WORLD CARD MAKING DAY

Today is the fifth annual World Card Making Day!!  Our design team at Skipping Stones Design is celebrating WCMD by doing a little blog hop, highlighting some of the cards we have been making with some of the Skipping Stones Design stamps.  You should have arrived to my blog from Barb's blog.  When you have finished here, you can head on over to Heathers blog.

I decided to use a new set released this past month called "Wisemen".  I created this very clean and simple card using the camel/wiseman image, star, and one of the sayings.

I wanted the saying to follow the line of the die-cut, so curved the stamp accordingly on the acrylic mounting block...that is one of the benefits of polymer stamps!  I used PTI select white CS for the base, and SU night of navy for the second layer.  The images were all stamped with versamark ink, and embossed with detail gold EP.  A very simple card that one could mass produce for Christmas cards.

I also am going to post another card I made using the "Happy Halloweenie" set by SSD.   With Halloween right around the corner, I have been using this fun little set alot lately...I love the ghost!

I glittered the ghost after stamping and cutting it out.  I stamped the witches hat on black and purple CS, paper piecing the purple hat band.  The designer paper is by Echo Park, and buttons from my stash from a Halloween set of buttons from last year.  I used the swiss dots cuttlebug folder on the CS base which is New Leaf by PTI. The scalloped circle is a Spellbinders die, and the black border is SU scallop border punch.

Hope you have fun on our little hop, and also stop by the SSD store, and check out all the other great stamps sets SSD has to offer!  Again, the next stop on the hop is Heather.   Have a wonderful weekend, and hopefully you have found something on our blogs today to inspire you!

TIPS AND TRICKS

Today is Tips and Tricks at Skipping Stones Design, and my turn to show a tip, trick, or tutorial.  My tip today is an altered item,using the "Halloweenie" set from SSD.
I love, love, love to alter things utilizing my stamps.  I save all sorts of containers, using the excuse of being "green".  At work they jokingly call me the bag lady, and hand me all sorts of treasures they think I may be able to use! In all seriousness though, it is a nice green thing to do....repurpose items when you can, right?

Right.  Well, today I decided to repurpose an item stampers and papercrafters just may have saved, or will next time they purchase them....cuttlebug folder packaging! 

Take the folder out and store it away as usual, but don't throw away the front plastic panel, and the backing.

I took the back panel, and covered it front and back with DP.  Then I stamped the "You've been Boo'd" saying at the top.

Then I took four Ghirardelli chocolates and covered them with DP strips cut 11/2" by 5".  I positioned them below the stamped poem using pop dots.  By then I was tired, needed a break and a piece of chocolate...know what I mean?   Moving on......

Position the front plastic piece around the poem with the chocolates, and embellish the front of the plastic however you like.....the possibilities are endless don't you think?  Hope you like my little altering tip!

SSD SKETCH 44

Tuesdays bring the new sketch of the week over at Skipping Stones Design.  I did get my sketch design in to SSD on time, just forgot to upload it to my own blog!!  I just loved the sketch this week by Ashley Cannon Newell.  I will be keeping it in my favorites file.  This is the sketch:

We used "Halloweenie" for the stamp set this time on the card.  I sure like this set!  The ghost is adorable, and I really like the "You've been boo"d saying that fits on an index card perfectly.  This is my go to set as I create my Halloween goodies this season. 

This is the card I made using the sketch, and "Halloweenie" set.  I used designer paper for the background.  I stamped the ghost on white cardstock, and the Boo on orange DP.  The lace I found in my basket of lace scraps, and thought it fit the banner theme perfectly...and of course rarely is a card of mine finished without a button or two!  Hope you like, and try your own hand at the sketch.  Just go to SSD, and at the end of the cards the design team made there is an area to link your card...you could win $ toward a stamp set from SSD!  To purchase "Halloweenie, see here, and scroll down to the bottom of the stamp set selections. Happy Halloweenie!

HAPPY 50TH TIMELESS TEXTURES SSD

This week is my brothers 50th birthday..( I can't say if he is my younger or older brother! LOL!).  I made a card for him that he really liked.  He has been lamenting the fact that his hair is almost all gray, so the Hoppy Birthday set from Skipping Stones Design with the cute little gray "hare" seemed perfect.  The inside read: "Just what you wanted for your birthday...another gray hare....but don't worry about getting older...gray hares are cute....Hoppy Birthday!"  I made the card while out of town at my moms, and only had black ink, and white paper along to play with...It seemed to work out ok being black since he turned 50 and all!  The bottom of the card uses another Skipping Stones Design stamp from "Timeless Textures", that I really like to use as a background stamp.  Here is my brother Randy's simple 50th birthday card that made him laugh!

SCS CAS 86 UPSY DAISY BIRTHDAY

Just a quick post tonight..I have had a hard time finding time to stamp recently.  Tonight though, I needed a quick birthday card for a gal in my stamping group, and needed something quick.  When I checked the CAS challenge on SCS for yesterday, I found my quick inspiration.  A simple sketch that I will use again and again...maybe even yet tonight!  Hope you are having a great week so far.  Please check back on Thursday, as I have the Thursday tips and tricks turn on Skipping Stones Design, and did a tutorial on altering an item you may already have saved!  Here is my Clean and Simple challenge design for this week:

BLOGS FOR BOOBIES UPDATE

Good morning to you all!! Just a quick reminder that today is the last day of the "Blogs for Boobies" silent auction.  You have until 8:00 PM MST tonight to bid on any of the cards on the hop.   A BIG THANKS to all of you who stopped by my blog and left such sweet comments!  I loved reading each of them, and in turn checking out some of your blogs!  This was my first experience participating in a blog hop, and it was so much fun and for such a great cause! 

Also thanks to Nettiepop for the highest bid so far at $7:00.  As I said on my original post, I will match the winning bid.  Once again, this is my card up for bid, with proceeds being donated to the Susan Komen foundation.  For bidding information and another look at all the wonderful projects created for this auction, scroll down to my "Blogs for Boobies" post below.

Thanks and have a wonderful day...the weekend is almost here!!

SSD SKETCH # 43

Hello and Happy Tuesday....Tuesdays always bring a new sketch challenge  from Skipping Stones Design art stamps.  We are so lucky to have the honor of designing from the sketches supplied by the very talented Ashley Cannon Newell, the whole month of September.  Here is Sketch # 43, and my take on the sketch....we used the SSD stamp set "Wisemen" to interpret Ashley's sketch.  This is a new stamp set that is just being released.  Check it out here.  I stamped the wisemen images on enchanted evening CS by PTI (I love their CS..so sturdy),  Then I outlined the star and image with bleach so as to mimic moonlight.  Following the sketch design I added some crinkled ribbon I just bought and tied loose knots along a length of it and adhered to the card.  The black CS is black Bazzil Bling, and the card base kraft, once again by PTI.  Hope you enjoy!  Please hop over to Skipping Stones Design  and check out the rest of the cards by the other design team members, and upload your own take on the sketch....a great way to win discounts on SSD stamps!!  Have a wonderful day....Oh and if you have not followed our blog hop featuring the new release Bras # 2, and the silent auction to benefit breast cancer, just scroll down one post here on my blog for all the info.....there are some of the top designers in the country participating in the two day blog.  The cards and projects are amazing to say the least!