Sneak Peak

The new Holiday Mini Catalog will be available starting Sept. 1st so I thought I would give you a sneak peek. The new stamp set used on this Christmas card is Serene Snowflakes. The snowflake was stamped using a new Stampin' Up product, shimmer Paint, platinum color. I also used it along the edges of the Merry Christmas using a sponge. There are 2 more paint colors available, Frost White and Champagne Mist. Each color comes in a small bottle. You can apply the paint with a paint brush or a dabber directly onto your stamp. I used a paint brush this time. Being a new product it took me a couple of tries to get the technique correct. I think I will find a lot of uses for this new paint especially on darker colored card stock.

Petal Pizzazz

I decided to use up some of the leftover scraps from a scrapbook page I made this week to make this card. A few punches, the stamp set Petal Pizzazz and voila a retirement card! Get some of your old buttons out and add them to the center of a flower for an added accent. I also used a white gel pen for the centers of the smaller flowers.

Hope you like it.

Razzle Dazzle II

I thought I would try another card using the stamp set Razzle Dazzle in the 2009 - 2010 Idea Book and Catalog. I again used the new In Colors to make this card. Colors for this card include: Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango and Whisper White. The Happy Birthday is another stamp from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

Animal Stories

I was happy to see the stamp set Season of Friendship in the new Stampin' Up 2009 - 2010 Idea Book and Catalog. I combined the new stamp set Animal Stories with Season of Friendship to create this cute anniversary card. The Happy Anniversary stamp is part of a new stamp set called Teeny Tiny Wishes. It is a set of 24 stamps for different occasions.

Card stock and stamp pads used were 3 of the new In Colors, Soft Suede, Dusty Durango and Bermuda Bay along with Chocolate Chip and Old Olive.

Nursery Accessories

I helped a friend of mine, Sandy design this birth announcement for her daughter who is having her 4th boy in September. The stamp set we used was Nursery Accessories. She is making 100 annoucements!! We used my grandson's newborn photo for the sample. So besides seeing the sample, you are also getting a peek at my 2nd Grandson, Carson Jameson Kenney. He was born June 17th at 2 P.M. He was 21" long and weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. He is such a good baby. You will see more of him in the future as I complete his scrapbook pages.

Simply Said III

One more sample using Simply Said stamp set. This time I used the stamp set to create the background for this 6 X 6 scrapbook page. I saw this on Splitcoast Stampers (don't know the creator but I thank her) and thought it was a wonderful example of another way to use your stamp sets for card making and scrapbooking. I love the verse from this set, "a friend is someone who makes it easy".

I think I will use this background idea one more time on a 12 x 12 page. Love it!!!

Simply Said II

For this card, I used another stamp from the Simply Said stamp set, the Sizzix BigZ Top Note and a few of the felt flowers from Flower Fusion. The Birthday Wishes is from the stamp set Wow Flowers.