BLESSED EASTER

Happy Monday, Everyone!  I hope your weekend was filled with abundant blessings.

While I enjoy working alone in my stamp haven (AKA the basement craft room), it is a special joy to create with someone else.  Over the weekend, my supporting demonstrator and best friend (AKA as my hubby Lou) joined me for a few hours of crafting and getting ready for this week's club meeting.  I will be sharing our accomplishments in later posts.

For today's card, I want to show off one of Lou's previous creations - a window card for Easter:

To make this card, a So Saffron mat was layered onto a Very Vanilla card base.  The layers of the window were cut using Oval Framelits and the Big Shot.  The Blessed Easter stamp was inked up with Jet Black Stazon; then Lou water-colored the flowers using a blender pen and So Saffron and Always Artichoke inks.  Didn't he do a great job?  And like most of us do after we create something, we see "other things" we could have done.  Lou has decided that the next one he makes, he will emboss the So Saffron mat using the Framed Tulips embossing folder.  That should be lovely, too.

My next post will also feature this wonderful Easter stamp set.

Until then,

HELLO THERE

Happy Saturday!  Hope your day has been filled with sunshine.

At our house, we have begun our annual spring decluttering.  Today's room was the laundry.  It's a good-sized, unfinished room with some great open storage shelves, but all that spaciousness can quickly become the "temporary" home for way too much stuff.  Things donated to the Goodwill are already out the door; another box for donations to our church, and some things reserved for our garage sale in June.  It's a start and I will be so glad when it is all done.

Now for today's card:  another clean and simple, easy-peasy but -oh-so-nice little card, suitable for all kinds of occasions.

Once again, used Note Cards & Envelopes.  In addition:  Happy Day and Hello, Lovely stamp sets;
 Midnight Muse, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sky, Raspberry Ripple, and Summer Starfruit.  Mix and match colors and patterns to your heart's content to create a wide variety of cards that reflect your personality.

Tomorrow is Sunday, our day of rest.  We will be worshipping the Lord Jesus with our church family.  Wishing you and yours a joyful weekend.

Stamping with love,
Trish

SASSY SALUTATIONS meets NEED FOR SPEED

With 9 grandsons and plenty of young boys at church who keep having birthdays, there is always a  need for quick and easy cards at our house.  Today's card uses both current and retired stamp sets; and like yesterday's, is single layer and water-colored. 

To make this card, I used Note Cards & Envelopes; Sassy Salutations, Gorgeous Grunge, Need for Speed (ret.) stamp sets; Island Indigo, Sahara Sand, Real Red classic ink pads; Stazon Jet Black ink pad; Blender Pens (to add layers of color on the car).

Thanks for taking a peek at my card; hope it inspires you to create a card or two for the guys in your life.

Happy weekend!
Trish

Storybook Friends notecard

It has been a long and challenging few months that kept me from posting any of my cards.  But I am feeling better and am getting a better handle on my new computer.  Though I still am not skilled with the photo taking and editing, I want to get back to sharing with you some of the joy of stamping on a regular basis.

During my absence from blogging, I have really taken a liking to simple, quick and easy cards.  Stampin' Up! Note Cards  & Envelopes (131527) are ideal for this technique.   Such as in this card for today:

I love this little dog from the Storybook Friends set.  Stamped in black, and color-highlighted with ink color of your choosing and blender pens, you can whip out a whole set to have on hand for all sorts of occasions in a short amount of time.

Note Cards come 20 to a package, with 20 envelopes to boot.  Though somewhat smaller than an A2 card, they do not require additional postage, and are a real bargain at only  $5.95 a package.  I highly recommend them!

Thanks for spending part of your day with me.
Happy stampin'!

Trish

MAGNIFICENT MAPLE

Such a great single stamp -- very versatile.  Used here to create a Quick-and-Easy card using a variety of inks.  Stunning!  love it!  Let me know if you do too.

Products used:
Magnificent Maple, Four You stamps sets; Naturals White card stock; Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry classic stampin' pads

Happy autumn!
Trish