Christmas in July

This week The Angel Company has been celebrating Christmas in July and it's been a lot of fun to see what the DT has come up - boy are they creative! Check out all the fun ideas here on Savvy Projects blog.

I followed that theme with one of my projects from yesterday's Open House - thanks again to everyone who stopped by! I used 3 different, non Christmasy stamp sets to make up this cute little gift pouch. How easy it would be to change the colors though and make it the perfect gift wrap for any occasion. (Size: this is just one half of regular cardstock cut the long ways)



Materials: All stamps and papers from The Angel Company
Stamps: Fabulous Frames, Running Stitches, Damask Backgrounder
Paper: Kraft, Olive and Scarlet Cardstock (you've really got to feel this paper to appreciate it!)

This second mini card is stamp lifted from Mischelle's blog when she used Hope Perches for her Retiform card. I fell in love with the card and used her focal point for my mini card version (and in real life, my greens do match!! sigh...

Juliet changed it up once more and created these two lovely mini cards...I had to snap a picture before she left with them!

Final Farewells...

The LAST day to order the retiring stamps from The Angel Company is this Friday, 25 June!

Seeds of Blessings is one of those retiring stamp sets and it has a bunch of wonderful sayings (and 4 cute little images!). Here I paired it up with the new frames set from the Serendipity magalogue and I was delighted when I re discovered some cuttlebug flower dies that my friend Julie gave me a year or two ago. Do you ever have so many things that items get pushed to the back of the cupboard? These are perfect for making those layered flowers that are all the rage!



Card Materials: all stamps and papers from The Angel Company
Stamps: Seeds of Blessing, Fabulous Frames
Accessories: Angelee Soar with it Collection (TAC), branch punch, Cuttlebug flowers, Nestabilities Label Die (TAC), Lemonade Buttons and Blossoms (TAC), Scrappers floss (TAC)

More embossing with our new Impressionabilities plates and I think the Angelee Soar with it Collection is such a feminine paper! I heard that a new paper will be released in the new catalog AND...there will be special Copic pairings available to match our paper lines. Is that cool or what?!

I'll be shipping out my preorders as soon as I get them (hopefully this Saturday!)...if you haven't let me know yet and you want a catty, just send me an email.

Rolled Flowers

I had high hopes for stamping a lot of cards yesterday...I'm just happy that I finished ONE! My son was home sick from school so I cancelled my subbing job because he had to stay home alone sick already the day before. Then, my daughter's school called to come pick her up - she was ill as well! I did get to snuggle on the couch though and watch Aliens in the Attic with him, and an episode of The Hills with her.

While I sat, I fiddled with some paper to make the Rolled Flowers featured in this week's SCS newsletter. If you missed the tutorial, you can find it here. The first go around, I threw out my efforts. I used a thinner paper, DP on one side only. But when I tried again with cardstock, I was very happy with the end results.

Once I had the flower completed, I needed something to go with it! The rest of the card came together pretty quickly as I added a few layers here and there, between loads of laundry. That's the nice thing about combining a laundry room and stamp room, you can multi-task!

Fabulous Frames made a great focal point and I am sad to see More Abundance retiring so I wanted to feature it one more time here! This set is great for both scrapbooking and cardmaking...I love it!

I have seen a lot of prisma flowers at Michaels covered with the chunky glitter - here it helps hide any "imperfections" in my flower!

Card Materials:

Stamps: More Abundance, Fabulous Frames

Accessories: text paper, CB embossing folders, Sizzix vine die, crystal lacquer and chunky glitter

Don't forget that The Angel Company has brought back it's FREE gift with purchase stamps during the May/June Jubilation. And on a side note, the baby birds have hatched in the nest underneath my clematis plant...it's so cute to see them with their beaks open wide!

More Birthday cards

Today is another wet and dreary day here in Northern Virginia! I started working on card last night and I can't wait to make some "me time" and finish it up this morning. I find most of my cards are made like that - a little bit here, put it aside, come back and do a little bit more, put it aside, and then the big finish! I guess I do it out of necessity because I do love to sit and make a whole card (or two!) at once.

Anyways, here are two more of the birthday cards we made at my class last week. A huge shout out of thanks to Juliet. Once again she helped me out with her computer skills. I found a wonderful bingo card template at Sharon Harnist' blog here...but I wanted some changes and Juliet came through for me.

Stamps: English Everyday Cuties, Little Cupcake from The Angel Company

And we made two masculine cards that day as well...unfortunately I stamped "happy" upside down on the other card so I won't show it here but we all got a good laugh because I left it was as a sample of "what not to do"...This card looks quite nice in real life because I white embossed the Victorian Elements on the dark brown texture of the Bazzill cardstock.

Stamps: Victorian Elements, Savvy Sayings, Fabulous Frames from The Angel Company

Have a great day - I hope your week is going well!

Congratulations

My niece just graduated from collage so I whipped up this card using some of the new stamps from Serendipity -- which is now live and online! woo hoo! The most amazing part is that The Angel Company did a ROLL BACK on prices and that's a very good thing!I can't wait to hear what you think - but, I digress. :)

I'm sure you've seen these layered flowers everywhere...and I should've gone with 5 layers instead of just 3 for a fuller look. I did ink the edges! The Catalynne paper pack stole the show and I used my hand held sewing machine for a very sloppy stitch around the edges.

Card Materials all supplies from The Angel Company

Stamps: Fabulous Frames, Savvy Sayings

Accessories: Catalynne paper, scrappers floss, flower punch

And don't forget - tomorrow is the last day to order our retiring stamps, and they are 40% off!

New Spellbinder Goodies!

You may have heard the rumour that The Angel Company started carrying Spellbinder Nestabilities and Impressabilities...well, it's true!!



For the following card I used the Flourishes plate and it gives a beautiful, subtle embossing to the cardstock. (If you are familiar with Cuttlebug embossing folders, they are not as deeply etched as those). What is especially interesting is that you can cut these apart so it really adds to embossing possibilities!



The Spellbinder Labels sets we are carrying are: 1, 3, 4, 5 9, and the Large Labels. They are nicely priced at $25.95 and if you are ever a hostess, this would be an excellant half priced item!

To compliment these new products...the Wizard has made it into our catalog as the Die Cut and Embossing machine we'll now carry. Another EXCELLANT reason to be a hostess!!

So with all of this exciting talk about Spellbinders it's only natural that I used our Fabulous Frames set which fit perfectly with the Labels dies. :)



I hope you'll join me on Monday for a Valentine's Treats blog hop...I think we have a record number of Angels participating and I can't wait to see all of the fabulous ideas!

PS. I've shipped out most of my new Serendipity magalogues...I've only got about 10 left so if you want one, let me know soon!

I'm on top of the world!

I can't tell you what a thrill it was to see my creation on the homepage of The Angel Company!! I know, I know - it's just a snowflake with some chipboard and stamping but to me...well, I'm tickled pink!!

I wanted to share a quick card I made yesterday...using something new and something old! Did you know that we will be carrying Nestabilities and rubber stamps to match?! Here's my first sample using one of them (Fabulous Frames) and the bird/saying is from my favorite set (which will be gone after 1 Feb), Beautiful Day. You can find all of the retiring Serendipty stamps on sale here.

It's another simple card - but I hoped the embossed tone on tone, scalloped edge and embossed black panel makes it a bit more "wow" than just cardstock slapped together! I always am envious of those talented stampers that make any card look special versus mine which may tend to look like a 10 year old could've made it! tee hee...

Hope you have a great mid-week. I'm off to decorate the bulletin boards at church. This afternoon we're getting a new dryer delivered - I am hoping I made the right choice. It's crazy that picking a dryer could be so nerve wracking but we've had the last one for 17 years and I debated getting it repaired vs. buying a new one. ugh! I'd rather be stamping!! :)