He Is Risen

Boy, I almost named this post "He is Risen, and so have I", but I don't want to liken myself at all to Jesus! although I do try to live up to his standards;)...

So as I rise from the world of 'not blogging' I share with you and the crew over at SUO this card.

Thought: It came to mind that the reverse side of my Adorning Accents edgelit die resembled the three hills always depicted for Jesus' Crucifixion. I stamped a cross from the stamp set Crosses of Hope in Elegant Eggplant ink on whisper white cs. I colored in the flowers and vines with markers in pear pizzaz and wisteria. I then trimmed out the image.

I used whisper white cs as my card, and added a 'reverse edge' in wisteria. I hand drew 2 crosses in wisteria with that marker. I punched some 'clouds' with the cupcake punch in wisteria and adhered and using dimensionals popped some too!  I popped the cross as well on the front hill.

For my He is Risen,I cut the oval from our ovals die and embossed it with our designer frames embossing folder. I stamped(in versamark) my saying on my window sheets, and embossed with our white embossing powder and heat tool.  Everyone has asked me...doesn't the heat tool melt the window sheet?...

   The answer: NO!!!

Well, not saying that it wouldn't eventually melt it,but if you just watch it carefully and do not overdo it, you will be fine :) I then adhered my window sheet to the cross. Hint* I used a partial glue dot in several places, making sure it is behind the letters so you cannot see any glue ;)

 FINISH!!!

I hope you like:)))and hopefully my next post won't take me, say like, 40 days??

Until Next Thought,

Kris

Uncle Sam meet the SU! cupcake punch!

Happy Independence Day America!!

This is a card I made to celebrate our glorious country, as well as our brave men and women whom protect us everyday!

If you may have not noticed by now, I have a 'thing' for my cupcake punch!

Well,maybe, I have a 'thing' for all my punches ;)

I am always trying to imagine what else you can make out of these shapes,so here is what I came up with:

 Uncle Sam!!

Now imagine all the possibilities,huh? I'm already thinking leprechaun and the bride of Frankenstein!!

Well, let me tell you the rest of this card in case you want to CASE him ;).  The card base is in whisper white. I ran it through our Big Shot and our dots embossing folder(what did I ever do before this? Life was soooo 1-dimensional!) I added a strip of night of night of navy card stock,edged with our eyelet border punch and faux stitched with our white gel pen, and a strip of DSP from our nautical expeditions pack.  Above it, I tied a knot with our 1-1/4"striped grosgrain ribbon. I cut this in half and frayed the edge with my scissors.  I used our NEW!!! pennant stamp set and punch in cherry cobbler and night of navy to create my flags,and a piece of out cherry cobbler bakers twine for the mast?(don't know what you call the rope on a flagpole-do you? lol)

For Uncle Sam, he is a 1' circle punch in very vanilla cs sponged with some pretty in pink ink.  His nose is actually the cherry from our cupcake punch with the stem trimmed off of course! Isn't that nose just too cute? LOVE it! I used my thin edge of our markers in basic black to draw in Sam's expression. I used the top or 'icing part of the cupcake for his beard and, as shown in above pictures, a piece of whisper white cs,with some scrap strips of real red(see, this is why you save those scraps!! The brim of his hat is another scrap of night of navy that was cut with our dotted scallop ribbon punch,and just cut in half. 

Have a blessed and safe holiday!!

Until Next Thought,

Kris 

Cupcake Punch=Little potted plant Thank You

cupcake punch plant

 

 

I am so enjoying playing with my new cupcake punch!!

For  this little thank-you card I used my cupcake base and added a little plant!

Card Info:

The stamp sets I used were Always Elegant and Pocket Silhouettes.  My color combo is very vanilla, bashful blue and soft suede. 

I stamped my image from Always Elegant on Very Vanilla CS.  I  stamped my image in Bashful Blue then turning it 180 and stamping again.  I did this to create a elegant background.  I thought it was pretty...what do you think?  I stamped my next image with Early Espresso ink on a piece of Very Vanilla CS. I stamped the image floating approximately 1inch from the bottom center of CS.  I added a piece of soft suede punched from the cupcake punch. I ran it through the SU! vintage wallpaper impressions folder and sponged with espresso ink.  I added a small strip of bashful blue cs across the flower pot and a small bashful blue circle,  from our itty bitty punch pack.  I used my mat pack pad and piercing tool to give the circle a little depth.  I did this by placing the circle on the soft pad and with the side of my piercing tool, roll circles toward the center.  The circle will start to curl up, and give you the shape of a little flower.Attach to the bashful blue strip.  Layer on a strip of soft suede cut with the scallop edge punch, and a piece of Bashful Blue cs. I stamped the saying 'thank you very much' from the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set on the bottom right hand corner in Early Espresso ink.  Thought this would be a cute little thank-you note for my office girl friends, who are working their tails off right about now over at the accountants office=D April 15th is not soon enough for them!!

Hope you Enjoy this :D

Until Next Thought,

Kris

The Big Easy....Chair!

The Big Easy....Chair

I know, what goes through my head?  Ever since I saw the cupcake punch, I saw a lampshade?  maybe that is because hubby is an electrician, I don't know...  LOL

So for my little living room setting: My card base is very vanilla with a piece of DSP from the nuetrals DSP pack.  I thought it looked a little like wallpaper? Not from my house, but Nana's maybe ;)  I stamped a scrap piece of sahara sand with our woodgrain stamp in espresso ink.  I punched a large oval out of that scrap to make my table top.  I sponged around the edges with espresso ink and cut a straight line of the bottom of the oval.  I also ran some of the woodgrain through the big shot with the rectangle clearlits die. I used my 1-1/4" square to create a frame, by punching a full and then a partial square inside the frame.  I stamped a piece of soft suede cs with the image from Create a Cupcake stamp set and punched with our coordinating Build a Cupcake Punch.  I used a thin piece of scrap as the pole to the lamp and a piece of soft suede that was punched with the round tab punch(this is actually the piece that is usually left behind-what a great way to use a scrap;)))!)  Piece these together and add to card front!

 For the easy chair:  I used some very vanilla cs ran through the big shot and the dot emboss folder.  I cut out a modern label(the bottom edge trimmed straight0 from this, 2 small ovals, 2 half pieces of the large oval and 1 word window. I also used another piece of the woodgrain scrap (from the above described) as a top to my chair. I added a small scrap under the word window to give the seat a little more puff.  I pieced all pieces together and glued to my card front.


To finish off my frame: I used a piece of very vanilla cs that I had printed a saying from My Digital Studio from the Wishes and Greetings stamp set. I just substituted the word 'day' for 'memories this season'.  You could put whatever saying that you like though! I then lined the saying  in my clearlits rectangle die and ran through the big shot.

  I stamped some of the flowers from the Create a Cupcake stamp set in sahara sand on this rectangular piece. I then put the frame over the words and attached to the wallpaper of my living room.  Here is my finished living room:

Hope you enjoyed and have a "Bright day!"

Until Next Thought,

Kris