No Time To Stamp?

A cheerful card to brighten someone’s day - a card you’d most likely want to hand deliver, perhaps when you are making a hospital visit or just dropping in on a friend with aplate of cookies. It’s also a non-traditional size at 7″ x 4″. I wanted to play the Featured Stamper Challengetoday over at SCS, and I jumped for joy to see that my friend Stacy (Twinshappy) was today’s Featured Stamper!!! She has a HUGE gallery — WOW!! This is her card that I cased, setting me on the path of the tall and narrow format. And here’s my result:

Well, this may be a stretch from Stacy’s card — but not really if you look. Same format, one rectangular focal image, I switched the simple sentiment from bottom to top, and the ribbon treatment from top to bottom, but then that’s were I went a bit wild — LOL!!! I just got a ton of this 1.5″ wide gingham in many colors and SO wanted to play with it today! I made a *faux bow* so there isn’t a knot underneath, making it easy to glue my Primas on with glue dots. Very simply, I sewed my ribbon down, and I’ll show you in a few days. I forgot to take a pic as I was going along tonight — sorry. But it was *sew* simple and fun!!! My trio of buttons are on with glue dots.

Just a closer look. I have this ribbon for salein the TAB above my Blog header, and I’m loving my new Primas I picked up at Michaels. All my buttons are from Wal-Mart. Just used a needle and regular thread in my buttons. My image was Copic colored some time ago, so I’m not sure of the colors, sorry!

Stamps: Mixed Bouquet by Memory Box, Bird on a Branch by SU

Paper: White, Only Orange by SU; Perfect Baby Blue by Prism.

Ink: Versa Fine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics to color.

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon,Primas from Michaels, Buttons from Wal-Mart, Needle and Thread, Sewing Machine, Glue Dots, Glue Glider.

Shopping:

The Mixed Bouquet stamp by Memory Box, Prism Paper, Versa Fine Ink and Memento Inks can all be found at Stampers Dream.

The Glue Glider is from Joan’s Garden.

The May Arts ribbon is available at My Ribbon Sale, above my Blog Header.

So glad you stopped in again today!!! We are enjoying beautifully warm temps, and I hope they continue. Hope you are having a great weekend as well!! Take care and see you around soon!!!

Today I’ve done 3 cards in different styles, but all using just small tidbits of ribbon to make ribbon tabs! You all know how I love wide ribbon and I usually use it quite generously on my projects. Well today, I’m only using about 2-3″ per card, and I LOVE that extra little bit of pizazz that this wide ribbon lends.

And before I show you my cards, I just want to let you know that I do have this May Arts ribbon for sale in an Introductory Sampler, giving you 1 yard each of 8 different ribbons. You can check it all out on the RIBBON FOR SALEtab at the top of this page, ABOVE MY BLOG HEADER, or click here. OK, now on to my cards:

This card is fresh and crisp with a simply colored image. What a fun accent the checked ribbon tabmakes!!! Image is Mixed Bouquet (it’s on sale today!)by Memory Box from Stampers Dream. Sentiment is retired SU Small Sayings. DP is Urban Prairie by Basic Grey from Joan’s Garden. Tag is cut and embossed with a Spellbinders Double Ended Tags die.

This card has a definite vintage feel, and the fun little striped tab works itself into this style equally as well!!! The image is from the Nostalgia set by Inkadinkado and the DP is Basic Grey’s Ambrosia, both from Joan’s Garden. The buttons are from Wal-Mart and the focal image is cut and embossed on my Oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders, edged with a gold Sharpie pen. Ink used on the image is SU Pumpkin Pie and Riding Hood Red.

And lastly I have a really quick CAS card (Clean and Simple), requiring minimal work! But how fun! The interest comes from my ribbon tab and the fun button!!! The Birthday Blessings is by Rubber Soul from Stampers Dream. Stampers Dreamalso has the Frosted Cobalt Prism cardstock as well as the Versa Fine and Memento inks I’ve used on all these projects today. The button is a large vintage coat button with a hemp bow.

Hope you enjoy these cards — they were fun to make this morning!!! If you’d like to try the May Arts ribbons, check them out here. Thanks so much for stopping in again! I love when you do!!! I hope to have another project for tomorrow!! Have a great day everyone!!!

This is a trio of note cards I made up quickly. I used a pretty new wood mount stamp called Bird Branchby Memory Box that I recently got from Stamper’s Dream. I think it is just so pretty, and today I used it in black as a silhouette, which is always a quick way to get some cards done. I have long loved silhouette type images. Here they are:

Again, I did all cards identical as I’m still in quick mode! There isn’t much to these, but I think this lovely Bird Branch image paired with SU’s Urban Garden DP produces a classy, but simple card!!! I used a grayish/silver May Arts velvet ribbon. Cardstock is White and SU’s Basic Gray andretired River Rock, and ink is Versa Fine Onyx Black. Image is cut and embossed with aLong Rectangle Nestability by Spellbinders and popped up on dimensionals.

That’s just a quick project for today. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve already, ready or not, and I am not!!! But that’s OK. It’s time already to forget all of our to-do lists and just enjoy the next few days, celebrating the birth of baby Jesus some 2,000 years ago. May you all have a wonderful Christmas!!!