farewell fiesta card night!

Friday night I co-hosted a Farewell Fiesta card making event with my upline Andrea...6 cards for $12. Each of the six cards featured mostly retiring stamp sets and accessories. I was responsible for designing and preparing three of the cards and Andrea was responsible for the other three. We wanted to be able to ink up some of our retiring stamp sets before we say "adios" to many of them! We held a door prize drawing every 1/2 hour and had lots of retiring or long-retired products to buy and many Fiesta-themed goodies to eat...and margaritas! I think the ladies had a fun time...I know I did! It was a fun time with 12 stampers who joined us for food, fun, and stamping the night away!

Below are the three cards I created...


Stamp Set: Seeing Stars (retiring)

Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Real Red

Ink: Night of Navy, Real Red, Versamark (for embossing)

Accessories: Dimensionals, Real Red 3/8" Taffeta ribbon (retiring-25% off!), Night of Navy 1/8" Taffeta ribbon (retiring-25% off!), red brads, White Embossing Powder

Tools: Star punch (retiring), Paper Snips (to cut out small stars), Paper Piercing Tool & Mat Pack, Embossing Tool

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Stamp Set: Hello Again (retiring)

Paper: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Daffodil Delight

Ink: Melon Mambo, markers - Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Dimensionals, Rhinestones, Daffodil Delight 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon (retiring)

Tools: Scallop Rectangle Clearlits Die, Paper Snips (to cut out butterfly), Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Small Oval punch (retired-sold out!), 1-3/4" x 7/8" Oval punch,

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Stamp Set: Birthday Bliss (retiring)

Paper: Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Tempting Turquoise, Poppy Parade, Pawsitively Prints II DSP (retiring-25% off!)

Ink: Early Espresso, markers - Poppy Parade, Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzazz

Accessories: Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds (adhered with the 2-Way Glue Pen)

Tools: 2-3/8" Scallop Circle punch, 1-3/4" Circle punch, 2" Circle (using non-SU! cutting tool), Corner punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch

color challenge - Hello Again!

I just wanted to pop in real quick to share a card I created for the Paper Players Color Challenge this week, which is also one of the cards we will be making tonight at my Farewell Fiesta Card Making Night! My co-host and I have created 6 cards all using retiring sets as we "ink up" some of them one last time before saying "adios"!

LOVE these colors together!!

I'll be back to update with all of the details after tonight's event!
Updated: Find out all of the details on this card HERE.

Gotta run!

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Edited to add on 6/9/11:
I'm so pleased and honored to be chosen as "A Cut Above" for this week's Paper Players Color Challenge. Thank you, Cindy!