Creation Station Nurture to Nature, Flowers to Showers Blog Hop

Wow! A Sunday post from this girl?? Not a normal for me, but being as that today is my debut on the Creation Station Design Team, it is going to be my new normal. At least for the first Sunday of each month! 

I can't convey how extremely honored I am to be on this hop! A huge shout out to Dena Rekow for having faith in me. You have been an amazing friend and mentor. I am truly thankful for you!

If you don't know me, I am Andrea Tracy-Tucker AKA OneStampinMotherTucker... Go ahead and chuckle. That was somewhat the goal. I am a mom of 3 kids, a wife to a retired military husband and we live on the far eastern edge of Colorado where we have 3 horses and a dog. Yes we live in the country, which is kind of what got me into Stampin' Up! to begin with. I have been a demo for 3.5 years and next Saturday I will be attending my FIRST OnStage event. Not only am I attending, I am also a display stamper which is oober exciting.

Enough about me!!! Lets get HOPPING! This month on the Creation Station hop we are hopping with the theme "Nurture to Nature, Flowers to Showers"... I will be honest, my interpretation is a bit loose... but I can't wait to show you!

So, with OnStage just a week away, I really needed to create something for one of the organized swaps! This is a "Imbringingbirthdaysback" Swap and I wasn't sure what to make that was pretty but easy to reproduce in quantity. 

The Glassine Treat Bags are one of my favorites. So I dolled up this cutie using the lace printed DSP from the Falling in Love DSP and the Fancy Foil Acetate (gold side of course). My sassy sentiment is from the Big On Birthdays set and is stamped with Mint Macaron ink onto Very Vanilla card stock. I adhered this to an offset layer of the Fancy Foil acetate with some Metallic Gold thread. The card on the inside has a nice lace ribbon loop to simply slide the card out. It is made with a coordinating base of Mint Macaron card stock with a Very Vanilla stamped layer. This too was from the Big On Birthdays stamp set and was stamped using Sahara Sand ink.

Easy right??

Thank you so much for stopping by! I can't wait for you to see what Jennifer has come up with! You can get to her by clicking next or if you are going backwards on the hop you click the back button below and see the lovely Mikaela! If for any reason you get lost or would like to see any other designers on the hop there is a full list below!

Have a fabulous Sunday!

Mikaela Titheridge

Jennifer Downey

Elizabeth Price

Dena Rekow

Cindy Schuster

Denita Wright

Sara Levin

Kathy Kartak

Julie Kettlewell

Mikaela Titheridge

Andrea Tracy-Tucker

Jennifer Downey

Julie Beltramo

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Paper Craft Crew 236 Sketch Challenge

Good Wednesday morning! First, I want to thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes! It made 38 hurt a little less!! I have a little one home with a stomach bug of some sort. I will be working dilligently on my OnStage and Design Team Obligations all DAY!

This week with the Paper Craft Crew Pam has created a really fun sketch that made me use some stuff I really I hadn't before!

Stamp Ink Paper 91 It's My Birthday Challenge

Well, today is the day! My birthday! To be honest turning 38 wasn't any big deal. I cried when I turned 25 because I was half way to 50, so today should be a piece of cake!

So in honor of my birthday Stamp Ink Paper has a fun challenge for you! Make me (okay it doesn't have to be for me) a birthday card!

I know that a lot of you are going to look at this and say "Where did she get that DSP" well, some times we have to be resourceful and creative! This is actually a Project Life card from Hello Lovely kit in the Annual Catalog! I matted onto some Pear Pizzazz card stock with a Sahara Sand Base. My cute little "Tag" was made using the Lots of Labels Framelits. I simply cut the bottom off and rounded my corners. My gold sequins are from stash I have created out of the many embellishment kits of the past! A nice Very Vanilla Doily, Metallic Gold Thread and a little bit of Lace to finish this lovely card off!

Thank you so much for stopping in! I can't wait to see ALL the birthday cards you all come up with!

Paper Craft Crew 235 Sketch Challenge

Welcome to hump day! The kids are on spring break and it has been a tough one for many in our county. On Monday a 4-H Leader and 3 teenage girls were in a major car accident. One of the girls did not survive. So if you looked at my blog yesterday and wondered why it was one with few words... That is why. My heart is so heavy. My thoughts and prayers go out to the young girls family and all of the kids that this is effecting. My only thought when a tragedy like this strikes is that we as parents never plan on out living our own kids. Our time here is not guaranteed. I am not sure that our teenagers will be able to comprehend that or know how to come to terms with this. Prayers for the other 3 in the vehicle. Two remain the hospital with many injuries and surgeries in the future.

Now to lighten the mood. Today I am designing for the Paper Craft Crew Design Team and you will see that I didn't take this sketch to literally!

My fun card started with my water colored boots from Country Livin. I used our amazing Water Color Pencils to color up these cuties and I think I finally got the hang of them. I then added them to a lovely Kraft Stamped Hardwood base with a Real Red Scalloped Square. The music paper from the "This Christmas" DSP seemed appropriate for my country themed card. What is a cowboy card without a lariat! My lariat was made using linen thread. A Happy Birthday sentiment from Big On Birthdays a few Real Red Sequins and this Cowboy was done!

Stamp Ink Paper 90 Shaker Card Challenge

Happy Pi Day! One week until my birthday! So put your party pants on!

This week with Stamp Ink Paper we have a fun Shaker Card challenge for you.
So I am sure with all of you hunkered down for snowmegaddon there will be tons of you  participating!

I honestly was going to use this as one of my cards for the display board at OnStage San Diego but changed my mind when I couldn't come up with another amazing idea, after-all this is all current product!