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These first two are based on Jenna Barber's paper quilt card. You can check out her tutorial here. The third card is an embossed vellum overlay (Finial Press folder) on Springtime Vintage DSP.
I made these two after perusing Jenna Barber's Splitcoast Stampers gallery, which featured some vintagey butterfly cards a while back, in February. Here's a link to her blog. She does such awesome work with so much variety! She's my stampin' "sideline" - that means we have the same upline, and she's also my cousin-in-law, and she lives just behind our upline, Karen Barber, in Ohio.
If you've been reading my blog and wondering how I have time for stamping elabroate and multi-layered cards with a newborn, I actually don't :0) The cards I've made since he was born (which number about 80 and took me a few days when I had a minute to sneak in some stamping), are actually a very easy design, that I could mass produce. The recent cards on my blog, I made before he was born. I just hadn't gotten around to posting them:0) I love to make elaborate cards when I get the chance, but lately it's been more of what I call "bulk stamping" - cards that are easy to reproduce, since I need to be able to have a lot of cards on hand to send to my Philly Inkers, and to customers for thank you's, etc. :0) Good thing both kind of cards are fun and cute and appreciated by the recipient! That's the great thing about stamping!
The butterflies behind the vellum are made using the Beautiful Butterflies die. I embossed the vellum overlay with the Elegant Bouquet folder, and added our awesome pearls to the flower centers.
That fun little shape that the "for you" is stamped on - that came from the Decorative Label punch, a new shape Tara Gupta figured out we could make with that punch.
For the "embedded embossing" technique, simply adhere your images to the card stock (I adhered butterfly diecuts from card stock and Springtime Vintage DSP to Very Vanilla card stock), and then you run the piece through the Big Shot with an embossing folder. I used Square Lattice. Cool, huh?
The little vanilla rosettes are only available until April 30, as is the Springtime Vintage DSP.
This gorgeous paper is only available through April 30. We learned that only the fabric version is being carried over into the next big catty. This paper reminds me of a Victorian tea shop. Click on the link above to see all the other adorable prints in the pack!
If you like butterflies, you'll want to check out my blog over the next few days, I have many more butterfly samples to come! My sideline Jenna Barber made some butterfly cards and after I saw them, I got on a butterfly kick for a while.
Lynn Fones showed some fun fabric projects!
The Color Book - one of our make and takes
Display of Aunt Karen's cards - better up close of course! That box was FULL of amazing cards. I wanted to give it a good home here in Philly, but I didn't think she'd like that too much if she got back to Ohio and realized it wasn't in the van.
Kristin Allcorn demoed favors/3d items.
Megan Bastow taught cards with fun folds.
Our final dinner at The Bistro in Elmer - great food and fun atmosphere. We were there for three hours! :0)
Janet and Lee - swap til you drop!
Juliana Bibas teaching some brayer/sponging techniques.
Karen Barber card display
Retiform card by Karen Barber
Me and Ginnie Rueber
Tina Rosenkrans, our stampin' great grandmother, who came from North Jersey, pictured with Sue Astheimer and Heather Yates
Make and take designed by Karen Barber, watercoloring with markers
Make and take designed by Melissa Levay
Notebook designed by Gina Thornton
I wanted to bring you up to speed on things:0) It usually bothers me when people begin a blog post with "I've been a really bad blogger...." (so I'm not going to do that, but I do realize it's been way over 6 weeks since I've posted) A lot has gone on! We had a really fun Technique Day in Mt. Airy on March 5, my team, the Philly Inkers, and guests, gathered for training/inspiration at Spring Fling in Elmer, NJ, on March 19, and then the birth of my son, Ezra, was 9 days later. He came a bit early, 6 days or so. I'm happy he let me attend all the March events I had planned! (He just cut in to my "get blog posts done ahead of time for maternity leave.") Ha! Like I really would have done that even if he were 6 days late!
I've been immensely enjoying him, along with my other son, who is just about 2 and a half and is a very proud big brother. You'll have to email me privately if you want pictures. (Dad is not so fond of pics of the boys going online.) And since I'm a bad blogger anyway, I can easily acquiesce to that request. ooops, I said it, so I guess I might as well say it again - I'm a bad blogger! It's the darn picture taking and uploading that slows me down...I'd rather look at other people's blogs instead. But I have some pics to share with you today from our awesome Spring Fling event. It was our biggest Philly Inker event to date, and we had some stamping "royalty" join us too :0) Read on for the deets! And look for more pics tomorrow:0) or sometime...
The Friday night before the event, special guests Maxine Conrad (middle right side) from Stampin' Up!, my aunt and upline Karen Barber (seated front on the right side) and my sideline Michelle Zindorf (on my left) all arrived. Kristin Kortonick (seated back on the right side) and I took them to Pattya Grill, one of my favorite Thai places in West Philly. Good thing I was still pretty round with child - I was so full I had to practically roll out of there!
This is Melissa (left), my dear friend for about 10 years now, me, and Kristin, who planned the event with me. (also a dear friend:0) I actually met Kristin through Melissa! (at a workshop Kristin's aunt and Melissa's colleague hosted in 2006.)
Here I am giving a few tips at one of our make-and-take tables.
Jill, Megan and Tara chillin' at the registration table! Tara is pregnant here with twins! She's due on July 4. Funny how she'll be losing her independence on Independence Day:0) Don't worry Tara, it's really wonderful to have dependents in the house :0) Here's Maxine, our special speaker of the day. She gave us such wonderful advice, encouragement, ideas, and made us laugh a lot. She's a successful business demonstrator, as well as a full time Stampin' Up! employee, and she's a mother of four, so she knows a lot about time management:0) We were honored to have her there!
More on Spring Fling to come soon!
