Lauri's Stampin' Corner

I can think of several "nut cases" that I'm sending these to for September birthdays. What a fun card! Isn't he just the cutest little nut case you've ever seen?? I love the colors of fall! God paints the trees in such beautiful colors for us to enjoy! Even the sage brush takes on a new color! Ingredients: Autumn Splendor, Teeny Tiny Wishes (inside) Paper: Spice Cake, More Mustard, DSP Subtles paper pack, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Basic Black, Soft Suede Ink: More Mustard, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight Accessories: Ornament punch, small oval punch, large oval punch, Owl punch, white pen, black marker, sponge daubers, dimensionals, Big Shot, Square Lattice folder, Neutral brads, 1/2" scalloped ribbon More Mustard,Linen thread, Snail adhesive  The lid is made by punching the large oval, then re punching in the negative space and the stem is just a scrap of paper cut out. The mouth is the small oval, then reinserted into the punch and shap

I'm working on a new punch art card for my workshop this weekend, but not finished yet. It was a busy day around here yesterday with all the picnics, parties, and school time that Faith and I had, so not much time to stamp. I think Michael has figured out too that he's got Grandma wrapped around his little finger! He just has to fuss and then laughs at me when I go to him. Such a cutie and growing up so fast! I sure am enjoying my Grandma time! So many blessings! I wanted to share with you the new scoring tool from Stampin' Up! that came out in the new Holiday Mini Catalog. It makes an easy job out of scoring your cards, especially the ones that have more than one place that you have to score. It comes with three markers for marking where you will be scoring, which takes the guess work out of remembering where it was you wanted to score it! It works wonderful for the Z fold card that I shared a while back and for the gift card holder made with the top note! I whipped out s

Back into the routine of life again after a quick trip back to SD. What a whirlwind trip it was, but so fun to see family and friends while we were back! I sure miss my stampin' buddies!! I had started these cards before I left and was able to finish them off yesterday. This is a technique that I learned from a tutorial I purchased from fellow demonstrator, Sandi MacIver last year. Unfortunately, this is the first time I've been able to play with it. What fun it was...lots and lots and lots of embossing with the clear embossing powder, then sinking the gold embossing powder into it after six (yes, that's 6!! ) layers of the clear embossing powder! It has such depth to it in real life and that's just something you can't capture in a picture. Ingredients: Stamps: French Foliage, Word Play  Paper: Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso Ink: VersaMark, Pear Pizzazz, More Mustard, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler Accessories: Scallop Trim border punc