Monday, March 18, 2024

Featuring: Sweet Sorbet

Since the end of the catalog year is fast approaching, I'm going to hold a card class focusing on the soon-to-retire 2022-2024 In Colors. 
Today's card shows off Sweet Sorbet! I really like this color, but honestly I'm not sure I used it a whole lot.  But I do like this bold color combo with a bit of black and white! 
Supplies:
Stamps: Cheerful Daisies
Ink: Sweet Sorbet, Memento Black
Paper: Sweet Sorbet, Basic Black, Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Classic Matte Dots, Cheerful Daisies Dies, Dimensionals 
I tried two ways of making this card and *I have a strong favorite. Do you? 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Birthday Flower Garden!

Oh my word I am so done with being sick! For close to a month I have only been doing the bare minimum around here, and sleeping a crazy lot. Crafting is not on that list. Keeping the rest of the house healthy IS. I did have a few good days over my birthday thank goodness, and then right back to maybe worse than before. But I THINK I'm through it now and hey look- I got a birthday card made! I only need four more to catch up for this month.... yikes.
I think I can... I think I can...

For this card I combined the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the latest colors from Hand Stamped Sentiments, and this is my result! Bit chaotic, but I think these colors are perfect for the birthday girl! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Sending Smiles
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Coastal Cabana, Basic White card stocks
Accessories: White Baker's Twine, Timeworn Type embossing folder, Circle dies, Dimensionals 

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Sale-A-Bration Scrapping!

Happy March! annnd it's finally winter at my house! ha! 

Sometimes life is just so busy, and Sale-A-Bration goes by so quickly, that we don't always get to play with the things while they're current!
That and I was sick for over a week...blah!
But this past weekend included my birthday, and the TWENTY year anniversary of me becoming a demonstrator (nope, cannot believe that!!), so I played with some new paper and scrapbooked, which is my favorite!

In this case, I used some very old photos with this new (and already retired! sniff!) DP and made an almost matching layout for each of my two kids who were there, ha.  
Supplies: 
Stamps: Whimsical Alpha Lower (retired)
Ink: Copper Clay
Paper: Copper Clay, Very Vanilla, Sunny Days DP SAB 2024 (retired)
Accessories: Embroidered Ribbon (retired)
Font: Aptos

Supplies: 
Stamps: Whimsical Alpha Lower (retired)
Ink: Pebbled Path
Paper: Crushed Curry, Pebbled Path, Basic White, Sunny Days DP SAB 2024 (retired)
Accessories: Embroidered Ribbon (retired)
Font: Aptos

These photos have been printed and sitting for over a decade so I was super glad to get them scrapped!
And yes, I know which photo is "missing" from my daughter's layout- it is already in her scrapbook, as part of things she shared on a school poster, back when the photos were current, haha! 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Wizard Birthday

Ugh- it has been a month of sickness around here. A week of migraines for me, a week of two sick kiddos, and then a week of me sick! RUDE. Hence a lack of doing anything at all, especially creating.

I did get one card made yesterday, using the latest CAS Colours & Sketches. Well... it says to put the sentiment in the middle, and I did...with a bunch of other things too. But I am seriously loving this bundle and I love what I made here:  
Supplies:
Stamps: Kiddin' Around
Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss, Lemon Lolly, Fresh Freesia
Blends: Dark & Light Blackberry Bliss, Dark Daffodil Delight, Dark & Light Flirty Flamingo, Dark Petal Pink, Ivory, Bronze
Paper: Basic White, Lemon Lolly, Blueberry Bushel, Daffodil Delight & Poppy Parade card stocks, Gold & Rose Gold Metallic paper (retired)
Accessories: Blending Brush, Kiddin' Around dies, Glue Dots, big shot

Monday, February 19, 2024

Postage Thank You!

Happy Monday! 
I'm back with more of that Detailed Dogwood stamp set, (because we're even closer to the end of Sale-A-Bration 2024) but this time I chopped it up with postage stamps! I used the colors from Color Throwdown for this one and it's already gone out in the mail! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Detailed Dogwood (Sale-A-Bration), Perennial Postage
Ink: Sweet Sorbet
Paper: Crumb Cake, Basic White
Accessories: Linen Thread, Perennial Postage Dies, Dimensionals

I did scoot the cut paper in the die, to trim off one of the edges from the top larger rectangle, to make it fit better in this grid. It's not perfect, but I like it anyway.

Friday, February 16, 2024

Floral Birthday

Sale-A-Bration is fast coming to an end! Have you placed your orders and gotten your freebies? Don't forget the extra's they added in February! Let me know if you need help placing an order, so you don't miss out! 

This is my favorite of the Sale-A-Bration exclusives this year- making this card perfect for the latest TGIF Challenge. It is also a gorgeous floral, making it perfect for the SUO Challenge, ha! And the colors make it perfect for a special person's birthday card! Maybe you can see the dragonflies stamped in Blackberry ink on the Blackberry card base? It is dark and trying to storm today so taking a decent picture was a trick.
Supplies:
Stamps: Detailed Dogwood, Enjoy the Rhythm (the birthday greeting)
Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss
Stampin' Blends: Bronze, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light & Dark Blackberry Bliss, Light & Dark Old Olive
Paper: Blackberry Bliss, Early Espresso, Basic White
Accessories: Real Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo, Glue Dots

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Its Your Birthday!

I needed a card for a little girl and really, this set is so perfect! The color combo from The Paper Players, combined with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches worked beautifully! I kind of had to sneak the Smoky Slate in- but I used it to ink the edges of the rectangle with the girl. 
Supplies:
Stamps: Kiddin' Around
Ink: Memento Black, Berry Burst, Smoky Slate
Stampin' Blends: Light Petal Pink
Paper: Bubble Bath & Basic White card stocks, Bright & Beautiful DP 
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils (Early Espresso, Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue, Rich Razzleberry-retired), Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Berry Burst ribbon- retired from a PP kit

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Happy Scrapping!

I am absolutely in love with this Kiddin' Around Suite! This is the most basic way to use it in a scrapbook page, but I think it turned out cute. 
I don't even know who took these pictures of my daughter laughing, or why, but I thought they were so happy and that it should be scrapped! So I added some strips of these cute kids having fun, and a couple happy phrases from the stamp set. 
The tilted layout is inspired by my Scrappy friend Cheryl. Tho I guess it was originally from pagemaps. You can see her original layout HERE
And side note, I use my retired products specific for scrapbooking. So even though the focus is on this brand new product suite, there are still some retired items here. 
Supplies:
Stamps: Kiddin' Around, Seasonal Snapshot 2015 (long retired)
Ink: Berry Burst
Paper: Basic White, Berry Burst card stocks, Just Kiddin' DP
Accessories: Silver Metal Edge Tags (long retired), Berry Burst baker's twine (from a PP kit), 2016-18 In Color Enamel Shapes (long retired)

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Paper Pumpkin Scrapping!

Clearly, I've spent some time lately trying to use up Paper Pumpkin kits! 
This was the same kit I posted about HERE on Jan 8, and I still have the leaf stickers and the little flower die cuts... so I made a couple scrapbook pages with it! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017
Ink: Starry Sky, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Basic White
Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017
Ink: Fresh Freesia, Orchid Oasis
Paper: Basic White
Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

And even after using some up, I still have lots more! 

Friday, February 9, 2024

Another Paper Pumpkin!

This kit came February 2023 and I finally got it done AND sent out a handful too! 
This kit is unique in that each card is a window card on the front, and the rest of the scene is inside the card. They're super cute cards but to be totally honest, I don't love that it leaves NO room to write a message....I ended up flipping it over and writing it on the back, so do that before you add rain drops!

I did make two of this rainbow card ages ago, but I cut off the front frame/window parts. I made both of these last year: 


And these I made this past week. This was made exactly how it was designed.
Of these, the center was made as designed, the others left off the epoxy rain drop stickers... and also these use stamped greetings from other sets, rather than the kit.
And of these, the first is made as designed. The other two, I left off the green hill, and the third I put a duck instead of a bunny, because I'd used the bunny on the card last year. And again the third used a different stamped greeting.
And here's what is left over for whatever else I decide! 
Paper Pumpkin kits really are worth their price, and come with a stamp set and ink you can use for endless projects! And if you sign up now, you can earn FREE Sale-A-Bration items with a prepaid 3,6 or 12 month purchase! 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Paper Pumpkin again!

I am in need of a few specific cards, but I really haven't had a lot of time to spend stamping. This is when those stack of old Paper Pumpkin kits are so helpful! The kit I chose to play with first arrived December 2017. ha. I did make all of one of the two original cards, and mailed them out already. But I had plenty more to play with today! 

First, to finish up that first design, I made this: 
It had originally been a window card with die cuts out of the Crumb Cake, and the leaves had been die cut backwards, so they sent two sets of the leaves. I layered a correct one and a mistake one on top of a freshly cut Crumb Cake base and voila! 

Then, I made the second set. I'm guessing I hadn't before because it isn't a mail-able size and I really mail just about every card I send out. So I made the original design, but stuck it on a standard sized Berry Burst base instead. I did trim the glitter paper (behind the PeekABoo Peach stripes) so that I could use it elsewhere... like on the card above! And I trimmed the greetings "to size" instaed of using the whole strip. 
And then I was left with this much! 
Adhesive strips, envelopes too small to mail, Calypso Coral squares, one more sheet of leafy die cut, white squares, glitter strips, flagged strips, ribbon, twine, and stamps! The ink spot was long since given away because I had the full size ink pad.
That means, today I altered all five cards from the original, found and trimmed my own card bases, and got all five done in just under an hour. And I'm calling the kit COMPLETE. Not too shabby!! 

Monday, February 5, 2024

Visit Santa!

Happy Monday! 

Back to that theme of holiday order, haha, here are two different years that this kiddo got to visit Santa. I used a lot of green that past week which was not really intentional. But in both of these cases it does match the DP I chose! 

Supplies:
Paper: Mossy Meadow card stock, Home For Christmas DP
Accessories: Real Red 1/8" Striped Ribbon - used UP

Supplies:
Paper: Garden Green c/s, Peaceful Prints DP
Accessories: Regals Candy Dots
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