Anniversary & New Feature

I made this card for some very close friends of the family. My sister-in-laws Aunt and Uncle...are they my family too? Anyways we care for them dearly and they will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this year. This wonderful couple have gone through a lot this past year and a bunch of their friends and family are sending them anniversary cards to remind them we love them!

So this is the card I came up with...it just so happens to fit perfectly into todays Limited Supplies Challenge on SCS wink wink. I love the way this heart looks embossed and since the 25th anniversary is the silver anniversary I went with it! Added some Silver carstock and shimmery white cardstock, and called it a day! I really like how simple this card is, but it's also elegant...at least I think so!




Supplies:

Stamps: Always, Hugs and Wishes
Paper:basic black, shimmery white, silver
Ink:silver encore, versamark
Accessories:silver ribbon, siver eyelets, silver embossing powder, crop-a-dial

***All Supplies are from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated***

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Happy Stampin'

Silvia

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A trio of cards!

So todays LSC170 challenge on splitcoast was to make 3 cards using the same stamps, same embelishments and same colors but different laouts... I was up to the challenge and this is what I came up with!
Here is my trio...you can't see all the cards completely, so I will showyou more...cuz I always want to see more when I look at blogs too! Pics baby it's all about the pics!
This is the *normal* sized card... it was my fisrt one...the jumping board for the rest...not my favorite although there are elements of this one that I really like... I like how the ribbon goes over all the layers and I really like how I inked the edge of the card with versamark and them silver embossed that as well! Not too sure about all the white space and I know I need a sentiment in there somewhere...but that didn't fit the parameters of the challenge (I didn't want the same sentiment on all the cards!) After though...I LOVE the little bow!!!

This little cutie measures 4.25 x 4.25... I love this one as well...something about all that darness and then the Love shinning through! I also really like the sponging of the old olive on the silver embossed hearts. I also like how the ribbon goes under just one of the hearts.

This card Measures 3x6...it's one of my favs! I love the whole layout! And really this came from loack of supplies! I only had a little scrap of the green left and I really wanted to use it on this card and Voila...Not too sure about the ribbon, but the green and black layer really make me happy! As well as the silver embossing on the black!

All of these cards were super simple and super easy to make and I really enjoyed this challenge!

Thanks for looking and as always...Happy Stampin'!

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Monday's Mojo challenge!

This card is for todays Try a New TEchnique challenge done every Monday on www.splitcoaststampers.com Todays Technique was to create a card usuing the Dahlia fold instructions found here and then I went onto Julee Tilmans blod Poetic Artistry and used her Mojo Monday sketch but flipped it, and came up with this!

Very little stamping really, but I really enjoyed it and I think it looks pretty nice too!

For the paper I used cerice for last years SU! ctalog and used the 1 3/8th circle punch and then the Marvi Scallop punch to lay it all on added a square fire rhinestone brad to the center...for the background I used the heart from the stamp set Always and then sponed the edges after cutting the papers.

Stamped the sentiment, sponged it and layered it and called it done! I love how it turned out and the colors just speak LOVE to me!

Here is a little close up of the flower for you! It gives the card a lot of dimention and I really didn't think it needed anything else. I love the papers and the softness the sponging adds!

Supplies:

Stamps: Always

Paper: real red, chocolate chip, Very Vanilla, Cerise Desgner series

Ink: Real red, chocolate chip craft

Accessories: 1 3/8 circle punch, scallop punch, sponge, rhinestone brads (square fire)

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

VSN on SCS

WHAT???? What do all those letters mean? (is this what you are asking too?) VSN is also known as Virtual Stamp Night and SCS as most of you are aware, is this awesome website http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ And it is going on this weekend...Well last night and today anyways! They usually have it every few months...what happens during VSN you might ask? Well it usually starts on a Friday night and every hour on the our (usually starting at 7pm) there is a challenge posted, to make a card or 3-d project...whats the catch you ask? YOu have to make your card in 45 minutes and then upload it to your SCS gallery...it is sooo much fun! Fridays are usually the *tailge* party and Saturdays the challenges start at noon and end at 11pm. And then each challenge hostess picks a winner and the winners get their cards placed in a special gallery FOREVER!!! It's pretty fun...although you do make a HUGE mess! Here are some of my cards from this past VSN...I got to play on Friday night some, but not on Saturday...BUMMER! VSN's usually have a theme and the theme this go round was *Girl's Night Out*

A little back Dress

I love this little card! The challenge was called *little black dress* and you had to make a card using your black cardstock...even for the mail panel! So I made this little cutey! Don't you just love this bird? It's from a set named *Always* and I think it's SUPERB... you will fefinately be seeing more projects with this set!!! I also used print pattern BG (to make it show up so nicely on the back cardstock, I used craft ink in pink passion...gotta LOVE the craft inks!!! for the main image, I actually stamped it with white craft ink and then embossed it with iridescen ice embossing powder, the sentiment was stamped with White craft ink as well! I'm really not too pleased with the ribbon (wish I had white) but this card NEEDED wide ribbon and this color was the only one that would even remotely do!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Always

Paper: basic black, pink passion

ink: pink passion craftm whispe white craft

accessories: ribbon, EP, heat gun

A shaped Card!

This card was for the inspiration challenge on Saturday. Here is some of the info on it!

Title: Little Black DressHostess: Jennifer (badger-girl)Keyword: JAN08VSNCDay/Date: Friday, January 18thTime: 8:00 PM EST

This was an inspiration challenge... Jennifer posted a picture of some shoes that she really liked and we had to make a card or project inspired by the shoes...it could be color, layout, shape...anything really! So this is what I made... I have really been into the shaped cards lately and I love love love how this one turned out...even the little bow I think is just perfect... off to the side just a tad... I wish they really did make this shoe, it would totally be mine!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: something beautiful

paper: basic black, Close to cocoa, pretty in pink

Accessories: ribbon, hand held punch, paper piercer, paper snips

I hope you have enjoyed these cards! VSN was a blast and I hope you can play along next time... I will let you knw a tad bit sooner!!! LOL

Happy Stampin'

Silvia