The Spot 118 Create Your Own DSP

Happy Tuesday! I am sorry I didn't blog last week, things got a little crazy with fires, a broken fridge and the kids! Have no fear I am back! We are only weeks away from fair. Taryn and Wesley will need to turn in record books soon!! We went fishing over the weekend and I got eaten alive by deer flies.  The kids had fun despite the heat. 

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Today I am designing with The Spot, we are creating our own DSP. If you don't know what DSP it is, it is Designer Series Paper. It is what those of us who are Stampin' Up! Demonstrators call it or those that are Stampin' Up! Savvy. I can't wait to show you my fun card that I have created with Ridiculously Awesome stamp set with some bright and cheerful colors! Lets take a look!

I had so much fun when creating this card! Who doesn't love the new In Color Magenta Madness?! It is a great pink that has allowed me to NOT USE Petal Pink! We all know how much I reach for the Subtles color family, but not with this card! I have put the Magenta Madness with Coastal Cabana, Mango Madness and Stazon Jet Black/Basic Black.  The Ridiculously Awesome stamp set was my favorite the minute I saw it! So many possibilities!!! I took the star stamp and created my Designer Series Paper by stamping it in all 4 colors. After I created my desired pattern, I used the Stitched Rectangle Dies to die cut the patterned piece of Whisper White. I have also used the Stitched Rectangle Dies for the Magenta Madness In Color DSP and made a fun Coastal Cabana frame. I layered these up wonky style (That is my official name for it) and added a bit of the Whisper White ribbon from the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack. The sentiment is White heat embossed on Basic Black then punched with the Label Me Lovely punch. I have adhered it to the bottom right corner with Stampin' Dimensionals and added a few of the Artistry Blooms Sequins. This fun and funky card is on a base of Basic Black!! 

I can't wait to see how you all make your own patterned paper

Product List

Ridiculously Awesome Cling Stamp Set [152512]	Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820]	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093]	Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad [153117]	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097]
Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad [101406]	Versamark Pad [102283]	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132]	2020–2022 In Color 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [153070]	Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131297]
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045]	Label Me Lovely Punch [151296]	Artistry Blooms Sequins [152477]	Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack [153620]

The Joy of Sets Blog Hop - Floral - May 2020

Happy Saturday! I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. The sun is shining and I am going to spend my weekend cleaning out the craft room! The kids only have a few more days of distance learning and we are done!!! By the time they go back to school they will have been out of in school learning for 6 months! It has not been the easiest scenario. 

I am so excited to be hopping along with the Joy of Sets team today, it is something new for me and I appreciate Angie McKenzie for letting me hop along. This month we are hopping with our favorite florals! I chose to use a stamp set that has been released from Stampin' Up! called Ornate Style. I have paired it with the So Sentimental Bundle and Peaceful Poppies DSP to make this amazing card today. Let me show you what I have created.

My card started with a piece of Whisper White. I have stamped the large flower stamp from the Ornate Style and stamped it on the corners with Memento Tuxedo Black. I have colored the flowers with Stampin' Blends in So Saffron, Old Olive, Rococo Rose, Mint Macaron and Calypso Coral. After finishing my coloring I die cut the rectangle with the Rectangle Stitched Dies. This is layered at an angle over an Old Olive stripe piece of Peaceful Poppies DSP. A bit of the Whisper White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon wrapped was the perfect touch with a nice double bow. Calypso Coral was exactly what I needed for a mat for this card. My sentiment from the So Sentimental Bundle is stamped with Old Olive ink and die cut with the coordinating die. To finish this card up, I have used a Mint Macaron card base and added a few of the Gilded Gems.

I can't wait for you to see what my other crafty friends have made for you today! Next on the hop is the amazing Angie McKenzie, you get to her blog by clicking the next below! Have an amazing weekend!

Angie McKenzie

May 2020 Blog Roll

Angie McKenzie

Annette Ball

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Tricia Butts

Fiona Whitehead

Brenda Nelson 

Libby Fens

Susan Webster

JoAnn Pollock

Jill Chapman

Gez Carpenter

Vicki Milyard

Alejandra Gomez

Kaylin Krawczyk

Rebecca Jo Unwin

Narelle Fasulo

Sue Allen

Sandra Mastello

Andrea Tracy-Tucker

Creation Station Mad As A Hatter Mash Up

Good Sunday to you all! I am enjoying a cup of coffee while typing my post this morning listening to the Robin's outside. We got a good rain last night and everything is still wet. It was great timing as Troy and I did our part with our stimulus money and bought our own riding lawn mower. So when he got home with it yesterday, he got most of the mowing done out front. I spent yesterday trying to be motivated. We checked pigs, did a couple loads of laundry, dishes and I kept trying to get my card done for today... The card took all day!!!

This month on the Creation Station Design Team, we are hopping with the Mad As A Hatter Mash Up. Its about using things maybe in an unintended way or crazy color schemes... So, in order to pull a rabbit out of my hat to whip something up for this hop, I chose to use the retiring Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper to make a cowboy like card with the also retiring Let It Ride (Insert dramatic sobbing here).

My card started with rope pattern and stripe from the Come Sail Away DSP. I knew I could pull a western like feel with the rope pattern and who doesn't love a good stripe!? It was a no brainer to mix the Denim Ribbon with a bit of Linen Thread. This card is accented with Night of Navy card stock and enamel dots from the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots. I have used our amazing Watercolor Pencils to color the horse from the Let It Ride stamp set. I chose to use the Early Espresso pencil because I have tried so many times to make a Bay horse with Blends to no avail! The Crumb Cake stamped sentiment is die cut with our Rectangle Stitched Dies. I tied it all together with a Crumb Cake mat on a Balmy Blue card base! 

Thank You so much for stopping by today! I can't wait for you to see what my BEST friend Jeanna has whipped up for you, you can get to her by clicking the next link below!

The Spot Challenge #106 Modern Heart

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday from the frozen tundra of Colorado... Who knew that 3 days ago that it was over 70 Degrees, I had on a tank top and even got a bit of sunburn. The pigs are nestled down in there houses and Taryn did her first virtual pig show! She did a great job for never showing pigs before!

This week The Spot Creative Challenge has one of my favorite colors combos as a challenge for you! Petal Pink, Gray Granite, and any thing metal! This could be Foils, Glimmer Paper, Embellishments, and of course Heat Embossing. It is a color combo I use A LOT and I really struggled with doing something that I hadn't done or was a bit replayed! Let me show you what I have created.

When the Annual Catalog came out last year, Modern Heart was one of the FIRST sets that I purchased, I used it a couple times and put it away. So with the retiring list coming out in just a couple weeks, I felt like I needed to bring this one out again! 

I started by stamping the large heart on Gray Granite with Versamark so that I could heat emboss the design with Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder. Then I fussy cut this and set it aside. I had actually started this card with whole other idea, which is where the Corrugated embossed Petal Pink piece came from. It is nicely layered over a strip of Copper Foil. I created the background using the other stamps from the Modern Heart Stamp set. With the Petal Pink wash look. Gray Granite smaller hearts and Petal Pink mini hearts. It was a great touch with under my accent strips. I adhered the heart with the Stampin' Dimensionals over the strips. The sentiment was stamped in Gray Granite over the Petal Pink swoosh. I die cut this with one of the Rectangle Stitched Dies. A nice Whisper White Bakers Twine with few Metallic Pearls was the perfect touch. This is nicely layered onto a Gray Granite layer and a Petal Pink card base.

I can't wait to see what you create with this oh so pretty color challenge! 

Have an amazing day! 

A Paper Pumpkin Thing I’ll Be Yours Blog Hop

Happy Thursday!!! I can't believe that we are only a few days away from February, can you? January seems like the longest month ever, and then BOOM it is February!! Taryn (my youngest and only daughter of the 3), turns 10 on the 4th and it always seems to sneak up on me right after Christmas! I can't believe in a week, all of my kids will be in the double digits! 

A Paper Pumpkin Thing is back!! Can you believe we have been around for almost 3 years!? It was an idea that started with the "It's A Sara Thing" kit. Hence the name of ours! A group of us liked the idea of a Paper Pumpkin blog hop, since there was not one out there at the time... and here we are killing it, 3 years later!

January kits are always hard for me to REALLY repurpose or make into alternatives for the kit. With kids in Elementary school, I am always looking for ways to make cute, easy Valentines. So for my designs today, I have paired the stamp set, bee die cuts, Heartfelt Bundle and Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper with some of my favorite stitched dies! Let me show you what I have come up with!

I just love the way that both of these cards came out today! I have paired the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper with So Saffron and Gold Foil. I love that the stamp set in the I'll Bee Yours kit coordinates with the Heartfelt Bundle in our Mini Catalog and I took full advantage of that!

The tiny sentiments were perfect to put onto the smallest Stitched So Sweetly Dies and it paired so nicely with our Rectangle Stitched Dies. Did you know that there is a stitched stamp in the Heartfelt stamp set? I actually heat embossed it in Gold to coordinate with my card.

I started this card with a piece of Whisper White and stamped the Bee's from the kit in So Saffron ink and die cut it with the largest Rectangle Stitched Die. I added a bit of a banner to go under my heart. Like I said above, the smallest Stitched So Sweetly die was perfect for the tiny sentiments in the kit! My heat embossed gold stitched heart from the Heartfelt bundle is layered over a Gold Foil heart also from the Heartfelt Bundle. A bit of twine and a Bee die cut from the kit and this card was done!

I wanted my second card to coordinate with the first... I took the stitched stamp from the Heartfelt stamp (again) and stamped a background with So Saffron Ink onto the So Saffron card stock. This card also has the Golden Honey DSP. I punched a heart out of both the stripe and So Saffron so that the heart stamp from the kit peeks out from behind in So Saffron ink. The heart is accented with tiny flowers in the kit in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. A few metallic pearls, bee's from the kit and a bit of twine from Sale A Bration and the kit and this card was done!

I can't wait for you to see what my friends have made with the kit this month! There is a full blog roll below for you to Bee even more inspired!

Happy Hopping!

TGIF Challenge 232 Painted Harvest

Friday! Friday! I know that most of us can't wait until Friday, although it seems like lately my work whatever it may be is NEVER done! Wesley has his last football game of the season tomorrow and starts up basketball next week. I was silly to think that I would have a lull! 

Today I am participating with the TGIF Design Team and this amazing color challenge that will definitely get you creating for fall! I inked up an old favorite Painted Harvest to play along with!

Somehow when I think of fall, I think of pumpkins and earthy toned flower arrangements that feature sunflowers and eucalyptus. Which is kind of the direction I was going when I created the card for today! My wood frame is created with Crumb Cake card stock and stamped with Early Espresso using the Birch background stamp. I made the frame with the Rectangle Stitched Dies. I stamped a bit of a background using the fern like stamps from Painted Harvest with Pretty Peacock and Crumb Cake inks. My Grapefruit Grove stamped sunflower is fussy cut and layered a few Linen Thread loops. I stamped the leaves in Pretty Peacock as well and distressed them a bit with Crumb Cake ink. This is nicely matted onto a layer of Pretty Peacock and is on a base of Crumb Cake!

Thank You so much for stopping by today! I can't wait to see what you create for this weeks challenge!

Stamp Ink Paper 202 We are Back!

Tuesday!!! This is sure to be the Mondayest Tuesday ever with the kids not having school yesterday! Wesley had a football game last night and we didn't get home until almost 7... Needless to say, no rest for the wicked.

Stamp Ink Paper has been on a bit of sabbatical the last few months but we are back and better than ever!

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We are designing today with a Designer's Choice! What better way to get you all excited about this amazing card making challenge. I decided to reach into my stash and blog a card I had made when I decided to swap with our new annual catalog goodies. Lets take a look!

My card base is the lovely Rococo Rose with a mat of Terracotta Tile. I have die cut a piece of the Woven Threads Designer Series Paper with the Rectangle Stitched Dies and adhered it to a piece of Sahara Sand with a coordinating piece of Designer Series Paper. This has a beautiful trim of Rococo Rose Scalloped Linen Ribbon with a small stamped strip of Sahara Sand that I tore the edge on to give it a bit of texture. The sentiment that is also from the Woven Heirlooms stamp set is stamped in Terracotta Tile ink and is accented with the 2019-2021 In Color Faceted Dots.

Now it is your turn! Get your favorite Stamps, Inks and Papers and create a card for this weeks challenge! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Ten Minute Tuesday Very Versailles

Happy Tuesday! Hope you all had an amazing weekend! We had a fun packed Wray Daze weekend! We enjoyed Family Night on Friday, Wesley was in a dunk tank (I have video to prove it!) and there is always amazing food choices. I chose to have Loaded Tater Tots from the Slawpy Barn... sooo good! After spending a couple hours down there we came home. The parade was on Saturday, I had volunteered to help with float check in, which meant being in town by 7 AM. All the kids were in tow because Troy inevitably got called out. We spent the rest of the day in town enjoying the festivities. Sunday was the day of rest, although Josh, Taryn and I went to Church.

Enough about my weekend, Today I am sharing a relatively simple card that I created in around 10 minutes! That is right 10 MINUTES!! I was so happy to see that the Global Design Project was a Case The Designer Challenge that was relatively clean and simple that went along with my 10 minute Tuesday idea!

If you haven't ordered the Pressed Petals Journal or DSP, DO IT! Both of these items are very versatile and I didn't realize until I had the journal that the pages were perforated so that they can be torn out easily to use for whatever you desire... 

I chose a card front! Let me show you what I whipped up for you today! 

My card started with a page from the Pressed Petals Journal. The page is a Very Vanilla color with Sahara Sand Script towards the bottom. I chose the largest of Rectangle Stitched Dies to die cut this and give it a bit more panache. When choosing my stamp set, I reached for the Very Versailles because of the similarity in styles. I inked up the leaf pattern with Pear Pizzazz ink and stamped it on the left side overlapping a bit of the script. The copper foil washi is from the Tags & More Accessory Kit. It was a nice added vintage touch. The sentiment fit well on the smallest circle in the Stitched Shapes Dies. I added this with Stampin' Dimensionals after tying the Linen Thread bow. A few gold Metallic Pearls and this card was ready for its Rococo Rose Base!

This card was so simple to make! I have created a full list below so that you can make it too!

Product List

Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set [149275] $23.00	Pressed Petals Journal [149588] $6.50	Tags & More Accessory Kit [149652] $9.00	Linen Thread [104199] $5.00	Stitched Shapes Dies [152323] $30.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $7.50	Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad [150080] $7.50	Rococo Rose 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150882] $8.75	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650] $9.75	Metallic Pearls [146282] $7.00