Stamp Ink Paper 89 Sketch Challenge

It is a Tuesday morning! The wind yesterday was CRAZY! Kids informed me that we have 4 weeks til we leave for San Diego... The pressure is on!

Today I am designing with Stamp Ink Paper Challenges. We have a fun and versatile sketch for you to play with. I decided to use something I hadn't used before! No Bones About it!

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My card started with a base of Tip Top Taupe with a nice matte of Mint Macaron. The Serene Scenery DSP has some fun abstract circles. My large stitched circle was first stamped with Tip Top Taupe ink and then I heat embossed the "bones" in clear. The strips on the left seemed oerfect for my dinosaur trail. A quick linen thread bow to attach the sentiment and few enamel dots from last years occasions and I was done!

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Stamp Ink Paper 73 Grateful Theme Challenge

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! I am so excited that it is truly starting to feel like fall here! I even got to wear a scarf and my favorite sweater vest yesterday! I am completely swamped with craft fairs and upcoming classes I am not even sure which way is up!

This week with Stamp Ink Paper we are creating with a Grateful Theme and I can't wait for you to see what I came up with... but here is what is crazy, The Paper Players have a "Thankfulness" Challenge so I am going to be submitting my card to them too!

Voila! I am so grateful for my friends near and far and couldn't think of a better card to show my gratitude!
The card started with Stampin' Up! Project Life set Hello Lovely. I used a circle die from the Layering Circles to die cut the center of the "wreath". After attaching my Window Sheet and get my Foam Adhesive Strips all set in place I added my sequins from Hello Lovely Accessory Pack. You will notice I added some extra gold and some seed beads to give it more guts. Once I had my shaker bits in place I added a patterned piece from Hello Lovely. Now that I had this all ready I decided that the wood like DSP from Serene Scenery was perfect for this card. I again used the Foam Adhesive Strips so that the card front popped off my card base of Tip Top Taupe card stock. I wasn't quite done... every card needs a sentiment! My Bunch of Blossoms set was still on my desk from the other day and I found this fabulous sentiment and how cute is it on Stampin' Ups new Stitched Shape Framelits!!! FINALLY! I have been waiting for 2 years for us to carry stitched dies! These little lovelies go perfectly with the layering dies and that is just what I did. I added my sentiment to a lovely gold scallop circle from the Layering Circles collection and it went perfect with a nice Linen Thread bow!

Thank You so much for stopping by! You can find a full product list below... Now go on!! Let me see your Grateful Cards!

Product List

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Stamp Set [141573]	Hello Lovely Project Life Card Collection [141668]	Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack [142687]	Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack [141642]	Tip Top Taupe 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138336]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [131180]	Linen Thread [104199]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705]	Window Sheets [142314]	Gold Foil Sheets [132622]
Clear Block C [118486]	Foam Adhesive Strips [141825]	Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309]	Big Shot [143263]	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658]

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Paper Craft Crew 213 Sketch Challenge

I am SOOOOO glad it is Wednesday! There is nothing like the feeling of having the week HALFWAY over! Or is that me being a pessimist?

My creativity is a little off with my lovely cold! I just love this weeks sketch for Paper Craft Crew! I think I may do it a few other ways now! I decided to do a lovely fall flower take on it I hope you will enjoy!

The card started with my 3 flowers from the set Grateful Bunch bundle that carried over from the Occasions catalog this spring! I stamped these in some nice regal colors Cherry Cobbler and Crushed Curry to give my card a nice Fall feeling. The DSP is from Serene Scenery and was the perfect combination with the base of Cherry Cobbler and matte of Tip Top Taupe! I made my loops with Linen Thread and used the Handheld Stapler to staple them onto the card. I adhered my flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals over my strip of Burlap Ribbon. My lovely sentiment is from a hostess set that is in the Annual Catalog that coordinates with the Bunch of Banners framelits!

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

Paper Craft Crew 209 Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Happy Hump day!! Can't believe we are half through the week already!! 

Funny story... Justin Krieger and I do a lot of card designing on FaceTime... So today while on FaceTime I had this not so brilliant idea to use glitter with heat and stick... Well it wasn't a good idea after all and well, the glitter spilled all over my legs that were in shorts... Yay for me!!!

This week with The Paper Craft Crew we have a really fun Tic Tac Toe and I went straight down the center from top to bottom with Dots, Any Blue and Staples!

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I wasn't quite sure how I was going to pull this weeks challenge off... I mean, the ocean shaker a few weeks ago would have been a great card for this challenge... I gathered the papers that I thought were blue and narrowed it down one by one! We all know that the Serene Scenery stack is amazing and can make a simple card really fabulous! I matted the wood pattern from the stack onto Soft Suede card stock then adhered it to the Pool Party Base. It coordinated with the grooves of the wood. My lovely copper flower was made by die cutting the shape out twice, adhering the die cuts with spray adhesive and then inking up the top layer with Versamark to heat emboss it with the Copper embossing powder! I kind of did the same thing with the "Love" sentiment from Sunshine Wishes... Although I let some of the Copper Foil peak out the edges. The ribbon was stapled into pleats, tied a cute linen thread bow and added some great dew drops and this card was done! No cats game for this girl!!!

Thank You so much for stopping by! I can't wait to see how you make your 3 in a row!

Paper Craft Crew 207 Sketch Challenge

Happy Wednesday to you all! If you are on the west coast you get to see my card a little earlier!

I am up late tonight waiting for my dear friend to get here! I am so super excited to see her!

Week after week The Paper Craft Crew continues to have amazing sketches! It took me almost 5 hours to collect my thoughts to get my card together but I hope you like what I have come up with!

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This lovely card started with a base of Beemuda Bay with a coordinating matte using the Serene Scenery DSP. The Crumb Cake layer was embossed with the Softly Falling embossing folder. However, I flipped it over so it looked like sand. My great little "window" to the beach was created using Gina Marie's Dies. The beach paper also came from the Serene Scenery DSP. I wanted my shaker to look like sand and shells. I used some of the snow like shaker bits and some sand colored sequins... The Missing You sentiment came from the set Thoughtful Banners. The Burlap ribbon, And Bermuda Bay Sequins were stapled on. It wasn't quite enough so I found a Bermuda Bay button and did a quick linen thread bow!!

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The Paper Craft Crew 204 Sketch Challenge

Wednesday!!! We are almost over the hump! I got the kids all registered yesterday at school! I still can't believe that my oldest will be in middle school!

This week at Paper Craft Crew we have a fun sketch for you to

Play along with!! I kind of ran wild with this sketch but as soon as I figured out in my head what I was doing it really did come together nicely!

So the muse for this card as it came together was the Serene Scenery DSP! It has a lovely aqua wood sheet that I really can't get enough of! I added to the wood using the Timeless Textures distressed wood like stamp using Bermuda Bay Ink! This too is what color the base of my card is. I then did a matte of Pool Party to coordinate with the DSP. The Whisper White is stamped using the Touches of Texture with Crumb Cake ink,Timeless Textures in Pool Party and Bermuda Bay. I also used the same colors on my Gina Marie Stitched Banner! Although, the Pool Party is heat embossed (I have a stash of retired embossing powders) and a I sprayed some Heidi Swapp White Color Shine to give it a shimmer. Before adhering the banner to the card I ran a strip of the burlap down the edge of my DSP. I then used some Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the banner to the card. The Gold Foil Butterfly was the perfect touch on this card! I really wish Stampin' Up! would have some more word thinlits! The Hope is from the Sunshine Wishes set. I cut this from Bermuda Bay Card stock and made it sparkle using Clear Wink of Stella! I couldn't leave this card alone, so added some Pretty Pink Posh Sequins!

Thank You so much for stopping in! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Paper Craft Crew 199 Card Sketch

Hey there! It is a Wednesday... Are you shocked yet? I know I don't normally post on a Wednesday but I am so excited to announce that I am now on the Paper Craft Crew Design Team!! I am really excited about this and I am so glad to be a part of such a creative team!

This week we have an adorable sketch that Pam Staples has designed for us. It really got my creative mojo working for me again! When we (SU Demonstrators) got to see the new Stampin' Up! Catalog for the first time I had to have this set and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it first! I will get you the details below!

I have to say that I have had this umbrella shaker card idea in my head since we demo's could see the catalog! So it has been brewing for a long while! The Weathered Together bundle was honestly one of the first sets on my list to get... I mean it is a REALLY long list but I kind of knew what other people were chomping at the bit to buy and this cute little set was never mentioned...

My card base of Island Indigo is nicely matted with Crumb Cake card stock. My Whisper White layer was die cut using the Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies. I used the umbrella shape to cut out my window for my shaker card. I adhered the acetate with 1/8 inch Score tape and then used our new Foam Adhesive Strips to create the shaker part. The shaker mix is made with a lovely mix of Pretty Pink Posh Sequins and Seed Beads! The backing is the from the Serene Scenery DSP Stack. The elegant sentiment is also from the Weather Together set. I simply stamped this before created my shaker with Island Indigo. What's an umbrella without the handle?? You need a handle! Crumb Cake ink to the rescue on my little handle stamp and Voila!  The coordinating cloud was stamped using Pool Party ink and die cut with the above coordinating die set. To finish this card I used a quick trim of linen thread and cute little burlap banner! OOPS! Did mention a few more sequins???

Thank You so much for stopping by today!!! I can't wait to see what you all make with this weeks sketch!

Stamp Ink Paper 51 Sunset Inspiration

Hey there and happy Tuesday! Summer break is in full swing and I have the sunburn from the pool to prove it!!

This week we have an inspiration challenge and honestly I haven't been very inspired... But when I opened my Stampin Up box full of all new goodies from the NEW catalog, I knew what was going to do!!

Soooooo excited to share the details of this card! This card started with the DSP.... We live on the plains and this paper from the Serene Scenery DSP seemed to fit what our sunsets look like! The card base is Old Olive with a cheerful matte of Daffodil Delight. I then took the also new Sunshine Wishes Thinlits to create my Sunshine sentiment! I adhered this to the front of the card using a two way glue pen! Below you can see I added Clear Wink of Stella on the card and sentiment to give it some sparkle.... I had a hard time deciding between sequins or dew drops. Sequins WON! Go figure right? I adhered these using the Fine Tip Glue Pen!

Thank You all so much for stopping by! I was so excited to share my little bit of Sunshine with you today! Have a fabulous Day!