Sweet Birthday!

Hey All! Hope you are enjoying a wonderful summer day! We're having a fun time getting ready to take a family trip...can't wait for that beautiful blue water! We're also really excited to be with our extended families...YEA!!

My card today is featuring a sweet little Lizzie Anne Ice Cream cone and sweet sentiment. The stamps are from the Sweets and Treats stamp set. An Ice Cream cone...not many better things on a hot summer day, right!?

To start my card, I stamped my cone-in choclate chip ink on chocoate chip paper. I cut it out and got it ready to be topped with some delicious ice cream! I stamped the scoops of ice cream in Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry ink on the coordinating cardstock. I cut them out and topped them on my chocolate chip cone. I used my FUN Circle Scissor Plus cutter to cut my whisper white and Bermuda Bay circles.

For my card, I started with a whisper white card base. I cut a lovely layer of Crushed Curry, and attached it to my card. The scalloped circle behind my ice cream is a piece of patterned paper that was a scrap unearthered in putting my stampin' space back together...Isn't it a fun one!? I just cut the design right out of the paper and thought it was a great addition to this card!

I used my fun new fiskars scallop edge punch (see the little tiny scallops along each of the scallops?!)and a strip of Chocoate Chip cardstock to make the fun scalloped border. I attached the border over the patterned paper scallop circle-then added a little strip of velvet ribbon. I just attached my ribbon with glue dots along the way! I added my sentiment(also from sweets and treats set) with chcolate chip ink.

Once my ribbon was down, I attached my circles and ice cream cone...and for the "cherry" on top, a mustard button!

Even though these colors are a bit more "fall" than I'd normally use in the summer...putting them with an Ice Cream cone...helps them be perfect for any time!

Hope you have a great day!! Take care and I'll be back soon!!

Thank You Kindly

Thank You Kindly, Verizon Internet! I didn't have access to the Internet yesterday...and as I patiently waited for my husband to come home and fix the problem, we learned it was more...but they weren't going to be able to come fix it until Monday...and then when I thought I'd just "try" today, it worked!! Yea, and I wonder what the problem was/is?!

I'm happy to be back online and in the "now"...it is amazing what the computer does in a typical day of my life! So, here is Thank You card--using the super cute Sweets and Treats stamps and Circle Sentiments stamp sets. As I've been organizing my workspace/studio I've been rediscovering so many fun products!! I'm determined to really get more use out of more products...that is why I buy them! So, I grabbed this great paper pack by Making Memories it comes with die-cut shapes/frames and paper, so coordinating come easily! I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 92 for the inspiration for my layout.

I started with a Very Vanilla card base. I layered my Apricot Appeal cardstock and paisley paper, and then wrapped them with Apricot Appeal 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, then attached that layer to my card base.

I stamped the Popsicle in Chocoate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, then stamped it again on a Olive patterned paper, from the same MM paper collection. I cut my olive patterned Popsicle out and put it right into it's spot on the Very Vanilla paper (thus Paper Piecing) and then used my large oval punch to make it an oval. I used my scallop oval to make an olive frame for my Popsicle!

The apricot frame is part of the MM kit. I just placed a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock behind it and then stamped my sentiment "Thank You Kindly" from the Circle Sentiments stamp set, in Old Olive ink.

I attached my Popsicle to the card with some dimensionals and then made a bow from my Apricot ribbon to attach on the Apricot frame.

I love using products that go well together....they help the creative process go that much faster!!

Hope you all have a great day!! Take care and thanks a bunch for stopping by!!

Mambo Thanks

Hey All! Did you know that I love the new Stampin' Up! In Color Melon Mambo!? Just in case you haven't been able to tell, I wanted to let you know! This card was inspiried by Dawn Olchefske, and I had to do my part to make one similar! I thought it was such a stunning card! I changed my card just a bit, but I kept the general layout the same...isn't it a fun one!?
I started my card with a piece of Whisper White cardstock, Melon Mambo ink, and the Floral stamp from Razzle Dazzle. I stamped the image 3 times across my white paper, alternating the image "up" and then "down."

I attached my Whisper White layer to a Melon Mambo card, tied it up with Melon Mambo polka dot ribbon (which could totally be reversable...love that!!) and then added my Melon Mambo Thank You sentiment. The font of this Thank You lends itself to be used with this set...I love the way it looks with the images in this set!! It is from the Thank You Kindlly stamp set.

I think this card would make a great set of cards to give as a gift...don't you think!? I hope you all have a great day! Make it a great one!!

Razzle Dazzle

Good morning Friends! As promised, today my offering is sneek peeking a different stamp set than Circle Circus, this great stamp set is called Razzle Dazzle. It is also a really fantastic stamp set! I'm telling you, the new catalog is just fantastic...the new products are wonderful! I can't wait to get my hands on more new goods!!

Razzle Dazzle, it's another delicious set. Today I'm combining Melon Mambo with some delightful Crushed Currry! The Curry is such a great yellow...just perfect! I hope that you are as excited to get your hands on your new In Colors...I know we're all going to just love them!
So, I started my card out by stamping the Crushed Curry Rectangle stamp from the Razzle Dazzle stamp set--that you see in the center of the card. I stamped a larger piece of paper, then trimed it down to size...don't try to stamp on a piece of paper that is the same size as your stamp...it's hard!! Stamped the Thank You (I love the font of this particular stamp--it's from the Thank you Kindly stamp set) in Melon Mambo ink, right on top of the Crushed Curry. I then mounted the layer onto Melon Mambo cardstock.

I took a piece of Crushed Curry that was big enough to frame my main image, and used my scallop border punch to give a little sweet edge. Then I did the same with a piece of Whisper White, and they made a perfect frame for my image!

Next, I moved onto my card. The base was a "scrap" of paper, so it isn't a standard card size--just a nice size for my image! I stamped the floral image of Razzle Dazzle in Melon Mambo ink all over the Melon Mambo card, making a great background. I mounted my image on my card, tied it all up with a lovely piece of Melon Mambo polka dot ribbon **YUM**, and then needed a little embelishment.

I chose to stamp the small flower from the Razzle Dazzle set in Crushed Curry. I used my 3/4" circle punch to punch it out, then mounted it on a 1" circle of Melon Mambo cardstock. I added a little silver brad for the center of the flower...and attached it with dimensionals to the card.

I'm really loving having the time to be creative...I'm working hard to get my workspace organized and "working"...I had a great setup in our other house, and it worked so well! I'm almost feeling like I've got it, and then something just isn't in the right place...so I'm tweaking as I go...and I'm almost there!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a great one!! See you soon!!

Thanks

Good morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We had a great one. More boxes went to the recycle pile, and our house is "in order" for the most part--YEA! Moving just takes time...and my sweet little Ruby(16 months already!) slows my unpacking/organizing just a bit so the weekends have been a lot of work with my husband home. The cardboard is slowly coming to an end! YEA!

So, you know by now that I love this new Circle Circus stamp set right!? I've had a great time playing with it! I think it is 100% delicious! Tomorrow's post will be another new stamp set..so stay tuned!
I love this color combination, Soft Suede and Melon Mambo. Melon Mambo--what a fun name for a color! I used my Circle Circus stamps with Soft Suede and Melon Mambo to create this fun paper, then cut a layer of it and mounted it on Melon Mambo paper. **I made myself a little "graph" with a ruler and light pencil lines on my Whisper White cardstock, and just placed my stamps in the intersections of the graph...(PTI gridlines cardstock was my inspiration there) it helped me stamp in straight lines and and know just where I needed to put my next stamp.

So, I layered the pretty paper on some Melon Mambo cardstock and mounted that on my Soft Suede card. I used my hobby blade to make a little "track" for my ribbon to go through and added my beautiful Melon Mambo polka-dot ribbon...YUM! I used the Thank You Kindly stamp set again for my "Thanks" sentiment. I stamped in Melon Mambo ink and the used my large oval punch to punch it out. I layered my sentiment on a Soft Suede scalloped oval and then attached it to my card.

The last details on this card were my button detail and the little Soft Suede stamp on the left side of the card. I just wanted a little "somthing" over on the left to balance the weight of the card and really liked the thought of using just part of the Suede circle...fun huh?! For the button detail, I stamped an extra Soft Suede circle, punched it out using my 3/4" circle punch and attached it to a clear button. I then layered my button over a 1" Melon Mambo circle, and there you have it!

I hope you have a great day! Today is the first official "summer" day for my kids and it gray and raining! So, here's to some fun inside playing today!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!

More Sneek Peek!

Hello Friends! I hope you are all doing well! Today marked the last day of school...finally!! Yea! Summer is offically beginning. My husband is taking my son on a Father/Son campout with our Church tonight, so Lucy, Ruby and I are home for a girls night! I'm sure stampin' will be on our short list of activities!

In the organization of my studio, I have carved out a desk/workspace for Lucy. She's got her own products--stamps, ink, scissors, punches, etc. She LOVES when she gets to "work" all day on her projects! It makes me so happy to watch her find joy in creating! It is so fun! I am so amazed, she is only 4 and spends literally hours at her desk...it is delightful! So, we're up for some stampin' tonight for sure!

This card is another one made with some Stampin' Up! sneek peek products! Let's talk about how delicious the colors are...YUM! I used the Circle Circus stamp set again and 4 of the 6 new In Colors.
I started with my whisper white paper and made some delicious paper! I attached it to my Soft Suede card and then added my Crushed Curry Ribbon. To make this particular ribbon treatment, I added a strip of sticky strip to my card. I placed my first bit of ribbon at the top of the card, then made tucks in the ribbon as I made my way down the card.

I stamped the "Thank You" sentiment from the Thank You Kindly stamp set. The words are side by side on the stamp, so I used my SAMJ to get the perfect positioning. To ink the individual words, I simply inked the words using my ink pad--careful to just ink the specific word I wanted. I punched it out with my 1 1/4" circle punch, then layered it on a Soft Suede 1 3/8" circle and then on a Melon Mambo 1 3/4" circle. I mounted it on my card with dimensionals and there you have it!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! I'll check back in tomorrow see you then!!

Guess what the UPS man brought!?

So Monday morning I was stalking the UPS man. I'm not sure what time he usually comes to my house and I was dying!! I was so excited to get my box of sneek peek goodies and my NEW stampin' up! catalog! I was planning on just letting everything I needed to do just wait, because it's been too long since I've had time to stamp! I did manage to get a lot of work done before he came to drop of my box of joy...around 3:00 pm!

I am so excited to share the new catalog...it is DELICIOUS. That is simply all that I can use to describe! It is a fantastic catalog, in all aspects! So, let me share some of the fun I've had! I got the new In Colors--ribbon to match-yum--and a couple stamp sets.

I used the Circle Circus stamp set today-which I can promise you will be one of my favorite sets of ALL time! It is SO awesome! The delicious colors I used today are Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede. I love these colors. They are so easy to use together, they are great, fresh and very "now"-"Go Stampin' Up!"

For my card today, I started with my circle from Circle Circus and Soft Suede. I lined the circles up in a gird like fashion on my whisper white cardstock and made a fun "patterned" paper. **I can see this happening a lot in my immediate future!**

I mounted that patterned layer on some Soft Suede cardstock and then added my beautiful Bermuda Bay polka dot ribbon. I added a touch of adhesive to the left side of my paper, to hold my ribbon in place and made the first pleat then stapled, then pleated a couple more times then stapled and so on until I came to the end of my cardstock.

My little circle embelishment was made by stamping the same circle I used for the pattered paper in Bermuda Bay ink and then punching it out with my 1" circle punch. I then layered it on a 1 1/4" Soft Suede circle and then 1 3/8" Bermuda Bay circle. I attached them to the card and then added my sentiment.

My sentiment is from the Level 1 hostess set in the current catalog-Sweet Little Sentiments. I stamped it in Soft Suede ink and then punched it out with my Word Window punch. I attached it with dimensionals to my card and then finshed it off with a Chocolate Chip button from the Latte collection.

I am so excited for July 1! My wishlist is a mile long and I can't wait to get these wonderful new products!! If you need a catalog or need help with your order, let me know!!

Make it a great one today!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!