Pool Party Watercolor

Today's card is the card I made for the Red Hots' card swap that we had at this month's meeting.  Fourteen of us swapped with each other using sets from either the sale-a-bration catalog or the Occasions catalog...and there were a lot of great cards from each of the ladies!  I'll have to take some pics and show them to you some time. :)  For now I'll show you what I swapped with the ladies and it's also going to be one of this month's stamp a stack cards.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp  Sets:  Happy Watercolor & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Pool Party and Naturals White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pool Party & Pear Pizzazz

Ink Refills:  Pool Party & Pear Pizzazz

Embossing Folder:  Stripes

Framelits:  Windows Collection & Ovals Collection

Punches:  1" Square & Modern Label

Ribbon:  1/2" Seam Binding in Pool Party

Jewels:  Basic Pears

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Aqua Painter & Sponges

Soft Serene Silhouettes

This is another fun sketch I had to work with from the Red Hot Stampers.  Not sure why I went with purples, but that's what popped into my mind when I saw the sketch. :)  I just might use this as one of my stamp a stack cards, but use sponges instead of the brayer for the background.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Serene Silhouettes & Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder,

Pink Pirouette & Basic Black 

StazOn:  Black

Embossing Folder:  Fancy Fan

Punches:  Large Oval, 3/4" Circle & Scallop Edge Border

Brayer & Sponges

Triple Floral Fusion

It's Sunday so that means it's time for another Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge card.  We have a pretty clean and simple sketch today and I really like it.  I need to learn to simplify my cards at times and this sketch helps me do the trick.  Don't forget to check out what the other Red Hot Stampers made HERE!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Sweet Essentials

Card Stock:  Crisp Cantaloupe & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Crisp Cantaloupe

Embossing Folder:  Fancy Fan

Sizzlit:  Floral Fusion

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Bordering on Romance

Last night was our card swap with the ladies from the Red Hot Stampers and these are the cards I made to swap.  It's similar to one that I had for my last stamp a stack, just changed up a little bit.  I got a lot of really nice cards from the ladies that participated. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Bordering on Romance & Apothecary Art

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Elegant Eggplant, Marina Mist & Wild Wasabi

StazOn:  Black

Aqua Pen

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Secret Santa - Part II

Here's Christi, the wonderful lady that was my Secret Santa.

Here are the gifts she gave me at the party...

She took an ice cream container, decorated it, then filled it with goodies.  Looks like she enjoys making 3x3 cards too. :)  I'm definitely going to be using her idea for "wrapping" a candy bar.  I love it! 

She also gave me this wonderful smelling candle. 


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~Here are just a few of the gifts she gave me over the last month~

This is a cute way to give candy.  Guess I should have taken the picture before I ate it all!

Love the cute notebook purse!

Hmm...am I really a Grinch? 

...in need of Grinch pills!

I guess not! :)

Christi~ Thanks so much for all the wonderful gifts and the time you put into each one. :)

Secret Santa - Part I

I decided to be a part of Secret Santa, and I'm glad I did!  I picked Rachel Verbrugge and had a great time making and buying gifts for her.



Here's a gift card holder I made for her.  It was one of our challenges from Glenda for this month.  I figured why not include it in with the Secret Santa reveal. :)

I'm excited to finally be able to post some of the things I made for her!  Didn't want to let her know who I was (for sure) until after the reveal. ;)  I had a lot of fun making everything.

I bought a gift bag and decided to make a 3x3 card to match it. 

 I also made a few gift tags that I've been wanting to try, but never did until now.

Very easy gift tags to make!

I really got hooked on 3x3 cards when I did a card exchange a couple of months ago.  These cards are one of the gifts I gave Rachel in her reveal present.  

 I loved how these turned out, but didn't want all the cards to be the same.  I decided to reverse the colors for a little variety.  I made her gift card holder to match these. :)

Yup, I definitely had a fun time with all of this.  Glad I could be your Secret Santa, Rachel!

Red Hot Stampers

I figured I'd better get busy and do a little posting again...

What a blast we had at the Christmas party!  Thanks Glenda for a great time!  You really spoiled us with gifts and prizes. :)  Thanks ladies for all the delicious food too. 

I didn't get pictures of Stamptionary (I guess that's our version of Pictionary) or Bingo, but I did get one of the name game.  I missed one name...darn!  Sorry, Judy...I'll remember your name from now on though!