Midnight Muse Moon

Hello everyone!  Today's card is for my brother-in-law's birthday.  I don't think he looks at my blog, so I think I can post it early. lol  So there are a couple of reasons I made the card this way...meaning why I made it dark.  Do you ever look to the west after the sun sets and it seems like all across the horizon there is a haze of rainbow colors?  I know I do!  Other times I look to the west and the night sky is this beautiful dark blue color.  I wanted to capture that color on a card and finally did it! :)  I usually sponge all of the colors when I have a moon in the background like this, but I wanted to try my hand at using the brayer.  I don't use it much at all and thought I should get some practice with it if I ever want to be good at it. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set: Lovely as a Tree

Card Stock:  Midnight Muse, Basic Black,

Whisper White & Glossy White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Midnight Muse, Island Indigo & Pool Party

StazOn:  Black

Punches: 1 1/4" Circle, 1 3/8" Sqaure & 1" Square

Embossing Folder:  Woodgrain

Brayer

Baja Breeze Hydrangea

Today's card is another April stamp a stack card.  I wanted to use the hydrangea stamp featured in the Best of Twenty-five Years ~ Flowers.  I also wanted to make the cards pretty simple to make, and I think this was the easiest one. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Best of Twenty-five Years ~ Flowers

Card Stock:  Baja Breeze & Very Vanilla

Stampin' Write Markers:  Baja Breeze & Wild Wasabi

Framelits:  Windows

Embossing Folder:  Perfect Polka Dots

Ribbon:  5/8" Seam Binding in Baja Breeze

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Sponges

New Project Kit from Stampin' Up! ~ Bloomin' Bouquet

Well, I didn't get a chance last evening to post anything to my blog.  One of our dacshunds managed to get out of his cage while we were gone and ate WAY too much chocolate.  Yes, he climbed onto my desk, then stood on my two-drawer filing cabinet and stretched as far as he could to sneak a bag of chocolate from on top of my four-drawer filing cabinet.  The only reason I found out is because he knocked off my daughter's piggy bank and I found it in pieces on the floor. :(  Needless to say it was a long night for us last night, but he's doing ok today. :)  

So instead of showing you a card that I've done I thought I let you know about the  Stampin' Up! Bloomin' Bouquet Project Kit and watch the video here on how to put them together.  They are very simple too do!  I love making 3-D flowers, so this project is right up my alley. :)

Here are the details...

Mother's Day, Teacher Appreciation, It's finally Spring, Just Because ~ This is an easy-to-assemble kit and comes complete with the petals, stems, and buttons to create the flowers, as well as four different tags to make this the perfect gift for any occasion. All you need is some paper, ribbon or a vase to add the finishing touches to the bouquet.

Ordering information:

Item 134542 $12.95

Available starting April 29, while supplies last.

Kit contents:

• 2 sheets of preprinted and precut flowers on 12" X 12" cardstock; makes 13 flowers using Pool Party, Gumball Green, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, and Rich Razzleberry
• 13 Vintage Faceted Buttons
• 13 green floral wire stems

Adhesive not included. (Glue gun recommended.)

If you don't have a demonstrator I'd love to be yours!  Just visit me here for more info or to order. 

Happiest Birthday Cardinal

It's Sunday so that means it's time for a Red Hot Stampers' challenge card.  Today's card isn't my norm, but my mother-in-law's birthday is coming up, and I wanted to use this sketch challenge for it....oh, and she loves cardinals too. :)  Let's hope she does't see my blog or she'll be seeing her card a couple of days early. lol  I tried to make the card as springy as possible since cardinals usually go on Christmas cards.  My hubby thinks it looks ok so that's good enough for me.   As you can tell I also flipped where I put my bird.  After I put him together I realized I made him backwards, and I wasn't doing him over again to match the sketch! lol  Don't forget to check out what the other Red Hot Stampers made using this challenge here.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Apothecary Art

Card Stock:  Cherry Cobbler,  Wild Wasabi, Basic Black,

More Mustard & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Cherry Cobbler, Tangerine Tango & Basic Black

Punnches:  Bojo Blossoms & Bird

Brads:  3/16" Neutrals (Black)

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Sponges

Elements of Style in Black and Gray

I know...the card I posted yesterday used this same stamp set, but I made this card for my April stamp a stack before I knew this set was on the retired list.  My daughter actually helped me come up with this card.  She said all of my cards use too much Very Vanilla or Whisper White card stock.  She's right...I use a lot of those colors! lol  I really like them though, and I'll still use them.  It was nice to make a card a little different from my norm though. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Elements of Style

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Basic Gray & Wisteria Wonder

StazOn:  Black

Ribbon:  3/8" Ruffled in Wisteria Wonder

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

So long to some of my favorites...

Today's card is inspired by this week's Paper Players Clean and Simple Challenge #142 - A one-layer card.    Now that's a hard one for me because I like to add a little dimension to my cards.  When trying to figure out what to use I decided why not use a bunch of things that are retiring since I won't be using them much longer.  Well, maybe I will for my personal stuff, but not for my stamp a stacks or card classes. :(  My favorite thing that is going is the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint that I spritz on my cards.  I don't know what I'm going to do without it!  I use it on a LOT of my cards because it adds so much to them.  I think I'll keep using it as long as I have some on hand! :)   I also picked one of my two favorite sets that is retiring and colored it in with retiring colors (except So Saffron).  It's kind of hard to see in my picture, but I scored a rectangle and only colored on the inside of it, then spritzed only the outside of the card.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Elements of Style

Card Stock:  Watercolor Paper

Classic Stampin' Pads & Reinkers:  Pretty in Pink, Baja Breeze,

So Saffron & Certainly Celery

StazOn:  Black

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Thoughts of You

Here's another card we made at this month's stamp a stack.  I hadn't used this set in a while and thought it would be nice to use it again.  I also wanted a card that went together pretty quickly and this one did. :)

Also don't forget about the retiring stamp sets and accessories.  The retiring stamp sets HERE are available until June 3, and the accessories HERE are available while supplies last!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Artistic Etchings, En Francais & Loving Thoughts

Card Stock:  Basic Black & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Basic Black & Cherry Cobbler

Punch:  Bird

5/8" Vanilla Flower Trim

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Sponges