CAS-ual Fridays Stamps: January Sneak Peek #3

Welcome to day 3, the final sneak peek for the January release at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

Michele has designed another great stamp set, Cupid's Arrow, and Fri-Die, Heart Board, that you are going to flip over!! The stamp set features the beautiful heart I used above (it's embossed, but the photo doesn't show it well,dang!), along with 7 different arrow sentiments. Then to make it even better, there are the coordinating dies that have a 5-layer heart and the matching arrow! You'll find about a million ways to use these!

For my second project below, I made a simple little treat bag with a fringed edge top, wrapped in ribbon, holding a wooden tag stamped with multiple arrow sentiments. And what does one put in the treat bag? Lots of things, of course, but at my house, it's a chili seasoning packet from the pantry! haha!

Be sure and head over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog to check out the amazing and diverse projects from the rest of the design team. You'll want to leave a comment too for a chance to win Michele's giveaway this month! All new January stamp sets and dies will be available for purchase on January 9, which gives you plenty of time to whip up your Valentine projects! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps: January Sneak Peek #2

Eeek! I'm so excited about this new January Sneak Peek from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

It's called Sands of Time, sigh. Who doesn't love a sand timer? 

I love them at school when students time themselves reading and I love them in home decorating. Now I can love them in stamp form too! Michele is genius!

For my card, I created a mask with the heart and grains of sand, so I could stamp the "I LOVE YOU" sentiment in the sand timer. I'm kind of a lazy stamper and forget about creating masks. hehe! 

You have to head over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog and see what the rest of the design team did with this uber cool set! So many possibilities! Check out the give away Michele is doing this week too! *wink*

I'll see you tomorrow with another fabulous sneak peek!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps: January Sneak Peek #1

Yay! It's time to start the sneak peeks of the new January release from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

Michele always blows me away with her awesome stamp designs, but this has to be my favorite release week ever! These designs are so fresh and fun, I haven't seen anything like them out there, and I know you are going to love them too!

Today's sneak peek shows off a new stamp set called Love Notes and a coordinating Fri-Die called Heart Note. Is that note die awesome or what?! You can't see the detail in my photo, but I stamped on the Heart Note die with the long, musical note stamp in Versamark and heat embossed it for tone-on-tone texture. To make the colored rings, I punched several different size circles and used the circle rings as a stencil to watercolor on ink with my Aquapainter. For the layout, I used this great clean and simple sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #58.

I whipped up one more card below with my favorite sentiment from the set. Who else remembers the tune "Silly Love Songs"? I had the 45 record and played it on my little red record player. *smile* I also have a friend or two looking for their love match out there, so I know I'll be using this stamp a lot! Here I embossed the sentiment and musical notes with silver embossing powder and used the Heart Note Fri-Die again with silver glitter paper. Bam! My non-traditional color inspiration comes from the Matthew Williamson photo at this week's Runway Inspired Challenge.

Be sure and head over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog to check out the wild creativity coming from the rest of the design team! They came up with so many different, fun creations! 

I'll be back Tuesday morning with another new sneak peek! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Santa Claus is Coming...

Merry Christmas Eve!

365 Cards, Day 349: Warm Wishes

Happy Thursday and one more day until Christmas vacation!! Can you tell I'm excited?! 

When I stamped over Thanksgiving break (a mere 3 weeks ago), I made extra embossed deers from the Stampin' Up! Remembering Christmas set and saved them for some future cards, like this one! I loved this Day 349: Super Sketchy Sunday, so I whipped this little card up. I see more cardmaking in my very near future! hehe!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: SU Remembering Christmas, Glad Tiding (retired)

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, Basic Black, & Cherry Cobbler; Lily Bee Design Christmas Cheer Santa patterned paper.

Ink: Versamark.

Accessories: Heat Tool, Winter White Embossing Powder, Big Shot, Circle Die, SU Chalk Talk Die & Modern Label Punch; Studio Calico stars.

STS#10: Happy Birthday

Happy Saturday! Hope you are having a great weekend! I taught Saturday school this morning with a very small attendance, only 3 students! Yikes! But we had a wonderful time anyway! :)

Earlier this week I had a request for a card from a lovely teacher friend of mine. I think of her as the New Girl. Well, she's New Girl at appearance, but tough and no nonsense with her students at the same time, a great combination! She needed a "floral, vintage" birthday card for her mom, so this is what I came up with using Seize the Sketch #10. I also used my envelope maker, LOVE that thing! Most of the goodies I used are from October Afternoon Thrift Shop or 5 & Dime.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Gift Bows & Bells

Happy Friday! Hope you've had a good week and stayed in safe in winter weather!

Earlier this week I played with my new Big Shot Gift Bows die, love that thing! I'm looking forward to making more for special gift packages this weekend. For now, I attached my first bow to this little Santa card, along with a few happy bells and paper from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas pad.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping! 

Thanks Dear

Happy Saturday!

I used Unscripted Sketches #233 for this little sweetie!

Hope you're warm and safe! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Give Thanks

Happy Tuesday! While on fall break last week, I finally got a chance to play with my new and first Reverse Confetti stamp set, Forever Fall! I heart it big-time! Of course, did I get around to sending out Thanksgiving cards? Sigh, no. But there's always next year! 

I stamped with some friends on Monday and played along with the Retro Sketch #91, which is now closed, haha! I'm a little late getting this posted. )I'm blaming it on learning how to use my new phone and transfer photos!) Anyway, I had limited supplies at my friend's house, so I used my washi tape to cover my rectangles. I love the washi tape and may have a problem! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Santa Claus

Happy December! 

I'm up today on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog, yay!

I played with the Naughty or Nice stamp set, one of my faves. Considering the amount of pie I've eaten the last two days, I definitely fall into the naughty category! 

I embossed that great sentiment in red and splashed some Heidi Swapp Tinsel Color Shine on it. The patterned paper is from Studio Calico. Doesn't it make you think of Santa coming down the chimney?!  I was inspired by the Cardabilities Sketch #88. The top tab worked out well for a removable "list"...you know he's checking it twice, right?!

I hope your holiday card production is coming along better than mine, yikes! If you need some inspiration, head over to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps to check out Michele's great holiday sets!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Naughty or Nice

Cardstock: SU Smoky Slate, brick paper Studio Calico Cuppa Card Kit.

Ink: Versamark, Memento Black, Heidi Swapp Tinsel Color Shine

Accessories: Heat Gun, Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder & Baker's Twine, SU Hung Up Cute Clips, Clear Button, The Paper Studio Embossing Folder, Big Shot.