TGIF 322 Farmhouse Chic Designer Takeover

Thank goodness it is Friday! The last time I posted was two weeks ago. It has been a really difficult two weeks. On June 13th our family got word of a horrible single car accident with 4 teenagers in the car. Two of the kids were flown out and the others were treated and walked away.  One of them was Wesley's friend. Not just any friend, Owen was a boy with a heart of gold and never did anything malicious and early on the following Monday, his mom called to tell me that he did not make it. It has been so hard to process for myself and Wesley. Things are slowly moving forward and I can't thank this community enough for the support being given to not only Owen's family but to our teenagers and those of us grieving... 

Enough about that! So I have been trying to stamp again, it really isn't a conducive to cry while stamping it can make a mess! My personal goal was to not cry this week. I had already failed on Monday... but I have had better luck as the week has gone on! When Jeanna reminded me that this week was my challenge I started to overthink things... in typical Andrea fashion of course. 

There is nothing more farmhouse than the kitchen and slowly started to piece together what was running through my mind as farmhouse. So for today's card I have used the What's Cookin' Bundle with the Pattern Party DSP and of course In Good Taste DSP. Let me you show you what I have created!

I started with the stamped  utensils in Gray Granite, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate and Jet Black Stazon. I love that these all have coordinating dies. The cutting board is cut out of Crumb Cake but I used a Blending Brush with Soft Suede to ink it up a bit. If you are a Hobby Lobby person you will know that the Black and White Buffalo Check is a thing in farmhouse trends. This strip from the Pattern Party DSP is nicely layered over a piece of Soft Succulent Cardstock. This sits over a piece of wood paper from the In Good Taste DSP. What can be more farmhouse than wood, right?! The sentiment is heat embossed in White Stampin' Emboss Powder. Once I arranged everything and adhered them I added a nice little Linen Thread bow! I just love how this all came together on my Crumb Cake card base! 

Now it is your turn! Design a card with YOUR version of Farmhouse Chic! I can't wait to see what everyone creates! Have an amazing weekend!

OSAT Mashup Blog Hop

Happy Thursday! Hope your week is going amazingly well! Taryn had her first field trip yesterday since before the pandemic. They enjoyed Old Town Burlington about an hour south of here! She came home telling me about the doll house and making butter. She must have had an amazing time! Troy and I have one more week of bible study. This weekend is going to include some yard work and some pig fun. It is probably the last weekend we have that doesn't have something for at least the next 6 weeks!

Today I am back with my friends on the One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop! We are so excited for this hop. We are hopping with the theme "Mash Up". So the team is creating with returning friends AND new products from the NEW Annual Catalog! I chose to use the returning favorite Daisy Lane and mix it with the NEW Daisy Garden and some Scalloped Kraft Treat Boxes.... Let me show you what I have created!

Aren't these adorable? I just love how this ensemble came together! There is nothing more exciting for me than trying to pair carry over stuff with our new goodies! To be honest, I really hadn't even used the Daisy Lane Stamp set in over 2 years... Shocking I know!

This card started with a wood grain piece of DSP from the In Good Taste paper pack that thankfully carried over! I have used the NEW Daisy Garden Background stamp and heat embossed it in White. After doing this I wasn't quite sure how to use it or what I wanted to do with it but then I remembered I had the NEW Picture This Dies that cut out all three rectangles, these are the positives from the die cut. I set these aside with some Stampin' Dimensionals on the back while I distressed my Crumb Cake layer, with a pair of old Paper Snips and some Early Espresso Ink with my Blending Brush. Once this was done, I laid down my negative from the Picture this dies and arranged the positives accordingly and adhered them to the Crumb Cake layer. This is beautifully matted onto a piece of Rich Razzleberry and a card base of Soft Succulent. It is accented with a bit of Linen Thread and In Color Jewels. The sentiment is stamped in Rich Razzleberry.

Here is a closer look at this beauty!

This Scalloped Kraft Treat Box made my coordinating project so easy! I have used a bit of the Fine Art Ribbon and Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon to tie around this. I made the tags using the Label Me Lovely Punch and the Medium Daisy Punch. I have heat embossed the sentiment below!

I am so thrilled that you came by to see my creations today! I just can't wait for you to see the rest of the hop! The link list is below and you click along the list to everyones creations!

Have an amazing day!

The Spot Congratulations Challenge

                           

Happy Tuesday! I can't believe we are in the month of May already! Things have been full steam ahead around here. We have a barn full of pigs. Wesley has his first summer job at the pool this summer and I will be planting our garden for the summer in the coming weeks! My dad and step mom were here over the weekend... It is the first time I had seen either of my parents since 2019. It was an amazing weekend full of laughs, fishing and food! 

  

This week The Spot design team has a challenge that should be a bit easy since many graduations are around the corner! We are designing with the theme Congratulations! I decided to ink up the new Hand Penned Bundle and make a card with a fun journal that I gave to a friend recently! Let me show you what I have created today!

So recently I have attended another demonstrators retreat where she offered an amazing add on class with these journals! It is not something that Stampin' Up carries but they are amazing and fun to doll up! I have used the Hand Penned Suite with the Scalloped Contour Dies! The card also features the Hand Penned Suite, but I mixed it with the In Good Taste DSP. I colored the flowers on both projects with our Stampin' Blends! I feel like the sentiment "Anything is Possible" is perfect for graduation or a congratulations type card! 

Now show me your Congratulations themed projects!

The Spots #155 Spring Has Sprung

Happy Spring! I can't believe we are nearing the end of March already! Our family had amazing spring break spent with family! We went to a small indoor waterpark in Kansas, had some retail therapy and ate some really good food! It was a much needed break!

This week I am back with the The Spot design team for a fabulous Spring Has Sprung themed challenge! I know that many of us would think of Dragonflies for summer, but it is in our spring Mini-Catalog and I found that it worked! Let me show you what I have created!

This card has been made for MONTHS! I can't believe that I hadn't blogged it yet and it worked out well because I was struggling to create ANYTHING yesterday! The card started with an Early Espresso stamped off Dragonfly from the Dragonfly Garden Bundle. The wings have a bit of Petal Pink stamped on the inside. I then used the coordinating punch to punch this out and set it aside. The wildflowers and smaller dragonflies were stamped with Versamark on my wood grain In Good Taste DSP and then sprinkled with our white Stampin' Emboss powder to heat emboss. I used our Blending Brushes with a bit of Just Jade on Very Vanilla before heat embossing the sentiment with Stampin' Emboss Gold and die cutting with a stitched circle from our Stitched Shapes Dies. Elegant Faceted Gems are one of my all time favorite embellishments and added a subtle touch with my Linen Thread bow. 

I can't wait to see your Spring Has Sprung designs this week! Have an amazing Tuesday

Product List

Dragonfly Garden Bundle (English) [156224]	In Good Taste Designer Series Paper [152494]	Stitched Shapes Dies [152323]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Versamark Pad [102283]
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132]	Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad [153115]	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114]	Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [147108]
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650]	Just Jade 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153079]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]	Elegant Faceted Gems [152464]	Linen Thread [104199]

The Spot 151 Slimline Magnolias

Good Morning! I hope you are all doing well. I am refereeing Wesley and Taryn this morning! It is crazy how those two continue to argue and bicker. Hopefully one day Wesley realizes that his job is to protect her and not pick on her! I had a really fun weekend doing a virtual stamping retreat with a group of other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators! There were new friendships made and lots of laughs! It was good for the soul!

This week The Spot Design Team has a fun challenge for you! We are creating Slim Line cards. Craft room confession, this was my first time! I chose to play with products from our Annual Catalog to make todays design! Let me show you what I have created!

My card started with my Early Espresso Ink Pad and Good Morning Magnolia stamp set. I have stamped the large bloom 3 separate times using Early Espresso ink and my Stampin' Blends to color. The leaves used Light Mossy Meadow, Dark Soft Seafoam and Light Soft Seafoam. The Bloom used Ivory, Dark Petal Pink and Light Petal Pink. Once I had all of them colored, I used a blending brush to add a bit of a distressed look with my Soft Suede ink. This is nicely matted onto a Crumb Cake piece of card stock. The oh so delicious Striped Petal Pink Ribbon was a gorgeous addition over the strip of wood DSP from the In Good Taste DSP. A Square Vellum Doily was the perfect touch under the stitched die cut label from the Wild Rose Dies. A few of the Elegant Faceted Dots added a nice finishing touch!

I can't wait for you to see what the rest of my friends have made with this fun and trendy challenge! 

Hope your day is amazing!

The Spot 148 Color Challenge

Good Morning!! It is your typical Tuesday morning here! I hope you all aren't buried by snow! Ours has sadly melted! We now have an amazing mud bog going down to the pigs and the barn!

This morning we creating with a colors on The Spot! There is nothing I love more than the combination of Petal Pink and Soft Seafoam! Now we are throwing the Night of Navy in for this great challenge! I chose to use the Tasteful Touches suite for this fun card.

Okay first thing is first, I KNOW MY LABEL IS CROOKED! ALL of my kids were home yesterday and it wasn't until I took pictures that I realized that it was crooked... 

The card started with the piece of DSP from the In Good Taste DSP. This such a versatile pack of paper! I distressed the edges with older pair of Paper Snips. The back side of this piece has a wood pattern. I used it to create a band of across the front of the card and also distressed the edges. I chose to stamp the greenery like stamp from the Tasteful Touches using Soft Seafoam. The stamped flower is in Petal Pink and I went back in with a Blender Pen to color it a bit before fussy cutting. The flower is accented with a bit of the Fine Art Ribbon. My mat is actually Soft Seafoam (SHOCKER!) I actually used our Blending Brushes with Night of Navy ink on it. A bit of heat embossing in the top right corner was the perfect touch for my not so perfect card!

Now it is YOUR turn to play with these colors! I can't wait to see what you create (maybe yours will be less crooked than mine!)

Have an amazing Tuesday!

The Spot 132 CAS Fall

Good Tuesday Morning! I have been a bit MIA. Life has not been easy, Wesley has been on virtual learning because of a class mate that tested positive. Trying to keep an ADHD kid on task for distant learning is a full time job! Even if he only has classes until Noon! I am ready for all of this to be over.

I haven't had a lot of time to create. So I was pleased to find out that our challenge was for a clean and simple. I have a tub of pieces that I looked into and found the large leaf from the Gather Together already stamped and ran with an idea!

This card started with the large leaf from the Gather Together Bundle stamped with Cajun Craze ink on a Very Vanilla card stock. It is die cut with the coordinating die and layered over a piece of the wood DSP from the In Good Taste DSP. This is adhered over a piece of the Gilded Autumn DSP. So the card looks like it has a bit of technique but it really doesn't. The sentiment from the Lovely You stamp set, is stamped in Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla. This is all nicely matted onto a piece of Early Espresso and I felt like the Mint Macaron base was a nice touch!

I am so glad that you stopped by today! I can't wait to see what you create for this great CAS Fall Challenge!

OSAT New Beginnings Blog Hop

Happy Thursday! I am so excited that I have been able to spend time in the craft room! If I haven't been stamping, I have been freezing corn and tending to our garden. We may even have to have blanch and freeze zucchini. It is a good problem to have with cost of groceries and 3 growing kids. 

The One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop Team is back this month with the theme, New Beginnings. When I think of New Beginnings I think of Back To School. It is very uneasy time for ALL of us as parents. As many of us will be sending our kids to school for the first time in almost 6 months.  I decided to mix the carry over bundle Harvest Hello's with a bit of the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper and the Plaid Tidings for today's fun farmhouse teacher card. Let's take a look!

My card started with the Harvest Hello's stamp set. I stamped the Apple on a piece of Regal Real Red DSP using Stazon Jet Black Ink and punched it with the coordinating Apple Builder Punch. I even added a couple of leaves, one colored in Granny Apple Green and one just punched out of Granny Apple Green cardstock. The wood stem was a great touch. This sits over a strip of the dark wood from the In Good Taste DSP and Whisper White that my sentiment created with the Playful Alphabet Dies. These dies are so easy to work with and paired nicely with the Black and White Plaid card front from the Plaid Tidings DSP pack. The "Teacher" sentiment is from the Harvest Hello's, I started to use the whole thing but when I realized that it could be cut and fit over the alphabet die cuts it was perfect! A bit of Real Red trim and mat for this Crumb Cake based card. I even did the inside of the card which you will see below.

I can't take credit for this design of this box, but I can take credit for foofing it up! What Teacher doesn't love a tube a lip balm! 

I am so excited that you came by today to see my New Beginnings projects, you will want to be sure that you click through the list of hop participants below for more inspiration! 

Have a great rest of your week!

Creation Station Man After My Heart Hop

Happy Sunday! We decided to not go to the pig show today... a bit bummed but, the wind is down right crazy and there is nothing worse than feeling like you have 80 grit in your eyes! Mother Nature tried to provide some moisture but it just was not enough. Today our church has its first in person service since the pandemic started. To say that I am happy is understatement.

Today, I am creating and hopping with the Creation Station Design Team. We are creating masculine cards with the theme "A Man After My Own Heart". I was lucky because when our annual catalog went live on Wednesday, I was able to expedite things... So todays creation is made with goodies from the new catalog. When you look at today's card there is a chance you may not get it... But if you know me and know that I love a good play on words or country music, You will get it! rLet's take a look!

I can't tell you how many ways I envisioned making this card. If you haven't heard the song "Sunshine & Whiskey" you may not understand this card right away and that is okay! That was my inspiration for this fun card that started with the two whiskey bottles from the new stamp set Whiskey Business. They are colored with Cinnamon Cider and Pool Party Stampin' Blends and then fussy cut with my Paper Snips. The heat embossed gold sentiment is from Ronda Wade's Million Dollar Achiever set called Ridiculously Awesome. It was stamped on Whisper White and also fussy cut so that I could layer it over my whiskey bottles. My layer of Whisper White was stamped with Pool Party ink using another new set called Textured Essentials, this set is sure to please and his kind of hidden in the catalog! After I had that finished I layered a strip of wood designer series paper from the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. The Bottles are adhered over this with our new Stampin' Seal (WHICH I LOVE). I used the Foam Adhesive Strips to adhere my sentiment and a few Gilded Gems to finish this off! 

I hope you enjoyed my fun and masculine card! If you haven't heard the song go find it! Next on the hop today is Kerstin, you can get to her by clicking the next button below. Need a list of the products I used, that is below the next button as well! Have a great Sunday!

Kerstin Kreuzer

Product List

Whiskey Business Cling Stamp Set (English) [152550]	Ridiculously Awesome Cling Stamp Set [152512]	Textured Essentials Cling Stamp Set [152612]	Cinnamon Cider Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [153105]	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107]
Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [122924]	Cinnamon Cider 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153078]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730]	In Good Taste Designer Series Paper [152494]	Paper Snips [103579]
Gilded Gems [152478]	Foam Adhesive Strips [141825]	Stampin' Seal [152813]