How much love

Hi everyone... just a quick post today so I can participate in the ISC sketch challenge.  A while back I had participated in a 3x3 thank you swap; the yellow piece is from that swap.  I matted the piece with white cardstock, layered that onto some patterned paper and white and pink cardstock, and added a bit of blue scalloped printer paper and some pink polka dot ribbon.  This color scheme was a bit of a challenge for me, but I wanted to tie the yellow and purple together and found this patterned paper in my scrap stash, so I just went with it.  I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by!


-Suzanne :O )

Custom-Made Address Labels!

Hi friends!  I've been away longer than I realized, but I wanted to share a fun project I did recently, that I felt I should make a "tutorial" for, even though it's pretty self-explanatory and totally unnecessary to "spell out" with pictures! :D  I ran out of address labels, so I thought I'd make my own.  I used some cutie pie stamps by Woodware USA and blank Avery labels.  You can see my process in the photos below:

Step 1:  Stamp adorable envelopes to left-hand side of labels.  Forget to pre-print your address.

Step 2:  Finish stamping envelopes on all 30 labels.

Step 3.  Gather a rainbow of markers.

Step 4:  Color each heart on the envelope in rainbow order, starting with pink.

Step 5:  Realize that you forgot to pre-print the address and painstakingly hand write each one.  

Step 6:  Enjoy your new, custom-made address labels, and make each card recipient green with envy of your craftabilities!

I showed these to Chris, and of course he wanted his own set of labels.  He chose a Hero Arts mouse (who's wearing a shirt with plaid shorts, thank you very much.)  This time I remembered to print his address first, and it went SO much faster! LOL  Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed my silly step-by-step tutorial!

-Suzanne :O )

Best Wishes

Hi there!  My friend asked me to make a card for her sister's wedding, so I started off with some aqua-ish KI Memories paper that matched the color of the bridesmaid dresses.  I pulled out some Making Memories Black Tie paper to add a bit of elegance. :)  I layered some black paper and used my Nestabilities to make the focal piece (I don't remember which company made it!) stand out.  I stamped a Melissa Frances sentiment and add some pearls by Michaels' Recollections line.  I think pearls and patterned paper really "fancied up" this card- I really like how it turned out! Thanks for stopping by!


-Suzanne :O )

Martha Stewart/Cosmo Cricket Wedding Cards

Hi everyone!  I've been diving in head first to all of the ISC challenges, especially to help me make more craft fair items!  Michele posted a sketch for this challenge, and I knew I was going to use it for a set of wedding cards.  At my last show, a lady wanted a wedding card literally MINUTES after I had just sold the last pack to a friend of mine.  Go figure, right?!  I could have made my friend a wedding card any old time, but that's life, I guess! lol  Anyway, I told that lady I would be back doing the same show in August, and she said "good, make some variety packs!  I always need cards!"  I don't know if she'll actually come back in August, but she made me laugh, and I figured she was right.  I've been thinking about making a variety pack of all occasion cards since I started doing craft fairs, but I've never actually made an ALL occasion pack.  So anyway, that was my long-winded way of explaining why I just made 8 wedding cards!  :)

I knew I wanted to use up my Cosmo Cricket Everafter paper, because frankly, I don't love it.  It came in a double pack with the Girl Friday collection, which I DO love.  I tried to pick out the nicest papers for these cards.  If you're not familiar with the collection, it comes with a couple of like, burnt orange papers... not my first choice for WEDDING cards, but whatev. ;)  Anyway, I went to town with the patterned papers, and paired some lovely little Martha Stewart embellishments to finish off the cards.  My coworker gave me a pack of 20 of the wedding cake stickers, and 2 packs of the wedding seals (40 seals total) so I wanted to put a dent in both of those, as well.  I also added a bit of grayish-bluish ribbon (which I got for 99 cents at Joann's, and I kid you not, it's a giant spool of 100 YARDS.  Wooo!)  

Tomorrow I'm off to CKC Valley Forge to shop shop shop!  Hopefully I'm come back with some fun card making goodies, but won't put TOO much stress on my credit card!  hehe!  Okay, enough rambling for one evening.  Hope you all have a great weekend!

-Suzanne :O )

You shore are sweet!

Hi everyone!  Just a quick post... I made these for a 3x3 card challenge on ISC.  I used up some swapped images, and colored and cut out this little Imaginisce penguin.  The cards are K&Co, the patterned sand paper is DCWV and I used some blue cardstock scraps.  The sentiment is part Starving Artistamps (you shore are special) and part Studio G (100% sweet).  I made these for some of my co-workers who got me a gift card, and I thought these little guys would be cute to display on their desks!  Hope you enjoy as well!

-Suzanne :O )

a day to celebrate

Just a quick post- I'm playing along with the sketch challenge over at ISC.   I made this bright and busy card for my soon-to-be 14-year-old cousin. I used some SEI paper, Target dollar spot tags, frame & ribbon, buttons by Denami Designs, and the build-your-own cupcake stamp is by Woodware.  Hope you like!


-Suzanne :O )

Basic Grey (Sugared)

Hi friends!  I made this card back in February but I'm just getting around to posting it now (I'm so behind!).  At work, we had a counselor, Danielle, with us for a few months while my co-worker Lisa was on maternity leave, so when Danielle left in February, my office threw her a going-away-party of sorts, and I made this card to thank her for all she had done for us.  The original Fiskars sentiment read "I appreciate all that you have done..." but since the card was coming from all of us, I didn't stamp the "I" and used a "we" rub-on from my stash instead.  It doesn't look as good as I'd wanted it to, but it was the best I could do with limited supplies.  Aside from the sheer yellow ribbon and ruby gems, all of the other supplies are from Basic Grey's Sugared line.  It turned out that Danielle was a cardmaker/scrapbooker herself, we had a lot to talk about while she was with us! :)  We've kept in touch and Danielle, Lisa, and I plan to do a crafty get together once a month, starting in the fall.  Anyway, hope you all enjoy my card, thanks for checking in!


-Suzanne :O )