A Peek Into My Stamping Room

Happy Leap Day!

Today is Leap day, February 29, it happens only 1 every 4 years.  Do you know why?  We think that the Earth takes 365 days to make its revolution around the sun. But not really....a complete revolution actually takes 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds, or about 365.25 days. So, since it would be extremely confusing to have an extra quarter day each year, we add an extra FULL day every four years. This keeps our calendar right on track!  Leap day is a special day here at the Seyer house.  It's my daughter Caitlyn's birthday!  We have already had the family party over the weekend but since today only comes around every 4 years, we are celebrating it again!  LOL

Here is the card I made for my birthday girl.

I kept my design alittle on the simple side.  I printed the sentiment out using the computer onto some Simply Smooth White cardstock and cut/embossed it using S5-025 Labels Seventeen #3 (remember #1 is the smallest in the set).  The patterned paper is from a 6x6 pad called Spring Fling by Teresa Collins.  Don't you just love the colors?  The base of my card is made from Neenah Solar Crest White #110...if you like Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select White cardstock then you will LOVE the Neenah Solar Crest White #110 from Discount Cardstock.  Same weight, same smooth texture.....its just perfect for the base of cards.  You should give it a try because it is on SALE this week!

The butterflies are from S4-320 Nested Butterflies Two....the smallest die in the set.  I just love those butterflies!  The rolled flowers were made using  S4-249 Big Scalloped Circles Lg #4.  I just spiral cut the circle and rolled it starting from the outside.  I used some more paper from the 6x6 paper pad so it all matched.  I cut/embossed a scalloped edge to the dotted patterned paper using E8-001 Classic Scallop Edgeabilities.   I added some pearls and seam binding ribbon to complete the card.

Inside of my card I added a Maya Road Kraft envelope so I would have something to put her present in.  Money is a universal present, isn't it?  All teenagers love it!!  LOL

Hope you have a great Leap Day!!

Thanks For Everything! Card

Hello!  Hope you are having a great week so far.  Our week is filled with a 16th Birthday celebration on February 29!  We had a small birthday party over the weekend so we could celebrate together as a family and my oldest daughter came home from college.  My friend made the best birthday cake EVER!  Chocolate cake split with strawberries and whipped cream icing....it was fabulous.  To say a special thank you, I made her this card.

I used Springtime Silhouettes stamp set from Gina K. Designs for this card.  The base is my last sheet of Aqua Mist cardstock (I have been saving it for something special!)  I stamped the background image onto some Simply Smooth Ivory using Rich Cocoa Memento ink.  I layered the stamped background onto some Posh Milk Chocolate Felt Cardstock.  I also cut a small strip of the chocolate cardstock to tie the ribbon around, I think it makes the ribbon show up even better, don't you?  I stamped the sentiment onto some more of the ivory cardstock and cut/embossed it from S4-234 Ribbon Tag Trio Two.  The bird was stamped, fussy cut and popped up using some 3d foam squares. 

I think my friend will love this card.  Here is the beautiful cake she made our Sweet 16.

 

It tasted as good as it looks!  LOL  Hope you have a great day and I will be back tomorrow to show you some other stuff I have been working on!

Love Is Patient Card

Hello!  Hope you are having a great week!  I have been organizing and purging my craft room.  Its been at least 3 years since I did a big clean of the room and I have so much stuff.  Its time to be practical and get rid of the stuff I am not going to use, ya know? 

But luckily, I have a card to share with you today.  Here is a card I made for Flower Soft Wire Works challenge.  I used a sentiment from the January Kit of The Month from Unity.

I made some wire flowers using Flower Soft Wires & Poppy Red Flower Soft.  I wrapped it in some tulle ribbon, tied a gingham bow and added a cute little heart charm.  The base of this card is Posh True Black Linen Cardstock 80#.  I layered a piece of Simply Smooth Ivory onto Posh Red Linen Cardstock 80#.  The small strip of patterned paper is from Echo Park.  I stamped the sentiment onto the ivory using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and cut/embossed using S4-246 Labels Eleven #3 and matted it onto a Labels Eleven #4 cut/embossed from the black cardstock.

I have added links to the products I used in this card, so if you are interested in purchasing these items, you can!  Ok?   I hope you have a great Wednesday.  Hopefully I will get this mess cleaned up so that I can actually create something this week! 

(FSC45) Happy Anniversary!

This week's Flower Soft Challenge is to make an Anniversary or Love themed project.  You will need to link your cards to this post on the Flower Soft Blog.  If you are uploading to Splitcoaststampers please use the keyword FSC45.  A winner will be chosen on February 27th.  You could win a few pots of Flower Soft Sprinkles!

Here is my project for this week's challenge.

I used the Mabel Lucie Atwell 3-D Card Kit #8 for the cute image.  The sentiment is from the November Kit of The Month from Unity Stamps.  I really love these images from Mabel Lucie Atwell.  They are so cute!

Here are the links so you can check out what the rest of the Flower Soft team made for this challenge.

Now head on over to the rest of the team to see what they have created....

• Jennifer Buck 
• Cibele Glazer
• Dawn Lusk
• Deb Felts
• Jeanne Streiff
• Krista Riley
• Linda Beeson
• Lisa Murphy
• Stephanie Lee

Happy Valentine's Day!

Thanks so much for all your well wishes!  I am extremely excited to be back on the Spellbinders Design Team.  If you didn't know, I was on the team in 2009.  I know it will be a fantastic year and I can't wait to get started!

Here are a couple of cards I made for my family to celebrate Valentine's Day. 

This is a shaped card I made using LF-249 Grand Big Scalloped Circles to cut the base out of  Posh Bright White Linen Cardstock 100# cardstock.  The patterned paper is from Pink Paislee Vintage Vogue Collection.  Even the black lace and the buttons are from this collection!

 

This is a 5 1/4" square card made from New Piggy Pink Cardstock 70# Smooth.  I stamped the patterned onto Kraft Smooth cardstock 80# using Rich Cocoa Memento Ink pad.  The stamps are a new set I just got the other day - Fabrication Linen Collection from Teresa Collins.  I added a pretty heart and tied a bow from some white seam binding ribbon.  I used S4-351 Spiral Blossom One to make the flower, inking up the edges before I rolled it.  I added the sentiment cut/embossed from S4-161 Labels One #1 die template.  I made two of these for my daughters.  I already sent my oldest daughter her Valentines a few weeks ago.

So I hope you have a great Valentine's day with the ones you love! 

2012 Spellbinders Design Team!

I am so thrilled to be asked to join the 2012 Spellbinders Paper Arts Design Team.  In March, I will head to Phoenix and meet the rest of the design team plus I will get to see old friends, Stacey Caron, Kim Hupke, Cathy Chlebana and many more!  Here is a link to the Official Announcement!  Better get ready to see some awesome Spellbinders die templates here even more than you do now.....LOL!!   Here are the other wonderful designers on the 2012 Spellbinders Design Team....

 

Angela Ploegman - Bettendorf, IA
Christine Emberson - Kent, UK
Darsie Bruno -  Elmira, NY
Debbie Seyer - Arnold, MO
Heidi Van Laar - Trout Lake, WA
Iwona Palamountain -  Sunbury, VIC Australia
Judy Hayes -  Tracy, MN
Lesley Langdon -  Ontario Canada
Michelle Woerner - Aloha, OR
Teresa Horner - Covina, CA
Theresa Momber - Redding, CA
Tina McDonald - New Brunswick Canada
Windy Robinson - Loveland, OH
Yvonne van de Grijp - The Netherlands

A Banner December!

Hello!  Hope your weekend got off to a great start!  I stayed up late last night working on a scrapbook page and here is the result.

For the base of my scrapbook page, I used Cardinal Red Hopsack Treasure Cardstock 80#.  The patterned paper and brads are from Echo Park Season's Greetings Collection.  For the various sized pennants, I used Nested Lacey Pennants and Nested Pennants from Spellbinders Paper Arts. 

Here are a few close-ups!

This was really fun to make!  I will blog more about the techniques I used on the scrapbook page later.  Right now, I'm going to enjoy the day with the family!  Have a great weekend!

Just For You Tent Topper Card

Here is a card I made a while back that I forgot to post to my blog.  I can't remember why I made it or who received it but I came upon the picture and just knew I had to share it with all of you!

 

The patterned paper is from The Madeline Collection from Prima.  I love the color combo in this paper.  I made a Tent Topper Card.......using THIS tutorial from Splitcoaststampers.  The butterflies were cut from the patterned paper.  The topper portion of my card is a die cut/embossed from Labels Seventeen from Spellbinders.  Then I added the sentiment onto a Ribbon Tag.  This is a fun type of card to make and its really unique.  It will still fit into the A2 size envelope, so no worries there.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I don't have much planned and hope to spend some serious time scrapbooking.  I have been printing pictures all week so I will be ready to get busy!

{Heart} U! Flower Soft Challenge!

This week, the Flower Soft design team was challenged to make a card with a heart on it and incorporate Poppy Red Flower Soft into the project!  Easy....peasy!!    LOL

I used stamps from the January Kit of the Month from Unity Stamps to make this 5 1/4" square card.  The base is made from Posh True Black Linen Cardstock 80#.  This is a really sturdy cardstock so I used my Scor-pal to score it and then folded it.  I cut a piece of Kraft Smooth Cardstock 80# to layer the panel of Simply Smooth White on.  I stamped all the images on a scrap piece of white cardstock using Tuxedo Black memento ink and cut them out.  I did that for the playing cards, too.  I used Really Red Classic Ink pad.  Before adhere the tickets into place, I added the Poppy Red Flower Soft using Flower Soft glue.

You can see what all the other Flower Soft Design Team members did with this challenge on the Flower Soft blog!!

Blue Eyed Girl Layout

What a busy weekend we had here at the Seyer household.  I didn't get to work on any of the projects I wanted to work on.  So today I sat down and finally got to finish a scrapbook page I started last week!

This is a 12 x 12 page of one of my favorite pictures of my oldest daughter.  Her boyfriend took this picture and you can barely see that there is snow on the branches of the trees.  But what I love most about this picture is how blue her eyes are.  They are really that blue in real life but sometimes its hard to capture with a camera.

 

The base of this scrapbook pages is a sheet of Persian Blue Cardstock 80# from Discount Cardstock.  Then I cut a 12 x 12 piece of Kraft Smooth cardstock 80# to 11 x 11.  Using some older Donna Salazar patterned paper, I cut/embossed  the large ledger paper from the Creative Book Pages #6 (largest die in the set).  I layered the picture on some Simply Smooth White, leaving just small margin around it so that the picture will pop off the page and not disappear into all the neutrals I used.  Around the picture, I used another die template from the Creative Book Pages #3 plus I added a strip cut/embossed from Parisian Accents.  Along the bottom I used the Classic Bracket Edgeabilities to cut/emboss a strip of paper.  Along the top of this strip I applied some music tissue tape.  I have had that role of tissue tape for so long and I finally got to use it!!  The sentment was printed onto Simply Smooth White cardstock using my printer and cut/emboss using Labels 5 Nestabilities #4.  I used some more dies from the Parisian Accents set to put around the outside of the sentiment die cut.  The last added touch is the Rhinestone Flourish from Want2Scrap.

Here is a close-up of the sentiment.

I love how this turned out.  Even thought it took me over a week to finish it, I think its pretty awesome!