Paper Craft Crew 365 Love You Lots

Happy Wednesday! I am so excited to back creating. I think it may be to safe to say that I have my groove back! The kids went back to school yesterday, that left me with a quiet house and uninterrupted crafting time with good music. 

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I am so glad to be back with the Paper Craft Crew today! We have a great sketch to get your wheels turning with all of the new goodies you got for Christmas... Or maybe some old favorites. I chose to design with the From My Heart Suite! Let me show you what I have come up with...

This great Valentine card was created with the From My Heart Suite! This suite is amazing when ordered in the bundle you get -

* Heartfelt Photopolymer Stamp Set (10% off)
* Heart Punch Pack (10% off)
* From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper
* Real Red 3/8" (1 cm) Double-Stitched Satin Ribbon
* From My Heart Faceted Gems
* Heart Doilies
* Heart Foil Tins

It really is a great deal! I started this card with my embellished heart! I used both punches in the suite and of course the doily. The heart is stamped in Flirty Flamingo with the sentiment in Real Red. I have used the From My Heart Specialty DSP for one of the strips, this coordinates with my Flirty Flamingo stamped strip. I added a bit of Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle and the Real Red Double Stitched from the suite. This is layered onto a nice piece of Whisper White card stock with a mat of Real Red and card base of Flirty Flamingo. What is a card without some bling!? A few of the From My Heart Faceted Gems was just the right touch!

Product List

From My Heart Suite Bundle (English) [153931] $88.25	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [102482] $8.75	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $7.50	Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141416] $8.75	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $7.50
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $9.75	Very Vanilla 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon [147629] $7.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00

Paper Craft Crew Autumn Days

We are halfway through the week!! Can you believe it?! It seems that life has gotten in the way of A LOT! Sometimes family and life need to come first! I am finally catching up with things and I couldn't wait to design with the Paper Craft Crew this week!

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 This week we are designing with Inspiration! An Autumn Days Inspiration Challenge!! I am longing for our temps to feel like Fall and less like summer!! I have two classes this weekend and Gather Together Bundle is my class for Sunday so it was time to get it a bit inky!

I was a bit overstimulated when I made this card... It turned out amazing though! My card base is in Early Espresso with a nice mat of Sahara Sand. I stamped the maple leaf from the Gather Together in Sahara Sand ink and added the sprinkles in Early Espresso. I decided that a Mint Macaron water colored pumpkin from the Harvest Hellos Bundle was just the right pop of color I wanted! A nice strip of the polka dot burlap from the Come To Gather DSP was a great added touch with my Linen Thread bow that's holding my wood tag from the Tags & Feathers elements. To give this a bit more panache, I have heat embossed the sentiment in Gold on the wood tag! 

I am so glad that you came by today! I can't wait to see how this challenge inspires you!

Paper Craft Crew 348 Harvest Hellos

HELLO!!!!! I am sure that many of you think that I have fallen off the face of the earth! Life has been consuming lately and while I have tried to work on stuff in my stamp room it seems like the business side of it all has been taking the front page.  Good news is that I will be having classes in Yuma starting in September!!! Not Arizona, Yuma is about 30 minutes to my west and I have been trying to find a venue for the last 3 years!!! Well, it happened!

This weeks sketch from the Paper Craft Crew is a bit like last weeks! So when you look at my card today and say "Hmmm, that looks like last weeks challenge", I designed it for last week but it works for today too!!!

I couldn't wait to ink up and use the Harvest Hello's Bundle! With 3 kids I have plenty of teachers I can use this bundle for! Today's card is my first design with it and I think it is adorable! Lets take a look!

I am sure that many of you have a stash of things that you have stamped with great plans of ideas, my Granny Apple Buffalo Check is one of those ideas that never came full circle. My Poppy Parade Apple is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Clear Stampin' Emboss powder. Once that was ready I used the coordinating punch to build my apple. A nice burlap banner from the Pressed Petals DSP coordinates nicely with my Linen Thread bow. I stamped a border of the seeds towards the bottom in Early Espresso ink. The Welcome Back sentiment is heat embossed in Stampin' Emboss White on Early Espresso then punched with Classic Label punch. To finish this card off I made a mat with Poppy Parade and set it on a card base of Granny Apple Green!

Phew! I can't wait for you all to get your Holiday Catalogs!! It is by far one of my faves!!!

Thank You so much for stopping by today! I can't wait to see what you make for this weeks challenge! Have a great day!

Paper Craft Crew Designers Choice

Happy Wednesday to you all!! I would be lying if I told you that summer break has gotten in the way of my creativity and time to blog. I feel like if I have time to create, I don't have time to blog, or if I have time to blog, I am exhausted from keeping the kids busy! LIFE!!! Life gets in the way and it is okay and so far the kids haven't made me lose my mind...YET!

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I must confess... This card was made for the TGIF Design Team but after having company for the 4th and a lack of sleep, I was lazy and didn't post it... So when I realized that this week with the Paper Craft Crew had no rules... I realized my card was already made! BONUS!!! I am not the girl who usually likes to double dip when it comes to challenge but I have provided a link below to the TGIF challenge as well!

I know that many of you are in frenzy waiting for the Purple Posy Classic Stampin' Ink Pad to come out... There is a quality issue that Stampin' Up! wants to be sure is remedied before offering it to all of you... I chose to sponge the ink with the Rococo Rose and Seaside Spray and created a fun ombre like background! The hinge step with my Stamparatus is by far my favorite technique! I took it a step further by heat embossing it with Stampin' Emboss Silver. My cute little cake was colored with our Blender Pens and sets on a stand of Smoky Slate. This is adhered to a stitched circle of Velum and adorned with the Woven Thread Sequin Assortment. A nice fluffy Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle bow was perfect for the final touch!

I can't wait to see what you create without any rules! 

Hope you have an amazing day!

Paper Craft Crew 316 Beautiful Blizzard

Today I am back on the Paper Craft Crew Design Team with a fabulous challenge for all of you! Can you believe we are only 3 days away from December?! I know I have been MIA, but sometimes life and family needs to come first.

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This challenge is to create with our NEW favorite product. When the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog was live I LOVED the Beautiful Blizzard Bundle!! So craft room confession 101, I hadn't even inked it up until yesterday!! I know that I am not alone in this scenario... So when I started brain storming my goal was to create a non traditional colored Christmas Card. Let me show you what I have created.

My card started with Thick Very Vanilla card stock. I first stamped the splotch with Mint Macaron and then Heat Embossed some Copper Stampin' Emboss snow flakes. This was die cut using the largest stitched circle and set aside. I then decided to stamp Mint Macaron snow flakes to create back ground on my card and adhered the stitched circle with Stampin' Dimensionals! The copper colored glimmer paper from the Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper pack was a perfect contrast. I chose to use this with the coordinating snowflakes die and added them to the card. This was nicely matted onto a Mint Macaron matte with a Cajun Craze card base. A Nice bow of Copper trim to hold the Season's Greetings sentiment and I was done!!! I can't wait to see you all create with your favorite new products! 

I have provided a full list of everything you would need below to make this card!
Happy Wednesday!

                    Product List

Beautiful Blizzard Clear-Mount Bundle [149921]	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [144237]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636]	Mint Macaron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138337]
Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684]	Joyous Noel 6" X 6" Glimmer Paper [147817]	Heat Tool [129053]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	1/4" Copper Trim [144179]	Big Shot [143263]
Precision Base Plate [139684]	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Paper Craft Crew 309 Happiest Christmas Wishes

Thank goodness it is Wednesday! Have you ever just had one of those days where no matter what you tried, it didn't work! That was the whole mantra with this card... maybe because I had Taryn home on Monday, I was just completely OFF!!!

This week with the Paper Craft Crew we have a fabulous sketch for all of you to be inspired by. You can find the sketch and the details below!

Like I said above this card was a bit of a struggle! Once I had a clear and concise idea I ran with it, and if at first you don't succeed try, try again! So after stamping a few different Reindeer and messing with some Spirited Snowmen the card below is what I came up with...

I think that sometimes once we finish a card and look at it we surprise ourselves with how mentally complicated it was to whip it up so to speak. This card starts with a rich base of Merry Merlot Cardstock with a nice matte of Sahara Sand. I have matted the Joyous Noel DSP with Tranquil Tide Cardstock. I punched a nice glimmer trim using the Decorative Trim Border Punch using the Glimmer Paper Pack that coordinates with the DSP. My Softly Falling embossed Stitched Circle is sponged with the Frosty White Shimmer Paint. My Sahara Sand Stamped Reindeer from the Dashing Deer Bundle looks so cute on the its snowy background! I have stamped the sentiment using Tranquil Tide ink on Sahara Sand Card stock then fussy cut into two little banners. It looks so cute with the Merry Merlot Card stock and glimmer paper banners. Before adhering everything I tied a quick double strand Linen Thread bow.

I am so glad that you have stopped by today! I can't wait to see what you create with today's challenge! I have provided a full list of the products I have used on today's card below. 

Product List

Dashing Deer Clear-Mount Bundle [149935]	Joyous Noel 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [147816]	Joyous Noel 6" X 6" Glimmer Paper [147817]	Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [139672]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Frost White Shimmer Paint [147046]
Decorative Ribbon Border Punch [143721]	Banner Triple Punch [138292]	Merry Merlot 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146979]	Tranquil Tide 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144246]	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146]	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043]
Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [147117]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Big Shot [143263]	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658]