Wonderful Favorites

I made this card for my Favorite Brother, too...oh...did I forget to mention they are twins?? His style is very Vegas....lots of black and fuzzy dice :) I found these little dice in a little bin in a big store and knew exactly who they were for! I matched them with Stampin' Up's retired stamp set Game Night and the card was a hit!

Supplies:

Stamps: Wonderful Favorites, Game Night
Card Stock: Concord Crush, Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Ink: Concord Crush, Craft Very Vanilla
Accessories: Ticket Corner Punch, Embellisment (Dice)

Happy Staming :)

Jami

Lots of Bots

I made this little diddy for one of my brothers....he's going to school to become an electrician, and my little robot from Lots of Bots seemed fitting :) We punched the scalloped rectangle using an embosslit for the big shot and the rick-rak came from a big shot die as well. Color the robot with markers and voila...done :) And, well, you know...since he's my favorite brother the "Favorite Brother" stamped tone on tone seemed rather fitting :)


Supplies:

Stamps: Lots of Bots, Wonderful Favorites
Card Stock: So Saffron, Peach Parfait, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla
Ink: Staz-On Black, Peach Parfait
Accessories: Stampin' Write Markers - Going Gray, So Saffron, Peach Parfait, Riding Hood Red (sense a pattern here?) ; Scallop Rectangle Embosslit, Ric-Rak Bigz die

Happy Stampin!

Jami

Button, Button!!

We made this card at my Stamp -A- Stack earlier this month. This card is made using all of Stampin' Up!'s coordinating products....ink, ribbon and card stock in Rich Razzleberry. The grosgrain ribbon is attached by putting down a strip of Sticky Strip (super, super strong double sided tape). As you lay the ribbon on the tape, you occasionally fold the ribbon up just slightly to obtain the faux ruffle appearance.

Button, Button comes with all these little individual stamps. I ordered this set in clear mount knowing I would be trying this technique. How easy it was to simply arrange the stamps in a cluster on our biggest acrylic block. I was so happy that it worked so easily and perfectly! I arranged the stamps once and for our class we simply passed the stamp around as-is and used it as you would a big background stamp. Talk about 5 minutes or less! I think the hardest part to this card was choosing the sentiment!

I left one single stamp on it's own. We used it to stamp several buttons, punch them out and we popped them up with dimensionals and placed them randomly.

Supplies:

Stamps: Button, Button and Sincere Salutations

Paper: Rich Razzleberry and Naturals Ivory

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: 1/4 Rich Razzleberry Grosgrain, Oval Scallop Punch, Oval Punch, Dimensionals and Sticky Strip

Happy Stamping :)

Jami

Love You Much!

Hello Mojo Monday!!

I subscribe to a blog called Mojo Monday.....it provides a new sketch every Monday to help "get your mojo going" :)

This is actually last week's sketch. It's a bit ambitious to think I can make a card from scratch and do a blog post all in one day, let alone on a Monday when the boys get out of school early!

Even though I had the sketch, I needed a little more mojo to get going, so I pulled out my SU Color Coach and fanned all the cards out and HAD to use the color scheme I randomly pulled out. Up came Rose Red, Perfect Plum and Marina Mist. Of course, I took one look at the selection and wanted to back out! I am not a huge fan of pink and purple together.....but I was determined to follow my self imposed challenge and get outside of my little box of faves. So after a little bit of rearranging, I actually like what I came up with.

Supplies used for this card:

Stamps: Love You Much
Paper: Rose Red, Perfect Plum and Marina Mist
Inks: Rose Red, Perfect Plum and Black Staz-On
Accessories: Twill Tape, Linen Thread, Scallop Circle Punch, Bigz Die Circles #2, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Heart to Heart Punch and Stampin Pastels

Happy Stamping :)
Jami

Elegance

When I am stamping, I always keep a package of Basic Pearls and Rhinestones right where I keep my bone folder and paper snips....they have become as essential to use as my most basic tools. If you come to my classes, you probably have noticed they are always out and available to use. A couple of times they have added that perfect finishing touch to your own card. Well, part of the package includes 3 lines of teeny tiny pearls. They are, of course, all attached to each other so you can actually utilize them in a straight line easily. (You can also cut them apart to customize the length of your row)

Believe it or not, you get so many pearls and rhinestones, I am finally almost done with the first package I purchased back in July and ready for a new package. So these lines are starting to look lonely on the sheet and are calling my name!

I was thinking how great they would look on basic black cardstock and this is the card that has been stewing in my head for a few days.

So I pulled out my Big Shot and used the Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, some Basic Black Satin Ribbon and my pearls!

Since the inside is Basic Black and my Big Shot was just sitting there, already out and so handy....I thought the curvy lines of the Top Note would be perfect to tie in the "Elegant Lines" on the front.

I would send this card, just as it is, in a heartbeat! It is striking enough to stand on it own, but every card needs a sentiment, right??? This card would be equally appropriate for any formal event, a milestone birthday, congratulations, wedding, or even sympathy (not that we ever want to create those)

So...below you can see a I added a sentiment from Word Play using the Decorative Label Punch and a saying from Full of Life to the inside.

You wouldn't believe how fast this card goes together! The Big Shot is fantastic! Naturally it took me the longest to get the measurements for my funky fold, but we're talking less than 5 minutes for that! And since I've already done the "hard" part...

The Whisper White backing is a quarter sheet ( 5 1/2 x 4 1/4) and the Basic Black is ( 9 3/4 x 4 ) and scored at ( 4 1/2 ).

Happy Stamping :)

Jami

Artistic Etchings

I love this card! I must say my favorite color combination is black, white and red.... It is also the Hubs fave combination. If he had his way, I would never use any other colors.

So here I am with this striking card using just a hint of Cherry Cobbler, Black and Naturals Ivory. Tying it all together is the designer specialty paper Newsprint. The Eiffel Tower is from the Artistic Etchings Stamp Set and stamped with Black Staz-On.

Satin Ribbon in Basic Black and a simple Flower Filigree in the corner adds just the right amount of embellishment without competing with the large print on the dsp :)

Happy Stamping!

Jami