LISA WOWS US WITH AN AWESOME VINTAGE STYLE CARD

I am really happy to present to you my sideline Lisa Chatterjee.  Lisa and I are in the Remarkable Stampers together.  Several weeks ago I invited Lisa to guest demo at my Vintage Suite Class.   She said yes and I was thrilled and so too were the attendees.  Lisa did an awesome card as you can see below.  Can you tell that the cardinal was made with the bird and vine punch by SU!?

We stamped the French Script background stamp with sahara sand classic ink onto very vanilla ultra smooth card stock.  Next we die cut the lattice with the Big Shot.  It is such a cool die!  The cardinal was made from the bird and vine punch.  Lisa showed us how to punch the bird a couple of times and put him together so that he became a cardinal.  How perfect for the holidays.  Her use of the French Script stamp and the crochet ribbon really gives this a vintage feel.  In addition, we swiped the French Script with the tea stain ink from the SU! distressing kit and what a "wow"! that was!  The other colors used are cherry cobbler and always artichoke.  Don't they go well together?  And these really have such a great vintage holiday feel!

Here are photos of Lisa demonstrating and some of my guests!

Lisa demonstrates her beautiful card!

 Pat asks Lisa a question while Sandi and Cathy decide on placement of their birds.

Dale is admiring the beauty of the card before the cardinal is even on there.  We decided that this would also make a great wedding card with a different bird or even plain with just the lattice.

Rita (foreground) and Sandi work on punching out their birds and vines.

Clare punches for the first time.  We used the pumpkin pie card stock for the birds beak.

We used the punched out silhouette to help make the birds mask.  Now wasn't that clever?

I think Lisa did an excellent job demonstrating.  The card was a real "wow" and I must say, this is a card I certainly will be repeating.  I'm so glad that I have the French Script stamp and the lattice die for the Big Shot.

Until tomorrow!
Maria

HAPPY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS WEEK

I want to thank our secretaries at work who do so much for us! I got up early today to stamp cards for them. The 2 main secretaries in the office are Debbie and Diana. I made these cards using the Bella Blossoms set and the sponge dauber shading technique. I love this flower as it really lends itself well to this technique. The colors I used were orchid opulence and lovely lilac for the bloom and certainly celery and green galore (I hardly ever use this color, I'm ashamed to say) for the stem and leaf. I then stamped their envelopes using my all time favorite Big Deal SU! alphabet. I have a nice gift to go along with the card for each of them.

These next two cards are for the secretaries in the NICU. They do a lot each day and I really need to thank them for all of their efforts also. I used the 8 great greetings set from the new occasions mini and stamped the flowers, then colored it in with a blender pen and pink pirouette reinker to match the card stock. The flowers in the oval are from the SU! 3 flower punch and then the oval and scallop oval (brand new) were punched as well. The designer paper is from a walk in the garden, which is also new in the Occasions Mini. I used one side of the double sided paper on one card, and one side on the other. I love both sides and sometimes it is really hard to choose between the two, but luckily you get a lot of sheets in the pack. I also used our new eyelet scallop edge punch and gave it a finishing touch. Last week we did these same cards only we made them mother's day cards.

Thanks Gwen, Vanta, Diana and Debbie and all of the secretaries/administrative professionals who do so much every day!