Accents & Elements Stamp-a-Stack

Wowza, it has been awhile and for that I apologize. I want to thank everyone for their kind thoughts for my mother-in-law. We had a scare the day after she was released from the hospital. She had to go to the emergency room because she was having a reaction to one of the blood thinners they had her on. Once that got straightened out, the recovery was speedy and she is doing great!!!

I had a Stamp-a-Stack this weekend and it was by far the easiest one I have ever done. We used the Accents & Elements Build a Flower Tin along with the Greeting Card Packet. I designed 7 different cards in each of the 4 colors for a total of 28 cards. The cards were very plain and simple with minimal stamping and a few punches, but the ladies loved them and they made 28 cards in 2-1/2 hours. We were all excited to fill our card baskets!!!

Now, I have just a couple of thoughts that crossed my mind as I was doing this.

1. Why did they put Wasabi Green Flowers in this kit, I personally have never seen a pure green flower in nature. I paired it with Bashful Blue to give the cards a slight masculine feel. Things that make me go hmmmmm...whaaaaat?
   
2. We have NO purple ribbon, none...nada...zip (insert frown and stamping of feet here) in the catalog. Um hello, it's like one of my favorite colors. How is a girl supposed to stamp girlie cards with NO purple ribbon? I mean seriously!
   

Now, I have to admit that it was quite fun designing these cards and seeing what I could do with limited supplies. And, I had quite a few of the Accents & Elements Images left over, I am sure I could have done 2-3 more cards of each color. How's that for affordable cards without running to Hallmark?
Following are a few of the samples, all supplies are SU!:

Update

Just a quick note to let you know that surgery went good. Mom was released this morning and is at a hotel recovering. We are going to go over later and sit with her while the kids swim. Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes, you all are just wonderful. As soon as I get home I will create a wonderful card to share with you.

Spring Break!!!

Hello ladies...we are in the middle of Spring Break up here. My mother-in-law is having heart surgery on Thursday so we drove 350 miles south to be there for her and to spend time with my sister and family!!! I planned on posting one more card before I left, BUT...........my husband found a great deal on a new car for me, so we left town fast to buy it before someone else did. We breezed into Anchorage and 45 minutes later had a new car to drive over to my sisters. It's a 2007 Kia Rondo (we wanted to have something I could fit the family into AND get good gas mileage). It is a previously owned 2007 that we got for $10,000.00 less than the 2008 that just came out. Woo Hoo for us!!! I took my sister for a drive and managed to spin the tires and chirp the tires while laughed our buts off like little kids....aaaah, good times. Anyway, I'll be back next week. Have a great spring break with your families and we could sure use some prayers for mom this week. Have a stamp happy day.

Squeeze Card

I made this card a while ago. I think it was called a squeeze card, because you squeeze it flat to go into an envelope. I saw the tutorial for this on a cool paper blog but when our computer died I lost the link and have been unable to find it again. I'm pretty sure the talented ladies name was Dawn. She has a video tutorial on it HERE. Thanks Kathy...she was the one who I first saw this on.

Supplies: All supplies SU! unless otherwise noted. Stamps: DD Wild Rose, Script BG. Paper, Always Artichoke, Baroque Burgandy, Very Vanilla. Inks: Baroque Burgandy, Always Artichoke, So Saffron.