Last Chance to Sale-A-Brate!

Here's a quick card I made with the Everyday Enchantment Designer Papers - and you can only get these papers today!! If you place a $50 order, you'll get the papers as a FREE choice. But today's the last day - so don't wait!!

And here's one more - Super easy layout! I used the Thank You Kindly stamp set - a 'must have' set!


I hope you've gotten all the great freebies from Sale-A-Bration, but if not, stop by my website and check it out!


Have a great weekend,


Julie B

Quick and the Coolest!

This is the quickest, and coolest, card I've made in less than 2 minutes... ever!! I recently came across a very cool Stampin' Up! demonstrator's blog, by Chris Smith. I Love her style! And I found the idea for this card on her blog. Super simple, but I love it!


Her idea was to take those pieces of Designer Papers that have a lot of pattern to it (this was has kind of a lot to it), and then run it through the Square Lattice embossing folder. Stick that on - add an easy ribbon - and a greeting - Tah Dah!!

Here's a closer view. Maybe you can see the embossing better? Anyway, I just love the idea for this quick and easy card!

By the way, my husband had asked me to make him a thank you card about a week ago - so when he reminded me tonight - this was what he got! I'm sure he thought I've been working on it, but little did he know that I ran upstairs and whipped up this beauty in just a couple minutes!! You can bet I'll be making a card like this again - change up the papers and the saying - awesome!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

Baja Makes it Better!

This is a card I made for class this Friday/Saturday. And, man, I've been stewing over this one card. I've re-made it in lots of color combinations, but nothing looked right! Finally I changed out one of the Earthtone colors I had for Baja Breeze - and finally I'm happy with it!!

We're making this card for my "technique class." I saw the idea to make a background like this from Becky Roberts (although her card was pretty different from how mine is). So I took the background idea, and lovingly named it the 'Bodaciously Beautiful Background.' - Gotta stick with those Stampin' Up! alliterations. And how it's made is just stamp onto First Edition Specialty paper, then sponge the edges a bit, and then run it through the Big Shot with an Embossing Folder (I used Elegant Lines). - And I forgot to put it through the Embossing Folder before I stuck it to the Vanilla layer - so they both got embossed!

Then I decided to use the Designer Frames Embossing Folder for the saying - I like the simplicity, and elegance of it! It also got a little Baja sponging - just on the Wide Oval Circle part that was dimensionaled onto it.


So maybe a little off the usual Fall color scheme, but I really like what Baja did for this card! I guess I always like Baja though!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

Quick and Elegant Flower Garden

I wanted to make a few thank you cards that I could do real quick to have on hand for mailing out. And this card is about as quick and simple as they come - but I think it still has an elegant feel to it.

I just ran the Very Vanilla through the Big Shot with the new Flower Garden Embossing Folder. I sprayed a little Shimmer on it (I just had to!). Stamped a thank you (from the Thank You Kindly set) in Marina Mist. Then I tied a piece of Satin Marina ribbon around it and layered it onto a Marina Mist card - and wah lah...

Here's a little closer of the embossed Flower Garden with the Shimmer Spray - not sure how well you can see the shimmer in the picture, but it just adds that little bit!

Wouldn't a bunch of these make a nice little gift set for someone?!


Hope you had a great weekend,


Julie

What's Old is New Again!

Alex, my son, needed a way-overdue Thank You card for his uncle. So I'd been on a search for a good masculine card. Even though the set Lovely as a Tree has been around for forever, I still think it makes some of the best "everybody" kind of cards (masculine and feminine, holiday...). - And I still really like it! So I was searching on Splitcoast - and I think I found THE most awesome card ever made with this set! So what did I do? CASE it, of course!!

The original was made by Heather T, and she has some of the most awesome no layer cards I've ever seen. I love to add lots of layers and accessories and smooch and all that stuff, but a good simple, stunning single layer card is just cool too!

Anyway, her card was made with a couple retired colors, so I did change the colors I used. Mine is made with Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive (for the masked and sponged middle). Then I stamped the focal trees and the saying in Early Espresso.

Here you can see that the trees in the background are also stamped in the masked area with Pear and Olive before the mask was taken off.

Kind of funny, but I'm super excited about this card! It's a technique that I've done lots of times, but it's cool to sometimes go back to an old technique and "do it up" again!!

Thanks for stopping by,


Julie