Showing posts with label Susan Best. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Best. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Wood You Be Mine?

Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2015 Jacksonville Starz Blog Hop!  You should have arrived here from Monique Zimmer's blog.

 
 
The theme for this month is Valentine's Day and I decided to make a card with one of the cute new stamp sets from the Stampin' Up! 2015 Occasions Catalog that goes live on January 6th.  I combined Wood You Be Mine? with Lovely as a Tree to create my card.
Don't you just love this ruggedly handsome lumberjack.  LOL
 
Directions for my card:
  • Old Olive cut 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 for card base
  • Rich Razzleberry cut 5 1/4 x 4
  • Whisper White cut 5 1/8 x 3 7/8
  • Whisper White 2 x 1 1/2 for sentiment
  • Rich Razzleberry 2 1/8 x 1 5/8
  • Old Olive 2 1/4 x 1 3/4
  • Whisper White 3 x 2 1/2 for lumberjack
  • Whisper White 3 3/4 x 2 for tree
  • Use Old Olive ink and stamp a row of tree tops onto the bottom of the Whisper White cardstock.  Use Rich Razzleberry to mat this piece and then glue it to the Old Olive card base.
  • Using Memento Black ink stamp the sentiment and the lumberjack on the appropriate Whisper White cardstock pieces.  Use Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive cardstock to mat the sentiment.
  • Color the lumberjack using Blendabilities and cut him out.
  • Use Old Olive ink and stamp the tree on Whisper White.  Sketch in the tree trunk with a Crumb Cake Blendabilities marker and cut the tree out.
  • Use Stampin' Dimensionals to attach the sentiment, the tree and the lumberjack.
  • Using the Heart punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, punch out a Rich Razzleberry heart and attach it to the sentiment with a Stampin' Dimensional.
Supplies Needed to Recreate this Card:
Your next stop on the Blog Hop is Amanda Sevall...just click the "Next" button to get there, but if you get lost anywhere along the way I'm also adding links to all the participating stampers.
http://www.amandasevall.com
 
Cari Verschueren - http://papercraftingwithcari.blogspot.com/
Sheilah Stamper - http://www.stampwithus.com
Lee Conrey - http://www.stampingleeyours.blogspot.com/
Maria Willis - http://www.cardbomb.blogspot.com/
Monique Zimmer - http://moniquezimmer.blogspot.com/
Susan Best - http://www.stampinginferno.blogspot.com/
Amanda Sevall - http://www.amandasevall.com
 
 
As I mentioned above, the Wood You Be Mine? stamp set from the 2015 Occasions Catalog is available for purchase on Tuesday, January 6th.  If you don't have a copy of this catalog yet please contact me and I will be happy to get one right out to you.   

 
Thank you so much for stopping by to visit.  I hope you enjoyed your time here and that you will return again real soon.
Posted by Susan at 7:00 AM
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Blended Bloom for JAX STARZ December Blog Hop

Welcome to the JAX Starz December Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from Sheilah Stampers' blog.  The challenge this month was to use the sketch shown below.

 I decided I wanted to use a much larger stamped image and chose Blended Bloom.  I love this Stampin' Up! stamp and haven't used it nearly enough.  I stamped the image onto Coastal Cabana cardstock and used the Coastal Cabana Blendabilities to color it.  Any guesses on what color Blendabilities I used for the center portion?  Nope, it's not Rich Razzleberry.  I actually used Melon Mambo!!!!!  Using the Melon Mambo on top of the Coastal Cabana cardstock caused it to look exactly like Rich Razzleberry.  That is what I call a happy accident!  LOL


Direction for this card:
  • Coastal Cabana cut 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 for card base
  • White Whisper cut 5 1/4 x 4
  • Rich Razzleberry cut 3 7/8 x 3 3/4
  • Coastal Cabana cut 3 7/8 x 1/4
  • Coastal Cabana cut 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 for stamped image
  • Using Memento Black Ink stamp Blended Bloom image onto Coastal Cabana cardstock and color with Coastal Cabana and Melon Mambo Blendabilities.  Add white dots with the Signo White Gel Pen.  Cut out.
  • Adhere Whisper White & Rich Razzleberry cardstocks together and dry emboss using the Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder.  Glue Coastal Cabana strip over seam.  Glue onto card base.
  • Stamp Hello from A Dozen Thoughts onto a scrap piece of Whisper White and die cut using Bitty Banners framelit.  Also die cut scraps of Coastal Cabana & Rich Razzleberry using the same framelit.  Glue pieces together.
  • Adhere the Blended Bloom and the sentiment using Stampin' Dimensionals.
Supplies needed:

Blended Bloom #135906
A Dozen Thoughts #131059
Coastal Cabana cardstock #131297
Rich Razzleberry cardstock #115316
Whisper White cardstock #100730
Memento Black Ink Pad #132708
Coastal Cabana Blendabilities #131000
Melon Mambo Blendabilities #130994
White Signo Gel Pen #105021
Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder #133739
Bitty Banners Framelits #129267

Your next stop along the way is the fabulously talented Lee Conrey...just click the "Next" button to get there, but if you get lost anywhere along the way following are all the participating stampers.

www.stampingleeyours.blogspot.com

 
Thank you so much for stopping by to visit.  I hope you enjoyed your time here and that you will return again real soon.



Posted by Susan at 7:00 AM
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Festival of Trees

The Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees stamp set is fabulous.  There's such a variety of trees to choose from.  There's a garland to add to the trees or, if you prefer, you can add ornaments. Since the stamps are photopolymer you can easily see exactly where to place these ornaments on your tree.  How about adding a cardinal?  Or place your tree into a pot.  The possibilities are endless.  Best of all....there's a matching tree punch.  Can you say HOORAY!!!!  I love it when things come together so easily. The cards I'm sharing today showcase two of the trees from Festival of Trees and are so simple to create. 

This first card has the stamped ornaments and a few sparkly rhinestones. 

This second card has a very simple branched tree basking in the glow of a star.

If you would like to recreate either of these cards, I used the following Stampin' Up! supplies:

Card #1
Posted by Susan at 10:47 PM
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Blog Hop with the Jacksonville STARZ

Welcome to the Stampin' Up! Jacksonville STARZ Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from Priscilla Thoreson's blog.


I made this card for our recent swap using new product from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog and thought I would share it with all of you. I just love the frosty look of this sentiment from Seasonally Scattered.  Kind of reminds me of those nights when the moon would glisten on the snow covered ground and on the icicles hanging from the roof.  Living in Florida now I can honestly say I often wish for snow although my husband definitely doesn't share that wish. 

If you would like to recreate this card I used the following Stampin' Up! products:
To continue on the Blog Hop just click below and you will be taken to Stampingleeyours, the blog of the extremely talented Lee Conrey.

Just in case you get lost along the way, following are all the participants:

Thanks for taking the time to Hop with us.  I hope you enjoy yourself and please come back again soon.

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