Birthday Class Owl

Happy Tuesday morning! We had an extra long weekend here and now I am excited to dive into prepping for my classes later this week! 

So today I have another birthday owl (again with the Tweety Bird look....hmm...) with this cute Sale-A-Bration freebie, but this time for my upcoming class. Once again I colored him with Stampin' Blends (more colors are on my list, really!) and again he's on a circle die cut. For something a little different, and totally easy for anyone to do- I just stamped off the greeting repeatedly. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Adorable Owls
Ink: Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Balmy Blue & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Black Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals, Circle Dies, big shot

and here are the Blends I used, if you're curious: 

Face/Tummy: Light Daffodil delight
Back/Head: Dark Daffodil Delight
Eyes: Light Balmy Blue sparkle, Dark Balmy Blue iris
Talon/ Beak: Bronze
Hat: Dark Pumpkin Pie

...and, just a thought, but five sets of Stampin' Blends markers will earn you this owl set for free! 

June 2023 Calendar Pages

Happy Saturday to you! 

So here's the June pages for the calendars our families are enjoying this year. This first one is one of my favorites this year. It's funny to the rest of my family because these pictures were taken all on one day in February, not June. To make it look like the waves breaking on the sand, I used the tearing edge tool in the very long-retired MDS, which I don't use very often. Even tho it isn't perfect, I still like how it worked out. 

And here's a typical page with a bunch of random photos for my parents calendar. 

What are you making this weekend? 

Peaceful Colors

I have needed to mail out an unreasonable number of sympathy cards over the last 8 or so weeks, so this time, my card class has a pretty and peaceful looking sympathy card. This uses one of the beautiful papers that is a FREE choice from Sale-A-Bration. It coordinates with a lovely bundle in the Jan-April Mini, but I just really liked the prints. This shows both sides of one sheet. Then I just added a sweet sentiment and a bit of ribbon and voila- done! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Inspired Thoughts 
Ink: Old Olive
Paper: Fresh Freesia & Basic White card stock, Dainty Flowers DP
Accessories: White crinkled seam binding ribbon, Dimensionals, 

Perched on a Tree Class

Here is another card for my upcoming class. 

I love this bird and I love the coordinating dies but I admit I struggle just a bit using it all. Coloring the bird is a bit tricky for me, maybe because I'm not sure how it's supposed to look... but I've seen a number of different ways to color it! This time I used the Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens because they blend so easily, and they're super forgiving.

Supplies:

Stamps: Perched In A Tree
Ink: Stazon Black, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry
Paper: Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Dimensionals, Aspen Tree dies, big shot

If you're curious, this is how I colored the bird this time: 
Bird: Head: Crushed Curry
Beak/talons: Daffodil Delight
Throat: Cherry cobbler
Breast: Cajun Craze
Back, Early Espresso blended into feather lines 

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

A Sale-A-Brating Owl

Happy Monday! 

Today I've got the final owl I colored last week. This one used brighter shades and I thought that was fun with the party hat. And this is fun because today is my childhood best friend's birthday. Her card has already been sent, but this could have worked too! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Adorable Owls

Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo, Stampin' Blends

Paper: Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Opal Rounds, Circle Dies, Dimensionals, big shot

And then the Blends details on the cute little owl, if you're curious: 

Beak/talons: Dark Pumpkin Pie

Eyes: Light Old Olive

Tummy/face: Light Daffodil Delight

Back/Head: Dark Daffodil Delight

Hat: Light Melon Mambo

altho now I'm thinking this little owl is colored just a biiit like Tweety Bird..... 

What are you making this week? 

2023 May Calendar Pages

Today I've got the May calendar pages for you. These are so simple, but I think they still turned out fun. When you think about it as a kind of wall art, for several different homes, you don't really want a calendar page all decked out with some of the traditional scrapping styles.
(or maybe that's what I tell myself when I'm cramming.....?)

Sale-A-Bration Owls!

If you don't get my emails, or follow me on facebook, you might have missed that Sale-A-Bration began yesterday! (it's on my sidebar for you!) Sale-A-Bration is so much fun, because for every $50 you spend (before tax and shipping) you get to choose a FREE gift! This year it's all stamps or beautiful DP! You can also earn gifts with every $100, or by hosting a $300 workshop, or if you place a $300 order or more! 

The first free item I picked was this fun owl stamp set. The other day I took a little time to try coloring them in with the Stampin' Blends I own (not enough!) and see what I might like. 

And then another day I made them into cards, but today I'm just sharing two. These use the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, and I'm putting it with the Inspire.Create.Challenge for something new to me. And it totally qualifies for the SUO Challenge too which is to make whatever you want! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Adorable Owls

Ink: Memento Black, Soft Suede, Balmy Blue, Stampin' Blends

Paper: Petal Pink, Balmy Blue, Basic White cardstocks, Hues of Happiness DP

Accessories: Circle dies, big shot

Do you have a preference on the card? 

How about the owls? haha.... 

Here's exactly what I did for each of these guys:

Owl 1:
beak & talons: Light or dark pumpkin pie

Eyes: Light Petal Pink
tummy/face: Ivory

back/head: Bronze

Owl 2:

Beak/talons:  Light or dark pumpkin pie

eyes: Light Balmy Blue

Tummy/face: Light Petal Pink

Back/Head: Dark Petal Pink

             

Owl 3: 

beak & talons: Light pumpkin pie
eyes: Light Daffodil Delight

tummy/face: left plain
back/head: Light Petal Pink

Owl 4: 

Beak & Talons: Light Pumpkin Pie

Eyes: Light Old Olive 

Tummy/face:

Back/head: Ivory

bowtie: Light Balmy Blue, Dark polka dots

But there are more coloring tools and this is going to be a fun little set! 

2023 April Calendar Pages

I skipped last week, posting calendar pages, in the holiday frenzy, but Happy New Year's Eve to you today! Thank you for sticking around for another year of crafting and creativity! 
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This set of pages is actually copied and pasted, haha, because I added little white splats "behind" the flower petals on this image, and after that much effort, you know what? I was using it in both! And it worked out great! 

And THAT is how you work smarter, instead of harder. haha! 

Flowers!

So, like yesterday, these two cards were also made with supplies prepped for a card class. But the thing is, I spent a lot of time looking, and I can't find the original design on my blog...? So here is what I made for a class in March, using a bunch of about-to-retire products:

And here is what I made the other day! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Ranunculus Romance

Ink: Calypso Coral, Pale Papaya, Mango Melody, Soft Suede

Paper: Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Paper Doilies, ribbon, Dimensionals

Supplies:

Stamps: Nature's Harvest, Inspired Thoughts

Ink: Mossy Meadow

Paper: Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Paper Doilies, ribbon, Dimensionals

Cozy Birthday Cards

Happy Thursday morning to you! I hope you all had a lovely Christmastime, (I sure have!) and are gearing up for a fabulous New Year!

I finally got to stamp and I can't even tell you how nice that was. I was in serious need of some birthday cards. I happened to have some kits from previous classes prepped and not yet used, so I figured that was a good match. Here's the original design: Just Beautiful.

Today's cards also happens to fit nicely with the Inspired by Challenge, for "cozy". 

Supplies:

Stamps: In The Moment, Happiness Abounds
Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Night of Navy, Dark & Light Balmy Blue, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Ivory, Light Old Olive, Light Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Balmy Blue & Basic White card stock, In Good Taste DP (retired)
Accessories: Woven Ribbon

Supplies:

Stamps: In The Moment
Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Night of Navy, Dark Balmy Blue, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Light Old Olive, Light Blackberry Bliss, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Melon Mambo
Paper: Balmy Blue & Basic White card stock, In Good Taste DP (retired)
Accessories: White Crinkled Seam Binding

2023 March Calendar Pages

Happy Saturday! Not a lot of craft time this month.... okay, almost NO craft time so far this month.... but hey! I have calendar pages for you! 

Here is March for my inlaws, which is just my own little family.

And March for my parents family which features many of my parents and their kids and grandkids!

I hope YOU get some crafty time today! :)