Happy Father's Day Dad! On the Farm!!!

I made this card for my Dad. I used a retired Stampin Up set name On the Farm.
My Dad lives out of town and has nicknamed his homestead "The Ranch". I thought this best fits his lifestyle!

I again fashioned this scene after Michelle B's technique of piecing a scene. I just love this effect!

Each element is stamped, colored and mounted individually. The only thing that bugs me about this set is that is not proportional...look how big that hog is compared to the farmer...LOL I would hate to get in that piggy's pathway!

I punched the ground and fence and added this on to the sponged sky. I then used my nesties to cut out my squares (which really simplifies this process). I mounted the two squares on some red and added them back into the "scene".

I used the SU! retired cloud template for sponging the sky.

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Stamps: On The Farm (retired SU!), Sentiment from H & M Stamps

Cardstock: DP from SU! scrapbook kit, Real Red, Neenah white

Ink: Tuxedo black, copics

Misc: Martha Stewart halloween fence punch, nesties, dimensionals, SU cloud and sponge

Bob's cabin birthday card, H and M Stamps

I made this card for 'brother' Bob. I love this cabin stamp set and have used it numerous times! I chose to keep this card fairly simple, although I really wanted to put a forest of trees, I just couldn't make all million trees I cut out fit LOL!

The stamp set says 'Dad's Cabin' so I inked the sign with my marker and left the name blank so I could write in Bob's name. I just did some shading on the images with my prisma's and called it good, nothing too fussy. This card is a little bigger, maybe 4x7? ( forgot to measure it)

The trees are cut out of Stampin Up DP and the image panels are on dimensionals.

Stamps: H & M Stamps, retired SUP! sentiment

Cardstock: Choc Chip (oh I love this paper), SUP! DP for the trees, tan DCWV

Ink: Choc Chip

Misc: Nesties, sizzix die, dimensionals, oops forgot the SUp! tafetta ribbon...love this too.

Heidi Has a BLOG!!!! Mini Flip Album for Grandma Heidi

Grandma Heidi loves to take Ainsley fishing so I made this cute little book for her. I used some of my H & M stamps inside as well, but I am not sure any show in these pictures. They are cute fishing poles, boots and gone fishing signs.


I was browsing my DP the other night and found this simply scrappin' kit(Out and About) from Stampin Up!' Don't know where it came from, but it sure is cute. I really don't scrap,
but this project was fun and quick to put together. I found this tutorial on this cute mini flip album and since I have a "thing" for mini albums, I wanted to make a quick one to send to Heidi in honor of her NEW BLOG! Yes, My stamping sister, Heidi, has finally jumped in with both feet!!! She has such amazing talent...you must go see her wonderful creations HERE!

Please leave her a comment to let her know you stopped in to visit!


This book works best just standing up and open for display. The finished size is 6 x 3. I made it like the tutorial, but would probably change some of my inside design and placement of the little pull outs where you can add pictures.

For this book I closed the pull outs with fun little clips, but I would suggest not putting 2 pull outs on the same side of the page(just to even out the book a little) should you decide to make one yourself. I left plenty of room for granny to journal also.


Please let me see what your flip album looks like should you decide to make one!

The Hero Arts Blog posted a video tutorial here.

This is a close up of the pull out. The pics will be mounted on the front and back of each pull out fold(I think there are 4). Each pull out has a little tab to grab to open it up and is held shut with those goldy little clips you see in the pictures.

Stamps: H and M Stamps

Ink: Choc Chip

Cardstock: all from the simply scrappin kit- OUT and ABOUT, all copyright of StampinUP!

Misc: SUP! ribbon and hardware, misc brads

H and M Log Cabin Card for Dad

I made this card for my Dad for Father's Day. The set is from H and M Stamps. My Dad actually built a log cabin that we use for family get togethers, so I think he will appreciate this one!



I used a sizzix die to cut the trees and chalked them up a wee bit. The kraft cardstock I used for the ground I put through my big shot with a fiskars texture plate and chalked up with some brown here and there. I cut open the door as well as put curtains in the window just like his cabin has. A couple of the trees are on dimensionals as well as the Dad's Cabin sign. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. I stamped the cabin and the outhouse on some misc DP and colored them a little with my prisma pencils.