Pampered Pets

 I love this adorable stamp set, and I knew my daughter would too.  We decided to sit down and play with it last week.  We also have the dies to cut out the pets and decided we wanted to do that for the card.  Sometimes I have an idea in my mind of what to do and others I don't, so I search for inspiration.  We googled card layouts and picked one that we liked and set out to make these cards.  I chose to use the cat stamp and she chose the dog (and you will see we didn't die cut them because we forgot we wanted to!)

We had a lot of fun coloring in our images with our Stampin' Up!  blends markers.  Sophia did a great job!  She shaded the dog fantastically (is that a word?).   She used a little black rhinestone on the dogs collar, and I used a little crystal effects on my butterflies to add a little bling!

You can see the layout we chose had 3 rectangles and i laid mine horizontal and she did hers vertical.  Then we both decided to decorate the inside of our cards (we DID use the dies!  lol) by using the paw die and cutting out the cute little paw prints from our lining layer so the color of the card base showed through.  

It was a lot of fun stamping with her...hope we get to do it again soon!

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Melanie

Stampin up! Pampered Pets stamps and designer series paper

Pink Sunflower

Celebrate Sunflowers - Stampin' Up!  At first I didn't pay much attention to the set.  Then I saw my friend on a video and she had a bag of precut pieces that she hadn't used and she pulled out this black outline and I was like I love that.  And it turns out it was the sunflower die outline.  It would make a great background layer for a card...will have to work on that!

So now that I knew I liked that sunflower die, I wanted to see what else was out there for cards that were made with this stamp set.  I googled it and found a beautiful blue sunflower card!  You can see my inspiration here.   I hadn't thought about making it any color other than a sunflower color!  So i was sold!  Into my cart this set went along with the dies of course!  When it came I was itching to use it!  And I had to color with my new stamping blend markers also!  This one was made with melon mambo and bronze and ivory, and the leaves with old olive.  It was so much fun to color this in.  I decided to decorate the inside of the card as well.  I always like to put a layer inside my cards as well, I feel like it is too plain without it.  So why not pretty it up too?  

This was the sketch I used to plan my design.  Think outside of the box!  Just because a layer is shown as a rectangle, doesn't mean it can't be a flower!  A little crumb cake cardstock and DSP in melon mambo.  And of course embellishments,  some twill and pearls to finish it off!  I really love how this card turned out.

Another tip...while you are stamping and die cutting make extras.  I stamped these flowers four times and colored in 4 different colors.  That way I have them ready when I want to make a card!  

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Melanie

 Long time no see!  I have not posted anything on this blog in years!  I have been busy with other things...my craft room has seen better days!  I decided that i wanted to get back into crafting and making cards and since I love to share what I've made, re-visit this blog!  

I wish I had taken a before picture of my craft room (no, really I don't because you would be horrified!)  I have been cleaning up on weekends in there and I have tossed out 7 garbage bags of who knows what.  The craft room kind of became the we don't know where to put it, oh, the craft room...or so it became known "the crap room". Well, it is time to take that room back!  After removing the garbage and the 3 oscillating fans i found being stored in there, I am not left with an organization problem...but still some room to work!  

This card was made for my nephew whose grandfather had just passed away.   Honestly I can't even tell you what products I used to make this card as it was made with whatever I could find at the time.  

I do know that these are stampin' up! stamps, but from which set, i am currently at a loss!  The stamps were just laying about in bowls, not with the sets they belong!  I really do have a lot of work ahead of me in cleaning up! 

It may sound weird, but I do like to make sympathy style cards, or they could be just thinking of you cards.  I usually use a floral print and color them in.  I have found myself the last few weeks perusing card blogs and really loving the floral ones. 

I have also just gotten myself a beautiful new set from Stampin' up! called Celebrate Sunflowers which I cannot wait to begin to play with!  So, stay tuned for that!  As well as my new chicken sets that I have been making birthday cards with!

So, hopefully it won't be years before I am back on here!  I look forward to sharing more soon, thanks for stopping by!