Sweet Little Bird

Good Morning Everyone,

Welcome to another weekend of fun wit the Stamping 411 Challenge. I hope you will find a little time this weekend to play along.

Here is the Sketch:

…and my interpretation……

 

This is the first time I’ve used this cute little Bird and Branch Punch (It’s called the Extra Large Two-Step bird). How sweet is it? Pretty Simple card again with very little stamping. I did stamp the Solid Stripes Background as the background piece with Pretty in Pink. I wanted to show a softer side with this cool Stamp. I actually stamped it twice and taped the two pieces together to achieve the width I wanted.

I then matted it on pink ….did a mat using my Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder and matted that on Pretty in Pink again and then onto the Base of the card.

The Bird and branches were punched out of Whisper White and attached with dimensionals.

Now for the flowers. I did the three Flower punch on Copy Paper and sponged the edges of five flowers and attached with a brad in the center. then pulled up one layer at a time to scrunch towards the center. I did two size flowers.

When I saw this sketch…I knew I would use these flowers…..

I didn’t put a sentiment as I love to keep cards blank until I need them.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you liked my interpretation of the sketch today and will have time to play along with us over at Stamping 411

Wishing you all a ……

Stampinglee Good Day!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh….How Peaceful and Serene

Good Morning Everyone,

Here is the final card I did at the Michelle Zindorf Class this past Saturday.

We used the Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set which is a MUST HAVE for any stamper. It is one of the very first stamp sets I purchased when I started stamping. It’s just the best!!!!

I actually have several mistakes on this card and even transposed the whole image….but that’s alright….it’s still beautiful to me. After all what is it they say? Practice makes perfect or at least better!!!

Thanks Michelle for a wonderful workshop and Thanks Sharon for hosting it.

I hope you all enjoyed my last three days of Zindorf and hope to post more of my attempts of brayering soon.

Thanks for stopping by and as always….

Have a Stampinglee Good Day!

Branch Out

Good Morning Everyone,

I’d like to share the 2nd card I did at Michelle Zindorf’s class this past Saturday…..

Isn’t this fun? It uses the same tree as yesterday’s card but we added lots of leaves in various colors…..including black on the left.

She was an awesome teacher with an easy, casual way about her. It was such an awesome opportunity to meet her.

I hope you enjoyed visiting today and tomorrow I will share card #3 with all of you!

Take care and have a ….

Stampinglee Good Day!

Where did the Spring Go?

Good Morning Everyone,

I have a good reason for posting a winter card…honest!

I had the great pleasure of meeting Michelle Zindorf yesterday when I attended her class.

Here is one of the cards we did at the class. I will be sharing the others this week.

Enjoy….

This showcases the wonderful Branch Out Set by Stampin’ Up! The colors are Not Quite Navy and Night of Navy brayered across the skyline and edges of the snow.

This was my first card I did and trust me no nearly as good as hers but a start.

Thanks for stopping by and wish you all a…….

Stampinglee Good Day!

Bling,Bling & More Bling!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to another Stamping 411 Challenge. I hope you will play along this week

Here is the sketch:

 

and my interpretation…..I guess I drifted a bit but it’s allowed! hehe

I actually left a little space at the bottom for a little banner I will stamp and place on it when I decide who will get this card. I often don’t stamp sentiments until I need the card.

Anyway this card was a huge challenge for me. Lots of blank space to fill. I had been thinking about this Trellis treatment for sometime and finally did it. It was one of those things in my head that wouldn’t go away. Then  one of my Team Members Karen, proposed a challenge using Glorious Green!!!! Whoa!!!! That is huge for me. I don’t think I’ve used that color often. So today is the day to pull that color out and give it a shot. I guess I’ve always thought of that color for Christmas only! So I wanted to make it Spring like with some Pizzazz!

Actually this was the color and almost the same flowers as the Bridesmaid Dress I wore to my Brother’s wedding a million years ago. So that was my inspiration.

I did a little ribbon dying with my marker on the White Taffeta Ribbon so it would match the green. I put that aside and used my Trellis Die and cut two white and two green. I popped the white trellis ( I used one and a half) up with little tiny pieces of cut up dimensionals. Ten I though maybe I could plug in some fo the green scraps from the green trellis’ I cut out to give it a bit of a Stained Glass look. I put those in with Tombo Multi.

i then cut a gajillion little flowers using my Birds and Blooms Sizzlit Die using white Vellum…..Now if you should want to do these little flowers run the vellum through the Polka Dot Embossing Folder first. I put in there after I cut the flowers so it took a bit longer. I then put two flower together with a glue dot and added a rhinestone to the center of each and placed them strategically on the Trellis.Oh, I added a Rhinestone Brad to the Ribbon to match. That’s it!!! No Stamping what so ever….that is until I put my sentiment on there.

I hope you’ve enjoyed your visit and will check out what my Fellow Operators have done for this challenge. They are AWESOME!!!! I am so fortunate to be a part of this great team, and Selene our Creator of all these wonderful Sketches is just the BEST!!!

Now go out there and Have a Stampinglee Good Day!!!