This past week I've been working on two crafting projects.  Here's a look at them.

Stamp Club homework from the sketch:

 I ended up making two birthday cards, one for my mom and one for my grandpa.  They share a birthday!  I dug through my ribbon and washi box and pulled out the scrap of blue ribbon and my new gold glitter tape.  Then I riffled through my scrap box to find papers that would coordinate.  I love how they came out!  I'm especially excited about creating a masculine card that doesn't have a sports, fishing, hunting, or outdoors theme to it.

Utter fail!  I sent these cards before I actually took pictures of them!  Oh well.  Here are my supply lists, just in case you wanted to know...

Supplies:

• Stamps: Up, Up Up in the Air (sentiment)
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock:  Retired SU DSP, paper scraps
• Accessories: Gold glitter tape
• Tools: Scallop circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch

Supplies:

• Stamps: Up, Up Up in the Air (sentiment)
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Retired SU DSP, paper scraps
• Accessories: Retired SU ribbon
• Tools: Scallop circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch

Valentine's Day/Love and Mother's Day OSW sets: 

I grabbed this sketch from InkyPinkies and went to town cutting two 12x12 DSP sheets.  Once I got them cut, I started pairing pieces to card bases.  Unfortunately, I realized that the pieces cut would not make 12 complete cards.  I would have to add other DSP pieces or something else.  Obviously if you look at her examples, she used other paper pieces to complete the cards.  Oh well.  I just combined the paper to make 8 cards for each set.  Then, I cut some more DSP from full sheets to add layers and embellishments to make 12 cards for each set.  After making one complete set, I talked to my mom who requested I send a batch of Mother's Day cards for the shop.  So I actually made two Love sets and two Mother's Day sets.  Crazy crazy...  but they do look great.

Valentine's Day/Love Set:

• Stamps: Retired SU stamp (sentiment), Perfect Pennants (heart)
• Inks: Primrose Petals, Riding Hood Red
• Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Smoky Slate, Twitterpated DSP
• Accessories: Heart washi tape
• Tools: Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, 1 1/4" circle punch, Petite Petals punch

Mother's Day Set:

• Stamps: Random Mother's Day stamp
• Inks: Riding Hood Red, Island Indigo, Basic Gray
• Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Smoky Slate, Twitterpated DSP
• Tools: Embossing Folder