Doing the last minute packing because I'm headed to Salt Lake City, Utah tomorrow for Convention! This will be a treat for me, my first Convention! I am hoping to post pictures here on my blog or over on my Facebook page From Where I Stamp while at Convention. See you all later!

 ~ Amanda

This is my 2nd favourite entry, you'll see my 1st fav later! I love the Night of Navy flowers! Onto watercolour paper the flower was embossed in white, then using a mixture of Night of Navy ink refill and Shimmer Pain in Frost White each flower was painted. It creates a sparkly blue flower. For the Crumb Cake flowers: they are embossed in white, then spritzed with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz.

Before shipping this one away I made 2 more copies, one for myself and the other for the bride and groom!

Supplies
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Curly Cute
Ink: Night of Navy, Whisper Write, Shimmer Paint Frost White, Night of Navy Classic Stampin’ Ink refill, Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Write Marker, Night of Navy Stampin’ Write Marker
Paper: Night of Navy Textured, Crumb Cake, Whisper Write, Watercolor paper
Accessories: Two Step Bird Punch , White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, Brayer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Top Note Bigz die, Paint brush

~ Amanda

My dog Hoover. This is the first of three scrapbook pages I sent in for Stampin' Up!'s Artisan Award. For this layout I pulled colours from the fall leaves in the photos for accents. The leaves were embossed in gold onto Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron and Peach Parfait card stock.

Supplies
Stamps: Autumn Splendor
Ink: Versamark, Early Espresso Stampin' Write Marker
Paper: Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper, Early Espresso, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black
Accessories: Neutrals Designer Buttons, Brights Designer Buttons, Subtles Designer Buttons, Early Espresso 1/8” Taffeta Ribbon, Sticky Strip, Mini Glue Dots, Gold Stampin’ Emboss powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Big Shot, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlit dies, Big Shot Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

~ Amanda

This is my last card of my non-winning Artisan Award. Stampin' Up!'s fabric is beautiful and there is even more of it in the new 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue. Did you see the other fabric postcard I made a few months ago? Check it out here.

For this card I sewed two pieces (SU's the light blue and the large flower/white) together. Pressing the seams open I used the Big Shot Fabric Adhesive to adhere it to a piece of stiff interfacing. The Vanilla Satin Ribbon is adhered with the fabric adhesive as well.

For the heart I used a piece of SU's pink floral, fabric adhesive and a piece of non-SU cream fabric (cannot see it - but it's there for stability on the back of the heart). These were "glued" together and then cut out with the Big Shot. Sticky strip and Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon finished off the card.

Just realized that I didn't take a picture of the back of the postcard. On the other side is a piece of non-SU cream fabric adhered to the stiff interfacing with fabric adhesive as well. On the top centre of the back I stamped Postcard from the Winter Post stamp set in Stazon ink.

Supplies
Stamps: Winter Post, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Stazon Jet Black Ink Pad, Baja Breeze Ink Refill
Paper: none
Accessories:  Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric, Very Vanilla 5/8” Satin Ribbon, Big Shot Fabric Adhesive Roll, Rose Red ½” Seam Binding Ribbon, Vanilla ½” Rosette, Pearls Basic Jewels, Sticky Strip, Big Shot, Hearts and Brackets Original Die, Cream Fabric, Stiff Interfacing, Rotary Trimmer, mat and ruler, Sewing Machine and Cream Thread

~ Amanda

Card number 4 of 5 for my non-winning Artisan Award entry. Back in January I had made a card similar to this one for my father's birthday. When I started the process of deciding which cards I looked back at all my cards I've made the past few years. This one popped out at me saying "make me!". So here is my Juniper Card:

Supplies
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Thank You Kindly
Ink: Early Espresso, Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker, Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker, Versamark Pad
Paper: Early Espresso Textured, Very Vanilla, Old Olive Bright Patterns Designer Series Paper, First Edition Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stamping Sponge, Old Olive Brights Brads, Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool

~ Amanda