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Welcome to Stop #3 on your Blog Tour! Thank you for visiting me here in Sunny California!

Today I'll be sharing two cards I made using the stamp set "Great Friend" (item #113792, page 5) from the Occasions Mini Catalog.

This is perhaps my favorite set and can be used in so many different ways. I decided to only use the stamps within the set itself just to show you that you can come up with two completely different ideas using the same stamps.

My first card was made using the "Walk in the Park" DSP (Item #115123, page 9). This paper uses the colors Basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss, Cameo Coral, Baja Breeze and So Saffron. I decided to go with just Basic Gray and Kiwi Kiss, adding a little Going Gray to help make it pop a little. I used the new eyelet border punch from the main catalogue (Item #113692, page 184) and used the Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon (Item #111879, page 179), being sure to tie in so that only the Kiwi Kiss side showed. The butterfly is stamped in Kiwi Kiss and the "For You" is stamped in going gray.

My second card uses the DSP Raspberry Tart (Item #113975, page 160). This paper uses the colors Real Red, Rose Red, Cameo Coral, Pretty in Pink and Kiwi Kiss. Of these colors, I chose to use Rose Red and Cameo Coral, making the base of my card using the Rose Red cardstock.

If you use your Color Coach (Item #105796, page 153) you'll see that Rose Red has coordinating colors of Cameo Coral, Barely Banana and Certainly Celery. I decided to add Certainly Celery to the mix.

Using my Big Shot (Item #113439, page 193) and the Top Note Die Cut (Item #113463, page 196), I made two top note dies, one in Cameo Coral and one in Whisper White. I cut down the whisper white at the perferated area so that it could mat against the cameo coral. I used 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon in certanly celery (Item # 109031, page 179) to make the bow in the middle. I stamped "For You" on whipsper white and punched it out using the Scallop Oval Punch from the Occasions Mini (Item #114889, page 8). I edged it cameo coral to make it stand out a little and used Stampin' Dimensionals (Item #104430, page 191) so it would stand out more. I stamped the butterfly in Rose Red and the twigs in Certainly Celery.

And this concludes Stop #3. I hope you've enjoyed your visit. I'd love it if you left me a message and perhaps any suggestions on things you'd like to see in the future.

The link to the next stop on the tour has been removed as the Tour is now over. Thank you to everyone who visited! I hope you enjoyed the tour.

Happy Stampin'!

Raberta

Free SU! Blog Tour - Hop on the Bus!

April 27, 2009

Here is your ticket to ride! Please check back on Monday, April 27th for a real treat! Myself and 19 others will be creating a route for you to transverse to view several great ideas using the new stamp sets being offered in the Occasions Mini Catalogue.

I've decided to show case the set titled "Great Friend". I previously posted a card using the same set, however There are so many things you can do with this set, that I wanted to try another idea! You'll get to see it on the 27th.

On top of that, I will be linking to the next stop in the tour! We'd like to be a big suprise, so I won't share more than that for now. Just make sure you check back!

RAK - Random Act of Kindness

I sent out some "RAK" cards last week. This was probably my favorite of the bunch.

I actually sent out a total of 4, here are the other three:

Occasions Mini - its that time again!

From April 1st to June 30th the Occasions Mini Catlogue is in effect.

There are some great sets available this year. I've already show-cased a card using one of the sets from the mini, this weekend I'll be show-casing another.

Be sure to check out the promotional information being offered for the month of April here. For every $40 you spend from the mini catalogue, you can earn a free stamp set from the $10 and under page in the main catalogue located on page 208!

Mojo Mondy #80

One of my co-worker's is retiring this month and so I wanted to make a card for everyone to sign, but I wanted it to be big enough for the whole office (we're a rather large Division). So I took advantage of the Mojo Monday #80 sketch to come up with this card.

Occasions Mini Swap

The Occasions Mini Catalogue will be launching next week on Wednesday and will run April 1st to June 30, 2009.



Some of the ladies from LNS decided to do a swap and exchange some ideas. I took one look at the Great Friend set and decided, I had to have it.



Now that the cards are in the mail back to us I figured it was okay to share my creation. There was one slight change from the card I made for the swap and the one I ended up using as a bday card to a good friend. I have been trying to spice up my cards and so I did this to the inside:

Blog Candy

I don't currently have blog candy, but I've started to see it on blogs I visit. When I can, I'll share links to those blog candies I find.

Last night I came across this blog candy and had to share ... not because it asked me to, but because there was some great stuff in it. :)

You can find it here: http://jennifer-phoenixcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/03/easter-blog-candy.html

Good Luck with her Blog Candy!

The Winner has been chosen! Click here to find out who was the lucky person.

LNS Challenge #12

This week's challenge was "Feeling Sassy!" and was a Stamp A Stack Challenge. I'd been having a creativity block the last couple weeks and so this was the first time I'd participated in a while. There were so many wonderful entries that mine doesn't really stand a chance, but I submitted it anyway.

It was nice to be able to just sit down and stamp again. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up.

Gift Box

I love boxes, and I love making them. I've got a lot of paper and ribbons from Sale-A-Bration, so I decided to make a box.

Normally the pattern for this box is better made with a 9x9 piece of paper, but I didn't have any 12x12 paper in the shades I needed (on my list for my next order :). Therefore I adjusted the measurements down (took me a couple tries till I got the right numbers).

I believe I ended up with an 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 square and scored at 2.75 and 5.5. You then want to score diagonally in the four corners so that the corner is easy to fold over. I stapled the paper there and covered it with the patterned paper.

The top and the bottom are three layers with the base a 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 square. The 2nd square is is 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 and the 3rd square (using DSP) is 3 1/8 x 3 1/8.

For the lid, I made a 5x5 square, scalloping the edges and scoring at 1 inch on all sides. I folded the sides in and attached it to the top base. I think next time I make this box, I will make the lid slightly smaller, perhaps a 4 7/8 x 7/8 square so it fits a little snugger on the top.

I secured the ribbon between the bottom base and the box and using the horizontal slit punch, made a slot big enough for the ribbon to slip through. This was to secure the lid to the top and also because I think it looks cute. :)


Thanks for letting me share and happy stamping!

Raberta "Berta" Gannon

Perfect Bows

One of the areas that I have the biggest problem with is tying bows. While searching Youtube for some tutorials for distressing paper, I came across this video.

This is a GREAT video with 3 different techniques for tying bows. Definantly going to be using one of these soon. Don't be suprised if you see it show up later this week.

LNS: Challenge #9 Entry

Late Night Stampers, a yahoo group for SU! Enthsiests (we just recently opened ourselves up to non demonstrators) has their weekly Design Team Challenges. This week we were given a sketch to make a card from (See Above).

I actually struggled a little with this. Not because I couldn't come up with any ideas, but because all my ideas required one item I didn't own. Each time I place an order, I generally need specific things and so I can't be as spontaneous as I'd like. Be that as it may, here is the card I came up with.

I sometimes get intimidated by some of the cards that are entered for these challenges, there is a LOT of talent in this group. I keep self-talking myself to not be intimidated but to use it as a means to motivate myself to be better than I am.

To that end, I wanted to change up my card a little and so its not a standard side or bottom opening card.

So I made it open in the center of the card. :)