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Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Yellow Submarine

April 10, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week features all yellow cards!

Oh how fun!!! Monochromatic cards are a favorite of mine!

How about this sweet number –

And the inside detailing –

I used the soon-to-retire, Stitched be Mine Dies* to create the scalloped stitched border!

I used the Playing With Patterns* Designer Series Paper for the outside and turned it around for the inside!

The fun, bold sentiment comes from the also, soon-to-retire, Ridiculously Awesome* stamp set –

A bunch of great retiring products created this simply adorable, meaningful card!

What do you think of it?

Go forward to check out Debbie Henderson, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great projects to inspire us!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Ridiculously Awesome*
Dies / Embossing – Stitched be Mine Dies*
Card Stock – Very Vanilla
Ink – Crushed Curry
DSP – Playing With Patterns*
Other – Playing With Patterns Resin Dots

A Thousand Hugs

April 9, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge!

Here is our newest color challenge to inspire you –

Lovely, fresh spring colors!

As I was looking through my stamps for inspiration, I ran across an old favorite of mine, Abstract Impressions. It’s great for simple stamping –

I just loved playing with these colors and stamping. I stamped both the flowers and the greenery twice after inking up. I adds a lot of dimension and different shades by doing do this.

The sentiment is also from the same stamp set. Perfect as we deal with all this quarantining.

I finished off the card with a strip of Poppy Parade die cut using the Stitched Be Mine Dies.

I debated about the twine. It’s retired, but really tied the colors together, no pun intended.

Check out the Design Team creations on our Create with Connie and Mary blog.

Create a card using our challenge and you can post it on our Facebook page.

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Abstract Impressions
Dies / Embossing – Stitched Be Mine Dies
Card Stock – Whisper White, Poppy Parade
Ink – Garden Green, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry
Other – Silver Foil Edged Cards & Envelopes, retired

Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop – Luck of the Irish

March 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Happy Saturday and the first of two hops!!

This is for Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week features an all green card!

I had a lot of fun creating this card for you today –

It is soo festive!

I started with these beautiful die cuts from Birthday Jubilee Dies in Call Me Clover.

I decided they looked great on Whisper White, then in turn, on a Soft Sea Foam base.

Now, to look festive, I created the clover using hearts from the Stitched be Mine Dies.

My favorite part of the card is this wonderful sentiment! It’s from the Thanks For the Laughs.

I hope I have inspired you to create something fun and festive this weekend!

Check out the other wonderful creations from our Design Team. Going forward, Debbie Henderson, and back to Mary Brown. I know they’ll have some great projects to inspire us!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Thanks For the Laughs
Dies / Embossing – Birthday Jubilee, Dies, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Layering Circles Dies
Card Stock – Soft Sea Foam, Call Me Clover, Whisper White, Gold Foil
Ink – Call Me Clover
Punches – 2″ Circle
Other – White Baker’s Twine

Kre8tors Blog Hop – Green Monochromatic

March 8, 2020 · 36 Comments

Hello stampers! Feeling green today with our fabulous blog hop?

This is our inspirational picture and colors to create from –

What great colors! I just love a good shade of green!

Probably my favorite, and soon to retire, green from Stampin’ Up! is Call Me Clover. It made for such a lovely card –

I paired the Call Me Clover Blends with this new Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper, Flowering Foils Specialty Paper. I colored every other ‘stripe’, then drew a line with the darker shade going the other way to look like a plaid.

I used Soft Sea Foam as my base, my other favorite green!

I stamped the quirky sentiment from the Thanks For The Laughs stamp set on a Stitched Rectangle Die.

The ‘clover’ was created from small scalloped hearts in the Stitched be Mine Dies.

This is just soo sweet! And, green!

Please check out the others on our hop! Comments are always loved!

Melissa Tennison (USA)

Tracie St-Louis – Canada

Margriet Siekman (NL)

Rebecca-Jo Unwin- Australia

Annette Elias-De Kijkkast

Anastasia Radloff

Rochelle Laird-Smith (Australia)

Cheryl Hamilton

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Thanks For The Laughs
Dies / Embossing – Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched be Mine Dies
Card Stock – Soft Sea Foam, Call Me Clover, Whisper White, Copper Foil
Ink – Call Me Clover
DSP – Flowering Foils Specialty
Punches – Starburst
Other – Copper / Whisper White Baker’s Twine (Paper Pumpkin?)

Love You, Scraps

February 11, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday!

Here is our latest two-week challenge –

Optional Theme : Use up your scraps

I love this idea of using scraps! I have a desk full of them, because, I just might need them no matter how small they are! Lol!

…..and use scraps is just what I did!

From My Heart Designer Series Paper was my go-to here. I have lots of scraps from using up almost 2 packages of this lovely paper!

I placed all those scraps on a gold and white piece from the Golden Honey Designer Series Paper. I lined then up darker on the bottom to lighter towards the top.

The focal heart and the smaller white and gold heart were ones on my desk that I didn’t use on another project. They are both from the Stitched Be Mine Dies.

I didn’t have to stamp anything as I used words from the Well Written Dies! Yes, those were on my pile too!

So i wonder what kind of scraps our Design Team has laying around and made cards with?? See those on our Try Stampin’ on Tuesday blog or Facebook page. You can also use some of your scraps play along with our challenge too!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Dies / Embossing – Stitched Be Mine Dies, Well Written Dies
Card Stock – Flirty Flamingo, Real Red
DSP – From My Heart, Golden Honey
Other – Heart Epoxy Droplets

Kre8tors Blog Hop – Love / Roamance

February 9, 2020 · 23 Comments

Hello Sunday! Perfect day for a blog hop today!

Our theme this month is love / romance.

So, I got the love going here –

Maybe not so much romance, but, definitely the love!

Either way, just adorable! I had this meerkat image colored and cut just sitting on my desk….begging to be used. So I did!

I used a generous piece of From My Heart Designer Series Paper on a Blushing Bride base.

I added the focal point on a Blushing Bride Stitched So Sweetly Rectangle.

The large heart from the Stitched Be Mine Dies work great to highlight this gang of meerkats. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

What do you think? Adorable or what?

Check out all the others on the hop!We’ll have some great things to share!

Melissa Tennison (USA)

Sue Allen (Australia)

Sue McDonald

Deb Naylor Flying Stamper (USA)

Ximena Morales @ Stampin’Xime

Jo Blackman

Alexandra Rauf

Annette Elias-De Kijkkast-NL

Janey Backer (USA)

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – The Gang’s All Meer
Framelits – Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Stitched Be Mine Dies
Card Stock – Blushing Bride, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink – Black Memento
DSP – From My Heart
Other – Crumb Cake Blends

Joy of Sets – Love Is in the Air

February 8, 2020 · 25 Comments

Welcome to our February hop!

Our theme this month is of course, L O V E !

I went with a favorite of mine, gnomes!

I made a smaller, lovelier version of this one. See how cute this one is –

I used the From My Heart Designer Series paper for most of this card.

This little lovely guy is on one of the scalloped Stitched Be Mine Dies. Also, a favorite die set of mine!

This little gnome was created using several unconventional products :

body – Layering Ovals Dies
beard – Tropical Dies
Nose – Dog Builder
Hat – Tulip Builder

Pretty nifty, huh? He is just filled with love!

I used a punched heart from the same Designer Series Paper for the sentiment. The Heartfelt Bundle came in handy when creating this card!

I’d love to read you comments about him!

Check out the others on the hop today! Some wonderful creations this month!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Heartfelt
Dies / Embossing – Stitched Be Mine Dies, Layering Ovals Dies, Tropical Dies
Bundle – Heartfelt
Card Stock – Real Red, Whisper White, Blushing Bride
Ink – Basic Gray
DSP – From My Heart
Punches – Tulip Builder, Heart Punch Pack
Other –

Better Than Candy

February 4, 2020 · 2 Comments

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Tuesday!

Here is our latest 2 week challenge –

Optional theme : Stitching

I had to think about this challenge……but, not for long as this is what I came up with –

So sweet. So full of love!

I used the From My Heart Designer Series Paper as my starting point on a Whisper White base. The paper does cover the entire front of the card.

I chose a fun sentiment because it added to the whimsy of the card. It is just fun!

And, I managed to get the ‘stitching’ theme into the card!

Check out out the other Design Team cards on our Try Stampin’ on Tuesday blog or Facebook page. You will be soo inspired!

You can also play along with our challenge and show us your cards on either site. We love to see your designs!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Heartfelt
Dies / Embossing – Stitched Be Mine Dies (scallop strip), Stitched So Sweetly Dies (rectangle)
Card Stock – Whisper White (base), Flirty Flamingo
Ink – Basic Gray
DSP – From My Heart

We Create – New Year New Products

January 1, 2020 · 2 Comments

Happy first day of 2020!

What better way celebrate than to have a blog hop????

Our theme this month is anything new!

I thought it would be appropriate to show off Valentine stuff –

I started with a Real Red base. I added this lovely heart panel from the Detailed Hearts Die. It is gorgeous! I’ll be saving all the little hearts for shaker card confetti!

Next came a strip of pattern paper from the From My Heart Designer Series Paper. I used the scallop strip die from the Stitched be Mine Dies to create a little soft border.

The hearts, yes, there are two here, are punched from the Heart Punch Pack from the same DSP. (Two of the patterns coordinate with the punches to create easy, no fuss hearts!)

The sentiment is from the Heartfelt stamp set. I used the Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut it out. Simple and clean and does not hide the strip of pattern paper!

This is just a lovely card wouldn’t you agree?

Please check out the talented Cheryl Curtis to see what she has to show off.

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Heartfelt
Dies / Embossing – Detailed Hearts Die, Stitched be Mine Dies (white scalloped strips), Stitched Rectangle Dies (sentiment)
Bundles – Heartfelt
Card Stock – Real Red, Flirty Flamingo
Ink – Early Espresso
DSP – From My Heart
Punches – Heart Punch Pack
Other –

Happy Anniversary

July 26, 2019 · 5 Comments

I want to wish a very special friend a very special anniversary.

It is their 30th!!! Wow!

In honor, I created a simple, lovely card –

I started with making the layered flowers piece. I used several of the Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape petals creating a square before deciding what shape I’d cut out.

I found the ‘Happy Anniversary’ sentiment from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set. I stamped it diagonally on the panel in Garden Green. It matched the petal color nicely. I did not us the Stamparatus for this. I just stamped them as best as I could next to one another.

I decided I’d like a heart on top of the sentiment. I found a good sized one from the Be Mine Stitched Dies.

The layer and the heart were popped up on Dimensionals for added depth.

Pretty elegant I’d say!

I was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches with this layout challenge –

A nice layout for my anniversary card! Many more happy years to the two of you!

Stampin’ Up Supplies –

Stamp Set – Beautiful Bouquet
Dies / Embossing – Stitched Be Mine Dies
Card Stock – Whisper White
Ink – Garden Green
Other – Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape