CCMC Summer Collection Week 4

Hello everyone! Create with Connie and Mary have finished up their final week of the Summer Collection! At the end of each week they have a special challenge. This week we have a color challenge! Take a look at these fabulous colors!

Mossy Meadow, Lost Lagoon and Sahara Sand are the beautiful colors to work with! And here is what I did with them.

This week at the Create with Connie and Mary Summer Collection the topic was Back to Nature so I pulled out the Kinda Eclectic stamp set! I love this set!

• Card base is Sahara Sand
• Stamp the dots image from Kinda Eclectic onto a piece of Sahara Sand using Sahara Sand ink
• Tie a piece of Lost Lagoon stitched satin ribbon around the stamped panel
• Punch a strip of Mossy Meadow using the dotted scallop ribbon punch and adhere to stamped panel
• Stamp the leaf image using Mossy Meadow onto a piece of Mossy Meadow card stock and onto a piece of Whisper White card stock and cut both out
• Adhere leaf images to card with dimensionals
• Stamp the greeting from Honeycomb Hello onto the panel with Mossy Meadow ink and adhere panel onto card base using dimensionals
• Stamp the butterfly image onto a piece of Lost Lagoon card stock using Lost Lagoon ink and punch out with the Bitty Butterfly punch
• Adhere butterfly to card and add rhinestones

Visit Create with Connie and Mary to find more great creations using these colors. Even though the Summer Collection has come to an end, you can still see all the projects that have been shared and download all the tutorials! Thanks for all your support! Have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Kinda Eclectic, Honeycomb Hello; Paper- Lost Lagoon, Sahara Sand, Mossy Meadow; Ink- Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand, Lost Lagoon; Accessories- Lost Lagoon stitched satin ribbon, Bitty Butterfly punch, dotted ribbon scallop punch, rhinestones, dimensionals

Color Throwdown 301

Good morning, Friends! I hope you have a had a great week! I feel like it went by pretty fast! I am looking forward to a nice weekend. It will be hot outside but I plan to do some indoor work like stamping and sewing!! I have a massage today and I am hoping that she will help the sore muscles in my injured arm. Nick can sleep in. He is pretty tired and sore from his week at soccer camp. I'm glad! It's getting him good and ready for high school (did I just say that???)! 

Today's card was inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown. I was trying something different. And different is what it is!

• Card base is Crumb Cake
• Stamp the splatter images from Gorgeous Grunge onto he card base using Smoky Slate, Soft Sky and Calypso Coral (I stamped off before stamping the Calypso Coral onto the card)
• Use the Hexagon Hive thinlit to cut the the little hexagons from Crumb Cake
• Sponged the edges of each hexagon shape using Crumb Cake ink then adhere to card base (don't adhere the one with the flower yet)
• Stamp the greeting from Honeycomb Hello onto a strip of Whisper White using Smoky Slate and flag the end then adhere to the back of the hexagon shape
• Adhere hexagon shape to card with dimensionals
• Punch a flower from Soft Sky using the itty bitty accents punch pack and adhere to card
• Add a Calypso Coral candy dot to flower center

Here are the Color Throwdown colors for you to see. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Honeycomb Hello, Gorgeous Grunge; Paper- Crumb Cake, Soft Sky, Whisper White; Ink- Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Calypso Coral, Soft Sky; Accessories- Hexagon Hive thinlit, itty bitty accents punch pack, sponge, Subtles candy dots, dimensionals

CCMC Summer Edition Week 3

Good morning, Friends! Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition has come to the end of week 3. This past week we shared card sets! And there were SO many awesome ideas! I hope you didn't miss it! Don't worry, though. You can still sign up and get ALL the ideas that have been shared along with the downloadable tutorials! 

At the end of each week we have a special challenge for the public side and this week we have a sketch. Take a look!

I'll be honest. This sketch had me stumped a bit. I wanted to use the stamp set that I used this past week for the theme: Card "Create"tions - All Occasions. For my card set I used the Honeycomb Hello stamp set. I had a lot of fun using it but the only way to see my cards is to be a subscriber! Here is what I came up with for the sketch challenge...

• Card base is Hello Honey
• Adhere a piece of Moonlight designer paper onto the card base
• Layer a piece of Whisper White onto the card
• Use the Hexagon Hive thinlit to cut the hexagon shapes from Basic Grey card stock
• Use Basic Grey ink to stamp the dots image from Honeycomb Hello onto the shapes
• Adhere the hexagons onto the card
• Adhere a strip of Lost Lagoon to card
• Use the hexagon punch to punch the shape from Hello Honey
• Stamp the greeting onto the punched shape using Basic Grey ink then adhere to card with dimensionals
• Punch a flower from Lost Lagoon using the itty bitty accents punch pack and adhere to card
• Add a rhinestone to flower center

Be sure to see what the rest of the design team did with this sketch by visiting the Create with Connie and Mary site! And don't forget to sign up for the Summer Edition! I hope to see you there! Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Honeycomb Hello; Paper- Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Basic Grey, Whisper White, Moonlight designer paper; Ink- Basic Grey; Accessories- Hexagon Hive thinlit, Hexagon punch, itty bitty accents punch pack, rhinestone, dimensionals

CCMC Preview and Blog Candy

Good morning, Friends! I hope you have been enjoying the Create with Connie and Mary Preview Week! Lots of fun stuff going on! I hope you are not missing out on the Blog Candy!! Today it's my turn to offer blog candy! Woohoo! I am SO excited to be a part of the Create with Connie and Mary Summer Collection! I just love new stuff and the new Stampin' Up! catalog is filled with so many wonderful new products! It was really hard to choose which sets I wanted to use for this collection. But I was able to narrow it down. Honeycomb Hello is one of my chosen sets!

• Card Base is Whisper White cut at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and folded in half
• Stamp the heart image from Honeycomb Hello randomly on the card base using Blushing Bride ink (some of the images are stamped without re-inking)
• Use the Hexagon Hive thinlit to cut the shape from Whisper White (NOTE - use a piece of waxed paper between the card stock and the thinlit to make the removal of the card stock from the thinlit much easier)
• Use paper snips to cut away the edges of the die cut
• Adhere die cut to card base with dimensionals
• Cut the heart shape from Whisper White using the Hearts Collection framelits
• Stamp the ampersand image in Blushing Bride and the "you" and "me" stamps in Basic Grey onto the heart
• Adhere heart to card with dimensionals
• Stamp the heart image onto a piece of Whisper White and punch out with the itty bitty accents punch pack and adhere to card with dimensionals
• Add a rhinestone to the small heart

So now for the fun part! Blog Candy!! Here's how you can enter to win blog candy... All you need to do is leave a comment to enter! Easy, right?! Here's the catch... You have to leave your comment TODAY!! Good luck to all of you! Winners will be announced on the Create with Connie and Mary site at the end of the week! So keep checking back! 

I made this simple card for Preview Week. If you would like to see the other cards I did using this set you will need to be a subscriber of the Summer Collection! I encourage you to take advantage of the Early Bird pricing! I hope to see you all at the Summer Collection!

So what is Create with Connie and Mary Summer Collection 2014 all about? 

• 4 FABULOUS weeks filled with wonderful ideas featuring the products from the NEW 2014-15 catalog!
• 18 EXCLUSIVE 3D projects suitable for classes and stamp camps...most completed within 2 hours!
• PLUS 24 card ideas seen ONLY by our subscribers (6 stamp sets with 4 cards each)

As with ALL of our collections...

• Our projects are ONLY available to our subscribers...we never show the collection projects online (ONLY the Preview Projects are shown)
• EACH project has a full downloadable PICTURE tutorial that continues all the information you need to recreate the project!
• Less than $1 per project!

Summer Collection runs June 22-July 12!

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Summer Collection 2014

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Card Recipe: Stamps- Honeycomb Hello; Paper- Whisper White; Ink- Blushing Bride, Basic Grey; Accessories- Hexagon Hive thinlit, Itty Bitty Accents punch pack, rhinestone, dimensionals