A quick post for Saturday since I had some things I wanted to share. Many of you know that besides driving the Airbus for United, I spend a great deal of my time driving the mom “bus” as a soccer mom. At the end of the year, I always feel like I need to do something special for coaches. These people give so much of themselves in their dedication to training the kids. I pulled out my Goalie Saves stamp from Lili of the Valley and this time I colored him to look like my youngest. Little boy is also a keeper (these kids really stress my nerves in games!) and he wears an orange shirt and has shiny blue cleats. The yellow blonde is pretty accurate too! I colored him using my Zig Clean Color Pens. They are AWESOME for this kind of image!! My sentiment is a favorite from one of my old Paper Pumpkins and is a go-to for so many cards. My little keeper wrote a sweet note inside and delivered it last weekend. I hope coach enjoyed a small token of how much he is appreciated!!
Well, back out today for a trip. I have a “guest designer” for my post tomorrow on Father’s Day. Hope to see you then. Thanks for stopping in!
Another week has flown by! I think maybe because my mom was here and we were busy, busy, busy!! *smile* We did some stamping that I’ll share with you soon but she helped me create my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge too. Our sketch hostess this week is the amazing Karren Johnson and she has a classic one for us this week. As you can imagine, the team has all kinds of variations that are super fun!
The minute I saw this sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to use!! This gorgeous (and I mean seriously gorgeous) die set is from the new Stampin’ Up Catalog. I have not seen anything really like it before and I’m in love! Ok….it is a flower so it really should not surprise anyone how much I love it, haha!! There are many ways to use the Detailed Floral Thinlits and the coordinating Floral Phrases stamp set but I stuck to the color combination in the catty because I love it so much. For the record, I bought the whole suite! I cut the bottom part using a 4″ wide piece of Thick Whisper White and then used the edge piece to put a similar border on the top. Using only the border die, I cut the edge of some Night of Navy and cut the rest down to fit behind the floral cutouts. So striking! I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set in Night of Navy. Then for the circle. I kept thinking it just needed a bow since it a wedding card so I used retired White Seam Binding (I’m guessing you still have a stash of this too) to make a shabby bow. It is the perfect touch!!
I’m on a trip this week (sitting in Chicago on a delay as I type) but hope to share more with you later this week from my stamping with mom. Until then, I hope you enjoy this look at the new products! Let me know if you need more info on this suite or any other! Make sure you go check out the rest of the cards from the DT too. Thanks for stopping in today. See you soon!
Supplies:
Stamps: Floral Phrases; Ink: Night of Navy ; Paper: Thick Whisper White, Night of Navy; Accessories: Big Shot, Detailed Florals Thinlits, White Seam Binding, Glue Dots
Oh do we have some fun for you this week at Freshly Made Sketches! The lovely Jennifer Brum has created this fun sketch that will make you run right to your DSP supply! So many ways to play around with this one!
So I figured I should show you one of the new paper packs from Stampin’ Up called Pop of Pink. And let’s face it, if you are going to show off paper with that name, you have to go all in on the pink!! Melon Mambo to be specific! Aren’t these prints fun?? I chose three of them that I thought would, well, pop against the background and they are fabulous! The whole pack is amazing! Some of the prints have gold in them too. Oh my! I grabbed a sentiment from Butterfly Basics and stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. A few sequins in the paper colors (including gold) for a little bling.
Just a reminder….my card auction to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation is still open. Please consider a bid. The cards and the details are here: Blogs for Boobies Auction
I’m enjoying some fun with my mom in town this week and I think we will get some stamping time in later today (after swim team and some other fun summer stuff). Hoping to share more soon! See you then!
Supplies:
Stamps: Butterfly Basics; Ink: Versafine Onyx Black ; Paper: Pop of Pink DSP, Melon Mambo, Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Sequins, Summer Mix Sequins (PPP)
I have something incredibly special to share today! I am participating in a very special kind of blog hop. Not only are designers sharing their beautiful work, but we are working together for a very special cause! Skipping Stones Design has coordinated this Blogs 4 Boobies Hop and Auction to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. There is no doubt in my mind that cancer has touched each of you in some way. For me, personally, I lost my father to cancer and have another dear family member who is fighting the good fight right now. So how can you help?Shopping at Skipping Stones Design: Between June 1st and June 14th, there will be $2 donated for every stamp sold at SSD.
You can help by bidding on the auction items.
***Bidding Instructions***
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(Including your email address is the electronic equivalent of signing your bid.)
2. Comments will post in chronological order, so you will be able to see the current high bid.
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4. My auction closes at 8 pm Mountain Time on June 11th (10 pm Eastern Time).
The winning bid will be the highest valid bid at the close of the auction. I will notify the winner by email. Skipping Stones Design will send the winner an invoice for the amount of the winning bid. Once the invoice is paid, I will mail the card!
Please spread the word! When more people know about this event, we have a better chance of raising more money for this great cause!
This is a 7 day event and I’m am hopping on day 5. You can go refer to the Skipping Stones Design link at the top of my blog roll to see all of the designers who are participating (there are more than 60).
Now for my card set! I created a set of 4 cards that I hope you will love. These use the butterfly from Healing Wings and the sentiment from Breathtaking Butterflies. I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks on Watercolor Paper to color this amazing image. Once they were colored, I hand cut them to help them pop on the page. I started with blue and green inks combined with a Coastal Cabana base. I had so much fun making it, that I made two. Then I decided I should make a set of four cards and wanted to try another color scheme. So I played around with yellows and oranges and found that the resulting butterfly matched my new Flirty Flamingo card stock. I colored in much the same way and simply added different sequins to match the inks.I love the results on both colors of cards!!
So now we get down to the nitty-gritty! I hope you will consider bidding on this set. Please remember to leave your bid and your email address in the comments of this post to be eligible. You are also most welcome to leave comments without a bid since I always appreciate hearing from you!Supplies:
Stamps: Healing Wings (SSD), Breathtaking Butterflies (SSD); Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks, WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Versafine Onyx Black; Paper: Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, Thick Whisper White, Coastal Cabana (SU ret), Flirty Flamingo (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Bold Butterflies Thinlits, Border Builders Die (LID), Summer Mix Sequins (PPP), Share Kindness Sequins (PPP)
I will be participating tomorrow in a hop that is for a great cause! Some amazing designers have created projects that will be auctioned to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Please go to the blog for Skipping Stones Design to see all the details and the links to cards already posted.
I am on day 5 of the hop and I don’t want you to miss all the inspiration that I am seeing!
Make sure you come back tomorrow to see a set of cards I created for this worthwhile cause! Until then…happy Saturday!
Freshly Made Sketches has a great sketch for you today! Just look at what the lovely Cindy Hall dreamed up for us this week! I know, right? I love off centered sketches and this one is going to be fun for you all to use!
I kept it pretty simple for today. I had only a little stamping time yesterday and really wanted to do this sketch justice. After some playing around with shapes and stamp sets, I settled on this butterfly die. I think a layer under him might have been nice but he was was already glued down before I considered it, lol. In any case, I took some Tim Holtz Distress Inks and blended them onto watercolor paper, then cut the butterfly out. I wanted the panel to have some detail but not distract from the butterfly. I inked up Dots for Days (retired) with the same ink colors, stamped off and then stamped onto Thick Whisper White. I cut the panel out with a Stitched Rectangles Die. The sentiment is from a sweet little set by Altenew called One of a Kind. A few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh matched perfectly so I just had to add them on!
So I have been in the midst of a flying blitz (lots of 4 day trips) and then had a soccer-palooza weekend. Tournament play for both of my soccer boys! To top it off, my oldest turned 13 on Sunday too. How can that possibly be?! We had a pretty chilled out family day on Monday topped off with his dinner request: Breakfast for dinner with lots of bacon. Yep, he is 13!!! Oh, and of course cake. Strawberry Applesauce Cake. YUM! So blessed to have been home over this long weekend for all of that so it is worth the rest of the flying schedule that was needed to make that happen! Out again today but a bit of a respite next week where I hope to fit in more stamping!
Just a quick reminder…the new Stampin’ Up Catalog goes live today! Wow it is fun! If you want to see it online, just click here: 2016-17 Catalog. I hope you love the rest of the DTs inspiration as much as I do…fabulous as always! I’ll be back on Friday with some details about an amazing hop I’ll be participating in on June 5th…but you will want the details early! Please stop back in to see what it is all about! Until then, have a great week!
Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of demonstrators who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from the super talented Marisa, welcome to the next stop. For May, our theme is Never Enough Thanks! You may have heard of the hashtag fun going around for birthdays (#imbringingbirthdaysback), well we are bringing thanks yous back! Yep, #imbringingthankyousback !
I think that thank you cards are actually what I make the most but I love them! Faced with the prospect of the theme, somehow I froze. What to make? Who should it be for? Retiring items or new products? Oh the pressure! *smile* Ok, not really but I did kind of go blank. So I decided to go a little artsy. I took some watercolor paper and got it wet where I wanted color and then added some Melon Mambo ink. At first, I was thinking to make it all one color and use a new suite from the catalog but then I thought that it needed something more. So I added Daffodil Delight too. When I say added, I just added a little more water and then smooshed my Aquapainter into the ink and dropped it onto the water. And it spread around and became totally cool. I took the same brush (without more ink) and placed it around the pink to add variety. And then the hardest part, just sit it aside to dry. I worked on another card…..one of yesterday’s to be exact. Once it was dry, I sent it through the Big Shot and cut out the sentiment with Greetings Thinlits. The thick paper had a few of those dots that sometimes happen (from the holes to help free your paper) so I ran it back through the Big Shot between just the two plates to flatten it. Then I cut out some Thick Whisper White that had foam tape attached to the back with the same thinlet. Because I wanted the whole panel to pop up onto my card base, I added a white panel behind the sentiment negative to allow a place to attach the positive. I added a little more detail with a Wonky Stitched Die and then I just stacked the cutouts where the original sentiment had been cut out. A Melon Mambo base to make it even brighter and some sequins leftover from Paper Pumpkin for more fun! Just a quick reminder….this die set is retiring. So make sure you have it before it is gone!! So, I have a confession to make. I haven’t mailed this yet. They may kick me out for not following the rules! But I can tell you that this is going to an awesome mom who has been the team manager for my younger son’s soccer team this year and, truthfully, it will be hand delivered. So I only kind of sort of fail in the month’s instructions — we were to make a card and actually send it! My friend is bright and happy and always keeps the rest of us parents on track. This card makes me think of her!
I hope you will be inspired to make some thank you cards this month and you too can join us with our hashtag! We’ll be watching for it! Now you get to go over to my dear friend Jeanna who I just KNOW will make you smile!
Today’s challenges over at The Card Concept is going to make you jump for joy! The inspiration image is so pretty!! It won’t take long for you to see how I got to this card, for sure!
So first, I knew that I had to use a peony. This pretty one from You’ve Got This is perfect for the job! I simply stamped in Versamark and then embossed using Gold embossing powder to mimic the gold in the image. The flower was colored using Zig Markers. Next I decided to use my Clarity Stencil Brushes to apply some Soft Sky ink to a Thick Whisper White panel. The brushes make the ink go on so beautifully!! I cut that colored panel plus a sentiment panel using Stitched Rectangle Dies and then added a gold embossed sentiment from the Flower Patch set. Some sequins from an old Paper Pumpkin went so perfectly with this that I had to use them!
Ok, this is my Clean and Graphic take on the inspiration piece this week! If you missed it, I also have a Freshly Made Sketches card up today in the post below. (A reminder that every other Wednesday I will have two posts) The team over at The Card Concept has a widely varied and gorgeous set of cards to get you on your way! I hope you will join us!
Back on Friday with this month’s Fancy Friday! Until then, thanks for stopping in!
Supplies:
Stamps: You’ve Got This, Flower Patch; Ink: Versamark, Soft Sky ; Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Tim Holtz Watercolor; Accessories: Clarity Stamps Stencil Brushes, Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Zig Clean Color Markers, Sequins, Heat Tool, Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS)
I have to admit that this weeks sketch at Freshly Made Sketches made me think. Kim Singdahlsen always has the coolest cards and her groupings are one of the reasons. And this week she gave us a challenge that allows us to try the same idea. Once I narrowed down that I wanted to used a stamp set (and which one) things got a bit easier for me.
I stamped these pretty images from Altenew’s Botanical Garden set onto watercolor paper and then colored them with my Zig Markers. These markers allow for such pretty shading super fast! Then I cut them by hand and started playing around with the arrangement. I realized that a doily (these are retiring so stock up) was perfect for the sketch and to help ground the flowers a bit. I used the sentiment from another Altenew set because it seems perfect for many occasions. I played a little more with the placement and finally got things how I wanted them. The butterfly is popped up on a Dimensional to add even more emphasis on him. Finally I added some Basic Pearls. These seem to be the right touch for the elegant images.
As a reminder, every other week I will have two posts on Wednesday. This is one of those. In just a little bit, I’ll be back with my card for The Card Concept this week. See you in a bit!
Know what puts a smile on my face?? Yep, Wednesdays! Especially when we have a sketch at Freshly Made Sketches as awesome as this one from Linda. I felt like I needed a bit of a sunny card for today because we have had rain, lots and lots and lots and lots…of rain. I thought a happy little bird might brighten things up!
Ok, he really is a Happy Bird from that set by WPlus9. I had colored this fellow a while ago and he was sitting there begging to be put on a card. I finally found just the right one. This striped background comes from the It’s My Party DSP pack…yes, I may have a little bit of a problem putting it down but I’m sure you’ll forgive me. It matched the bird. It just had to happen! I stamped the wire and the sentiment in Versafine ink onto Thick Whisper White paper and just popped up my little friend on a dimensional. He was colored with Zig Clean Color Markers and cut out with the coordinating dies. I found that Pacific Point card stock was a good match with the blue and added it as a layer behind the image. Finally a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. Love these!
Ok, ready, set, stamp! I just know the gallery will be full with a sketch this open for interpretation! Make sure you take a minute to visit the team’s blogs for all their awesome inspiration!
Back to lots of flying this week (and next) but I have a few things I’m working on. Ok, really I’m just sketching and hoping to work on when I get home! Until next time, have a great day!
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A quick post for Saturday since I had some things I wanted to share. Many of you know that besides driving the Airbus for United, I spend a great deal of my time driving the mom “bus” as a soccer mom. At the end of the year, I always feel like I need to do something special for coaches. These people give so much of themselves in their dedication to training the kids. I pulled out my Goalie Saves stamp from Lili of the Valley and this time I colored him to look like my youngest. Little boy is also a keeper (these kids really stress my nerves in games!) and he wears an orange shirt and has shiny blue cleats. The yellow blonde is pretty accurate too! I colored him using my Zig Clean Color Pens. They are AWESOME for this kind of image!! My sentiment is a favorite from one of my old Paper Pumpkins and is a go-to for so many cards. My little keeper wrote a sweet note inside and delivered it last weekend. I hope coach enjoyed a small token of how much he is appreciated!!
