Tea Cup Thanks - Stampin' Up! Cup of Tea

 My card today uses the new Cup of Tea stamp set and is just a cute little card to say thank you.  I used some of the non-tea cup stamps to create the background panel and adhered it on an angle for added interest.  We made this on at my last Quick & Easy card class.  If you're in the Richmond, VA area and would like to learn stamping or just meet up to stamp with others please let me know and I'll get you on my mailing list so you can join the fun!

  Once I had the leaves and flowers stamped I  wrapped some white baker's twine around the panel a few times then added a bow separately.  I popped it up on the card front with dimensionals.  Next I cut out a tea cup and added the thank you sentiment and then popped it up with dimensionals as well.

  The final detail is a few clear Polished Dots scattered on the stamped panel.

  This would be a great design if you had to make multiples as it's cute without being overly complicated or fussy and that's always a consideration when making a big batch of same cards.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Cup of Tea

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Granny Apple Green

Paper: Sahara Sand, Basic White, Coastal Cabana

Accessories: Teacup Dies, dimensionals, white baker's twine, Polished Dots

Floral Envelope Thanks - Full of Love

   I'm playing along with 2 of my favorite challenges today!  The colors come from The Paper Players and the layout is from Freshly Made Sketches.  I had pulled these colors out to use earlier in the week and just hadn't gotten to them yet but today is the day!  They are nice and crisp together and work perfectly with the sketch!

  I am just having the best time with the Full of Love stamp set!  There is something about the clean, open images that just make me want to use them all the time.  And the fact that this is a new set is also probably part of it!  

  For this one I just colored the image with Blends and then fussy cut and popped it up over the flagged sentiment and stamped Night of Navy strip.  The background is the new Fern embossing folder.  A few iridescent rhinestone add just a hint of sparkle.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Full of Love, Happier Than Happy (sentiment)

Ink: Night of Navy

Blends: Fresh Freesia light & dark, Granny Apple Green light & dark, Night of Navy light

Paper: Fresh Freesia, Basic White, Night of Navy

Accessories: Fern embossing folder, dimensionals, Iridescent Rhinestones

Happy Hello Bear - Stampin' Up! Happier Than Happy

 I'm playing along with the CAS Colours & Sketches team again.  They have a fun layout which I'll be honest,  I had a hard time keeping myself from adding more details and embellishments!  But I stuck to the 'clean and simple' directive.

  I'm using the big bear from the Happier Than Happy set along with a narrow strip of the coordinating Happy Forest Friends DSP.

  I wanted to add the little stump and some mushrooms and gems but as you can see this is still a really cute card.

  I started with a Sahara Sand base and then added the layer of DSP on the edge.  I cut a square frame out of Mossy Meadow cardstock using the Stylish Shapes dies.

  The bear is stamped in Soft Suede onto Basic White and then I colored in his nose and mouth area with the light Crumb Cake Blends.  I popped him over the frame for dimension.  The 'hello' sentiment is also from this same set but I used my Mossy Meadow marker to ink up just the hello part leaving the 'baby' uninked. 

  The final detail is a little Calypso Coral baker's twine bow that I found in my scrap ribbon bin.  It retired long ago but baker's twine never goes out of style!  There is a ribbon combo back in Old Olive and Sahara Sand if you're interested in current ribbon that matches this suite.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Happier Than Happy

Ink: Soft Suede, Mossy meadow (marker)

Blends: Crumb Cake light

Paper: Sahara Sand, Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Happy Forest Friends DSP 

Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, Happy Forest dies, dimensionals, baker's twine (retired)

In Color Hello - Stampin' Up! Full of Love

   Super quick post today!  I was so inspired by the cool layout the Global Design Project has right now I had to sit down and make this card!

  This was a fun card to make using the new In Colors and the In Color Glimmer paper!  I used up some 1/2" scraps of Basic White for the long strips down the one side adhering them to a Baisc White panel embossed with the retired Tasteful Texture embossing folder.  Then I cut 1/2" strips of the glimmer paper and layered them on a piece of Basic White and then used the Stylish Shapes circle to cut across the paper strips.  

  I popped the circle up on dimensionals lining it up with the white strips.  The sentiment from Full of Love is embossed in black and also popped with dimensionals.  A Matte Decorative dot in Starry Sky is the only embellishment.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Full of Love

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Basic White, Basic Black, In Color Glimmer Paper

Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, dimensionals, Black embossing powder, In Color Matte Decorative Dots, Tasteful Textile embossing folder (retired)

Pretty Butterfly Birthday - Stampin' Up! Pretty Pop-Ups Dies

  I'm continuing to create using new products from the 2022-2023 Stampin' Up! annual catalog.  Today's card features the new Pretty Pop-ups dies.  I almost passed these by in the catalog without really looking at them as they aren't bundled with a stamp set.  You can see the die set on page 173 and samples of them being used on page 17.  I thought it was a cool idea having the images cut just enough to pop out the petals, wings and leaves but not cut out the whole shape. 

  Seize the Birthday challenge is to use butterflies or hummingbirds on your card and the Tic Tac Toe challenge board where I'm using the center down column of ribbon/twine, flowers and leaves.

  I basically copied the sample in the catalog except I made it a whole card front and used nice bright, bold colors.

  Do you see my goof up?  I didn't see it myself until I had already colored everything and mounted it on the card front!  I didn't line up the die and so all my butterflies are tilted to the side!  Ooops!  I guess I'll just say that there is a stiff breeze blowing the butterflies sideways! Anyway, I think this die set is really cute and different and I urge you to line up your die better than I did!

  I just cut the die into a piece of water color paper and then using a water painter and ink pads I colored all the elements including the little swirl detail in between everything. All the colors are listed below.

  I used a paper piercer to poke from the back of the design to the front to get each little element popped out a bit and then folded some more on the front to make some of them stand out even more.

  I added a birthday greeting from Go To Greetings under the die cut and then accented it with an Orchid Oasis metallic woven ribbon bow.  Some In Color Matte Decorative Dots accent the center of some of the flowers.

 Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Go To Greetings

Ink: Orchid Oasis, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Sweet Sorbet, Tahitian Tide, Pool Party

Paper: Orchid Oasis, watercolor paper

Accessories: Pretty Pop-ups dies, Matte Dots, Metallic Woven ribbon

Happier Hello Fox - Stampin' Up! Happier Than Happy

   My card today is one in which I combined two challenges and the end result might be a case of too much for it's own good!  lol! But I'll let you be the judge of that! I used the Global Design Project colors and the Just Add Ink choose two challenge.  

  The JAI challenge of just choose two the choices are heat embossing, stenciling and texture paste.  I chose stenciling with the colors stenciled on the edge of the Basic White panel and the sentiment is heat embossed.  Not sure if they were looking for more embossing but I tried a bunch of different things and none of them worked (see what I mean about maybe less is more??!).

  I used the new Happier Than Happy stamp set to create the little scene in the circle.  I stamped the mushroom along the bottom of a Pale Papaya Stylish Shapes circle in Pale Papaya, stamped one tree in Pool Party and then cut another out of the same cardstock.   The fox is stamped in Calypso Coral and popped up over the other elements.

  The circle is popped on the card front over a narrow strip of Butterfly Kisses DSP and I added a few retired sequins and retired candy dots to accent the sides.

  This card was definitely a challenge but one that I think I made harder on myself than it needed to be!  It just goes like that sometimes doesn't it?

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Happier Than Happy, Go To Greetings

Ink: Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Versamark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Butterfly Kisses DSP

Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, Happy Forest dies, dimensionals, white embossing powder, blending brushes, Adorning Designs masks (retired), sequins (retired), candy dots (retired)

 

 

Hello There Letter - Stampin' Up! Full of Love

   After doing some business-y stamping stuff this morning I rewarded myself with some creative stamping time!  I'm using the new Full of Love stamp set again.  These little flowers and the sweet envelopes are just so cute.  When I showed this card to my husband he thought it must have taken a long time to color in.  Not at all!  The flowers are all kind of small so it takes no time at all with my Blends!  And since I used a limited color palette there iwasn't much dithering over what colors to use!

  The colors are from the TGIF Challenge which is to use Fresh Freesia, Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent.  These are all still current In Colors so definitely don't over look them because they are beautiful together and with other colors!

  This one starts with a Soft Succulent base, then a layer of Basic White embossed with the Gingham embossing folder.  Next I pulled three different DSPs (listed below) all in Fresh Freesia with like sized prints and used the Stitched Rectangle dies to cut one of each pattern.

  Next, the Stylish Shapes circles are used to give a base to the focal element with a larger circle in Soft Succulent and a smaller one in Basic White.  I added a Pale Papaya Open Weave ribbon in a fork bow as an embellishment.

  I stamped the floral envelope image in Basic Gray then colored in with Blends markers in the challenge colors.  I added clear Wink of Stella on the envelope but it doesn't show in the photo.  It's a pretty subtle shimmer just right for these colors.  Then I fussy cut the image and popped it up on dimensionals.

  Finally I stamped the 'hello there' sentiment in Fresh Freesia ink right on the DSP.

  I love how this turned out and I am having such a good time designing with new supplies.  Thanks to TGIF Challenge for the inspiration!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Full of Love

Ink: Basic Gray, Fresh Freesia

Paper: Soft Succulent, Basic White, Tea Boutique DSP, Butterfly Kisses DSP

Blends: Pale Papaya light & dark, Soft Succulent light & dark, Fresh Freesia light & dark

Accessories: Gingham embossing folder, Stitched Rectangle dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Open Weave ribbon, dimensionals

Crafty Basket Hello - Stampin' Up! Cheerful Basket

   I'm back with a project using more brand new products from the 2022-2023 Stampin' Up! Annual catalog!  I used the Cheerful Basket bundle along with some new embellishments!

  My layout came from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  The focal point to the one corner was perfect for the basket of crafty supplies!

  I cut out the basket in Soft Suede and Crumb Cake.  Then I stamped the image in Basic Gray and colored them with Blends.  They are both popped up on dimensionals over a watercolored Pool Party shadow.  The Basic White cardstock was first embossed with the retired Tasteful Textile embossing folder.

  The sentiment from Go To Greetings is stamped in Orchid Oasis and cut out with the smallest circle in the Stylish Shapes dies. 

  A few Matte Decorative dots in Orchid Oasis and a bit of Metallic Woven ribbon also in Orchid Oasis finish off the details.  

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Cheerful Basket, Go To Greetings

Ink: Pool Party, Orchid Oasis, Basic Gray

Blends: Pool Party light & dark, Orchid Oasis light & dark, Highland Heather light & dark

Paper: Pool Party, Orchid Oasis, Basic White, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede

Accessories: Full Basket dies, dimensionals, Matte Decorative dots, Metallic Woven ribbon, Stylish Shapes dies