Amber’s Cards

I love blog hop time and I had to make time for this month’s challenge.  Ever since I saw the Made of SnowSet I wanted to make my aunt who loves and collects snowmen a Christmas Gift.  I decieded that making some kitchen towels would be perfect.  I love gifts that are useful yet personal.  I wanted to use nice and thick flour sacks, but I could only find these ones are Target.  I am ordering for my Christmas ones.  To make these I stamped the towels with Palette Inks.  I wanted to try a couple of different styles so I made the snowflake and flower one.  These should last forever heatset with the dryer or iron.  It has been a busy week so while I had time to stamp I ran out of time to heat set.   One hint: make sure that you only one layer of the towel when stamping, if the surface is so plush that edges of the stamp or anyplace with stray ink will mar your creation.  I managed to only do this once

Supplies Used:

White Flour Towels from Target

Ribbon:  PTI Poppy Red

Ink:  Various Palette Colors (please ask if you want a specific)

Stamps: Made of Snow, Rustic Snowflake, Beautiful Blooms

I also made a gift bag to put the towels in.  The memory mist looks beautiful on kraft paper bags. I love the shimmer and shine it gives.  I bought a pack of bags and the tag on clearance at target.  I am a horrible wrapper, so I love gift bags!

Supplies:

Paper bag and Tag from Target Wrapping Section

Stamps:  Rustic Snowflake PTI

Ink: Black Palette

Accessories:  Gold Memory Mist

It has been hard to get back into card making, but I have being trying to get some quality crafting time in before school starts once again.  It is hard to believe that I soon will be starting my 6th year of teaching!  Where has time gone.  I am excited this school year though because I am going to try my hand at teaching community ed courses once again, hopefully I get some takers this time.  I feel my classes are a great deal, because I love doing this and I want people to realize this is fun and that I have some cool ideas for classes.   I will try to post samples here as I make them.

This is my take on Beate’s Weekend Sketch from Friday.  I worked on this as I made cards at the local scrapbook store.  I love this paper from DCWV and I was able to use my Nestabilities for the first time.  I was semi successful, there is a learning curve to using them with the cuttlebug.

Stamps:  Pencil Bowl from Lockhart Stamps

Paper: DCWV Grade School Stack, Cardstock from American Crafts, White paper from Papertrey Ink

Coloring Technique:  Sharpies, Prismacolor Markers, Bic Mark It Marker

This picture shows a close up of the half pearls I added to the cherries.  These pearls are from Kaiser Kraft.

Here is my take on Jen’s sketch.  This is a new sketch site for me, even though I have read Jen’s blog for awhile.  I am not liking the red oval I did on this, but I am limited with ovals.  They are next on my list for my nestabilities.

Stamps:  Aviator Penguin from Memory Box Co

Paper:   My Mind’s Eye Dreamer, American Crafts Cardstock

Coloring Technique:  Bic Mark-it markers

Accessories: pop dot, my out of place handwriting

Here is my card for Lauren’s sketch.  I love this paper!  I went to hobby Lobby today and they had TONS of new paper.  This came from a stack from My Mind’s Eye called dreamy.  The whole stack is glittery.   Paper is on sale at Hobby Lobby this week, I wish I could go first thing Monday, but I will have to settle for what is left on Tuesday.

Stamps:   My Favorite Things from WISHRAK

Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Dreamy, American Crafts Cardstock

Coloring Technique:   Prismacolor Markers

Accessories:  Popdots

After 3 weeks of guard/band camp, family visiting, and pre-school workshops I had time to stamp this weekend :).  I even went to a crop a the local scrapbook store last night and brought some sketches with me to complete there.  I love having the chance to craft with other people.  It was a fun night.  I think they even talked me into going on a retreat with their store in October.  Sounds like the perfect time to work on Christmas crafts and cards.

Taylor’s Cupcake Challenge #30

Stamps:  Image from WISHRAK, it is a current Stampin Up Set
Paper:  WeRMemory Keepers Whiteout DP, American Crafts Cardstock
Coloring Technique:   Bic Mark-its and Sharpies
Accessories:   Eyelets from Making Memories

It is time again for Papertrey’s Monthly blog hop.  I really wanted to participate in this month’s hop so I made sure to put this card together before my week of 14 hour work days with summer school and color guard camp.  I am even setting this to auto post since I will be at guard camp when the hop starts.   I am going to post to the forum via my iphone.  I love my new phone!  I am hoping to get back to creating soon,  we have 2 weeks of band camp that will cut into my creative time and energy.

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms, Garden of Life

Ink:  Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Spring Moss

Paper: Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Linen Vellum Cardstock

Accessories: Cuttlebug Flower Die, Brads from Target Dollar Section, Spellbinders Tag Dies

I love the vellum for PTI it is so beautiful and luxurious.

I am in the process of making cards to give out to the teachers I work with to welcome them back to school.  I teach at a middle school with about 25 other teachers.  Here is the prototype  I was going for simple, colorful, and cheerful.  What do you think?

Stamps: Changito from Stampendous

Paper: Paper Studio Red, Yellow, and Lined Paper DP

Ink: Palette Black Ink

Coloring Technique: Prismacolor Markers

Here is a fun summer card.  In the summer we love to grill out at our house.  Adam is the grill master.  Our standby is bbq chicken with cheddar cheese on it.  Yummy!  The bbq sauce choice at our house is Famous Dave’s Sweet and Sassy it is fantastic.

Stamp: Chanigto from Stampendous

Paper: SU Real Red, generic white and black

Accessories:  Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Coloring Technique: Prismacolor Makers

Radiogirl is one of the PTI girls that are on my googlereader list. She posted this as her first sketch drawn up.  I asked her if I could try it out. Here is my take on this no fail sketch:

Stamps: Stampendous Changito Back to School Set

Paper: SU Real Red, DCWV Grade School Stack, Blue, and yellow

Ink: Palette Black Ink

Accessories: scallop punch

Coloring Technique: Prismacolor Makers

This card was made awhile ago, but I never shared it.  It was made to fit in a regular sized envelope.  I think it is perfect to include money in or a gift certificate.

Stamps:  Michaels Studio G Dollar Stamps

Paper:  Red and Orange from Scrap Bin,  Blue Scallop from WISHRAK,  DP from WeRMemory Keepers

Coloring Technique:  Prismacolor Markers