Friday, June 1, 2012

olive you.

When one of your bffs asks you to create a card with an olive-theme for her 6 year old to give to her lunch monitor at school's end, you say yes.  You don't even think about how you don't have an olive stamp.  There must be a digital stamp online that would work, right?

When I didn't find anything online that I liked, I decided to get a bit creative.


Kind of swanky for a 6 year old, right? ha.  Just focus on the olive :)

Here's how I made it:  I found a balloon stamp (from an old Clear and Simple Stamps set - I couldn't find it online to even tell you its name)...see the one I mean - with the arrow pointing to it?


I stretched it a bit on my clear block to create more of an "olive-y" shape, and left out the balloon "nub" when stamping it.

Do you see the olive?  Lastly, I found a tiny heart (from lawn fawn's "love and breakfast") for a cute red pimento.


With a little coloring, I give you my olive:

I don't usually post tutorials to the blog, but tell me what you thought of this mini one!  I'd like to start doing these a little more often :)



Olive you!

Thanks for peeking and have a great weekend!

23 comments:

  1. It's so perfect! Thanks so much! Miss Charlene is going to crack up! I'm sure Inaya will love it too! Big kisses.

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  2. Gorgeous card Elena :-)

    thanks for entering the Simon Says Stamp DT call and Good Luck :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  3. Elena, I love your work!!!! So cute. Congrats on gallery idol top 20

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  4. So creative! Big congrats on the top 20, too!!!

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  5. Extremely creative way of using what you have!! Very neat card :)

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  6. Super cute card. I really like how used got creative with the olive.

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  7. Too cute, very creative, and ultra-swanky :) I love your work... Always so clean and crisp! :)

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  8. Love it! I always love a good tutorial!

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  9. GREAT card Elena! It's wonderful!
    + BIG congrats - I'm so happy for you and will be keeping my fingers crossed!

    Have a nice week-end, hugs, Karin

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  10. Congrats on Gallery Idol Elena! What a wonderful way to end the week, huh? AND this card is so fun!

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  11. Super cute and creative!
    I'm curious why she wanted an "olive themed" card, though...

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  12. This is perfect - you did such a great job figuring it all out together!

    But more importantly - I was SO excited for you when I saw you were one of the 20 finalists for Gallery Idol!!! Congratulations!!!

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  13. I Love the olive!! So cute!!! Congrats on Gallery Idol top 20!!

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  14. Tee hee! That is so adorable! Super congrats for the GI Top 20! Woo hoo!! Your card is *so* fun!

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  16. Well done, this is genius! I love when stamps are multi purpose!
    Congratulations on Gallery Idol as well!!

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  17. Just wanted to pop in and say Congrats on your Top 20 spot. It is well deserved. Well done, Elena and good luck with the rest of the competition.

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  18. This is such a cute idea. Congrats on Gallery Idol!

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  19. I love the tutorial!

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  20. This is crazy cute & a great tutorial!
    Congrats on moving on in gallery idol too! I will be surprised if you don't go all the way!!! Good luck!

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  21. please post more tutorials. Love your style and its really nice to see your notes and scraps btw:)

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