Fall in New England!

I LOVE fall in New England! It is so beautiful. Not to mention the fresh, brisk air. I am sad this year though, because it seems half of the leaves have already fallen from the trees.

This card thought is my new favorite card. I made it using all of the "fall" colors. It is all SU! products also. The card Base is Chocolate Chip cardstock ( Love it! ) For the front base I used Dusty Durango and my versa stamp to randomly stamp the leaf image. I colored my tree stamp (Forest Friends stamp set) with my SU markers and stamped it on whisper white paper. Using sponge daubers and my ink pads in Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry I sponged a border around the tree. Matted the image on Crushed Curry and then used 5/8" grossgrain ribbon in Chocolate Chip!

I used my Modern Label Punch to punch out my sentiment.

I am so excited about the inside of my card. I often leave the inside of the card without sentiments, but try to put some design inside. I again used sponge daubers on whisper white paper to make the left edge and then again stamped my leaf stamp, but this time with my Dusty Durango ink pad.

I hope you like this card. I had so much fun making it with my sponge daubers. It makes me want to go outside and play in the leaves. It is sunny here today, so maybe I will get the kids and do just that.

Thanks for looking!

~melanie

Wedding Anniversary

This is a card that I made for a friend of mine at work celebrating her 40th wedding anniversary. The image was stamped and colored with stampin' up! markers. I used the blender pen to pick up color from the marker and place it on the flowers and leaves to create a softer look than coloring directly on the image. The sentiment was colored my coloring the stamp with my marker and stamping on the card.
I love this color paper and ribbon. It is Rich Razzleberry and one of the current SU! "In colors". I LOVE it!
I also used my decorative edge punch to create the pretty boder on the paper.
I was very happy with how this card turned out. It was to her and her hubby from all of us at work, so I hope she and everyone else like it!
Thanks for looking!
~melanie :)

Where has the time gone?

Can you believe it is October already? I have been so busy. I just did my first craft fair today and it was great! I had so much fun and I sold lots of my stuff and it was really great for my self esteem! Everyone was so generous with their positive comments, thank you all!

So, I am posting today pictures of me and my table at my craft fair. It was at Lowell General where I work FT as a nurse. Stamping is my hobby although my husband might say obsession!

Here are some closer looks at my table:

Well, now that the fair is over I am sure my house will be cleaner! I won't have to spend so much time in my craft room locked away! I do have quite a few orders to fill though, so I will still be busy. Christmas time is coming soon! Now that I am doing more, I plan to be updating my blog more often so check back for more projects.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Stampin'

~melanie

It's been a long time...

since I posted any of my projects. I have been making them. In fact I have been very busy getting ready for a craft fair. Unfortunately, my camera broke! I do have a scanner, but the images do not come out very well. I plan on snagging my daughter's camera soon to take pictures though, so keep looking.
Thanks, Will be writing and posting soon!
~melanie :)

Do you really love Blog Candy?

Another amazing stamper/blogger is celebrating Blog accomplishments. Bev Rochester is giving away major blog candy...check out Bev's blog for her amazing prize give away and all of her cool projects.

Do you love Blog Candy?

Who doesn't? If you do...you need to check out Steph's blog. She has an amazing blog candy prize to celebrate her blog milestones. Way to go Steph! While you are there check out her amazing creations.

Pink Cat Studios

I know earlier I told you that I really love Pink Cat Studio stamps. Well, they are introducing a new stamp set on Thursday August 6th. Make sure you stop by to check it out! I can't wait to see it....

Birthday Hero

I know it has been well over a week since I have posted, but I have not had much chance to do any cards or scrap booking lately. Sad I know. And, my digital camera has broken, so the cards that I have made, I had to scan and it does not do them justice. Anyway, this card was made a couple of months ago for my friends son. I just love this card.

This card was for a 3 year old boy. It was a Buzz Lightyear party, so I thought this little super hero was perfect. This card was really very easy to make. I chose Gable Green and Tempting Turquoise because it reminded me of Buzz. And Connor has red hair, so I colored the hero's hair red. This adorable image is from Pink Cat Studio. They really have adorable images. You know I love Lily and Billy stamps! Then I used lots of punches. My CM star punch and circle punch and my SU! Scallop circle punch.

This card was simple to make, came together quickly and I totally love it. Hope you do too. Thanks for looking!

Upsy Daisy

I love this SU! Image Upsy Daisy! It is one of the few solid stamps that I have, because usually I love to color. What I did though is color my stamp. I used my SU! Markers to create multiple colors on one stamp and then breathed some (of my) hot air on the image to make sure it is moist and stamp....voila, multi colored image!

Ingredients:

• cardstock: SU! Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery
• ink: SU! Markers Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue and Garden Green
• accessories: oval punch, scallop oval punch and certainly celery ribbon
  

This card is very simple, but I love the way it came out...one of my favorites!

Thanks for looking!

girly bot

As promised...I have my girly version of a robot card. Again using Lots of Bots set from SU! and new in colors.

Ingredients:

• stamps: SU Lots of Bots
• cardstock: white, SU! basic grey and melon mambo
• DSP: SU! razzleberry
• markers: SU! rich razzleberry, melon mambo, garden green, going grey
• accessories: misc. small flower punch & brad, SU! black 1/4 grosgrain ribbon, SU! scallop border punch, dimensionals

In this set this image actually comes with an I'm sorry message, but when I mounted my stamps, I cut off the sentiments and mounted them on the side of my blocks. I decided not to make an I'm sorry card, but used the get well sentiment from one of the other bots.

I think I did okay with my "girly" design, I proved to my daughter robots are not for boys only!

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!