stamping with Maggie

celebrate

Stamp set: Office accourtment, floral background

Cardstock: purely pomegranate, so saffron, green galore.

Ink: purely pomegranate, so saffron

Accessories: spiral punch, tab punch, purely pomegranate ribbon

French Sparkle

Cindy Andrews cindygeoa@yahoo.com put lots of sparkle and shine on this beautiful card.

Stamp set: French Flair, circle of friendship

Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, vanilla

Ink: Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: Dazzling Diamonds, 2 way glue pen. 3/4 and 1 in circle punches

What is black and white and red all over

Shelley Pruett from Monument Colorado shellpru@gmail.com created this card for swaps at convention. Oh, and the title, is a very worn out joke. sorry for boy humor.  ( 1/2 a cat)  But this is a gorgeous card. It makes me even think of the holidays.

Stamp set: baroque motif and wonderful words

Cardstock:real red, black, white

Ink: real red,silver encore, white, versamark

Accessories: ticket punch

Just a little Santa Ho Ho ho

Jennifer Thorson from St. Louis, Mo.  made this card. He is the cutest Santa Claus I have seen in a while. cardsbyjenn@charter.net I love her colors.

Stamp Sets: Polka dot, party punch, jolliest time of year

Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, Black, River Rock, Vanilla, soft sky

Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Black,  soft sky

Accessories: Designer label punch, Blender pen, watercolor pencils

Monkeying around for a birthday

Zoofari is the Stampin' Up stamp set that Sonja Stauch  from Grove City, Ohio, used to get this great look and feel of a filmstrip. How cute for a child's birthday card!  sstauch@columbus.rr.com

Each square is 1 1/4 inch by 1 1/4 inch. THe black is a strip of paper 2 inches wide x 4 1/2 and punched on both sides with the spiral punch. By stamping the monkey  traveling across each consecutive square, it will look like he is in a slow motion animation.  How fun!  She used Close to Cocoa, purely pomgranate, black, and white cardstock. And used markers to color the cute little monkeys.

cherish

Thelma Antolin slemma@excite.com  created this beautiful card. I have used this Stampin' Up set - Baroque Motif -more than any other stamp set. And I have used the cardstock - River Rock - on many many projects. It is a very versatile color, rich ,but light enough to go with many other colors.

Be sure and check out the Stampin' Up color combo widget in my sidebar to find beautiful color combinations that will make your creations really great.

A Moment of Grace

Sally Stevens from Baneberry Tennessee sallystevens@charter .net made this wonderful card.  I love the sentiment. "The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is ours to set the sails." I have found that to be a comfort many times throughout my life.  I have as a stencil border in my youngest son's bedroom. " we can't control the wind, but we can adjust our sails."  I want him to learn that he has what it takes to do what the Lord needs him to do.

Stamp set: Winds of Grace, Totally tabs rubber stamp sets from Stampin' Up

Cardstock: River rock, black, white.

Ink: Black

Accessories: Tab punch

circle of flowers, circle of friends

I received this card from Shari Jung ,her blog I love the design flow of this card. Each flower is different, just like every handmade card is different, just like every friend is different. Cards + friends = Stampin' Up

Make a list, check it twice

This card was made by Joan Matis. I swapped with her at the regional swap in Louisville, kentucky. I liked this idea using the make a memory cd from Stampin'Up. This is also a wonderful tool for scrapbook journaling. I use my computer a lot when I scrapbook, because like most scrapbookers, I don't like my handwriting.

Now serving

Isn't this guy great? I love his style - such panache- I just celebrated my second son's 25th birthday! Where does the time go? I could very easily start spouting cliches ,but I miss his sweet little hand reaching for mine. He was a dear little soul. I am proud of him as a man, too, but he was a sweet little guy.  So today, we are serving a little sentimentality with our birthday cake.

Stamp set Voila and the accessories.diamond background stamp

Cardstock: real red, whisper white, so saffron.

Ink: black, so safron

In honor of his birthday, if you sign up for my birthday club, not only will I send a hand-stamped card to you for your birthday, I will include his favorite Key Lime Pie recipe.