Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven

There were 3 designs from the Dotty For You paper pack that I haven't had a chance to use yet.  On Sunday. I pulled one of those designs to make this card.  I love the design on this paper because it is from one of my favorite stamp sets - Card Word Puzzle (C1494).  The papers in the Dotty For You pack were hand designed by Close To My Heart's artists.  This particular piece was designed using the flower from the Card Word Puzzle stamp.   I used the Sketchbook Saturday Challenge sketch for this card! The only stamping I did on this card was the sentiment! The  Card Word Puzzle  stamp has a variety of words  that you can put together create your own personal sentiment.   I sponged Lagoon ink onto the  Color Ready Seam Binding  Ribbon (Z1732)  so that it would perfectly match my card!   Since this is a Birthday card I'm entering it into Crazy 4 Challenges this week.  They are looking for Birthday Cards...

I needed to created a wedding card for my daughter's friend.  Using the sketch from Pals Paper Arts this week and my Card Word Puzzle (C1494)  stamp, I created this silver embossed card.   I randomly stamped the flower using Versa Mark ink on to a piece of White Daisy cardstock.   Then I embossed the flowers with Silver Embossing Powder.   I stamped and embossed three more flowers that I would cut out separately.  You can't really see on the picture below but the lower flower on the right is 'popped' out using the flowers I cut out and layered. Here is a closer look at my layered flower.  It gives a little bit of dimension to the card. Since I didn't have any silver ribbon to use for this card, I pulled out my Color Ready Seam Binding Ribbon (Z1732) .  I love this ribbon because I can get any color I need just by sponging the ink onto the ribbon.  Viola! I have silver ribbon!  I used Grey Wool ink (Z2125) to get ...

I loved the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and it worked out perfectly with the colors this week at the Color Throwdown Challenge.   I used Close To My Heart's colors of Smoothie, Blush and Bamboo cardstock for my Color Throwdown Colors.   The flowers from the  Card Word Puzzle (C1494)  stamp along with Bamboo ink added a nice subtle random stamping effect.  I felt the cardstock alone was just too stark.  But maybe that is me..... I couldn't resist the urge to stamp something!    My "Happy Birthday" sentiment is stamped with the new 4 My Friend (D1510) set.  I used a combination of Art Philosophy Cricut flowers and a paper flower from the new Paradise Paper Flowers (Z1710) .   The flower is topped off with a wooden button  (Z1387) and that ever popular Baker's Twine Paradise Assortment (Z172) !   Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the color inspiration from Color Throwdown : ...

WHEW!  What a crazy busy week this has been.   I've got my Open House coming up next Saturday and planned to do alot of creating to get ready for it.   I planned to do a little bit every night.  Well, it didn't take long for that to get shot down!   Our dog, Remi, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever has been sick since January 2.  He is not even 2 years old and he could barely get up and walk!  We've been going back and forth to the vet.  Finally we were referred to a specialist about 50 miles away.   Remi spent all day at that vet having about every test imaginable done.   After work I went to sit with my hubby to wait.  It was 6:30 before we able to bring him home.  Needless to say, no creating that night.  The following two nights I worked late.   Friday night, I planned to come home and spend the evening in my craft room but instead, I spent the evening at the clinic and then the pharmacy gett...

Here is another little sneak peak of new product!   I made this fast and simple 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" card  with the new Lucy Level 2 Paper Pack (X7149B).  I have to admit, the Lucy paper was not at the top of my list for the 8 new paper packs but when I got pack I had to change my mind!  It is so pretty!  This shows only one of 6 beautiful designs included in the pack. The stamp is from the new set - Card Word Puzzle (C1494) .  I love this set!  It has 4 different flower stamps (I used two here), a butterfly, a leaf and over 50 words that you can put together to make your own original phrase!  I used "Just A Note" for this card.   I used blending pen with Cotton Candy and Pear ink to color my flower.  I added the Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain ribbon and Pearl Opaque Adhesive Gems.    The card pattern is Corner Shop from Jeanette Lynton's How To Book for cards - Originals . I'm going to enter this card into 2 challenges...