cards

I love that if I am completely out of ideas on making a card I can look to the good old stampin up catalog and find an idea and either copy it exactly or change it a little and make it my own. I was flipping through my catalog and saw a card on page 6 of our catalog, and decided to make this card which is similar, but different as I didn't have everything they used to make the card:

I used a few different stamp sets: on your birthday, one of a kind, fresh cuts, true friend. Colors So Saffron, More Mustard, Old olive, whisper white cardstock,white grosgrain ribbon, small paper clip, close to cocoa, sahara sand, more mustard, old olive, so saffron ink, and bleach.
Then from the catalog I really liked the card on page 40, but didn't have the background paper so I made my own which looks like this:
I used the Big on Christmas Stamp Set Bold snowflake jumbo wheel, bashful blue, whisper white, and riding hood red cardstock. Then I used staz on jet black ink to stamp, and used a blender pen to color in bashful blue, basic black, and riding hood red on the snowman, and his carrot is pumpkin pie. Oh and I used 3 silver brads and the taffeta riding hood red ribbon. (love that stuff) I like this card!!
Then I had decided I wanted to start getting some ideas for Christmas cards and came up with these cards:



I played around with some of the stampin up hostess sets Deer Friends, Holiday Happenings Bundle, Many Merry Messages stamp sets. I used the circle scallop punch, and the curly label punch, and curly label stamp set
Also used the following colors cardstock pink pirouette, and cardstock and inks, close to cocoa, riding hood red, baja breeze and kiwi kiss. Also used silver brads, and linen thread.