Thursday, July 30, 2015

Watermelon card

Today's card is another swap card I did for my July swap, plus I took a few to convention with me. 
 It uses some of the new in colors, watermelon wonder and cucumber crush.  It took me a bit to see how would be easiest to make the watermelon  piece.  After some trial and error, this is what I felt was easiest to achieve the watermelon piece.
 
 
Cut white cs to 3 3/4" x 5" and then mark with a pencil at the very bottom at 1 7/8" to mark the middle.

 
Take the work of art stamp set and start creating the watermelon.  Using the tick mark, line up from the to the corners at the top to make the diagonal cuts.  Using paper snips trim the top of the green to create the rind.
Using the tree builder punch and the 1- 3/4 inch scallop circle punches to create the bite mark and the seeds of the watermelon out of a scrap of black cs.
 

 
Add some watermelon wonder ribbon and the greeting comes from the set named Num-Num.  All supplies are in the 2015-2016 annual catalog.  If you don't have one yet and want one, feel free to contact me.
 

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Swap card for convention

Today I am sharing one of my swap cards for convention.  So fun and quite easy to do.  I love the bright, summer time colors.  I used rich razzleberry, and pear pizzazz. 
You can see the double time embossing on the white layer a little better in the bottom picture.  The large dots texture impressions embossing folder lends itself well to this technique.  The greeting comes from a hostess set in this new catalog called A Whole Lot of Lovely.  I just inked the whole thing in pear pizzazz and then took a q tip to remove the green ink from the flowers.  Then using the rich razzleberry marker, I colored them in again.  Remember to huff on it before stamping.  The moisture from your breath with moisten the fast drying ink. 
 
Here is the hostess set I used.:
 
 
A Whole Lot of Lovely
139456--clear mount
138942--wood mount
 
If you would like to book a class, contact me or you can get some of your friends to place orders and do a catalog workshop as well and have the chance to earn this stamp set for FREE!
 
 
 
 

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Summer life!

Wow, I love summertime...so much fun, but it always seems to go so fast!  We had rain in the hay fields so it enabled me to post here this morning.  We had a drag racing weekend a week ago...and both of our kids and hubby, Jim, spent the weekend racing.  It had been 5 years since our daughter has been home during a race.
 
 It's a Nova party!  Here is all three of their cars...with Jim and Jeff in the background chatting about the day.
Here are the kids filling out their tech cards.
They all race the same class together in Pro Class, so that means they get to race each other sometimes.  Here is Jim and Jeff racing each other!
Here is Jillian in her 75 Nova getting ready to do a time trial.
It's a family event so even Oakley gets to go spend the day.  Jillian giving him a drink of water.
It was great to spend the weekend with family and friends.  We had a wedding reception to go to on Saturday evening, so made some wedding cards for that weekend as well.  We went to the reception and dance at Flatwillow Hall.  I didn't envy those getting up early to head to the races the next day!  We stayed waaaaaay too long dancing and visiting with neighbors.  Here are the cards:
Thanks for stopping by today...I know this was kind of a long post, thanks for hanging in there with me.  Sahara sand and wisteria wonder are pretty together.