Mother's Day Tulips with MOJO338 & CTD285

Good morning...its Friday, Friday, Friday!  Next to Saturday and Sunday, its my favorite day of the week!  I don't think I need to tell ya why either!!  Todays card is for the fun sketch challenge over at MOJO Monday and the color challenge is for Color Throwdown.  I really had fun with these two together.  I decided to break out an use my Blessed Easter stamp for the first time and use the soft colors of blushing bride, pear pizzazz, sahara sand and early espresso, for an early Mother's Day card.  I really do think the two worked very well together.

 

I used my aqua painter and did a little water coloring with the tulips to give them a soft appearance.  The cute little banners along the are made using the banner punch from the Sale-a-Bration catalog.  I am so in love with this little fella!

One of the other elements of this card, that adds a soft touch are the pearls.  I added a small one to the center of each little flower and three larger ones around the side of the circle.

 

And as always, I like to show the inside of my card.  Not always as detailed as the outside, but just as important.  I believe that the inside can be the most important at times, cause its where the writing goes that comes from the heart!

 

I hope you have enjoyed my take on the sketch and color challenge.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before checking out.  I hope you have a blessed weekend full of warm sunshine and fun times!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ early espresso, blushing bride, pear pizzazz, whisper white

Ink ~ early espresso, bushing bride and pear pizzazz

Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper

$0.00

Blessed Easter

$11.95

Banner Punch

$0.00

Basic Pearls Jewel Accents

$4.95

Punch Pack

$16.95

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Sweet Sorbet Petal Parade with FMS129

Today I had some free time during my kids nap time and thought I would use my time wisely.  Of course by that, I mean...paper crafting!!  House work can wait!!  I wanted to play along with the nice and simple sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.  It was a lot of fun putting this card together.  I wanted to go all out and use several items from our almost ending Sale-a-Bration catalog (sniff, sniff!!).  The one thing I will miss the most is the Sweet Sorbet DSP.  I just love how it can be dressed up with black and it still looks fun and Springy! 

 

 

The second thing I will miss, is the accessory pack with the awesome twine.  Oh who am I kidding...I'm also gonna miss the decorative dots embossing folder and the Petal Parade stamp set-and the list goes on and on!!  Maybe Stampin' Up! will hear our cries and keep some of the items around a bit longer?!?!

Well I'm glad you stopped by and I hope you've enjoyed my take on the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before leaving.  I always enjoy reading your thoughtful comments on my projects.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ summer starfruit, basic black, pool party, whisper white

Ink ~ crisp cantaloupe, basic black

Petal Parade Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$0.00

Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper

$0.00

Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack

$0.00

Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$0.00

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With Sympathy

 

Good morning and thanks for joining me here with Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.  Today we are sharing "sympathy" cards.  I know for me that this kind of card is at the bottom of my list of favorite cards to create, but well, sometimes we just need to do it.  For me, when thinking of a sympathy card to create, I still want it to be cheerful.  I mean, isn't that what we are trying to do, is cheer a person up when they are feeling sad and down a bit?  When I think of cheerful, I think of flowers and the color blue.  Even thought I don't enjoy digging around in the dirt with flowers, I do enjoy and looking at flowers and well, blue is my favorite color and it cheers me up when I look at something blue. 

 

Today's card is just that.  Created using the wildflower meadow stamp and matching embossing folder all in shades of blue.  I also used the hardwood stamp and woodgrain folder to add some texture to my background layer of marina mist.  One of my favorite elements of this card, is the small use of ribbon.  I think ribbon adds just the right touch to any card or project.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ midnight muse, whisper white and marina mist

Ink ~ marina mist and midnight muse

Wildflower Meadow Clear Bundle

$18.50

Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon

$8.95

Marina Mist 3/4" Chevron Ribbon

$8.95

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Thanks for joining me today.  Don't forget to head over to our main blog site and see the other creations from our design team members.  I hope you get INKspired! 

Masculine Monday!!

 

 Good morning and thanks for joining me here with Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.  Today we are sharing "Masculine" projects!  I will have to admit that this is one of the things that I struggle with.  I guess one of the reasons, is that I really don't have the best stamp sets for a "man", but lets just say, I'm working on that little problem.  I currently have three nice sets on the way, Wink - Wink!!

 

One of the sets that I do have is "Walk in the Wild" and its a great set.  I stamped him once, and stamped him twice, but the second time, I fussy cut him out and layered him ontop the other slightly off with some foam dots.  I framed him in using the On Frame framelit set,  decorated with some twine and shredded burlap ribbon, topped it off with a wooden (cause every man card has to include wood!) button and my project is done. 

 

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock colors ~ wild wasabi, smoky slate, midnight muse, pool party, whisper white

Ink ~ wild wasabi, chocolate chip

Walk In The Wild

$14.95

On Film Framelits Dies

$29.95

Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.95

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Again thanks for stopping by, don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to our main blog to see all the other great manly projects from our design team members.  I hope I have INKspired you to create!

A Flower for Easter!

 

 Good morning and thanks for stopping by!  Today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, we are busy creating flowers.  As you may have seen on our blog last week, my good friend Breelin with Craft- Somnia Momma, created a cute little Easter Basket.  We had a friendly little challenge to both create this basket to see what we could come up with.  Well today I am sharing my spin on it.  Like Bree stated, we can't take credit for this cute little gem, but it was so fun to CASE and recreate for ourselves!  You can find the video tutorial HERE with Caroline.

 

So the basket and card is made using the envelope punch board.  Both items are for my upcoming April class project.  I love being able to show my customers all the different things they can make with the punch board other than envelopes.  The tag is what I used to attach my flower too.  The flower, oh yes, that wonderful little flower!  Its created using the new Spiral Flower Die.  It is the best thing since sliced bread!!!  And I love bread!!  It was so quick and easy to make that I created another to place on the belly band of my card wrap.

To make the card, here is what I did:

1.  cut a piece of cardstock to measure 8" x 8"

2.  with your envelope board, line one side up at the 3-1/2". Punch and score as you would if you were making an envelope.  Don't forget that after you punch/score at the 3-1/2" mark the first time, no need to use that measurement anymore.  Just use the score line tool on the board to line up with the first scored line and work your way around.

3.  the card will measure  4-1/2" x 5-3/4" card when done.  The layer inside is a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of whisper white. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my version of this cute little basket and how I used my flower to decorate it.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to see the other projects from our design team members at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ crushed curry, coastal cabana, whisper white, smoky slate

Ink ~ coastal cabana, crushed curry

Misc. ~ large rhinestones, crushed curry chevron ribbon

 

Happy Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$16.95

Spiral Flower Originals Die

$17.95

Envelope Punch Board

$19.95

Chalk Talk Framelits Dies

$24.95

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Watercolor Happy!

 

Good morning and thanks for joining me here today with Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration! Today we are sharing projects that have a theme of "water coloring".  With my project today, I decided to actually watercolor using the Secret Garden stamp set.  Can you believe that in the past when I have done this technique, it has been with a blender pen.  Well, I finally went and bought myself a set of the aqua painters.  I know right...why did I not already own them, and what took me so long??  Well I broke them out and went to town.  Here is what I created!

 

 

I wanted my card to have both water coloring with heat embossed details.  I heat embossed each flower on very vanilla cardstock, the swirls on my background layers, one set of leaves as well as the center layer of each flower with gold powder.  This created such sparkly details to the card.  I then used the aqua painter to pull color from the calypso coral ink pad to color each flower.

 

Thanks for stopping by to see my watercolor project.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to view the other awesome projects from our design team members at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ very vanilla, calypso coral, wild wasabi

Aqua Painter

$16.95

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$4.75

Versamark Pad

$7.50

Secret Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$18.95

Secret Garden Framelits Dies

$24.95

Heat Tool

$29.95

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Gettin' Springy with It - FMS127 and PP187

Good morning!  I had so much fun making one project challenge card yesterday, I decided to create another!  I guess all the cleaning I did worked up a healthy appetite for stamping!! 

This card is for two challenges in one, The Paper Players with their Spring and Clean challenge and Freshly Made Sketches with their cute and simple sketch.  Remember, Make 1 Get 1 for FREE!  I love the challenge of combining two into one.  It makes me really put my thinking cap on...along with a good cup of coffee and I'm set!  Wink Wink!!

 

I purchased the new hexagon hive framelit and wanted to put it to use.  I cut one out in white as a simple layer ontop of my DSP.  My favorite element on this card is the ribbon with the button in the center.  I just love how ribbon can make a card pop with excitement!!

The inside was kept simple with a DSP banner and a used some of the hexagons from the framelit and placed them along the side.

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ island indigo, whisper white, melon mambo

Ink ~ island indigo

Gingham Garden Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Daffodil Delight 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon

$6.95

Brights Designer Buttons

$7.95

Hexagon Hive Thinlits Die

$24.95

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