So Sorry for the Letters at the Bottom!

You won't believe how much spam comments my blog is getting! I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to add the "type in the letters you see" box at the bottom of the comment page.  I really didn't want to have to do that.  I hope you won't mind the inconvenience. 

Bundle of Love, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Wisteria Wonder)

In the meantime, here's a card that I made with my Bundle of Love set.  A customer and friend of mine is having a baby and I wanted to celebrate with her.  This is the card that I sent to her.  The bottom of the So Saffron DP was stamped with VersaMark and the onesie stamp.  The pennant punch helps to decorate the upper left corner.  The congratulations stamps was cut out with my Apothecary Accents Framelit.  Very fun and pretty easy to do.  Oh, and don't forget the popped up greeting in a different color.  Totally adds to the dimension of the card and unfortunately doesn't show much on the photo.  Oh, and sorry about the colors.  They didn't come out very true on this photo.

I hope you have a wonderful day.  I'm going to be some things together for a fundraiser for a boy who is dealing with leukemia for the 3rd time.  His insurance refused to cover the bone marrow transplant since this was the 3rd try, so we're doing all we can.  Here's a link to his website so that you can read about him and donate if you feel led to.  Colton's Army.  As Eric on Eric's Little Heroes said, sometimes it really does take an army to raise a child!

Blessings,
Julie

Feeling Sentimental?

 I am!  Yes, I'm feeling sentimental about this wonderful Sale-A-Bration stamp set called Feeling Sentimental.  I love it!  The stamp set also includes a British style phone booth, a large front wheeled bicycle and the word "celebrate".  Gorgeous images and so easy to use for both masculine and feminine cards.  Oh, and don't you think this would also work for a juvenile card?  The pennant was made with Hearts a Flutter stamp set and the Hearts a Flutter Framelits.  The circle was cut from our new Delicate Details Lace Tape.  All of these items are featured in the Spring Catalog.  The colors on this card are Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse, Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, and Whisper White. 

Hearts a Flutter stamp set

Hearts a Flutter Framelits

Delicate Details Lace Tape

Aren't these great products?  I'm going to be whipping up a few more things with this stuff.  I'm really loving those pennants!

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station.  I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Blessings,
Julie

Everything Eleanor ... Well, Except the Butterflies ....

Another card that we made at the last workshop, this one incorporates the new honeycomb embossing folder in the Spring Catalog.  After we embossed the Whisper White with the folder, we stamped the background frame from Everything Eleanor in Pool party onto the flat side of the design.  The circle on the bottom was glued on after stamping it and a pearl was added for 3-D.  The happy birthday stamp is from Pretty Postage and the butterfly was punched out with the new small butterfly punch in the Spring Catalog.  This punch coordinates with the Papillon Potpourri stamp set, as does the larger butterfly punch.  The Wisteria Wonder Baker's Twine finishes the card off by balancing the left side. The other colors on the card are Melon Mambo and Lucky Limeade.

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station once again.  Have a great weekend!

Blessings,
Julie

p.s.  Sharon, does this have enough Spring things on it for our swap?

Oh Whale

 Oh Whale is a new stamp set in the Spring Catalog.  It's so adorable!  We made this card at last Saturday's workshop.  It features a lot of new products from the Spring Catalog.  I think this whale is absolutely adorable!  I've seen someone make him into an orca already.  I'm going to have to try that one!  I'll let you know if I'm successful.  This card is made in Bashful Blue and Marina Mist with the addition of the Polka Dots DP.  Super fun and pretty easy.  A rhinestone and 1/8" Marina Mist Taffeta finish it off.  Here are the other products used:

Oh, Whale!

Oh, Waves! Stampin' Around Wheel

Ovals Framelits

Occasions Paper-Piercing Pack

Whale Clearlit

So, what do you think?  I'm sold on all of this stuff!  And yes, I do have more plans for this set.  I designed this card so that I could change the greeting in to congratulations and used it for a baby shower gift last night.  I could easily use it for birthdays and masculine cards, too.  That's what I really appreciate ... a versatile set!

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station once again.  I hope you've enjoyed your visit!

Blessings,
Julie

p.s.  Sharon, this is going to be one of your swaps.  I hope that's ok.  Any other demos want to swap some Spring and SAB cards?

A Couple of Workshop Projects

 Hey there!  Playing with some of my new toys from the Occasions Catalog and the Sale-A-Bration Catalog.  Oh my goodness, are they fun!  This card was inspired by a card posted on the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator site.  Yes, only SU demos are allowed to go there and get ideas.  This card is White on White with the top layer spritzed with Vanilla Shimmer.  The Petite Curly Label (SAB item) was punched out of the Whisper White layer first, then the hearts were embossed with the Adorning Accents Embossing Folder.  After that we spritzed.  Looking back, I think I would attach the different colors of hearts first before spritzing so that they could also be shimmery.  Then we stamped the Heart Label stamp (Pretty Petites stamp set SAB)n in Rose Red onto Pink Pirouette and punched it out with the Petite Curly Label punch and attached it off-center with a Dimensional.  The Love stamp is from Lovely Little Labels and is punched out with the Little Labels punch pack.  Since we wanted a larger rounded corner, we used the 1 3/8" circle punch to round them.  The hearts are punched out of Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Primrose Petals, and Rose Red.

This card made with the Just Believe stamp set was also inspired by a card posted on the SU! demo only site.  The original colors were Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip.  I didn't have any Baja Breeze DP, so I used the Floral District Melon Mambo piece.  We stamped with VersaMark on the DP and embossed with white EP.  The Vine Street Embossing Folder (SAB Item) was used on the strip of Melon Mambo.  The background colors are Raspberry Ripple and Early Espresso.  I don't think this photo really does the colors justice.  It's much better IRL.  Oh, and to save a little cardstock, we punched the Modern Label piece of Early Espresso out of the center of the background Early Espresso piece.  :-)  I always love ways to save cardstock!

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station!  I hope you come by again soon.

Blessings,
Julie

Happy Birthday with a Valentine Set

This is a card that we made at a workshop in November.  Yes, the stamp set was in the Holiday catalog, so I don't believe it's available right now, but I wanted to show you that you can make fun birthday cards with Valentine sets.  Framelits cut out the two label shapes, we used the Piercing Mats to punch around the inside of the Very Vanilla frame.  The colors are Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple, and Summer Starfruit.  The gate card is easiest to make when you use the Simply Scored and score on the 2 3/4" and 8 1/4" lines.  (I hope I got that right!)  What fun things have you made with your Big Shot and new stamp sets lately? 

And Sale-A-Bration is here!  It starts today.  Click on this link to the details of the sale.  It's a wonderful time to be a hostess and to purchase.  I'm planning on updated a lot of my ink pads and get the extra credit from that sale.  How are you planning on Sale-A-Brating?

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station again. 

Blessings!
Julie

It's Almost Sale-A-Bration!

 Oh goodness, it's been a long time again!  I hope I can get back into this blogging thing.  This first pic is the first prize ribbons that I made from bamboo spoons (from a dollar store), the stamp sets Blue Ribbon and Hello Doily, and my Designer Rosette Bigs XL die.  Yes, the rosettes go a lot faster when your Big Shot does the cutting and scoring!  The color is Pacific Point.  The best part about these ribbons is that the hole at the top of the spoon allows the winners to display their ribbon on their wall by hanging it on a hook.  Cool, eh?

 This card was a lot of fun.  I made it with a little inspiration from Splitcoaststampers.com.  The grass is a decorative sizzlit and the question mark is embossed in white with the retired stamp set Whimsical Alpha.  The large oval was used for the top of the mushroom and the face is a shorter punch of the retired luggage tag.  On the inside it says "Hope you have a great 1-Up day!  Happy Birthday!"  Yes, that was written on the center block on the inside.  Colors are Basic Black, garden Green, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Blushing Bride.  The dots are the medium size of the eyes on the owl punch with 3 of them layered together to give it a brad look.

I just made this card this weekend for my nephew who is really into legos!  His present was legos, wrapped in lego wrapping paper and a lego card.  Can it get any better than that?  I love being able to coordinate the card to the present!  This card is 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", the squares are 1" and the circles are made with my mini circle punch.  The letters were stamped with the retired stamp set "Rough Edges Alpha."  By the way, he loved the card.  :-)  Oh, and the colors are Real Red, Pacific Point, and Daffodil Delight.
Ok, I'll try to get back on here later this week.  I have some babies to stamp for and a baby shower banner to make.
Happy stamping and thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station!
Blessings,
Julie

Blessed Assurance

Refuge and Strength, Pool Party, Concord Crush, Pretties Kit

I made this for some friends of mine at church.  She was 22 weeks pregnant and then the baby died.  It was one of the saddest funerals I've ever been to, but yet a promise.  A promise that God will be with them no matter what and that they will get to meet their sweet Javon in heaven one day. 
The cross was inked in Pool Party and then "kissed" with the leaves in Concord Crush.  Still had me some silk flowers from a Pretties Kit so colored those a bit. 
I love the saying on this card.  Sometimes you need to know that God can see into your heart even when you can't find words to pray out your feelings. 

Thanks for visiting the Stamping Station.

Blessings,
Julie

Oh my goodness, it's been a long time since I blogged.  I must admit that I lost my stamping mojo for awhile, but that turned out to be a good thing since my husband needed my complete attention while he spent 15 days in ICU with a nasty case of pneumonia.  I'm happy to report that he's hale and hearty now.  Back to his regular self.  And now it's time to get back to stamping again!  This is one of the cards for this month's workshops.  It's a wonderful set (Perfectly Preserved)and is so much fun to use.  I bought the bundle so that the stamp set and matching framelits would be less money all together.  The jar was stamped on a transparency and glued to the back side of the cardfront.  Isn't that fun?  The DP is Twitterpated and the ribbon is the scalloped polka dot.  So much fun!  I promise to try to get back here over the next few days to show off what we've been doing this month.  I'll be headed in to surgery next Wednesday to take care of a herniated disc in my neck.  (yes, it's causing MAJOR pain and I'm on way too many pain pills to be able to drive round right now.) 

Happy stamping and I hope to see you again real soon!

Julie

A Simply Soft Thanks

This card started with a makeover of a workshop project.  Since I didn't have all of the pieces left, I decided to copy a card.  Can I remember from where?  No!  It was back in January and it's too hard to go that far back in my brain.  I'm sure the information is long gone....  This was stamped in Wisteria wonder and the insides of the flowers were stamped in Pink Pirouette.  Isn't that a lovely combo?  The ribbon ruffle was made with Sticky Strip and Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon.  A little scallop border edge on the other side and some Basic Rhinestones finish off this card.  Oh, and the DP is Flirtatious Specialty.  I really love that DP! 

Well, thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station again.  I'll try not to make it so long in between posts next time.  (I just wish I could promise that!)

blessings,
Julie