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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TGIF 100 Designer Spotlight Mercedes Weber

Friday! Friday! Friday is my favorite day, YAY! We are celebrating 60 MPH gusts out here on the plains! They had initially talked about getting our first severe storms of the year last night but that apparently blew right past us and went into Nebraska! The snow has so far skipped us but we are getting rain, and we so NEED it!

TGIF Challenges is celebrating #100!! We are on our 100th challenge and what better that to celebrate our creator, Mercedes Weber!

Get full Challenge Details by clicking here

Being new to the team I really wasn't sure where to go with the card for this particular challenge. Mercedes really has no particular trademark style because anything that she creates is amazing. In doing some research I decided that I wanted something soft yet simple. 

The card started with a Soft Sky Butterfly adorned with Basic Pearls that I colored with a gold sharpie marker. My cute little gold dots were created using the Playful Background set and then heat embossed using Versamark, Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder and Heat Tool. Once I did this to the Very Vanilla tag I decided I should add a bit of it onto the Falling In Love DSP! The Tag has a nice piece of the Gold Satin Ribbon with a Metallic Gold Thread bow. You will also notice the thread behind the Butterfly. I chose "Thank You" from the Thoughtful Banner set because I really can't thank Mercedes enough for giving me this opportunity to be on this design team! It too is heat embossed in gold on a accent piece of Sahara Sand. I made this cuter little banner using the Classic Label Punch!

Thank you so much for stopping in! Until next time

Product List

Thoughtful Banners Photopolymer Bundle [142330]	Playful Backgrounds Photopolymer Stamp Set [141920]	Falling In Love Designer Series Paper [142788]	Blushing Bride 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131198]	Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Tag Topper Scalloped Punch [133324]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	Gold 5/8" Satin Ribbon [134547]	Gold Metallic Thread [138401]
Heat Tool [129056]	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Big Shot [143263]
Precision Base Plate [139684]	Big Shot Die Brush [140603]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Paper Craft Crew 222 A Sketch Challenge

It is better late than never right? It is been a buzz of a week... I spent Tuesday afternoon at the vet with a friend and a sick horse instead of getting ready for the cold blast of weather. Then Wednesday and yesterday I spent getting ready for my class this weekend here in Wray! Life has been a whirlwind and I am so thankful that Pam understood when I couldn't get my design team card done for the Paper Craft Crew on time...

This week with the Paper Craft Crew we have a fabulous sketch that I decided to use some new goodies with... My card includes a stamp from the Holiday catalog, the poinsettia from the Annual Catalog and the DSP and Doily is from the upcoming Occasions Catalog! Come and take a look...

My soft base of Sahara Sand was a perfect compliment to the new Falling In Love DSP which will be available to you January 4th, 2017! This will be another paper that caters to my fond addiction to Blushing Bride! I matted this lovely paper with the Sweet Sugar Plum card stock. You will notice on the bottom picture that my banner was embossed with the new Hexagon Dynamic embossing folder. This as well as the Lace Doily which is Very Vanilla on one side and Whisper White on the other will also be available on January 4th. I did some fun Metallic Copper Thread loops and adhered it to the card with a few Stampin' Dimensionals. My lovely heat embossed Copper sentiment is from the soon retiring Tin of Tags set. Hope you have a fabulous weekend!