Trick or Treat!

A bonus weekend post for you! 

This time I combined the SUO Challenge for "tricks or treats" with the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments.
I pulled out a long retired greeting set because its just SO perfect, lol. Annnd I think this card is a bit too busy for me, lol, which is why I added the layer of Pecan Pie. But that's okay, I'm going to send it to someone and then it doesn't matter what I think. hahaha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around, Good Greetings (retired)

Ink: Memento Black

Stampin Blends: Bronze, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light & Dark Night of Navy, Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Ivory, Light Flirty Flamingo, Color Lifter

Paper: Basic White, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie & Pecan Pie card stock, Full of Life DP

Accessories: Dimensionals

All the pinks!

Today's card ended up more chaotic than I expected, but it will work for the birthday girl, haha. 

This one uses the sketch from The Paper Players and a whoooole lotta DP prints, lol. Three of them, in fact. I liked the strip that looks like a paint palette with this little artist, and I liked the watercolory-looking sheets too. But it's kind of a lot...! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Kiddin' Around 
Ink: Memento Black

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Flirty Flamingo, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Melon Mambo

Paper: Basic White card stock, Full of Life DP

Accessories: Dimensionals, Kiddin' Around Dies, big shot

Birthday PlayTime!

Time is going faster than I think... I thought I had time to make this, but it needed to go out before I made it, darn it. But I made it and it's on it's way! 

I used the sketch from Inspire.Create.Challenges. And I used the now ended Color Throwdown, altho it might be hard to tell.... that blue water takes up some space! Usually I choose colors as close as possible to the challenge image, and this time the shades aren't exact matches, and there's more than one shade for each color. But I promise the birthday girl will never notice. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around

Ink: Memento Black, Berry Burst
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Flirty Flamingo, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Dark & Light Balmy Blue, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink, Light Basic Black, Dark Smoky Slate, Bronze, Ivory, SU800
Paper: Lemon Lolly, Basic White card stocks, Bright & Beautiful DP

Accessories: Dimensionals, Kiddin' Around dies, Subtles Candy Dots (retired), big shot (retired)

Something x6

I had seen this sketch from TGIF Challenges floating around social media and wondered what on earth I would use for those six "things" at the bottom.... and then I had two ideas! ha! 

First I made this fun kid card using the color combo from The Paper Players. Well, almost... I swapped out Lost Lagoon for Bermuda Bay because my display board was wiped completely clean with the new catalog, and this card is going on the board- so that's how I kept it all 'current'. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around

Ink: Lost Lagoon

Paper: Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo card stocks

Accessories: Kiddin' Around dies, Glue Dots 

Then I made this autumny birthday card, with a brand new leaf die. This is part of a fun new bundle in the upcoming catalog. I sponged the inks onto the card stock, then randomly placed the leaf die to get different shades. Then I decided I liked the swishy ink at the edge of where I had sponged, so I kept that for the rectangle strip on the card sketch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Simply Said
Ink: Copper Clay, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wheat
Paper: Cajun Craze & Very Vanilla card stocks
Accessories: Layers of Beauty dies, Stampin Sponges (retired), big shot (retired)

And I must say, I love how you can use one sketch and get completely different cards!! 

Bonus Flowers, round 1

March is Paper Pumpkin's anniversary month, so to celebrate, I think they have sent out a bonus stamp set, in addition to a monthly subscription, every single year! I really liked the flowers included this round and I really wanted to play with them, once I finally got some crafting time. That means I have a few posts with the same happy flowers coming up! 

This first one uses the latest from Freshly Made Sketches, as well as the latest from Color Throwdown. It also works great for the SUO Challenges, and I am in need of some birthday cards!  

I had originally made it a single layer card, but decided it really needed more than that, so I trimmed it down and placed it on a Melon Mambo card base. 

Supplies:

Stamps: March 2024 Paper Pumpkin extra stamps, Kiddin' Around 

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green

Paper: Melon Mambo & Basic White card stock

Birthday Girl!

I needed a happy birthday card and I've had this DP sitting with this little girl since January, so clearly it was time to put them together!
However, in my attempt to "use all the pinks!" on this card, they don't actually work, ha... I used Berry Burst card stock to go with the DP, but I don't have Berry Burst blends, I have Melon Mambo, so I just grabbed that... hmm. There's a reason we sell so many items in each color! But, since I was already breaking all the color rules, I grabbed a super soft pink shade that has retired, to blend onto the piece with the girl. haha! it's fiiine. The birthday girl won't mind! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around
Ink: Memento Black, Powder Pink (retired)

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Melon Mambo, Light Petal Pink, Light Flirty Flamingo, Bronze, Color Lifter, Dark Daffodil Delight
Paper: Basic White, Berry Burst, Bright & Beautiful DP
Accessories: Blending Brushes, old Paper Pumpkin gems, Circle dies, Dimensionals 

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

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

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)

Kidding Around Suite!

Soo, I've been a demonstrator for nearly 20 years. Which is just mind-blowing... But that means that between my mom and I (my mom introduced me to Stampin' Up!), our stamping collection is EXTENSIVE. (one might use the word "ridiculous...") And sometimes that means I'm not so excited when I first glance thru a catalog because sometimes...how many leaves and flowers can one possibly own? (you don't want the answer to that, actually)

But are you kidding me?? I saw this set, and in spite of the fact that my mom and I each have a (long retired) stamp set of children playing, and I have at least one set of toy stamp images, this was on the MUST GET NOW list. And the coordinating paper?? Aaaahhhh! I'm gonna need a second pack!! Immediately I thought of seriously maybe a hundred scrapbook pages I could do with these! 

There is a sheet of kids dressed up. Check.

Kids baking? Check.

Kids playing outside? Check!

Kids reading?? Check!!

Kids with pets? Sometimes! 

And kids crafting. CHECK! 
And the cutest little spaces for them to play?! YES PLEASE! 

And that doesn't even touch me thinking of the birthday cards that could be made!! 

So, this isn't the best card I've ever made, but I wanted to pick a few things my nephew loves for his birthday card. The inside says "so do some of your favorite things!" 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around

Ink: Tahitian Tide

Paper: Azure Afternoon, Daffodil Delight, Just Kiddin' DP
Accessories: Classic Matte Dots

For real- if you have kiddos in your life, this Product Suite is pretty darn perfect!