Scallop circle cards

Good afternoon! I hope you all had a great weekend! I finally put in my new catalog order!! Woohoo! I can't wait! I ordered Thoughts & Prayers, Fifth Avenue Floral, Cheers to you and a few accessories. None of the SAB sets are really my style so I got the ribbon bundle and the DSP. I can't wait! I know I already said that, but it seems like it's been so long since I've ordered some SU goodies! I'm excited!

The other day I was looking at my nestabilities thinking how cute a card would be made from one that opened somehow. So that's what I did. On this one the white Wild Wasabi piece under the white lifts up.
I just punched though all the layers except for the scalloped one twice and ran the ribbon though that. Then I just scored to make it open. I used a circle needle point plastic canvas thingie to do the piercing. I'm so glad I can pierce circles now! Free hand wasn't even an option, lol. I've tried .

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Much Appreciated
-Paper-Whisper White, YoYo Yellow and Wild Wasabi
-Ink- YoYo Yellow, Only Orange and Wild Wasabi
-Accessories-Circle cutter, Circle Nestabilities, Wild Wasabi ribbon, paper piercer and needle point canvas

I made this one for hubby. The Pink Pirouette piece lifts up, and there is another Pink Pirouette circle underneath with the sentiment.

-Stamps-Always, So Many Sayings
-Paper-Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa
-Ink- Riding Hood Red, Close to Cocoa
-Accessories-Circle cutter, Circle Nestabilities, Chocolate Chip twill ribbon, white signo gel pen, paper piercer and needle point canvas

Stamp Something Challenge

Good morning! This weeks Stamp Something Challenge is sponsored by Pink Gem Designs. The theme is summer in winter. I used an old SCS sketch for this card, #18. This is one of my favorite sketches. It looks great flipped too.

Sorry about the picture. My camera doesn't do well with red.

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy
-Paper-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Whisper White
-Ink-Real Red, Old Olive and Only Orange
-Accessories-5/8" Real Red grosgrain, rub-ons

Make sure you stop by the Stamp Something Challegne blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with!

My time sketch

Hey! I hope you're all having a good day so far! I haven't done a darn thing today but stamp . Well, ya know the snow I mentioned yesterday? After I got done with my post, I looked outside and it was all gone except for little bits here and there. It snowed most of the day but no more stuck. Oh well, maybe next year. I did get my catalog yesterday though!!

I used Lauren Meader's sketch 19 for these cards. The sketch was from a couple of weeks ago, I've been meaning to do it and just kept forgetting about it. Love this layout! It's so much harder for me to use small images, but this sketch is perfect for small stuff.
-Stamps-Impression Obsession Cupcakes, Hey Cupcake sentiment
-Paper-Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink cardstock; Pretty in Pink and Soft Sky DSP.
-Ink-Chocolate Chip, Memento tuxedo black, Copic markers
-Accessories-Pretty in Pink taffeta, Nestabilities, circle punches.

I loved the sketch so much, I had to make another!

HELP! Do any of you know much about sewing machines? Look at the picture below. See how the thread that should be underneath his pulled through the top a little in some places? How do I make it stop doing this? It just started doing this recently and I don't have a clue how to make it stop. It's a lot more noticeable on straight stitches. I've tried adjusting the tension, but that doesn't seem to be helping, unless I just didn't do it enough or something. Any ideas?

ETA: Thanks ladies! It turns out it was the bobbin tension. I didn't even know there was such a thing, but all I had to do was turn a screw on the bobbin casing a little bit and now it works perfectly again! Woohoo!!

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Impression Obsession cupcakes (sentiment)
-Paper-Old Olive, Kraft and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Real Red, Old Olive
-Accessories-Nestabilities, Circle punches, sewing machine, white thread, Olive grosgrain and blender pen.

Candy Jar

Hello! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend! The only stamping I got done was this candy jar. I made it to sit on my stamp table =). This thing took no time! The jar came from IKEA. The Sweet is from Impression Obsession cupcakes, I just omitted the rest of the sentiment and then put dots with my Real Red marker. The top of the strawberry is on mini glue dots.

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Impression Obsession Cupcakes
-Paper-Whisper White and Real Red
-Ink-Real Red and Old Olive
-Accessories-1 3/8 circle punch scallop circle punch, and mini glue dots

If you have a minute, make sure you check out my friend Denise's blog. Not only is she mucho talented, she's got blog candy up for grabs to celebrate her first year of blogging! =)

Stamp Something Challenge 19

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a good week. Happy Friday! Today's Stamp Something Challenge is hosted by Melissa. Her challenge to us is to use the following picture as inspriation.
Here's mine. Two sets of the cherries were cut out and attached with mini glue dots. The stripes at the bottom are just 1/2" strips of whisper white glued down. After each one I glued, I put another right next to it to use as a spacer so they'd be pretty even. This card measures 4 3/4" X 4 1/4".
-Stamps-Tart and Tangy, Sentiment from Impression Obsession cupcakes
-Paper-Basic Black, Real Red, White
-Ink-Versamark, Real Red and Old Olive markers
-Accessories-Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, mini glue dots, White detail EP, Red Gingham ribbon,

Don't forget to check out the Stamp Something blog to see all of the DT's fabulous projects!

Stamp Something Challenge 15

Good morning everyone! You know what Friday means! Time for another Stamp Something Challenge. This weeks theme is "Summer Somethings". Anything to do with summer! The layout of this card was CASEd from Justbehappy on SCS. You can see her card HERE.

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Happy Everything and Straight up Alphabet & Numbers (retired).
-Paper-Old Olive, Real Red, Bashful blue and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Real Red, Old Olive and Close to Cocoa
-Accessories-Bashful blue grosgrain, Corner rounder punch

Don't forget to check out Stamp Something and see what the other DT members came up with!

More Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch cards

Whew! I'm all done with the Verve sketches. I'm so glad I did them. They really got my mojo going! Anyway, here are the last 6 .


-Stamps-Fabulous Flowers, Much Appreciated
-Paper-Soft Sky, Groovy Guava, Whisper White and Purely Pomegranate
-Ink-Purely Pomegranate
-Accessories-Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon, hole punch, Stampin Dimensionals

I don't have nestabilities yet (or anyway to make an oval for that matter) but I got some in a RAK a while back. I didn't have the right colors, so I traced and cut them out in case your wondering why they look so bad .

-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Old Olive, Real Red and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive and Real Red
-Accessories-Corner rounder punch, Real Red grosgrain

-Stamps-Doodle This
-Paper-Soft Sky, Groovy Guava and Whisper white cardstock; Cutie Pie DSP
-Ink-Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate, So Saffron and Staz-on
-Accessories-Aqua Painter, Black Brads, Martha Stewart glitter, Stampin Dimensionals and SAB rub-ons

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Impression Obsession Cupcakes (sentiment)
-Paper-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive
-Accessories-Pumpkin Pie ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, 1 1/4 & 1 3/8 circle punches

-Stamps-Wild About You, It's Your Birthday
-Paper-Ruby Red, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock; Certainly Celery and So Saffron Prints DSP
-Ink-Old Olive
-Accessories-, So Saffron Ribbon, 1 1/4 circle punch.

-Stamps-Seeing Spots
-Paper-So Saffron, Purely Pomegranate and Whisper White cardstock; Bali Breeze DSP
-Ink-So Saffron and Purely Pomegranate
-Accessories-Jumbo brads (not sure what brand), Stampin' Dimensionals 1 1/4 & 1 3/8 circle punches and Scallop punch.


Not sure what takes longer...making a card or posting it

Tart & Tangy and Big Pieces

Hello! Sorry I haven't posted lately. I've been a little busy. Anyway, I've got two easy one's today. I used this Clean & Simple sketch for the first one. I LOVE this sketch. I didn't stick with it exactly, but I'm happy with how it came out. The background looked horrible in this picture, so I just cut it out and made it white.
-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, So Many Sayings
-Paper-Bashful Blue, Old Olive, and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP.
-Ink-Real Red and Old Olive
-Accessories-Styled Silver HPH, Stampin' Dimensionals.

I've been seeing this color combo a lot lately, so I had to give it a try . This card took no time! I liked it a lot better before the paper piercing though. Don't ya just hate when your done with a card, and decide to add something else to it and you don't like it? Yeah, I do that a lot .

-Stamps-Big Pieces
-Paper-Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper white
-Ink-Apricot Appeal and Pumpkin Pie
-Accessories-Copper brads

Stamp Something Challenge 11

Good morning and Happy Friday! Lauren is hosting this weeks Stamp Something Challenge. The theme is "The Sweetest Thing". You can stamp candy, alter candy, make candy, eat candy, lol. Anything that involves sweets!

For this challenge I made a pull out card. Since the sweetest stamps I have are fruit, I decided to use skittles and decorate with fruit stamps. You pull the ribbon and the skittles come up. You can see the tutorial HERE on SCS. The piece of cardstock I used was 6.5 X 6 though (Scored at 3 and at 6). I wanted to stick with the skittles flavors for the fruit so I used Tart & Tangy for the lemon, orange and strawberry, and the grape is from an ancient set call Grapes. The grape is supposed to be bigger than it is, but I cut out part of it to make a little more in more in proportion with the other fruit. I didn't want to use the branch or leaves that are in the Grapes set because it would take up too much space, and the look isn't right, so I used part of the cherry stem in Tart & Tangy. The fruit is all popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals, and the Real Red piece is popped up with glue dots.

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Grapes and Short Order Alphabet
-Paper-Real Red, Whisper White and Pumpkin Pie cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Elegant Eggplant, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, Old Olive and Real Red (some markers)
-Accessories-Yoyo Yellow grosgrain, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals.

Another pocket card =)

I just love these little pocket cards, so I thought I'd make another =). The layout of this one is pretty much the same as the one I posted last week.

I've been working on my recipe cards yesterday and today. I ordered From the Kitchen of so I can make my own. Ugh, I hate to write. I just stamped the main stamp, so I'm filing all of them out first and then I'll decorate them. I've only got about 15 of them done so far. It will all be worth it when they are done though, and my recipe box isn't a jumble of papers where I can't find anything =). I'm so looking forward to that. And I'm finding great recipes I forgot I even had.
-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Itty Bitty Backgrounds and One of a Kind.
-Paper-Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Yoyo Yellow, and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP.
-Ink-Wild Wasabi, Only Orange and Yoyo Yellow.
-Accessories-Styled Silver HPH, Corner rounder punch, hole punch. 1 3/8" & 1 1/4" Circle punches and Scallop punch.

Tart & Tangy CASE

Hello! I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. This card was a CASE from one of my favorite stampers, Chat Wszelaki. You can see her card HERE. Make sure you check out her blog. She is amazing! I normally don't like to CASE, but I just loved her card so much I couldn't resist =). This card measures 7 1/4 X 3 1/2. All of the fruit is clear embossed. I just stamped like normal, then stamped over again with versamark using a Stamp-a-ma-jig.
-Stamps-Tart & Tangy
-Paper-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Versamark; Real Red, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, and Only Orange markers
-Accessories-Real Red ribbon, Silver brads, SAB rub-ons, white signo gel pen and Clear embossing powder.

Stamp Something Challenge 7

Good morning and Happy Friday! Today is the 7th Stamp Something Challenge. This week's challenge is a sketch. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.

-Stamps-Tart and Tangy, Much Appreciated
-Paper-Old Olive, Real Red (textured) and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Real Red
-Accessories-Real Red and Old Olive markers, Red Ribbon, and Styled Silver HPH.

Don't forget to head over to the Stamp Something Challenge blog to see what everyone comes up and a chance to win the blog candy.

SC169 Tart and Tangy

I have to say this card surprised me. I hate Yo-Yo Yellow, and I've hardly touched Wild Wasabi or Pumpkin Pie. I had the basic idea for this card in my head, but when I went to make it I realized I'd have to use these colors which I thought would look really bad together. I'm actually really happy with it though. I was browsing the past sketch challenges on SCS and came across SC169 from a few weeks ago and I knew it would be perfect. I think I'll definitely be using this sketch a lot. I don't think you can tell in the pic, but the brad on the main panel is from the new Hodgepodge hardware. It says Genuine. I LOVE the new HPH! It's so pretty I can hardly bring myself it use it.
-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, One of a Kind
-Paper-Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Yo-Yo Yellow, and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP.
-Ink-Yo-Yo Yellow, Wild Wasabi, and Only Orange (I don't have Pumpkin ink yet).
-Accessories-Styled Silver HPH, Pumpkin Pie grosgrain, Pop-dots.
-Technique-Masking


Puppy update-
Some of you may remember my post about the puppies I was having a hard time finding homes for. Well this really wonderful person saw my post and contacted me. They emailed several rescues trying to help me, and one of them sent out a mass email to rescues in other states. A foster home for a animal shelter (when they don't have room) contacted me and said she could take some of them. In the meantime I did find homes for 4. Between the woman in PA and friend of hers they were able to take the remaining 5. Her friend drove all the way down to SC! I met her at a shelter in Greenville where she was picking up 5 other dogs to rescue. The lady that came to get them and her family kept 2 of them, and the other woman kept one and is fostering the other two till homes can be found for them. They have both sent me pictures. The puppies are all doing great! I can't tell you how amazing these people are. Thank you all so much for everything you do!!

Tart & Tangy

I made this one a few days ago, I just forgot to upload it. I really love Tart & Tangy, but for some reason I've had trouble using it-so simple is all I could come up with, lol. I really screwed up my scallop edge, but from what I hear there will be a scallop edge punch in the new SU catty =). I don't think the sentiment really fits the card, but oh well, I never remember to actually send them to people anyway.Recipe:
-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, A Beautiful Thing
-Ink-Bashful Blue, Not Quite Navy
-Paper-Bashful Blue and Pumpkin Pie cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Accessories-Real Red and Old Olive Stampin' Write markers; Bashful Blue grosgrain.