Monthly Archives: July 2009

Leaving on a Jet Plane

 

Card Patterns - Sketch 24

Aloha!  Today I am headed for Alaska and will be gone for two weeks.  If I can find an internet connection I’ll post pictures from my Alaskan trip.  Warning!  My Alaska plans include fishing for salmon and halibut.  So do be ready for a photo with a fish in it.

Today’s card is a combo of challenges: Card Patterns Sketch 24 and Color Throwdown #52 (Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Perfect Plum).   The card is a combination of SU!’s long-retired Meow Meow stamp set and TAC’s (don’t remember the stamp set name).  I’m going to be missing my furry assistant (Alice—Meow!) and wanted my last card to have a cat theme.  As I type this post Alice is curled up next to me catching a quick nap.

I am going to be offering B-L-O-G  C-A-N-D-Y after I get back and unpacked.  I have got two weeks to figure out what fun stuff for some lucky person to win.

Stamp on and with Aloha! ~Aloha Jan~

 

Here’s to Mojo Monday

 

Mojo Monday - Week 96  I really love this Verve stamp set because it comes with other flower types stamping options besides the tulips. I chose to use tulips for this 5 1/4 x 5 1/4" card.  The tulips were stamped on white paper using SU!’s Cameo Coral ink and then cut out.  The plant itself was stamped using retired SU! In-Color Blue Bayou.  The SU! DSP in the background is retired and happened to be within easy reaching distance.  Now you know how I determined today’s color scheme—run with whatever the DSP in hand has got going on.

Mojo Monday week 96 sketch challenge was used to create this card.  I just didn’t have the Mojo to come up with something on my own after cleaning house and cooking most of the day.  Besides,  I thought the sketch was a great one and also perfect for my Spellbinder dies.  OK, I was feeling lazy if the truth is to be told. 

I hope you enjoy today’s card!!

Mojo96Sketch

Stamp on and with Aloha! ~Aloha Jan~

Christmas in July — really!

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The Sweet Stop Saturday Sketch Challenge (SSS13) has spin on this week’s sketch challenge: use a Christmas image.  I’m a certain that this the earliest in the year that I have ever made a Christmas card.  I think I’ll send this to my good friend from childhood days.  She teases me that my Christmas cards [...]

Shake it up baby!

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I am somewhat at a loss for how to do great photo shots of a card made using SU!’s Movers and Shapers BigZ die.  Here’s my M&S card lying flat and closed.  The next photo shows the opening made by the Punch Windows Movers die; Modern Label (see SU!’s IB&C pgs. 200-201). 
I really like SU!’s (OK—I [...]

Rich and Shabby

 STVSC21[Woops.  Sorry for the shadows on the card! I just noticed them and will take a better photo at the first opportunity I have.]  OK—it’s been a while since I have done a StampTV (http://stamptv.ning.com/) card sketch challenge so I thought, what the heck, lets live a little bit on the wild side.  Since I want to be a tad bit on the wild side I decided to use StampTV’s freebie digital paper called "Rich and Shabby". A little racy for my heart but you only live once, right?  Just to keep me from getting too wild I also chose a digital paper from the "Great Outdoors" selection.  I chose SU!’s Chocolate Chip for the card’s base and Rose Red as a layering panel. 

All-in-all, a card that goes together fairly quick and no stamping required.  I used a rub-on sentiment instead of stamping one.

I114511TI ended up using two shims before my SU! sizzlit die, "Little Leaves" (114511, IB&C pg. 196, $5.50) would pop out nicely.  It may be time for me to purchase a new standard cutting pad (113475, IB&C pg. 194, $8.95).

GKDSketchChallengeCard Deets for StampTV’s Card Sketch Challenge: STVSC21

Stamp sets None
Paper SU! Chocolate Chip, Rose Red; StampTV Freebie digital paper-Rich and Shabby, Great Outdoors
Misc SU! Rub-on (sentiment)
Sizzix Little Leaves Sizzlet die

 Stamp on and with Aloha! ~Aloha Jan~