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Good morning everyone and Happy New Year! Create with Connie and Mary is back with some fabulous challenges for the New Year! Today we start the new year off with this beautiful color challenge!

Real Red, Calypso Coral and Basic Black. These are colors that are featured in the new Stacked with Love designer paper in the new Occasions mini catalog! And here is how I used these colors...

I found a sketch to help me make this card but it was an older one so I didn't keep track of where it came from. I used the new set, Hello Life from the Occasions mini. This set is quickly becoming a favorite!

• Card base is Real Red
• Layer a piece of Stacked with Love designer paper onto a piece of Basic Black and then adhere panel to card base
• Flag the end of a piece of Basic Black and adhere to the card
• Cut the shape from Whisper White using the Deco Labels framelits
• Stamp the "love" from Hello Life onto the shape using Tuxedo black Momento ink and then stamp the heart using Calypso Coral
• Adhere the shape to the card with dimensionals
• Stamp the two hearts onto a piece of Whisper White using Real Red and Calypso Coral inks and cut out
• Adhere the Real Red heart to the shape
• Adhere the Calypso Coral heart to the shape using dimensionals
• Add two rhinestones to the hearts

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the design team did using these fabulous colors! You will find their creations at the Create with Connie and Mary website! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Hello Life; Paper- Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Stacked with Love designer paper; Ink- Tuxedo black Momento ink, Real Red, Calypso Coral; Accessories- Deco Labels framelits, rhinestones, dimensionals

Love...

Good morning, Friends! We are still in Kansas where it has become very frigid! Love that we can stay inside and drink coffee and enjoy each other! Last night we got to catch up with aunts, uncles and cousins that we haven't seen in quite a while! What fun we had! Just seems like there is never enough time but we enjoy what time we do have. We also did a little shopping yesterday. Nick needed new shoes and he wanted to spend his Christmas money. And today we look to take down the tree and enjoy some football! And Pat is making gumbo! Yum!!

Today's card was inspired by a sketch I saw. It was an older one so I didn't keep track of where it came from. I kept it very simple. I just love the script words from the Hello Life set!

• Card base is Whisper White
• Use the scallop border punch to scallop the top of a piece of Basic Black card stock then adhere to card base
• Adhere a piece of Stack with Love designer paper to the Basic Black panel
• Cut a heart from red glitter paper using the Hearts framelits and adhere to card with dimensionals
• Stamp the sentiment from Hello Life onto the card using Tuxedo black Momento ink
• Add three rhinestones

Super simple! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Hello Life; Paper- Whisper White, Basic Black, red glimmer paper, Stacked with Love designer paper, Ink- Tuxedo black Momento ink; Accessories- Hearts framelits, scallop edge border punch, rhinestones, dimensionals

Lovely Life

Good morning, Friends! We are still having a great time with family! Going out for breakfast this morning and then spending time with cousins this evening! Haven't seen them in quite a while so that will be fun to catch up! I'm sure that we will be helping mom to take down the tree this weekend, too. 

Today's card didn't quite turn out like I had planned but here it is anyway - lol! I just love this new set, Hello Life! The words are super sweet and so much fun! 

• Card base is Whisper White
• On a piece of Whisper White stamp the hearts images from Hello Life using Calypso Coral and Crisp Cantaloupe
• Stamp the word onto a strip of vellum using Tuxedo black Momento ink and flag the end then adhere to card by folding the end of the strip of vellum to the back of the panel and use a glue dot where the Real Red heart will go
• Adhere panel to card
• Punch a heart from Real Red card stock using the itty bitty accents punch pack and adhere to card with dimensionals
• Add a rhinestone to the heart

Super simple. I just love the words in this set! So sweet! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Hello Life; Paper- Whisper White, vellum; Ink- Tuxedo black Momento ink, Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral; Accessories- itty bitty accents punch pack, rhinestone, dimensionals

Control Freaks Blog Tour: New Stuff!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Control Freaks blog tour! I'm your next stop after the very creative and talented Patty Bennett! The Control Freaks are featuring products from the new Occasions and SAB mini catalogs! So many fabulous new products! I just got my order the other day and haven't had time to play until this evening after work. Nothing like getting it done just under the wire!! Because of that, I kept things very simple! I think we all need that this time of year - lol!

I used the new stamp set Hello Life. I just love the saying "do more of what makes you happy". Isn't that great? My holiday vacation started today and I am SO ready to do more of what makes me happy - stamping!! So here's my first card...

•  Card base is Whisper White
• Stamp the greeting from Hello Life in Tuxedo black Momento ink onto the card base
• Use the Project Life corner rounder to round the upper and lower corners of the card base on the right hand side
• Flag the ends of two pieces of designer paper from the Stacked with Love designer paper stack and adhere to card base
• Stamp the hearts onto Whisper White using Calypso Coral and Crisp Cantaloupe inks and cut out
• The cantaloupe heart is adhered flat to the card and the coral heart is adhered with dimensionals
• Thread a piece of white baker's twine through a basic metal button and tie a bow then adhere to card
• Add three rhinestones to card

My second card uses the same wonderful saying! I told you I love it!!

• Card base is Real Red
• Adhere a piece of designer paper from the Stacked with Love designer paper stack to the card base
• Flag the end of a piece of Crisp Cantaloupe card stock and run through the Big Shot using the Large Polka Dots embossing folder then adhere to card
• Cut a circle from Whisper White using the Circles framelits
• Stamp the saying from Hello Life using Tuxedo black Momento ink onto the circle
• Stamp the little hearts onto the circle using Real Red ink then adhere the circle to the card using dimensionals
• Adhere three rhinestones to card

I told you these cards were easy! But I do like the way they came out. They make me smile and I hope they make you smile, too! Thank you so much for stopping by! Be sure to click the icon below to go and see what the super talented and creative Mary Brown has to show you! Have a great day!