A Stamp-a-Stack!

With some encouragement from a great friend, I finally decided to try and find some local stamping friends. It's been a while since I've been able to sit down and stamp with others who share my passion.

It's easy enough to look up a stamping demonstrator on the Stampin Up website. I found a couple in my area who offer classes and lucky me, one of them was holding a Stamp-a-Stack yesterday! She graciously allowed me to attend very last-minute! Her name is Debbie and she also has a blog called Debbie's Addiction. She and all of the other girls at the class really made me feel welcome and I had a blast! I wish Debbie was a little bit closer, but I'll still be at most of her classes I'm sure!
Debbie has graciously allowed me to share on my blog the cards we made. She chose some great spring stamp sets and I was so excited to be able to play with some things I don't own!
We made 4 each of 4 designs. The first card we made was using the set "Cheep Talk". It's on my wish list and so now is this Kiwi Kiss ribbon!! So cute! Even though I said I wasn't going to get sucked into the new SU in-colors, I recently ordered them ALL. Tsk Tsk!
The next set of cards I made was using the set "Eastern Blooms" and the so-cute "Sweet Always" papers! The sentiment comes from "Best Wishes & More".Just for fun, I added some Crystal Effects and tiny glass beads to the flower middles when I got home.
The next project I moved onto was a set of cards using the small set "A Flower for All Seasons". This was the first time I had used watercolor paper and I was pretty impressed. The sample Debbie had used the little water pail of flowers with the cutesy frog. I decided I wanted one of each of the cute images. I loved the basket of tulips with the little bird. I also added a little glitz with a Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust pen. The cardinal with a pot of flowers was probably poinsettias for winter, but I tried to make it more springy. An Ooops of ink smudge became an opportunity for embellishment when I added a flower to the corner.
Lastly we used the Playful Petals set with Tea Party papers. We stamped the flower with Purple Stazon on vellum and colored it in with markers. It's very pretty. I adhered the floral panel with dimensionals to give it some pop. I was running out of adhesive at the class so I did that at home. I left most of my cards without sentiments so I could add them later. Any of these cards could be birthday cards, Easter or Mother's Day!
Thank you again, Debbie for some great projects and most of all for the fun time I had stamping at your lovely home!
~Angel