Purple Carnation

 Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend. I'm thankful for the cool weather today. Yesterday was hot and a little humid and our church air conditioner didn't work in the evening. It was hot for the men for sure. 

 I made 2 carnation flowers couple of weeks ago and they were just sitting around my desk waiting for me to make a card with them. Well, here it is. What do you think of the paper carnation?Aren't they beautiful and so real looking?

Here is a closer view of the flower. I punched several pieces of paper with the Scallop Circle punch, sponge, spritz with water, crumble them up and then assemble them with a brad in the middle.
 I'll show you the other carnation I made a card with in another time.

Thank you for visiting today!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Wild About You

 Happy Saturday, everyone! Hope you are having a great day so far! Made these birthday cards for my nephews' birthday.

I used the Wild About You stamp set (retired) to make these cards. All the measurements and the colours for the cards are the same except the layout is different. The background was stamped with the Print Pattern stamp (also retired) to add some texture to the paper. Very easy and simple cards. Hope they like it.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Happy Stamping!
Deanna

Winners For the INKspirations 4U! Giveaway

Here are the winners for the INKspirations 4U! FREE PASSES.


Denise Willerton said...

congrats!!!! well deserved honor for you ~ I truly enjoy popping in on your blog ~ thanks for the opportunity to win a free pass!!! Enjoy your day

and
 

Anonymous said...

My favorite thing about fall is the changing leaves and pumpkins. Whether used to decorate or eat in any number of ways, I always look forward to "pumpkin" season. Deb

 

Congratulations, ladies! Please send me an email at mrstam007@gmail.com with your full name and email address (I guess I'll have it when you send me an email lol) I'll send your name to INKspirations 4U! owner and she'll get in contact with you and get you set up.

Thank you everyone for commenting. I really enjoy reading every one of them. Fall is a nice time of year with the changing leaves. The colours are so pretty. Every year I would say to myself that I will take a nice scenery picture of the trees but every year I'm too lazy to go outside to do so. I'm always amazed at the beauty of God's creations and I'm glad He created seasons. No need to take pictures of the changing seasons and we can enjoy it year after year.

Have a good day!

Deanna

Camping Trip Album

 

Hello, everyone! Here is an album I made 2 years ago. I looked and looked for these pictures forever and finally found it. It was actually on my husband's computer file. I thought I deleted it. I never made one for myself. I gave them all away to my family. They all loved it of course. I made 5 of these albums and it took a long time to sponge every single pages.

Here  are few inside pages of the album. I didn't add pictures to all the pages. I left some pages for them to add their own pictures to it.

Here is a top view of all the pages.

My family are waiting for me to make the 2010 and 2011 camping trip albums. Yikes! I'm so behind! That's a total of 12 albums to make.

Thank you for stopping by today! Hope you enjoyed looking at the album!


Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Rosette Flowers (AKA Accordion Flowers)

 Hello, stampers! Here are some flowers  I made just for fun. I have not make this flower for a long time. I'm not sure what the name really is but I made a tutorial 2 years ago. I called it an accordion flower. You can view the tutorial here.

Stampin'Up! designer papers are great to make this kind of flower. I did mine with pattern papers. You could use card stock if you prefer. Card stock is a little thicker than pattern paper. I adhere the flowers onto a skewer sticks for the stem.

Thank you for stopping!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Inkspriation4U Blog Candy Giveaway

Hello everyone! I have a giveaway for you! I'm going to be a guest designer for INKspirations 4U! again and I get to give away FREE PASSES to 2 winners! Isn't that exciting!

It is going to be the Early Fall 2011 Edition starting sometime in September. To win a free pass simply comment on this post telling me what you like about Fall or just comment is fine. I'll pick 2 winners Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9PM Pacific Time. Good luck and have fun playing!

With Sympathy

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday!

I made this sympathy card for my Pastor. His mom passed away couple of weeks ago. She with the Lord up in heaven right now! I never like to make sympathy card. I never know what to write in the card that will encourage people.

I used the Fabulous Florets stamp set to make this card. Cut each squares about 1-1/2", stamp the flowers and then mounted onto basic black card stock. The background paper was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. Very simple card.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a good day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Pinwheels Birthday Card

 Hi, there everyone!

I finally made a card with pinwheels. I've seen so many creations with pinwheels so I thought I give it a try. Very easy to make but mine looks kind of flat. I guess working with small scale is not so easy to hold onto while the glue dry.

For the handle I used skewer sticks and covered them with ribbons. The ribbon was covered with sticky strip and then wound around the skewer. I added mini glue dots to the end of the ribbon to give it a nice clean look at the end of the stick. I also used mini glue dots to glue down the sticks onto the card. Hope it will hold. The sentiment was stamped onto Vellum and adhere onto the card with mini glue dots. Wow! This card sure have a lot of mini glue dots. I'm so glad the glue it so light and not weighing the card down.

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a good day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Altered Art Journal

 Hey everyone! Here is an Art Journal that I finally altered. Stampin'Up! doesn't sell this size Art journal anymore. I'm so sad about it. Anyway. I covered the journal with the Nautical Expedition Designer Paper that is no longer available too. I forgot to order more before it was gone. I also stamped few images from the The Open Sea stamp set and adhere them onto the journal.

 I covered the back of the journal too but didn't decorated a whole lot on it.

I also stamped inside every single pages (yes, every single one) of the journal with different colours and images from the The Open Sea stamp set. A lot of work but it wasn't that hard to do. It made the journal very pretty inside.

Here is a picture of the whole sailboat/sea theme creations I made awhile ago with the journal. I'm giving this to someone that I don't know at all. I want this to be an encouragement to this person who just went through a tough time and had a good spirit about it. I know this person is an encouragement to me for sure.

If you would like to see close up of the other creations in the picture just click the links below to see them.
Altered Wooden Box
Altered Wooden Box: inside
Open Sea Cards

Thank you for visiting today! Have a good day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Britannia Mine Museum

 Here are some pictures of the Britannia Mine Museum we went to at the end of July. Enjoy!

 Mine building built on the side of the mountain.

 Huge Mine Truck!

 DH being silly.

 Gold Panning area. It was fun panning for gold even though I didn't find any real gold.

 Wearing hard hats. Getting ready to ride a train to underground mine.

Train ride. It was dark in the mine tunnel so didn't have any good pictures of the inside of the mine. Also my camera battery died so no pictures after the mine tunnel. ( insert sad face)

Well, hope you all enjoyed some of the mine pictures and maybe visit the museum when ever you are in British Columbia.

Floral Petal Cone Box

 Happy sunny Monday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Here is a box made with the Petal Cone Die in Vellum paper. I flipped it upside down and decorated it. I stamped the leaves from the Growing Green stamp set in Garden Green ink on each panels of the box. The big flower was stamped 3 times on Vellum paper, cut them out, curled the petals and then assembled them with mini glue dots. I added a pearl in the middle of the flower which added some elegant to it. The flower at the top of the box was done the same way except I didn't curl the petals.

What do you think of this box? I tried to put one flower hair clip in there and it holds fine without taping the flaps up. The hair clip was light enough to be able to hold the ribbon at the top without the flaps opening up at the bottom. I also tried something a little heavier ( ie. mini chocolates) to go in the box. I cut a piece of card stock to go inside at the bottom, close the 4 flaps and put mini glue dots on 2 flaps to hold it close. I was able to hold the box at the ribbon at the top. Such lovely little box!

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a good day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

I'm Back!

Hello everyone! I'm back from vacation but not really back to creating. Since I have not make anything yet I'll tell you about my vacation.

First, I want to say I'm happy for my daughter, Faith, who follow in believer's baptism on July  17, 2011. It took her 2 years to do it but she finally did it. She got baptized with her 4 friends and a boy at our church.

The next day I went to Junior Camp Y.E.S! for a week (5 days) to help out in the kitchen. It was Faith first year at Camp YES! and Jarod's 3rd year. They both had a great time and already talking about next year's camp. I couldn't help out at the Teen camp the week after. I had a camping trip of our own with my side of family.

Camp YES! Jarod's cabin.

Camp YES! Faith's cabin.


We went to Paradise Valley Campground in Squamish. There were 24 of us and a noisy bunch but we all had fun. My family is thinking about camping 2 different times next year. We'll see. Right after our family camping, just my immediate family, went to the Britannia Mine Museum. We went on a train ride to an underground mine and did some gold penning afterward. My kids enjoyed penning for real and fools gold. Jarod found a little piece of real gold and my girls just found fools gold. They didn't care cause they love rocks in any size, shape and colour.
That's it for today. I'll post pictures of the family camping trip and the mine museum in the next post. I still need to upload the pictures onto my computer.

Well, thank you for stopping by and wish you are having a wonderful summer so far. Have a good day!

Deanna

Vacation

I'll be on vacation and will be back sometime in August. Have a blessed and fun summer.

En Francais Florets Cards

Hello stampers! Here are some cards I made for a friend for her to give to her sister. I made a pack of ten of these cards. She wanted cards that doesn't have sentiment on it them so it can be use for any occasion.

I stamped the flowers, coloured them with a blender pen and then cut them out. I mounted them with dimensional to make them stands out. The rest of the card is self explanatory.


Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps- En Francais, Style Of Elements, Fabulous Florets
papers- whisper white, pretty in pink, certainly celery
inks- chocolate chip, pretty in pink
accessories- big shot die-cutting machine, vintage wallpaper, blender pen, taffeta ribbon, top note die, dimensional


Happy Stmaping!
Deanna

What Kind of flower Is This?

Hello everyone! Good day!

I'm not sure what kind of flower this is. Could someone tell me? I think is chrysanthemum but not sure.
This flower is from the Fabulous Florets stamp set. I stamped the flower once on paper and then stamp off to get the lighter shade of the flower without re-inking the stamp. I used the Elegant Lines Embossing folder for the background. I made a few of these cards to give to a friend for her birthday that is coming up.

Thank you for visiting today! Have a fabulous day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

For The New Baby Girl

Hello stampers! Good evening. I went to a baby shower tonight. It was a small but fun one. Played a game that I didn't do too well on and got to give an encouragement in a 6" x6" card size to the mother.  It was fun to hear what everybody's encouragement was to the mother.

I made this card for the baby and gave her some outfits. The shower was short notice so didn't have time to make her a paint can. Wish I have time to make some to lay around so when there is a shower I can just add their names to the can.

Thank you for visiting today! Have a nice evening or day for some of you who read this in the morning!

Supplies;
stamp-A New Little Someone
papers-whisper white, pretty in pink, pink pirouette, bravo burgundy
inks-chocolate chip
accessories-1/4" grosgrain ribbon, organdy ribbon, eyelet border punch, decorative label punch, vintage wallpaper embossing folder, big shot die-cutting machine

Happy Stamping!
Deanna

Awash Flowers

Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday! Beautiful day today and warm too. So thankful for beautiful weather.
The above card is for a friend whose son passed away recently.  There is funeral this Friday.

I made a second card and not sure what sentiment to put on it.  The first card I added buttons to the flowers and the second card I did the twisted ribbon flower and added to the middle of the flower. If you would like to learn how to make the twisted ribbon flower click here.

I got this Awash With Flowers stamp set for FREE when I won the contest of Stampin' Success Magazine. It is a monthly magazine for Stampin'Up! demonstrators and it is filled with ideas and infos to help demos and a monthly contest that we can enter. Well, because of the Canada Post strike I have not yet receive my magazine and I'm dying to show you what project I've entered. If you are a demo you can view the magazine online on the demo website.

Here is a special over at Stampin'Up!


During July, you can join the Stampin' Up! family as a demonstrator for only $119! This limited time Starter Kit--valued at $205--comes with the following high-quality products:
$119 Starter Kit

• Easy Events Clear-Mount Set*
• Pennant Parade Wood-Mount Set*
• Basic Black Classic Stampin' Pad®
• Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad
• Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad
• Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad
• Brights 8-1/2" x 11" Assorted Card Stock
• Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper*
• Chocolate Chip 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon*
• Note Cards (20)
• Clear-Mount Block C
• Blender Pen (1)
• SNAIL Adhesive®
•  Business supplies

Thank you for stopping by! Have a good day!

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Christmas Card in July

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday!

My first Christmas card of the year. Isn't weird to be making Christmas card in July? Oh, but Christmas will be here before you know it. I'm going to build my stash of Christmas cards early this year . Last year it crept up on me unnoticed and I didn't have many cards to give to friends and family. It is kind of hard to think of Christmas when it is so warm outside so I made a very simple one to start my mojo going.

So has anyone else start making their Christmas cards yet? I would love to hear about it.

Thank you for stopping today! Have a nice day!

Supplies:
stamp-Welcome Christmas, French Foliage
papers-chocolate chip, crumb cake, ruby red, whisper white, DSP
inks-chocolate chip, garden green, ruby red, crumb cake
accessories-brad, felt snowflakes

Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Red Hydrangea?

Happy Saturday! Beautiful sunny day today! Made me very happy to have a nice day after the gloomy Canada Day. Hope you all had a wonderful Canada Day yesterday. We wanted to see the festival at Stevestons but couldn't find any parking so we ended up going to strawberry picking instead. The girls really enjoyed it. Our son wasn't with us and Faith wasn't too happy with anything we do but I was glad she enjoyed the strawberry picking.

Red hydrangea? I don't think I have ever seen a red one before. Only in stamping creation. Using up my left over card packages again for these cards. I'm barely making a dent on my stash of card packages.

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a fabulous long weekend!

Happy Stamping!
Deanna

Happy Canada Day!