You & Me Card Swap Creation

Wow! What a whirl wind of a weekend! I have some personal things to share but I think I will leave that for Wednesday, provided I have time to edit the photo of the card I want to share with you.

For now I have this card fantastic card to share, which I created a while but had to hold off on sharing it.

I created this card for a swap I joined with my Upline. When I created the first card I didn't think it would be that hard to make 17 more (11 for my upline swap and 7 for my monthly swap with other ladies). However, popping out all the holes in my framelit for the negatives and all the bigshotting I did proved to be much more time consuming than I imagined. 

However, I loved how the card turned out and in fact my partner really loved it. He is very good about asking to see what i have created and always tells me they are great but he seemed really excited about this card. 

I really wanted to share it with you much sooner, as I created it back in early January but I had to wait until everyone received their cards. No one wants to spoil the surprise...

Stampset: Perfect Pennants

Paper: So Saffron, Coastal Cabana, Tangerine Tango, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron

Bigshot: Arrows Embossing folder, On Film Framelits, Bitty Banner Framelits, Hearts a Flutter Framelits

Accessories: Silver 1/8" Ribbon

Sympathy Embellished Events CASE

This is the card I created for the monthly swap I participate in. I needed something fairly simple this month so this card was perfect!

Stampset: Simply Sketched, Embellished Events

Paper: Whisper White, Primrose Petals 

Ink: Primrose Petals 

Accessories: Whisper White 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, In Color Dahlias

Convention Funky Fold Swap - Pop Up Gift Card Holder

This is the perfect card to use if you are giving someone a gift certificate. It gives you just enough room to write a little message and still "wrap" their gift. I used Splitcoaststampers tutorial to make this card. The directions were perfect and super easy to follow along with. I have other renditions of this card which I will share with you later. As with my other Convention Funky Fold Swap we were allowed to use retired DSP but everything else is current.

If you are not Canadian and do not know what a Timcard is, it is a gift card to our most popular coffee/doughnut shop in Canada, Tim Hortons. It seems like we have one on almost every corner in Calgary. In my opinion their Sour Cream Glazed doughnuts or "timbits" are the best!!! I am thinking I shouldn't have used the Timcard in my photo because now I am craving Tim Hortons!!! Too bad I am trying to be "Sugar free" otherwise I would be on my way there right now...

Paper: Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, Print Poetry DSP Stack
Punch: Bitty Butterfly, Elegant Butterfly

Accessories: Fancy Fan EF, 1/8” Mini Brads

Convention Funky Fold Swap - Tent Fold

I did this card for a swap for convention. We were allowed to use retired DSP but everything else had to be current. This is a very simple funky fold but it is nice to have something a little different than the standard card. All you do is cut your cardstock base at 4 1/4" X 8 1/2" and score at 4 1/4". When you adhere the "topper" of your card (the oval flower shape in my card), make sure the full card height doesn't exceed 5 1/2". If it does, it will not fit in your standard card envelopes. 

This card is super easy and would be great with any of the new framelits.

Paper/Ink: Whisper White, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Gumball Green, Floral District DSP

Punches: Word Window, Modern Label, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border

Stamp: Best of Flowers, Create a Cupcake

Bigshot: Oval Collection Framelits

Merry Little Christmas Card Swap

As I mentioned on my Holly Wreath post I am in a swap with my Up-Upline. This is my second card I will be swapping. I took my card from yesterday and changed up the stampset. It was simple to do!!! Imagine the possibilities with that sketch from Freshly Made Sketches!!!!

If you are wondering how I cut out the stampset, yes I did use the Chalk Talk framelits. However, when you are running it through the Bigshot you only have 3/4 of the framelit on the cutting mat, with 1/4 of the framelit hanging off the end. Once you run it through the big shot only half of your image is cut out. You move the framelit to the other side of your stamped image and run it through again. Making sure to line up your framelit and also making sure you hang half of your framelit off the edge of your cutting mat. With a total of two quick runs through the Bigshot you have cut out your image and extended the possibilities for your framelits!!!

Stampset: Merry Little Christmas
Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Gumball Green, Baked Brown Sugar, Season of Style DSP Stack (132181)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Baked Brown Sugar

Big Shot: Northern Flurry Embossing Folder, Chalk Talk Framelits (129983)
Accessory: Rhinestones Basic Jewels (119246), Naturals Designer Buttons (127554)

Adhesive: Sticky Strip (104294), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430), SNAIL Adhesive (104332)

Holly Stampin' Up Undefined Carving

On my to do list is create some cards for a swap I have signed up for with my up-upline. Since no one seemed to get very many Christmas cards swaps at convention she decided to do her own swap with anyone in any of her downlines. I decided to jump on board. I was struggling to decide which stampset to use and my upline said she had seen some wreaths made with the Six Sided Sampler Stampset and coordinating punch. I thought this seemed like a fantastic idea and thought I would give it a shot. Upon reviewing some photos from convention I came across one that looked like I took it from the big screens during a presentation. I CASED this card and made very few changes. If anyone knows who made the wreath card at convention please let me know and I will make sure to give them credit!!!

I wanted more detail on the wreath instead of just 3 red dots to symbolize holly (which is what the CASED card used). I found a small piece of rubber left from my Undefined set I thought I could carve some holly. With how small the holly is it was actually fairly easy to carve and it was another thing I didn't have to trace!!! I love the look of the wreath with my carved holly and I hope everyone enjoys the card when they get the card at the end of September! I hope you are inspired!!!

I will be taking the weekend off from posting but will hopefully have lots of cards to share with you on Monday.

Happy Stamping!!!