You are "Tea"-riffic!

This is one of my favorite stamp sets in the SU! Main Idea Book for 2010-2011.   It probably appeals to me because I love to drink coffee and tea.  I love how they taste and how they smell.  I love coffee mugs and tea pots and trying new brands.  I love going to Starbucks and I love my new Keurig.  Recently, my friend Mary Jo bought me a new tea pot for Christmas.  I'm a fanatic.  What can I say?  So when I saw this card, I had to have a copy of it.  Luckily, my friend Lisa Chatterjee was kind enough to make me a copy.  This is the card she gave to our friend Sandi Haertig for her birthday!

The Happy Birthday is from the set Curly Cute.  I think it is one of our best fonts.

This is the inside of the card and the sentiment here is from Full of Life.

I really think this is another job well-done by Lisa.  I'm glad I could share another one of her great creations!

ANOTHER CARD FROM CAROL'S CLASS - PEDALING PAST

I promised more cards using the set Pedaling Past and so here you go. This is another one of the cards we made at Carol's on Friday night. The colors in this card aren't brand new but the stamp set and the designer paper is. I used Pumpkin Pie card stock for the card base because it coordinates with this awesome travel paper from the SU! summer mini catalog called Travel Journal. The colors in the dsp are pumpkin pie, bashful blue and night of navy. I embossed the card stock and the dsp with the new Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, exclusive to SU! I also want to point out that the centers of the wheels are vintage brads. This is such a great embellishment for the bicycle stamped on a Big Shot die cut scallop circle that is "popped off" the card with dimensionals. The ribbon is bashful blue taffeta. Check out our new Idea Book because SU! has added lots of great new taffeta ribbon.

Here is a tip - if you brush the embossed images with white craft ink, they really pop off the page. I did that with the card above.

Now one of the really cool stamps in the stamp set Pedaling Past is this border stamp. I stamped it twice - once above the thinking with you and once below it. I just turned it different directions. I would get this stamp set for the border stamp alone, but the bikes in the set and the sentiment - enjoy the journey - are really what also sells the set. By the way...they sentiment is from the Curly Cute stamp set - which is another great new SU! stamp set in the New Idea Book that is very versatile. By the way, this is the envelope for the card, but you could stamp something very similar on the inside of the card. I know I would find this "Happy Mail" if it came stamped like this to my house!
Lastly, since we focused on the New Color Coach at this class, I wanted to show you how well these colors really go together. And what is really nice, is that this card would work for a male or female so that if you wanted to send a thinking of you, happy birthday, best wishes, good luck, happy retirement or just a note...this is a great card. There is also a tricycle in the set so you can make a child's card, and there is a bicycle built for two if you need to do an anniversary or wedding card. And there is a great Thank You sentiment also.


At only $14.95 (#120069) for clear mount or $19.95 for wood mount, this is a great set to own.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA MURPHY

Here is another birthday card. This time, it's for another very sweet person - my friend Linda Murphy. Linda's also a July Birthday! I used the elegant lines embossing folder which is BRAND NEW and ran baja breeze card stock through the Big Shot. I also punched out some of our Brand New Punches - including the large scallop circle. I used a rhinestone also.
The Happy Birthday is stamped in rich razzleberry and is part of the curly cute stamp set. The butterfly is one of the under 10 stamps in the summer mini catalog and is really a great stamp to have.

Linda, I hope your Birthday was truly wonderful!

GREAT NEW SU! 2-STEP XL OWL PUNCH

I just pulled out this BRAND NEW XL OWL PUNCH from my box of SU! goodies and I'm so happy! This owl is really easy to punch and put together. I made these 5 above and the one on the card below in no time. There is a little paper piecing to put together, but it is so worth it. Notice how some of my owls are looking straight on and some are looking over to the others. I made a bunch of them to be used on cards, scrapbook pages, 3D gifts and more. These I actually put inside a mini envelope I die cut from the Big Shot to give to Bev Cvach. She was so nice as the hostess for the in-home workshop I did for her and her guests. I'm going to mail them to her inside the card below. I just love this little guy.
I used peach parfait card stock for the card base. Isn't it gorgeous? It's one of the NEW IN COLORS for this year. The Thank You sentiment is from curly cute.
Inside the card I stamped a sentiment from the Just Believe set. The leaves silhouette is from the same new stamp set.

RemARKable New Catalog Blog Tour - Post 3 - Welcome to the Aviary

BRAND NEW STAMP SET FROM SU! - THE AVIARY

I was over at my upline - Janet Wakeland's - home today for playtime (an afternoon of fun stamping and crafting with other stampers for less than the price of a movie) and came up with these creations. I fell in love with this stamp set called The Aviary. It is adorable and is high on my wish list. In Jan's pile of scraps - dsp paper that she has left over from other projects - was the above paper from the specialty pack called Sweet and Sour. It is lightly embossed on this side with vanilla and the other colors are rose red and pumpkin pie. It is delicious paper. I layered that on vanilla card stock that I used the new smooch paint along the edges on (click photo to see closer up). The sentiment is stamped in early espresso - a brand new color from SU! and so too is the bird cage from the Aviary. The bird is stamped in rose red. The background card stock is rose red and it is embossed using the Big Shot. The ribbon is vanilla satin. Notice a rhinestone embellishment at the top of the bird cage.
The card above features the opposite side of the Sweet and Sour dsp and is bordered with pumpkin pie. Do you notice that I've used some of SU! brand new rhinestones? I mostly have them on the bird cages and some are near the sentiments. They are a wonderful embellishment and I will need to buy even more. Each sheet has 150 rhinestones on it and I know that is a lot of cards to use them on, but you can bet I will. It is such an inexpensive embellishment to have on hand and makes the card so elegant. The recipient of these cards will really feel special with this addition that cost pennies. Oh, and the ribbon is brand new satin ribbon in pumpkin pie.
This card features soft suede card stock that is embossed with the square lattice die and layered on the Brand New color Marina Mist. The bird cage is stamped to match and the bird is also done in marina mist. I had my stampin write markers on hand today so I had access to every color SU! makes right at my finger tips. You can now get all of the markers for the new colors as well as the the New In Colors. The ribbon is new also...it is the new tiny taffeta and it is done in marina mist. The ladies at my customer appreciation the other day really liked this style of new ribbon.
This card is also done with marina mist but is layered with the new Daffodil Delight card stock. The bird cage and bird is stamped with real red to match the new button embellishment. Note the adorable owl from the Aviary inside the bird cage. Jan said this reminded her of a genie in the bottle and I think I have to agree with her. The dsp is from the subtles dsp collection and is in the color Marina Mist. These dsp paper packs are 12 by 12 and have 20 sheets of paper and are a real bargain from SU! By the way, the sentiment is from a Brand New Stamp set also and it is called Curly Cute.

This final card also features a bird cage, another new button and rhinestone. It is a mini 3 by 3 card. The card stock base is baja breeze and was embossed using the Big Shot and the Brand New Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. I can't wait to create some more with this set and many of the other new things from SU! that the stampers are featuring on this tour. If you are interested in learning more about the items featured, you can click on my website above and check out the store. There are a lot of new things from SU!

Now head on over to the next site on the tour - over to see Michele Reynolds.

Be sure to return here soon for another new post!