Take Care...Monday

Happy Monday Stampers! Can't believe this is the last week of May! By Monday next week a new Stampin' Up! catalog will be live and everyone will be able to order from it! So many wonderful new things in it! It's going to be a fun Stampin' Up! catalog year!

The designers at Stampin' Celebration have a great sketch that inspired me to create today.  And this week, the designers at The Friday Mashup! have a great theme-creating a project with trees and/or heat or dry embossing.

Here is how I combined both blog challenges into one card: 

Other than the Whisper White card stock, Baked Brown Sugar ink pad and Banner Punch, everything I used on my card is retiring.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Stop by tomorrow as I share a new creation featuring a new Nacho challenge!

Freshly Made Sketches!

Hello Stampers! Happy Wednesday my friends, hope your week is going well.  Hopefully no one played a April Fools trick on you yesterday!

The Designers at Freshly Made Sketches have a new sketch starting today! When I visited their website this morning it motivated me to create as soon as I got home! Ever have that feeling where you just want to get home as quickly as possible to spend time doing what you love? Well that was me today. I'm glad I did, almost felt like I could stay up all night creating...but this nagging thing called "chores" was calling me, lol.

Anyhow, this is the sketch for the week. Hope you get a chance to check them out and play along!

With the upcoming new 2014-2015 Annual Stampin' Catalog coming soon, several stamp sets and accessories will of course be retiring! Which I thought, I better start taking inventory of my current stamp sets, tools and accessories. OH.MY.GOODNESS!! I have a lot of stuff! Lol. So I'm going to challenge myself to start using more of my stuff before I buy more! So...when I started creating my card for the blog challenge, I decided to create two cards following the same sketch, just switch things up a bit. 

I needed to make some masculine "Thank You" cards, so this is what I came up with:

I also decorated my envelopes, with DSP! Ever hold on to a piece of DSP because it's so pretty? Well, I tend to do that, but then I get stuck with retired DSP. Might as well use it and share the paper love, no?

Thanks for visiting my blog today! Hope you will come back and visit again. 

Blooming with...Nacho Color!

Happy Tuesday Stampers! Hope the week is going well for you. We have another fun new color challenge for you at Nacho Average Challenges. Lots of inspiration from the Design Team with this color combo. We hope you will play along with us.

I wouldn't normally combine these colors so I was stumped for a bit.  As I viewed various challenge blogs, I came across the sketch from Create with Connie and Mary and inspiration hit!

I really like the sketch because it is a unique way to use DSP as layers on the front of your card. I find myself layering my cards the same way each time so this was a nice change.

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time.

New Sunday Stamps Sketch!

Hello Stampers! Hope you are all doing well!  So sorry I'm late for our Sunday Stamps blog challenge, which started yesterday.  Did you hear the news, our challenges are now open for two weeks and we have two new designers, Marie and Brenda! So more time to play along and more inspiration from our designers!

So for the next two weeks, Holly has an awesome sketch for us!  Love the banners! Hope you have a chance to play along.

I used various sheets from the Epic Day This and That DSP. The base of my card is Basic Gray and I layered Pool Party onto it.  I created the banners using the Crumb Cake washi tape.  The flower is from a new stamp set called Flower Shop and it has a coordinating punch!  You can purchase both as bundle and save 15%. I embossed it with our white embossing powder onto the Calypso Coral cardstock. I layered it onto Daffodil Delight and then onto the large scallop circle punch.

The sentiment "Best Day Ever" is from the This and That Rotary Stamp. Lot of options with that one!

Thanks so much for stooping by. I have some exciting personal news to share with you, just need to get it all set up in my blog post.  I'm excited to share it with you. Until next time. 

A Round Array...K is for...

Hello Stampers!  Happy Tuesday! How's your week going?  I have a new creation to share with you today.  Last night I attended our sideline Shoebox Swap.  The theme for our cards was using new stamp sets from the upcoming 2013-2014 Annual Catalog.

I got the inspiration for my card from Christy Fulk, a fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator. She created this card using the A Round Array set and I asked her if I could CASE (Copy And Share Everything) it for my meeting.  I changed mine up a bit but similar concept.  Thanks Christy for allowing me to CASE it, I love it!

I had to create 21 of these cards. The base of the card is Pool Party layered with Basic Gray. I created another layer by using the Honeycomb Embossing Folder on Daffodil Delight with the Epic Day This and That DSP.  I love the all the colors in that collection.  The K is for Kindness sentiment is popped up with a stamping dimensional. Glad Gumball Green will still be around for another year because the 3/8 stitched satin ribbon is lovely! 

Oh my gosh, did you ever see the movie, "Crazy, Stupid, Love"? I LOVE it! I can watch it over and over!  And Ryan Gosling is super hot in it! What do you think? LOL. 

Anyhow, thanks so much for stopping by!  Until next time.

A first "Chic Challenge"...

Hello Stampers! Happy Wednesday. Hope your week is going well.  I'm trying to get my blog mojo back and blogging more consistently. I came across a cool sketch from following Erica Cerwin's Art Inspiration Pinterest board. It then lead to a new blog challenge site called Chic Challenges and I recognize some of the design team members. Check out their creations here. I knew I wanted to play along!

So this is my take on their sketch.  I love the way it turned out. I'm loving the current Epic Day This and That bundle, especially the washi tape!! So glad Stampin' Up! is offering this. The designs from the designer series paper are so fresh! I love it! Combining it with items from the Spring Catalog is so much fun right now!

The Epic Day This and That has a vintage feel to it so I sponged a lot of crumb cake onto the very vanilla, calypso coral, pool party-well everywhere!  I also used a new stamp set that will be featured in the new 2013-2014 Annual Catalog, it's called A Round Array! It is the cutest stamp set and it coordinates with the 7/8 scallop punch. You can purchase the new stamp set right now until May 30, 2013.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I love reading your comments so let me know what you think about the new upcoming products.  Until next time my stamping friends! 

Kindness Matters

Hello Stampers!  I'm super excited to share with you my creation for our Sunday Stamps challenge this week.  Hayley is our host this week and she has a cool sketch for your inspiration.  This is a fun sketch to show off some of your favorite dsp. Come and play along with us this week and check out what my fellow Sunday Stamps designers have created.

Are you scratching your head trying to figure which current dsp this is? Well, it's not in the current annual catalog or the spring catalog because it's a new product line that will debut in the new 2013-2014 Annual Stampin' Up! Catalog. So excited, it's from the new line called This and That and you can purchase the entire bundle now until April 30th.  If you purchase it now, you save 15% off the entire bundle. So don't miss out.  You can shop directly from my online store. I love the colors in this collection. I can't believe that in just two months we'll have a brand new catalog with all new dsp collections.

Another cool thing that is brand new is the washi tape, I used the crumb cake one. It's so fun to use and it was easy to create the ruffles with it. You get 3 different colors for less than $5! Check out this cool video showcasing more products from this bundle.

Item	Description	Price
131268	Epic Day This and That Journal	$10.95
130814	Epic Day This and That Designer Series Paper	$10.95
130133	Remember This and That Rotary Stamp	$5.95
131271	Epic Day This and That Designer Stickers	$4.95
131269	Epic Day This and That Designer Washi Tape	$4.95
133350	Epic Day This and That Bundle Includes the five This and That products listed above. Only available in a bundle until April 30.	$32.08 15% Off Retail Value!

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Hope you have a wonderful Sunday in the company of friends and family. Until next time.