Some cards I've been working on

I've been trying to work out of my comfort zone a little.  What I did with these is worked with colors I don't normally use.  Garden Green and Pumpkin Pie aren't colors I normally work with.  So I decided to use them.  I believe I got this color combo from the color coach, but it's been a while since I made these, so I could be mistaken. I used half of an 8.5 x 11 sheet of whisper white and randomly stamped images from the Level 2 Hostess Set. 

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 I cased this one from one of the catalogs.  I think it was the Idea book, but can't remember for sure.  I'll let ya know as soon as I find it. 

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This card I Cased a card I had made a long time ago, but with som of the old colors, so I changed them with current colors and current stamp sets.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Party Hearty!

I made this card before the new catalog came out. I used my markers….some of them were a little used…I’ve let my daughter use them a couple of times….especially the ones I don’t use very often.  Since it’s been a while since I created this card I can’t remember for sure what colors they are. So hopefully they’re the ones I think it is.

Supplies:
Stamps: Party Hearty! (i’ll update if that’s not the correct name)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Real Red, Certainly Celery, and Chocolate Chip markers
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie and White
Accessories: Real Red Polka Dot Ribbon (reverse side), scallop edge punch, modern label punch, and window tag punch.


Gina

Hello

 

Thought I'd make a card using the Hello Again (I believe that's the correct name for it) set.  It's so cute.  I was gonna' use the matching wheel but I guess I forgot.  Oh well just means I'll  have to make another card.  For some reason this is one of my new favorite color combinations... Melon mambo, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight.  I'm usually not a Bright color lover, but love the new brights collection in the catalog. 

Back to the card, I knew what I wanted to do with this card before I even started, but ended up having to do it in a two day sitting due to family duties. :)  We all know how that goes.  I made the Main Image first and then finished the rest of the card on the next day.

Stampin’ Supplies:
Stamps: Hello Again
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Old Olive
Paper: Same as Ink
Accessories: Old Olive wide grosgrain, corner rounder, dimensionals

Hope you like it. Hopefully soon I’ll have more to post. Thanks for stopping by.

 

Gina

Haven't posted for a  while...my computer got a virus...so needed to wait to get that fixed and everything.   It's working now, but anything i've created is either using the newly retired stuff or some of my really old stuff (not recently retired).   Don't have too much new stuff yet, so hopefully I'll be placing an order soon.  Trying to come up with open house ideas without any new product is difficult.  So hopefully I'll have something new to post here in a couple days. 

Some more Little Creations....

I was going through my retired Scraps of DSP.  I found some from the flower for you DSP packet.  So I thought I would use it to make a 3x3 card.  This is what I came up with.  Really simple but cute. 

I also was going through some of my old Simply Scrappin Kits and decided to make a ATC using some of the scraps and stickers from the kits.  I can't remember the name of the kit, but here's the project....

Using up some of my old stash....lots more to go.

For some reason I've been doing a lot of little stampin projects.  Been making ATC's, 3x3, tags .... little things like that.  I haven't had a lot of time at once to sit down and stamp so that's what i come up with.   I've also been using some of my old stuff/retired stuff.  It actually feels good to be using it. I'd buy all this paper and then it was too awesome to cut....so there it would sit and never get used.  Now I have too much stuff and need to start making room for new stuff.  Running out of storage space.  Here are some of the one's I've done. 

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Got the inspiration for this one from the Simply Scrappin Kit Tailor Made. Might use it to add some journaling to a scrapbook page.

Stamps: Favorite Things, Sense of time and Le Jardin Botinque
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand
Ink: Chocolate Chip (stamped off), Always Artichoke and Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Earth Element Brads, Chocolate Chip ribbon and Tag Corner Punch

Created by Gina Schilling

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 I was going through some of my older stuff and found some rub-ons that I thought would look cute on something... Didn't know what I was going to do with them at first but this is what I came up with.  Didn't quite turn out how I had planned but it works.  I used Close to Cocoa, So Saffron, Bordering Blue and Almost Amethyst.

Got a couple more, but I'll share those tomorrow.  Gonna' go roast some hot dogs with the family.  Thanks for stopping by.

Gina

I needed to make a Thank you card and since I needed to get it done fast I thought I'd CASE one out of an older mini Catalog. I had the Ocassions Mini Catalog (April 1- June 30th, 2009) sitting on my desk.   I opened to pg. 3 and used that as inspiration.  Not sure exactly what colors they used in their card, but I used Wild Wasabi, Rose Red and Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla. Instead of using the stamp set Soft Summer I used Asian Artistry.  I used my Stampin' Pastels and blender pen to color in the image.  I really like this card...loved how simple it was to create.  I ended up making 3 of them...I knew I wouldn't give the card away if I didn't make any more.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes and Asian Artistry

Ink: Basic Gray

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla

Accessories:  Very Vanilla 1/4" grosgrain Ribbon, blender Pens and Stampin Pastels.

Created by Gina Schilling

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HMMM....

I haven't stamped in a while, so I wasn't sure what I wanted to do or where to start I started looking at the catalog and decided to just CASE something outta there till I got my mojo back.

I started the card and messed up right away, so I tried covering up the mess up and this is what happened. I love this card! My new favorite!

I used the stamp set For All You Do. Used the flowers in the set to make my own patterned paper.

Inks: Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, Crused Curry and Rich Razzleberry.
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede, Bermuda Bay and White
Accessories: Tri flower punch, silver brads, dimensionals

Using my old stash...

I keep telling myself to use some of my old stuff and then maybe sell the cards or something. But I just never get around to it.

Well, my daughter (3 years old) is always looking for stickers of some sort...if it won't stick she will put glue on the back of whatever it may be. In her search for stickers (while I was at work) she found my old stash of Accents and Element Tins. I think they're the first ones Stampin' Up!(R) came out with in one of the mini catalogs. Well I never used them...they were too cute and didn't want to use them up and then need them for some other project....so there they sat.

When I got home from work I saw the stickers sitting on my table, so I decided to make something with them and of course she made something too. Both my girls love to stamp with me!!! :)

So this is what I ended up with:

Since I was using retired stuff, why not use a retired stamp set?! So I grabbed an old Hostess set Happiness Always. This stamp set has always been one of my favoites, but never got to use it all that much. I ended up using the colors from the little label (not sure what to call it) to make the card. I knew I wanted to use the label for the sentiment, so I just went from there. I knew that I'd need a smaller sized focal image to get the sentiment to fit over top the main image. If that makes sense?!

I used Chocolate Chip as the base and layered it with some Perfect Plum cardstock. I stamped the stem and flower image from the set to make the flower in the background.

I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the sentiment onto the label. I cut a piece of Mellow Moss to layer the sentiment label and set that a side while I worked on the main image.

I grabbed some White Cardstock and stamped the butterfly image from the set in Pale Plum and Perfect Plum and another in Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke.

Before I adhered everything I tied some Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon around the card. Adhering the focal image over the ribbon with dimensionals. I also popped up the sentiment...using one over the main image and two on top of one another on the other side of the label. If that makes sense?! Doing that just made it so it was even on both sides.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed my card!

Gina