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I made a video!!!

I made a short little video of my never-ending card
I even fashioned a holder out of a baby wipe container to hold the blackberry while I filmed the card (as you can see in the video, even with two hands I had trouble with the card on the second go through).
If you are interested in checking out the never-ending card video (all 15 seconds of it), here's the link (I even added some music for ya):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPT01MJ5RA

Anything Goes...Card Four - Things I Heart

This is one of those stamp sets that I absolutely HAD to have, and then never used...until now.

Someone said they wanted to try the shaving cream technique again as a refresher, I think it makes a fun marbled background on this card.

I love the colour combination of purely pomegranate and pink pirouette

Anyway, just a fun little "anything goes" card...

Anything Goes...Card Three - Joseph's Coat

This is a CASE of a card we did at the Shoe Box swap last week. Thanks Amanda for showing us this fun technique.

For this card, I used two colours on the brayer at once (rich razzleberry and old olive) then stamped the image in versamark and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Then a once more over with the brayer, this time with the pacific point ink to match the cardstock base. I wiped off the excess ink with a paper towel after brayering to remove the ink from the clear embossed image.

I love how the colour patterns come out doing this.

Razzleberry Spritz

I wanted to try out some of the new smooch spritzes from the Stampin' Up summer mini...

Thought the silver would look nice with the medallion...I think I went a bit overboard on the spritz...will know for next time, at least it's nice and sparkly :)

Started with just the medallion, felt like it needed something...added the butterflies, on the finished card there is a clear itty bitty button the same shape as the punched shape, took it off to scan it.

Not too happy with the butterfly - but at almost 10:00 pm, it'll do for now

Even more from SC VCD

If you love SCS (splitcoast stampers) then you will love SC!!

It's all Canadian eh! Come check it out...here's a link:

www.stampincanada.com

Here are the last few projects from yesterday's VCD (Virtual Crop Day) on SC (Stampin' Canada):

Ghiradelli Box :

Pink and Brown warm up card:

Non traditional colour Valentine:

Last challenge for the day:

What I like about this card, is we are sending it in the mail to another SC friend. During VCD, we make our cards and post them for the others to see, in this case, for the last card of the day, you send it through the mail to whoever posts after you...so this card is already on it's way to Ruth in Edmonton!!

More from SC VCD

Heres an accordian card that I made as part of Stampin Canada's Virtual Crop Day yesterday...

The first picture is the inside, second picture is the outside.

I used the copic markers I bought in Winnipeg to colour the sock monkey...I now know that I need more copics, they are amazing to colour with...but I don't have enough colours.

I am quite certain this poor sock monkey thinks I am colour blind giving him a mouth that matches the frosting and florescent purple hands, feet and bum!! Poor sock monkey...good thing I have a birthday coming up...maybe I'll get more markers HINT HINT

Stampin Canada Valentine Virtual Crop Day

Yep, yesterday was VCD (Virtual Crop Day) on SC (Stampin Canada). This time around Wenchie created Valentine challenges for us....THANK YOU grand poobah!!!

Here are some of the cards I made:

Border challenge:

Pyramid card:

30 Minute Challenge:

Fan card...

I joined a Canadian Comments Blog Group on SCS.

The organizer of the group has her blog here:

http://www.bsdemonstrators.blogspot.com

She has this great fan card that I just had to try, so I gave it a whirl tonight.

I should have done it with my Scor-Pal the first time, but thinking the scoring blade on the paper trimmer would be faster, that's what I used, and of course the design paper tore when I was folding into the fan.

So I redid it, did the folds at 1/2 inch instead of 1/4 inch and used the Scor-Pal.

The colours didn't come out well in the picture (rich razzleberry, melon mambo and crushed curry believe it or not) but you get the idea. Check out the blog above, the picture of the original card is much better!!

Heat and Stick Card #2

Wanted to try this again to make sure I didn't just get lucky last time. Will be trying this tomorrow night with some stampin' friends...

Hmmmmmm the picture won't upload...will try again later...

Two hours later...ta da....it worked :) Looks pretty much like the other one...

Big Buckle Card

Part of my goal for 2010 is to try some different card templates...Split Coast Stampers has a great variety of templates and tutorials.

Here's my first attempt at a big buckle card:

And here's a link to the tutorial on SCS that I followed:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/big_buckle_card

Colour Core Cardstock...

Here's something cool I learned at Stampinpalooza last weekend.

You can start with a bright colour cardstock (I used orange) brayer over it with a darker colour (I used black) to make colour core cardstock.

Once I had it all brayered up in black, I used the cuttlebug and then a sanding block to get some orange to show through...then wanting more orange around the edges, I tore it around all sides.

All in all I am pretty happy with how this came out - I got to use a new cuttlebug folder and my new skull and crossbones die cut :)

Warm and Fuzzy

Here's another new thing I learned at mega meeting...don't throw out your used dryer sheets! You can use them to create a warm and fuzzy background, accent or as substitute for mulberry paper! How cool is that? Whodathunk it?

Here's my first dryer sheet card:

Faux Suede

Learned some cool new techniques at the SU mega meeting at the end of June...this one is one of my favourites and its sooooo easy.

I used the 5th Avenue floral folder, ran it through the cuttlebug, then with the flat side up, run ink pads right over the embossed image. I used three colours here, sahara sand, more mustard and old olive.

Variations on Punch Cards

Tried something a bit different with a few of the punch cards from this week's class. I made them up for a few ladies at work who had been unable to attend the class.
Here are revised versions of the punch butterfly and sunflower cards:

Dhalia flower

Here's another punch card we'll be making this week. This one is for a co-worker who is celebrating her birthday on May 5...Happy Birthday Tatiana!!

The picture isn't great, took it with my blackberry...but you get the idea.

This fold took me some time to master, many thanks to Barb who gave me much better instructions than what I was trying (unsuccessfully) to follow.

Grid cards...

Hoooray for my FAB stampin up upline!

Thanks to Mary Louise, I now know how to use my Scor-Pal!!

Here are some grid cards we did in a recent class...the mustard colour daisy one (looks kind of orange below) is my favourite :)

Stamp A Stack - Feb 21, 2009

I attended a stamp a stack with my SU upline and some of my Stampin Canada cohorts yesterday afternoon (Feb 21).

Here are the cards that we made (2 of each):

This one uses one of the sets from the SU catalogue - it's called "Cheep Talk"

This one is a Z fold card, love the colour combinations here...

This one is much prettier than the scan shows, there is clear embossing on the vanilla paper, I think this one will make a lovely wedding card for a certain someone I know who is getting married next month :)

This one features another new set, called Sweet Stems, I like the colour combinations on this one too, I would not have thought to put the red, green and pink together...

Again, this one is nicer than the scan shows...the clouds were done using masking with a scallop punch out. The butterfly is stamped on the card itself, but there is also a cutout butterfly on top for a 3-D effect that you can't really see here...

Although I like how this card came out, it's probably quite different from the sample...I don't tend to follow instructions very well...this one used stazon on acetate which is a nice effect, but I got all the layering wrong...the brown square should have been under the acetate, with the green on top...oh well...

Shoebox swap - Feb 09

I love shoebox swaps - in case you aren't sure what this is, everyone plans out a project, and brings enough supplies for everyone in the group to make one of their projects.

Here are some projects we did at a recent shoebox swap that my SU upline hosted this month:

My very first "pop up" card:

A pocket card using the top note:

A valentine treat bag, again using the top note:

Very cute card designed by my SU upline...I just bought this stamp set:

So Nice I Made it Twice :)

I have a HUGE stack of paint chips at home (apologies to Home Depot, but I find them irresistable!!) and I really like the look of the paint chip cards.

So I CASE'd my own non traditional colour challenge card to make this birthday card for one of my co-workers who celebrated a birthday over the weekend.