More is More

How exciting and fun to get a FREE stamp set in the mail!  Stampin’ Up! is sending a free stamp set to all demonstrators with a thank you from Shelli.  It’s called Time Well Spent and it will be a Level 3 Hostess set in the upcoming January catalog.  Mine came Friday and I just had to make a few quick cards over the weekend with it.  It’s so CUTE!!!!

The first one is for Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge

The large flower was stamped onto watercolor paper and watercolored with markers, then punched out with a Marvy Mega circle scallop punch and covered in Versamark and heat embossed with clear powder.  I love the shiny look that results from clear ep, but I just can’t get it to show in the photo.  The flower image was then layered onto a Summer Sun giga scallop circle with foam tape.  The stem image from the set was embossed onto the Rose Red cardstock with white embossing powder to create stripes.  The background paper is from Apple Cider (SU) and is stamped with the smallest flower from the set with Wild Wasabi ink.  The large brads were colored with a yellow sharpie.  Cardstock colors are Regal Rose, Summer Sun, Rose Red, plus the Wild Wasabi piece from the Apple Cider designer paper.

The next two cards used a piece of crayon resist on glossy cardstock and built from there.

This one makes me think of my friend Jenn Balcer.  I don’t know if she actually came up with this layout, but I always think of it as hers and I use it often…plus I used Pumpkin Pie as part of this bright combo and that always makes me think of her too!  Crayon resist here used ink colors – Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, River Rock and Real Red.  Cardstock is Regal Rose, Basic Black, River Rock, glossy white.

And the last card is just another variation using the same piece of crayon resist (I made a quarter sheet and cut it down for 2 cards).

I wanted to see how Cooking Ronnie would look among these wild flowers.  I stamped her on glossy and colored her with SU markers before punching her out with a Marvy scallop rectangle punch.  Background was created by stamping the medium size flower with black ink on Regal Rose cardstock.  This card was finished off with 3 green rhinestone brads.  Cardstock colors are Real red, Basic Black, Regal Rose, glossy white.

I hope you had a good weekend – we sure did!  Last night we attended a charity event for Breast Cancer Awareness put on by my niece’s sorority.  (I still can’t get over that the little 3 year old flower girl from my wedding is in college and holds a very decent adult conversation!)  It was a Casino Night and it was surprisingly fun!  I learned to shoot craps which was a blast and played a little blackjack as well.  Gambling with fake money is really fun (I’m way too anal to enjoy gambling much with real money).  Here’s a family photo…

Curt, me, Lill (my SIL), Craig (Curt’s bro), Kira and her boyfriend Matthew, Britta (our youngest niece).

Yep…time well spent…

Thanks for stopping by.  I have something  special to post first thing Tuesday morning so be sure to come by!