OOPS

Hi everyone!  Oh MAN, a big OOPS on my part!  I totally forgot about making my Housewarming cards for my Real Estate agent!  I have been so busy with my garage this totally slipped my mind. UGH!

So, I emailed him and asked if I could send him 10 now and 10 when I finish them.  I hate that he has had to wait this long!  I made these 2 really quickly yesterday.  Have I mentioned how much I love CAS cards?  LOL!  First 10 in the mail tomorrow.  :-)

Like my other cards, these 2 use Ippity Stamp sets - the first one uses the house from Devoted and Tiny Alpha stickers from Cosmo Cricket.

 This one uses the little house from House a Home

 I liked the last card so much, I used the same layout for my Technique Tuesday challenge (TTSCS4) card over on SCS!!  The challenge is to make a card using a stamp set with flowers.  Easy peasy!  I used the cutie set, Spiro Garden. The sentiment is from Thanks for Everything.  The pattern paper is OA's Ducks in a Row.  Hummm... I am rethinking die cutting the rectangle on a diagonal as I keep thinking my panels are CROOKED! LOL! I assure you they are straight!

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets (housewarming):

Stamps - House a Home, Devoted
Ink - memento rich cocoa
Paper - White, Lemon tart, Aqua mist (PTI), striped pattern paper
Accessories - Buttons and Copic markers (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), Jute String (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), sponge, nestabilities, swiss dots EF, tiny alpha stickers (Cosmo Cricket)

Card Deets (TT challenge):

Stamps - Spiro Garden, Thanks for Everything
Ink - Chocolate Chip, old olive, daffodil delight, hibiscus burst
Accessories - Buttons and Copic markers (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), Jute String (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), sponge, nestabilities

Friends with Flair, home style

Welcome to Friday with Flair!  It's been awhile, but I love it when I have time to play along!  Angela has the master list of all the 50 designers participating in the FWF this week, so take a lookie at the Unity Blog for the names/links of everyone.

Today I have a couple more Housewarming cards to share.  My real estate agent asked me to make him 20 and I am chipping away at the order in between this week's Verve Release Spotlight peeks and house renovations!  CAS is the name of the game with these.  AND Ippity's House a Home is the perfect for all my cards. 

I got the layout idea from the incomparable Julie Ebersole -queen of CAS!!  The pattern paper is from Bella Blvd from my scrap folder, but most are from Man of the House line.  I love Bella Blvd papers because they are great for masculine cards.  I have to REMEMBER that I can't make all the cards girlie with flowers!  Some have to be masculine -which is very tricky for us girlie stampers -LOL!

Here is another with different colors and papers.  I like how these turned out, not too girlie, right?

 Before I go, yesterday was Demo day 1 for my driveway/walkway and garage!!

I have a couple pics to share.  Today they finish the demo and clean up and all next week they set the forms, lay and stamp the concrete!  I am so excited!  Here are the before shots:

Believe it or not, this picture doesn't show any demo.  It's a close up of the condition of our driveway.  The HUGE Blue Spruce tree roots have done unbelievable damage!

Here are some demo shots -yep the 3 guys tore up everything with a jack hammer!  I think my neighbors HATED me cause they started at 9:15am!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!  I hope to see you tonight at the Verve Release party!

Card Deets:

Stamps: House a Home (Ippity)
Paper: White, Man of the House PP (Bella Blvd)
Ink: Soft Suede, terracotta tile, Hawaiian shores
Accessories: Jute string (Stamp Simply Ribbon store), circle nesties, corner rounder, Copic markers and buttons from Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts

Another 2 house cards and Verve Spotlights begin

Hi everyone!  Well, here are another 2 housewarming cards for my real estate agent.  These both follow this week's Fall To Layout sketch #103.  Quick and easy!  I am gonna need to pick out a few more favorite FTL sketches and make more cards!  17 to go!

Again, I used Ippity's House a Home set.  These are pretty simple, just a bit of coloring and ribbon.  This card uses the PTI Simply Chartreuse saddle stitched ribbon and Pacific Point cardstock.

This card uses October Afternoon's Fly a Kite paper and the amazing SU! 1/4" Taffeta ribbon in Daffodil.

AND, it's that time again...

The VERVE stamps release is this Thursday and all this week the Divas are Spotlighting the new sets.  The New Release Spotlight will be a bit different this time, each day the Verve Stamps blog will have a master list of all the Divas showing cards that day.  

As usual, with Verve releases there are challenges -this time Julee has created 5 amazing sketches!  Check them out here there are a couple ways to win.  The Release Party will be this Thursday, 5pm Pacific over on the Verve Forum on SCS.

Today we are Spotlighting the fabulous set, Love Story.  This is an amazing wedding set that features 6 images and 14 sentiments!  You will love this set!  Be sure to check out the Verve blog to see what Divas have samples to share!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

House is a Home to the rescue

Hi everyone!  I have a couple challenge cards to share today.  First up, my real estate agent has asked me to make 20 Welcome Home cards for him!  I don't do many custom orders, but he is such a great agent AND Ippity just released the set, House is a Home - it seemed destined - how could I say no??  So be prepared to see lots of Welcome Home cards -LOL!

This cutie card not only uses Ippity's  House is a Home set, but also uses the dotted background stamp from the Love in Return set.  I stamped the houses, colored them with copic markers, and cut them out.  The strip of pattern paper is from Bella Blvd.  I love the colors of their lines.  The tone is earthy and no so girlie, perfect for Home cards.

I used today's Taylored Expressions sketch #124 for my layout.  Perfect sketch for little houses, huh?!?  The small brown bling is from the Round Wheel by Zva Creative and the brown twill ribbon is from Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Next up is my card from last weekend for the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS.  This week we are celebrating vdutchr. I cased this cute card here. I kept the size of the card, layout and use of circles. But I changed up almost everything else.

This is also for the last Technique Tuesday challenge, TTSC1, to use TT stamps. I used the Thanks for Everything and Wise Guys sets. I also used some of the Technique Tiles -the FUNdamental Rings. LOVE these!  This was also for the Embellish Magazine challenge, to use the colors: pink, brown and green AND use a bird of some kind.  But, I didn't complete it in time to enter it!  OOPS!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Card Deets:

Stamps: House a Home, Love in Return (Ippity)

Paper: kraft, white, Soft Sky
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: brown twill ribbon, circle nesties, copic markers, scallop trim border punch, button from the Gentle Times collection

Card Deets:

Stamps: Thanks for Everything, Wise Guys (Technique Tuesday)
Paper: kraft, white, hibiscus burst, dark chocolate 
Ink: early espresso (su!)
Accessories: satin edged grosgrain ribbon (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), technique tiles, copic markers, border punch, Oregon Rain drops in Kiwi, felt flowers