Hearts & Hugs - Stampin' Up!® Endless Love

 I've got more pink for you today with another Valentine!  I think if I don't get my cards out in the mail tomorrow they won't be delivered in time!  But the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge was too good to pass up.  It's not often I put 3 different pinks on a card but we're to use Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamingo and Bubble Bath for our design and this much pink all at once is certainly a challenge for me.  Of course the Endless Love bundle was a no brainer for this card!

  This one is really straightforward with a Flirty Flamingo base, then a layer of Basic White and then 3 1 1/2" x 3 3/4" bands in the challenge colors stamped with the "love" stamp from the Endless Love set.  I stamped in a somewhat random pattern but filled in all the space.

  I cut 3 open hearts in the challenge colors and alternated them down the card front.  The sentiment is stamped and die cut and bakers twine bow added before being adhered with dimensionals.

  The last detail is a scattering of retired Tinsel Gems for a tiny bit of sparkle.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Endless Love

Ink: Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamingo, Bubble Bath

Paper: Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamingo, Bubble Bath, Basic White

Accessories: Endless Love dies, dimensionals, bakers twine (retired), Tinsel Gems (retired)

Tulips in Pink & Red - Stampin' Up!® Sunshine & Tulips

 I've been using a lot of red and pink lately for Valentine's Day cards so when I saw the Color Hues challenge this week I decided I wanted to try to go for a different theme just to change things up.  So not a heart in sight!  I went with tulips instead!

  The Sunshine & Tulips bundle has been fun to work with and I think it looks great in Poppy Parade and Pretty in Pink.

  I started with a Basic White thick card base, added a piece of Basic White embossed with the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder, then a layer of Pretty in Pink topped with a piece of Made With Love DSP (there are hearts on the other side of this paper but you cant see them!).

  The sentiment is embossed in white onto the DSP and a piece of retired Frayed Grosgrain ribbon is wrapped around it before popping the panel on dimensionals.  

  I used the Party Banners dies for a smallish banner and then stamped the row of tulips alternating between Poppy Parade and Pretty in Pink.  The banner is popped on dimensionals.

  For the focal point I cut a circle with the Stylish Shapes dies and then added the tulip die cut in Basic White.  I used adhesive sheets for the tulip die cut because it's so thin I didn't want to mess with glue so you might want to think about that if you're using these dies.  And there are even more dimensionals used to adhere the circle.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Sunshine & Tulips

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Poppy Parade, Versamark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Poppy Parade, Made With Love DSP

Accessories: Sunshine & Tulips dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Party Banners dies, Beautiful Pattern embossing folder, dimensionals, white embossing powder, 2024-2026 In Color dots (retired), Frayed Grosgrain ribbon (retired)

Gold Framed Gallery - Stampin' Up!® Gallery Blooms

   I'm back today with another card for my new Stamping Book Club series where I design a card using a book I have recently read as the inspiration.  I thought this was a fun way to combine two of my favorite hobbies!

  This card is inspired by the cover of the book Homecoming by Kate Morton.  Like my first Stamping Book Club card  this one is also set in Australia and is a mystery that switches between past and present slowly unraveling the secrets that a grandmother has kept from a granddaughter.  I enjoyed the story and didn't have it all figured out right away so that was good!

  Now for the card inspired by the gold and blue of the book cover!  It was fun trying to figure out how to incorporate these elements into a card with the supplies I had on hand.  I used a bit of Nature's Walk DSP in this pretty blue pattern that shows a bit of depth.

  I love the delicate gold framing so I added a frame using retired gold Fine Shimmer Paper and the retired Deckled Rectangle dies.  I didn't really have any stamps that could mimic the dainty vines but I wanted to stick with a botanical feel so I embossed in gold one of the flower stems from the Gallery Blooms stamp set.

  Of course I had to add a bird since there are 2 birds on the cover so I embossed the bird from the Encircled With Love stamp set and fussy cut it and perch it on the flower with a dimensional.

  The sentiment is 2 frames cut with the retired Traditional Label dies.  I trimmed the gold frame from the label and adhered it to the stamped Basic White frame.

  So not a full on stamped interpretation of the book cover but definitely inspired by it.  It's a fun way to stretch creatively and figure out how my supplies can be used.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Gallery Blooms, Encircled With Love, Beautiful Motifs

Ink: Versamark, Night of Navy

Paper: Nature's Walk DSP, Basic White, Gold Fine Shimmer paper (retired)

Accessories: dimensionals, gold embossing powder, Traditional Label dies (retired), Deckled Rectangle dies (retired)

Nature Spots - Stampin' Up!® Nature's Symphony

   I had fun with the colors from the Color Dare Challenge for today's card.  I paired them with the Nature's Symphony bundle for this thank you card.  

  I played around with texture a bit on this card starting with the piece of retired Wildly Flowering DSP in this neutral linen print for the background.  Next I cut circles in the challenge colors using the Stylish Shapes dies and then used the crosshatch die in the Nature's Symphony die set to add the pattern to each circle.  Finally for the last bit of texture I cut a piece of Crumb Cake with the wood die and added a bit of ink to the edges for definition.

  To bring in the fourth color of the challenge I stamped the leafy branch image in Mossy Meadow and then die cut it and popped it on dimensionals.

  The card is finished with a sentiment from Banner Sayings stamped in Night of Navy and adhered over a strip of Cloud Cover Faux Linen ribbon. And finally 2 Faux Bronze Pentagons for a touch of metallic.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Nature's Symphony, Banner Sayings (Online Exclusives)

Ink: Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake

Paper: Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Cloud Cover, Crumb Cake, Basic White, Wildly Flowering DSP (retired)

Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, Nature's Symphony dies, dimensionals, Cloud Cover Faux Linen ribbon, Faux Bronze Pentagons

Love You - Stampin' Up!® Hope Love & Joy

   Like a lot of challenges the past few week, The Paper Players challenge theme is 'love' this week which is nice and timely as the days are running out to get enough Valentine's Day cards made to send out to family and friends.  I decided to use up some leftover DSP from a completed Scrapbooking Workshop Kit to make my card to play along.  The Hope Love & Joy bundle was an easy choice with the large 'love' stamp.

  I finished up the Turtle-y Sweet Scrapbooking Workshop Kit a few weeks ago and had a decent amount of DSP leftover.  I pulled it out and tried to decide between the blue/green paper or the red/yellow/blue/pink paper.  The one that had red and pink may have seemed like a more obvious choice but as I like to have some more masculine Valentine designs for my boys I decided to go with the blue/green striped paper.

  I used a Granny Apple Green base, then added the DSP. My Pool Party scrap bag is near to overflowing so I decided to try to use an already cut piece as is.  I roughed up the edges of the piece with my paper snips and gave it a few little distressed tears for some texture.

  Next I used another scrap of Basic White and stamped the "l_ve" in Pretty Peacock and then used a marker to just add ink to the 'you' from the 'wishing you' stamp.

  The heart is stamped in Pretty Peacock and colored in with Pool Party Stampin' Blends.  After it's cut out I popped it on dimensionals in place of the 'o'.

  The Hope Love Joy die set has a few dies that don't correspond to a stamp which is a nice bonus with this set so I added a few smaller hearts in Pretty Peacock on the corner of the DSP.

  I like how this one turned out and think it's a good guy card; no fuss, no muss but not boring!

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Hope Love & Joy

Ink: Pretty Peacock

Blends: Pool Party light & dark

Paper: Granny Apple Green, Basic White, Pool Party, Turtle-y Cute DSP, Pretty Peacock

Accessories: Hope Love & Joy dies, dimensionals

Bunny Love - Stampin' Up!® Easter Basket

 One of my favorite things about card making is being able to mix and match stamp sets for different holidays or occasions to come up with unique combinations.  I always try to get the most out of my stamp sets especially those that might only be current for a few months.  My card to day is just one such design; I used products from 3 different suites from the Stampin' Up!® January-April mini catalog.  Can you spot them??

  I used the fun Valentine's Day choice board over at Festive Friday for my different elements.  You can find Pink, Lilac, Gray, Die Cuts, Love Sentiment, Hearts and Arrows on my card today!  I almost got the whole list!

  I started with a piece of DSP from the Lovely & Beautiful pack in a pretty Fresh Freesia floral pattern.  Next I added an angled piece of Basic White embossed with the Hearts of Love embossing folder.

  Some Smoky Slate arrows from the Endless Love dies are adhered over the seam.  Next comes a large die cut heart in Pretty in Pink (also from the Endless Love dies).

 An adorable bunny from the Easter Basket stamp set is stamped and colored with Blends.  It's die cut and popped on dimensionals.  I added a tiny die cut heart in a a retired Fine Glimmer Paper in the bunny's arms.

  Tucked under the edge of the bunny is a "love" sentiment from Endless Love stamped in Fresh Freesia. 

  Finally, I added a few retired Iridescent Faceted Gems as they reflected the the pink and purple so nicely. 

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All of the current products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE. 

Stamps: Easter Basket, Endless Love

Ink: Basic Gray, Fresh Freesia

Blends: Smoky Slate light, Pretty in Pink light

Paper: Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Smoky Slate, Lovely & Beautiful DSP, Fresh Freesia Fine Shimmer paper (retired)

Accessories: Hearts of Love embossing folder, Endless Love dies, Easter Basket dies, Stylish Shapes dies, dimensionals, Iridescent Faceted Gems (retired)

Daffodil Thanks - Stampin' Up!® Easter Basket Dies

 The Design Team at CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge is back today with a color combo challenge and I'm the host for this one!  It's my first time hosting here at CC& S as I joined the team at the end of the year when the challenges were already all sorted.  It was so fun looking through some saved color combos to find one that I hadn't used yet to make it a true challenge for myself!  I hope you play along with us and remember keep it clean and simple; lots of open space and keep layers and embellishments to a minimum.  Check out the colors:

And here is my card:

  I think CAs cards are a great time to highlight smaller images or die cuts so I decided to use the daffodil die from the Easter Basket die set and use the challenge colors for a "not to be found in nature" row of daffodils!

  You can't see in the photo but the Pretty Peacock part of the flowers are covered in clear Wink of Stella for a but of shine.

  The simple sentiment is from the Banner Sayings stamp set and is stamped in Pretty Peacock on a narrow strip of Soft Sea Foam.

  I can't wait to see all the fun uses of these colors!  Have fun getting creative with them.

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All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Banner Sayings (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Pretty Peacock

Paper: Pretty Peacock, Soft Sea Foam, Pool Party, Basic White

Accessories: Easter Basket dies, dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Hugs and Kisses Burst - Stampin' Up!® Endless Love

  Since we were planning on being snowed in this past weekend on top of still being iced in from last weekend I had zero plans and plenty of time to play in the stamp room so I made another Valentine!  This one is quite bold and not the typical colors but I think it's fun design.  The colors come from the Just Us Girls challenge to CASE a Design Team Member.  So fun!!  I chose to use the colors that Elizabeth used on her card.  See her card at the end of my post.

  At a craft day a few weeks ago my stamping friend Jill made a sunburst card and that inspired me to try my hand at it as it had been years since I've done this technique and it's so easy I don't know why I don't do it more often!  Because I had so many colors I wanted to include I made my strips pretty thin so there would be a good number of each color.  

  After the sunburst was finished I stamped a piece of Berry Burst cardstock with the heart stamp from the Endless Love stamp set in Versamark and then embossed it in white. After it was die cut I added the "XO" and the arrow and popped it on dimensionals.

  I felt that I needed a bit of sparkle to round out the design so I looked through my glimmer papers and found a piece of the retired Rainbow Glimmer paper and the gradient colors matched the card colors pretty closely so I cut a handful of hearts in the various shades and added them around the larger heart popping a few up for dimension.  You can get a similar effect by coloring cardstock hearts with Wink of Stella 

  A few retired white Neutral Matte Dots are added to finish the details.

  I love how cheerful this card turned out and now my only problem is deciding who is going to get it!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the current supplies used to make this card can purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Endless Love

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Berry Burst, Melon Mambo, Timid Tiger, Crushed Curry, Basic White, Basic White thick, Rainbow Glimmer paper (retired)

Accessories: Endless Love dies, dimensionals, white embossing powder, Neutral Matte Dots (retired)