Valentine

So I was so busy making Christmas cards during the Holiday Mini time frame that I only got to  use this set once while it was current.  Actually I made this card the day before it retired so I guess I used it twice but only shared one.  Go figure.  It is a good thing I keep all my sets and use them all--retired or not.  This is such a cool set wish I would have had a bit of time to play with it while it was current --I made this for a Chat and Challenge on SUDSOL.

I always love Red, Black and White for Valentine's cards.

Stamps: Affection Collection

Paper: Basic Black, Natural Composition Specialty DP, Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black, Real Red

Other: rhinestone, sponges, black satin ribbon, ticket corner punch.

See ya soon!

Mary Jo

Sudsol Challenges!

It has been a while since I have played along with the challenge on Sudsol--such a great group I need to give back to them more often.  If you are not a member you can get a free two week membership to check it out on my sidebar.

I participated in the sketch challenge and the Stampin Success CASE challenge.

Here is the sketch challenge--as you can see I flipped the sketch to make it work....

ETA:   You can learn how to use your dies to cut around images like above HERE.




And the CASE challenge.....

Both samples are using the For the Birds stamp set.  They both also use the same colors--real red, pool party and whisper white.  Fun challenges.

This is such a fun stamp set....

If you have any specific questions please ask in the comments section and leave your e-mail since blogger does not show them to me.

Happy today!
Mary Jo

One more combo challenge for the day!

This time I am combining the Latenightstamper challenge to use hearts with the SUDSOL case challenge which cases a card from the Stampin Success catalog.  Here is the card that we were to case.  I did a hybrid card--that is part of the card was done on my computer using the My Digital Studio software and the other part was done traditionally.  I created the bird singing "your the tweet-est" and the hearts on the MDS.  Then printed it out and finished the card the traditional way.  I think it is kind of cute.  Couldn't get the ribbon just how I wanted and it is always hard for me to do these Clean and SIMPLE cards, lol!  What do you think??? Here is my sample...

Don't forget to check out all of my tutorials on the right hand side of my sidebar.  Here is the Love Notes one for you to see.  All of the tutorials are only $2.00 and have step by step directions with lots of pictures...

Click HERE for more details about this tutorial.

Have a great night.  See ya tomorrow.
Mary Jo

Card and matching calendar/notepad tin

This was my club project for last night.  It was created for the SUDSOL CASE challenge 15 and the Latenightstampers Challenge 52-use ribbon.  I hope you like it.  I am loving the new papers from the Occasions mini. 

if you want a copy of the calendar let me know and I will send it to you.  These are so easy to make.




Stamps:Vintage Vogue, Well Scripted,
Paper: Taken With Teal, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Mat Pack DP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie
Other: brads, ribbon, corner rounder, markers

Thanks for stopping by
Have a wonderful day.
Mary Jo

Happy New Year! First Blogger's challenge of 2010!

Time to celebrate. That is the theme for this first challenge of the New Year! I combined the theme challenge with the Latenightstamper's weekly challenge of using brads and the sketch challenge on SUDSOL. So three in one. I am really loving these new paper pack we can purchase from Stampin Up (starting January 5th) Lots of fun designs and colors.


Come on and celebrate the New Year and all that it entails with us on the Blogger's challenge team. Visit the other team member blogs by clicking on the logo on my side bar.

May 2010 be your most blessed year ever. May it bring you all that you desire and more.

Here's my card.

I chose the new Abundant Hope stamps set the will be available in the new Occasions Mini. Beautiful image. I have another card with it for tomorrow.

Stamps: Abundant Hope, On your birthday
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, mat pack
Ink: Basic Black
Other: markers, pinking heart border punch, large oval and scallop oval punches. brads, ribbon, circle punch

See ya in the morning with another sample with this beautiful set.
Mary Jo

One more with the Scenic Season Set

I really love the traditional Night of Navy and Whisper White with a touch of silver. Makes such a pretty and bold card. Each year I have to make one like this and one with Real red in place of the Night of Navy. Those are my two favorite color combos from Christmas.

I am loving the added glow that I have around the trees on this card, it was so easy to do too. I stamped the image with versamark on the Night of Navy card stock, then embossed with silver embossing powder that had a small amount of gold mixed in. Very pretty color. Then I used a sponge and white craft ink to add the glow--after you can just wipe off any that is still on the embossed image and you are done. So easy yet so pretty!

This card fits the Latenightstamper's challenge to create cards for your favorite holiday and the SUDSOL challenge to use the Scenic Season Set.

All supplies current Stampin Up!

Stamps: Scenic Season, Serene Snowflakes, Many Merry Messages
Paper: Night of Navy, Whisper White
Ink: Versamark and Night of Navy
Other: Scallop oval frame die, satin ribbon, white embossing powder, mixed silver and gold embossing powder, heat gun, black marker, sponge

Thanks for stopping by today.
See ya tomorrow.
Mary Jo

Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 96

Wow, I can not believe that we are only 4 sketches away from 100 sketches! I am going to have to think of something to do to celebrate that milestone! Any ideas of what to do?

I actually had a bit of a hard time with this week's sketch at first but then I just moved the tag a bit and now I like it. As usual I am combining my sketch challenge with the Latenightstamper's weekly challenge--this we we are to make cards for our favorite holiday! Could be any holiday but what holiday is better than Christmas? The day our Lord was born the excitement of all the children, the fun and festive energy all over the place! I just LOVE Christmas.

My cards also fit the SUDSOL set sampler challenge for the week which is Scenic Season. So without further jabbering I will get on to this week's Technostamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #96. I hope you will chose to play along, I love seeing what you come up with. Please come back and add your link to Mister Linky at the end of this post so that you can be included in the recap on Sunday Night.




All Supplies are Stampin Up!

Card 1

Stamps: Scenic Season
Paper: Night Of Navy, Whisper White, Christmas Cocoa Specialty Paper
Ink: Versa Mark, Night Of Navy, white craft ink
Other: mixed embossing powder (silver with a touch of gold), heat gun, brads, marker for edges.

Card 2

Stamps: Scenic Season
Paper: Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Whisper White Merry Moments DP
Ink: Sage Shadow, Always Artichoke
Other: marker for edging.



Thanks for stopping by, hope you have been inspired to play along
Mary Jo

Isn't this the sweetest little magnet!

I am still playing with the Latenightstamper's Challenge to make a holiday gift, I am having fun with these little gifts and matching cards. I just love these colors for Christmas! You should check out all the great ideas that have been posted so far! I also combined it with this weeks CASE challenge #7 on SUDSOL.



Stamps: Sparkly & Bright
Paper: Holiday Lounge DP. Taken with Teal, Real Red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White card stock
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Other: markers, scallop border punch, circle punch, scallop circle punch, ribbon, magnet.

Got to run, I have praise rehearsal, see ya later
Mary Jo

Another gift with matching card.

This is for both the Latenightstamper's challenge to make a holiday gift and the SUDSOL sketch challenge for the week. The card is made with the sketch and the note pad holder is inspired by one I seen at school today. Pretty cool to have different size post-its. Don't mind the color of the post its and the pencil. Only ones I had, lol. I made this really quick for a last minute entry to this week's sketch on SUDSOL, the new sketch come out tomorrow.


Stamps:
Serene Snowflakes, Many Merry Messages
Paper: Christmas Cocoa, Holiday Lounge DP's, Taken with Teal, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark
Other: embossing powder (mix of gold and silver), coasters, ribbon, brad, pencil, post-its, marker.

Hope you are having a wonderful week so far. Tomorrow is Veteran's Day--don't forget to have your flag hanging!

Mary Jo

A guy Christmas Card

Yep, I am still working with this week's challenge at Latenightstampers it is to create masculine cards. This is also for the SUDSOL CASE challenge for this week. We are to case a sample from the Stampin Success magazine that SU sends us demos. The sample that was chosen for this week is shown below my sample.


I really don't use this adorable truck that often. But it is such a cute stamp set.

Stamps: Loads of Love and Loads of Love accessories
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White and Christmas Cocoa Specialty DP
Ink: Basic Black, Always Artichoke
Other: makers, watercolor pencils, blender pen, large white brad, small circle punch

Hope you are having a fabulous day!

More challenges!

This first card is for the sketch challenge on SCS this week. It was a fun sketch. I am sending this to a friend and her family as they struggle with cancer.

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Paper: Basic Grey, Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Whisper White,Razzleberry Lemonade dp

Ink: Going Grey, Melon Mambo, Basic Black

Accessories: embossing folder, brads

This next one is the the SUDSOL case a Stampin Success Challenge. They pick a different card each week to case. Fun challenge, come on and play along.

Stamps: Serene Snowflakes, Many Merry Messages

Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Lovely Lilac, Whisper White

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Lovely Lilac

Accessories: circle punch, glitter, rhinestone brad

Have a ton to do today so I am off. Happy Friday!!!!!
Mary Jo

Sudsol Challenges

Catching up with some Sudsol Challenges. Why not come on over and play along. You do need to be a Stampin Up! demo to join but if you are a demo you can get a free two weeks by clicking the link on the left side of my blog on the sidebar. Great site with so much business stuff and now challenges too! The fist is the CASE challenge. Here is the card we were to CASE.


And my sample. I think this is such a simple yet cute card.



Stamps: Lots of Bots
Paper: Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: Soft Suede, Basic Black
Other: Real Red wide ribbon, markers

The next challenge is a sketch challenge. I not only combined this with this week color challenge on Latenightstapers, but I took a few creative liberties too. Changed the circle to a square and added some extras in the background. Here is the sketch...

Here is the color challenge

And my card....

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers, Trendy Trees, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Paper: Ruby Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Really Rust, Tall Tales DP
Ink: Ruby Red, Really Rust
Other: markers, ribbon, embossing folder, top note die

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a blessed day.
Mary Jo

SUDSOL challenges--Getting closer to my goal!

I am more than half way to my goal for the Hunger Walk! Won't you help me reach my goal???
Just a $5 donation will get you in the drawing for a huge prize package of Stampin Up! stuff.

You can see the prizes HERE

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I am so happy that SUDSOL has started so many new challenges. I love challenges and I love to see them done with 100% Stampin Up products! SUDSOL is a site for demos only--great business building stuff and great ideas. If you are a demo you can get a free two week membership by clicking on the logo on my sidebar.

This first card is for the CASE challenge. The original card did not have quite so many layers but it did have the ribbon going inside the card and I CANNOT do that! So I needed more layers. I am really loving these colors for Christmas. What do you think?


This next one is for the sketch challenge. This was a fun sketch. Again I used those same colors since they were already out. Love it.



Details:

Card 1
Stamps: Delightful Decorations
Paper: Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Holiday Lounge DP
Ink: Taken with Teal
Other: ribbon, ornament punch, silver thread

Card 2
Stamps: Season of Joy
Paper: Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Holiday Lounge DP
Ink: Taken with Teal
Other: Markers, ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today--have a blessed Wednesday!
Mary Jo

Three Clover's Thursday Challenge Week 33

Hello to you. As usual today's card is for more than one challenge. As you can see by my title it is for the Three Clover's Thursday Challenge which is to "think pink" and make a card using pink. I am also using the SC from SCS again, I really think this is a fun sketch. And last but not lease this is for the SUDSOL Design Challenge--non traditional color on a Christmas card.

I think pink is so fun for Christmas, don't you agree??


Stamps: Snow Swirled and Many Merry Messages
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Shimmery White, Razzleberry Lemonade DP
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose
Other: rhinestone brads, ribbon

Don't forget to play along in the ALL NEW Technostamper Super Set Sampler Challenge. You can add cards you already made or make new ones. This week's featured set is Autumn Harvest. You can get more details HERE.

Have a fabulous day!
Mary Jo

Super Set Sampler Challenge #2

Welcome to week number 2 of this Brand New Challenge!

Come on and play along!

I am so excited about this new challenge! It will be so fun to have tons of 100% current samples shown by set. Don't you think? Here is the basic idea of the challenge. The challenge will be called Technostamper's Super Set Sampler Challenge (T3SC2). In honor of my love of Stampin Up stamps I will be doing this new challenge. The idea is that each week I will pick a set and make two cards with the set to start us off and hopefully inspire you to use the set too. I realize that you will not own all the sets that I do but you will get tons of fabulous ideas to share with your friends/customers. And of course you may fall in love with the set and realize you HAVE to have it! So I hope that you will play along on week's that you have the featured set, and visit on week's that you don't. Soon we will have so many wonderful ideas to use with our sets. The catch to this is that ALL SAMPLES MUST BE 100% CURRENT STAMPIN UP! SAMPLES. It is a challenge after all but I know you are all up for it. Are you in? I will be giving a $5 voucher each week for SU product --redeemable through me. You can accumulate them up to $25 before spending. So you will want to play as often as you can to earn lots of free stuff of your choice.

To be eligible to win the gift voucher you must do the following....

1. Use 100% current Stampin Up products (if it is current by you and not in the US you will need to state that in your post.
2. Use the FEATURED SET OF THE WEEK.
3. Post a direct link to your sample on Mister Linky below
4. Post by midnight Tues. night. (EST.)
5. The sample does NOT have to be stamped now it can be one you already have done.

I will do a re-cap of all of the samples and announce the winner right before I post the new challenge. The links will be kept open though so you can add to them any time you want--you just will not be in the contest if you are after the deadline. For this week--T3SC2 challenge we are going to use ...... Autumn Harvest


This set is so versatile and great for fall cards. I have a few samples for you that I did today and I will combine the ones I have done in the past with the re-cap at the end of the week.

My first and second cards are for two other challenges too. First is the SUDSOL Case Challenge #1. And also the Latenightstamper's Step it up to the top challenge for this week.

The first card is the easy version....



And of course this is the stepped up version....


And finally I combined today's SCS sketch challenge with this set sampler challenge for this card.

Don't forget to leave your sample links below on Mister Linky!

You can find the supplies used for all cards at the end of the post.

The first official winner of the $5 Stampin Up! voucher from me is -----Carla Brasher

Here is her fabulous sample again for those of you who may not have seen it on the re-cap below. You can visit her blog at the link above the picture. Congratulations Carla--you can save these up or spend them individually--max amount to turn in at one time is $25. Thanks to everyone who played, it was a tough choice.

clipped from thesouthernstamper.blogspot.com

Don't forget to leave your sample links below on Mister Linky!

Supplies for my cards:

Card 1

Stamps: Autumn Harvest
Paper: Old Olive, So Chocolate Chip, To the Nines DP So Saffron DP, Shimmery White
Ink: re-inkers in pumpkin, old olive, so saffron, crushed curry-chocolate chip ink
Other: water pen, Ribbon, Scallop edge punch, Chocolate chip marker

Card 2
Same as above with the addition of

Clear button, Thanks embossing die, circle punch, So Saffron card stock

Card 3
Stamps: Autumn Harvest, Trendy Trees
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, So Saffron , Chocolate Chip, Shimmery White, So Saffron DP, Shimmery White
Ink: re-inkers in pumpkin, old olive, so saffron, crushed curry-chocolate chip ink, Versa Mark, Basic Black
Other: word window punch, spritzer bottle, aquapainter, corduroy buttons, ribbon, black embossing powder
Technique, re-inker spread.

Don't forget to leave your sample links below on Mister Linky!

Wow, that was a long post! Hope you will play along.
Mary Jo