Feathers - 1 or 3?

Which one do you like better?

Sympathy Card

Four Feathers

Stamping Up!'s Bohemian Borders

Native American Bear Print

Birthday card for another co-worker.

SCS Sketch Challenge 431

O, Fair New Mexico, 
We love, we love you so,
Our hearts with pride o'reflow,
No matter where we go.

I've been homesick lately, so I've been thinking about a chile card for several weeks, but nothing I tried seemed to work. I was visiting SplitCoastStampers, and found this sketch challenge and suddenly, the card came together in my head. Here is the link to the sketch challenge, check out all the creations!

I don't remember where I got the chile paper, I think a LSS was going out of business :( so I bought all they had. One side is the green chile and the other side is red chile. In NM you will be asked (when ordering Mexican food) if you want Red or Green? I'm a green chile person but my husband is a red chile person, so in our house we make both kinds of enchiladas.

The phrase is from Stamp A Mania, the chile is from SU's Southwest set and is embossed with Stamp A Mania's Red Chile EP.  I used the Cuttlebug Southwest embossing border on the black strip.

Southwest Birthday Card

Here is the second card made using the new rubber!  This time I made a birthday card for my step-dad using the sun/saguaro/bunny stamp.

Stamp:          My Heart Stamps For You
Ink:               Momento
Copics:      
Accessories: Cuttlebug embossing folder "Southwest"
Paper:           August Green Linen, and then 2 colors of yellow from my paper stash.

New Rubber

I ordered some new stamps today.  I've had my eye on one or two of them and when I stumbled across the unmounted sheet of all of them, I couldn't resist.  I got them in the mail today and made a card.  I believe that is a first!

Here are the new stamps.  They are from My Heart Stamps For You.

And here is the card I made.  It also uses new stamping stuff.  I got the Cricut Southwest Borders embossing folders for Christmas and used one of them.

The card base and mat are from The Paper Cut, Augusta Green Linen.  I used Copics YG61, YG63, YG67, R05, E31, E33 and E34.

New SW Borders Embossing Folders From Cricut

I found these embossing folder borders with SouthWest designs from Cricut and knew that I had to have them and I had to get them for my mom.

Here is what they look like:

The only examples I've seen so far just use one border along the bottom or side.  I'm going to try to emboss the same folder over and over again for a background.

Native American Chief

This wonderful image is from B&J's Stamps. The background teepees are from Stamping Sensations. I stamped the teepees in black on Bazzill paper. The Chief is stamped on copic paper and colored with copics. To cover a mis-stamped image, I used feathers as an embellishment.

Paper: Bazzill (2 different browns) and Neenah white paper

Ink: Ranger Archive black ink, Copics #E25, E27, R11 and E51 for the face, T3 for the feathers blended with the 0 colorless blender pen, BG05 and R22

Accessories: feathers (from Stamp A Mania), Deckle Nesties, twine

I made this for my Uncle's birthday. The cool thing about this card is that these cliff dwellings are near Silver City, NM which is not too far from where I grew up in Las Cruces, NM.

The stamp is of the Gila Cliff Dwellings and is from Stamp A Mania. The EP is also from Stamp A Mania and is called Sand Tapestry and it was embossed on Bazzill Tortilla cardstock.

I tore it and put it on a brown from DCWV and added the 3 brads in the corner.

Sympathy Angel

I love this angel and this sympathy verse and given that it is a Native American saying and a Native American angel, they seem a perfect match.

I used a yellowy color paper that coordinated very well with More Mustard, which is what I used for the angel. Then I overstamped the verse using black. I cut out the black matt with deckle edges. I used the smooth side of the yellowy paper for the angel and then the textured side for the bottom matt.

Stamps: The expression is from SU's Hope for Comfort

The angel is from Stamp A Mania

Paper: American Crafts

Ink: Basic Black and More Mustard from SU

Accessories: Deckle scissors

Father's Day Cards

I made 3 Father's Day cards this year (like always!).  I'm triply blessed!

The first one is made from some scrapbook paper that I've had forever. I cut out along the bottom around the race cars and then glued it onto a sheet of green paper

that matched (almost too perfectly, since you can't see where the green front wing of the

race car ends and the background paper begins) the color of one of the race cars. The c

ard is 9.5" x 4" to fit in a regular legal sized envelope. Walmart has them in such nice colors! I then cut a mat out of the same green that was wider than the sentiment so that it mimicked the card being wider than the white paper.

Stamp: Thinking of Father from SU!

Cardstock: AC Cardstock, primaries

Paper: ???

Ink: SU's Basic Black

The second card utilizes an image I've had for a couple of years. I really liked the image and so

couldn't bear to use it, but finally found the perfect card to make with it. The image came from a make and take at the Grapevine or Mesquite convention with Judy of B & J's Art Stamps, so all the stamps are theirs. I should have bought the main stamp because I like it so much. Maybe this year! The background was stamped with one of their background stamps, of which I have several. I love the brushed look! Judy has us stamp the whole background with a light color (in this case a yellow color) and then around the edges with a darker color (Indian Rouge and Patina Beauty). Once the background is stamped, we stamped the Indian with black, covered the whole thing with sparkly EP and heat gunned it. Next we stamped in the Patina Beauty two background stamps in the corners. Finally, we used Versamark to emboss the edges of the card with bronze EP. I put this on teal paper.

The last card was an easy card, nice and simple. At the Arlington convention this month, I bought some paper from Scrapbookers Painted Page. One of the papers I bought was of a sea plane on a lake. My step-father likes planes and I thought this would make a great card for him. I used a whole

sheet of 8.5" x 11" piece of cardstock and folded it in half to make a larger card. I used a red color from AC (American Crafts). I glued the paper on the cardstock and then punched an oval through the front of the card using the SU medium oval punch. I masked the oval and stamped the word JOY on the inside of the card through the oval. The JOY came from SU's Small Words set.

Christmas Present - Dream Catcher

Guess what my husband gave me for Christmas!!! (Yes, there was some hinting involved!) The retired SU set Dream Catcher!

White Sands

I grew up not very far from White Sands National Monument, and visited often, so this card reminds me of home. The sunset sky was made using Memory Mists (from Stamp A Mania) - a combination of Orange Juice, Pink Lemonade and Lemonade, the yucca stamp is from Stamp A Mania, and is embossed in black and the sun is from the SU set Little Shapes using the Warm Red Cat's Eye fluid chalk ink. I glued white sand from Michael's (not from White Sands!) to form the sand dune.

Organ Mountains Card

This is the card I made for my Dad on Father's Day. The mountains are the Organ Mountains in my hometown. The mountain stamp and the cacti stamp are from Stamp-A-Mania and the little hills I used to fill in between the two and the small yucca are from an old Stampin Up set whose name I do not know. I used a brown ink and then chalked the mountains with SU's Creamy Caramel and a tiny bit of Garden Green on the foothills. I chalked the sky using the SU cloud template and Brilliant Blue. I stamped the cacti in Garden Green and then used Liquid Applique from B&J's Stamps in orange, purple, white and red for the flowers. I hope my Dad liked it! :)

Stamp A Mania Cards

In celebration of Stamp A Mania's sale, here are some of my cards using Stamp A Mania stamps.

These two cards use SAM's rollers, the quail is a panel from the Spirit Dancer roller, while the other card uses images from their Southwest roller. Both use brown and cream/tan cardstocks from Big Lots, black paper, black ink and the Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Diamonds in the Rough. The sentiments for both cards are from SU, the first is from a very old set ??? and the "friendship" is from Wonderful Words I. I used deckle scissors on both cards.

These cards are also made with SAM rollers. All three use their Ancient Relic roller for the background (I love that one) and the Petroglyph Herder and Petroglyph Hunter rollers for the main image. The top cards use SU's Creamy Caramel ink while the other uses SU's Basic Brown. The lighter paper is from Big Lots, while the darker colors are DCWV. I used the SW corner punch on all the cards. I'm not sure where I bought the eyelets.

I love this stamp. The chile roller is a clearsnap (I think) that I got from SAM and the chile is from SAM as well. I used generic green and red ink and paper.

This eagle is embossed with a mixture of SAM's Silver City EP (the **best** silver EP I've found...and I've tried bunches!) and Desert Jewels EP. I embossed on black paper and put it on SU's Tempting Turquoise.

Cat Card

Here is a card I made for a kitty person. The Southwestern cat is from After Midnight Art Stamps and with it's complex design I like to use it on simple backgrounds. This cat was colored with copics and put on a textured black cardstock.

Cat Card

Here is a card I made for a kitty person. The Southwestern cat is from After Midnight Art Stamps and with it's complex design I like to use it on simple backgrounds. This cat was colored with copics and put on a textured black cardstock.

Repeat Impressions Design Team "Audition"

I'm "auditioning" to become a member of the Repeat Impressions Design Team. They want to see 5 of my cards to decide if they like my style. Here is what I've chosen:

This birthday card uses Repeat Impression stamps for the words and the cat while the bird feet is a stamp from SU's "Best of Cluck" set. I colored the kitty with copics and embellished it with a real feather. The background and all of the words/images are cut with Deckle scissors and matted with DCWV paper, also cut with Deckle scissors.

This cat is from After Midnight and is colored with my copics. In the picture, the card base looks like it is 2 colors, but in reality it is white with a rectangle of SU's Chocolate Chip paper. Three black brads finish the card.

This cliff dwelling reminds me of one I visited a number of times in my childhod. I'm not sure if it is really the Gila Cliff Dwellings, but that's what it makes me think of. The stamp is from Stamp A Mania and so is the Flagstone EP I used. The paper is DCWV and I used twine and wood beads for the finishing touch.

This card uses all SU products. The paper is Basic Black and Old Olive and the inks used are Old Olive, More Mustard, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, Basic Black and Night of Navy. The stamp set is "World Traveler".

This Father's Day card uses SU's "Builder Bits" roller, Only Orange and Really Red paper. The main image is from a background stamp of unknown origins as is the sentiment. I don't recall where I got the nut brads. When I first started stamping, I didn't think to keep track of such things.