PPA 138- Beautiful Butterflies

Hi All! Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July! I enjoyed my day off with my kids :) Too bad I had to go back to work the next day (Thursday). Was weird to have a day off mid week!

With today's card I'm joining Pals Paper Art's Color Challenge (PPA) over at palspaperarts.com. I love the color combo and this is what I came up with. I'm very happy with the result! Hope I'm not the only one haha!
Using the stamp set Beautiful Butterflies from Stampin'Up! I created my own designer paper using the three colors from the PPA's color challenge. The sentiment is from the Much Appreciated stamp set also from SU! I've had that set for a while and I love it.

Hope you like it and head over to PPA to check other wonderful cards!
-Gabby

Distress Ink and Copics

Hi All,
Today I have a card using Copic markers and Distress Inks for the first time! I have lots of practice to do :) Copics are wonderful. I could not believe how great they blend. And there's so much you can do with Distress Inks!
So for today's card I used a Stampin' Up flower stamp to do the coloring with Copics. Then I cut around it with a circle cutter. Behind the flower I cut a 3.5 x 4.5 in of white card stock and then used distress inks... this is another awesome thing! What I did was rubbed some ink on a craft sheet , sprayed some water and laid the piece of card stock right on top. Let air dry or use a heat gun to speed the drying process. I saw this technique at kwernerdesign.com. Kristina has amazing work!
Hope you like it! I'm planning on giving away some candy VERY soon so please visit my blog again soon!!
Gabby

I'm Back! -Cupcake Coupon Book

Hi Everyone!

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's!! Can't believe is already 2012. New Year, new post...so here it goes...

I made this coupon book for my sister Sandy, she absolutely LOVES anything with cupcakes. She recently started couponing, so I thought this would be cute for her.

Sorry for the bad pictures (check out that background lol)...something I have to work on :)

Have a great one!

Reminder Card

Hi Everyone!

I sure have missed the blogging world! Here's something I completed this weekend. I couldn't wait wait to show you all because all though simple ...I really liked the results :)

I made about 50 of these reminders. They measure 3.5" x 4". When I volunteered to make these mini reminders for our church ladies I thought oh I'll be done in no time...wrong! Believe it or not it took me quite a while.

I started by cutting the base cardstock and then stamping the background butterflies. Then using the Big Shot I cut all the butteflies. Finally I put everything together after sponging most of the layers including the butterflies.

Be back soon for more projects :)

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Forest Friends

Hi Everyone!

Today's card features Forest Friends from Stampin' Up! A cute little set I just got. It's pretty simple but loved the results.

Hope you all enjoyed!

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Non-Scrap Post (Painting)

Hi Everyone!

Today's post has nothing to do with stamping...but it is my other hobby--- painting! It's actually my first attempt to paint flowers. I need more practice but I think I did pretty good (so I hope LOL) what I normally paint are portraits or stuff I photograph. I pretty much done stuff upon request. So if anyone is intetested in one of my paintings or wants a custom-made painting, please let me know...I can show you more samples because these two are pretty simple compared to other work I've done :)
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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Butterfly Card

Hi Everyone!

Wow! Has this month been busy! Glad to be back into some crafting though. Well, I have created some projects and cleaned my scrap room some (one day I wish I can show you pictures of it) but I haven't posted any pictures of my projects on my blog. So here's this card I made for a card swap we had last weekend.



It's so super simple but I love the way it turned out :) I absolutely love the colors. I started with a standard (4.25" x 5.5") Sahara Sand cardstock. Then using Bliss stamp set, I stamped the right side of the card. Next, using Whisper White cardstock I cut a 3" x 2.5" and punched the top with a spiral punch. Again, I stamped the lower right side using the same stamp and stamped the butterfly in Pacific Point ink. Then I wrapped blue ribbon around the white cardstock and created a bow. The finishing touch was adding the blue button on top of the bow. The finishing touch was to add a 3-D butterfly on top of the blue stamped butterfly and adding pop-ups to the white cardstock to adhere it to the card base :) Hope you all like it!