2 cards for Frantic Stamper

Hi friends. Well here it is Halloween and I didn't make a single Halloween card this year -- oops! But I do have two cards to share with you today using newer products from Frantic Stamper that are of the fall variety.

On my first card, I die cut the Pumpkin Patch die from some white card stock. I then did a bit of simple Copic coloring and shading on both the pumpkins and the stems and leaves. I added it to a card base that I had stamped with a large background stamp for the vertical lines. I added my sentiment on some foam tape and now I have a fall birthday card.

On my second card, I die cut the pumpkins form some white card stock using the Large Pumpkin and the Stitched Pumpkin dies. I then blended some distress inks onto them to add shading and depth. I added some score lines to ground the pumpkins a bit, rounded the corners and stamped the sentiment.

Happy Thanksgiving with CASual Fridays

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I am of course very grateful for everything good in my life. I am truly blessed to have a great family, great job and the necessities in life.

My card is a super simple one. I used several colors of Distress Inks on my background and then gave the whole panel a good spritzing with my water sprayer to really get the inks to move.  I then stamped the image and sentiments from a CASual Friday stamp set.

Thanks friends for your visit. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Thanksgiving

First off, happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and anyone else celebrating the day.

So I recently became acquainted with Darnell's wonderful blog and I love how she welcomes any new followers in her blog posts so I thought I'd do the same. I'm sure I won't have to do this nearly as often as she does, though.

Any way, please welcome Angie from I would rather be Stamping.  Her blog is full of fabulous cards and projects. I've taken a peek back at the last few pages and am in awe.

Now onto today's card.  I've got a CAS card for you today featuring the Amber Waves set from CAS-ual Friday Stamps. I have to tell you how beautifully these stamps inked up. There was no conditioning needed at all.

As I've done with many of my cards lately, I've added some score lines for added interest.

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I'm off today and tomorrow and will be doing some shopping later tonight and tomorrow. The countdown to Christmas is officially on! I hope that whatever you do this weekend that you find much joy and happiness.

I'm in mourning

So I just got done watching the Broncos lose to the Jaguars. Too many mistakes made. It's been a rough day. Church was very tiring and then to watch the Broncos lose. In between the two, I had fallen asleep and was rudely woken up by a political phone call. I had only been sleeping for around 15 minutes and was unable to rest anymore.

Towards the end of the Bronco's game, I made this card. I wanted to do something "fallish" because of the cold weather we've had this weekend. We even had to turn on our heat. The card is relatively simple and was quick to put together. The most time was spent on scoring the barn red cardstock and then sanding the lines for the white core to show through. I just love the look of the lines. The sentiment comes from that oft-mentioned Say it in Style stamp set. Did I mention how much I love it and how versatile it is? Oh wait, I believe I did.

Well, I need to do some studying now. My exam is offically less than 4 weeks away. Not that I'm panicking, mind you. Really, it is starting to really weigh on my mind. I've done a lot of the studying but still have some to do plus I need to do an overall review. Okay, I guess I've rambled enough now. Hope your weekend went well and that you were able to do something that you enjoy.

Thanksgiving? But it's only September

Were you intrigued by my title? I thought I'd post a Thanksgiving card I made awhile back. This card is 8x3.5 size. I don't usually make cards this size but sometimes it just seems to work.

I'm off to Denver again today to look at financial aid testing. It should be lots of fun and very stimulating. Can anyone sense my sarcasm? Really, I do enjoy my job and am very lucky to have it. The location is perfect and the hours are perfect. Personally, I'd still rather be independently wealthy, but since I don't play the lottery, I doubt that will happen to me anytime soon.