OSAT Find A Sketch Blog Hop

Happy Tuesday! It has been a hot one here on the eastern plains of Colorado. The weather has been a bit dramatic, but we made it through fair and now onto to school! There have been a ton of changes in my life, new house, single mom, new job... I am feeling pretty empowered lately and I can't wait to share my creativity and all of my personal triumphs with you all!

After a bit of discussion, we decided to bring back the One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop back. I am already breaking the rules... but this new job has gotten the better of me when it comes to training! You will hear more about that a bit later or maybe even on another blog post.

Today we are hopping with inspiration from the Annual Catalog, on page 22 you are going to find some sketches and we have all created cards using those sketches as inspiration and coordinating goodies (I just broke the rules by not doing the coordinating item). 

As you can see, I have made my card with the Latte of Love Suite using the second to the last sketch on the bottom row... Let me get you all details.

Let's get the details! This card started with the cups... Cups of heavenly coffee... I stamped the images using Early Espresso ink, the mug is colored with our Stampin' Blends Lost Lagoon Combo Pack with the inside stamped in Early Espresso. The latte mug is colored with Stampin' Blends Petal Pink Combo Pack and with the latte stamped in Pecan Pie. I have matted the A Little Latte DSP with Lost Lagoon and layered it over a piece of Petal Pink that has been stamped with Sketched Plaid in Petal Pink ink. The sentiment was stamped in Lost Lagoon and die cut with the dies from Unbounded Love Dies. A bit of Linen Thread and a few Rhinestones was the perfect touch for this Lost Lagoon Card Base and Pecan Pie mat!!!

I am so glad that you have stopped by today to see all of our creations! I am so happy to be creating again and I can't wait for you to see what all of my friends have created today!

Creation Station Casing the Annual Catalog

Good morning! I am sure that you all have thought about a time or two, and maybe even thought that I had called it quits! I am not!!! In fact, I am making a big come back. I will talk about some of that later this week. For today let me just show you what I have been up to crafting wise!

Today I make my return to the Creation Station Design Team. Now we are supposed to be casing the catalog.... but all I got out of that was playing with new goodies from our Annual Catalog! I was recently asked to make a real pretty card for an aunt and couldn't think of better stamp set than the Layers of Beauty. Let me go ahead and show you what I have created for you guys today!

This card started with a piece of our Thick Basic White card stock, I simply stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and proceeded in coloring it with Stampin' Blends using Daffodil Delight, Peach Pie, Poppy Parade and Soft Seafoam. I then used the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut the square out. This is nicely layered onto a piece of Basic Black, but you will notice that the die cut piece is popped up with some Stampin' Dimensionals. I accented this with some of the small leaf dies in the Subtle DSP in Soft Seafoam and added a quick little tag with some Linen Thread. The spatters were created using the brush tip end of my blends, and if you look super close there is even some Wink of Stella!

I am so excited to be back creating again! You can click along the hop below and see what my friend Teri West has in store for you!!

Teri West