Some new Flower Soft Cards

Here are a couple of new cards using some of the new flower soft stamps and new colors. Both of these are done with alot of dimension. I like to do 3D on my cards alot. I usually have at least a low layer paper tole style with some 110 # or 120 # cardstock and then the foreground elements are usually done with pop ups. Its hard to see in the photos but in real life these look really cool.

Flower Soft colors used:

Bright red, bright orange, bright yellow. Shamrock green and light green.

Stamps used:

Starving Artistamps brick outline background

Flower Soft country window and cat from quiet corner bench

The back of the bench, cats head, toes, top pages of the book and ribbon on the hat all have an additional layer of 110# cardstock for dimension, the front of the bench is popped up on pop up dots.

Products used:

Flower Soft flowers: summer, and shamrock. Also either heather or Fuscia for the hat, im not sure which it is.

CPS sketch 102

We are sponsoring the CPS Sketch blog anniversary this week (yesterday and today) and it uses a really fantastic sketch (#102) Here is my card for the sketch.  The center Iris is actually raised up sort of paper tole style with an additional layer of 110# cardstock.  The heart and both bees are on pop ups, this card has lot more dimension than it appears.  

Stamps I used:

Starving Artistamps Big Iris,  bees, leaf. 

The sentiment is from the Valentines sentiment set.

Coming home project booklet

Today is the day of our new release blog hop. If you haven't started your hop stop reading and go visit our company blog for the list! www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com There are so many amazing projects and one of us has blog candy! If you are already done with the hop but just can't get enough of our great new DoodleFactory backdrops then read on!

Normally I'm someone who is big on instant gratification, so this project was a demonstration of my patience. It took a few hours to put this project together but I really love it and I think it was worth it. See if you can guess what the theme for this booklet is!

This is the inside of my four panel accordion booklet:

first two pages:

Last two pages:

Back of booklet, grosgrain ribbon secured with ATG gun
and reinforced with red snaps (on the inside)

Front cover
I ran into some technical difficult when I realized all the backgrounds
except for the jungle are all horizontal! So I did some clever editing

some nipping and tucking and expanded the vertical layout on the

jungle by adding the plant and vines to the sides.

First page:

Second page:

Third page:

Last page:

So what's the theme? Well it's returning home!
Be it by airplane, skateboard, helicopter, taxi or bicycle,
however you have to get there, just get there!

Stamps used:
Set the Scene backdrops: Jungle, Tropical, Countryside, and Rooftops.
DoodleFactory collections:
Urban: skateboard, helicopter, airplane, taxi, guaco the mole
Valentine ReMix: vines and plant, chip the monkey
Outdoors: sneeq the racoon and the bicycle
Fairytale: princess winifred
Creatures: Skoober
Sentiment: From Urban sentiment set # 2

babies and my ribbon haul

I have been slowly collecting the Martha Stewart border punches with my Michaels coupons. So while I was there using my last coupon on a fence border punch before it expired I decided I really needed to start collecting more fat ribbon. I have tons of ribbon that I rarely use but you know how it is, its never the right color, pattern, thickness, or texture for whatever project you are currently working on. So I decided I really needed to collect some more ribbons.

Here is the result of my little ribbon shopping bender:

Most of this ribbon was a buck or two at Michaels. Can you tell I'm all about Valentines right now? Those heart buttons and pink ribbons will be popping up on a card or two very soon Im sure.

I made the cutest little baby gift card from this adorable baby onsie front and back stamp I picked up at the stamp show. The stamp is from Just for fun (I really need to double check that) and they have lots of other clothing as well. Another especially cool one I would like to pick up is the hoodie style. I saw some samples of the hoodie with a zipper in the middle that was just so incredibly cute!

I needed this card because one of my closest friends had a baby. This is my first unofficial nephew. I have 5 nieces but this is my only nephew! The colors match her nursery (sage green and cream) She went with a teddy bear theme but she is a big cat lover so I opted for cats instead:

See how the bottom folds up! How cute is that!!

Little paw print for the butt. Too cute right!

The colors are pretty off on these pics, the card is more

of a light vanilla.

And this is the baby I made it for...
Meet my new Nephew Christopher!

A little Whimsy

Here are a few cards using some of the new Whimsy stamps we just got in . They remind me of Dr. Seus, what do you think?

brown and blue christmas

Not quite swedish collage but it is a square anyway!

inside:

Sweet shoppe... how sweet it is!

Here are a few cards I made using the new DoodleFactory Sweet Shoppe set.