Stalled Rudolph

This is a card I designed and made for a challenge last month. Being a horse person, I know a little bit about stalls. It only seemed fitting that I built one for Rudolph ;) I'm just glad I don't have to muck Rudy's stall too! LOL

 I started by using the Hardwood background stamp on Sahara Sand CS. I cut the boards for his stall door, created a box with and x in the center and propped it up on some dimensionals. I stamped Rudy from the Cookie Cutter Christmas bundle & heat embossed his nose with our new red glitter embossing powder after punching him out. I punched the sign from the decorative label punch and used the labeler alphabet stamps to spell out his name. I propped my stall front up on the Warmth & Cheer DSP. 

 The ridges on the stall topper were made with the Best Badge Punch. Then the topper was propped up with several dimensionals stacked on top of each other. I intertwined Kraft Rope Trim & Candy Cane Lane twine with a gingerbread Christmas Trinket and glued it to the stall door for a handle.

I am loving this new holiday catalog! If you don't have a demonstrator and need a catalog, please let me know. I'd love to be your demo! :)

I hope you enjoyed today's card share.

Happy Stamping!

Another Stinker!

This card just makes me laugh! It was CASEd from Frenchy here.

I have yet to make an actual fox with the new Fox Builder Punch. The skunks just go so well with the sentiment from the Here For You stamp set :)

I used the Black Stampin Write marker to color the skunk after I punched him out on Whisper White card stock. That was the hardest part! This card was super easy to make and took no time at all to put together. I wanted to add some bling so I punched 4 tiny circles out of my Red Glimmer paper. I love the little zing that gave this card. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Happy Stamping! :)

Stampin' Up! Special Offers

Stampin' Up! has released some special offers. For the next 3 weeks there will be special offers that change each week.

 These are the offers for September 1st - 7th

Funny, I had almost all of those on my wishlist! Time to place an order ;) I don't know about you, but I love a good sale :) :) :)

Click HERE to take you to the deals in my store.

Don't forget, if your order is under $150 please use hostess code GRQVUJX4

Thoughtful Branches Pumpkin

In light of the fact that Stampin' Up! still has the Thoughtful Branches bundle available, I thought I'd share the card I made yesterday. Its my Thoughtful Branches pumpkin.

I cut it out using our Pumpkin Pie Glimmer Paper. Isn't it cute?! I used the Vintage leaves stamp set to create the background and the Layering Oval Framelits for my sentiment. The sentiment was put together with the Labeler Alphabet stamps

Fiesta Birthday

This is the final card from our class last week. I call it the Fiesta Birthday card. My goal was to make it resemble a pinata by using my Fringe Scissors to cut the strips of cardstock. I just love that little Llama!

The stamps are from the Birthday Fiesta bundle. I used my Many Marvelous Markers to color the stamps before stamping them. Emerald Envy cardstock was used as the card base and the ribbon is the Emerald Envy Ruched Ribbon.

I think this card is so cute! :)

The Canopy or Storefront Card.

Today's card share is the second one from our class last week and my personal favorite ;)

 The canopy was made by lining up the bottom of the canopy in the top of the Best Badge Punch and punching it out all the way across. The "wall" on the front of the building was embossed on the Big Shot using the Brick Wall texured impression embossing folder. The wine glasses and sentiment are from the Mixed Drinks stamp set. I used the Layering Squares Framelits Squares to cut the window in the brick wall. 

...and I just had to add some glossy accents for effect ;)

I hope you've enjoyed today's card as much as I enjoyed making it. I just love it! :)

Class card #1- Tunnel Anniversary

I held a class on Tuesday and had 16 beautiful ladies attend! Unfortunately I only got a pic of the 4 from the afternoon class. Sorry girls, I'm slacking in my photo ops dept!

Onto the card.

The first card in this class was CASEd from a lovely card that was mailed to me for my birthday. Lori Helvick is the creator and you can visit her blog here.  The card I CASEd is here. Isn't it Lovely???!!! Lori does beautiful work!

And here is my rendition of Lori's card:

I started with an 8 ½" x 5 ¼" piece of So Saffron Cardstock and stamped the vine image from the Grateful Bunch stamp set in So Saffron ink on the front. I adhered an 8 ¼"x 5" sheet of Whisper White Cardstock to the So Saffron after stamping the sentiment from the Grateful Bunch in the center. Then I scored it on my Stampin' Trimmer and adhered it to the card base. Next I took an  8 ¼"x 5" piece of Flirty Flamingo, scored it at 4 ¼" and from both ends at 2 1/8" then I centered my Layered Oval Framelits over the center line and ran it through my Big Shot - keeping the oval to use on the front of the card. Then I added some interest to the right side of the Flirty Flamingo using an embossing folder.

The front was done with the Layering Oval Framelits, Number of Years Stamp Set, Flower Shop stamps and coordinating Pansy Punch, Petite Petals Punch and Peek-A-Boo Peach Ruched Ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by. I would love to hear from you just to know someone is reading my blog :)

Happy Stamping!

Kim

Stampin' in the Woods Weekend

We had so much fun at Linda Bauwin's Stampin' in the Woods over the weekend. It's all a blur as it's a whirlwind of activity! Since we had an 8 hr drive, we were non-stop from Thursday through Sunday. I think I'm finally caught up on all the sleep that I missed! There were 36 of us that participated. Here's the group shot:

The scenery at Camp Judson was absolutely GORGEOUS!

Lori Helvick & Carrie Burr joined me and let me tell you, it was quite the adventure! We had so many laughs!

The water felt so good as it was very humid all weekend and there's no a/c in the rec area. We stamped anyway!

And to prove that we really did stamp, this is the only stamping picture I have. We were so busy! You really get your money's worth attending this retreat! :) 

Project pictures to follow. I have two card classes today and my house is in dire need of cleaning!

Happy Tuesday all! :)