I really like Kraft Cards! oh and the butterflies too!!

I made this one for my friend Sharon - its an all SU! card. I used not quite navy and kraft cardstock. The butterfly is with the SU! butterfly sizzix die. The circle was embossed with their lattice die. The sentiment is from Friends 24-7 and the branch is from a sympathy set that I'm too lazy to go get the name of but if anyone wants to know - I'll add it later.

Here is another all SU! card. The flourish is from the set Friends 24-7 that was used above. This butterfly is from the Nature Walk set. I colored it with the watercolor technique from not quite navy, daffodil delight and old olive ink.  The ink is Old Olive - the ribbon is retired and the lace is from my stash.

I hope to be posting more often.

Two posts in one week!!! A card

A dear friend of mine needed a card for a friend's daughter's Bat Mitzvah.  It was alot of fun to make! I used up some of my stash which makes me doubly happy!!

Putting down the flourish of pearls was a bit difficult to put down - it kept getting twisted and going in the wrong place.

The Jewish Star is an old SU! set that has long since retired. I put some shimmer paint from SU! on top and it looks really shiny in person.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Andrea

Miss me? Here is a card - finally

Here is a card I made my dear friend (and SU! demo) Sharon. 

Here is the inside of the card - I love making the inside as pretty as the outside

I really need to investigate how to make better pictures of my cards! Using my OTT lite surrounded by cardstock doesn't work LOL

All supplies SU! unless other wise noted - c/s pink pirouette and chocolate  chip, chocolate chip classic ink and craft ink with clear embossing powder; friends 24-7 stamp set; new decorative label punch (my fav!!!); lattice embossing folder, SU! flower punch whose name I forget and the punch stamp set that coordinates whose name I also forget - but can look up and add later if y'all want/need.

I've noticed alot of doilies used lately so I found one in my kitchen and used a sponge and some chocolte chip ink to make it less stark agains the brown c/s.

I hope to post more often in the near future - I even have some fun sharing ideas if anyone is there LOL

L'Shana Tova

I finally got around to making a banner for the New Year. I had great aspirations of decorating each panel with flowers or other "prettiness" but time got away from me. Still its nice - and I used a bunch of my stash!!  Maybe 15 or so sheets of 12 x 12 paper that I had been "saving" for good - bet you have some of that too!!

The paper is from Scrap In A Snap - a now defunct company for whom I was a consultant. Everything was cut with my new Expression - I used Basic George for the triangles and the letters.

My sister should get her gift tomorrow so over the w/e I'll post the pix.

L'Shana Tova to those that celebrate and thanks to all for stopping by!

A fast card!

Here is a fast and easy card I sent to my DD this weekend. The flower stamp is one from Gina K designs. I was smart when I first got the set and stamped quite a few with memento black ink and colored them with copics in several color schemes. They've sat on my desk for months and every once and a while I decide to use one in a card. I just ran some purple c/s through the Big Shot with the SU! dots embossing  folder - I had a certainly celery butterfly cut from the SU! butterfly die in my stash so I also ran it through the dots embossing folder - put a little pearl "ribbon" from Hobby Lobby on for the body -attached with a glue dot - and had a super fast card - took me like 5 mins - but thats only cuz the "ingredients" were mostly done. Oh yeah - I also used the SU!hole punching template thingie (whose proper name escapes me right now LOL) to make the little triangle design in the corners...you know - for a nonSU! demo - I sure to have ALOT and use ALOT of their supplies LOL

. I am hoping to create a little "stash" of ingredients for future fast cards.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Sis!

Two days in a row - can you believe it?? Although the pictures don't look like it- these are actually the same color IRL. One of these days I really gotta find a better way to take pictures of projects.

I made my sister a gift for her bday - but I think she stops by here - so you're gonna have to wait till she sees it but I'm gonna "risk" the card!

Supplies - Basic Grey patterend paper, Fiskars border punch, circle punch Ek Sucess, glitter, scor-tape, SU! always artichoke cardstock, SU! stamps  vintage labels and whimsical words (both retired Sale a bration stamps) and lace ribbon from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks for stopping by! Andrea

A card!! Yeah!!

I finally got to play with paper!!!

I made a quick card for my DD who is spending her sophmore high school semester in a semester school in the North Carolina mountains.

 Its an amazing program and opportunity for her - but needless to say I miss her - so y'all may be seeing lots and lots of cards. So far I've sent her several from my stash.

Today's card uses some retired SU! patterned paper,SU! retired barely banana grosgrain ribbon, SU! tempting turqouise cardstock. As well as punches (y'all know I love punches) I used the SU! tab punch and the two step bird punch. The I love you stamp is an oldy clear stamp from ages ago and I have no clue who made it. Oh yeah - the border is a fiskars (?) border punch - I'll have to check on that

Here is a close up on the "trio". I've noticed that many of the cards I seem to admire are grouping details together so I thought I'd give it a try.

Thanks for stopping by!