Sunday Stamps Hostess

Happy Sunday Stampers!  I'm hosting my first challenge at Sunday Stamps this week! I hope you can play along with us, we love to see what you create! Our Design Team has awesome creations to share with you, so join us!

This week I have a color challenge.  These colors are the colors of my craft room, or at least I made myself stick to three main colors.  Daffodil Delight makes me happy, it motivates me to create.

I have a quick disclaimer before I talk about my project for this week.  The black frame and "K" shaped chipboard are not Stampin' Up! WHAT!  I know, I know, but everything else is.

I've been  collecting "K"s to display in my room and I had this idea to frame a letter K. So I covered the K with one of our basic black polka dot sheet from the Neutrals DSP stacks.  Then using our basic black 1/8 taffeta ribbon I piped the sides of the K. Notice the daffodil delight chevrons?  It's from our Essentials Designer Fabric pack. I also used it to make a yo-yo flower with it, from our 3 1/2 circle die.   Then I stacked some of our Designer Buttons in basic black, daffodil delight and whisper white. I really like how this came out, quick home decor project.

So what's up with my name? My name is very personal to me.  Even though it's spelled like Kathy with an "a" at the end, I don't like it when people call me Kathy, that's not my name.  It's pronounced as if it was spelled ka-ti-a, Katia.  I've been told it's a popular Russian name, but as far as I know, I'm not Russian and I don't have any Russian ancestry. Wanna know how I got my name?  My mom named me after a popular character in a Mexican novela (soap opera). If you ever seen a novela, they are very dramatic and they all have the same story line; peasant girl falls in love with rich boy, parents don't approve, etc. etc. I often tell my friends that they don't need to watch novelas, real life is a novela happening everyday! Anyhow, that's the story on my first name. Now my middle name, that's even harder to say than my first name.  You don't even want to know about my last name! 

That's all for now, thanks so much for stopping by.  Make some time to create something beautiful this week.  Until next time.

Fab Friday!

Greetings Stampers!  We made it to Friday!  Yay!  It's been a great week but I'm looking forward to the weekend.  So today I have another entry to a blog challenge, this time the Fab Friday blog and they have a color challenge. I dusted off my Papaya Collage stamp set for this card, I think this is the first time I inked up the frame. The base of the card is whisper white and I layered it with perfect plum.  Using my paper snips I cut the frame out and colored in the filigree with perfect plum too.  The butterfly from the SAB set Bloomin' Marvelous is inked in baja breeze, but it's hard to see.  I also punched out one butterfly with bitty butterfly punch-love it! And look, didn't even know (ok, I forgot) I had wild wasabi ribbon!   I tell 'ya, still lots of new stuff for me to play with! Even the designer builder brad is new!

I also have to share this photo with you, we had irrigation yesterday and my two merles got really muddy. Azul (Blue) on the left is the dad, he is my oldest at 10 years old and a blue merle Australian Shepherd and Mija (my little girl) on the right is his daughter and she is a red merle. She is six years old and my baby girl. Just like her daddy! Oh they got so dirty but they had fun. I didn't care, they still came inside the house, well they always do. I'll show you photos of my other two doggies in another post. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you've enjoyed my ramblings this week. Have a fantastic Friday!  Until next time!

Vintage Verses

Hello Stampers! How's your week going?  We got lots of rain in Phoenix yesterday, which is always good, we need it!  So I've been playing with some other new items from the Spring catalog.  Impulse buying applies to stamping stuff, right?  Well, technically, I received the white creped filter paper free from Stampin' Up! as part of a promotion, except I don't remember why.  Hmm...anyhow, I had this paper sitting around my room and so glad I finally decided to play with it. I've seen various flowers made with this paper and I wanted to try it out.  A huge thanks to fellow demo Patty Bennett for her instructions on creating this flower. I couldn't create just one, but two!

I used three different punches for my flower. The 1 1/4 scallop circle, 1 3/4 scallop circle and the 2 3/8 scallop circle. The trick to using the creped filter paper with our punches-use copy paper to punch out your shape one at a time. The filter paper is really thin.  I punched out each shape four times and then crumpled it up to give it texture. Then I spritz some vanilla shimmer smooch spritz onto the paper for a slight shimmer effect. 

OMG, I'm hooked!  You can dye, sponge, stamp on this paper, even use with your Big Shot but for these flowers, I like them in white. See why I couldn't just make one flower!  Paired with the Sycamore Street dsp from SAB and coordinating ribbon and the Vintage Verses stamp set, y ya (just like that) you have a completed card.  Oh, another first for me, using Sahara Sand card stock. Love it!  

Well friends, thanks so much for stopping by.  Let me know what you think of the flower or if you have played with our white creped filter paper.  Until next time.

Oh, Hello...

Welcome back stampers!

Create with Connie and Mary is already on Week 4 and the designers have created amazing projects!  I made some time to create something for the current challenge on the blog.  When I first saw this color challenge, the Not Quite Navy color threw me off.  This is my first time EVER creating with this color, not sure why, but glad I finally created with it. With over 40 exclusive Stampin' Up! colors, plus In-Colors, sooner or later, I'm bound to use each color at least once.

I did play with some new stamping toys while creating this card.  The most exciting part of this card for me, cutting fabric with our Dress Up Framelits! Oh my gosh, fabric, the possibilities!   This daffodil delight chevron pattern is from the Essentials Designer Fabric pack.  Our 1/4 stitched grosgrain ribbon makes a perfect belt for the dress. I also used our seam binding ribbon to create the ruffled ribbon border on the oval but I need more practice doing this. The fold on the card is called double dutch fold and I found the tutorial here from Splitcoast Stampers.

So what do you think of the color combo? Not bad huh!  You can see other designs with this combo here. Well friends that's all for now. Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you are creating something this week. Until next time.

Missing You...

Welcome back stampers!  Hope you had a wonderful Monday!  I'm back today with another creation for a blog challenge!  Having the day off yesterday really helped me to get a jump start on crafting.  I also got a lot of chores done.

I created this card for another Dynamic Duos challenge.  I had this idea in my head for awhile, so when I saw the color scheme for this week's challenge, I knew I had to spend some time creating it.

Even though it is retired, I used the Smooch pearlized top coat to color in the clouds. The sentiment is from the stamp set For the Birds and I punched it out with the small heart punch. The nest and tree branch is from the stamp set Take Care. So have you gotten the cloudy day embossing folder yet? No? What are you waiting for!  With spring right around the corner, this is a great embossing folder to have. 

Well, I better get going.  Thanks again for stopping by! Until next time.

Stampin' Royalty Challenge

Hello Stampers!  If you have today off for President's Day, hope you are enjoying your day.  I'm multi-tasking today, doing chores around the house, cleaning my craft room and creating.  I also spent a little bit of time looking at blog challenges.  I came across this color challenge from Stampin' Royalty and I knew I had to play along.  Love these three colors together! Remember this card? Well I couldn't use the same card since the colors were similar, so I made a new one.

It's amazing how many different ways you can use the background stamp, Swallowtail from the Spring Catalog.  Have you tried the triple time stamping technique?  I tried it with this stamp and I like the effect.  I inked it with melon mambo and then colored it in with daffodil delight.  Using our color spritzer tool with our daffodil delight and melon mambo markers it created a nice splash of color in the background. I kept the color theme going with our 2 1/2 scallop dots melon mambo ribbon, a daffodil delight designer button and our jewelry tag punch with the sentiment from Tiny Tags. This was a fun challenge for me, one that I know I'll use again.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

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!