Coaster Post It

Today I thought I would give the coaster post-it note holder, that I have seen others make, a try. They are great for keeping in your purse to take quick notes for something whenever needed. My upline, Andrea Walford, has a great tutorial on how to make these - you can find it here. I scored the edges at a little less than one inch so that when folded over the coaster, the coaster doesn't show through in the corners.

Both of the designer papers used are from Provo Craft made in 6x12" sheets to go through the Cricut machine. The blue cardstock is from Bazzill Basics (not sure of the shade). The SU stamp curvy verses is stamped in Tempting Turquoise which matches the American Crafts ribbon from the Gumdrop set perfectly. The flower is from Prima.

Some of the pages in the post-it note pad are stamped with the little flower from the SU "short and sweet" set in tempting turquoise.

These are super easy and inexpensive to create. They would make great door prizes or gifts for a workshop if made with SU products.

SC167 Pomegranate Blossoms

I love the SU "Embrace Life" set and used it again for this weeks Card Sketch Challenge #167 at SCS. I'm not too happy with the way this card looks but hey, it was my first attempt at using the blender pens with the classic ink pads on a larger image.


The cardstock used is SU purely pomegranate, groovy guava and whisper white. I love these colours. The blossoms were stamped in SU basic black.

All of the images were coloured in using the SU blender pens and SU purely pomegranate classic ink. I think the little blossoms look pretty good and shaded well but I definitely need practice doing the larger images! At least with flowers, I can pass the lines off as shading, but that wouldn't be the case with any other images.

Again, I didn't have any coloured ribbon yet that matches well (I have some on order though) so I ran white ribbon through the purely pomegranate ink pad, let it dry and then sprayed it with hairspray. The hairspray seemed to make it so the colour would stop coming off on other things - I thought it was worth a try since I had nothing else available!

Embrace Life WSC39

I've been so busy working evening and night shifts that I haven't had any time to post until today! So I'll probably have a couple of posts today.


This card is for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #39. You should check out her blog too if you haven't yet. It is filled with great ideas. This card is made using SU Whisper white and Wild Wasabi cardstock and black Bazzill Basics cardstock. The "embrace life" stamps are stamped with SU basic black ink and colored in using blender pens and the wild wasabi classic ink.

The "Define Your Life" gratitude stamp was done very carefully by lining up the stamp in the classic ink pads since I don't have the stampin write markers - takes some practice but I think it looks good!

I thought the card looked pretty plain and wanted to add some ribbon but I didn't have any black or wild wasabi ribbon so I ran some white ribbon through the Black StazOn ink and let it dry a few minutes. Worked well since StazOn ink dries on anything!

Rainy Day Challenge

Well I guess technically it's not a challenge but Susan Roberts at Rainy Day Creations created a card sketch as part of her SCS Ways To Use It challenge, and I thought I would give it a try.


This card was made using SU tempting turquoise and pink passion cardstock. The ink is also SU tempting turquoise. The stamps are from SU "Wild About You" and "Short & Sweet." The ribbon is Bo Bunny and the patterned paper was from a stack of paper from Costco - but it matched so well with the SU cardstock. I always cut my circles using my Creative Memories set.

It isn't the greatest card, but it's ok I think. Not my typical colours, but I am trying to branch out into the brighter side! Sorry about the weird shadows it wasn't very sunny today.

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #38

I always look forward to Beate's weekend sketch challenge for more inspiration and layout ideas, and unfortunately I missed last weeks challenge. I made this card this morning for this weeks sketch challenge, but am just now getting around to posting it. I did modify it slightly as I liked the way the circle looked better than a rectantle/square and I liked it off to the side better as well for this card. Hope you don't mind the modifications Beate!


The stamp set is SU curvy verses - this is a set I have been wanting for a long time now but put off until signing up to be a demonstrator. I love the font and the fact that the saying is curved and not straight like so many other stamps that contain sayings. I think it makes the stamp a little more flexible to add other images to.

The cardstock and ink are both Stampin Up blue bayou. The green cardstock and patterned paper I have had for a long time and no longer know who made them - sorry! The flowers are Prima flowers and the green brad in the centre of the flowers is from Making Memories, which matched perfectly with the colour scheme.

SC166 Wild About You

I got up today just in time to have my Stampin Up starter kit delivered this morning! I didn't even finish putting everything together before I had to use them for this weeks Card Sketch Challenge over at SplitCoast Stampers.

The first card I made for the sketch challenge I accidentally swapped the order of the layered pieces of paper so I made another card that did it the way as shown in the sketch. Not that I minded, because I have been waiting to be able to play with the "Wild About You" set.


This elephant card is the one with the papers in the wrong order but I still love it. The elephant is stamped in Blue Bayou ink and matted with blue bayou cardstock. The yellow cardstock is DCWV that I used to match the patterned paper better with blue bayou. The yellow eyelets were just to add a little more interest.


This card is the one that has the paper going int he proper order as shown in the Sketch Challenge. The cardstock and ink are all wild wasabi. The white cardstock is whisper white. I wasn't able to find any matching paper that I had already so I just stamped one of my "background basics" stamps in wild wasabi to appear as patterned paper until I order some from Stampin Up.

For both cards, the cuttlebug embossing folder "spots and dots" was used to create a bit more interest - plus it is my favourite embossing folder! The main images were both also adhered using pop dots.

Anxiously Waiting

This has been such a busy week, I haven't had time to update my blog in almost a week now. Good news though, I found out I am a blog candy winner over at Jennifer's Sweet Designs. I have never won any blog candy before. Now, I have something else to be excited waiting for!

I've already been procrastinating making cards while I am anxiously awaiting my Stampin Up starter kit so that I am filled with ideas when it finally arrives. So, on that note, I thought I would post an old thank you card I made that involves no stamps (I'm not sure how many of those I'll have once the stamps come).

This card was made using a pre-scored glitter card from DCWV. Heidi chipboard letters and American Crafs minimarks rubons make the Thanks image. I love rubons since you can put them on anything. I wanted to make the card say thanks without using all chipboard and this allowed me to just fit the rest of the word right on the existing chipboard. The paper is KI Memories "It's a girl thin stripe." KI Memories is one of my favourites as I am sure you might be guessing with how often I use it. Finally, I just added a few eyelets with my Crop-a-dile - every scrapbooker/cardmaker should own one of these!