Button Buddies & Banner Greetings

Hello Stampers!  Happy Sunday Tuesday.  Well Stampers, my apologies for the delayed post, another weekend without internet access.  But I must say that with everything going on right now in our city, our state, our nation, not having internet access is the least of my worries.

We have a fun color challenge this week at Sunday Stamps and Hayley is our hostess.  A bright and cheerful color combo. Make sure you check out the creations from my fellow designers and of course we hope you have a chance to play along with us.

I love using the Button Buddies stamp set and can't believe it will already be retired. I especially love using our designer buttons with it  But I can tell you that the new redesigned buttons coming up in the new annual catalog are beautiful.  I did use a new hostess stamp set, Banner Greetings-which I love!  I know I'll be using it a lot.  Hard to tell in the photo but the sentiment reads "Thankful for you". 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope your week is great.  Until next time.

Crushed curry flowers...

Greetings fellow stampers!  Thanks for stopping by today, I'm hosting my first sketch challenge at Sunday Stamps this week. With spring in the air, my inspiration for my sketch was a flower planter. Although I sometimes joke that Phoenix only has two seasons, summer and hotter summer, lol.  It's been a warmer than usual weekend. Anyhow, as I mentioned last Sunday, Stampin' Up! is under going a color refresh by introducing 10 colors, some former InColors and a new color. That's on top of the five new InColors that will be introduced with the new catalog! Still with me? Okay, so I happen to still have my classic ink pads for several former InColors, which I was jumping for joy!

The flowers from the Button Buddies stamp set were inked in crushed curry. I love this color! It's a richer, bold yellow.  It might make me crave thai food more, pad thai anyone? The ribbon is retired from several catalogs ago but it worked out perfect for my card today. I used our early espresso designer buttons.

The butterfly is inked in bermuda bay, another returning InColor from past catalogs. Bermuda bay is a cooler blue, does the name take you away on vacation? I love the clever names Stampin' Up! has for our colors. 

So here is our sketch for this week. Make sure you check out the creations from my fellow designers here and I hope you play along with us. We love to see what you create. You have until Friday, April 19th at 6 pm to link up your project. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful Sunday!  Until next time.

Button Buddies Flower easel card

Happy Sunday Stampers!  Have you played along with us at Sunday Stamps yet? We have an awesome color challenge this week.  Melissa is our wonderful host and my fellow designers have created some beautiful creations.  Come check us out and play along with us!

When I saw Melissa's color challenge it took me awhile to think of how I wanted to use it.  Last Monday at our Shoebox Swap meeting I got a cool easel card from my fellow demo Becky and I wanted to try it out. I really like the flower stamp from the Button Buddies stamp set so I used to create a sunflower. I didn't use any ink pads for my card, just our Many Marvelous Markers!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a chance to create something this week!

Stamp Sets:  Button Buddies and Pretty Petites

Card Stock:  More Mustard, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Subtles DSP Stack

Other:  1/2 Scallop Dots Ribbon, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Neutrals Designer Buttons, Stampin' Dimensionals, Petite Curly Label punch

Freshly Made Sketches

Hi Stampers!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend!  I started my Christmas shopping yesterday but not quite done yet.  I have been watching the Hallmark channel as they have been showing Christmas movies all weekend.

Today I spent all day crafting and I had so much fun!  Tomorrow night we have our downline/upline meeting and we are swapping (of course) and we also have a secret handmade gift exchange.  The theme for the swapping is Valentine's or Friendship and I decided on Valentine's Day.  I came across the sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches blog challenge, you can see the other creations Here.  I didn't initially know which stamp set I wanted to use and as I was looking through my stamp I came across my favorite set, Button Buddies and the instant I saw the cherry stamp I knew what I wanted to create! I LOVE how it came out.

I looked through my Color Coach for a color scheme and it suggested I use Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette and Cherry Cobbler, except I changed out the Cherry Cobbler for Raspberry Ripple.  I used the white craft ink pad to sponge onto Raspberry Ripple.

You can see the details in the heart cherries and Wisteria Wonder better. I used the smallest heart of the hearts framelits as the cherries.  I hope my fellow demos like it.  It was a bit odd to be working on a Valentine's card while Christmas music was playing.

I initially used this sketch earlier this past week and I was going to submit it to two different blog challenges but I didn't have time to submit it. Same sketch just laid out differently. I used Midnight Muse and the silver glimmer paper.  I like this one too!  

Well friends, I better get going.  Hope you have sweet dreams and I'll be back to show you my swaps my team meeting tomorrow.  

Until next time.

Button Buddies Snowman

Hello again stampers!  Can't believe how quickly the day went today! I wanted to come home tonight and relax for a bit before I sat down to create, but my evening isn't going that route just yet.  By 6 pm it is already dark and mentally it feels like it is later in the evening so it just throws me off.

So here is another Christmas card I made.  Do you have own the Button Buddies stamp set? I love the variety of images in the set.  Mr. Snowman looks so much better with a button, doesn't he? And using the glitter paper is less messy when you want to create a quick card. Even on this card I used my paper piercing template again.  

My friend love the handmade birthday card I made for her last night.  But sometimes I find that once I'm done creating a card, I'm at a loss for words.  Does that ever happen to you? I look at the space available inside the card to write something and I don't know where to begin.  So the other day, we were at Barnes and Noble (seems there aren't many local bookstores anymore) and I came across this small and simple book.  I picked it up and started reading a few pages and immediately knew I had to have it! It is filled with many special messages to inspire or jump start your writing.  It will go hand-in-hand with my hand made cards.  Check it out if you have a moment.

Now that my creative juices are flowing I'm excited because I have several handmade projects I need to complete this.  Once I finish them, I'll take photos so that I can show you.  

Hope you have a wonderful evening.  Thanks again for stopping by.