August Projects

Are you surviving the summer, the heat, the kids?  I just returned from Convention in Salt Lake City and had a wonderful time.  SU gave us the new mini catalog and a few new products from that catalog.  I'll bring the new products, the mini holiday catalog and a zillion swaps next time we meet! 

This month's projects originated from Convention swaps.  Our class cards are a bit upgraded.  Swaps are usually very simple.  Very simple wouldn't work for us!!!

Dazzling Dames Stampers – Saturday, August15th @ 1p, Bonnie is hostess

Dexter Stampers – Sunday, August 30th @ 10a, Gerry is hostess

Magic Window

From boring to 'that's sooo cool… how did you do that?'

The blue flower is very artsy fartsy… kinda proud of the reckless coloring here.

The classic car is for Grampi.  It is colored to match his car. He has a birthday in August.

Pink! (said with a high pitched pink and squeak at the end) Flowers, happy card.  Hey, check out that grass!  You can use the fringe scissors.  I've had them for some time waiting for the right project. 

Ah, Kitty… I would have colored him black but he would have been a blob as I would have colored over the line art. Maybe he ate the grass… or maybe he really doesn't like birthdays…

Kitty is funny!  I know a handful of friends that feel that way about birthdays.  I've always liked this stamp set.  There are a few other awesome stamps in this set that would work perfectly here such as the bowl of cherries (pits of life… lol…).

Lotsa Layers

This card is quite elegant.  I almost want to say simple.  It isn't difficult at all to make, just very classic and nice. Sometimes its nice to sit down and make a stack of cards so you have cards on hand for those unexpected life events.  This is the perfect lay out.  This card is very satisfying (can I say that?).

Modern fall… I'm feelin it!  Hey, no cutting!!!  Framelits do the work…

Combining colors can be challenging if you don't have a color wheel (you can search Pinterest-Color Combos for inspiration).  For these cards I 100% used help and established color combos.  I rely on help for colors in 90% of the projects I make.  I wanted fall colors, but wanted the combo to be fresh and modern.  NOT chocolate, cajun and vanilla 'ish.

Ummm… the pink flowers… I so love pink…

… another attractive color combo that I would not have done on my own.

I can't wait to share these projects with you.  I know you will be as pleased as I was once you make them.

Supplies:

Magic Window – Stamp Sets-In This Together, Endless Thanks, Remarkable You, Guy Greetings, Giggle Greetings; Paper-window sheet, white, black, mambo, daffodil, cuke, dsp neutrals; Ink-cuke navy for majig, mambo, staz-on, versa, daffodil, crumb, basic gray, cherry memento; Accessories-markers, majig, framelitsx4, blue glue, brayer, dimensionals, wipes, tear tape, corner punch, scorer, fringe scissors, candy dots, scrap paper for brayering.

Lotsa Layers – Stamp Sets – Birthday Blossom, Vintage Leaves, Garden, Happy Happenings; Paper-artichoke, wasabi, pink, sand, white shimmery, eggplant, wisteria, sky, olive, island, cajun, sand; Ink-versa, staz-on wasabi, artichoke, wisteria, eggplant, olive, sky, cherry, espresso; Accessories-heat tool, ep black gold and silver, aqua painters, punch pansy, punch corner, orange tape, venician lace, linen thread, wisteria seam, dimensionals, rhinestones, reinkers misc, framelits leaves

Happy Stampin,