Wildly Retired

Today's retired supplies thank you card, (ha!) was just me playing around. I played with the two colors I thought my girl would like the most, and this fun swirl. And I thought the swirl went really well with this particular greeting. And I have Flirty Flamingo dots/shapes from back when it was an In Color! Fun and easy! Yeay! The sketch is a recent card sketch from splitcoaststampers.com. 

Supplies: 
Stamps: Snuggles & Smooches, Lovely You (both retired)
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Flirty Flamingo & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: 2016-18 In Color Enamel Shapes (retired)

Grateful for Spring

And my final Sale-A-Bration project before Sale-A-Bration comes to a close is this happy card. Honestly, I like Granny Apple Green a lot, but I struggle to use it. I bought it as soon as it came out and I don't know that I've ever used it in a class. This paper made the card come together so easily! This paper is one of those Sale-A-Bration exclusive items, so you really don't want to miss out! 

I used the sketch from The Paper Players, and it fits the theme for both Global Design Project and Inspire.Create.Challenge so that's fun. Even if we woke up to another two inches of snow... haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Scenic Garden (Sale-A-Bration), Lovely You

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo

Paper: Basic White, Dandy Designs DP (Sale-A-Bration)
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Flirty Flamingo, Light Old Olive

Accessories: Brass Butterflies

I hope you can snag the items you want for FREE! See them all right HERE! 

Watercolor World

In the excitement of Sale-A-Bration, don't forget the new January- April Mini Catalog! Not only is it like every other Mini and packed with great products, it has lots of fun things that coordinate with the Sale-A-Bration freebies too! 

My first purchase from the Mini is this map of the world background stamp. As soon as I browsed the sneak peek of the Mini, I knew I was going to own this stamp. I love globes and maps and I have purchased a number of the ones Stampin' Up! has released, ha.... And after asking for a globe since I was about eight years old, I got a real globe for Christmas this year! Anyway, this first map card is for my upcoming class. And this sentiment from a few years ago was a perfect match! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Watercolor World, Lovely You

Ink: Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen

Paper: Basic White, Soft Succulent

Accessories: Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon, Dimensionals

Golden Ranunculus

The last card from my class this month is a fun one! So fun in fact, that to save time, I did the die cutting of the ranunculus, both the detailed part and the shiny gold part, before class started, haha... Attendees got to do the embossing part tho, so they had some of the fun. 

I like the gold on vanilla look. I'm not a gold person, but I've used this combo before and I think it's really elegant and striking all at the same time.

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely You

Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Very Vanilla card stock, Gold & Rose Gold 6x6 Metallic Paper
Accessories: Brushed Brass Butterflies, Merry Melody embossing folder, Ranunculus dies, Dimensionals, big shot (retired) 

And this picture shows off the shiny paper! 

Sale-A-Bration DP!

Today I have a fun and quick card, tho another one really featuring DP! This is another print in the Rings Of Love DP, which is only available during Sale-A-Bration, thru August 31, or while supplies last! 

For this card, I used the sketch from Just Add Ink and did something a little different for me. Typically I stick to one or two stamp sets/bundles. But this time I really wanted a die from the Ranunculus dies, and I used words from the Lovely You stamp set, which all works but wasn't "designed" to! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You

Ink: Poppy Parade

Paper: Whisper White & Poppy Parade card stock, Rings of Love DP

Accessories: Ranunculus Dies, Glue Dots, Big Shot (retired) 

Girl Graduation

I don't often post on Saturday, but today I'm playing with a challenge, so it works out. I used the sketch from Global Design Project, which is simple and pretty. 

This card is for a niece who has just graduated. I don't know her school colors, but the outfits she wore for her graduation pictures were kind of exactly Mint Macaron and Cajun Craze, haha, so that worked for me! Once again I used the inked-block method (same block this time too) as a light background for the shape of the sketch. I actually "stamped it off" before stamping it onto this piece of Basic White card stock. Then I added the only small flower I own right now that is current! goodness! Then I added the tiny star bursts from the Nothing's Better Than stamp set, and punched out a greeting. Opal rounds were the final touch! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely You, Nothing's Better Than, Inspired Thoughts
Ink: Mint Macaron, Cajun Craze, Bermuda Bay
Paper: Mint Macaron, Basic White
Accessories: Opal Rounds, Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, Dimensionals, "I" block

Dutch Blue China

Happy Monday! Spring break in my world! But I still have some projects to share with you! 

I have seen a few ideas using the windmill looking like china, tho most are in a demonstrator online group. I loved the idea so this is how I made it work for me: 

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely You
Ink: Night of Navy
Paper: Night of Navy, Basic White card stock, In Good Taste DP
Accessories: Windmill Fields Dies, Basic Pearls, Glue Dots, big shot (retired) 

The DP is retiring, and the beautiful windmill dies won't be in the new catalog, so if you love them, order them very soon! 

Just Because

Today I have a pretty card that's already gone out in the mail. I love that! This time I used the latest Festive Friday challenge. From their list for World Kindness Day, I use flowers, pearls, embossing, lace and pastel colors! It looks like a time consuming card, but it really wasn't. And these coneflowers are more true-to-life than my last card, haha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Nature's Harvest, Lovely You
Ink: Memento Black, Soft Succulent & marker, Fresh Freesia marker, Pale Papaya marker
Paper: Fresh Freesia, Soft Succulent, Basic White & Pale Papaya card stocks
Accessories: Lace Trim, Basic Pearls, Harvest Dies, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, big shot (retired)

Today, I am thankful for a husband who knows how to do allllll sorts of things and spent yesterday afternoon and well in to the night finishing up the flooring and trim in what is going to be my new craft room! 

We Create Blog Hop: Haunts & Harvest

Happy October to you! What?! I have no idea how we got here already.....
But happily, a new month means a new blog hop, so here we are! 

Since it's October, I decided to make a cute little Halloween card. *I don't send them much, but as I've mentioned in years past, my mom took on her mother's tradition of sending them out to the grandkids. And I know I'll use this little girl in upcoming scrapbook pages because I happen to have a little girl who loves Halloween possibly even more than Christmas!

Today's card uses the color challenge from Color Throwdown, along with a sketch I flipped, from Splitcoaststampers.com. My colors aren't exact because I had to use the Stampin' Blends I have, haha, but I think it worked. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Seasons of Fun (hostess only), Lovely You
Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White card stock, Beauty of the Earth DP

Accessories: Gingham Ribbon

Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light & Dark Old Olive, Light & Dark Blackberry Bliss, Dark Petal Pink, Bronze

This stamp set is soo sweet, and it is hostess-only (in the July-Dec mini, page 78) so if you want it, you'll want to host a workshop, gather some friend to help place an order, or order $150 in products yourself.

Now hop on over to Jeanna's blog, using the button below, and see what she's created for you. 

Then hop thru to everyone's, we're a small group. Let us know what you think- we all love feedback! And make something yourself this weekend to pop in the mail to brighten someone's day! 

Pink Flowers!

Today's card is decidedly not mailable, and that's okay because it will just have to be hand-delivered, haha! It was also more time consuming than most things I create, but really, it was just running the dies a few times.
I used the Festive Friday challenge of Friendship Day for my card. Specifically I chose 
- friendship sentiment
- ribbon
- pink
- glitter (Opal Rounds have flecks of glitter in them, and I used Wink of Stella on the word "friend")

This die set is intended to make dandelions but I felt a big pop of pink would work too. It could be a marigold or any fuller-style flower, right? 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You

Ink: Soft Succulent

Paper: Soft Succulent, Polished Pink, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon, Dandy Wishes dies, Opal Rounds, Wink of Stella

I'm loving these new In Colors, and that ribbon is so soft and pretty!! 

Wildly Grateful

Happy Thursday! How is your week going? Here is card #2 for my class next week! It's quick, but I think it's fun and unique too! 
This one used the color challenge from Global Design Project and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You

Ink: Pear Pizazz, Blackberry Bliss

Paper: Whisper White, Pear Pizazz, Fresh Freesia

Accessories: Opal Rounds, Dimensionals

Old Scrapping

Happy Saturday! I hope you've got some plans for a nice weekend! 

This week I also managed to get a little scrappy time in! Last year's scrapping was almost entirely for my son, and a little bit for my youngest because if I was spending that much time working on scrapbooks instead of playing with her or reading to her, she wanted new pages too, lol. That meant my middle child was pretty much ignored in my scrapping last year, so this year I started with her! These photos have been printed so long, (they were taken in 2010!) they were curling along all the long sides, making the picture even more difficult to look right. But hey, it's done! 

I mostly followed EMS Sketch 95 from Cheryl for the layout, and I made my own DP for the two sections. I used two markers for the circly elements, and a very old alphabet for the title. Added a few pearls and called it good! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You, Skinny Mini Alphabet (retired)

Ink: Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, Melon Mambo/marker, Purple Posy marker

Paper: Whisper White

Accessories: Basic Pearls 

Feels Like Frost DP

This beautiful paper was in last year's Holiday Mini and it was high on my wish list...but I had to get other things first, and by the time I could get this paper, it had already sold out! I was SO bummed! But for whatever happy reason, Stampin' Up! decided to re-release a few returning favorites from last year, this year! You better believe I snagged this paper fast! And it. is. gorgeous!!! Every one of the photographic prints are my favorite! haha..... but seriously!!! 

I hadn't stamped in 20 days (this is rough, guys!) and yesterday I woke up wanting to see if it would be "too plain" to do half a sheet of this paper, with one "big" greeting on the side with maybe a strip of ribbon.... It took most of the day, but I got these done and they are not too plain and I love them! If I'd had time, and the Pretty Peacock ink pad (instead of the marker) I would have tried all of the paper! Seriously! 

I paired the first three cards with this year's Holiday Mini Christmas must-have- this stamp set called Christmas Means More. One of my very favorite, must-watch-every-year-even-in-summer is the old cartoon of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. This first card uses one of the best lines from that and that alone made me NEED this set. The other phrases come from other movies (one I've only sat thru once, lol) but I like them too! 

Supplies: 
Stamps: Christmas Means More

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Feels Like Frost DP, Seaside Spray & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Supplies:

Stamps: Christmas Means More

Ink: Just Jade
Paper: Feels Like Frost DP, Whisper White card stock

Accessories: Metallic Pearls, Dimensionals

Supplies:

Stamps: Christmas Means More

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Feels Like Frost DP, Whisper White card stock
Accessories: Metallic Pearls

Then I pulled out a different set of words because I thought this one looked more autumnal than wintery. And I love this new Natural Ribbon, also in the Holiday Mini.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You 

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Feels Like Frost DP, Very Vanilla card stock

Accessories: Natural Ribbon, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

And then I remembered these words have a coordinating punch. And this pretty print does look wintery up close, but when you use all three shades of purple, it has a spring-ish look to it too.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely You 

Ink: Gorgeous Grape

Paper: Feels Like Frost DP, Highland Heather & Purple Posy card stock

Accessories: Flowers for Every Season ribbon, Glue Dots

Anyway, I had a fun little afternoon putting all of these together and I'm really excited to make more soon! 

We Create Blog Hop: Look at these Labels

Another month already, another blog hop ready to inspire you!

For my card today I used the sketch from The Paper Players, and with that cute gingham ribbon, I'm entering it with the latest SUO Challenges because gingham says picnic and picnic says summer!
I'm featuring a few new-catalog products which is fun. I have a new stamp set, a new In Color, a new punch (altho I have shown that twice already), and a new ribbon (I've shown the other two in the pack but this one is new)! And the focus, is obviously, the cute label punch! Layering is super easy, and these little phrases are so cute!

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely You
Ink: Rococo Rose, Memento Black
Paper: Just Jade, Whisper White & Rococo Rose card stocks
Accessories: Flowers for Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack, Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, Dimensionals

Now hop on over to Kimberly's blog with the button below to see what she's got for you. Then hop thru the whole group- it's short- and leave us your thoughts!

And then go be creative and crafty yourself!

Kimberley Morris 
Tricia Butts
Libby Fens
Cheryl Curtis
Tanya Harvey YOU ARE HERE