What's a greeting card?

Hi Everyone, While I was lurking around splitcoaststampers today, I came accross this note on a thread. It was just a really cool read and reminded me why I love to create the cards in the first place.

Enjoy,

Just thought I’d share

What's a Greeting Card?Author Unknown.

It's a little piece of paper
That tells someone how you care;
It can be a ray of sunshine --
It can be a wish or prayer.
It can simply say, "I love you"
Or just say, "I understand"

It can be a little visit,
Or the clasp of someone's hand.
It can be a word of comfort
When somebody's heart is sad,
It can be a smile or chuckle
Making someone's heart feel glad.
It can keep folks close together
Even though they're far apart

It can show someone you're thankful
From the bottom of your heart.
It can travel any distance
In all kinds of weather, too.
And it has the "magic something"
That some "big things “never do.
Yes, it's just a piece of paper
And it costs no big amount,
But it proves that old, old saying;
It's the little things that count."

A combo challenge on splitcoaststampers

This was done for the color challenge154 today and I thought the colors would work perfect to do the technique challenge from yesterday. The tlc156 was to make This envelope pouch. Making this pouch was a blast. I have a workshop coming up and I just might work it into that as well.

My Recipe:

Stamps: Happy everything

Ink: Pumpkin pie, certainly celery, orchard opulence. Black was my neutral color

Paper: Whisper white, certainly celery

Accessories: White envelope, scran wrap for BG of envelope, Oval scallop punch from mauvy, grosgrain ribbon, primas, stickles and build a brad from Stampin up and last I used the computer for the easter letters. I couldn't find my small letter stamps.

Technique: Envelope pouch

TFL~Have a wonderful day

Featured Stamper # 54

This was for todays Featured stamper challenge on splitcoaststampers. This is a great challenge to do because you get to case an Awesome stamper. Todays FS was Betty aka gbedwright on splitcoaststampers. She has a wonderful talent and I really enjoyed going through her gallery. It was so hard to pick just one but that's all time would allow me today.

I just love this set. When I went looking through Betty's gallery I spotted her card right away. I really loved that she used this bird for a baby card and I will be sure to use it for that in the future. I didn't need a baby card so I changed it to be a birthday card. Other things I changed were the designer paper, the colors, the sentiment, the center strip and the flowers in the corners.

The Recipe:

Stamps: Stampin up's spring solitude and the birthday stamp is from SU's happy everything.

Ink: Stampin up's really rust, old olive, chocolate chip.

Paper: Really rust, very vanilla, chocolate chip basic grey perhaps.

Accessories: Su's spring 3 flower punch retired, paper ribbon in middle is from K&Company, oval punches from SU oval scallop punches are from muavy and the coluzzel lastly the 1/4 circle punch from SU.

Thanks for looking everyone have a great day.

ic115 on splitcoaststampers

This was for the IC115 challenge at splitcoaststampers. Here's the inspiration piece picture. My inspiration from the picture was to use the bird somehow and the colors. I added in the stripes too by adding ribbon.

I also want to welcome SmilynStef. She's our New Hostess with the mostess and I want to say so long to kthaman, I'll miss your wonderful picks for the challenge. Best of luck. The ic is one of my Favorite challenges of the week and I usually can't resist playing.

My Recipe:

Stamps: spring solitude with wheel to match from Stampin up, I used the weathered bg from stampin up to make the tree.

Ink: Chocolate chip I used for the tree and branch and the bg on the choc chip cs. really rust, garden green I used on the bird plus the garden green on the branch.. I used the garden green over the choc chip to make it look darker some., brown stazon was used for the sentiment because it's darker, brown micron marker for the line down the side of the tree, and last white craft for the bg.

Paper: Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, Chocolate chip.

Accessories: brads from Miichaels crafts, chocolate chip thin grosgrain ribbon now retired from Stampin up and for the piercing I used an eraser with a stick pin. I used my fiskers score blade for the scored frame and the scoring along the bottom of the card, dotted ribbon is from michaels crafts too. I used my thin wheel for the bg and lastly I used my dimentionals to raise the picture up from the base.

Technique: paper piercing, scoring,

Thanks for looking everybody and have a great Saturday!! :)

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this isn't at all as good as Chocolate would be but I'm class mom for my DD and they are having a Valentines Breakfast party and I thought Fruit would work nicely. I almost dipped the strawberries in chocolate but our school passed this rule that if the first ingreadent is sugar then we can't have it at the school. Bummer huh. I know it's better for the kids but it's a hard rule to get used to. I'm glad my DD's teacher went with a Breakfast party .It did make it easier. Have a Great Day and TFL~

Well the the calm after the storm is here.

Well the the calm after the storm is here. I hosted an all Occasion Stamp A Stack this past week and things are very calm today. I still have some things to catch up on but I'm not feeling rushed and I think I might have come down from the natural high I was on.My SU upline Chrys and I hosted the SAS together. We really work very well together. We had 32 people come between the two sessions and we were definitily hopping both days. WHEW! We did 4 sets of 4 All Occasion cards. I Design two, one was an Adult Birthday and the other was a Thinking of you/Sympathy and Chrys Design two, hers were a Kids Birthday and a Thank you. There were a total of 16 cards made. Chrys did the favors. We did the pin wheels using the scallop punch and putting a peppermint patty in the middle and I did the door prizes which were coaster calendars. We put a red circle label on the bottom of 2 of the patties and whoever picked the favor with the red dot won the door prize. We raffled off 2 each session. Check out below for Pictures and more info on my creations for the SAS. Thanks for checking in. :)

Door Prizes from the Stamp A Stack I hosted

Here's the three door prize choices I did. It's a coaster calendar. I got the coasters form http://stamponthis.com/. For the one in the middle I took two square coasters and covered both sides with a piece of 4x4 Spring Silhouettes DP. I ran the Dp through my xyron to make them stick. I sanded the sides with my Stampin up sanding block. and used my crop-a-dial to make the holes for the ribbon to go through. I found the calendar info here: 2008 Calendar

Stamps: Embrace life

paper: Spring Silhouettes DP, Whisper White and computer white

Ink: Soft sky, Blue bayou and Black Stazon

Accessories: Blue bayou stripped ribbon, liquid Pearl, 2008 calendar, crop-a-dial, sanding block, staple, pop up glue dot, 4x4 square chipboard

Technique: Watercoloring, cutting, coaster calendar

For the one on the left:
Stamps: Time well spent.
Paper:Ginger Blossoms DP, whisper white CS, white computer paper
Ink: Grean Stazon for flowers, prisma pencils for flowers, ruby red for the heart on the calendar.
Accessories: Groovy Guava Stitched ribbon, pop up glue dots, 2008 calendar(see above), crop-a-dial, square 4x4 chipboard, sanding blocks
Technique:coaster calendar.

For the one on the right:
Stamps: Embrace life
Paper: Ginger Blossom DP
Ink: Green Stazon, Prisma pencils for the flower top, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, Groovy Guava Stitched ribbon, 4x4 square chipboard, crop-a-dial, "2008 calendar(see above) and crystal effects over the flower to give it a raised look.
Technique: coaster calendar

Thanks for looking & have a Great Day

Stamp A Stack Cards

Here's a close up of the cake!!

These are the SAS Cards I designed. The first one is the Adult Birthday. I decided on making it a feminine card this time around. I used the Eat cake set from Stampin up and to make it look more Feminine I used the faux shaving cream technique on the cake part.
I got these instructions from Beth the host on splitcoaststampers. It was from the tlc110 we did a while back. Thank you Beth.
Here is how to do it:
Ink up a solid stamp, either with your brayer or just by tapping it on the ink pad. Take a small stamp (1/2" to 1") and touch it to the inked surface of the solid stamp and then twist. Repeat the touch and twist motion all over the solid stamp. "Huff" (breathe) on the solid stamp to remoisten the ink if necessary and then stamp it on your cardstock. The result is a beautiful mottled look.Variation: ink up the smaller stamp with a contrasting color before touching/twisting. This will introduce another color into the swirls. I also used the crystal effects, I made a line going through the center of the cake and put micro beads on the top. What a cool look. I was really pleased the way it turned out. lastly I want to tell you about the scoring I did too. I took the White piece and using my fiskers cutter. Using the scoring attachment I scored 1/4 inch all the way around the CS to make it look like a frame I then did my paper piercing in the corners. I also did the scoring on the bottom of the card. The lines are 1/4 inch apart.


The Second card is the Thinking of you one I did. This one is really an easy card to put together. I tapped off the leaves stamp and then stamped the flower on top. I watercolored in the flowers using the blender pen. to Make the vase, I took Stampin up large oval punch and after I punched out the oval I cut off the bottom of the oval to make it flat and then used the ticket punch on the top. Last I sponged all over it to give it a real look. I was really plesed with this one too..

Birthday wishes recipe:

Stamps: Eat Cake, sincere salutations.
paper: Groovy Guava, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper white.
Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Groovy Guava, White craft for the BG on the base part of the card.
Accessories: Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, micro beads, crystal effects, dimensionals, Score blade from my fiskers cutter and a 1/8 circle punch.
Technique: Faux shaving cream, scoring and paper piercing.

Thinking of you recipe:

Stamps: Embrace Life( great set and I've used it a ton.), curvey verses
Paper: Very vanilla, chocolate chip, spring silhouettes DP,
Ink: Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Brown stazon.
Accessories: Chocolate chip grosgrain, liquid Pearl for flower centers, blender pen to watercolor in flowers, Large oval punch, ticket punch, Liquid pearl is from Jaann's Crafts
Technique: watercoloring, Vase making and sponging.

Thanks for looking & Have a Great Day

Technique Challenge for splitcoaststampers

This was for todays TLC154. What a fun and easy idea. I'm hosting a Stamp a stack this next week and this Will be just too cute to put the favors in. Or just some M&Ms. We'll see what fits best. Here are the Directions for you to try. http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.f41682a986dc20e593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=5d08128571883110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=b7658e4336fb2110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=print&rsc=communitytools_crafts&lnc=bf89cf380e1dd010VgnVCM1000005b09a00aRCRD&page=1

Stamps used: Time well spent
Paper used: Stampin up Ginger Blossom DP, Whisper white
Ink: Prisma Pencils, green stazon, ruby red,
Accessories: Liquid pearl, Large scallop circle, fairy tale ribbon from stampin up, red grosgrain ribbon.
Technique: TLC154 Sweet Centerpieces.

Thanks for looking~

Inspiration Challenge 113 on Splitcoaststampers

This was done for todays ic113 at Splitcoaststampers. It was a Beautiful living room. The soft colors were my inspiration. I just love this embrace life set. I've used it a ton. This also fit the SC161 challenge this week.

Stamps I used: Embrace Life,
Paper used: Stampin up's Ginger Blossom DP, River Rck and creamy caramel,
Accessories used were: Theater Ribbon from SU, Liquid Pearl, CB Template and my wonderful Prisma pencils
Ink: River Rock, Prisma pencils, brown stazon
Techniques: Cutting, Dry embossing

THanks For looking everyone. Have a Great Day:)

Ways to use it challenge at splitcoaststampers.com

Todays Challenge was ways to use staples. What fun. It has been sooooo long since I used staples in a design.

I stamped the main Gina K roses image on a piece of vellum cardstock. I did a scored frame with the staples in the corners to hold the vellum to the Designer paper then I again used the staples to hold down the ribbon.

Stamps: Gina K
paper : Groovy Guava, Ruby Red, Vellum, Designer paper is by
my minds eye www.mymindseye.com
Accessories: Michaels ribbon, colored staples,Red liguid pearl from Joanns crafts,

Todays SC161 Challenge on splitcoaststampers

This was done for todays sc161 on splitcoaststampers. I just got this set from Verve Visual and wanted to use the wild Thing stamp so bad. I decided to make this card for my DH. It's a Little early but now I'll be ahead of the game right???
I got some fun papers at a super scrapbooking store. The store is called Memory Lane Ink. and it's about 45mins from me so I don't get there half as much as I would like. Fun, Fun store.

The Designer paper is by: My minds eye. You can find it here: www.mymindseye.com
The Stamps are from Verve Visual found here: www.vervevisual.com
I used Stampin up' Card stock Ruby red, Chocolate chip and WW
For Accessories I used some Stickles that I too got from MLI and The fun Ribbon I got at Michaels crafts.

Thanks for looking today

How I got my Blog Name

Welcome everyone to my Blog!!! It's still under start up construction but I thought I'd start with posting how I came up with my blog name. I had so many different ideas for a name but this one won out. I was at a Dear friends house and Well she was wonderful enough to get me started. I talked a good talk of oh yes... I'll start the blog and then wouldn't. Thank you Val:)

Well I'm sure you've noticed that I love to Stamp. feel free to check out my slide show. So that's where Stampin came from. As for as Stylin, Well many years ago I used to Cut hair for a living. I loved the updos and Stylin part of it. So you can Style hair and you certainly can style cards and projects. So there you have it, that's where it came from and of course my dear friend Val who thought of it but it stuck because of everything else I just spoke of.

Thank you for checking in and have a great rest of your Sunday.

Earhart Designs!

My New Blog in process. Please come back again!

Lsc150 for splitcoaststampers

Here's a card I did today. This for todays lsc150. I used cameo coral and ruby red as my two colors from the same color group. I used Chocolate and WW as my neutral colors, two accessories are ribbon and the CB hearts template. I picked cameo coral because I haven't used it for a long while.

I cut out a heart from a piece of paper and used it for a template for behind the heart bouquet.

Loved the way it turned out.