Father's Day and Geometrical Sadness

Father's Day is coming up and I always struggle with a good "manly" card... but I think I've made a great one!
You can change the sentiment to say "Happy Birthday" and it's a great card any man would love.

I used the stamp set "six sided sampler" and the co ordinating texture plate, hexagon... plus the wood texture plate for the early espresso piece.  I also broke out my night of navy, that I just don't use enough!

And I also made this card with Geometrical, which is sadly retiring.  I haven't even used it more than this once :(
But alas, there will be dozen more stamp sets I will want, so this is life!

For Mother

For club we made an ultra simple, but perfectly elegant, Mother's Day Card.
I am sad that we are saying goodbye to the Apothecary Art Stamp set... (order before May 26th or it is gone forever).. but I am devastated we are losing Crisp Cantaloupe (and strawberry slush and pistachio pudding and coastal cabana).

I love the mosaic background from the bigshot.  The image is from Apothercary Art, and we used blender pens to color the flowers, then the big shot to cut out the shape, making a perfect image everytime.  The paper is crumb cake... and of course, the pearls finish it off nicely.
The sentiment is from teeny tiny wishes!

Thank You

I find you can never have enough thank you cards.  This is a simple one I CASED from stampin' up directly... I switched it up a bit by adding the embossed hearts on the bottom.. and originally the stampin' up card used the blendabilities... but now that we no longer sell them I had to figure something else out... I used ROY G. BIV for the order of the colors, and then just the stamp pads and a blender pen to still give it the umbre effect.

Thanks for looking!

Bokeh technique.

I do not know how to pronounce this technique, so I won't even try... but at club we had a blast doing it!
We made this card:

We used watercolor paper, and then an aqua painter to "dab" the color onto the paper... i used calypso coral, pistachio, coastal cabana, and crisp cantaloupe.  Then we let it dry, and used a sponge dauber and whisper white to put circles all over the background.... I used the circle die cuts on a piece of window sheet to create different sizes of circles... You want to do varying shades of the white.

Then we used the stamp set "nature's perfection" from saleabration... this is currently retired, now, but you can use any stamp set from the catalogue that is a flower.  We embossed it, twice, in whisper white and white embossing powder, than used blender bens to color the flower.
The neutral is basic grey.

Project Life

I don't like change.  I'm the first one to admit it.
But the new products from Project Life are game changers.  You can literally scrapbook two 12 x 12 layouts in 5 to 10 minutes.  NO JOKE.
Maybe I'm the only one that would print photos, then spend 2 days completing a 2 page layout... but if you're anything close to me these will change your life.
What I am planning on doing is using them as WELL as a traditional scrapbook layout, and intersperse them in the "baby" books that I am 7 years behind on.

For my club recently, I bought "little moments" and let them have at 'er... we had a ton of fun...
I love that it is coordinated, as usual, but also just so, so, so simple.  And yet I felt like I still had a say on what I was doing!

Here is my page I did as a sample, this was Lexie, our third born, the day she was born.

not the best photo in the world... but I hope you get the idea!
So affordable, easy and fun!

Big Day Birthday Card from Stampin' Up's Saleabration 2015!

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 We made this card at club last month with it!  I love how the cake creates a background simply using a whisper white stamp pad.... I choose blues, but we have a "free stamp club" meaning they can choose whatever color they want.  Notice the umbre of the cake, used with the now discountinued product "blendablities".  You can get a similar affect by using three of the same color but different shade felts, not blending into each other.

Lotus Blossom

It always catches me by surprise how fast mid november to january goes!
here we are 2 months later.
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We made this valentine's card using tons of the items from the new Occasions Mini...

We used the new washi tape, the hearts confetti border punch that I'm quickly becoming obsessed with, and the Stacked with Love DSP and Best Day Ever stamp set from saleabration!
The best part of this card is the hearts SHAKE!!!!!

Which doesn't look like much, but is SUPER fun!

Next we made a super simple card with the saleabration stamp set "lotus blossom"

Usually you use 3 of the same color in different tones, but I wanted to see what happens when you mix it up!
I love Rich Razzleberry with Calypso Coral... and we finished up with Crisp Cantalope on the third layer.

As always, I let my Stamp Club decide on their own color choices for cards, and one of the stampers (a first timer, I might add!) choose to only do two layers with Indigo Ink and Tempting Turquoise