happy thursday???

well I can't think of a clever title (as if any of my titles are clever).....but I do hope you have a happy Thursday...

Last week and Monday and Tuesday of this week made a busy time of classes...now all that is left is the clean up.

We worked on the new hot technique in the stamping world right now called Bokeh, pronounced bouquet ...a photography term for  out of focus point of light...

This is the card..

 

I got the basic idea from a couple of places, Lisa Young at snippetsandpretties.blogspot.com and Shelli Gardner Stampin' Up!'s CEO....

 

I love the new Butterflies Thinlets dies from SU along with the coordinating stamp set, Butterfly Basics.

 

I stamped the fern in Versa Mark and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then created a background using Marina Mist, Pistachio Pudding and Mossy Meadow inks, sponging them with sponge daubers(and a little water to help spread easier) over Watercolor paper and Whisper White card stock..(we used both papers to see which we liked best.)

 

We then punched out various sizes of circles on a piece of card stock and used it for a template to sponge White Craft ink randomly on our card front...

 

I mounted the 3 3/4 x 5 in card front on a piece of 4 x 5 1/4 of Mossy Meadow and then the card base in 4 1/4 x 11 of Pistachio Pudding card stock folded in half..

 

The butterfly was cut out of a piece of Watercolor paper. I didn't want a stark white nor a more yellow vanilla look. I thought this was just perfect for this card, however depending on how dark or light they turned out, a Mossy Meadow butterfly looked better on some of the other cards. 

 

The sentiment stamp on the Watercolor paper covered up a mistake I made stamping a messed up sentiment directly on the card front....it worked out quite nicely however, I think...

 

Well I'm planning on spending most of the day finishing up this week's church cards, which are the black and white heart cards a post or two under this one, and making treasure chest......paper ones of course for jr church......

 

Busy day ahead...as always thanks for stopping by and

 

HS,

Wanda



greetings earthlings.......

what a busy time last week...I went to IN on Wed afternoon and back Thurs evening....

I did get 3 card designed and ready for card class this week and 2 done when I got back...I am almost ready for this week's round of classes....

Although I did direct copy sort of, this card....the purchase of this stamp set was a mistake..
I wanted to order the cute valentine set called Hey, Valentine..in the new Occasions catalog, which was number 137135, in wood...But as I was typing in the numbers, I typed in 137134, which was the stamp set Wood You Be Mine?  I didn't think any of my stamping girls would like this set..I must admit, I wasn't to crazy about it myself.

I mentioned this to a couple of friends that I had gotten together with to work on projects with.

 

Tracy, who I don't really know very well, started sending me pins and ideas for this set...I really liked the look of this one.  (thanks Tracy)
 I forget who designed this card originally, but I like the looks of it so I made it.  When I copy I mostly just look at a picture and have to figure it out...sometime mess up quite a lot of paper...

I think this turned out quite nice and once again I say a BIG Thanks to Tracy for helping me out with this.

Yes I could have sent this stamp set back, but figured why go through the hassle and it was my fault...
so here it is...and yes I did get the Hey, Valentine set, which you will see next time...

So until then, TIMBER! and hs (happy stamping),
Wanda

can I keep this up?

who knows, but I posted 2 times already this year! WoooHooo!

Today I have a card we make in October's Christmas Card Night.  I had the girls stamp Merry Christmas as their sentiment, however I thought just in case I need to use mine after Christmas for a church card, I'd put something different on mine......

This was really a simple card to make but I really liked how it turned out.....
The colors were Lost Lagoon and Smokey Slate. There is a little hint of Pear Piazza in the designer paper...

Another one of my goals is to save one card so I can take a picture of it....sometimes I use them all before I have a chance to photograph them (at least the church cards ones) or I give all the samples to my Mom...she sends out over 300 cards a year....

I may have a really, really busy week this week, not sure, but I may have to take a trip to IN......and with card class next week and only one card designed so far, I have to get "on the stick". (wonder where that phase came from?)

Have a lovely stampin' day.
HS,
Wanda

Happy Late New Year!

A new year, a new month (well almost new), a new day......

I have no resolutions this years but a few goals....not that I will meet them all, but that I will continued to work toward them...One of them being post at least weekly!!!!
Wow a goal, plus a miracle......

Well I am today, and it even a Saturday.....

If you have been to face book and on my Stampin' Up web site, you may have seen this card....

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Just wanted to show you that you could do the same card with different sentiments if you didn't need a valentine card :0)

I got the idea from looking at Mary Fish's blog.  She had a small picture frame with 4 hearts in it...that spurred the idea....

I really like how it turned out! hope you do too!

Want to make one of  your own plus more? 

Come to card class on Tuesday Jan 20th or Thursday Jan 22....
time are posted on my stampinup website wandamac2.stampinup.net and go to events....
or just email or call me....

Till next time
HS,
Wanda