4 More AVS Cards - The Last of Them

The next two cards are for todays sketch, AVS12. I liked the way the first one turned out so I made a second! They didn't photograph well at all though because of all the dots or something (they look way better in real life)!
AVS12 Card 1: AVS12 Card 2: All of the circles on the right as well as the scallop are raised on dimensionals because they looked a little funny laying flat with the swiss dots folder underneath.

This card is for AVS06. Grant really likes this card because of the colours and saying! I too LOVE this tangerine tango colour. I ordered tons of stuff to go with it yesterday! The ribbon looks bad in the picture because of the angle, but it is actually straight. If you can click on it on your computer, take a look at the way the colouring in the flower turned out - it looks so neat because of the way the rubon takes up colour!

Finally, saving the best for last, is my favourite card from all of the ones I have created. It is for AVS01. This card uses the new in colours kiwi kiss and baja breeze. I thought I would try using makeup sponges to apply ink to the stamp so that I could stamp in different colours and it worked. I just "huffed" on the image after sponging the colours on where I wanted them. It only required a few minor touch ups for the detailed area with a blender pen in the ink!

I also dyed the ribbon using my baja reinker to match. You can watch a video that shows two different techniques for ribbon dying here at Dawns Stamping Thoughts.

Supplies:

AVS12 Card 1
Stamp: SU So Many Scallops
Ink: SU Certainly celery
Paper: SU Certainly celery, ww, ? dp from Costco
Misc: circle and scallop punches, SU dimensionals, CB swiss dots embossing folder

AVS12 Card 2
Stamp: SU So Many Scallops
Ink: SU pale plum
Paper: SU pale plum, ww, ? dp from Costco
Misc: circle and scallop punches, SU dimensionals, CB swiss dots embossing folder

AVS06
Rubon: SU Love & Happiness
Paper: SU basic black, ww, tangerine tango
Ribbon: Spool O'Ribbon
Brads: Making Memories - they match so well!
Misc: SU dimensionals, circle cutters

AVS01
Stamp: SU Garden Silhouettes
Ink: SU kiwi kiss, baja breeze, night of navy
Paper: SU kiwi kiss, baja breeze, night of navy, ww
Ribbon: American Crafts grosgrain
Misc: Corner rounder punch, baja breeze reinker, SU dimensionals

New Stampin Up Catalogue and Amazing Promotions

I have just finished placing my order from the new Stampin Up Idea Book & Catalogue for Fall-Winter 2008. You don't even want to know how much I spent!

The new catalogue goes online today and as a result, I have lots of information to share with you. Click here to view the Canadian version of the catalogue. There are tons of great new stamp sets and designer papers available. You can view previous posts of mine to see some of the new sets and In Colours available. Email me at kaleenaf@shaw.ca if you are in Canada and would like to place an order. I would be more than happy to help.
Click here to see the Stampin Up promotion, the "Never Before Seen Promotion," in which you can purchase select, brand new, die cut stamps for 15% off the regular price. For a full list of the select stamps and the discounted price, . Several of my new purchases are from this promotion!
Click here if you would like to become an SU demonstrator for the amazing low price of $119! Stampin Up has created 3 different introductory demonstrator kits so that you can customize your kit based on what products you already own and your interests! Choose from a stamp-focused, scrapbook-focused or home-decor focused kit! Now is a great time to become an SU demonstrator if you love to stamp or have been contemplating the decision!

Click here to check out some upcoming Stampin Up promotions as well as samples using products from the new catalogue.
August 11-Oct 11, 2008: New Recruit Incentive - If you become a new demonstrator by purchasing the standard $249 starter kit, choose a stamp set from the new catalogue for free.
Oct 1-Nov 30, 2008: Hostess Incentive - Host a $460 workshop and choose one stamp set from the new catalogue for free (on top of the regular hostess benefits)
Dec 1, 2008 - Jan 18, 2009: Product Offer - Spend $20 and get 20% off one stamp set from the new catalogue.

Email me at kaleenaf@shaw.ca with any questions or if you are in Canada and would like to purchase SU merchandise or become a demonstrator!

3 More Anni-verve-sary Cards

Well, I'm still super sick. Went back to the walk in today ('cause I was supposed to be able to go back to work) and my throat is not much improved at all he said. So more days off! Sounds good to most, but I'm going stir crazy in the house.

This is my card for today's sketch, AVS11. Because of the jewels and colours, this card also applies to WT178 and CC178. I love this card. I did, however, eliminate the bow from the left hand side just because I thought it would look too busy with it.

This is my card for AVS02 I like the way this card turned out but I'm still not too sure about the bow. I had tried a new kind of bow, the tiered bow, but ended up cutting the bottom ribbon so you can't see it because it looked too big.

Finally, here is my card for AVS03. It too is based on CC178. It didn't turn out quite as I had imagined, but I'm sure my Mommy will still like it anyway because she loves penguins!

Supplies:

AVS11
Stamp: SU Full of Life
Ink: SU groovy guava
Paper: SU going gray, groovy guava, ww, blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava
Jewels: Heidi Swapp bling
Misc: SU dimensionals

AVS02
Stamp: SU Full of Life
Ink: SU ruby red
Paper: SU river rock, groovy guava, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava

AVS03
Stamp: SU Lots of Thoughts, Wild About You
Ink: SU soft sky, wild wasabi
Paper: SU wild wasabi, ww, soft sky, fall flowers dp
Ribbon: Spool O'ribbon

4 Anni-VERVE-sary Cards

Lots to share again today - 2 cards I love and 2 that are ok! So I'll get right to it with supplies at the bottom again.

This is my card for todays Anni-verve-sary sketch challenge 10, AVS10.
I don't overly like the way it turned out. This was a tough sketch for me. I think I tried about 20 different combinations before finally just sticking with this one! Now that I have seen what others have posted in the gallery, I don't know why I had such a hard time with it as others made some amazing stuff!

August 17th is the bridal shower for the wedding I'm in and made the cake and invites for that I shared last month on my blog. I used AVS04 as the inspiration for the layout and I love the way this card turned out.

For AVS07, I used this card I made earlier in the year as inspiration because I loved it.
Unfortunately, I like the original version significantly more. I tried out the kiwi kiss paper and I'm just not sure about it yet - I love the other In Colours though.

I heat embossed the embrace life image as well as the kindness sentiment. Kiwi Kiss is a classic ink pad not a craft pad so to make it so you can heat emboss it, just stamp in the VersaMark then in the classic pad and onto the paper!

Finally, this is my card for AVS05.
I love the way that this card turned out. I'm definitely enjoying my new Stamping Bella stamps (I'm sure you could tell)!

Supplies:

AVS10
Stamp: SU Full of Life
Ink: SU Ruby red
Paper: SU river rock, ruby red, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU river rock
Misc: SU dimensionals, 1/2" circle punch

AVS04
Stamps: Stamping Bella sposabella, Inkadinkadoo sentiment
Ink: SU basic black, real red, glorious green
Paper: SU ww, basic black, real red dp
Misc: CB swiss dots embossing folder, circle punches

AVS07
Stamps: SU Embrace Life, Define your Life
Ink: SU kiwi kiss, StazOn Jet black, VersaMark
Paper: SU basic black, ww, kiwi kiss
Ribbon: Spool O'Ribbon
Misc: Embossing powder, Corner rounder punch, crop-a-dile (for small circles)

AVS05
Stamp: Stamping Bella pregabella
Ink: SU basic black
Pastels: SU chocolate chip, pretty in pink
Paper: SU pretty in pink, barely banana, spring fling dp
Ribbon: Spool O'Ribbon
Misc: SU dimensionals, corner rounder punch

Sick so Stamping!

Well I'm at home sick with strep throat. I've been sick since Monday and am not to return to work until this coming Monday - which sucks when you're in a new job so have no sick time built up. The only good thing is since I can barely talk I'm getting tons of stamping done! This will be a long post with lots to share!

This week over at the Verve forum in SCS, they are celebrating their one year anni-verve-sary with sketches, prizes and sneek peeks of their soon to be released stamp sets. I've decided to try to do all 12 of the sketches and have made decent progress so far. The only sucky thing is my Verve Stamps I've ordered have not yet arrived so I'm using other companies' stamps. I'm not showing them in the order they go but will share a few every day.

This is my card for today's sketch, AVS09. I love the way this card turned out!
This was also my first attempt at the paper tole technique! (A list of supplies for all cards will be at the end of the post)

This card is for yesterday's sketch, AVS08. This card also doubles as a card for CC178 as I only used river rock and white (well black if you count ink but white doesn't show well on river rock). I paper pieced the flowers since I didn't buy the river rock ink to be able to colour in the image.

For something different, I tried out one of Taylor's Sketch Challenges, TECC28, for the first time. This is the card I created - and I think it is definitely one of my favourites! Notice the shine on the cupcake - that's my first attempt at really using Crystal Effects as part of an image!

Supplies:

AVS09
Stamp: SU Wild About You
Ink: SU barely banana, certainly celery
Paper: SU barely banana, certainly celery, spring fling dp
Brads: SU barely banana
Misc: SU dimensionals

AVS08
Stamps: SU Lots Thoughts, Embrace Life
Ink: SU basic black
Paper: SU ww, river rock, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU river rock
Eyelets: Provo Craft
Misc: Corner rounder punch, oval cutter

TECC28
Stamps: Stamping Bella cuppacakeabella, SU so many scallops
Ink: SU basic black, pretty in pink
Pastels: SU pretty in pink, barely banana
Paper: SU barely banana, pretty in pink, spring fling dp
Brad: SU pretty in pink
Ribbon: Spool O'Ribbon
Misc: crystal effects, circle punches

CC178 Goodbye In Colours

There's only one more week of the 2007-2008 In Colours from SU so the Colour Challenge (CC178) at SCS was to use any number of them in a card with a neutral and no other colours. I edited it a little and decided to use only the In colours not even a neutral - using blue bayou, river rock and soft sky - and I quite like the way that it turned out!

I am going to miss these In Colours. Although I like the new in colours, they can't top these outgoing ones in my opinion! The Prima flower and brad match much better in person too!

Stamps: SU Garden Silhouettes, Short & Sweet
Ink: SU Blue Bayou
Paper: SU blue bayou, soft sky, river rock
Ribbon: SU river rock
Flower: Prima
Brad: Making Memories (I think)

SC188 Presentahbella

Last Thursday was a great day for mail! I got my new SU fall-winter 2008 catalogues and a bunch of Stamping Bella stamps that I ordered. I just only now got a chance to play with them, 'cause I've been away, sick, and spent a ton of time picking out what all I want from the new catalogue!

This card is for SC188 over at SCS. I'm not too happy with the way it turned out - it looked better in my mind! I need to get the SU markers to make colouring easier - I'm still just using my blender pens in the inks and pastels which doesn't always look too great depending on the image!

Stamps: Stamping Bella Presentahbella, SU Short & Sweet
Paper: SU real red, tempting turquoise, ww, more mustard, east coast prep dp
Inks: SU basic black
Supplies: SU blender pens, SU inks/pastels in more mustard, chocolate chip, tempting turquoise, real red and wild wasabi