“Fast & Fabulous” Card & Some Winners

Whew, what a week.  I am so happy Friday is finally here!  I apologize for the lack of posting this week – it was due to some of that “summer” and “end-of-school-year” craziness.  Monday I was on a field trip with my son’s Gr. 6 class to Niagara Falls.  We actually went to quite a few different places in the Niagara Region, and the Falls was just one of them.  That was quite a long day.  We left the school at 8 am and returned close to 7 pm.  Tuesday was pretty much re-cuperating and doing administrative catch-up.  Wednesday I was on a field trip with my daughter’s Gr. 1 class to the African Lion Safari.  Although we had a great time the weather was alternately smoking hot or thunder showers.  By the end of the day I had a raging headache (I don’t know how her teacher does it!). I went to bed early on Wednesday, and then when I woke up on Thursday still had a headache.  I took something for it, ate  bowl of Cheerios with milk and then next thing I knew I was throwing up and so dizzy that I couldn’t even stand. I had to crawl back to my bedroom.  The odd thing was that my hands started itching like crazy.  It was the strangest thing I’d ever felt.  Although my stomach was ok the rest of the day, my head sure wasn’t.  I still had a raging headache & felt quite dizzy and light headed for the rest of the day and ended up going to bed for the night at around 6:30 pm. Today I still have a headache, and I’m not quite 100%, but I decided to try and squeeze in some work time.  

Just in case you’re wondering, the title of today’s post has nothing to do with what I think about my card *lol*.  “Fast and Fabulous” is actually the name of a brand-new level 2 hostess stamp set from the 2010/2011 Idea Book and Catalogue, available July 1st.  When I saw this stamp set it was love at first sight.  Although I don’t normally pre-order hostess sets since I end up earning them all anyways, I just couldn’t wait for this one!

Today’s card is quite easy to make:

1. Ink up your flower outline image in Baja Breeze Classic ink and stamp it off ONCE onto a piece of grid paper.  Now stamp it (without re-inking) onto a 3″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Whisper White CS. Stamp a second flower in exactly the same manner.
2. Clean your stamp and then ink it in Chocolate Chip Classic ink and stamp it three times, being sure to re-ink in between.  Make sure that you stamp the flower at different heights.
3. Mat the Whisper White CS onto a 3 1/8″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Chocolate Chip CS. Set aside for a moment.
4. Take a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Baja Breeze CS and dry emboss it using the square lattice embossing folder and your Big Shot.  Trim the Baja Breeze CS so that it is 4″ x 5 1/4″.  I always dry emboss a larger piece of CS when using this particular embossing folder because I find it tends to shrink the dimensions of the CS as the embossing is so heavy.
5. Take a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Crumb Cake CS (formerly called Kraft CS) and fold it in half with a bone folder to create a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card.
6. Center and stick the embossed Baja Breeze CS onto the Crumb Cake card front.
7. Center and stick the matted image onto the Baja Breeze CS.
8. Die cut the widest label from the Matchbox Bigz XL out of Crumb Cake CS using your Big Shot. 
9. Stamp the greeting onto the label with Chocolate Chip Classic ink.
10. Sponge the edges of the label with Chocolate Chip Classic ink.
11. Stick a medium half-back pearl to the left and right of the greeting using a mini glue dot (I used the pearls from my Pretties kit).
12. Stick the greeting label to the top left of the image piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  You’re done!

All in all it’s quite an easy card to make.  The blue stamped off image is quite faint in the picture so you don’t quite get the same effect as when you see the card.  In real life it’s really pretty.

Okay, and now I need to announce some winners.  It occurred to me that I had not yet announced the winners of the Birthday Biss Class Planner and I already have a new planner out. 

The Winners of the Birthday Bliss Class Planner: