Stampin Stresss Away with Carole'Anne

Presto DSP with Because I care greeting

good morning to y'all

hope you have a wonderful restful weekend!

soooooooooooo this week will be a lot different!

first I have some very special company visiting from Terrace BC! so we will try to get as much visiting in as we can although of course I have to work (boy my job gets in the way uh? wish my boss would give me time off LOL oh wait thats me he he )

having said that I will not blogging on Wed or Thursday!

I hope you all understand!

okay so down to business here!

this weeks theme is going to be

Simple Cards (I know this is a stretch me lol)

but I thought since I don't have alot of time this week it would be a good week to have this theme

I also really have to work on swaps!

so this will get me thinking

SIMPLE

wish me luck I may need it

so it was my turn to create a sketch for Stampin connect

so this is what I did

 

for my background DSP I used Presto

 

and I took out my tag punch

 

did some sponging with Marine Mist and Tempting Turquoise then I darkened the edges with Not Quite Navy

 

then I punched my tag

I used another piece of the same DSP and 

I also scalloped my edge

I used not quite navy

 

I coloured the ribbon and then I debossed a ribbon as well

 

greeting and would you beleive I am almost done

 

after I assembled my tag I put some pretty little beeds on!

 

and there we go 

my first simple card for the week

what do you think?

Boring uh?

I know it's hard for me to do simple

but as you know by tnow I like a good challenge

and trust me that will be the entire week

first with my blog challenge

and for work

our office staff have Thursday And Friday off

so that leaves Renee and I!

We will have a busy week

althougth I will be taking Thursday off to spend with our visitors!

yhahooooooooooo I have not taken a day off since May 30th (do you think I can stay away from my office for entire day??)

 

here is my little tag upclose with the little bling bling he he

 

and for my three brads

 

and my ribbon

okay that is what I have for you today!

hope it's okay???

I wish you all a super Wonderful WEEK!

I will see you tomorrow!

Embossed Hug to you fron me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

"D" is For Dog & Happy Together

Good Mornin

So on this Tuesday Mornin

Y'all have to forgive me for the post that I am about to post here today!

I am totally dissapointed with both of projects today

the first one is that very very hard Soft Subtle only challenge from Late Night Stampers

I combined with The Stampin Connect Card Sketch

I guess I am just way way to far out of my comfort zone on this one

So I am totally sorry!

the second is another scrapbooking page

here I thought things were coming together with my scrapbooking

okay well not so much today

so please be kind he he :)

ain't because I didn't try

cause I have been hard at it since 2:20am

but you know what I am going to try and blow your socks off with my next card

DEAL?? LOL
okay let me know show you a little of bit of my work

it won't be a long post I promise he he :)

I started with the sketch from Stampin Connect and chose a new stamp set that I got FREE

with The Sale-a-Bration promotion

its called Happy Together

I embossed the little chicks on Barely Banana

I then cut them out

I tried all my circle punches he he

went with my trusty Circle cutter

man I love this tool I can't imagine not having it,

kinda like The Big Shot 

yha know????

okay where am I now??? Blah Blah sorry

It's the no neutrals that is killing me here

cause I would love to water colour something in these wonderful colours!

oh well I got to stop poutting and get this done lol

okay so when I did the corner punch and the edge one it did not line up 

PERFECT

so I still really wanted to keep it

I am going fix it without redoing it heehee 

okay so I had to cover up some mistakes lol  

I am almost done now phew!

this is my card

yhuk I know

so a few things

if I could of done the chicks in Black would of been better and highlighted with brown

but I was NOT permitted

sooooooooooooo

this is my card   

AGAIN I am sorry! he he :)

I will show you two up close photos

actually the best part of the card 

the bling and the buttons LOL

pretty

and some little bling

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now I have my scrapbook page to show you

so this is the Stampin Connect SC Scrapbook Sketch

I used photos of our beloved animals

 

oops - please tilt head side ways LOL

I started with some photos

then created a some cicles with my circle cutter

then I started doing the cardstock layers

These are more the colours that I gravitate to

ouh and I was able to put WHITE YHAHOOOOO

so my colours I love them

now for the stamp

ouh and I got this STAMP

FREE 

as well can you beleive all the wonderful stamps that they have FREE in the back of that little SaleBration Catalogue

I am so happy that Stampin Up did that

it's sooooooooooooooo WONDERFUL 

he he

and there we have it

my page of Max and Goldie

That is what Goldie looks like when she does not know I am a camera

she is so beautiful

and Max well he is soooooooo HANDSOME

hey guess what???

I taught him how to shake a paw

and he is almost rolling over 

he did last night without any help

yhe Max

okay okay so sorry

got to get to work

I am sooooooooooooooooo behing

ouh I just want to show you two up close photos

I love using the little brads with the ribbon like this

Thank you Lee it's all you on this one girl

you are awesome!

and the journaling

okay I am out of here my blogging friends

BIG day ahead of me!

I wish you all a GREAT day

and you know what if you don't leave a comment I totally understand with these projects

maybe I should add a day to our Blog Candy

what do you think???

hum???

okay got to run

Take care 

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

 

Butterflies with Monday SSCSC2 sketch and tutorial

Good day!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, I know our southern friends got to have a bit of snow party! How beautiful! :)

Monday morning brings us a couple of events

The first is the Late nigth stampers challenge!

This week, we get to feature Butterflies!

The second is the Stampin Connect Monday Sketch # SSCS2

I am finally going to share my tutorial on the Bride DSP polished stone effect!

soooooooooooooo are you ready??

Okay so I started with the sketch

Then I got out some of my BEAUTIFUL bride DSP

This designer paper is so awesome!

It's in The Stampin Up Idea book on page 158

now we are going to gather some re inkers

I chose 

Bashful Blue

Night of Navy

So Saffron

and don't forget you will be needing the all purpose Shimmer ink

and some cotton balls along with Rubbing Alcohol

 
and talking about Rubbing alcohol!

how do you like my Rosa move!

I am good uh? LOL

so what you are suppose to do is put rubbing alcohol on the cotton ball

not all over the table LOL

then add some drops of re-inkers

you kinda will have to do some trial errors to get it to where you like it

you will then dab dab dab on the bride DSP

it's going to look something like this

okay we are not done

now take a CLEAN cotton ball and put some alcohol on it

 
and you will put some shimmer all purpose ink

I used the   Frost White shimmer ink

for this one, then I added just one dab of my lightest colour ink

and now we will dab dab and then rub rub he he :)

and you will see how it shimmers and the bride deisgn will pop back out!

ouh how I wish I could show you the shimmer! 

okay let's make a card with this beautiful background!

now for the sketch I punched the edge with new 

Pinking Hearts Border Punch (it's on page 11 of the Stampin Up Occasions mini catalogue)

then I worked on my greeting I used my oval scallop punch to create the matt

now for our beautiful Butterfly dies

Ran it thru my Big Shot

boy I would be a sad girl without that toy uh?? LOL

and I used all colours included the bride inked DSP to make these fabulous Butterflies

so I used the Whimsical Words Clear mount stamp set for this card

I stamped in on my Bashful blue and then punched it out with the small oval punch

now it's time assemble this card

 
and for some bashful blue ribbon

oh yes this brings me to the next topic

How would you like to be part of a Ribbon Swap???

You would get 3 yards of each colour

there is 9 different colours of the NEW 5/8'' Satin Ribbon

beautiful I just love these new ribbons!

Soooooooo all those colours for only $29.00 Canadian (includes shipping and GST)

Can't beat that!

Email me if you would like to have in on the ribbon Swap!

okay sorry had to offer that before I forgot he he

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all right where were we now??

oh right ribbon - so I tie a bow and finished up my card

 

and voila there we have it my card

I used the flower brads on here cause you know flowers and butteflies go together right??

the ribbon is perfect for this card

don't you think??

the textured card stock is so pretty and look at that butterfly in the inked bride paper

aint it just darlin!

up close of the Bride DSP sadly you can't get the shimmer out of the photo as well

I wish you could really see it!!!

Well that is my first week for February!

Holly where did January go!

Anyways I sure hope you enjoyed my card this morning along with the tutorial

you only have a few more hours to post of a comment

cut off is noon today!

oh yes I will be announcing a winner!

fun stuff uh???

all right that is it for today

happy Monday to y'all

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

to you

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