out to sage shadow... essentially everything else about the card is the same. I love it! The Wow Flowers stamp set used is one that you can choose for FREE as a Sale-a-bration item from the last page of the SAB brochure. This layout could be easily used with any stamp set that has a smallish image - the blocks are 1" x 1"... too bad Stampin' Up! doesn't carry this punch, I had to cut out all the squares - 16 for each stamper!! You could use the 1-1/4" square punch and adjust the very vanilla mat piece but then the card look would change since you wouldn't have as much of the chocolate chip showing (see my card from yesterday's post here to see that look). I just love the simplicity of this card and think it makes a great masculine birthday card! The knot of ribbon is held on by a mini glue dot, not too feminine right?!
Thanks for stopping by to check out my stamp-a-stack cards this month. I'll be sharing my Design Team swap tomorrow - get ready to be impressed. I am so blessed to have these talented stampers on my team! We went with a 3-d swap this month - great for class projects.
We are busy all weekend at a 3-day Regional swim meet of over 650 swimmers from around the central and eastern part of Virginia with our daughters Amanda and Kelsey who both qualified in all of their events (woooo hoooo!). Thank goodness for the scheduling option on Typepad! Enjoy the rest of your day - I'll be exhausted from timing and yelling for my kids... don't expect me to have a voice left on Monday!!
Gosh - favorite 80s moments? Where to start? LOL Well, some of them would be the heavy metal concerts I attended with 4 inch high hair, spiked accessories, and tons of makeup! How can you not love the movies from the 80's: Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Better of Dead, etc. And the music? I could go on and on. I think the whole decade was a favorite moment!
Love the scrapbook page - you totally captured the 80s :) Love it!
Posted by: Cindy | February 12, 2010 at 01:43 PM
Here is the blog candy that she won - the Goody-Goody Gumdrops hostess level 3 stamp set from last year's catalog. Congratulations!!
Thanks for playing along - I enjoyed reliving the 80's with you!!