I wasn't able to make it to the Stampin' Up! Convention this year. But my upline, Laura was so nice and took about 100 swaps for me. I was only going to send 50 since I knew they'd take up some space in her suitcase but I got a little carried away and ended up with 100. Thank you, Laura!
Here's my cat card. I made a similar card for a friend's birthday and decided I just had to make more. Originally, I used some retired designer series paper that was black with white polka dots but since it was retired I had to re-create the look with 1/2" punched circles. I decided that punching and sticking over 500 circles would be a good thing to do in the car on vacation.
I also used the new Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper for the leaves. I punch them out with the 5-Petal punch. (this is a picture of my sample which still had the retired Certainly Celery leaves on it - but you get the picture) I love the new Basic Rhinestones! They just dress up everything - even the cat!
That was going to be it for swaps but my 1- 1/4" black striped grosgrain ribbon arrive the day before we left on vacation...sometimes you just have to go make something! I came up with this quick and easy black and vanilla card. It uses the new Newsprint Designer Series Paper, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, Perfect Punches stamp set, Scallop Oval punch, Very Vanilla and Basic Black card stock and or course, the ribbon. I tied the ribbon with a piece of thread to hold it together before I placed the punched piece over it. The scallop oval is held on with Dimensionals.
Happy Stamping!
