OSAT Blog Hoppers No Rules New Year

Happy Belated New Year!! Welcome to the 2016 One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop! Melissa's  creations always amazes me!! It really helps that our hop theme is "No Rules New Year"

If it is your first time touring our hop let me give you a little bit of background! One Stamp At A Time is group of over 3000 SUPER FABULOUS card making friends on Facebook. Well we decided to get a group of our Super Fabulous Members and create a blog hop for you to enjoy!

This year we have some AMAZINGLY talented people and I am so happy that they said YES! So be sure to to tour the WHOLE hop and show all my creative friends some love!

With absolutely NO RULES I really start to overthink things! I mean I am usually a shabby chic, barbwire and lace kind of girl! Well, this is anything but that! I'll give you the details below...

So I did things a little bit backwards this go round. I made my project first. Last year for my birthday I bought myself the Pillow Box Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers. I made this little cutie using a 6 x 6 sheet from the Go Wild DSP Stack! Seriously thinking to myself "Andrea?! Why haven't you used this sooner??" I then wrapped a 1 1/4" strip of of coordinating DSP as a band. I then took my 1" Stitched Satin Watermelon Wonder and ran in lengthwise to tie a cute little bow... No Joke 10 minutes on this cutie and I think they would make fab little favors.

Now of course the card HAD to coordinate! I am a matchy, matchy kind of girl. This card starts with a simple base of Basic Black card stock. For my next layer I used Watermelon Wonder card stock. Again, the DSP is from the Go Wild DSP stack. Of course I stuck with the animal print theme. I also took a 1 1/4" strip the width of the card. The Watermelon Wonder ribbon wraps around the card stock and the matte. I then used my tape runner and adhered this to the card base. I have really enjoyed our set Friendly Wishes which obviously my sentiment came from! My Versamark got to come out to play along with my White Stampin' Emboss powder and of course my Heat Tool! Once this was all done I took it to the Big Shot with my Chalk Talk Framelits. Now that this was cut out I adhered it to my card with Stampin' Dimensionals and what tag isn't complete without a bow?! So of course I used the 1" Watermelon Wonder one last time! The Sequins are a mix of Stampin' Up and Pretty Pink Posh Strawberry Burst and the Fine Tip Glue Pen is the best with these.... PHEW!!!!

I want to thank you so much for stopping by! Now for a trip down under to Bruno Bertucci! You can get there by clicking the button below! I am sure he is going to have a lovely creation!

Bruno Bertucci

Justin Krieger
Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher
Tina Riddle
Renee Ondrajka

Anna Smith

Maria WillisAJ Bodine
Melissa Davies
Andrea Tracy-Tucker You are Here!
Bruno Bertucci <<< Next!
Kylie Bertucci
Wynne Grob
Deb Naylor
Marisa Gunn 

Kim Smith
Megan Thompson
Pam Tetreault
Dena Rekow

OSAT Blog Hop Designers Choice

Welcome back to the September OSAT Blog Hop! I am so glad you stopped by this month because it is a Designers Choice! Did I mention we have some new hoppers with us this month??  Make sure you stop by Dena, Renee, Maria, Raquelle and Jeanna's blog and welcome! I am so tickled to have these ladies on our hop with us! I must say Andrea totally knocked it out of the park this month! I just love her work! We have all worked really hard to put together an amazing hop for you so let's get to it!

I am so excited about my creations this hop... Color wise it is totally outside of my comfort zone!

The card started with a bright base of Watermelon Wonder card stock. I then did a matte in Basic Black to coordinate with tag! The Whisper White is stamped using the sadly retired I Love Lace background stamp in the new In Color Mint Macaron. I softly daubed the edges of this layer with the Mint Macaron as well. The sentiment is from the Friendly Wishes set. I stamped this using Versamark ink then heat embossed Stampin' Emboss White Emboss powder on my favorite Chalk Tag framelit. I then accented the tag with flower embellishments in Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder. I added the Watermelon Wonder tag behind the black to really make it pop! Then I finished it off with the Watermelon Wonder Dotted Lace Bow!

My project of course had to coordinate! I cut the pieces used to make the Curvy Keepsake box. Before putting things together I decided to stamp the Whisper White with I Love Lace in Mint Macaron and again daubed the edges. As I put this box together I was thinking that it kind of look like a little sachet. My butterfly I did the clear embossing powder in two layers as I have before to give it that shiny look. I also accented the butterfly with a in color flower and a Watermelon Wonder Dotted Lace Bow!

Phew!!! Done! Feel free to ask questions! Don't forget to tour the whole hop!

Next is my #CBF Over-AchiEva! I am sure she is going to have some seriously cute creations!

Enjoy!

Eva Bussom 
Ginger 
Martie 
Elizabeth Jeanne
Amanda Bodine
Megan
Wynne
Lori Mueller
Dena Rekow
Renee Ondrajka 
Tina Riddle
Diane Squires 
Maria Willis 
Raquelle Clifton
Jeanna Bohanon 
Terri Takashige
Kim Smith 
Maggie
Marisa 
Holly
Andrea P  You came from here!
Andrea T. You are Here!!

Friendly Wishes SIP #2-Sketch Challenge

Hey there! Welcome back for the second Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge! I can't thank you all enough for jumping on board for our first challenge! We had an amazing 41 entries and I must say it was really hard for me to pick! 

This week we have an amazing sketch designed by our fearless leader!! Our whole team has an amazing take on this sketch. So make sure you stop by and take peak at all of my team mates cards as well!

Click here to get to challenge #2!!

This weeks card was a little hard for me... I don't think I am in a creative funk but with everything "Summer" going on around here it was hard for me to sit down and focus! I am sure my fellow card making friends will know what I mean! Here are the details...

This card is a lovely base of Lost Lagoon. The next layer of Smokey Slate Card stock is embossed with the Zig Zag Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I then used my new 2014-2016 In Color Designer Series Paper. I chose the the fabulous new polka dot pattern in Lost Lagoon. I had a scrap of the embossed Smokey Slate so I used it with the Lost Lagoon Silky Taffeta Ribbon on the left hand side. Now, for the tag I cut the strip to make sure that it would fit in the Scallop Tag Topper punch. I then stamped the sentiment from the "Friendly Wishes" set in Versamark and then heat embossed White Stampin' Emboss Powder with my Heat Tool. I had originally made the bow using my Bow Builder Punch using the polka dot paper. It just didn't work so I reached into a stash of DSP that I have and used a piece of the All is Calm DSP which has since been retired but hey it worked! Instead of using the paper center for the bow, I ended up using a small piece of the ribbon. I popped a few Sparkling Clear Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh on the bottom right and VOILA! Done!

Thank You all for stopping in! Can't wait to see what you create with this sketch!!

Have a fabulous week!

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Choose Love

Good Morning! Great Sunday morning to you all! 

Yesterday I ended being an outside girl and helping friends move livestock panels. Didn't get to ride but it was nice to be by the horses. When Mr. Tucker and I are were done with that we team worked the yard work that needed to be done! I did the weed whacking, he mowed! We make a great team! It is suppose to be warmer today so we are more than likely going to the pool!

I have to be honest. I made this card last week one day trying to mix some of the NEW stuff coming out on TUESDAY (that's right I said Tuesday) with stuff that is carrying over. I bought Choose Happiness during our Sale-A-Bration this year and man was I scared when I saw the retired list! But I was lucky! It has carried over!!

When I started this card I just started pulling ink pads to see what looked nice together! What you all may not know is that I used to work in a paint and wall-covering store WAY before kids and Mr. Tucker. So I really do have an eye for color. I chose Sahara Sand Card Stock as my base of this card. The next layer is Lost Lagoon card stock. I then took Whisper White card stock and stamped it in Sahara Sand ink with the Hardwood stamp. You will notice I also used the leaves on the bottom right corner from Choose Happiness, they are stamped in Lost Lagoon. I am a lover of the new In-Colors!! I used the Delightful Dijon to stamp the Choose Happiness flower. Then I busted out the Paper Snips and fussy cut it! I did rub the edges a little with the Sahara Sand just to give it a more aged look! I set this aside. The sentiment is from the new set Friendly Wishes, this was stamped in Lost Lagoon on about an 1.25" strip, then I used the Triple Banner Punch for the left end and also rubbed its edges with Sahara Sand and finished it off with three pearls. I attached it on the right with my tape runner and then fastened the Delightful Dijon flower over the edge of it with Stampin' Dimensionals. I ended up putting random sized pearls too! I am really getting into the layers. So I wrapped the Delightful Dijon Dotted Lace trim around the left side and layered it with the retired Lost Lagoon Silky Taffeta Ribbon and tied a cute little bow!

I absolutely adore this card and I hope you do too!!!

Have a great Sunday!

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