Clear & Simple Stamps: Group Project

Hello!  Today is our group project day at Clear & Simple Stamps!!!  This time we are using the new SOTM: House Notes II on things around the house (for instance coasters, message board, mini notepad for phone messages, magnets, guest towels, etc).  

We received some coasters as a wedding favor, and it was really sweet.  But, I took them apart and put a new picture in it.  I used the chair image from House Notes II and paper pieced it with some fun patterned paper for the chair cushions.     

Here are all four of them.  Click on the photo to see it larger.  


I hope you'll stop by the Clear & Simple Stamps Blog to see all the design team creations.  You are sure to be inspired by those talented ladies!

Have a great day!

{Relax Coasters}

Stamps: House Notes II (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Accessories: Glass Coasters, Scissors, Floss

Copic Marker: W5 

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A {Get Glammed Up} Card...

 

Happy Friday!  I have fun little number to share with you today.  This card was created using the new stamp set of the month (Beauty Secrets II) by Clear & Simple Stamps.  I've really started to like coloring with my copic markers.  I don't have many trios yet, but I'm having a good time with the ones I do have.  

The kraft card base uses two Labels 9 (Spellbinders) die cuts, they are adhered together at the top.  I used the a smaller Labels 9 die for the patterned paper.  I stamped the cosmetics image on A Blanc Check card stock using A Perfect Little Black Dress ink.  I colored the image with copics making sure to outline the image as well.  I cut it out with scissors and adhered it to a pink oval die cut using foam dimensionals.   

I really like the sentiment placement.  There really wasn't anywhere else to put it, but I like that it's over the image but not really covering up anything important.  

Hope you all have a great weekend.  We have a busy one coming up.  The end of July and the beginning of August is filled with birthdays.  My daughter's was earlier this week and mine is tomorrow.  Throw in a brand new nephew and things are getting interesting.  It's going to be fun though.  Have a great day!   

{Get Glammed Up}

Stamps: Beauty Secrets II (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, A Blanc Check, Paint the Town Pink (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Your Style Blue Me Away, Perfect Little Black Dress (CSS)

Accessories: Foam Dimensionals,  Oval & Labels 9 Nesties (Spellbinders), Pink Rhinestone, Brown Marker, Stamping Sponge

Copic Markers: B93, B95, B99, W3, 0 Colorless Blender, 100 Black

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Clear & Simple Stamps: Group Project

Welcome to another group challenge from Clear & Simple Stamps!  In the spirit of this month's newest stamp set Beauty Secrets II, our group challenge was to do a card make-over.  In this post you'll see how the stamped images look before and after they are "dressed up".  


Here's the before and after of my images.

You can see that I stamped the images using Perfect Little Dress ink on A Blanc Check card stock.  Pretty boring, huh?

I then stamped the same images again, but this time on patterned paper.  

I did a little coloring with a fine-tip black sharpie just to add a little detail.

I used a copic marker to outline the images so that they would pop off the page a bit.

The I adhered the patterned paper images to the images on the white card stock.  I drew in some wavy lines coming out of the hair dryer, just thought that would fun.

I finished the card off with a sentiment on Kraft Like a Rockstar card stock and some brads along the side.

I hope you enjoyed today's group project.  You won't want to miss the other delightful creations from the design team.  Check out the Clear & Simple Stamps Blog so you don't miss a project.

{Have a Lovely Day}

Stamps: Beauty Secrets II (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, A Blanc Check (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Green With Envy (CSS)

Accessories: Black Fine Tip Marker (Sharpie), Corner Rounder Punch, Stamping Sponge, Black Brads (Making Memories), Foam Dimensionals

Copic Markers: W1

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A Simple {Happy Birthday} Card...

Hey guys!  Just a simple card for you today.  Sometimes those are the best kind.  This card would be really easy to duplicate but it took me quite a while to put it together.   I was having one of those mojo-less days where nothing seemed to look right.  It all started to finally come together when I added a pop of yellow.  I even did the "triangle" thing where it's more pleasing to the eye to have your pop of color make a triangle (rhinestones, button, butterfly).  Hopefully you think this is pleasing to your eyes.

The butterfly has an antennae, but you can only see one in the photo but that's just because of the angle.  Believe me, this is an anatomically correct butterfly, lol :)

Have a great day!

{Happy Birthday}

Stamps: Communique Sentiments (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: SS White (PTI)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Dare to Be a Diva Red (CSS)

Accessories: Butterfly Punch (Martha Stewart), Red Floss (DMC), Button, Scallop Edge Punch (SU), Yellow Rhinestones, Stamping Sponge

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A Baby {Congrats} Card...

Hi-ya friends!  I'm so happy it's Friday, I'm sure you are too.  I have a quick and easy baby card for you today. I think this one looks a little more boy-ish than girl-ish, but you can be the judge.


I was wanting to play with my copics today and was looking through my stamps to see what I had that could be colored in.  Well, I don't think I've ever used this little lion stamp so that was perfect.  I used three shades of yellow to color him in.  

This card is pretty self explanatory so no need for any long-winded explanation from me.  As always, if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments.  I love comments!

Have a great weekend!

{Congrats}

Stamps: Precious Baby Boy (Hero Arts), A Guy Thing (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Creamsicle Cardigan, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Accessories: Orange Floss, Corner Rounder Punch, Foam Dimensionals, Copic Trio of Markers (Y32, Y35, Y38)

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A {Love Birds} Card...

Hi there!  I simply cannot get enough of the Tweet Notes stamp set.  It's just too cute and perfect for any occasion.  This card is pretty clean and simple, but I did do some paper piecing.  I used some paper from the Gertie collection from My Mind's Eye, so I know all my papers would coordinate.  The birds and the leaves are paper pieced. I stamped the branch on right first and then turned my branch around and stamped it again on the left side.    

The birds are popped up on foam dimensionals for added interest.  The sentiment is an outline and it was colored in with an aqua painter and some Paint the Town Pink ink.

Thank you so much for dropping by today.  Hope your day is great!

{Love Birds}

Stamps: Tweet Notes (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Paint the Town Pink, Dish All the Dirt Brown, Green With Envy (CSS)

Accessories: Top Note Die (SU), Aqua Painter, Foam Dimensionals, Stamping Sponge

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A {Welcome, Baby} Card...

Hey all!  Just a really quick post from me today.  We are headed out the door to the Kentucky Horse Park.  It's our first time and I'm hoping it's going to be a lot of fun.  


I made this card yesterday.  I've been making a lot of baby boy cards lately since our family is expecting four baby boys to be born in the next few months.  Anyway, I thought it would be nice to make a baby girl card for a change.  I'll just keep it in my stash until needed.  

Thanks so much for the visit today!  Have a great day!

{Welcome, Baby}

Stamps: Whale Wishes (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: I'm a Princess Pink (CSS), Vintage Cream, Lemon Tart (PTI)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Paint the Town Pink, Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Accessories: Whale Wishes Die (PTI), Oval Nestabilities Die (Spellbinders), Stamping Sponge, Pink Floss (DMC), Foam Dimensionals

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A {Birthday Greetings} Card Re-Do...

Hey guys!  I have one more card re-do to show you.  This is another one from 2008.  Click here to see the original post (including a trip down memory lane when my daughter graduated from preschool).  I think the end result is better than the original card, but I'm not in love with it. I don't know, I think it might be too far from my style.  

Original Card 2008

Updated Card 2011

I pretty much just changed the paper, the flower is the same style but punched from paper.  I decided to not round the edges of the sentiment panel and instead I distressed all the edges.  I added a yellow pearl in the corner.  

I think this card is just a lit bit too busy for my liking.  I think this would be a great card for a girly girl.  

That being said, I have to tell you that it's not very often I use a paper pad until nothing is left but little scraps.  Well, that's what happened with the pad of paper I used for this card.  It's from the Gertie (Stella Rose) collection from My Mind's Eye.  I think I only have one full sheet left.  I love that MME's papers are double sided.  If you don't like one side, most likely you'll love the other side.

Have a great weekend!!!

{Birthday Greetings}

Stamps: Icon Extras (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Simply Blue-tiful, Paint the Town Pink (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Accessories: Pearl, Yellow Ribbon, Flower Punch (Paper Shapers), Circle Punch (SU), Scallop Edge Punch (SU), Edge Distresser, Foam Dimensionals, Stamping Sponge

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Clear & Simple Stamps: June 2011 Release

It's the first day of June and we all know what that means, a new stamp set is being released from Clear & Simple Stamps!!!  Let the fun begin!!!  This month's set is called Tweet Notes and it is super cute.  Take a look and see for yourself:

I'm so in love with this set.  Birds and branches are so trendy right now and I love how versatile they are to use on all sorts of cards.  Birds are totally gender neutral, don't you think?  Take a look at one of the cards I created for this release:

I sketched this card out first and it didn't include the tag with the bird on it.  I think that's the best part.  I love the creative process and how something goes from your mind, to being sketched out roughly on paper and then to something so tangible as a finished product.  It's so interesting to me to see how your ideas evolve over the course of time and seeing how something that looks great in your head doesn't translate to paper.  I love this little hobby of mine.

I started with Green With Envy as my card base and applied the floral paper first and then the a strip of distressed Glamazon Green on top of that.  Then I added a thicker strip of striped paper to cover the seam.  I stamped "TWEET" across the top in Perfect Little Black Dress ink adding the flowers in between in Simply Blue-tiful ink.  

The satin ribbon is A Clean Slate and is actually threaded through the top of the tag and then tied in a knot.  Before adhering the tag to the card I created a little scene.  The leaves of the branches were paper pieced using Green With Envy and the bird is paper pieced with patterned paper.  The little hearts were stamped with Paint the Town Pink, there are actually three hearts but one is covered up by the ribbon.  

Thanks for sharing in the fun today!  Be sure to check out the Clear & Simple Stamps Blog for all the design team creations.  


I also have a card featured on the Clear & Simple Stamps App for the iphone today.  For more info on how to get the app, click HERE.  It's a super cute one too, you won't want to miss it!

Have a great day!

{Tweet Tweet}

Stamps: Tweet Notes (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Green With Envy, Glamazon Green (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Paint the Town Pink, Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Accessories: A Clean Slate Satin Ribbon (CSS), Corner Rounder Punch, Edge Distresser, Foam Dimensionals, Hole  Punch 

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A {Welcome Home} Card...

*This is my second post for today, make sure you scroll down to see both... 

Hello!  Today is the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop and the theme is FLOWERS.  I saw this card on Maile Belles blog yesterday and I knew I wanted to CASE it.  I changed a lot on my card, but the idea came from her card.

The colors I chose came from the patterned paper.  It may be hard to see, but you can click on the pictures to see the wreath close up.

The middle of each flower is filled using white acrylic accents.  The dots flattened out when they dried, I was hoping they would keep their "pearl" look.  




Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you enjoy the hop.  Have a great day!

{Welcome Home}

Stamps: Wreath For All Seasons (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: I'm a Princess Pink, Simply Blue-tiful (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Simply Blue-tiful, Creamsicle Cardigan, Paint the Town Pink (CSS), Moss Green (ColorBox)

Accessories: Labels 9 Nesties (Spellbinders), Stamping Sponge, White Acrylic Accents (Ranger), Foam Dimensionals, Edge Distresser

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A {here to give you a lift} Card...

Happy Friday!  I hope you all had a great week.  I made this fun card using some flowers I've had lying around for a while.  You are supposed to put buttons on the balloon strings stamp to make it look like a bouquet of balloons, but I like how the flowers look.

The sentiment is a straight line.  To get it to curve, I just placed it on an acrylic block and kept bending it and testing it out, bending it more and testing it out, until I got it just right.

This is not a card I'll be sticking in the mail, it's way to bulky.  That's okay though, since I love handing out cards in person.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy your weekend!!!

{Here to give you a lift...}

Stamps: Everyday Button Bits (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Brown Leather Satchel, Dish All the Dirt Brown (CSS)

Accessories: Flowers (Maya Road), Oval & Labels 9 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Foam Dimensionals 

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A {Baby Congrats} Card...

Hello!  I had so much fun making this card.  I love green, yellow and pink for baby girl cards.  Like I said the other day, there is a baby boom going on in my extended family and I need to be prepared with cards.  This one uses scraps I've already accumulated from the new Gertie line from My Mind's Eye.  

One of my favorite cards to make are the quilted kind.  I just love mixing and matching those papers, just like fabric.  I've been really into layering ovals with the labels 9 die.  I think they are perfect together.


That's all for me today!  Hope you are having a good start to your week!!!

{Baby Congrats}

Stamps: Signature Greetings (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, I'm a Princess Pink (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Moss Green (Colorbox)

Accessories: Labels 9 & Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Foam Dimensionals, Edge Distresser, 

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A {Happy Retirement} Card...

Hello!  I was in the mood to color today, so that's how this card came to fruition.  I colored the house with a mix of regular markers and copic markers.  I colored the house and then picked out my patterned paper.  There was no planning ahead of time to make sure it all matched, luckily it did.  This is the first time I outlined my colored image with a light gray copic marker.  It's supposed to make it look like the image is popping off the page.  It really does work, it's just hard to see since the sun was shining right on my card.

I usually make cards and take photos in the morning.  But today it worked out to be the afternoon and that sun (that FINALLY made an appearance) was right over my card.  Totally not going to complain, just picture my card without those darn shadows.  

That ribbon has been in my stash for ages.  I finally used the last bit of it on this card.  I love this patterned paper.  I'm sure you can tell by all the cards I've used it on lately.  It's double sided, which I love.  

I hope the sun is out wherever you are today!  Enjoy your day!!!

PS. This is also another card that uses this week's CPS Sketch.

{Happy Retirement}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous), A Guy Thing (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Dish All the Dirt Brown (CSS)

Accessories: Circle Cutting Tool (Coluzzle), Edge Distresser, Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Stamping Sponge, Ribbon (Michaels), Blossom Punch (EK Success), Rhinestone, Glue Dots

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A Fashionable {Good Friends} Card...

Hello!  So glad you stopped by today.  It's another cold and rainy day here and once again I am typing while sitting in front of my space heater.  I took a peek at today's Sketch Challenge at SCS first thing this morning and then I tried to make a card a few hours later from memory.  Turns out I didn't remember the layout quite right, but I think it's close enough.

I love paper piecing these purses. This card uses a total of 6 different patterned papers.  That might be a record for me.  The rhinestones were colored using a pink copic marker.  I love that trick!

Have a great day!

{Good Friends...}

Stamps: Just My Style (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Green With Envy (CSS)

Accessories: Corner Rounder Punch, Rhinestones, Stamping Sponge, Foam Dimensionals

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