Father's Day Feathers with MOJO348 & PPA206

Good morning!  Its Friday, Friday, Friday!  Time to get this week over and get this weekend started.  I have such a jam packed weekend its not funny.  First up and early Saturday morning, I am running in a Wounded Warrior 5K (and oh my gosh, is there a nasty, wasty wittle hill-Wish Me Luck!), second I have to head back to across the mountain for a family graduation and celebration party to follow.  Then come Sunday, I need to get groceries, do a little cleaning (I did say "little") and get set up for my stamp club ladies to come over.

Some how or another, I found some free time this evening to create a card for the sketch with MOJO Monday and put it with the color combo challenge over at Pals Paper Arts.  I hope you will enjoy my creation....

 

At first this sketch stumped me and I didn't know what I wanted to do with it.  At first I thought flowers, but I'm so sick of flowers right now I could.....well you know!?  But then it hit me, "feathers".  I had never created cute little feathers before.  And what better thing to use feathers for, than a Father's Day card creation.  I used the hardwood background stamp on a layer of baked brown sugar, added a side strip of chevron embossed so saffron.  I inked up lightly my paper doily in so saffron and pleated it into a smaller circle for my feathers to "nest" on.  Get that?  Birds of a feather, nest together?!  Yea I know, how lame, but I just had to say it!!  I used a piece of burlap ribbon for my strip across the front.  I was going to use a wooden button with my baked brown sugar twine, but forgot, they retired.  So I whipped out the next best thing...antique brads.  This I think worked out even better. 

 

On the inside, I stamped at an angle the hardwood stamp, and created two more feathers.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ baked brown sugar, so saffron, pacific point and whisper white

Ink ~ baked brown sugar, so saffron, pacific point

Stamp sets ~ Hardwood, sentiment stamp from the June My Paper Pumpkin Kit

Misc. ~ antique brads, circle framelit, baked brown sugar twine, burlap ribbon, paper doily, chevron embossing folder, natural chevron ribbon

 

Any of these products I used and more can be purchased HERE!

 

I hope you have enjoyed my take on both these challenges.  Leave some "love", and go have a wonderful weekend!  Come back Monday morning to see what our design team members have created for our Sketch challenge over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.  Maybe you will get INKspired and want to join us with our challenge.

 

Hello You PCCS#96

Good morn..ing!!  Its time for another day.  Time for another project to share.  Today I am sharing my card I created yesterday for the fun sketch challenge over at Paper Craft Crew.  Its also another day, that I get to mark off the calendar for the countdown to when my new stamping toys arrive at my door step by that lovely big brown truck!  Stampin' Up! demos all over are either opening their boxes already (lucky ducks) or they are waiting like to me for the first of next week.  My order from the new full catalog should arrive Monday!!!  Its gonna be Christmas and Birthday all over again!!  Ok, Ok, back to my card.

 

Now that the old is out of the way, I can concentrate on playing with the new.  I didn't preorder a lot of different stamp sets, but did get my hands on all the new in color goodies.  I used Lost Lagoon for my card base, layered with sahara sand and a piece of DSP from the Moonlight paper stack pad.  I just love the polka dots.  This pack really uses a lot of the new in colors.  The other new item I used is the hello honey stitched satin ribbon.  I tied it with a piece of gold bakers twine and used a glue dot to attach to my tag.  I chose the Regarding Dahlias stamp set.  Its one I really love, but don't use a lot.  I think one of the reasons is, is that I find if I use a certain stamp set to much, I get tired of it and this is one that I don't want that to happen with.  I stamped it in Lost Lagoon first on the tag and then again two more times to cut out and layer with foam dots.  I shaded each layer to help it stand out.  The cuteness comes in when I added the buttons.  Even though these do not come in the in colors, the crushed curry and island indigo buttons from the regals family, go pretty well together with this card. 

 

On the inside, I kept it pretty simple with just a stamped flower with a layer of sahara sand cardstock.

 

Here is just a close up of the details in my flower.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ last lagoon, sahara sand, whisper white

DSP ~ moonlight paper stack pad

Ink ~ lost lagoon

Stamp set ~ Regarding Dahlias

Misc. ~  hello honey stitched satin ribbon, regal buttons, foam dots, word bubbles framelit set, scalloped tag punch

 

All these items and more can be purchased HERE!

Thanks for dropping by.  Leave some "love", and go get those fingers inked up!

 

 

 

Open Sea June Club Projects

Good morning!  Yep, its that day again.  Its hump day!!  That day when you can let out a breath of relief that the week is half way gown.  I have a busy weekend coming up but I'm still looking forward to it, cause well, its the weekend and who doesn't enjoy the weekend!?  I have a Wounded Warrior 5K I'm running early Saturday morning, followed by a family graduation and get together.  Sunday, I have my stamp club ladies coming over.  Speaking of stamp club....I thought I would share two of the projects we will be creating for our June Club.

 

We will be creating 2 Father's Day cards along with this cute little treat box.

 

So just a quick run down, I wanted to girls to be able to use the new in colors for their projects.  This one focus's on lost lagoon, mossy meadow and hello honey.  I took my ink pads of these 3 colors and lightly smeared the ink on after I had stamped the world map in early espresso.  This gives it such as awesome textured look to the cardstock.  Then I stamped the ship on very vanilla, cut it out with a circle framelit and layered it with a window framelit.  The mossy meadow strip across the front is stamped with the round world globe stamp from this set.

 

 

On the inside, I stamped the world globe again, smeared some ink and layered it with a stamped compos.

 

Now this cute little box is created using the scalloped tag punch.  I created measurements so mine would hold a gift card and a few pieces of candy or a pack of gum or mints.  The outside is stamped using The Open Sea stamp set as we used on the card.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ lost lagoon, mossy meadow, very vanilla

Ink ~ lost lagoon, mossy meadow, hello honey, early espresso

Stamp set ~ The Open Sea, Teeny Tiny Wishes, World Map

Misc. ~ label window framelit set, circle framelit set

 

I hope you have enjoyed my club projects!  I'm sure my ladies will have a blast this Sunday making them too!!  Leave some "love", and come back tomorrow to see what I've been creating!

Something for Baby a.k.a. Daddy!!

 

Good morning and thanks for stopping by.  Today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration we are sharing projects just for "Father's Day"!  Sometimes it can be tricky to come up with a gift for that special man in your life and give it in a fun and easy way.  Today I am sharing my fun shaker card with matching gift box.

 

 

 Stampin' Up! is making it so easy for us to give fun and easy gifts with their line of gift bags and boxes.  One of the fun boxes I love that we offer is the Tag a Bag Gift Box.  Its so easy to put together, decorate and I love how you can see through the sleeve as to what's inside.

 

The box is very simple.  Lets face it, a man doesn't look at how a gift is decorated like a woman, I don't care who you are.  I will look over a package from head to toe before I dive in, my husband barely looks to see who its from before he dives in, but the crafter in me, still must make my packages look cute and awesome! I created in pacific point, a wrap to go around my box.  I cut a second one in the same zig zag DSP and punched each end with the scalloped tag punch.  Its tied together with some gumball green stitched ribbon. My cute little matching tag like the one on my card is hanging from some natural twine.  I added two cute little ties, inserted rolled up tie and my gift packaging is done.  This cute gift box could be used for so many more things other than a tie.  You could place a gift card inside, along with some of his favorite gums and or mints.  Maybe a bag of his favorite candy, or even a small hand tool with maybe a Sears or Lowes gift card.  The possibilities are endless!!

 

 

I wanted my card to be a fun card.  So I decided to create a shaker card and use the cute little tie with some punched mini circles and gold sequins to place in the inside.  I just love the June My Paper Pumpkin kit.  Even though I have created all those fun cards from the kit, the fun doesn't stop there.  I can use the ink stamp n' spot and stamp set from the kit to keep creating new projects.  I created my shaker box using the On Film framelit set and a sheet of gumball green coordination cardstock and sanded it down for some added texture.  Gumball green stitched ribbon and gold bakers twine finishes off the shaker box, but the fun doesn't stop there.  I wanted a larger tie to attach to the side.  So I called upon "Old Trusy"!  Old Trusty of course is MDS.  I found the tie shape I needed, cut it out and added some stamped splatter and BAM, my card is complete! 

 

On the inside, I stamped the splattered dots from the gorgeous grunge set and added a couple banners and one tie at the bottom with a few punched circles.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, gumball green coordination paper (retiring), basic gray, pacific point, so saffron

Ink ~ basic gray, so saffron, pacific point, gumball green

Stamp set ~ Something for Baby, June my paper pumpkin kit for sentiment, gorgeous grunge

DSP ~ I am me

Ribbon ~ gumball green stitched in color ribbon (retiring), natural twine, basic gray stitched 1/4" grosgrain ribbon (retiring)

Punches ~ artisan punch, apothecary accents framelit set

Misc. bright/subtle candy dots, tag a bag gift box

 

All these items and more can be purchased HERE!  For any retiring items, be sure to get these items purchased before its to late.  Ordering deadline is June 4, 2014.

If you don't currently have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and you would like to have a current catalog, please contact me directly and I would love to send you one!

 

Again thanks for stopping by.  I hope I have INKspired you to go and create something fun!  Don't forget to leave some "love" and head over to our main site and see what the other design team members have created fun for Father's Day!



Sweet Baby June Color Challenge at SSInk!!

 

Good morning!  Its the first Monday of June and you know what that means?  Its time for another fun color challenge over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration.  I hope you will enjoy our projects and decide to come play along with us!  We always love seeing what others create.

 

 

Well I am slowly starting to break out and use some of my new toys from the 2014 Stampin' Up! catalog!!  I've been putting it off, cause I knew that once I started, I wouldn't be able to stop!!  One of the new fun items I got to preorder as a Demo, was the new "Something for Baby" stamp set and its matching framelit set.  So of course I turned our color challenge into a cute baby card.

 

I used the colors of daffodil delight, blushing bride and soft suede and punched out two different circle shapes and scattered them around on my base layer.  The fun part came in with stamping the onsie and added the cute little tie.  It is raised up using a foam dot.  I just love the added lace trim ribbon across the stamped quilted arrow shape created from the Oh, Hello stamp set (retiring).

 

On the inside, I stamped across the bottom the matching stamped quilted arrows and added a couple punched circles, leaving plenty of room for a hand written message.

 

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope I have INKspired you to come create and join us with our color challenge for June!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ soft suede, daffodil delight, blushing bride, whisper white

Ink ~ soft suede, daffodil delight, blushing bride

Stamp Sets ~ Oh, Hello (retiring), Something for Baby, Itty Bitty Banners

Misc. ~ 1/2" and 3/4" circle punches, bitty banner framelit set, something for baby framelit set, neutral candy dots

Ribbon ~ lace trim (retiring), natural chevron ribbon

 

All these items and more can be purchased HERE!