Faux Pinwheel Card Sunday Stamping Technique Card

Wow, thanks to a fellow Stampin' UP! fellow demonstrator Dawn Olchefske at DOstamping.com, I have a technique for you today? Aren't you glad for that? I do hope you appreciate that. This is called a Faux Pinwheel technique and it is so easy it is ridiculous. You take two 2-5/8" squares and lay one down and then the other one opposite and if you have our grid paper to line it up on it is really easy to do this. Then you need 8 1-1/4" squares and of course we have a punch for that so I punched 4 in Melon Mambo and 4 in the Cheerful Treat DSP. I textured the Melon Mambo ones with the Prefect Polka Dots Textured Embossing folder. Then you start laying them down leaving a space like a mat. You only put snail on the first one you put down on the right side so we can get the very last one down. Then you start snailing the other squares down and alternating each design. When you get to the last one you need to lift up the edge of the first square you put down and then add snail to the corner of the first one. You can go to You Tube and look for Sweet Shop Faux Pinwheel Technique to see the video on this. 


I spent this morning after church raking and picking up sticks and burning them. It was about 50 and sunny here to day and so nice. The wind wasn't blowing too bad. I raked till I couldn't do it anymore. When I came in the house I had a phone call from a customer that wanted to come over to check out what I had for sale. I had put out an email about selling my discontinued stuff and she had received that so 3 of my customers that were at my party yesterday also came over together to shop and chat. Then they left and I went to start the straw on fire that wouldn't burn earlier in the day. I came in and I really wanted a nap but knew it was Sunday and I hadn't posted anything yet so I quick stamped this card for you. 

Here are the details:
Stamp Set: Sincere Salutations, and Borderlines and they are both being discontinued. :(   
Card Stock: Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, Cheerful Treats Hostess DSP
Ink: Lucky Limeade
Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, 1-1/4" Square Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Cutter Kit for texturing edge, Paper Piercing Tool and Matt Pack, Brights Flower Brads, Rhinestones from the Designer Printed Kit of Blossom Builders in the mini, Dimensionals. 
So that is my technique for today. I hope you like it and I sure hope you are following along getting all the treasures for the Late Night Stampers Treasure Hunt. You can find the details some posts back.  I love reading your comments and thank you for all of those. Now go create something cute and have a blessed rest of the day.Thanks for checking in and come back again tomorrow. Hugs, Bev

Bright Birthday Card

Is anyone else anxious for Spring? I sure am and we are supposed to get a big snow storm tonight so today I stamped this springy card and then made a big pot of chili just in case I am snowed in for a few days. (I hope so!!!!) MMM MMM MMMM it tasted so good too. 

Stampin' UP! is coming out with a new diagonal score plate that will be available to purchase in March for $11.95. Well, one of the perks of being a demonstrator is you get to order things earlier than the customers do so I got mine today. I of course had to get it out and play with it. It sits right on top of the score pal and has an arrow on the back to show which way to lay it on it. I scored a piece of Concord Crush card stock to try it on and it was so cool almost felt like corduroy. So I punched out a flower using the new Blossom Punch....don't you just love that punch. OMG I do. LOL,if you know how I am I couldn't stop there so pretty soon I get out some matching designer paper and start making this card. So this is what I came up with. I sure hope you like it too. I punched the blossom out of Lucky Limeade and then layered a piece of the Cheerful Treat DSP behind where I punched. Then I punched out one more flower out of Melon Mambo CS and layered them and added the middle of the flower from the Mixed bunch set and then added a Flower Brad and put a Mini Pearl (HA HA not the real Minnie Pearl!) just a small basic pearl on top of the flower brad. I thought it turned out so stinkin' cute. I know I would have loved to get this card for my birthday yesterday so I am sure someone else will like it too. Anyway below are the Supplies and look, no big shot used(LOL):

Stamp Sets: Mixed Bunch, Borderlines, and Messages For Mom,  

Card Stock: Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Concord Crush, Melon Mambo, and Cheerful Treat DSP

Inks: Lucky Limeade, Concord Crush, and Bashful Blue

Accessories: Blossom Punch, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Diagonal Score Plate and Simply Scored, Brights Flower Brads, Basic Pearls, Mat Pack, Paper Piecing Tool, Dimensions. 

Thanks for stopping by tonight and let me know what you think of my card. Hugs and Happy Stamping, Bev