Everything Eleanor in Orange

Here's another card with the beautiful stamp set, Everything Eleanor.

I had a lot of fun with this one, I really love how the orange flowers jump right off the card. The card front is Sahara Sand cardstock. I stamped the En Francais background stamp on it in Soft Suede and the swirls image from Everything Eleanor in Always Artichoke in the bottom corner. Then I tore the edges and sponged with Soft Suede ink, heavily around the edges and lightly in the center. I backed that with a piece of Soft Suede cardstock that had torn edges and had been sponged with Early Espresso ink. The card front was attached to a Crumb Cake card base that had been sponged with Soft Suede ink. I stamped three flower images from the Everything Eleanor stamp set on Very Vanilla cardstock in Black Stazon ink. I used So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango markers to color the flowers, then I cut them out and attached them with Glue Dots.  The greeting, from the Itty Bitty Banners set, is stamped in Early Espresso on Sahara Sand cardstock and cut out with the Bitty Banners Framelit. Then I added a Naturals Designer button and a bit of Pumpkin Pie 1/8" Taffeta ribbon, both attached with Glue Dots.

I hope you enjoyed my card for today!

Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Daffodil Delight Moving Forward

Today's card uses one of my favorite colors, Daffodil Delight, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities stamp set, Moving Forward.

The base is Daffodil Delight. The image is stamped in black Stazon on Whisper White cardstock. I used a Finishing Touches edgelit to cut a Basic Black border that I used along the bottom, and added a piece of Daffodil Delight stitched grosgrain ribbon. The flowers are punched out using the Itty Bitty Punch pack, and the circle inside them is from the Cupcake Builder punch. I distressed a piece of Daffodil Delight cardstock and used the little pieces that fell off of it to create a tiny "fuzz" of flowers for the basket. I put a little Multipurpose Liquid glue where I wanted the fuzz and then set it onto of the glue.

Simple, easy, quick and fun! Yay!

Stampin' Up! donates $3 to Ronald McDonald House Charities for every Moving Forward stamp set that is sold. Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Masculine French Foliage

I made this card for this week's Teapot Tuesday challenge. The challenge was to make a manly card, no flowers. (Eek!) I love the way it turned out and I think I may make a bunch more of these for an upcoming Fall Card Swap that I am participating in.

               Stamps: French Foliage, Just Believe 
               Paper: Cajun Craze, Naturals Ivory, Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock
               Ink: Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Riding Hood Red,
                       More Mustard and Soft Suede 
               Accessories: Brushed Bronze Button, Linen Thread, Decorative Label Punch, 1" circle
                      punch, Woodgrain Embossing folder, sanding block, dimensionals, sponge 
               Techniques: Sanding, Sponging, Stamping Off, Rock & Roll 

The base is Cajun Craze sponged with Chocolate Chip ink. The card front is made with a couple of sneak peak items from the upcoming Stampin' Up! holiday catalog. I used the new Woodgrain embossing folder to emboss a piece of Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock, and then sanded the embossed cardstock to make the pattern stand out. I stamped the script from French Foliage in Crumb Cake on a piece of Naturals Ivory card stock.  I inked up the water stains stamp from the same set in Soft Suede, stamped it off on scratch paper once and then stamped it on the image panel to give a lighter shade of Soft Suede. The leaf images, also from the French Foliage set, were inked in Cajun Craze, Riding Hood Red, More Mustard and Soft Suede. I used the Rock & Roll technique on the leaves. This means I inked up the entire leaf with one color, then rolled just the edges of the stamp in a second color to make the leaves two-toned. Two of the leaves were cut out and put up on Dimensionals. I used Linen Thread and another sneak peek item, Brushed Bronze designer buttons to finish off the main panel. The greeting is from the Just Belive stamp set, stamped in Early Espresso on Naturals Ivory card stock and punched  out twice using the Decorative Label punch to get this label shape. For a tutorial on how to create this label shape, please see this post on my blog. http://mnfroggie.blogspot.com/2011/05/polka-dots-toile-and-tutorial-for.html The greeting is backed by a 1" Cajun Craze circle that is sponged with Chocolate Chip ink.

Thanks for visiting my blog today! Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Brown with Just a Bit of Blue

My card for you today is shades of brown with just a bit of blue, and I love how the two colors contrast.

            Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Curly Cute 

         Paper: Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede, Versamark 
            Ink: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue 
         Accessories: Clear embossing powder, brayer, sponge, Elegant Lines embossing folder,
                 Designer Frames embossing folder, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Extra-large
                 Oval Punch, Crumb Cake Taffeta ribbon, Self adhesive pearl, glue dots 


The base is Crumb Cake cardstock. I created the main cardfront panel in two pieces. The top is Very Vanilla cardstock embossed using the Elegant Lines embossing folder. The bottom panel was created using emboss resist. I clear embossed the swirls from the Everything Eleanor set on Very Vanilla cardstock, then brayered Chocoate Chip ink to cover the panel, so all the areas without embossing picked up the ink, and the embossed areas stayed Vanilla. At the join of these two panels I added a strip of Bashful Blue punched with the Scalloped Dotted Ribbon border, and a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock. The central element is also a stamp in the Everything Eleanor set. I stamped it in Soft Suede on vanilla cardstock, cut it out and embossed it with a Designer Frames folder. Then I sponged it a bit with Chocolate Chip ink to make the embossing stand out. The greeting is from Curly Cute, stamped in Chocolate Chip on Very Vanilla and punched out with the Extra-Large Oval punch. I stamped the small flower from Everything Eleanor twice on Bashful Blue cardstock with Soft Suede ink. Then I cut out both flowers, adhered them with a glue dot, added a self adhesive pearl to the center, crumbled them to give the flower some dimension and attached them to the card with another glue dot.


Thanks for visiting my blog today! Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Baby Wipe Card

I made this card for this week's One Layer Wednesday challenge.

The challenge was to use lines on your card. I couldn't think of a good stamp to use, and then I thought of this technique. It was so fun and simple, I may make a note card set of them! How to do it? You fold a baby wipe several times. Then you put a drop or two of classic reinker along one folded edge. Then put one or two drops of the next color right beside it, there should be no white space in between the colors. Repeat along this edge adding all the colors you want to use. Once you have added your colors to the baby wipe, run that edge across the cardstock to creat a stripe! For my card I used a Whisper White base and Pacific Point, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red inks.  Then I dusted it with an embossing buddy, stamped the greeting from Friendly Phrases in Versamark, added black embossing powder and heated it with a heat gun. 

Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Reason to Smile CAS card

I have a CAS (Clean and Simple) card for you today. This card is made with the Reason to Smile stamp set.

                Stamps: Reason to Smile. Petite Pairs 

            Paper: Marina Mist, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Marina Mist DSP 
            Ink: Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist, Lucky Limeade marker 
            Accessories: Lucky Limeade bakers' twine, blender pen 

The base is Marina Mist. I stamped a flower image from the Reason to Smile set twice on Whisper White cardstock in Not Quite Navy ink, colored the stem in with the fine tip of a Lucky Limeade marker and used a Blender Pen and Marina Mist ink to color the flower. The greeting, from Petite Pairs, is stamped in Lucky Limeade. I added a strip of Marina Mist designer paper to the bottom and some Lucky Limeade bakers' twine. That is then mounted on Lucky Limeade cardstock. That's all attached on the base.

I used the coordinating stamp from Petite Pairs to stamp the card liner, added a strip punched with the Scallop Trim border punch and a bit of Lucky Limeade designer paper. This created a quick but pretty inside for the card.

This seven-piece stamp set "Reason to Smile" is available this month only. Best of all, you can get it for only $5 with any $50 purchase (wood or clear mount).  Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Morning Cup Get Well Card

Hey, I'm back! Three posts already this week, maybe I will finally be shaking the mothballs off my poor blog! Here is a fun Get Well card for you today! I made it for this week's Sketch Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

The base is Crumb Cake. I added another Crumb Cake layer on top of that, this one embossed with the Stripes embossing folder. I used the Delicate Doilies Sizzlet die and cut out the largest doily from Baja Breeze cardstock. I used one of the Finishing Touches Edgelits to cut the edges of a strip of Soft Suede cardstock and a piece of designer paper from the Floral District pack, then layered them and adhered them over the bottom half of the doily. Next a piece of Soft suede taffeta ribbon was tied around the card. I cut out a 2" Very Vanilla circle using the Circles #2 Bigz die and stamped the image in Black Stazon onto the circle. Both the teapot and image and the "perk up" greeting are from the Morning Cup set. I colored the teapot using a blender pen and Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso inks. Then I sponged all around the edge of the circle with Soft Suede ink. I stamped the "get well soon" greeting in Basic Black ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, and punched it out twice using the Decorative Label punch to get this label shape. For a tutorial on how to create this label shape, please see this post on my blog. http://mnfroggie.blogspot.com/2011/05/polka-dots-toile-and-tutorial-for.html This label was then sponged with Soft Suede ink and attached using Dimensionals to a 3/4" Soft Suede Circle.  Super Duper pretty, I hope you think so too!

Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Christmas in July

Hi Stampers, I have a Christmas card for you today! Are you wondering why I would be making a Christmas card here in the middle of summer? Well, I send out almost 200 handmade Christmas cards each year, so it is never too early to start.

            Stamps: Easy Events 
            Paper: Crumb Cake, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Be of Good Cheer DSP 
            Ink: Black Stazon, Gumball Green 
            Accessories: Blender Pen, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Gumball Green Satin
                    Stitched Ribbon, 2-1/2" Circle punch, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle punch, Scallop
                    edge punch, Dimensionals 

This card is simple but fun! The base is Crumb Cake cardstock, with a piece of Gumball Green satin stitched ribbon tied all the way around it. I used the Scallop Edge punch on a little strip of Gumball Green cardstock and attached that to the bottom of some striped designer paper from the Be of Good Cheer paper pack. I stamped the image from the Easy Events stamp set on Very Vanilla in Black Stazon and colored it with Gumball Green ink and a blender pen and added Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details on the berries. I punched that image out with a 2-3/8" Scallop Circle punch and matted it with a 2-1/2" Gumball Green circle, then attached it to the card front with Dimensionals. Viola, hope you like it!


Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.

Happy Hour Birthday Card

Hi Stampers! Here is a fun birthday card!

                Stamps: Happy Hour 

                Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White 

                Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Pretty in Pink, Versamark 

                Accessories: Scallop Trim border punch, Itty Bitty punch pack, Dazzling Details,

                            White Organdy ribbon 

                Techniques: Marker to stamp 

I stamped the Raspberry Ripple base with the Cheers! stamp using Versamark to create a fun background. The Lucky Limeade strip is punched with Scallop Trim border punch. I added Whisper White Organza ribbon around the card. I colored the images with Raspberry Ripple and Pretty in Pink markers and stamped them on Whisper White. Then I stamped a little Lucky Limeade drink umbrella. That image is matted with Raspberry Ripple and Pretty in Pink layers and adhered to the card. I added the greeting on a little banner that I attached with a glue dot and used the Itty Bitty punch pack to create a Pretty in Pink flower with a little Dazzling Details in the center for some fun sparkle!

Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you like this card as much as I do! If so, let me know, I love comments!

Everything used to create this card is available from Stampin' Up! If you would like to purchase Stampin' Up products, please visit my business website at www.trina_kuriger.stampinup.net.