Halloween Boo!

Hello Stampers....happy Wednesday!

Am I excited to share with you today! These week at Dynamic Duos the color challenge has a dessert option of Halloween! Even though my Halloween decorations are not up (yet), Halloween is on my mind with the various Halloween cards I've been making lately.

So you ask, what you are excited to share? Well, exciting for me because I found a different way to use one of my Tags 4 You stamp set, the Trick of Treat one.  I love how the Morning Post Alphabet works great with the Label Bracket punch! YAY!  I know, wow, big deal, lol, but when it comes to stamping supplies, finding a different way to use my tools is a big highlight. So now, I have four more designs that I can use with that stamp set! 

I kept the front design of my card simple. What no ribbon, buttons, bling? Nope, just a simple BOO will do...

...because the inside of my card is the scariest! Watch out for the ghost! Well maybe it's not so scary after all.

Thanks for stopping by today and entertaining my excitement! Until next time!  

Magnificent Maple

Happy Tuesday fellow Stampers!  Time for a new Nacho Average Challenge!  Thanks to you who played along, great creations ladies. This week we have an awesome color challenge.  I think the colors evoke the feeling of fall, what do you think?  If you haven't had a chance to play along with us, I invite you to play along.  You can check us out here!

Stamp Sets: Magnificent Maple, A Fitting Occasion and Oh, Hello

Ink: Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, Island Indigo and VersaMark 

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz

Other:  1 1/4" scallop punch, 1" circle punch, Ovals Collection and Apothecary Accents framelits, Regals Designer Button (Island Indigo), Tea Lace Paper Dollies, 3/4" Chevron Ribbon and Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack. 

Thanks for stopping by, until next time. 

Sneak Peek...New Hostess Set

Hello Stampers!  Hope your week is going great!  I'm so excited to share with you tonight a sneak peek of an upcoming hostess stamp set, Banner Greetings. I'm going to love this set!  It'll be featured in the upcoming 2013-2014 Annual Catalog. As I have mentioned before, banners continue to be popular. When I saw this sentiment I couldn't wait to pair it with the current Make a Cake stamp set!

I saw this sketch from The Paper Players and I wanted to play along.  This is such a cute sketch! Make sure you check out the creations from the design team members. I think I will use it for other cards.

As I was creating this card I was thinking of my dear cousin Zoraima, she and her husband are expecting their second child and they are having a girl! Congrats cousin!  They currently live in Seoul but will be coming home for the summer soon. I hope she likes it. 

The base of my card is Pink Pirouette and I layered it with Primose Petals. The Pretty In Pink DSP is from the Subtles paper stack. I love pairing Early Espresso with any of our pinks.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fantastic Friday! Until next time.

Oh, Hello...Thanks so much

Good morning Stampers!  Sorry my post is up late today, was having problems with our internet during the weekend. But all is good now.  Holly is our host this week at Sunday Stamps and she has a fun sketch for us.  I had so much fun using this sketch because banners continue to be popular in paper crafting. Make sure you check out the beautiful creations from my fellow design team members to inspire you.

I love the Oh, Hello stamp set from the current Spring catalog.  I haven't been playing with it as much but now I know I will be well past May 31 (wink, wink). With the Color Refresh that Stampin' Up! introduced, Perfect Plum is now in the regals color family instead of the subtles. I paired it with Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple (2012-2014 InColor) and Very Vanilla.  I love this color combo!  

I used the chevron stamp to create one of my banners. The other two were created using the subtles Designer Series Paper Stack.  I cut out the rose and popped the top part of the rose with the Stampin' Dimensionals.

I hope you have a chance to play along with us this week, we love to see what you create. Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your Sunday is a great one! Until next time. 

A challenge to myself...

Hello Stampers!  I had such a fun day yesterday! I attended the annual Spring Fling event that my uplines Diana Gibbs and Rhonda Morgan organize.  It was a packed day, full of inspiration, catching up with friends and learning new crafting tricks! I'll share with you photos of what we created later on.

So have you seen the awesome creations this week at Sunday Stamps? They are beautiful! You still have time to play along, so join us! I'm already inspired by the creations by our design team! So I got to thinking, since I picked this color combo for the week, what if I use it to create all week long? Hmm, now that would be a challenge for me! Could I stand up to the challenge? I hope I can.

So today, I created another card using this color combo. One day down! I used the new stamp set Oh, Hello from the spring catalog. It's such a fun set. This was a simple card to put together. Used my paper piercer again and I even decorated the inside of it.

Wish me luck friends, hopefully I can rise to the challenge for myself. If you've challenged yourself creatively, let me know what you've done! Thanks so much for stopping by. Until next time.

Sunday Stamps

Hello Stampers!  Happy Sunday to you!  We have another great challenge for you at Sunday Stamps this week!  Hayley is our host and she has a fun sketch for us!  So what are you waiting for, come play with us!

I really like the Sycamore Street DSP from Sale-a-Bration (SAB) this year.  Such wonderful colors.  This is a z-fold card and the base of the card is island indigo, layered with whisper white.  I used several items from the SAB catalog.  The ribbon and button pack includes three spools of island indigo, pool party and tangerine tango and it has a beautiful satin feel to it.  The colors of the buttons are pool party, tangerine tango and rich razzelberry. The summer starfruit butterflies are from the Bloomin' Marvelous stamp set.

From the Spring Catalog I used our new Ovals Collection framelits.  I love that there is a new paper-piercing pack, the Occasions set.  You've probably noticed I like to do a lot of paper-piercing on my projects.  The bitty butterfly punch coordinates with the butterfly from the SAB Bloomin' Marvelous stamp set.  Gotta love product coordination.

From our Annual Catalog I used the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes set, a must have for various sentiments. The little girl is from the Lean on Me stamp set, which I received at the SU! Convention is 2011 while attending Hispanic Night. While my set is in Spanish and I ink the part of the stamp set I want to use.  I paper-pieced her dress with a small strip of the SAB Sycamore Street dsp.  I also used the Modern Label and Word Window punches and pearl basic jewels, on the butterflies. In case you didn't know, using the Blush Blossom Stampin' Write Marker is perfect for coloring in flesh tones on stamped images.

Well friends, that's all I have for now.  Thanks again for stopping by.  Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!  Until next time!