A special from me...

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Take a peek if you will...

Good Monday Evening everyone ~ I thought that I'd pop in and let you know what I've been up to.  I've been working on my new Stampin' Up! blog.

I believe that I mentioned it before that I am keeping this blog, however I can not promote my SU! business on this blog.  All the technicals and such...  But if you will take a peek over there I'd appreciate it.  You can find it HERE or copy and paste this link in your browser:  http://joaniscardsmadebyhandtoo.blogspot.com/

I've got all the up to date links and such on my other blog.  I'd appreciate it if you became a follower there, too.  Then your sure to get all the up to date and in the know information Ü

Have a great evening!  And I'll be back tomorrow with a new post of something I've created for you!

I've done it now...

I've done it now! My dear Betty has finally talked me into it. I signed up with Stampin' Up just today and she is going to be my wonderful upline.

As most of you know, I've been stamping and scrapping for over 12 years now and I would say that 90% of my supplies have always been from Stampin' Up. All of their products are of great quality and I stand behind them 100%.

I wanted to post a message to let you all know that I am now a Stampin' Up demonstrator (something that I should of done years ago!) and if there is anything that I can do for you please don't hesitate to ask.

In the next few days to a week I will be adding a blog that is strickly for Stampin' Up and taking names of anyone who would like to hold a workshop, a catalogue party or who would like to be a part of a stamper's 6 group. In the meantime you can take a peek over at my site or if you'd like to take a look at what there is to offer you can view my shop here.  I will keep this blog up and running - however all my Stampin' Up goodies and such as well as a link to my online ordering will be on the other blog.

I hope that you can support me in this new adventure! I hope to be doing this for a long time!

Ready for another T Slide card?

I hope so, because these are so much fun to make!!  Let's get right to it shall we...

How can you not love this image?  She is adorable!!  The image is Audrey with a cupcake from The Stamping Boutique.  It's a digi image that I had purchased a long time ago, but if you go there now it is on special and all this week all the digi's are $1.00 off.  I had to plug them, I really ♥love♥ their images...

Anyway, I colored the image with my pencils and gamsol and cut it out with my small scallop oval nesties.  I also cut out a piece of Cherry Cobbler in the same size to layer behind it, just a little off center.  The swirls that you see behind the image are from Butterfly Swirls from The Angel Company that I stamped with Close to Cocoa ink.  The sentiment is from SU! For a Friend that is also stamped with Close to Cocoa ink also and I hand cut around it and layered it on to a piece of Cherry Cobbler.  I love that new color!!  The DP is from SU! and I'm sorry but it is the discontinued Sweet Always paper.  I added some jewels and ribbon once the card was put together, as always it was an after thought ~ I always think that I need just one more thing to a card when I "think" that I'm done Ü

The sentiment inside is from TAC's Everyday Events that I stamped with Close to Cocoa ink on Close to Cocoa paper.  I used my Modern Label punch to punch the sentiment out and I layered it on to a piece of Cherry Cobbler that I punched out with my Marvy Super Jumbo Scallop Oval punch. 

I still don't like the slider part.  When you open these cards it's fine, however when you go to close them the tab on the right side get's hooked up.  I have something different in the works for that so look for the tutorial tomorrow...

So that's all I've got for today ~ hope that you can wait til tomorrow for the tutorial.  Have a super great day an thanks for stopping by!!

My Mojo140

I know that I said I'd be back tomorrow, but I could not help it ~ I had to post this card.  I think that it turned out kinda nice.  And I also did not want to wait too long to play along with the Mojo Monday sketch.  It seems like it get's later and later when I do end up making up a card for their sketches and then it's about time to see the next sketch.

So without further ado, here goes...

My base card is Garden Green that I layered with Certainly Celery and some DP from Paper Pizazz and Prima.  I stamped the image from SU! Elements of Style with gold Encore ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then watercolored the image in with Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Mellow Moss re-inkers.  I then layered it on to a piece of Certainly Celery card stock.  I then stamped the word 'moments' from the sentiment in the set on to a piece of scrap Certainly Celery and punched it out with my curly label punch and added it to the back of the image panel then attached it to the card.  I felt like I still needed something else so I added some of the leaves that I punched out with my Sizzlits little leaves die and some butterflies that Betty punched out for me a while ago to the card.  I decorated the butterflies with some half pearls from Martha Stewart and I was complete.

What do you think?  I think that it turned out nice.  OK, now I am done for the day.  Really.  I'll see you tomorrow ~ Have a super great afternoon!

More Sweet Scoops

Is there ever enough Ice Cream scoops?  Nope, not in our house Ü

Here is the other card that I said I worked on that I wanted to show you. 

The base card is Pink Passion that I layered with Pretty in Pink, Pumpkin Pie and some Sweet Always DP.  I first cut out the image panel with my Cricut Storybook cartridge then I stamped the cones from Sweet Scoops on it with Creamy Caramel ink.  I then stamped the ice cream scoops in Pretty in Pink ink and cut them out and pop dotted them on top of the cones.  I layered the card with Pretty in Pink cs, a piece of Pumpkin Pie that I punched with my SU! punch and added a length of ribbon to, a piece of Sweet Always DP and a piece of Pink Passion cs that I punched with my SU! scallop border punch.  I then layered the image panel on the top of the card.  Once it was put together I used some Shimmerz Blingz paint on the ice cream and I was complete. 

I hope that you like this card too ~ and that it inspires you!  Have a super great weekend and I'll see you Monday.

Sweet Scoops!

If there is one thing that I can not have any will power over is Ice Cream.  My Father was the same way.  An Ice Cream connoisseur if you might say...  And when Betty stopped over the other day she left the SU! set Sweet Scoops with me to play with.  So I've been playing with it.  Wanna see some of what I came up with?  Of course you do ~ that's why your here Ü

This first card I used white for the base card and layered it with Purely Pomegranate, Bella Rose DP and Sending Love DP and some ribbon I purchased at Michael's last year.  I stamped the cone on a piece of white cs with Creamy Carmel ink.  I then stamped the scoops of ice cream with Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink ink, cut them out and layered them on top of the cone.  I paper pierced the holes around the white layer, added it to a Chocolate Chip layer and used pop dots to attach it to the card.  I stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday" from an old SU! set called And Many Mower in Close to Cocoa ink and punched it out with my word window punch then layered it on to a piece of Chocolate Chip scrap that I punched out with my modern label punch.  I think that it's kind of a clean card - just simple, but pretty.

This card was somewhat cased from a card that I saw on SCS here.  There are lots of cards that I see that I'd love to make and when I sit down to make them, they never turn out anywhere like the card I had seen ~ but I think that this one did. 

The base of this card is Cream card stock that I layered with Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip.  The DP is from Imaginisce that I had just a little scrap left, but enough for this card.  I ran a piece of Chocolate Chip thru the CB with my Happy Birthday folder and used it as the base layer on the card.  I stamped the cone with Creamy Caramel on white cs and cut it out and placed it on the bottom of the DP panel.  I stamped the ice cream in Summer Sun, Pretty in Pink, Blush Blossom and Close to Cocoa inks then cut them out and taped them one on top of the other.  I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts and punched it out with my 1 1/4" circle punch and layered it on to a 1 3/8" circle and scallop circle of the DP that I used.  I stamped Happy Birthday (a very old stamp from D.O.T.S.) on the inside and used my Close to Cocoa marker to color in the letters and I was complete.

I do have another card that I made with this set, but I will show that to you later this afternoon.  Got to have you keep coming back for more you know Ü

Have a great afternoon!!