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!

Wow – what a weekend!  Curt picked up our niece Britta after work Friday night to spend the night.  We got up early Saturday morning to go to Sea World with another family – we had reservations for all three kids to do the Dolphin Encounter (Britta’s birthday present) and between traffic and some other issues we just made it by the skin of our teeth!  The Dolphin Encounter is a really cool program that includes a class on dolphins and about 30 minutes in the dolphin pool. 

Participants are broken up into groups of 4 and each group gets a trainer and a dolphin.  This time we just signed up the kids to go, but someday I’d like to do it myself.  We were able to watch from a close vantage point so I snapped a bunch of pictures while Curt took video. 

Here’s Britta posing with her dolphin.

The weather was beautiful and the park was a bit crowded, but not overly so.  Walking until I was almost ready to drop – thank heaven for the shows and a chance to sit for awhile!  The shows are truly amazing!  We stayed at Sea World until 10pm and  didn’t arrive home until almost 1am.  Exhausted does not begin to describe the feeling.  Even all day today I have felt totally spent.

Of course today was Father’s Day and we met my Uncle and my parents for lunch at a local BBQ joint.  Here’s the card I made for my Dad.

My parents enjoy poker tournaments, so when I saw this image from a Crafty Secrets Vintage Booklet I knew I had to make my Dad a card with it!  It’s just too funny!  I mounted it on a piece of Real Red cardstock that had the corners punched with the ticket corner punch, then that was layered onto Chocolate Chip.  I found that this polka dot Celery paper from the SU Palette o’ Prints went perfectly with the new Wild Wasabi cardstock for layering.  Big Pieces were embossed on Real Red cardstock using Chocolate Chip Craft Ink (gotta love those Craft Spots for having the full color range available) and clear powder.  Some red brads are the final touch.

The card I made for my uncle is in my SCS Gallery – the first time I tried a Stampscapes card – really fun stuff to play with!  Wow – I just looked that up to link it and I can’t believe I made that last August and saved it for Father’s Day.

After lunch we went to pick up Curt’s new-to-us pre-owned truck.  His current truck is 12 years old and pretty rough looking at this point, so the shiny red paint is pretty exciting!  We drove 30 minutes to get it, only to realize that I had left the checkbook at home (changed purses for Sea World yesterday – oops) and had to drive back home and back again to get the truck. D’oh!!

After my last post showing my Prisma pencil holder I was asked about how I separated them by SU color families.  There is a wonderful chart on SCS made by fiona51 of the Prisma matches to SU colors.  That link will take you to the thread on SCS where she has posted it.

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I need a vacation after mine! *grin*