Rain or Shine Be mine

 Cammie used a lot of soon to be retiring products from the Stmpin Up spring catalog to create this cute “love” card.  The cloudy background is a piece of DSP from the Sunshine and Sprinkles collection #126922.   Cammie used the heart image from the Hostess set Million Dollar Moments #125137 to stamp on real red cardstock and then punched using the 1 1/4 ” square punch # 119865.  She then hand cut a real red banner and pierced along the edges using the Stampin Up piercing tools.  The focal image is a a lser cut heart from the More Amore DSP.  Cammie simply snipped a single heart from the laser cut sheet of the DSP and then stamped the hearts from the Million Dollar Moments stampset and then stamped a portion of the girl and umbrella in black and then she samped and cut the umbrella in red to pop it! She used the designer brads #129329 and added the be mine sentiment is from the now retired mixed medley stampset.

Olive You

 Cammie loves olives and can eat them straight out of the jar.  She loves black olives and green olives and today’s card is preserves her olives in a jar! She filled the mason jar stamped from the soon to be retiring Perfectly Preserved stampset and cut it out using the coordinating framelits.  The olives were stamped using the Best of Love #132987 stampset and then hand cut to fit in the jar.  The lone olive is stamped from the Best of Love stampset.  The jar is mounted on a strip of Old Olive Brights Paper stack (retiring on 1 June) and trimmed with the rickrack edge cut from the Tasteful Trim Die#120893.

The Best of Series of Stamps are part of an on going year long celebration from Stampin Up.  This year Stampin Up is celebrating their 25th anniversary to  Each month during 2013, we’ll smash up some of our all-time-faves with a new never-before-seen stamp to create twelve “Best of” stamp sets.  The sets are available for the entire year with a new set introduced each month. Check out all the Best of Sets available to date.

January Best of Set: Best of Birthdays

February Best of Set: Best of Love

March Best of Set: Best of Flowers

April Best of Set: Best of Butterflies

May Best of Set: Best of Brides &Babies

Artistic Etchings

Congratulations to my friend Elizabeth and her fiance Mike who recently got engaged on Valentines Day weekend.  I waited to post until it was facebook official.  Today’s card is the one that I sent to congratulate the happy couple.  I used  the More Amore Specialty DSP #129309 as the background and then stamped the Eiffle tower from the Artistic Etching stamp set #120573 onto another strip of the More Amore DSP.  I added a folded paper doily #129399 and then layered banners and scallops and a stamped heart from the Hearts a Flutter stampset #129252 and cut out using the coordinating framelits #130159.  I finished it off with a piece of pool party satin ribbon.  The ribbon is a free item from the Stampin Up annual Sale-A-Bration catalog.

Cheers-embellished events

Today’s card is the card that I sent my neighbor’s newly engaged daughter, Kara to Patrick.  The card features a simple design and classic white on white layout.  I used the Embellished Eventsstamp set #126497 from the Stampin Up annual catalog.  I cut out one glass and popped it on top of the other and added rhinestone bling to create the bubbly and added a piece of double stitched raspberry ripple ribbon #126845 . This card could also be used to ring in the new year as well.  Congrats to the lovely couple.

Hearts a plenty

While killing time on Pinterest lately, I saw a heart shaped card and immediately thought of recreating the card using Stampin Up’s Heart framelits #125599.  It is hard to see because of the issues with taking pictures of white on white but each heart is textured with a different embossing folder.  This was a super quick card to make and it makes a big impression.

Love watercolor

Happy 22nd wedding anniversary to me and my husband Brad.  Can’t believe it has been that long.  To commemorate the day, this card started out as a Simply Sent kit from Stampin Up and then I stepped it up with a watercolor technique on vellum and place behind the intricate heart center.  I used some of the pleated satin ribbon (no longer available) and matching seam binding ribbon.

Mr and Mrs

For today’s card, Cammie drew inspiration from the card featured on page 39 of the 2012-2013 Stampin Up Annual catalog.  The card background DSP is from the Brights Collection Paper Pack #117155 and edged with the Scalloped edge border punch #118402 in whisper white. The new Mr and Mrs Stamp #126663 stamp is layered on a piece of Gray DSP cut from the Apothecary Accents Framelits #127003.  The card is accented with layered whisper white flowers punched with the Boho blossoms punch #119858.

MDS Hybrid

 Although we did not attend the Stampin Up convention in Salt Lake City this week, we followed the action through the Stampin Up demonstrators website.  Stampin Up announce some exciting news about an upcoming promotion for MDS and finally committed to the release date for MDS2 software. August 1 is the date to purchase the new software that is filled with over 75 upgrades including conversion to svg cutting files. WOO HOO.
PLUS for the entire month of August Stampin Up is offering 31% off select printable products. With that being said, today’s card is an MDS hybrid card that I designed for a friends wedding. The card front was designed in MDS and printed and then I added it to a card base and “blinged it up”.

Happy Father’s Day

We no longer have a father so we don’t have to make fathers day cards. But today I am posting a card to show the love for all the dads( including my husband who is a wonderful dad)  out in blog land and to honor our own dad.

 This card is quite femine in nature but it could be swapped out for more masculine colors.

To gnome you is to love you

 Todays card is another gnome card from Cammie’s card cafe and can be used for mothers day, father’s day, valentines day or just any day to celebrate someone that you love.  The background is textured with the perfect polka dot embossing folder and then a label collection framelit die #125598 is cut to frame the gnome stamped from the gnome sweet gnome stamp set and cut with the retiring oval #2 die 114525.  Cammie finished the card with a heart balloon cut from the scalloped heart of heart embosslit die #117332 and the stamped the sentiment onto the full heart punch#119883 and added a string with cherry cobbler bakers twine #123125.