Holiday Swap with Jeannette

So what do you all think? This is the rough draft of my card that I am making 10 of. I used the Season of Friendship and Thankful Thoughts stamp sets from SU! I used Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron and Certainly Celery for the leaves. The pumpkins were done in Pumpkin Pie. I sponged the sky and grass. This was my first time using the sponging technique-and I loved IT! The sky has 4 colors-not quite navy, night of navy, brillant blue, bashful blue. The moon/sun is done in so saffron sponging. I had made a post it note 1 inch mask and then after sponging the sky I used my sponge to color the sun/moon with so saffron. The grass is done the same way as the sky with certainly celery and always artichoke for some deeper levels of color.

I am going to pop the pumpkins and some of the leaves. I am thinking of ditching the night of navy color in the sky it is to the right of the tree.

I got the sky idea from the http://www.stampinspringer.blogspot.com/ card. It was so awesome with the snow effects etc. Since I am making this card on the plane, I could not emboss it so I altered it.

Thanks for looking. I will take a finally picture next week and post it after I get back from Seattle.

MMM what should I do?

I have to make 15 cards for my upline group for our "swap" next week. Any current SU product/accessories-must be holiday orientated-Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

I am thinking the Pick a petal set and the Season of Friendship sets. I am going to be gathering everything today and tomorrow as Thursday am I head to Seattle till late Monday. I need to do this while I am away.

"60 Sucks"

A few weeks was my Aunt's 60th birthday. I had seen somewhere on a blog a "30 Sucks" lollipop bouqet. I thought this would be perfect for my aunt! I used a flower stamp from SU and made 60 flowers in 6 colors. I then cut them all out one night during the Democratic Convention. The next night I pushed all the Mini Tootsie Pops & Dum-Dums through the flowers. Oh I had alos made some petals from the Pick a Petal set too in three different colors. I used two straws I ripped off from Panera Bread one day to position the "60 Sucks" sign.

My aunt loved it! She takes one lollipop daily on her walk with Max, her dog.

This is such a popular gift idea that several of my friends have done it as well. One was titled "80 Sucks" and then the "50 sucks" that was made in a cardboard beer six-pack container.

Getting here!

I have a blog regarding my nanny life at www.nannyadventures.com I was going to add my Stampin' Up stuff over there but decided I needed my own site for that. So here I am working on two blogs now! YIKES :)

In the coming weeks I will be posting some of my cards and stuff I have made with my upline and my friends. I can't wait to order my Big Shot this week and get my hands on it.

See you soon!