Wow! What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon – with several of your stampin’ friends! I hosted an Open House / catalog launch party or huge garage sale with benefits Sunday and it was amazing!!! You have to have make’n takes and a cute bag to carry them in! I love how this… [Read More]
Kre8tors Blog Hop – June Dads & Grads
Happy Open House day! Lol! And, happy blog hop day! Our theme this month is dads and grads! Since I’ve made a few graduation cards, I’ll go with one for dad. Father’s Day is just a week away! I started by die cutting the Happy Father’s Day from Word Wishes Dies in Mossy Meadow. I… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Masculine Card
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features a masculine style card! Since Father’s Day is about a week away, I went with a card for dad using some new products! I am loving this Woven Heirlooms Bundle along with the Woven Threads Designer Paper. It is neat… [Read More]
Blogging Friends Blog Hop – Favorite New Catalog Product
Happy Friday! Having so much fun playing with new Stampin’ Up! stuff since the catalog went live on the 4th! Have you seen it??? We all decided to share our favorites so far for a blog hop! I went with something fun using the Dino Days bundle – Aren’t these the cutest??? This little guy,… [Read More]
Essence of Difficulty
Happy Thursday! Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I am excited to be playing with new, gorgeous Designer Series Paper for this – Initially, when I designed this card, my sentiment was larger. It covered up this beautiful flower on this Perennial Essence Designer Series… [Read More]
We Create – Basics Blog Hop
Welcome to my second blog hop for the day! Theme this month is neutral colors. I’ve been seeing several cards made using Press’n Seal, I think they are called floating cards. I decide to try it using new products and my own version of the technique – I created my version by stamping, coloring with… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Congratulations
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features any card celebrating graduation, weddings, or anything BIG! I needed a few grad cards, so I went with Graduation – The Silver Foil letters are the retiring, Large Letters Framelits. And, guess what? They are on sale!!! The Broadway Bound… [Read More]
Tropical Style Love & Thanks
Happy Thursday! Welcome to our newest Create with Connie and Mary challenge – How about some colors to inspire you? These colors have a tropical feel to them! Perfect for the Tropical Chic bundle! I used the Stamparatus to make the repetitive lines on the Pumpkin Pie. I stamped the image in one direction. There… [Read More]
Birthday Shares
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our newest two week challenge – Optional Theme : Pastels I got this! I paired this soon to retire Share What You Love Designer Series Paper with the Cake Builder punch to create this quick and easy elegant birthday card – I was running wayyy late last week… [Read More]
Compassion for Cranston
Happy Sunday! I whipped up this card for our vet and their office staff. Our newest cat, Cranston, Mr C, has been really sick since we got him. And, we are saddened to hear he probably won’t get better. They are soo caring towards him and us at our vets office. I just couldn’t help… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Blue Morning / Blue Day
Happy Saturday! Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of blue. I pulled out the Stamparatus again to play with a repetitive stamp design – Actually, two! I have started pulling the Stamparatus out a lot lately! It saves on wasting nice card stock, most of… [Read More]
Best Route Birthday
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I had so much fun with this sketch! The base is Mango Melody, such a fun, bright color! The pattern paper, or Designer Series paper is the soon to retire, Best Route. Such nice, masculine colors in this paper…. [Read More]
Broadway Bound with Birthday Blooms
Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is out latest two week challenge – Optional Theme : Brown Paper Bag Fail. I didn’t use any brown paper bag. I did however turn the sketch on the side and use bold and bright colors, totally opposite of a brown bag!!! This is a wonderfully cheery, fun, perfect… [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of yellow. I decided to play with some new Designer Series Paper, Mosaic MoodSpecialty, that will be available June 4th. It’s soooo pretty. It was just too pretty to cover up! And, the mosaic pattern reminded me of a… [Read More]
with Sympathy
Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – When I saw these colors, I thought they were very serene, which sparked a sympathy card – I was amazed at the fact I placed the sentiment on the Stamparatus exactly next to the ‘flourish’! So, I have… [Read More]
Hello, Magnolia
Happy Tuesday Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our latest two-week challenge – Optional Theme : Texture Well…..I forgot to add texture other than what is in the pattern of the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper – Beautiful, right? This is a new suite of products called, Magnolia Lane. I stamped the magnolia bud from the… [Read More]
May Techniques Kre8tors Blog Hop
Happy Mother’s Day! I am so excited to be part of this blog hop on such a wonderful today! Our theme this month is techniques. Quite a broad theme! I love it! I combined a few things today creating this purrrfect card – Ok, let’s see the card without paws! Let’s start with the sentiment…. [Read More]
Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Purple Rain
Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features shades of purple. Great colors to show off this new To a Wild Rose stamp set – This Purple Posy flower is sooo gorgeous!!! I made it simple here, but it also has two additional stamps to create depth and… [Read More]
