Up, Up and Away

This card uses two of my favorite embossing folders. Once again, Club Scrap cardstock performs with a beautiful result. The Ascension embossing folder from Couture Creations was inked and fussy cut and then dotted with Stickles and popped up on the background panel. That panel was embossed with a cloud folder and inked a bit with Hero Arts Unicorn ink (do you think it's made with real unicorns???). Sentiment is The Stamps of Life. Oh, I love this card, if I do say so myself. And there really isn't that much to it. Hope you enjoy.

Operation Penguin

Another card for Operation Write Home and the General who has requested penguin cards for his troops. I used Sketch #158 from the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club and paper from a 6x6 pad in my stash. The penguin was pieced using the Stampin' Up Owl punch. That little guy is so darned cute. The sentiment stamp is from My Favorite Things. Thanks for strolling by.

Under the Weather

As usual, a day late and a dollar short. I made this one for the Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch ##157 at My Favorite Things. Once I photographed it and prepared for posting, I realized I missed the deadline. AGAIN!!! But no worries, it's still a nice card and I'm still sticking with my balloon challenge. The stamps are from My Favorite Things with the exception of hot air balloon and cardstock, all from Club Scrap. A bit of Stickles, too. Thanks for looking.

Penguin Love

I made this card for the Operation Penguin challenge from Operation Write Home as well as a contest from Stephanie Barnard at The Stamps of Life. I used stamps from the December Stamps of Life set called sampler2love. The penguin was created with my special Christmas gift from fellow Squirrel Nancy - the famous Stampin' Up Owl punch. Cut off his ears and gosh, he's a penguin. But no critters were harmed in the making of this card. After I put it together, I realized that OWH is really looking for non-holiday type cards...so I will get busy on more penguin cards. But I still love this little guy. My first ever owl/penguin card.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas

Created this holiday layout for the monthly scrapbook sketch challenge over at PaperArtistsOnline. I wanted to make a layout of many of the sights I saw throughout the month of December. This paper is from a pad I bought at Michael's. The sketch was borrowed from My Mind's Eye Anatomy of a Double Page Layout. Thanks for taking a look.

NBUS Challenge

 

My first Valentine of the year using paper from Club Scrap and stamps and dies from The Stamps of Life sampler2love December set. Never Been Used Stash. Simple but I like the look of it. Thanks for dropping by.

Happy New Year

A couple of new stamps saw ink for this card. The base panel is from Club Scrap's Up Up & Away kit which you will be seeing frequently. Until it's all gone. The Cityscape set is from Close To My Heart, a company fairly new to me through a good friend Toni Hinchcliffe. The fireworks are Papertrey Ink another one of my new favorites. And the sentiment is Hero Arts. Did some heat embossing for a change and popped up some of the buildings for dimension. I quite like this card and I'm soooo happy to use these new stamps before they grow old. Happy New Year to you and yours.