Sweet Fall Owl...

If you haven't purchased the owl punch yet, consider attending my class in October. It includes and owl punch in the class fee and you will get to make some punch art with it (not just owls!). Contact me for details!

This little owl makes every card so cute! This card is very simple to make but looks adorable! I paired the owl with some pretty branches from the set Autumn Days. I stamped the branches in Pumpkin Pie and Soft Suede (note: to create the lighter tone, just stamp once on a piece of scrap paper before I stamping on your real image). Then I left room for the sentiment "Just a little note" from the hostess set Apple Blossoms.

Hope you have a great weekend!

stamps: Autumn Days, Apple Blossoms
paper: pumpkin pie, more mustard, old olive, whisper white, soft suede
ink:pumpkin pie, soft suede, old olive
other: Owl punch, 1 1/4" striped Grosgrain ribbon, dimensional

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Fall Thank-you

When I first looked through the Holiday Mini Catalog, this set, Day of Gratitude, was immediately one of my favorite sets. I just love the way it looks! To make this simple thank you card, I stamped the main images right onto Crumb Cake cardstock using rich razzleberry, early espresso and very vanilla ink-- Just be careful with the vanilla, since it is a craft ink it takes a little longer to dry so don't smudge it!!

The rich razzleberry ribbon through the center is made using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. This punch was introduced when the new catalog came out in July. It is definitely a great addition to any punch collection and makes a beautiful border that looks like ribbon!

To finish off this card, just a piece of early espresso card stock and a sentiment punched out with the wide oval punch. I used a thank you from the sincere salutations set.

stamps: Day of Gratitude, Sincere Salutations

ink: rich razzleberry, very vanilla, early espresso

paper: rich razzleberry, very vanilla, early espresso, crumb cake

other: dotted scallop ribbon border punch, wide oval punch

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French Foliage

This card uses new stamp sets from the Holiday Mini Catalog.  The leaves are from the set French Foliage. This set is really beautiful and makes a quick and easy card! To make this card I randomly stamped some different leaves around the edges of the white card stock using old olive, more mustard and cajun craze ink, leaving room for the sentiment. The saying is from the set Day of Gratitude, another Holiday mini set and is stamped with early espresso ink.

To make the bow I used the "fork" bow technique. If you haven't tried this, it's a super easy and fun way  to make really cute bows! I am horrible at making bows but now that I learned how to do them this way, I will probably do them more often! To see how it's done, attend a class or book a workshop with me!

Hope you had a great holiday weekend!

stamps: Day of Gratitude, French Foliage

ink:more mustard, cajun craze, old olive, early espresso

paper:whisper white, cajun craze, early espresso, 

other: 3/8" olive taffeta ribbon

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Summer Mini is almost done!

Don't forget, tomorrow is the last day you can order from the summer mini catalog! There were some really cute sets in there so make sure to let me know if you need anything or order from my website.

Here are a couple of my favorites using summer mini items:



Stay tuned... soon I will have fun fall stuff to share from the winter mini!!

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Growing Green Slider Box

Another project with the Growing Green set-- A slider box. These little boxes are so fun to make! You simply cut it out using the Matchbox XL big shot die-- it cuts and scores it to make it easy to assemble. Then decorate the top. For this box, I used Garden green Card stock for the bottom and a piece from the Woodland Walk Designer paper for the wrap. The rose is stamped from the Growing Green set and colored it to look water colored using aquapainters. Then I added the sentiment "for you" from the set Great Friend and the finished it off with some 1/8" taffeta ribbon.

stamps:Growing Green, Great Friend
ink: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake
paper: Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Woodland Walk Designer Paper,
other: Aquapainters, Vanilla taffeta ribbon

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Growing Green Watercolors

One of my favorite techniques to to is to watercolor -- I will admit that this does take a bit of practice and when I demo it or have it at class there are always some who hate it or get frustrated with it but if you practice, the cards it makes are definitely worth it!

Here's what I do-- I take a Stampin' Up ink pad and squeeze it so some of the ink gets up on the lid. Then open it up and use an aquapainter to pick up some color. Most important is DON'T squeeze the aquapainter.... if you apply too much pressure your paper will get too wet-- just holding it upright should give you enough flow to get some moisture through the tip. If it still seems too wet, you can scribble it out a bit on some scrap paper. I usually start on the area I want darkest and dab a bit -- then scribble off on some scrap paper to get the color off the brush. Then go back and use the brush with no or very little color on it and drag the spot you just made out the the edges. This creates a dark to light water color look...

Everyone has different techniques so I suggest just practicing to get the look you want. You an also use watercolor pencils to add color instead of ink pads.


stamps: Growing Green, Heard from the Heart
ink: Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip
paper: very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede
other: aquapainters, dimensionals

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Owlie Punch!

When I saw this owl punch in the new catalog I knew I had to add it to my punch collection!
It's so adorable! The punch has all the pieces to make an owl! Here's what it looks like:

I punched it out of crumb cake, chocolate chip, wild wasabi, vanilla and pumpkin pie. If you don't need all the shapes, you can just hold the punch upside down and stick the card stock corner in only as far as you need to punch the section that you need.

For this card, I assembled the owl using mono multi adhesive and then added him to this card. The branch is stamped from the Growing Green stamp set using garden green ink on vanilla paper. I stamped the sentiment "thanks" from the Thank You Kindly set over the top with chocolate chip. I used some pumpkin pie 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon to add some color pop. The "tree" is actually a piece of paper from the Woodland Walk Designer Series Paper. This paper pack has two different woodgrain patterns in it! I love it!

stamps: Growing Green, Thank you Kindly
ink: Garden Green, Chocolate Chip
paper: Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla
other: Two Step Owl Punch, 1/8" pumpkin pie Taffeta ribbon

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