I love my Big Shot! The only stamping on this card is the word sweet on the Riding Hood Red heart. I used the Sweet Treats stamp from Teeny Tiny Wishes - only highlighting the word sweet with my black ink pad. The big heart is from the Hearts and Bracket dies. The little hearts are the Heart to Heart punch. And of course Valentine's Day card wouldn't be complete without a diamond!
Supplies
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, First Edition Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Rhinestones, Basic Black satin ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, Heart to Heart Punch, Big Shot, sticky strip, Hearts and Brackets Bigz die, Vintage Wallpaper Impressions Folder

~ Amanda

Can you see the shimmer on the rose? I stamped the rose in Real Red onto watercolour paper then went over the whole image with a foam brush and some Frost White Shimmer Paint. The shimmer paint picked up some of the red and coloured the rose in for me! So cool! The centre of the rose was partially coloured in with a Real Red stampin' write marker then brushed over again to let it sparkle too.

Here is a close up of the Wallpaper Impressions folder on the First Edition Designer Series Paper and the shimmer of the rose.

Supplies
Stamps:  Fifth Avenue Floral, Curly Cute
Ink: Real Red, Pink Pirouette
Paper: Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Pear Pizzazz, First Edition Designer Series Paper, watercolour paper
Accessories: Very Vanilla satin ribbon, pearls, stampin' dimensionals, Frost White Shimmer Paint, foam brush, Big Shot, Hearts and Brackets die, Little Leaves Sizzlit

~ Amanda

It's snowy outside! Wow the schools are closed and the place I work for is actually closed! I work with my family and we're never closed. But today my grandparent's thought it was too dangerous to go to work so home we all stay!

Now I have not made it to my studio yet today but I wanted to share a card I made a few weeks ago for a friend's birthday. For this card I started with a piece of Woodland Walk designer series paper and decided to go for a monochromatic look. The strip of Garden Green was first stamped with the Woodgrain background stamp, then the pine tree from Lovely As A Tree was embossed with gold.

Supplies
Stamps: Lovely As a Tree, Short and Sweet, Woodgrain background
Ink: Garden Green, Versamark
Paper: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Woodland Walk designer series paper
Accessories: Very Vanilla seam binding, decorative label punch, gold embossing powder, sticky strip

~ Amanda

This card would be perfect for my dad for Father's Day except I showed it to him already! Growing up my dad took flying lessons and achieved his pilots license! I remember going flying with him a few times, watching the little houses and seeing my little corner of country from way up high!

Inspiration came from Splitcoaststampers January Creative Crew Challenge. The challenge was to use new items from the Occasions Mini catalogue. Plane and Simple was the perfect place to start! The compass is embossed in black and I cut the Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon in half, then pulled a few strings off to get that frayed edge. The dashes and triangle border had Bashful Blue then Not Quite Navy ink put onto the stamp before stamping.

Supplies
Stamps: Plane and Simple
Ink: Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue, Versamark
Paper: Night of Navy, Very Vanilla, First Edition Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Night of Navy 1-1/4" grosgrain ribbon, sticky strip, stampin' dimensionals, word window punch, Black embossing powder

~ Amanda

I have always been challenged using bright colours! When Stampin' Up! announced the Colour Renovation back in July 2010 I really thought it would be easier for me to create cards using just the Brights Collection. Boy was I wrong.

For the above card I started with a Real Red base and added a Whisper White top note stamped with 2 flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set. Lay a piece of Daffodil Delight 1-1/4" grosgrain ribbon across the card, then a strip of Whisper White on top and drop a few pearls on. Voila!

Supplies
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Curly Cute
Ink: Real Red, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Daffodil Delight 1-1/4" grosgrain ribbon, sticky strip, pearls

~ Amanda