Paper Smooches

I discovered a new stamp company called Paper Smooches. Love it! Very whimsical fonts - all handwritten. I don't have any critter stamps yet, but they are very cute. Check it out at http://www.papersmoochesstamps.com/

I made these cards using paper smooches "gently seasoned" and "sentiment sampler". On the get well card, I used my sew stamper along with various stampin' Up greens and chalks.






The happy birthday card was for a friend who has a January birthday, so I went with the winter theme. The close up shows that I added some embossed snowflakes and cut out and popped up the bird. I also added some puffy snow with my snow marker. It puffs up with a heat gun and is soooo cool. I used stampin up tempting tourquoise and real red and close to cocoa for the tree. The speckled snow on the tree was by accident from the embossing powder, but looks like snow, so it worked.

Fell off the face of the earth for a while, apparently....

So I guess I've been busy!  I joined the Stampin' UP! family of demonstrators, and am waiting for my kit to arrive tomorrow.  I'm not planning to do parties, but will do it if someone wants me to.  Maybe in the future I will host some workshops in my home.  We'll see.  For now, I will enjoy the discount on their great products.

I went to my first 12 hour crop last weekend in Bay City.  What a fun girls' weekend!  I started my Christmas cards, but only got half way done.  A friend is having a crop at her house this weekend, so I will do that one too. 

It's hard to make time to post photos of cards and to gather all the description info, but I will try to get better at that...

This sympathy card is for a dear friend who just lost her best friend to leukemia. Tena was a friend to me also... she was a teammate on our Relay for Life team. Always the life of the party! Her positive spirit was contagious; her smile was pure sunshine. She will be missed greatly by all who were touched by her.
I used the Sweet Matstack (JoAnns) for this card. The stamp is from Just Believe by Stampin' UP! With sympathy sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes (also SU). I used black embossing powder for both the image and sentiment.

I designed this card and coordinating gift card holder for a a friend who helped me out with some major computer issues. I love this paper for more masculine cards. I used Basic Grey designer paper and some sponging around the edges. "Thanks" was cut from a cuttlebug design. The strip is also cuttlebug embossing.

Finally I am getting around to posting some pictures from our card making activity last weekend. We had a lot of fun putting together everyone's creations! I took photos of everyone's samples so take a look below!

Hubby birthday card

Not exactly the most masculine card, although I have the browns/chocolate going on. This was by hubby's birthday card that I quickly put together (sorry, Honey!) Cupcake paper is from the Glitter Sweet matstack from JoAnn's. Cardstock is chocolate chip and so saffron. Also used the create a cupcake punch and heat embossed the white bow from the create a cupcake stamp set (sentiment from same set- cut out w/modern label). Added some glitter dots to the top too. Used nestabilities circle to cut out the card and popped up the cupcake on a circle punch on the inside of the card. Paper is glittery, but not sure if the photo shows that detail.

Weekend card activity

Here are the two creations (the first seen in a previous post) that I designed for the card making activity this weekend. I love the CAS designs and they should be easy enough for anyone to put together. For the butterfly one, I'm bringing my teeny tiny wishes so they can pick their own sentiment.