Papercuts

Personalized letters

2011-01-31T11:40:00.000-08:00

Wyatt!!! Such a great name. It is always fun for me to put these letters

together for special people in my life that are expecting precious babies.

I used Celebrations DSP! Perfect for a baby boy.

All the ribbons are Stampin up ribbon and go perfectly with the

designer paper.

Mod Podge is great for this project because it go on smooth and I just apply like wallpaper.

I do not like the look of it on top of the paper so I only use it to adhere.That is personal preference.

After it dries I use a regular nail file to file down all the paper that may have been cut to large.

This gives it a nice clean edge.

Then you can add all of the decorations that you want.

So cute.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!!!

Christmas at My House

2010-12-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

I decided to do things a little different this year. This is the tree that I usually put in front of the spiral staircase. Now it is in our front window. Every year I add something new to the tree. It has made it easier on the pocket book to decorate such a large tree. It is 12 foot tall.

I added the green ribbon, brown and green ornaments and gold leaves this year. I am not really liking the green. I love the color but on a green tree they just don't pop out enough for me. I wasn't about to change it after it was done, but next year I will do something different.

I ordered the fresh garland from a Young Life group. I am not sure where they get it but it is such a deal. Things like this are not easy to get in Phoenix. Maybe they get it from Flagstaff. Yes, in Arizona we do have pine trees and snow. It is only a 2 hour drive from Phoenix.

I love this Nativity. A gift from my husband year ago and was purchased at Costco. They always have great deals there on Nativities. They are always so pretty.

I made these ribbon trees for a gift. I got the idea from Shanty 2 Chic. She used fabric and a ruffler with her sewing machine. I don't sew (wish I did) so I used ribbon. I just pulled the wire along the ribbon to create the same type of ruffle. Took a loooooonnnnggggg time but it was worth it.

Here is the set I made for myself!

My kids have always loved this village. I have tried NOT to put it out some years but they have a fit. So, we always end up putting it out.

I order this fresh swag along with the garland. I filled my apothecary jars with assorted ornaments and some beaded garland.

I wish this picture wasn't blurry. Sorry about that but I do love this table. I collect snowmen and I bought the bowl at a barn sale a month ago.

I made this at a Christmas party with my fellow Stampin up demonstrators. We had a great time and this was a great project.

This tree is in my family room and it holds all the ornaments my moms (my mom and other mom, I was blessed with another mom when my dad remarried) got me every year for Christmas and all the ornaments I buy my children and husband every year for Christmas.

My kids expect these and can't wait to see what I pick for them every year. The ornament I choose has something to do with an event in the past year. The little boy and girl was given to us the first year we were married 21 1/2 years ago.

I had the cookie jar from last yer but I painted the snowman at one of those pottery painting places. I didn't even know they matched until I pulled the cookie jar out of storage. What a nice surprise!

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas season! God Bless!

I am linking up with:

Hooked on Houses

Thrifty Decor Chic
Faded Charm
Shabby Chic Cottage

Frou Frou Decor

Fall Gift Tin

2010-10-29T17:30:00.000-07:00

My sister-in-law and one of my BFF's has this great job being the Activity Director at a retirement home. She has asked me to help her come up with craft ideas a few times. This is the latest one we did. I used the Autumn Spice DSP to wrap the candy. The paper is a heavy weight card stock so it is best to wrap the paper around your finger a couple of times after you have cut it to the size you want for the candy. It will help the tape hold it together. For the pumpkins I used the new medium oval punch and the 1 3/8 x 5/8 oval large punch. I punched out 3 of each and adhered two together and the last one on top, in the middle. The stems for the paper can be made with ribbon or colored cardstock.

For the strips of paper that cover the candy I cut them 1x3 inches and alternated the color on the front and back of the DSP. These make a really great gifts and really don't take long to put together.
Enjoy your day!!!

Christmas Swap

2010-10-28T17:09:00.000-07:00

I loved making these adorable ornaments for my swap this month. It was a bummer because I ended up being sick that night with a cold and couldn't hand them out myself. :( I heard that everyone liked them a lot and I cannot wait to make more of them.

I used Deck The Halls DSP and traced the ornament and snowflake (which were chipboard I picked up at a local craft store) I cut the pattern out and then cut it in half to use both sides of the DSP. I used mod podge to adhere the paper to the chipboard. I filed down all the edges with a heavy duty nail file to make them smooth. I then used the 1/2 inch seam binding to cover the seam. I used the sizzlit snowflake #2 and the new snowflake punch out of the mini to cut two snowflakes out of whatever cardstock I felt went with the colors I was using. Deck The Halls DSP has a variety of colors to choose from--cherry cobbler, soft suede, very vanilla, early espresso, always artichoke and crumb cake.

I used a brad to hold the two snowflakes together and adhered it with a stampin up dimensional. To me they turned out better than I imagined.

It really is hard for me to pick a favorite.

I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Wedding card

2010-10-06T17:00:00.000-07:00

I created the card below for my husbands sweet cousin Dayna who just got married. I was bummed we couldn't go to the wedding in Michigan but I hope she like the card.

I used the Love letter DSP,
Baroque Motifs stamp set
and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.
It is stamped on very vanilla cardstock
with real red and basic black cardstock and real red inkpad.

I punched the flower with the scallop circle punch and several layers of DSP. I scrunched it all up and secured it with an Antique brad. The sentiment is punched with word window and modern label punches.

Have a beautiful day!

Phoenix Weather

2010-10-05T21:55:00.000-07:00

We have had some crazy weather today in Phoenix.
A storm rolled in today and as my husband and I were driving I noticed these clouds rolling in. They were moving so fast it looked like smoke from a fire or something you would see in a movie. I made him stop so I could take some pictures. There are a lot of not so attractive things in the pictures but you can see what a massive group of clouds it was. The last picture shows the hail that came down. It looks like snow. It was very scary in the car. I thought the windows were going to crack. Unfortunately we now have several dents on the hood of the car.

Tonight it is nice and cool outside. Finally! Just yesterday it was still over 100 degrees. I hope it sticks around.

Have a happy day!

Outdoor Bench Re-Do

2010-09-30T21:04:00.000-07:00

I have never done a post about re-doing furniture before. I usually only look at stamping blogs but lately I have been in blog heaven. I am addicted to blogs about decorating ( always have wanted to be an interior designer). My eyes get buggy at night because I can't stop going from blog to blog. One of my favorite blogs is Mustard Seed Creations. I also love all of the blogs she has as her favorites. Ugh! So much to look at and only so many hours in the day. Anyway, she does a post on Fridays that anyone who has done a furniture re-do can link to her blog. I have never done a link party before and I am not quite sure how to do it. In my determination to learn more about blogging and become a better blogger I thought I would try it. Since I just re furbished my worn out bench on my front porch I thought it was a good time to break out of the box.

Before!

This is the whole front porch before. In all it's glory with the bird poop and dead flowers. I have been waiting for nicer weather to do this. But, it seems that it is never going to get below 100 degrees in Arizona this year so I just couldn't take it anymore.

Here it the after! I love it! So much better and I love the color, as red is my favorite. I bought red spray paint and sprayed the entire bench. I had some brown paint and just rubbed it all over the whole bench rubbing some of the brown off in areas to give it contrast and then sprayed polyurethane over the whole thing.

This is the whole porch after! No more bird poop, new planters and plants. I even washed all the dust off the door and cleaned the windows. Then I had to take a dip in the pool. I can't wait for some fall weather. I am so jealous of all of you that are getting cooler temps.
Well I hope your Friday is awesome!

I linked up to mustard seed creations and just a girl!

2010-07-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

Malerie is made with a retired stampin up DSP.

Elliott's parents wanted a southwest theme because their son loved Arizona and all the cactus.
They had to move to another state recently and thought it would remind him of Arizona.

2010-07-15T21:26:00.000-07:00

Olivia's mom ordered 3 more names from me. Here is the first one. For Marnessa!

Graduations!

2010-05-29T15:44:00.001-07:00

We have several graduations to celebrate this month. Two of the parties are today so I think it is safe to post these. The above punch owl was cased from Dawn Olchefske. You can see her card here. I chnged the colors because my card is for a girl. The DSP is from last seasons mini. I used Rich Razelberry, so saffron, pretty in pink and old olive cardstock.

This card was cased from Nancy Riley and you can see her card here. I don't have any graduation stamp sets and I like to try to find a way to duplicate a card and make it work with what I have.

This card was cased from Mary Fish and you can see her card here. I changed the color to Rich Razelberry and I didn't have the same stamp sets so I improvised and used what I had. The was a fun card and I loved using all the different stamp sets.

Happy Graduation to all the graduates in my life.

Swap card

2010-05-28T16:16:00.000-07:00

This is my swap card for my We-stamp group. We had to make a card that focused on punches. I used 5 different punches on this card. Large oval, 1" circle, modern label, word window, and scallop punch. I used island oasis dsp, old olive, so saffron, and pumpkin pie cardstock.

Have a good one!

For Olivia!

2010-05-26T11:58:00.001-07:00

I made these letters for my mother-in-law to give to her neighbor who recently had a baby. I love the name Olivia. I used a retired Designer Paper. Of course the name has skipped my mind. I know one of my fellow demo's will remember and remind me. I used several different embellishments that are mostly Stampin Up!

2010-03-04T09:02:00.000-08:00

I made the above card using Sweet Pea DSP and Circle Circus (one of my faves for sure)! I used Chocolate chip, so saffron, bermuda bay and dusty durango cardstock. Bummer but that is retired chocolate chip ribbon.

This is a close up of a similar card with different stamps. I raised some of the circles with dimensionals. Hoping you day is fantastic.

The Cutest Easter Basket

2010-03-03T07:52:00.000-08:00

I had such a blast making these baskets for my We Stamp swap. I made 12 of these fun and cute Easter baskets. I actually cased these from Stamping Moon. You can see her version of several of these on her blog here. She has a link to the tutorial on Splitcoast by Lynn Put but you can see it here. I used Razzleberry lemonade DSP. The flowers are made from several sizes of circles crinkled up over and over. The corduroy brad is actually a pretty in pink one that I dyed with my re-inker and water. Hoping you have a wonderful day!

Here Fishy, Fishy!

2010-02-25T20:15:00.000-08:00

I am back! Whoo! It has been awhile but I have been busy creating and hopefully will have a few things to share in the upcoming weeks.

For this cute as ever fishy card I used the Sweet Pea paper pack. I love that paper. I Used the five point flower to create the tails and fins and the ornament punch for the body on the fish. I have seen several people creating these awesome fish but can't remember where I saw it first. What a great idea. I love using punches in different ways than they were created for. Dusty Durango and
Bermuda Bay with a little bit of Old Olive make a great combo I think. Below you can see a little more detail on the fish. I hope you are having a fantastic week.

2009-06-05T09:51:00.000-07:00

I have been MIA for awhile. Things have been very crazy around here. We had 5 graduations and 5 birthdays in the month of May. I also had my gall bladder out. Woohoo! I am glad it is June. Hopefully I will get time to post some new cards soon.

I wanted to direct you to an awesome blogger. Mary Fish. She has done an awesome display of the new in colors for you to see. You may check them out on her blog http://www.stampinpretty.com/ I hope she doesn't mind but she is a favorite of mine to check out everyday. Check out her stamp room also, you will be jealous.

2009-03-10T19:24:00.000-07:00

I have made some thank you cards because I was about to have my first real estate transaction. Unfortunately, today I found out it may not go through. I am going to keep my hopes up and I will be ready when I sell my first house~~~

~I used~

Urban Oasis DSP
Eastern blooms and Thank you kindly stamp sets
Baja blue, basic black and whisper white CS
black staz on and baja blue ink
1 3/4 circle punch
corduroy button
valet ribbon

The flower and black circle are popped up with dimensionals

Hope you have a relaxing night.

2009-03-10T19:15:00.000-07:00

I love the colors of this card. Very spring weatherish. It has been beautiful here in Phoenix. I feel bad for those of you having snow. Let's get on with spring already! Of course, our spring is a light speed path to our HOT summer.

I used:

Haiku DSP
So saffron and tangerine tango CS
Eastern Blooms stamp set
dew drops
1 1/4 and 1 3/8 square punch
tangerine tango ribbon
I did rough up the edges of the green DSP

Hope you all have a blessed day and here's wishing you that need it some warmer weather.

Sweet Stems

2009-02-25T14:20:00.000-08:00

Another Urban Oasis card. The basic grey goes so good with so many colors. I love it with baja breeze especially.

I used:

Urban Oasis DSP
Basic grey, baja breeze, kraft card stock
Valet ribbon
Both SU square punches
Sweet stems stamp set
Horizontal slot punch
Blender pen

Urban Oasis

2009-02-25T14:10:00.000-08:00

Another sympathy card. I love this Urban Oasis DSP. Finally some black papers from Stampin Up.

I used:

Urban Oasis DSP
Basic grey, basic black and draft card stock
Refuge and Strength stamp set
Kiwi kiss and basic grey ink pad
Hodgepodge hardware ribbon slide
Basic Grey taffeta ribbon
Eyelet border punch

Hope you have an awesome day!!!

2009-02-22T17:07:00.000-08:00

I got the inspiration for this card from my church today. The background on the bigscreen during worship was very close to this. It is funny sometimes, I just see a card when I look at something.

I used:

Real red and basic black card stock
basic black ink for background sponging
staz on for best wishes (sorry that it is blurry)
bleach for Baroque Motif stamp
Valet ribbon
blingy diamonds (non-su)

I hope you are having a Happy Sunday!!!

To the Nines DSP

2009-02-21T12:10:00.000-08:00

I love To the Nines DSP. Here in another card for a male birthday. I was inspired by Karen for both of these cards. I changed things a bit on both.

Here is her card for this one.

I used:

To the nines DSP
On your birthday stamp set
hemp twine
1 3/8 square punch
1" circle punch
star punch
word window punch
hodgepodge hardware silver brads
sage shadow and chocolate chip paper and ink

My inspiration for this card can be found here. Again made some slight changes.

I used:

To the nines DSP
short and sweet stamp set
eyelet border punch
flower fusion
valet ribbon
white brads (non-su)
pink pirouette and choc chip paper
paper piercer

SYMPATHY CARDS

2009-02-20T14:45:00.001-08:00

I made a couple of sympathy cards. My husband is a chiropractor and lately he has been losing patients. It seems like they are all of the ones who have been patients of his since he started. Some of them were patients of his dads 25 years ago when we both worked at the office before my husband became a chiropractor. It is always sad for him and he always likes to send a card to the family to let them know he is thinking about them.

Anyway, on to the cards.

Stamps: Refuge and strength
Paper: To the Nines DSP, kraft, basic black
Ink: versamark and stazon
Ribbon: black from the Valet
The pearls are from Micheal's

Give the ones you love a hug today!!!

Tart and Tangy

2009-02-20T14:28:00.000-08:00

I really think I need to take a photography class. I can never get my pictures just right. I see some gorgeous photos and I am always so jealous. For this card I wanted to use some of my new stuff. I love when that SU box arrives. It is like a birthday or Christmas all over again.

Stamp set: polka dot punches
Paper: rose red, kiwi kiss, regal rose and Raspberry Tart DSP
Paper piercer and new SU eyelet border punch
Ribbon: Rose red
The green jewels are non SU

Have a great day

Valentine's, Quick!!!

2009-02-12T17:35:00.000-08:00

This is the card I made for my hubby. I wanted something simple because I have been sick and had no energy or desire to stamp. I can no longer get away with giving anyone anything but a homemade card. LOL!!! I used the love you much stamp set. The new tuxedo ribbon( it is awesome, I wish it came in a bigger roll), and new punch (I can't remember the name, I lent out my catalog till I can buy more) but it is stampin-up. I used real red and whisper white paper. The image is stamped with stazon and real red for the heart.

This is the card I made for my daughter. She is a lovey dovey. The image is embossed with black embossing powder, then cut out. I used basic black and craft paper. Again I used the tuxedo ribbon and the border punch.

I hope you enjoy yoiur Valentine's Day, I am off to the dunes for the weekend.

Boys Birthdays

2009-02-12T17:27:00.000-08:00

I don't know. I always have a hard time with boys, or manly birthday cards. I whipped this one up for my best friends sons birthday. I used the star punch which made it very quick. I used windsor knot knot designer series paper with old olive background. Each star is whisper white, baja breeze and old olive. I used a circle punch on the dsp and then a brad to finish each one off.
I also used a strip of old olive ribbon.

Have an awesome day.

2009-02-05T16:23:00.000-08:00

I don't know about you but I am tired of sickness going around my family. I have been exposed to many kinds of illness this past month as I am sure you have to. It finally got me. I have been feeling awful this week and finally a little better this afternoon. Yeah!!! I hate being sick.

The card above was made for one of my best friends who lost her sister to breast cancer this week. It has been a long, hard road for the entire family. They are in my thoughts and prayers.

STAMP SET:
sweet stems
DSP:
windsor knot
CARDSTOCK:
chocolate chip, so saffron, whisper white, old olive
OTHER:
cuttlebug, top note die, watercolor crayons, old olive ribbon, old olive inkpad, ticket punch

I hope that is it. Hope you have a great day and stay healthy.

It's a Loop Thing

2009-01-31T12:41:00.000-08:00

I really like this new Hand drawn designer paper. The silver accents are from the stylized silver hodgepodge hardware. I thought Kiwi Kiss matched the cake and cupcakes on the red better than old olive. I used the scallop punch for the pink pirouette and a non stampin up punch for the baja breeze.

This card also uses Hand drawn DSP. I use circle punches in different sizes and then used build a brad for the center. The greeting is printed on whisper white designer paper and popped up with dimensionals. I used the small oval punch for the baja breeze background.

NOTEPAD

2009-01-17T06:00:00.000-08:00

Here is another case from the famous Nancy Riley. You can see her version with the tutorial, here. She even gave me one for Christmas. I love my friend. Anyway, I did an everyday version using Urban Garden paper. Can't get enough of it! I used two different patterns on the cover and added a basic gray taffeta ribbon. Ooh, so love this ribbon. I used basic gray cardstock to punch two flowers with the 5 petal flower punch and old olive for the small flower with a non-su punch. On the inside I used more from the urban garden family and used a stamp from Season of Joy to stamp the swirl (also with basic gray) on several of the sheets of paper. My daughter gave each of her teachers one of these for Christmas along with some other goodies.

2009-01-15T21:19:00.000-08:00

Okay, so now I am going to BRAG about my awesome daughter, Makenna. She made the cheer squad at her school. She is really good and so much fun to watch. This is the last month of cheer and then back to dance full time. Ugh! She is so busy. I don't know where she gets all the energy. I finally managed to get a picture of her in her uniform today. She was bummed because she isn't feeling so great but, she was a trooper.

PRETTY TOPIARY

2009-01-15T20:38:00.000-08:00

I made another topiary. This time using Bella Rose paper. I love this paper. I punched and punched and punched. It takes a lot of flowers to make these. There are 2 large flowers punched in contrasting colors using the 5 petal flower punch. One small flower is punched for the center using a non-stampin-up punch. This is a third color. I secured the flower with an extra long stick pin that has a white ball on the tip. The pot was painted with red craft paint that matched the Ridinghood red paper, then i used a sponge and chocolate chip ink to give it an aged look. I used tape to secure the kiwi kiss ribbon. The balls are just styrofoam found at Michael's. I did paint these first with the red so no gaps would show. The stem is a wooden dowel stained with chocolate chip ink. All of it is glued in place and moss covers the foam inside the pot. These take a long time to make but so worth it in the end.

UPSY DAISY

2009-01-15T20:19:00.000-08:00

Can I tell you how bummed I am that Inspired by Nature is not in the new catalog? I love that set. Anyway, I am glad that Upsy Daisy is still here.

For this card I used not quite navy as a base. Then the image is stamped with baja breeze first, then not quite navy, for a shadow look. Thank you is stamped in kiwi kiss. I used the scallop punch on a piece of baja breeze for the bottom and then layered scrap pieces of Urban Garden paper (glad that has remained in the catalog). Last, I added the kiwi kiss satin ribbon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2009-01-15T19:41:00.000-08:00

Of course, once again I have cased Nancy Riley. You can see her card here.

This is one she did ages ago but I still love it. I did a normal size card and used baja breeze instead of real red.

Supplies

Baroque Motif stamp set
Basic black, whisper white, basic grey and baja breeze cardstock
Black stazon, and versamark ink
Basic grey taffeta ribbon, self stick rhinestones, horizontal slot punch and dimensionals

Paper Trees

2008-12-08T08:51:00.000-08:00

Here is my attempt at Paper Trees. I cannot remember where I first saw these. I thought they were fun to do. The topiary was a little bit of a pain in the toosh but the Christmas Trees were pretty easy.

To make the topiary I used the 5 petal flower punch to punch out two different designs of patterned paper and a smaller punch (non-stampin up) for the center flower. I used Holiday Treasures paper. The hardest part was keeping the petals from overlapping each other. I stained a wooden dowel with Chocolate chip, painted the pot and then used chocolate chip on a sponge to wipe on the green pot for an aging effect.

For the trees I used retired Wintergreen paper. I cut the paper into strips and then cut them in half. This made a 1" x 6" strip. I started at the bottom and just pinned each strip in a circle around the bottom and topped it off with ribbon. Here is another version I did with Holiday Treasures paper.

Hope you have an awesome day!!!

2008-12-08T08:35:00.000-08:00

I just love these purses. I cased this card from a friend Lorri Heiling in my we stamp group. She made this the door prize and everyone who didn't win was soooo jealous. You can see her version here. I used Bella Rose paper and Inspired by Nature stamp set. I used watercolor paper and spritzed the stamp after I colored it with my stampin up markers before adding it to the paper. It gave it a watercolor finish.

2008-12-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

I cased this card from Nancy Riley (my favorite stampin person) here. She always has awesome ideas. I used the ski slope paper. Also a favorite of mine. I wish the picture wasn't so blurry. Still trying to figure out how to do good pictures. The stamp set is Season of joy.

2008-11-25T21:36:00.000-08:00

My daughter Makenna and I made 10 of these Bags in a Box for all of her teachers. She works in the office as and aide every day so we made each of the ladies one also. They just love her in there.
Here are close ups of 2 of the bags, we filled each one with chocolate. Who can say no to that?
She has one male teacher so he gets the bag that says to you from me. We used the square scallop punch to punch it out then punched 2 chocolate chip square scallops behind it. I just love the autumn vine paper. We used it for all of the bags.

All of the female teachers got a flower. We made it by using the 5 petal flower punch to punch 3 flowers and put them together with a diamond in the center.

You can find many adorable Bags in a Box here
and the tutorial here

( I sure hope I did that right)

Have a Happy Day!!!

2008-11-17T15:22:00.000-08:00

I have finally started a blog. I even figured it out on my own. Hopefully soon I will have some things I have done lately posted. I am excited to start showing some of the things I have done in the recent past. Hopefully figuring all of the posting rules will be easy to do. Ha, ha.

2008-11-17T12:23:00.001-08:00