Stamp Ink Paper 142 Color Challenge

Happy Tuesday! Stamp Ink Paper is back this week with a bright and fun color challenge for you! 

Did you survive the weekend?? We had a long weekend down in the southeastern corner of Colorado filled with movies, a rowdy game of Clue and a great time at Parrot Cove indoor waterpark in Garden City (that is in Kansas). Kids didn't want to go back to school after being off for a week, personally I am kind of ready for them to be home again.

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I love our colors for this weeks challenge. You can really do a lot with Gray, Aqua and Lime. Let me show you my card!

My card started with a card base from the Sale A Bration Tutti Frutti Card Bases and Envelopes. I matted a piece of Basic Gray in a not so straight manner. I wasn't sure exactly at this point what my plan was, but after digging through my DSP stash I found this fun star patterned piece from the Bubble and Fizz also in the Sale A Bration catalog. This was adhered the opposite direction of the Basic Gray. I took my snips after stamping the sentiment from Birthday Wit in Smoky Slate and Lemon Lime Twist and cut the words out. Using the Star from the Mini Treat Bag Framelits, I cut three Magic Myths Glimmer Paper Stars and adhered them with Glue Dots on the card. Next I adhered the sentiment with the Mini Dimensionals. To finish this card off I added just a few of the Self Adhesive Sequins.

Thank You soooo much for stopping by today! I can't wait to see what you create with these fun colors!

TGIF Challenges 143 Awesome Friends

TGIF!!! For real, do you ever have one of those weeks where you feel like your head is just in a constant state of spinning. That was this week and I hit my max yesterday with after school club, dance and an accountability committee all at the same time... I was 7 minutes late to the meeting, it couldn't be prevented and it really isn't going to change on Thursdays it seems because with the boys doing wrestling and Taryn doing dance it is just going to be crazier! I guess I should just be happy that there wasn't wrestling last night!!! Thank god for Crock Pots!

TGIF Challenges is designing with the theme "Awesome Friends". I was a bit stumped as I had done a friendship type card on my last design team post for TGIF and I wanted to branch out a bit!

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First lets talk about my card base! It is from the Tutti Fruity Card Bases and Envelope pack in the Sale A Bration catalog. I matted this with Real Red Card Stock and used the Night of Navy pattern in the Tutti Fruity DSP pack. I then used the Stitched Circles in two different sizes to make my 3 circles. The berry pattern is on the opposite side of the Night Of Navy side. The Crafting Forever stamp set seemed appropriate for this challenge. The sentiment is stamped with Night Of Navy ink. My cute little scissors are stamped with Memento so that I could color them using our Stampin' Blends markers and of course fussy cut out with Paper Snips. I used the Cherry Cobbler cross-stitch ribbon to keep with the farm stand feel. A quick Whisper White Bakers Twine Bow in one of the new Wood Buttons was a cute finishing touch!

Thank You so much for stopping by! I can't wait to see what you make for your Awesome Friends!

OSAT Sale A Brate The Occasions Blog Hop

Happy Thursday!!! I am back with the One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop! As many of you know, I created this hop about 3 years ago and I here to tell you that this year is going to be better than ever. We have quite a few new Demonstrators with us this year. That is right, this hop will be EXCLUSIVELY Stampin' Up!

To kick off our new year and new look we are hopping with the theme Sale A Brate the Occasions. We are showcasing items in the Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs. I couldn't wait to play with the Magical Day Bundle... especially after I found my dies that I had misplaced!!!

I must have messed up a dozen unicorns before I used my Watercolor Pencils with my Blender Pen to create this cutie. I used the Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay and Basic Gray pencils. As of Tuesday I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the Unicorn but knew I wanted to use the Magical Day Bundle as I had located the dies that I hid from myself for about a week. I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do for layout yet when I started with this card yesterday morning. Then I had a moment... so I grabbed the Marbled Backgroun Stamp and simply stamped it on to the Pool Party card stock using Pool Party ink. I then grabbed the cloud stencil to use the Shimmery White Embossing paste to make some amazingly sparkly clouds. The sentiment was initially stamped using Berry Burst ink but I came back with the banner in the dies and layered a Pool Party sentiment over the top embellished with a nice little scallop trim of Turquoise Glimmer Paper from the Magic & Myths Glimmer Paper pack. I added some of the Berry Burst 3/8" Metallic Edge Ribbon and adhered the Stitched Oval onto the card with the Unicorn!

My cute box made using the Unicorn paper from Magic & Myths DSP and the Lots of Love box dies. I didn't want to show you just a box with Berry Burst ribbon, so I took the Tutti-Frutti Card Bases from the Sale A Bration catalog. I trimmed them down so that they were the same size as the Narrow Note Cards that are in the Occasions catalog and fit so nicely in the box. I took the pieces that I trimmed and used them to embellish each card. The Iridescent Glimmer Paper was cut using the Celebrate You thinlits from the Sale A Bration catalog. These sentiment dies are a MUST have and can dress up any card!

I am so glad you stopped by today to see my creations! Next on the hop is the AMAZING Raquelle Clifton! I can't wait to see what that Lady and Her Stamps has for all of us! You can get to her by clicking the pretty little next button below!

Raquelle Clifton

If you get lost along the way here is a full list of our hoppers...

Barb Mullikin
Melissa Davies
Elizabeth Jeanne
Dani Dziama
Angela Meiritz-Reid
Jenny Hall
Maria Willis
Jessie Holton
Candy Ford
Pam Staples
Cathy Caines
Kelly Acheson
Jay Soriano
Sara Levin
Tina Rackley Riddle
Claudia Perry
Jennifer Hill
Dena Rekow
Lori Mueller
Marisa Gunn
Andrea Tracy Tucker
Raquelle Clifton
Renee Ondrajka

Rick Adkins