Sylvia's Stamping Corner

THREE COOL CHICKS...DAY 3...CONFETTI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Hope you are having a good Saturday during this Memorial Day weekend. I started this card last night for the Let's Get Trendy challenge presented by the Three Cool Chicks, Amy, Julie, and Yvonne! Day 3 was create something with Confetti. Now I haven't ever thought about confetti as being trendy, so this one threw me a little. This is the card I came up with.

The card base is kraft, covered with white cs. I wanted to use some baker's twine just to practice for Day 4, so I measured and punched holes on each side of the cs, then ran yellow/white and pink/white twine through the holes. This made a cool party background that mimics the cones. Do you remember the colored cones and how yummy your ice cream was if you had a pink or green cone? That is what I wanted to do, but I stuck with the chocolate ones and used sherbet colors for my cream! My daughter gave me a present that just happened to be wrapped in hot pink tissue paper. So I punched two different size holes for my confetti. That is one idea using confetti, I have one more card if I get it made in time that uses confetti!

It is another hot day, just perfect for ice cream, cold water melon, or a cold lemonade! Hope you have a fun afternoon!

THREE COOL CHICKS...DAY 2 DOILIES...A TRIBUTE TO OUR VETERAN'S

Last week, I started the Let's Get Trendy Challenge along with the Three Cool Chicks, Amy, Julie, and Yvonne .I am still catching up and last night I started stamping doilies, put them down and picked them up today. I knew what my card would look like and what I wanted to do. When I look at doilies and this cup, I think of memories. I remember my childhood when these things were a luxury, usually handmade, and china cared for and a part of everyday life, a cup of coffee or tea! This card is Day 2, Doilies!

I used a kraft card base which I stamped with Midnight Muse ink and a doily stamp. Next I added two doilies that I embossed with white ep on Ridinghood Red cs. The cup was first inked in Midnight Muse(actually did not use that cup yet), leaving the ink on the stamp I re-inked with black,this beautiful cup was the result! I fussy cut the  doilies and cup out popping them with dimensionals. I used this retired remember stamp, stamping first in the blue, then in the red. I cut my pattern, then cut out my word banner on white and red. I added some red and white baker's twine. So does this card look nostalgic, make you remember days long gone?

I know this is Thursday and Memorial Day weekend  starts Friday, but my card is made in tribute to all who have served and those who sacrificed for our country, and are no longer with us. I am from the generation whose father served during WWII and  Korea and was fortunate that my husband never was called to serve during Vietnam. If you are traveling this weekend I hope you will be safe! Have a wonderful Friday.

PAPERCRAFT STAR CHALLENGE #98...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

It's Wednesday and I am back with another project for the Papercraft Star, "Birthday" challenge! This week you are to make a birthday card or gift bag! Our sponsor is the House Across the Bay, a wonderful place to find high quality vintage and retro digital collage sheets. I am enjoying using them so much in my projects. I am the featured designer again this week and have made, what I think is a wonderful gift bag. I hope you like it too.

I used three collage sheets to make the bag which I recycled from a gift from my daughter, Amy. This bag held a bottle of Texas Olive oil which I enjoy using in my cooking! I hope to go see their site this summer! I love olives as well! The bag is tall enough to hold a bottle of wine, or maybe another bottle of Olive oil. My digital images are all from tHAtB and all my stamped images and supplies are Stampin'Up! I started with a sheet of cs so I would have something to hold my rainbow of digital papers. I used the Vibrant Grunge Squares 128, printing them off and embossing them with white ep. I love the cake in the photo provided as a go to for ideas, thus the rainbow of color and the embossing reminded me of the lace table cloth. I added another layer using LL card stock and a cake from the Come For Tea, 222, collage sheet, machine stitching it to the cs. I embossed the frame with white ep on more LL cs and fussy cut it out. Birthday wishes and a gift for you and two party hats were hand stamped, then mounted it with dimensionals. I added two ribbons and a bakers twine. The roses were printed, backed and handcut then mounted with dimensionals from a third digital sheet, Vintage Flower Seed Catalog, 229. After finishing the bag, I made a tag using the same things, cutting the layers like the cake shown in the picture, then machine stitching them together and tying them with a pice of lucky limeade and Daffodil Delight  ribbons. I added confetti tissue paper, we found in one of craft boxes in the garage this past weekend!

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Have a wonderful Wednesday, hope it is full of fun and laughter! Join us this week with your "Birthday" creations.

COLOURQ CHALLENGE #138...SOME INSPIRATION!

We have a fun challenge this week over on the ColourQ. Arielle has chosen Crumb Cake, Pool Party, More Mustard, Poppy Parade, and white for you to play with. I am so sorry to see Poppy Parade retire, it has been one of my favorite colors to go to. I hope to see you in the line up this week, each week we have such a good group of projects to view. The inspiration for my card this week was definitely the photo.

The card base is Crumb Cake(kraft) and I matted it with a new(sneak peek) Pool Party dsp. Do you love the geometric pattern?  I matted with Poppy Parade, my white cs. I drew and hand cut a shoe,  almost life size! I then ran it through and embossing folder, of course it had to be flowers. Then I used it as a guide to stamp underneath and scatter the flowers in Pool Party, More Mustard, Crumb Cake and Poppy Parade. That is all I needed to be inspired to put the sentiment, Inspire at the top. This is a fun card and I hope it gives you some inspiration!

Have a fun Tuesday, I hope it is a good one. Thanks for stopping by for a visit, I will be back later with another post!

CITY CRAFTER CHALLENGE # 109....A SKETCH by LINDA!

Happy Monday, I am later than I wanted to be, but earlier than the deadline posting to the challenge over on the City Crafter Challenge Blog. I have been busily working for the past two weeks with really no break! I did want to get in this challenge as it is one of my favorites to do. You still have a little time this week, so stop by, see the designers projects and Linda's sketch, then whip up a card!

Linda's sketch is rather simple and easy to follow. I used a kraft card base, matting it with a Crumb Cake dsp(kraft). I added another piece of kraft which had an embossed doily in white. I love how the doily is really popped when done in white. I added a white dsp strip that has two stamped and water colored rows of flowers and a piece of red and white ribbon (Riding Hood red). A red checked dsp is matted on the same red cs. I added a stamped frame that holds the sentiment, Hello, it was fussy cut! Last is my flowers, stamped, water colored with inks and a blender pen, then fussy cut. I love, love this card and the colors!

Hope you are having a really good day. I am off to finish another project and will return later tonight! Have a wonderful evening.

THREE COOL CHICKS....DAY FIVE: WOODGRAIN!

Hi, I'm back. I have been so busy cleaning out and selling stamps this week, that I am behind in everything else. I still have a long way to go before the craft boxes in the garage are gone, but we made a huge dent today. Now I just to get everythingI am keeping put away in an organizational way that I know what I have. This week I did a Let's get trendy workshop put on by, the Three Cool Chicks. I have not done Days 2,3, and 4, but had an idea for Day 5 so here it is. I have until the 31st to do the projects and maybe do some more than once.

First, I have to show you some cool woodgrain. Here is the birdhouse on the wall we worked on a couple of weeks ago. My husband built the birdhouse and I planted Perselane, well today it bloomed again. The photo is not to good as it was getting close to dark, but isn't that blossom cute peeking out of the hole? The rest of my flowers are so pretty.

Now for my card, I used a kraft card base(what else) and stamped it with a woodgrain stamp in Early Expresso. Then I cut and dry embossed a piece of Summer Starfruit cs to make the gift card holder, machine stitched the bottom and glued the back. The flower was stamped three times withRaspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, and Summer Starfruit. They are fussy cut and layered with dimensionals. I added a woodgrain button and a piece of bakers twine. I added a Green Gumball ribbon and a Lowe's gift card my husband got for his birthday. It just so happened when he brought it in for me to use, it was green! I am so enjoying thinking about all the projects in the Let's Get Trendy challenge.

Thanks to you, Amy, Julie, and Yvonne, I am having a good time. Okay that is all for me tonight, I have to catch up on my commenting before I go to bed! Have a wonderful Sunday!

PAPERCRAFT STAR CHALLENGE # 97...CHECKS OR GINGHAM!

Happy Wednesday, I am back with a card for the Papercraft Star, "Checks or Gingham" challenge. Be sure and go by the blog and view all the designers projects and the gorgeous photo that you may useto inspire your creation. I am the featured designer again this week so I am using a digital image from our fabulous sponsor, the House Across the Bay.

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I used one of beautiful images from the above collage sheet. My card has a kraft card base and matted with black cs, a piece of print dsp machine stitched, a scrap of (I don't know whose) dsp, two punched borders a black check ribbon from long ago, a piece of lace from design team mate, Anitra and the beautiful image matted with black cs. I did stamp a gorgeous rose and water color it with inks and my sentiment, Friend. I have so many wonderful blog friends out there, maybe one of you will receive this in the mail. I am sorry I did not have time this week to make anything more than a card, you know I am selling stamps this week and have had an overwhelming response, but I have met some awesome people in person and online!

This is such a beautiful and vibrant card, don't you think. The papers lace and rose go perfectly with the digital image! So why don't you have a cup of coffee or tea and relax for awhile! Have a wonderful day.

Digital Image  courtesy of the House Across the Bay, lace Anitra, news print and floral paper and ribbon unknown, rose stamped image and punched borders and supplies are Stampin'Up!

COLOURQ CHALLENGE #137.... A POCKET FULL OF POSIES!

We are half way into the month of May and I am already so busy that I am having a hard time keeping up. Today is Tuesday, so I am back with another card for the ColourQ. Arielle chose another of my favorite color combo's, Basic Gray, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Tempting Turquoise, and white. Hope you are able to play with us this week. I look forward to seeing your projects.

Surprise, I used a Wisteria Wonder card base with a dsp in the same color. I stamped leaves and flowers from one retired set and one retiring set on white card stock and used rubbing on the leaves and blender pen and ink on the flowers. I also stamped the pocket and the sentiment, then fussy cut everything out. I added a post to my sign and rhinestone centers to my flowers. Everything was stamped with Basic Gray ink, subdues it a little!

Well, it has been a long day. Monday was my husbands birthday and besides that we were trying to get boxes of bought stamps shipped. Not much gardening time today! Have a wonderful Tuesday!

THREE COOL CHICKS present....DAY ONE: BANNERS!

This is day 1 with the Three Cool Chicks...check out Amy's blog Here, she is one of the Three Cool Chick's. This is a workshop on being trendy! I have a problem with focusing on trends even though I love them. I am more of a "do what I feel like" person, so I am normally doing flowers and butterflies, things I can water color! But I am giving the week a go!

I decided to do a birthday card, and instead of my banner being used for the sentiment, I chose to use it for decoration. Kraft card stock is the base, with a new piece(sneak peek) of designer paper. If you use the piece on top, you will lose your eyes trying to look at it, but I love it for the geometric design! I machine stitched this piece. I stamped a new frame from Papaya Collage stamp set(Stampin'Up!), some newsprint scraps for my banner(I just cut a pattern), and the party hat stamp is from the same set. I fussy cut the frame, added a fussy cut hat stamped on the newsprint and stamped happy birthday. I hung the banner from a black and white baker's twine, the last of my trendy things!

There is also space to personalize this card when I decide who I am giving it to. Looking forward to tomorrow's trendy adventure! Today was my husband's birthday so I am really running behind! Have a wonderful day.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU....A SNEAK PEEK!

This has got to be a quick post because it is so early in the morning, the end of my Saturday. I have been absent because not only was I out of town all day Thursday, but I have been getting ready for my first of many stamps sales. I had many, many retired stamps and a dent was made today, by people coming by and online customers who found me on Craig's list. I spent 14 hours on the computer and at the door, so it has been a long day.

I wanted to get back to stamping before it all starts again tomorrow. I am giving you some sneak peeks as to what is in store for you June 1. Do you recognize the smaller rose stamp? If you said yes, It is the stamp that I was moaning about going away after the winter mini was no longer available. Well, it is in the new catalog!!!Yeah! I combined it with another set, the big rose and the background and the butterfly are made with. And new, new colors are Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit. I am going to love learning to water color this new rose. I was just a little tired making this card tonight. I did not put the sentiment in the lower corner, but will when I decided what I want to do with the card. If I frame it, I won't put anything at all.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone! I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating. I will be back in the morning to comments on everyone's blog that I missed the last few days. Sometimes life gets busy and my life has been that way this week. Garden is doing great, I have my first Peas on my plants and the tomatoes are delicious!