Monthly Archives: July 2007

I made this for a friend I don’t get to see much… actually, I’ve only seen her once.  But how nice it would be to sit and chat with her while enjoying our lattes.

I think this is one of the cutest sets from My Favorite Things…”Hot Stuff”.  I love the little swirls of steam rising outside of the box.

For this card, I stamped the lady three times, once onto the patterned paper and twice onto vanilla cardstock.  I colored the mug on the first vanilla image, cut out the dress from the patterned paper and adhered it to the same vanilla image.  On the extra image, I colored and cut out the arms, then attached them to the first image.  I stamped the beans separately, coloring, cutting them out and attaching in the corner.

I didn’t have any matching ribbons, eyelets or brads so I made my own “rivet-type” things.  I punched the center hole (1/4″) from the darker green paper then used a 1/2″ punch, centering the 1/4″ hole, to punch the “rivet.”  I then punched a 1/2″ circle from the lighter green and adhered that beneath the darker green.

The inside of the card reads “The perfect blend.”  I think I’ll include a small gift card, enough for a Grande Vanilla Latte, no fat, light whip…or something similar. 😉

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

p.s.  I’ll be working on more SU designs as soon as I get my order!

     Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla

     Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Tres Jolie Bonjour “Memories” Floral Stripe/Turquoise and

     Tiny Dots/Bleu Papier

     Stamps:  My Favorite Things “Hot Stuff”

     Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, SU Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Certainly Celery

     Accessories:  ¼” and ½” circle punches, aquapainter

     Finished card size:  4 ¼” x 4 ¼”

I’ve been having so much fun playing with my new sets from My Favorite Things, I had to get more.  I got this crazy idea for the dogs from Let’s Take a Walk and I could get nothing else accomplished until this was out of my head. 

I stamped the image (sans heads) using Brilliance Black Graphite, my favorite new black ink.  I watercolored with ink from the stamp pad lids (I have GOT to get some of those Copic markers…they’re on my wish list) and drew in the border with a black marker.  After paperpiecing the dress, all I could think was that if this chick were real, she’d be asking, “Does this dress make my butt look big?”  Not a good pattern for her. lol.

I just bought this incredible ribbon from my good buddy, Jacksonbelle‘s store.  It’s satin, black on one side and orange on the other.  Perfect for Halloween!!!

I stamped the hissing cat then cut it out, using an X-acto knife to remove the area between its legs.  It’s mounted on a tiny piece of a dimensional.

A couple days ago, Anni asked how I am able to cut with such detail.  I just use a very sharp pair of Cutter Bee scissors I picked up at my local craft store.  They’re about $10, and you can use one of those handy 40% off coupons from the Sunday paper.  I only use an X-acto knife to cut out areas I can’t reach with the scissors, i.e. the space inside the cats legs.  I don’t like to use an X-acto knife unless I have to.  It’s harder for me to get a smoothly cut edge and too easy to make a mistake.   Thanks for the question!

I hope you all aren’t sick of my weird cards because Kim from MFT asked me to be on her design team!  I’m so excited and can’t wait to work more closely with her and her awesome team!! 🙂

Thanks for stopping by! 

     Cardstock:  SU Black, Very Vanilla

     Patterned Paper:  Heidi Grace Halloween Large Stripe

     Stamps:  My Favorite Things “Let’s Go for a Walk” and “Fright Night”

     Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, SU Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Apricot

     Appeal, More Mustard

     Accessories:  Black and Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write markers, May Arts ribbon, American

     Crafts brads, speck of a dimensional