More Handmade Cards for the Auction

Here are some more cards for the benefit auction.

These cards are not necessarily CASE'd or copied. 

The layouts have probably been used over and over on cards you can find on blogs and websites 

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First off, here is my all time favorite stamp set.....

 ! ! Extreme Elements ! !

And one of the companions to it, Extreme Guitar.

For the Boys - -

SU-Not Quite Navy, Old Olive

For the Girls - -

SU-Basic Black, Melon Mambo

And here are a couple of Sock Monkey cards.

Who doesn't love Sock Monkey??

SU-Sock Monkey

Hobby Lobby-Stickles

SU-Sock Monkey

Hobby Lobby-Stickles

And a couple of cards for "any occasion".

SU-Echos of Kindness

SU-Attic Boutique, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla

Hobby Lobby-stamp

Note: Blog post about the last card to come at a later date.

I love that Very Vanilla goes with just about any color. Not all of them though! 

Just several that I have been using lately.  Like, Kraft, Soft Suede, Black, and Kraft.

You Rock to the Extreme

LOL. Catchy title huh?  I like how this card turned out.  I was inspired by the card on page 89 in the SU 2010/2011 catalog.

Using one of my favorite stamp sets from SU, Extreme Elements.

 (sorry about the lighting)

A very simple but effective technique that I like to use is wading up a small amount of tissue paper, then dabbing it on the ink pad, then dabbing the inked tissue paper onto the cardstock. You like?? I do. 

On this card, I did that for the card base but not the strip behind the Real Red strip of cardstock.

cardstock: Stampin UP Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Crumb Cake

ink: SU Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Crumb Cake

stamp: SU Extreme Elements, Extreme Guitar, Just Jawing

Extreme Like

Haha!  The stamp set is Extreme Elements and Extreme Skateboard and I really, really Like this set.

This is one of those cards that I was thinking "this ain't going to turn out", "you are wasting paper"......but I am glad it turned out better than I thought it would.  

cardstock: generic white

ink: Not Quite Navy, Old Olive

stamp: Extreme Elements, Extreme Skateboard

(All Stampin UP except the cardstock. Skateboarder is popped up on those little white, spongy things, lol.)

Blog much?

Umm, no I don't. LOL

I haven't blogged cause I have nothing to blog about.  Well, I did have surgery.  It was my gallbladder causing me troubles.  So, now it's gone.

Here are a couple of cards I have done for various family birthdays.

Stamps and ink are Stampin Up, paper is whatever or Bazzill cardstock.

We are starting to build our shop.  Thought I would get to landscape the front this Spring but it might have to be another year.  Got to get this shop built, so hubby has somewhere to work on our vehicles at.  I should really say, Kyle's vehicles.  That boy and his trading cars.  Drives me crazy.  

Anyway, that's an update from me.  If you can call it an update. HA!