All the happiness...

Happy Monday to you! Just gonna hop right in today. 

Today's card combines the latest Freshly Made Sketch with the beautiful colors from Inspired By... I was going to color in the flower, but I really liked it as it is, so that's how I left it! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Amazing You, Happiness Abounds

Ink: Pear Pizazz

Paper: Soft Seafoam, Pear Pizazz, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon, old Paper Pumpkin pearls

Pink & Yellow

Hello again! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! 

Today's card takes the inspiration very literally. I used the latest SUO Challenge to CASE the designer. Check! I didn't use the same shades, but I did use the same colors for everything. I used a different, but similar flower image. It's also a thank you card, like the one in the picture, haha! I didn't use any DP, but I did stamp a very subtle background onto the pink to make it not quite so flat. And the strip of green I found was interesting, leftover from cutting a die some other day, and I thought it added a bit of fun.

Supplies:
Stamps: Spotlight on Nature, Elements of Text

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Melon Mambo, Dark Daffodil Delight, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green

Paper: Basic White, Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green & Daffodil Delight card stocks

Accessories: Regal Foiled Dots, Dimensionals

I don't know why I torture myself fussy cutting this flower out, but maaan I do...! And it's pretty that way! 

Make A Wish!

I got some stampy time! Hooray!! And it looks like they're all "due" at the same time, so I'll just blog them in the order I made them, ha. 

First up, a blend of old, very old, and 2026, ha. 

For this one, I used the inspiration board at Hand Stamped Sentiments and used the die cut part of Just Add Ink! It might not look exactly like the inspiration board, but the top center has a very similar background as my swirly DP, and then the palm trees in the sunset at the bottom, plus some black and white polka dots! It counts in my book! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Perfect Pennants

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Basic Black card stock, True Love DP, Full of Life DP

Accessories: Neutrals Candy Dots (the last black!), Boardwalk Fun Dies, Dimensionals

The palm trees are a perfect example of why Stampin' Up! sold black dimensionals, at least a few years ago. I didn't get them, but my mom did. Smart. Very smart. ha. 

Tulip Birthday!

Hello again! A morning post this time, just like 97% of my posts, ha. 

Today I have a fun floral card for you. This one uses the sketch from Just Add Ink and the color challenge from Inspire.Create.Challenges.

And it uses a pack of DP I have never opened. I didn't know I could even say that!! It's not even new- I bought it when it came out a few years ago. 2022? It's about time I use some of it! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorgeous Posies

Ink: Melon Mambo

Paper: Daffodil Delight card stock, Flowering Fields DP

Accessories: Peach Parfait Stitched Poly Ribbon, Dimensionals

I cut the section of tulips that fit the color challenge.....
I'll just show you. ha.
Sorry about the glare. 
anyway, I cut off the bottom strip of purple tulips, but don't worry, I know a lot of people who's favorite color is purple. That will be put to use. Then I cut the first bit of the pink-orange-yellow section into strips, and then a few more strips from the next section, ha. I stacked them, but put the pink in the center, and voila! A card! 

Pretty sure I know who is getting this one too. Yeay for sending love! 

Beautiful Shells

Another very late post, maybe this is a thing... 

Tonight's card uses the Inspired By... challenge with cookies, colors and even a sketch. I didn't follow it, but I was *inspired by the sketch. I did a kind of blocking with the stamps. And I used their colors, and a beach theme. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Beach (2006!)
Ink: Versamark, Island Indigo

Paper: Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon card stocks 

Accessories: Regals Candy Dots, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, Heat Tool

I used a really old technique of stamping  inking up the image first in Versamark, then in the color you want, then stamping it on the paper. Then you use the fancy, long-retired Iridescent Ice embossing powder to make it SPARKLE. Before you heat it, it looks like this: 

and afterwards, it's super sparkly and also a trick to photograph, ha.

But all the shells look like that bottom clam shell IRL, on a certain angle, ha. 

I also almost used up this pack of Candy Dots. I just have four left! Just a little bummed that they didn't line up super well.... It's FINE. The recipient won't mind too much, ha. 

Traveling Birthday!

Did you have a happy 4th of July weekend? Ours was busy, happy and good. And hot... 

Today I have a late post, and a happy card!

I almost never use four stamp sets on one project, but here we are! I needed Neuschwanstein Castle (been there!) and the Arc de Triomphe, and thought this Eiffel Tower looked like a good enough match in style (not really, but it's close enough). Then the images fit perfectly for this color blocked look using the latest from TGIF Challenges! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Chase Your Dreams, Artistic Etchings, Lets Get Away, Special Moments (all long retired!)

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Basic White, Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Lemon Lime Twist

Accessories: Classic Matte Dots  

And it's going out in the mail in the morning! 

Purple Flowers

Happy July! 
I don't know about your neck of the woods but around here it's been a little bleak.
We have a lot of terrible wild fires surrounding our area and we've had days of raining ash and days of yellow skies and it is definitely taking a toll, physically and mentally. It is too hot and blah to be outside enjoying summer, soo we kind of haven't. (altho we did have two really nice weather days this past weekend, which was a huge blessing!)
I don't know anything about soccer (seriously, I watched my middle kiddo play for six years and barely caught on her last season!) but I have enjoyed the fun social media posts about the World Cup. Other than that, not loving social media. Wow, people are grumpy. 
And SO. I have delivered cookies and mailed cards out to people I've noticed could use a bit of brightening to their day. 
Which means I needed to make some. ha. 

And so, today I have the colors from CAS Colours & Sketches, and I think it's CAS enough... tho I did sneak in a few flower centers of Crumb Cake...
Just some happy flowers to hopefully cheer up a friend of mine.

Supplies:

Stamps: Cheerful Daisies

Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Blackberry Bliss, Garden Green, Crumb Cake

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Dimensionals 

anyway. You should send out cards too. Share some love and not all the grumpiness and negativity. It's a good mid-year goal, haha.