Small Wonder

February 5, 2010

Happy Friday!  What inspired today's card is a leftover piece of Sweet Pea DSP.  The card is simple and a good one to remember if you want to make a card and mail it ASAP (as soon as possible). 

Color Scheme:  Taken with Teal (card base) and Pumpkin Pie with Sweet Pea DSP.

The Sweet Pea DSP is matted on Pumpkin Pie card stock.  I used a sentiment from Whimsical Words (Sale-A-Bration – pg.8) and stamped it with Taken with Teal ink on a scrap piece of Whisper White.  It was punched out using the Scallop Oval punch and matted to a Taken with Teal Scallop oval die cut.  The scallop oval die cut was created using my Big Shot and Movers & Shapers Big Z die and the scallop  oval magnetic die.  Let me just say I have easily got my money's worth from the Movers & Shapers Big Z die!  The magnetic dies coordinate with SU! punches (IB&C – pg. 186-7) and I do love to mat!

SU!'s Beautiful Wings embosslits die was used to make little butterflies which I attached to the card's front.  OK—I also got carried away and attached them all over to the card's insides.

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Chocolate Chip Thanks

January 28, 2010

Today's color scheme:  Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip.  It was easy to choose this color scheme since I wanted to use my Sweet Pea DSP again.  The card base is Old Olive and matted with Taken with Teal and Sweet Pea DSP. 

I love my SU! Sizzlet Dies and elected to use the "Many Thanks" sizzlet die (115972 – $5.50 – IB&C pg. 196) on today's card.  I grabbed a scrap piece of Chocolate Chip paper and ran it and the sizzlet die through my Big Shot.  The letter for 'thanks' were attached to Sweet Pea DSP using SU!'s Two-Way glue pen.  The two-way glue pen works best for me when trying to attach small items.  The small items get attached (and stay) without any fuss or muss. 

You may notice that I was not having the best day with paper piercing—that is just the way it goes sometimes!  What I did have a good time with was using my Scallop Trim Border punch (Sale-A-Bration – 118402) on Taken with Teal and Chocolate Chip paper.  Some other blog did a 'layering' of the Scallop Trim punches and I liked the look.  I hope you do too!  Hmmmm—what about three layers???

Before I forget—my card layout was inspired by the Card Positioning System card sketch 151. 

Stamp on and with Aloha!

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Whale Story

January 27, 2010
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Yesterday I thought my heart stopped beating for a brief spell.  Here is the reason why…  Since it was a beautiful day on the Big Island we decided to kayak in hopes of maybe catching a fish and to enjoy spotting humpback whales that winter here in Hawaii.   There we were just drifting about [...]