Ladies Club - September

 

 

This is another card my Club made in September.  Comfort Cafe DSP is one of my favorites.  I guess I'm drawn to the muted colors, and especially brown tones.  Spice Cake was my favorite before Comfort Cafe :)

 

This card was made with the faux pinwheel technique I shared previously.  I used the Color spritzer tool with my Soft suede marker to create the speckled background on the Very vanilla card base.  The Antique brads are some of my all-time favorite embellishments, and the new In-Color Summer starfruit is becoming one of my favorite colors too.

 

Stamps:  Sweet essentials

Ink:  Summer starfruit, Soft suede marker

Paper:  Comfort Cafe DSP, Summer starfruit, Soft suede, Very vanilla

Punches:  Scallop trim border, 3/4" circle

Embellishments:  Antique brads

Accessories:  Color spritzer tool

 

Cherish Friendship

 

This is a center step card.  It took some tweaking, and I won't say how much card stock I went through before I figured out the dimensions, but the end result will fit in a standard A6 envelope!  The background of this card is the Tile technique.  To me, the tile gives an antique feel.

 

 

This is the inside of the card.  I used the same background stamp as I did in the tile technique and I stamped off before I stamped the background.

 

Stamps:  Cherish Friendship, Everything Eleanor, Itty bitty bits

Ink:  Crumb cake, Cajun craze, Summer starfruit, Midnight muse, Gumball green, Daffodil delight (and others I can't remember...lol)

Paper:  Comfort cafe DSP, Soft suede

Punches:  Itty bitty shapes punch pack, 3/16" corner

Accessories:  Rhinestone jewels, Soft suede 3/8" taffeta ribbon

 

 

 

Ladies' Club - July

These are the three cards that my Ladies' Club made when we met a few days ago.

Postage Due with Summer Starfruit In-Color.  I CASE'd this card from Terry Blais.  This is such a simple card, but I think it's got just enough quirkiness to be one of my favorites.  I used Summer Starfruit to layer the main design as well as in the smaller postage stamp.  I also used Real Red and Early Espresso.  Marina Mist provides the backdrup for the big postage stamp.  The postage stamp punch coordinates great with this stamp set.  Makes me want to take a trip!  Maui anyone?  (My favorite place on Earth!)

This card used the Reason to Smile stamp set, which was on sale in July for $5 with a $50 minimum order.  I absolutely love 2-step stamping.  You will also see the embellishment used on this card in the new Holiday Catalog which begins August 1.  If you're like me, you will want everything in this catalog.  Stampin' Up! doesn't disappoint with the new Bundles and stamp sets.

This is a Birthday Easel card.  I used the Mixed Bunch stamp set for the big flower and added a Primrose Petals Dahlia in the center.  They look much larger in the catalog, but they are very small.  Cute, cute!