Methods

The first is called "spot lighting". you stamp your image 2 times. I did mine on whisper white and then on old olive.
Then I used Stampin' up's 1/2 inch circle punch (104390) to punch out my image from the old olive. I used my Stampin' Up glue pen (100425) and glued the circles in the whisper white image.
It takes a bit of lining up but it turned out great. (another idea from Dawn G).
the other is a gift card sleeve. Dawn used a different punch. I didn't have the same punch so I used my scalloped punch (109043). I also used my tiny tag punch to make the "friends tag (?#)

Mojo Monday second week

I tried mojo monday last week and this is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Phil's Birthday

Today (June 4th) is Phil's Birthday Here is the card I made for him.
It is Stampin' Up's "Bugs and Kisses" (116580). I think it turned out good!!!!

Cheers to you

Well it has been a busy few weeks and I am behind on my blog. I have a few projects to put up.
This is Stampin' up's "cheers to you" (114944).This is a great stamp set for all of you that like cool summer drinks.(with or without the alcohol) I got the general idea from Dawn G's site (see links)
It is a "3 way" card.. It is kind of like that toy some of us "old" people had when we were younger and batteries had not been invented yet (LOL) You turned it one way and it would flip(water fall )down. So you open the card one way and you get pictures, open it another way and you get different pics and close it and open the middle and there are different pics in the middle. Hard to explain but it is a cool card and easy to make.
I think Dawn calls it a" secret card".

Mojo Monday My first

My sister Martha Stewart( NOT that Martha) told me I should do the Mojo Monday card.
Being this is my first, I spent 2 hours getting it right just to pull the flowers off and start again.
Well here is what I did. I know it is plain but for my first attempt....not too bad. Do you know how hard it is to cut 1/8 inch strips to make thread when you don't own any??? And do you like the button....I made that too......

quilter's Bargello

I got my first Stampin' Success yesterday.... I found the Bargello Page and being a quilter I took up the challenge. I know the one in Stampin' Success is a smaller scale but a quilter needs more color. Hope you like it.

Stamping with a 2 yr old?!!!

Now I know that it is hard to think about, but YES I stamped with my 2 yr old grandson. He saw I was cutting paper so he gets on my lap to help.
We cut lots of paper and I had some of the flowers cut out but then we started. Let me tell you 2 yr old's LOVE the Stampin' Up Snail. There is something fun about gluing stuff down. He picked up the pieces I put the glue on the back and he stuck it down. Cooper also loved the Stampin' Up Dimensionals. We did not understand that once you put the dimensionals on....you can't take them off. . Cooper wanted to put the Stampin Up Embooss powder on everything. We mixed up the gold, silver and the indescent ice. Only mixed up a little. Cooper didn't like the heat gun but he did like the magic. The second card he took the frames from the cut outs and we used a sponge and used them as stencils.
On the one card he stamped with the Versa Mark with the stamp set "Sending Happy Thoughts"

Next week Father's Day Cards with Cooper.... My first Stampin' Up Workshop went well....But he didn't have money with him at the time. But he made a "Make and Take" He just took it before Grand Ma could take a photo of it.