Creation Station Specialty Paper Blog Hop

Happy Sunday! Hope you all are in good health and spirits! Our house has been humming with church and school obligations. I though things would get easier as they get older. Now I am just an underpaid taxi for my kids. Football is still in full swing for Wesley, we actually won our play off game yesterday!! WOOHOO Go Eagles. Wesley will get his first high school letter this season and I really couldn't be more proud. Today at church, Taryn will be helping our youth group lead service and worship... and Josh... Josh was diagnosed with asthma on Friday. 

PHEW!!! It doesn't get any easier...

Today I am back with my Creation Station team! I couldn't wait to participate this month. One, because I had things already made to go with our theme of SPECIALTY PAPER and two because I have been a slacker and it was time to pull up my big girl pants and HOP! Today my projects are featuring the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP. If you know me, I love a good NON-Traditional Holiday card and this Specialty DSP is amazing! Let me you show you what I have created!

This time of year I am asked to do orders of Christmas Cards. I created this card for one of my orders and I just love the way that it turned out. With a base of Mossy Meadow and a mat of Polished Pink there is nothing traditional about these colors. The dies from the Whimsical Trees Bundle are cut from Mossy Meadow and Mint Macaron. They are the perfect accent with the holographic stripe that is die cut with the Tailor Made Tags Die from the Whimsy & Wonder DSP. My Polish Pink stamped deer from Peaceful Deer Bundle was the perfect added touch. 

These great little blocks are 2" Wood Blocks that I snagged at Hobby Lobby! They are painted with a matte metallic silver paint then adorned with pieces of the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty DSP. I have used the Playful Alphabet Dies to create fun holiday saying on 4 sides of the cubes. Each side features a different pattern and theme! These are perfect for a mantle or shelf for the wintery season! I simply cut 1 7/8" squares of the paper and adhered them with a bit of Multipurpose Liquid Glue and embellished as I desired!

I am so glad that you stopped in today! I can't wait for you to see what my friend Elizabeth has created today! You can get to her by clicking the next button below!

Elizabeth Price

A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop Hope Box

Good Morning! I am so happy to blogging today! When I looked at my prior posts I realized it had been a bit since I last blogged. I am back and if you know me personally you understand why. Life gets crazy during the summer with fair and projects. Throw in an untimely death of a friend of Wesley's and it kind of had our whole family at max capacity of emotions. It is hard to create ANYTHING when you are in that head space. This week the kids returned to school and I am doing my best to return to normal! My mom was here all last week for the first time in 605 days! So things are looking good! ENOUGH ABOUT THAT!!!!! Lets get to the good stuff!

I am back with the A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop Team with the August 2021 Kit! This kit was called Hope Box. Shelli, our co-founder, wanted you to be able to decorate a Hope Box that is meaningful to you, as well as craft uplifting cards for those you care for around the world. I couldn't wait to make my alternatives because the ideas were exploding! Let me show you what I have created today!

The card above started with piece of the envelope that I cut to make a card front. The large butterfly die cut provided in the kit was the perfect accent. You will notice I have used it on the card below as a stencil before making this card! I have used the Melon Mambo Splatter piece from the kit as a band across with a banner from the kit as an accent. The tag created using the Tailor Made Tags dies was a fun accent to add with Gold 3/8" Shimmer Ribbon. It sits on a mat of Blackberry Bliss with a card base of Pool Party! For my final touch I added a few Gold Gilded Gems.

Like I stated above this card was actually made first! I found a card from Martin Stone who is on our Artisan Design Team, to give me a launching point. I have used the the large butterfly die cut with our Blending Brushes. The ink used was Melon Mambo and Blackberry Bliss. Once I achieved the desired look, I made a sparkling spritz with Wink Of Stella, Pool Party and some rubbing alcohol in one of our spritzers! I again made a tag using our Tailor Made Tags Dies and accented it with one of the banners provided in the kit. A few small butterflies and sequins was the perfect touch.

I can NOT wait for you to see what my friends have come up with today! You can click along the list below to find even MORE inspiration with your HOPE BOX kit!

Have A Great Day!!!

Creation Station Texture Blog Hop

Happy 4th of July! Today is going to be a day full of laughter, friends both new and old and food! I spent most of yesterday making up things for a feast tonight. We are doing burgers, brats and Hot Dogs with the potato salad, pasta salad, deviled eggs and I whipped a 7-Layer dip. I am sure there is more food coming but I don't know what everyone else is bringing! Wesley and I went to the firework stand to get some fireworks to light at home. Lets hope that Mother Nature cooperates!

It has been a while since I hopped with the Creation Station team! If you have read my blog over the last few weeks, I have a good excuse. Although this months theme of "Texture", I couldn't wait to hop along! Today I have created this cheerful "Feel Better Soon" card with the What A Year Memories & More Card Pack and the Hand Penned Petals Stamp Set. Lets take a look!

This little cutie started with the What A Year Memories & More Card Pack. My goal when I started to brain storm was to not use the Pattern Party or the In Good Taste paper packs. As those seem to be my go to lately. I rummaged the pack of cards and settled on the Polished Pink plaid like card and the lined card with the flowers. I cut the plaid down to a 3.75" x 5" card front. To add a bit of visual texture I used the Stitched with Whimsy dies. On the smaller card, I simply rounded the corners with our Detailed Trio Punch and added a hole for the ribbons. The plaid was then adhered with Stampin' Seal to a Pool Party Cardstock Mat. The tag was accented with the Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon and Bumblebee Gingham. A bit of Basic White Bakers Twine was tied around it. My Label Me Lovely Punch of Polished Pink was embossed with one of the Greenery Embossing Folders. The cute little striped strip was also from one of the smaller cards in the Memories and More pack. I cut it into about a 1/2" strip. The heat embossed sentiment from the Hand Penned Petals stamp set in white was perfect for my Bumblebee die cut from the Tasteful Labels Dies! 

I have adhered the Bumblebee circle to the strip with a bit of Stampin' Seal before adding the twine and adhering it to the Label Me Lovely Punch with Stampin' Dimensionals. The finishing touch for this adorable card was the Playing With Pattern Resin Dots mixed with a couple Basic Rhinestones!

I am so glad that you stopped by today! I can't wait for you to see what my amazingly talented best friend Jeanna has created for you! You can get to her by clicking the next button below! Have an amazing Sunday!

Jeanna Bohanon

Creation Station Out West Blog Hop

Good Morning! This last week has been such a doozy. The good news is that it is OVER and today starts a brand new week! The kids have a 4 day school week with no school on Friday, not sure if I am excited about spring break or if I should go into this all cautiously. A year ago tomorrow, Joshua kicked off his spring break early with his appendectomy and then our whole world fell apart with COVID. We plan on having some fun this break though with plans to go to an indoor water park and some pig shopping! I can't wait for our barn to be full of pigs again! We claimed one last night for Josh from our friends, 1 down 5 my more pigs to go!

Today I am back in the swing of things with the Creation Station Design Team Blog Hop. I may have had some doing with regards to our Outwest/Outback Theme. It is an esthetic that is very much our families lifestyle. We have horses, 4H animals and love our agricultural friends! I chose to ink up the Ride The Range Bundle, I know it is on backorder BUT that doesn't mean you can't order it and make sure you stake your claim! Let me show you what I rounded up for you!

So this card started with a piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock piece that I decided to emboss with the Parisian Flourish Embossing Folder. You see, I had this epiphany about using our Blending Brushes and making a piece of what I thought would look like tooled leather. Like a saddle or even a belt. I used Soft Suede and Early Espresso with our Blending Brushes. The sponge daubers were perfect to get the raised details a bit darker. Next, I stamped the barbed wire on a label from the Tasteful Labels dies with Early Espresso Ink and layered it over a piece of our Misty Moonlight In Color DSP. The fence was die cut from a piece of Crumb Cake and a wood scrap from the In Good Taste DSP and adhered together so that it has dimension. My windmill is also cut twice and adhered together this time using some Soft Suede and added a bit of sparkle with the some Wink Of Stella. The sentiment stamped onto the Basic White Label from the Tasteful Labels Dies is stamped in Misty Moonlight to coordinate with the Blender Pen colored jeans that I colored on the cowboy. Once I had all of my layers arranged and adhered with Stampin' Seal and Stampin' Dimensionals, I added a a few Star Designer Elements. A mat of Misty Moonlight and Crumb Cake card base had me hollering "YEE-HAW" when this card was done!

I can't wait for you to see what Kathy has created for this hop! You can get to her by clicking the next button below! 

Have an amazing Sunday!

Kathy Kartak

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 137 Sweetest Time Color Challenge

Happy Tuesday to all of you! Can you believe that Thanksgiving is next week?? It will be everything but normal for many of us. I spent the weekend working on orders and on Sunday we has a mini holiday photo session. I am so excited to see the pictures! She even nice enough to do a new headshot for me! My parenting goal this week is for all kids to be at school ALL WEEK LONG. First world problems I know, and we are so grateful that our schools have been open for in person learning. 

Today I am designing with The Spot. A majority of us decided to use the Heart Warming Hugs DSP because of course this color combo was inspired by it but I decided to put another twist on it by using a sheet of the DSP from the Most Wonderful Time Product Medley. I have made my card in two color ways! Enough about my designs, let me show you what I have made.

I decided to do my cards in two color ways, one with Pear Pizzazz on Real Red and the other with Mossy Meadow.  The Gingham like paper from the Heart Warming Hugs paired adorably with the Candy Cane paper from the Most Wonderful Time Product Medley. I used the bough dies from the Sweetest Time Bundle on the left edge. The sweet little sentiment is from the bundle and looks so cute on one of the die cuts from the Tasteful Label Dies. I have accented this card with a peppermint die cut with the Striped Mossy Meadow Ribbon and Sheer Real Red. 

I can't wait to see you what you create with this weeks colors! It will make you all feel a little bit of Holiday Cheer!