Set Sail with Stylin' Stampin' Squad's April Blog Hop

Thank you so much for joining us for our April Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop! This month our theme is all about "kids".  One of the things about having kids is planning a birthday party or maybe even a baby shower for a friend.  Our hop is focusing on everything related to kids.  From birthday/party cards, invites, decorations to even party favors.

 

As you hop along, please be sure to comment and show some love on every blog! We are always excited to hear from our followers! You should have just left stop #4 Kathy P. of Katrina P's Creative Corner on the Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop. If so, you are in the right spot. If a link doesn't work or you get off track, you will find the full blog hop lineup below.

With this months hop theme of "kids", I decided to do a baby shower collection.  One way to make a shower so easy to put together, is to create your own supplies for the party.  I used Stampin' Up!'s MDS software program to create all the items you will see here in my post.  Now the only thing left to do is....EAT those Yummy little cupcakes!!!

 

 

So my baby shower collection includes: an invitation, thank you cards, cute cupcake toppers and even more cute tags for the candy favors.

 

The invitation is 100% MDS. I used the High Tide DSP for the background along with the stamp set Hello Sailor and On the Go.

 

For the tags on the candy favors, I used the photopolymer stamp set, Setting Sail.  I also printed the stripped background paper from MDS and punched out the shape with the artisan punch and tiedit on with some pacific point stitched ribbon.  These cute little plastic bottles were a treasure find at Hobby Lobby.

 

With a party where you are going to received gifts, you need to have thank you cards to send out.  Again I went to work with MDS.  I printed a page of the shells DSP pattern and cut it out to layer on my piece of pacific point cardstock.  I layered the front with a label, stamped the center with the boat wheel and typed in the word "thanks".  I also stamped another layer to print out to attach to the backside for a person to write their thank you message.  I didn't want to print a whole sheet of paper for one thank you card.  I wanted to make these postcard style to maximize paper supplies, and lets face it, most people file 13 these things anyway after they get them in the mail, so no need to waste a lot of paper and ink.

 

These cute little cupcake toppers were so so easy to make.  I used the Setting Sail stamp set for the three images and layered with some cardstock circle shapes.  The background circle, again is a sheet of High Tide DSP printed from my printer.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, summer starfruit, calypso coral, pacific point

DSP ~ high tide (MDS)

Stamp Sets ~ on the go, hello sailor (MDS) and setting sail

Ink ~ pacific point, summer starfruit, calypso coral, basic black

Misc. ~ MDS software, circle punches, artisan punch

 

I sure do hope you have enjoyed my baby shower themed projects as much as I did creating them.  Don't forget to leave some "love", before heading over to the next blog hop stop #6 Bree R. of Craft-Somnia.  She has an awesome project waiting for you to check out!

 

 Blog Hop Participant List:

1. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
2. Erica B. of Stamping Starlette
3. Shellie G. of Craft Smashup
4. Kathy P. of Katrina P's Creative Corner
5. Cynthia R. of Ink-A-Doodle Creations
6. Bree R. of Craft-Somnia
7. Jennifer C. of Happy 2 Scrap 4 Life
8. Donna S. of Organized Chaos
9. Darcy J. of DJ's Stampin' Place
10. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
11. Diana E. of Stampin' Fun with Diana
12. Pam S. of Stampin' in the Sun
13. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim
14. Rose C. of Stampin' with Rose
15. Darla R. & Nancy K. of Stampin' with Darla and Sisters

 

 

One Wicked Birthday with #CTS71

Happy Hump Day!  Yep just two more days after today and its the weekend again!  I know, its terrible that we rush our lives so much thru the week to get to the weekend, but well, they shouldn't have made the weekend so darn fun for someone to look so forward to it coming!!!

I have been been a little bit of a slacker with my challenges I like to play around with this week.  I am getting ready for an all day crop at my house on Saturday and I've been making special treats!  I did find a few minutes to play around with the sketch over at Cas(e) This Sketch!  There was no beating around the bush with this sketch.  I knew right away what I wanted to do.  Don't you love it when that happens?!

 

This is just the perfect masculine card ever!  Bold guy colors and lots of grunge.  I did use some ribbon for the banner ends, but instead of a bow (which is totally girlie) I just tied a knot.  For my stamp layers, I used Off the Grid and Gorgeous Grudge in colors of island indigo, soft sky and pumpkin pie. 

And of course we can't forget the inside.  Kept simple, but I carried the same stamp layers to the inside.  Now all it needs is that hand written birthday message!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ very vanilla, early espresso, pumpkin pie, island indigo

Ink ~ early espresso, soft sky, pumpkin pie, island indigo

Stamp Sets ~ Off the Grid and Gorgeous Grunge

Misc. ~ early espresso taf. ribbon, banner punch, candy dots, MDS software where I typed and printed my birthday front sentiment

 

I hope you have enjoyed my wicked birthday card!  Don't forget to leave some "love", I always appreciate and enjoy reading them!

A Cute Whittle Easter Bunny Scrapbook Page

 

Good morning!  Thanks for joining me here with Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration today!  April is the month that brings us those showers, but this year its the month that brings us "Easter".  As we all celebrate in our own different ways, one thing is sure, its the time we get together as a family and celebrate our blessings.  For my family its a traditional family Easter dinner, followed by a huge egg hunt for the kids and adults.  What the adults too!?!  Yep!  The adults on the other hand don't play for chocolate (of course that would be fine by me!!), nope we play for $money$...cha-ching!!  Here is how it goes:  every adult who wants to play pays $5 to join in.  All the money is put in a pot.  One lucky egg will have a golden ticket inside.  Now here is the fun part...the KIDS go and hide the eggs for us.  They have so much fun doing this, cause as a normal tradition, they don't get to do this.  After all the eggs have been hidden, the adults race, oh YES, race.  We push and shove and run to go find those eggs!  I mean, the lucky winner can win anywhere from about $50-$100!  I don't know about you but, I will run around like a crazy Easter Bunny hunting eggs for that kind of cash!!  The one to find the egg with the golden ticket, whens the loot!! Winner$ Winner$ Chicken Dinner!!

So in keeping with the Easter fun, my project is a 8"x8" scrapbook page.  I will use this page to highlight the winner of our adult egg hunt!

 

So my page is pretty simple with some DSP layers.  I punched and added a border strip in crushed curry and coastal cabana.  I also added a fun piece of chevron ribbon and topped it with one of the new in color buttons.  The main focal point of course is the cute little bunny!

The bunny is put together using a few simple standard punches.  Med. oval punch for ears and feet, 3/4" circle for the hands, 1" circle for the nose, large oval for the body, word window cut in half for the eyes, 1/2" circle for the bottom circle on feet and the little circle from the itty bitty punch set for the other circles on the feet.

I hope you have enjoyed my whittle Easter bunny page.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to the main Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration page to see all the other wonderful Easter projects!

Supplies Used

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

Ink ~ smoky slate

Stamp Set ~ Geometrical

DSP ~ Eastern Elegance

Misc. ~ crushed curry chevron ribbon, in color boutique buttons, dazzling diamonds, crystal affects

April Color Challenge!

 

Good morning!  Its Monday and you know what that means....its time for our April color challenge over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.  I hope after seeing all the wonderful projects from our design team members, you will decide to play along with us!  We are always excited to see what others come up with.

 

April's colors are gumball green, very vanilla and wisteria wonder.  For me, these are great spring and Mother's Day colors.  I know I'm early, but I plan to give this card to my Mom for Mother's Day!

 

One of the things I like about this card, is the detail in the flowers.  Stippled Blossoms is a great two step stamping set.  With just two different colors you can see added detail in the layers.  I also like the details with the fancy fan embossing folder.  Using an embossing folder is so easy but adds such great detail to any card or project.

 

I hope you have once again, enjoyed my take of this months color challenge.  Don't forget to leave some "love" and head over to our main blog to see how you can enter in the fun.  I hope I have INKspired you to create with us!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ gumball green, very vanilla

Ink ~ wisteria wonder, elegant eggplant

Stippled Blossoms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$18.95

Fancy Fan Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.95

Very Vanilla 1/2 Inch Seam Binding Ribbon

$6.95

Afternoon Picnic Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

Hello Sailor! w/ FMS130

Have you ever had that moment after you've made a card that you feel proud of yourself?  You know, that moment when you just pull a Tom Cruise and slide across the dusty old hardwood floors in your socks kinda moment?!  Well I am having that moment!!  I always like my cards, but today I am really excited about this one.  WHY you ask?!  Well for starters, I don't even own this DSP pack.  Nope, but what I do have is MDS, a printer w/ ink, and it allowed me to print off the two patterned pieces I wanted to use.  Which brings me to say that I've just created my first Hybrid project!!!  Whoop Whoop!

I was thinking about the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches all night.  I had even had a dream about it.  In my dream I was creating a nautical themed card.  So first chance I got today, I went to work.

 

I used three bright mini buttons along the border strip and added some knotted silver twine swirled across the bottom. I used a mixture of a punch and a framelit to create the title for the card.  You can check all the supplies I used at the bottom of this post.

I don't own the hello sailor stamp set either, so I printed out the ship wheel and punched him out with my 1-1/4" circle punch.

 

I really hope you have enjoyed my take on this sketch as much as I do!  Don't forget to leave some "love" before going to play along yourself!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ pacific point, whisper white, smoky slate

DSP ~ high tide (MDS)

Stamp Set ~ Hello Sailor (MDS)

Misc. ~ circle punches, label framelit set, artisan punch, bright buttons, silver bakers twine, glue dots