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SUOC45 – Flowers

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It is May and it is time for flowers!  My flowers are blooming in the garden and on my cards too.  At SUO Challenges our focus for this challenge is 3-D flowers and you will be amazed by the variety from the design team this week!  It will be a little late posting but it will be there.

I just love flowers with dimension on a card and I’m sure you know that I experiment with them all the time.  Especially with those made from ribbon!!  I found this tutorial on ribbon carnations from Sandra Azzopardi and had to give them a try.  My Baja Breeze Seam Binding flower is made exactly like her tutorial and the Crumb Cake Seam Binding flowers are made with about 7 inches of ribbon.  Yes…I actually pulled out a needle and thread to make them.  If I can make these, you can too!  I am in “retired” mode and trying to use up some of the pretty retiring (or retired) papers in my stash.  This comes from one of last year’s sets.  Originally I had planned to use some Beau Chateau DSP but realized that mine is pretty much gone.  If you have some, it would be lovely here!  The Ovals Die (retiring) was paired with the Designer Frames Embossing Folder and then I used the Extra-Large Oval Punch to create a raised sentiment.  The best part of the flowers is that the rest of the card can be really clean.  The flowers do all the work!

I can’t wait to see what you bring to the challenge this week!  Make sure you visit the challenge site to ooh and ash over the design team’s work!  Back tomorrow with a new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches…it is mine!  Thanks for dropping in today!

Stamp:  Always Thankful (Holiday ’11); Paper:  Soft Suede, Elegant Soiree DSP(retired), Very Vanilla; Ink:  Soft Suede; Accessories:  Extra-Large Oval Punch, Ovals Die, Big Shot, Designer Frames EF, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Basic Pearls, Needle and Thread

 

Craft Project Central – May Project #6

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Heidi King of Stampin’ King is an extraordinary stamper and Stampin’ Up Artisan Award winner.  Today she has brought a fantastic Father’s Day set to Craft Project Central.

This shadowbox and coordinating card would be a fantastic gift for any dad!  Yep, it is already time to get working on those presents for dad.  You know what to do.  Head right to Craft Project Central and get your tutorials now!

Back a little later with the latest card from SUO Challenges!  See you in a bit!

Craft Project Central – May Project #5

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Happy Mother’s Day!!!  I am a little late posting this.  Somehow Saturday just got away from me with soccer and cooking out with some friends.  It was a lovely day!  Perhaps is is appropriate to show the latest Craft Project Central project today.

Sharon Burkert from As the Ink Dries created this lovely project for the May Craft Project Central project tutorials.

Sharon created a beautiful way to give a gift card as a present with this lovely bouquet.  Her matching card is a stunner too!  Just sign up here and get all the May tutorials!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Freshly Made Sketches #34

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Lesley Croghan of Always Playing with Paper has brought us the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge layout for this week!  At first the layers had me stumped but then I realized I could use any shape and I knew just what to do!

I pulled out my Beautiful Butterflies Die and the Berry Blossoms DSP!  I cut out the butterfly using my Big Shot and the rest of the layers fell into place quickly.  I love these busier prints when they are scaled down like the Big Shot dies can do.  I had out some of my Sale-a-bration goodies from yesterday’s card and found that these brads would work perfectly here.  That awesome 3/8″ Ruffled Ribbon was calling out to be used too.  I have started organizing my stamp drawers in preparation for new catalog things and came across some things I hadn’t used in a while.  Hmmm…you might be seeing some more of these!  Hard to see it in the picture but the Early Espresso layer is embossed with the Stripes Embossing Folder.  Ok, one more thing.  You may notice that there is a new watermark on the bottom of my picture.  That was created for the design team by Lesley Croghan.  Again, I have to say that the evidence points to the fact that she may never actually sleep!  *smile*

I hope you can join us this week.  Last week’s entries were so varied and fantastic.  I continue to be so inspired by everyone’s work!  The design team has worked hard creating some beautiful cards and we are joined by two new guest designers for the month, Erna Logtenberg and Tara Murphy Bourgoin.  Make sure you link on over to their blogs and let them know how awesome their card are!

Thanks for dropping in today.  I’m so appreciative of the support you continually give.  How fortunate I am to be a stamper!

Stamp: None; Paper:  Berry Blossoms DSP, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Early Espresso;  Ink:  None; Accessories:  Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Die, Stripes EF, 3/8″ Ruffled Calypso Coral Ribbon, SAB brads, Dimensionals

Craft Project Central – May Project #4

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Today’s project at Craft Project Central was created by Christy Fulk of Create with Christy.  We all seem to have grads in our lives this time of year and Christy has designed the perfect project to congratulate them.

 Just look at how wonderful these are.  Christy did a great job creating these!  If you have a grad and want to get the details, just go over to Craft Project Central and subscribe to May.

CPC11 and DD#1

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Hey everyone!  I’m here to bring you a card made with two new or new to me challenges!  Craft Project Central has a Creating Pretty Cards every month and this is their sketch for May.  Lesley Croghan, a tireless creator of all things stamping, has started a new challenge called Dynamic Duos.  So armed with a sketch and a color combination, off I went to stamping.

I have to admit that I found both the sketch and the colors to be challenging but hey, that is the purpose for these, right?  To take us out of our box.  With these colors I really had no choice but to pull out the SAB papers from Everyday Enchantment.  That paper is just so wonderful!  Fresh Vintage is the natural pairing (also SAB) so I inked it up in Pool Party and Lucky Limeade.  I used the narrow Organza Ribbon from SAB around the Pool Party layer and tied it onto the buttons.  A sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes finishes it off.

I hope you’ll have time to play with these challenges.  You’ll be glad you did!!  You have a whole month for CPC and until Thursday at noon for Dynamic Duos.

Back tomorrow with a new Freshly Made Sketches card.  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Fresh Vintage, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper:  Everyday Enchantment DSP, Pool Party, Very Vanilla; Ink:  Pool Party, Lucky Limeade; Accessories:  Neutrals Buttons, Limeade Narrow Organza Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots

Craft Project Central – May Project #3

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The talented Leena Girsa from A La Cards is up with today’s project for Craft Project Central.  Just look at what she has for all the coffee lovers out there!!

Yes, it is a K-Cup holder and matching card!  How fabulous is this??!!  You know the deal, just run right over to Craft Project Central and sign up for the May tutorials.  Hope your weekend has been great!!  See you again soon!

Craft Project Central – May Project #2

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Craft Project Central has another amazing project available with a May subscription today.  This one is courtesy of Laurie Zoellmer at Laurie’s Stampin’ Spot.

This beautiful Acrylic Box and coordinating Fabric Cards/envelopes are all included in the tutorial.  Talk about timely!  I am starting to think about teacher gifts for the end of the year and these would certainly be appreciated!  Having this tutorial on hand will be a big time saver.

My project for May is done, I just have to finish the tutorial.  I think you are going to love it!  But…since stamping is more fun than typing, I’m off to play with the Creating Pretty Cards Monthly Card Challenge.  There is a new sketch and it is really cool!  You have the whole month to play but you know I can’t resist a great sketch!!  I hope to have it to share with you in the next couple of days.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Don’t forget to go tell Laurie how great her project is!  See you soon!

Freshly Made Sketches #33

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Happy Wednesday!!  I hope you are having a great week so far.  In all my excitement to tell you about Craft Project Central yesterday, I forgot to tell you that I am on leave for the whole month.  Oh, don’t worry, I’ll get enough flying during the summer for two people!!  The company was looking for some volunteers for unpaid leave and I figured it would give me time to catch up from the whirlwind I’ve been in since going back to flying.  Hopefully that will mean more stamping (and posts) too!

Jen Mitchell from I Create is the sketch hostess at Freshly Made Sketches this week.  As usual, she came up with a great sketch!  Last week blew me away and I know this one will bring some more oohs and aahs!

I am trying to use up some of my retiring DSP to clear the way for Stampin’ Up’s new catalog launch on June 1st.  Actually demonstrators get to see it in May 7th so I have even more reason to clear out some things!!  I started the card with this wonderful print from Paisley Petals DSP.  I thought it would be really pretty on the sketch panels!  As I was sifting through my stamp drawer I came upon Day of Gratitude.  I seem to get lots of use out of this in the fall but then it gets neglected.  Not really sure why since it works in all seasons.  The medallion was just what I needed so I inked it up with Always Artichoke and Early Espresso using my Stampin’ Write Markers (*note:  Always Artichoke is “retiring” as an individual marker and will only be available as part of a Regals set in the future.  I already ordered a spare!).  I need a graduation card for a niece so I chose a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes for that.  Not sure it has the right feel for graduation but I’m hoping she will like it.

The design team and our guest designers have made some fabulous cards this week.  After admiring their work (and letting them know), roll on down to read about a design team call for Freshly Made Sketches.  Lots of great info and you can’t be chosen if you don’t enter!!

Thanks for stopping in today.  I’ll be back tomorrow with another Craft Project Central feature.  Hope you have a great day!

Stamps:  Day of Gratitude, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper:  Paisley Petals DSP, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla; Ink:  Early Espresso, Always Artichoke; Accessories:  Neutrals Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Craft Project Central – May Edition

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Well, you may have noticed a new little blinkie on the side of my post.  Yes, I have have been asked to be a guest designer for Craft Project Central for the month of May.  How fun!!  I will be posting projects from the designers all month long (including mine) and you can get all the details by going straight over there and signing up for the tutorials.  For only $10 you will get 10 tutorials with detailed instructions and color pictures.  They used the latest Stampin’ Up products and you are sure to be wowed!!

Today’s project is brought to you by Monika Davis of M.A.D. Stamper.  Isn’t it beautiful??!!  This seems very timely since I already have my first robin’s nest of the season and the little ones have hatched.  I can see this being used as a shower decoration or favor and that card, well who wouldn’t want that card??  I have the instructions because I have a subscription and I know you will want one too!  Head right on over and take a look at all the inspiration.

I’m working hard on my project for you and can’t wait to share it later this month!  See you tomorrow for the latest Freshly Made Sketches Challenge!

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