I love, love, LOVE this tutorial on SCS for a Ghiradelli chocolate box. And of course, after I made the box I figured it needed a matching card!

Stamps: Cheep Talk

Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point

Ink: Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Pacific Point

Other: Cosmo glitter, scallop punch

Happy Birthday Alyssa!

Stamps: Happy Heart Day
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Red Riding Hood
Other: Colorbok rhinestones, scallop punch, Prismacolor pencils

Always...Everything

I don't know why it took me so dang long to use the heart image from this set. The heart and the birdie were the main reasons I bought it. Luckily I was able to track down a little piece of Soft Sky to do this card. I'm going through withdrawals! :) Hopefully my final order of the In Colors will make it all in one piece!

Stamps: Always
Ink: Soft Sky, Groovy Guava
Paper: Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, Groovy Guava
Other: Groovy Guava ribbon, scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, scallop scissors, white gel pen

Version two:

Everything the same as above except colors, Wild Wasabi, Close to Cocoa, and Chocolate Chip.

It feels like it has been forever since I've stamped. Photography has been keeping me busy, but today was an extra day off work for the 4th and I just had to stamp it up!
Happy Fourth everyone!

Stamps: Friendship Blooms
Paper: Old Olive, Apricot Appeal, Ruby Red, Blue Bayou
Ink: Blue Bayou, Apricot Appeal, Ruby Red
Other: Blue Bayou ribbon, Fiskars scalloped scissors

WSC49

For Beate's weekend sketch challenge 49, I couldn't stop at just one! I went with one card based pretty much exactly on the sketch, and for the other one I flipped the sketch vertical.

Stamps: Happy Heart Day
Ink: Stazon black
Paper: Old Olive, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Bazzill black
Other: Soft Sky ribbon, scalloped scissors, Cricut 'George'(for circle), pop dots, Prisma pencils, mineral spirits, Sakura silver pen

Stamps: Friendship Blooms, Lots of Thoughts

Ink: Cameo Coral, black Stazon

Paper: Mellow Moss, Cameo Coral, Bazzill black

Other: Cricut 'George'(large flower and circle), white Sakura gel pen, Making Memories brad

Sweet One

The focal point took a while to make, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I stamped the image first on Soft Sky and cut it out with a scallop punch. Then I used the 1 3/8 circle punch to punch out the middle. Then I layered that scalloped ring on top of another image that I stamped with Blue Bayou on white paper and cut out also with the scallop punch. I cut out a copy of the moon in Barely Bananna and layered that on top of the original moon. Then last, I cut out yet another copy of the banner that says 'sweet one' (done with Mellow Moss) and layered it over the original with pop dots.
Whew! Did that even make sense? :)

Stamps: So Many Scallops
Ink: Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Mellow Moss
Paper: Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Barely Bananna
Other: Soft Sky ribbon, scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch

WSC47

I really need to try Beate's sketch challenges more often~they're great inspiration!

Stamps: Friendship Blooms, Priceless

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava, Blue Bayou, Soft

Sky

Ink: Blue Bayou

Ribbon: Groovy Guava

Other: Fiskars scallop scissors, Cricut 'George' (for ovals)

I'm back!

I can't believe it's been a whole month since I've posted already! It seems I go in phases of either being too darn busy to sit down and do any creating, or just plain losing my mojo for a while. This time I think it was a combination of both.

This is a case of skdeleeuw's card, which was in turn inspired by Lauren's sketch and cards.

Stamps: Always, Priceless, Lots of Thoughts
Paper: Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Blue Bayou
Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Blue Bayou
Ribbon: Purely Pomegranate, Blue Bayou
Other: scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, white Sakura gelly roll pen

Happy Birthday T!

Stamps: Seeing Spots, So Many Scallops
Ink: Soft Sky, Groovy Guava
Paper: Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava
Other: Scallop Punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, Wild Wasabi ribbon

I'm not so sure that I like this one, but I'll share anyways...
You know how it is when you get a really great idea in your head but it just doesn't come out the way you imagined? Yep, this card is one of those!

Stamps: 'Always'
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow, Bashful Blue
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow
Other: SU scallop circle punch, Heidi Swapp edge distressor

Scalloped Note Card

Stamps: SU! 'Always'
Paper: SU! Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip
Ink: SU! Soft Sky
Other: Joanne's Craft Essentials ribbon in 'Spring Moss', Fiskars scalloped scissors

Many Thanks

Stamps: SU! 'Always' and 'Lots of Thoughts'

Paper: SU! Wild Wasabi, River Rock, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou

Ink: SU! Soft Sky

Other: SU! River Rock ribbon

Yay, yay, yay!!! My order finally arrived! The first night I got to sit down with everything, I actually made three cards. I think that's a record for me! :)

Stamps: SU! 'Always'
Paper: SU! Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Old Olive
Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Old Olive

A couple cards made using my scalloped scissors (again!) and Cricut for the circles. I love that thing for being able to make shapes in so many different sizes. No more buying tons of punches of the same shape just to get different sizes!

Stamps: Studio G for the words, and SU! 'Priceless' for the pattern on the white paper.

Paper: Bazzill

Ribbon: Jo-ann's essentials

Other: pop-dots, brads

I got to use my scalloped scissors again on this card, punching holes in the scallops to give it a lace-type effect.

Stamps: Studio G
Paper: Die Cuts with a View
Other: scalloped scissors, hole punch, pop-dot