Affectionate Friend

Good morning, Friends! Ahhh!! The weekend is here! I was so glad to be able to sleep in! I haven't been sleeping well the last few nights so the sleep is really nice! It is really crummy looking outside. Cold and rainy. Not a lot of rain, mind you but there is a little moisture out there and we will take all we can get!! The mountains are covered in clouds so I am praying they are getting tons of snow!! My husband just built a fire and I have my computer and coffee so it is looking to be a great day!!

Today's card is another that my club did this month. A simple "grunge" type card that seemed to be a hit. I stamped the frame image from Affection Collection in black StazOn onto a piece of First Edition designer paper. Right over the top of that I stamped the oval image in Summer Starfruit. Then I stamped the word in Crumb Cake and sponged the dsp in Crumb Cake before adhering it to a piece of Basic Black. I wrapped a piece of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon around this and popped it up onto a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I stamped the main word in black StazOn onto a piece of Crumb Cake and punched it out with the Modern Label punch. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and popped it up onto the card. I added two pearls and called it done! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Affection Collection; Paper- Crumb Cake, Basic Black, First Edition designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, Summer Starfruit, Crumb Cake; Accessories- Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, Modern Label punch, pearls, sponge, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! Are you glad it's Friday? I hope you are glad for another Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge! This week's sketch was created by Patrice Herrera. Take a look!

I apologize for the blurriness. When I uploaded the sketch to my post, it was really small. So I tried to enlarge it and it became blurry. But I think you can still see the main elements. I had fun with my card! Take a look!

I decided I wanted to use my new set, Affection Collection. I guess I wanted to take a break from Christmas cards. I will get back to them, I am sure but I thought I would have some fun with a totally different look! I took a piece of First Edition designer paper and gave it a rough look with some sponging and distressing. I tore the corner away and adhered a piece of Crumb Cake to the exposed corner which was sponged, too. I stamped the word with Crumb Cake. before adhering the panel to a piece of Basic Black.This panel is then adhered to a card base of Crumb Cake which was sponged with Crumb Cake. I Then took a piece of Crumb Cake and rounded the top with the 1 3/4" circle punch. I flagged the bottom end. And then I - you guessed it - sponged it with Crumb Cake! I used Crumb Cake ink to stamp the image in a random pattern and then I stamped the word in black StazOn. To the top of my tag I folded a piece of Crochet trim and adhered it to the top. Then I threaded some linen thread through the holes of a bronze button and tied a bow to the back side of it before adhering it to the trim. Then I popped the tag up onto the card. I stamped the wing/heart image onto Very Vanilla using black StazOn and cut it out. I also stamped it again using Cherry Cobbler and cut out just the heart. Again, all of these are sponged. I popped up the Cherry Cobbler heart onto the the first one and then popped up the whole image onto the tag.

More fabulous inspiration can be found on the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog! Be sure to check it out! I do hope you will be able to play along with us this week! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Affection Collection; Paper- Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, First Edition designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Victoria crochet trim, linen thread, bronze button, 1 3/4" circle punch, sponge, dimensionals

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Good morning, Friends! Create with Connie and Mary have another fabulous challenge for us this week! They are challenging us with color. Take a look!

This week Connie and Mary want us to use the beautiful and most elegant combination of Very Vanilla and Champagne glimmer paper! Love it! And here is what I created!

I kept my card very simple and let the colors speak for themselves. I love that this would be a super card to mass produce for the holidays! I have several layers of Very Vanilla so let me take you through them. The top layer was run through the Big Shot using the Holiday Collections framelits dies. This is then popped up onto a piece of Champagne glimmer paper. Then this adhered to the second piece of Very Vanilla that was run through the Big Shot using the Fancy Fan embossing folder. I then adhered this to the third layer of Very Vanilla. The third layer was scored with the Simply Scored tool 1/8" from the edge to create a "frame". I also stamped the sentiment from More Merry Messages in Soft Suede at the bottom. Finally, I popped all of this up onto the card base of - you guessed it, Very Vanilla! 

Find more inspiration using these fabulous colors by visiting the Create with Connie and Mary website. I hope that you will play along with us this week and show us your fabulous creations using these great colors! We always love to see what you do! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- More Merry Messages; Paper- Very Vanilla, champagne glimmer paper; Ink- Soft Suede; Accessories- Holiday Collections framelits dies, Fancy Fan embossing folder, Simply Scored tool, dimensionals

Wonderful Cocoa

Good morning everyone! We are trying to send our son back to school this morning. He is still complaining of a sore throat but I think he will make it. I don't want him to get too far behind in his school work. Especially now! So here's hoping that his day goes well. I need to get some stamping and sewing done, too. I have kind of fallen behind myself.

Today's card is another that we did in stamp club this month. A super simple one. I stamped the steam for the cocoa from the Scentsational Season stamp set in Sahara Sand onto a piece of Whisper White and then layered this onto a piece of Early Espresso. Then I stamped the cup in Pool Party and cut it out using the Holiday Collection framelits dies. I colored in the cocoa part of the cup with the Early Espresso marker. This is popped up onto the panel. Then the panel is popped up onto the card. I took a strip of designer paper from the Festival of Prints pack and flagged one end. The other end was tucked behind the panel. Then I stamped the greeting from Sweet Essentials in Early Espresso. The last thing I did was to add a rhinestone to the snowflake. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Scentsational Season, Sweet Essentials; Paper- Pool Party, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Pool Party; Accessories- Holiday Collection framelits dies, rhinestone, dimensionals

Happy Hour Birthday

Good morning everyone! Well, I guess we have a sick child. He stayed home yesterday and slept the entire day! He woke up for a few hours in the evening to eat a little and then pretty much slept until we made him go back to bed. And that is where he's at right now. It seems to be in his head and his throat hurts and he complains of being achy. So sleep will be the best thing right now. And because he is staying home, I got to sleep in a little, too! Woohoo! I just don't want to get any of that!!

Last night I had stamp club with a bunch of very fun ladies! Love those girls!! Anyway, this is one of the cards we made. I had always liked this Happy Hour stamp set but didn't get it right away. Then it went on sale during the Holiday Extravaganza and I quickly ordered it! Also, I wanted to stay away from doing holiday cards at the workshop because of Christmas being so close. This set is very versatile and can be used for a number of different occasions. So this is a birthday card. I adhered several pieces of designer paper from the Festival of Prints pack onto a piece of Island Indigo and then adhered this to a card base of Sahara Sand. Then I stamped the glass in Island Indigo onto a piece of Very Vanilla. The umbrella is stamped in Cherry Cobbler and the greeting in Early Espresso. This is adhered to a piece of Early Espresso. A small piece of Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon is taped to the back side and then the panel is popped up onto the card. I added several rhinestones to the bubbles and then a bigger rhinestone is off to the side. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Happy Hour; Paper- Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Sahara Sand, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon, rhinestones, dimensionals

Snowflake Blessings

Good morning, Friends! Another week is here - ugh! I'm not ready (yes, I am whining - lol). But here it is. So I guess I will rejoice and be glad!! After I have some coffee and wake up a bit - lol! I am excited as I get my haircut and I have a workshop! That will be fun! Nick is sure acting like he is getting sick. Not cool! He has basketball tryouts this week. And with the end of the quarter coming up, he has a projects that need finishing and tests that need taking. I am hoping that he can make it all day. I know the crud is going around. Ugh!!

Today's card was inspired by one that I have saved on my Pinterest board. I stamped the sentiment from More Merry Messages in black StazOn onto Whisper White. Then I attached this to a piece of silver glimmer paper that was punched with the scallop edge border punch. This is popped up onto a card base of Wisteria Wonder that has a piece of Pool Party designer paper adhered to it. Then I cut two snowflakes using the Snow Flurry die - one from silver glimmer paper and one from Whisper White. I punched a hole through both and inserted a Pool Party brad. These are popped up onto the card.

Card Recipe: Stamps- More Merry Messages; Paper- Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, silver glimmer paper, In Color designer paper stack; Ink- black StazOn; Accessories- In Color brads, Snow Flurry die, scallop edge border punch, dimensionals

An Inspiring Day - Affection Collection

Good morning, Friends! Welcome to the RemARKably Inspiring blog tour! This month the RemARKable stampers group are going to show you all some great projects using the stamp set, Affection Collection. What a beautiful stamp set that is very versatile! I was excited to purchase this set but once I got it, I had some difficulty in trying to figure out how to use it - lol! I am more the clean and simple stamper and this set calls for the more shabby chic style. I love and very much respect those stampers who can easily do the shabby chic!! You all are my heroes!! So I went searching and studying the style of shabby chic. Then I went to work and this is what emerged! And I quite like it!

I took a piece of the First Edition designer paper and stamped images from the Affection Collection stamp set in black StazOn, Crumb Cake and Pool Party. Then I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and roughed up the edges with some tearing and distressing. This is adhered to a piece of Basic Black. Then I wrapped a piece of Victoria crochet trim around this that was tinted with some Crumb Cake ink and a sponge. I popped this up onto a card base of Crumb Cake that was also sponged with Crumb Cake ink. I stamped the banner in Pool Party onto Very Vanilla and cut it out. This is tucked under the bronze button that is tied with some linen thread. Then I stamped the "friend" in black StazOn onto Primrose Petals and punched it out with the Modern Label punch and sponged it with some Crumb Cake ink and popped it up onto the card. The last thing left to do was to add two pearls and call it done!

Time to send you on to the beautiful blog of Tamra Davis! I know you will be inspired by what she has to share! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Affection Collection; Paper- Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Primrose Petals; Ink- black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Pool Party; Accessories- Victoria crochet trim, linen thread, pearls, Modern Label punch, bronze button, linen thread, sponge, dimensionals

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Good morning, everyone! Oh it felt SO good to sleep in this morning! I know I am getting a much later start than usual but I so needed the sleep! I feel so rested and ready to start my day! And I do have a lot that I would like to do today!! I still need to get some more stamping done. So that is what I will probably focus on. Later this evening, Nick will have his first indoor soccer game. It's not really games that they do but rather just a chance to get out there and play. We will be going to Las Vegas in January for a tournament so that is something to look forward to!!

Today's card was inspired by last week's sketch from the Clean and Simple blog. I also tried to use some colors that I hadn't touched in quite a while. I took a piece of Whisper White and ran it through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry embossing folder. Then I adhered it to a strip of Chocolate Chip then to a piece of Pool Party that was punched with the scallop trim punch. Then I popped up the entire panel onto a card base of Chocolate Chip. I stamped the image from Snow Much Fun in black StazOn onto a piece of Whisper White and colored him in with Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party and Pumpkin Pie markers. I carefully cut him out and popped up onto the card. Then I stamped the sentiment in black StazOn onto a strip of Whisper White and flagged the end. This is tucked behind the image. The last thing I did was to add a few rhinestones to the snowflakes. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Snow Much Fun; Paper- Chocolate Chip, Pool Party, Whisper White; Ink- black StazOn, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip; Accessories- Northern Flurry embossing folder, scallop trim punch, rhinestones, dimensionals

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Good morning everyone! Thank goodness it's FRIDAY!! It's time for another challenge from the Sketch Frenzy Friday team. This week's sketch was created by Maria Vanderform. Take a look!

Pretty simple and straight forward. And I had fun creating with this one! Here is what I did with it!

I started out by stamping the greeting from More Merry Messages in black StazOn onto a piece of Always Artichoke. Then I tied a piece of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon around this and popped it up onto a card base of Always Artichoke. Then I stamped the image from Snow Much Fun in black StazOn onto a piece of watercolor paper and watercolored the image with a variety of ink pads and an aqua painter. Then I used the scallop edge border punch on the side. I adhered this to a piece of Cherry Cobbler and then popped this up onto the card. Finally I added a strip of champagne glimmer paper. 

For more inspiration visit the Sketch Frenzy Friday site to see what the other designers did with this sketch. I hope that you will play along with us! We always love to see what you do with our sketches! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- More Merry Messages, Snow Much Fun; Paper- Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, watercolor paper, champagne glimmer paper; Ink- black StazOn, Pool Party, Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso; Accessories- Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, scallop edge border punch, aqua painter, dimensionals

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Hello everyone! It's time for another Thursday challenge from the Create with Connie and Mary team! This week we have a sketch challenge! Take a look!

Such a fun sketch and I had a great time creating my card! I tried my very best to get away from the traditional Christmas colors and here is what I came up with!

I was still able to use the Festival of Prints and picked a fun print! So I started by adhering a piece of the Festival of Prints paper to a piece of Island Indigo and then tied a piece of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon around this. This panel is then popped up onto a card base of Crumb Cake. I punched a 1 3/4" circle from Crumb Cake and then ran it through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder. This is adhered to a 2 3/8" scallop circle of Cherry Cobbler. Then I used the Essential Paper Piercing pack and punched an outline around the Crumb Cake circle. This is popped up onto the card. Then I stamped the image from Scentsational Season in Early Espresso onto Very Vanilla and used the Holiday framelits dies to cut it out. This is popped up onto the circle. I stamped the greeting from More Merry Messages in Early Espresso onto a strip of Very Vanilla and flagged the end. I tucked the other end behind the image. Then I added a heart that was punched from Cherry Cobbler with the Owl builder punch and a little rhinestone.

Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to see what the other designers did with this fabulous sketch! I hope you get inspired and find some time to play along with us! We always love to see what you come up with! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Scentsational Season, More Merry Messages; Paper- Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- Early Espresso; Accessories- Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, Essentials Paper Piercing pack, Owl builder punch, rhinestone, dimensionals

CAS(E) This #7

Good morning, Friends! It was a little hard for me to get up this morning. I am looking forward to the weekend when I can sleep in a little! As I look forward to the weekend, I realize that I will be a little busy and I there are things that need to be done before that. So that means I had better get focused and make sure those things get done before that!! 

Today's card was inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch. I am too late to play along but I really liked how this card turned out! I actually tried an experiment! First I took a strip of Crumb Cake and used my Whisper White craft pad to swipe the edges. Then I adhered a strip of Island Indigo that had been punched with the scallop edge border punch. This is adhered to a card base of Crumb Cake. This I stamped the greeting from Snow Much Fun in black StazOn and added two strips of designer paper from the Festival of Prints (the bottom strip has a corner rounded). Then I stamped the image in black StazOn onto a scrap of Crumb Cake and used a blender pen to color him in. Here is my experiment... I used the blender pen with my Whisper White craft pad to color his body!! I really like the way it came out!! Probably not new to you all but I was excited!! Anyway, I used Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Pool Party and Pumpkin Pie to color him in. Then I carefully cut him out. He is popped up onto the card and a rhinestone is added to his hat. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Snow Much Fun; Paper- Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Pool Party Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White craft pad; Accessories- scallop edge border punch, corner rounder, blender pen, rhinestone, dimensionals

Festive Rejoice

Good morning, Friends! What a busy day yesterday turned into! I got a lot of laundry done and even some stamping and sewing. But I still have a lot to do!! And I am always finding more - lol! But at least our evenings are a little more calm at the moment. No sports activities for a while. We get to enjoy time together at home. I can definitely tell that Nick is restless - lol! 

Today's card was inspired by a card I saw on the Hero Arts blog. I thought the layout was fun. I seem to be using the more traditional Christmas colors for most of my Christmas cards. That's o.k. but I would like to try and change it up a bit. Might have to work on that this morning. For this card I took a piece of designer paper from the Festival of Prints pack and adhered two strips of Gumball Green that were punched with the dotted ribbon scallop punch. This panel is then adhered to a card base of Very Vanilla. Then I used the Apothecary Accents framelits dies to cut a piece of Cherry Cobbler and adhered this to the card. I stamped the sentiment from Rejoicing with You in Cherry Cobbler onto a piece of Very Vanilla and adhered this to the frame. Then I stamped the image in Cherry Cobbler onto Very Vanilla and cut it out. I popped this up onto the card. Finally, I added two pearls to the frame. Pretty simple!! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Rejoicing with You; Paper- Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- dotted ribbon scallop punch, Apothecary Accents framelits dies, pearls, dimensionals

Cocoa Cheer

Good morning, Friends! Well, I am not ready to start another week. It was really hard for me to get up this morning and it is really hard for me to keep my eyes open while typing this. But I must go on - lol! Lots to do today. Still need to keep sewing and then there is the endless pile of laundry. At least the Broncos won yesterday! That was fun!!

Today's card was inspired by one I had saved on my Pinterest board. A super clean and simple layout. Love it! I stamped the sentiment from Sweet Essentials in black StazOn onto a piece of Whisper White. Then I stamped the steam from the Scentsational Season in Sahara Sand. I rounded the top right hand corner with the 1 1/4" circle punch and tied a piece of Raspberry Ripple stitched satin ribbon around it. I used the scallop edge border punch to punch a strip of Old Olive and then adhered it to the back of the Whisper White panel. This panel is then popped up onto a card base of Whisper White. Then I stamped the cup in Raspberry Ripple onto a scrap of Whisper White and cut it out by hand. This is popped up onto the card and a rhinestone was added to the middle of the snowflake. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Sweet Essentials, Scentsational Season; Paper- Whisper White, Old Olive; Ink- Raspberry Ripple, black StazOn; Accessories- Raspberry Ripple stitched satin ribbon, scallop edge border punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, rhinestone, dimensionals

Noel Squares

Good morning everyone! I hope your weekend is shaping up to be a great one! Looks like another warm sunny day here. Normally that would make me happy (and it probably does for a lot of people around here) but my husband just showed me a picture of what one of our lakes looks like right now. NOT good!! You can walk right out into the middle of it! Yikes!! If we don't get a real winter around these parts we are going to be in a serious drought condition!! I am even afraid that our ski resorts are not going to have any snow for skiing. It's starting to get scary!! I really hope it snows a lot!!!

Lately I have been in a sort of creative slump. I have been doing so much sewing because I just haven't felt very creative. But I really needed to get some stamping done so I turned to my Pinterest boards and found a few to "alter". This is one of them. This didn't turn out quite like I had planned but it will work. I punched a strip of Cherry Cobbler with the dotted ribbon scallop punch and adhered it to the back of a piece of Crumb Cake. This is then adhered to a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I punched five Cherry Cobbler squares using the 1 3/8" square punch. To each of these I adhered squares of patterned paper from the Festival of Prints pack that were punched with the 1 1/4" square punch. These squares are popped up onto the card. Then I stamped the sentiment from Greetings of the Season in Cherry Cobbler. I added a star that was punched from champagne glimmer paper using the Merry Minis punch pack and put a pearl on top. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Greetings of the Season; Paper- Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Festival of Prints designer paper, champagne glimmer paper; Ink- Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- dotted ribbon scallop punch, 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch, Merry Minis punch pack, pearls, dimensionals

Happy Hour Christmas

Good morning everyone! And happy December! The last month of the year and only 24 more days till Christmas!! There is only two presents under our tree. Yikes! I had better get going if I plan to have something for everyone on my list - lol! Last night I worked on one of my gifts to some friends of ours. Not too much more and it will be done. I have four more in the works. And then there is all the shopping that must be done, too. Starts to add up and feel a little overwhelming. I need to remind myself to just enjoy each day as it comes. :)

Today's card was quickly made for posting purposes - lol! I had just gotten this stamp set, Happy Hour. It was on the Online Extravaganza that Stampin' Up! had last week. I had been wanting this set and thought it was a great time to get it at a discount! And it just came so I put this together using the card from page 178 of the catalog. I stamped the greeting from Happy Hour in black StazOn onto the printed paper from the Festival of Prints pack. And it is very hard to see, especially from the angle that the picture was taken. This is adhered to a card base of Very Vanilla. On top of this is a strip of Early Espresso that has the bottom flagged. Then I cut a piece of Very Vanilla using the Apothecary Accents framelits dies. I adhered a strip of champagne glimmer paper with both ends flagged to this and then popped up it up onto the card. I stamped the glass in Early Espresso onto Very Vanilla and cut it out. I popped this up onto the tag. I stamped the inside of the glass in Cherry Cobbler and cut this out. This is adhered to the glass. Then I used the Gumball Green and Cherry Cobbler markers to stamp the holly. I also cut this out and adhered it to the glass. Then I added a small rhinestone to the holly berry. Lots of cutting on this one but it did come together fairly quickly. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Happy Hour; Paper- Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, champagne glimmer paper, Festival of Prints designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green; Accessories- Apothecary Accents framelits dies, rhinestone, dimensionals