The Wacky Watercooler April Blog Hop – Spring has Sprung

The Wacky Watercooler April Blog Hop – Spring has Sprung

If you have just visited Jackie's Blog weren't her projects awesome?  She always inspires me.  Tonight I have a technique class and I made my two projects to go along with the themes of this hop--Spring!

The first technique we are learning tonight is the Card in a Box.  Deb Valder's Stampladee is the website that I followed to make my card, she had very clear instructions and I really appreciated her help and incites. The bonus is that the card fits in a A2 envelope with extra postage.  I found that you had to make sure your flowers were inside the box while closed or it wouldn't fit in the envelope.

Fresh Prints Card in a Box

Recipe

Ink: Real Red and Coastal Cabana

Paper:  Fresh Prints DSP pack(Spring Catalog), Whisper White, Coastal Cabana and Crumb Cake Card Stock

Stamps:  Flower Shop, Petite Petals, Papillon Potpourri and Simply Sketched(Hostess)

Accessories:  Petite Petals Punch, Pansy Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlit and Fringe Scissors

The next technique I have to show you is the No-Line Piercing Technique.  I saw beautiful cards using this technique on Beth Rush's Beth's Paper Cuts 

 

No-Line Piercing Happy Watercolor

Closeup of No-Line Piercing

Recipe

Ink: Gumball Green, Crisp Cantaloupe and Calypso Coral

Paper:  Watercolor Paper, Crisp Cantaloupe and Daffodil Delight Card Stock, Watercolor Wonder DSP

Stamp:  Happy Watercolor

Accessories:    Pin, Stampin' Pierce Mat, Aqua Painter, Summer Starfruit 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon and Decorative Label Punch

As always if you wish, scroll to the bottom of the page to see updates on my two granddaughters.  Next up, Deb Smart and enjoy the hop and come back and visit us next month!

 

 

 My husband Scott, is a bee keeper.  Last year he had twenty hives and this year his goal is thirty, so bees are a theme in our family.  So here are my little bees:

Corinne May - 15 months

Addison Grace - 20 months

I Heart You Scrapbook Pages

I Heart You

I can't believe how long it has been since I have blogged. Trying to inspire myself this week so I turned to the following challenges to help inspire me:

The first challenge is The Shabby Tea Room Week #204 - 'All That Glitters in Love'

Heidi asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and INCLUDE PINK/RED/BURGUNDY, FLOWERS, HEARTS & GLITTER!

The next challenge is at Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge #16 - Be Mine

 Create a New project based on the current inspiration graphic using any of your favorite crafty supplies.

The next Challenge is Freshly Made Sketches #122

Check out how I used the heart portion to work with this sketch.

Here are the individual pages:

Recipe:

Stamps: Banner Blast(Sale-A-Bration), Petite Petals(Occasions Catalog)

Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Strawberry Slush, Rose Red, Melon Mambo

Paper: Very Vanilla Card Stock, Retired Card Stock and DSP, Glitter Paper

Accessories:  Watercolor Wonder Crayons Retired, Banner Punch(Sale-A-Bration), Petite Petals Punch(Occasions Catalog), Big Shot Die Thinlits Expressions, Retired Brad, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, Primrose Petals Satin Ribbon, Small Heart and Full Heart Punch, Framelits Heart Collection

 

Stampin' Llamas Fall-i-Days September Hop

Welcome to our Stampin' Llamas Fall-i-Days September Blog Hop!  My life has been so busy since our last hop visiting the newest granddaughter and my folks.  So many new toys and so little time to play.  I finally scrapbooked today with a friend and it had been over a month since the last time, and I am supposed to be retired, ha!

This Halloween card was made using the new Label Card Thinlit Die and it turned out too cute.  I used retired dsp and the sizzlet retired pumpkin also.  The Boo! is from retired Tiny Tags and punched out using the retired tag punch.  See the cute little Old Olive dot on the tag?  That is one of our new Candy Dots, just love them.

Technique class was last night and this card was made using the Clear Block Stamping Technique.  Just ink up one of our clear blocks and stamp, then stamp darker images over it.  The leaf images are from the Gently Falling set and the Pumpkin Pie Chevron was made using the new Chevron Border Punch from the Holiday Catalog.  The Thankful is actually cut using our new Expressions Thinlits Dies.  My husband thought I had died string brown and glued it down.

Once again I used the Expressions Thinlits Dies to make the Merry. This is the Sunburst Technique and I used our new dsp pack Winter Frost.

The snowflake on this spinner card was made using the Straw Blowing Technique.  In the center is a Frosted Finishes Embellishment and doesn't it really set it off?

One of my biggest challenges is making man cards.  Unfortunately, the camera did not pick up my colors well on this one, but the technique I used was the Magical Masking Tape Technique using the same colors that are in the Venetian Romance dsp.  Finished it off with the Chalk Talk Bundle (what a great buy)!
Well, that's all from me this time(PS: if you want to see the grands keep scrolling).  Go see what my other talented friends have made for us this time:

Kath R - http://kath-allthatscrap.blogspot.com/
You are here:  Debbie - http://cleverandcute.blogspot.com/
Jackie - http://jackotterstamp.blogspot.com/
Stephanie - http://www.pleasepassthesnail.blogspot.com/

Well, this is eight month old Corinne, and I just spent five days with her.  Her mom text me today that she started crawling, two days after they went home, too late for me to see, but what a great time we had.

Addison had her first birthday on the 19th!  You are right, her right eye has a shiner she fell the night before her birthday party and had a black eye for the party.  She started walking on the 27th, just growing up too fast.

Holiday Catalog Blog Hop

It has been over a month since I posted, boy does time fly when you are having fun, as in visiting your grandchildren(you can see new pics at the end of this post if you are interested).  My friends and I decided it was time to blog hop with new items from the holiday catalog. 

My first excitement in the catalog was the new White Stampin' Chalk Marker.  Blackboard stamping is the hot new in thing to do and this marker works great for personalizing your gifts this season.  I used the Artisan Label Punch to black card stock and used the White Stampin' Chalk Marker to make a border and add the name.  The large tag is made using Chalk Talk with Stazon and cut out with the coordinating framelit.  Don't you love gifting home made items, and this stamp set helps make them extra special.

Stampin' Up! had added some of last year's Christmas stamp sets to the list of available for purchase.  I was so happy to hear this since I loved the Ornament Keepsakes set and the coordinating framelits.

Also the Snowflake Soiree was extended.  This card was made using glossy card stock and stamping the snowflakes and sentiment in Versamark and then embossing with white embossing powder and heating.  Then I sponged Rich Razzleberry ink over the embossing, it makes such a lovely card, just love those snowflakes.

 Tonight at our Technique Class one of the techniques we will be learning is White Craft Ink Watercolor Technique and thanks go out to Patty Bennett for placing the instructions on her blog.
Didn't this card turn out to be too cute?  I used one of the flowers from the Flower Shop stamp set and stamped it with white craft ink.  Then using the Aqua Painter I filled in the petals with the white craft ink, then with Primrose petals, finishing the centers with Raspberry Ripple.I stamped the small leaf from Gently Falling with Gumball Green.  Finished it off with a sentiment from Blooming with Kindness which I cut out using the Hearts A Flutter Framelit die.  What a difference the new Big Shot Magnetic Platform is to using the Framlits, no more struggles with tape to keep the paper from moving, worth every cent!

Here is our hop lineup:

Kath - http://kath-allthatscrap.blogspot.com/
You are here - Debbie - http://cleverandcute.blogspot.com/ 
Jackie -http://jackotterstamp.blogspot.com/
Buffy - http://buffycooper.com/

Here are the promised pictures of my granddaughters.

Addison with her first sucker after shots.

Corinne with Grandpa Martin

Stampin' Llamas Summer Blog Hop

Welcome to our Summer Blog Hop!  First let me thank Stephanie for making our beautiful banner and buttons.  As you can tell, I haven't spent much time lately blogging.  But I have gotten to see both of my granddaughters in the last two months and have had to visit my mother since she fell again.  My customers think that I have disappeared off of the face of the earth, but I am still here and happy to be creating again.
My first card was one that I had copied off of the internet and we made this at our new catalog party.  Just love the new Washi Tape!

Best Friend Washi Tape

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Label Love

Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Melon Mambo Card Stock

Ink:  Melon Mambo

Accessories:  Gingham Garden Designer Washi Tape, Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Artisan Label Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Small Oval Punch, Framed Tulips Embossing Folder, Big Shot

This card was so much fun to make.  I removed the Shop Around from the wheel and made it into a large stamp.  I used my favorite tool, the Stamp-a-ma-jig to help stamp this card straight.  The stamp set, Postage Collection is a Hostess only set, a great reason to have a Stampin' Up! party.

Shop Around Postage Collection

Recipe:

Stamps:  Shop Around and Postage Collection

Ink:  Soft Suede

Paper:  Crumb Cake Card Stock

Accessories:  Stamp-a-ma-jig

I have been selling my cards at the Carbondale Community Farmers Market and last Saturday, I noticed that the Sympathy cards were all gone.  On my flowers I used a technique with the Aqua Painter and Ink Refills.  It is time for me to dig out a new bottle of clear embossing powder, the dregs I had left did not melt right, so my technique did not work as well as I had planned, but I still like the end result.

Calypso Coral Flower Shop

 Recipe:

Stamp Set:  Flower Shop and Loving Thoughts

Ink:  Versamark, Calypso Coral Ink Refill and Stazon

Paper:  Calypso Coral and Shimmery White Card Stock and Epic Day This and That DSP

Accessories:  Embossing Buddy, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Pansy Punch, Aqua Painter, Ovals Collection Framelit, Big Shot, Big Shot Magnetic Platform(worth every cent to use with Framelits, it works great!)

Now for pics of my lovely granddaughters:

Corinne May(Five Months)

Addison Grace(Nine Months)

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Now on to the other Stampin' Llamas:

What's new at Stampin' Up! ?

Great news...Stampin'Up! is offering free shipping Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 6-8. To take advantage of this go to my Website and click on the upper right hand box marked "Shop Now". This will save you 10%. Check out the This and That at the website, if you are into smash type notebooks, this group is being offered at 15% off currently also(it will be in the big book in June).

With the new Idea book in June we are also doing a Color Refresh. Some of those old colors are going away: Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Baha Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Bravo Burgundy, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard and River Rock. If any of these is your favorite, or if you have markers or ink pads that need to be re-inked, now is the time to buy re-inkers, they will go really quick.

I will be placing an order tomorrow morning, Friday, at 6am and if you want to order something let me know by then and I can order it for you.

 

 

 

Sale-A-Bration Last Call Blog Hop

 

You just came over from the talented Christine's Blog and we are celebrating the last two days of Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration.  I have really enjoyed all of the free items we had available this year.  Still time to place an order, and not miss out on these great buys.  The Patterned Occasions Stamp Set has five stamps that will end up being your go-to set of the future.  I found the "Smarties" bag set on Pinterest and thought what a great graduation gift it would make.  Couldn't you see these as favors at a graduation party?  My pic isn't the greatest for reading the sentiment...congratulations smarty pants! The sentiment is under the blue jeans on the stamp, but I cut the stamp in two, separating them and now I can stamp them in different colors.  I covered the clothes pin in the Sale-A-Bration Sycamore Street DSP.  Love how the colors worked together.

Smarty Pants Smarties Treat

The Bloomin' Marvelous has four sentiments and four images, to me that is Marvelous!  I free stamped the flowers, stamping twice before re-inking.  The images include the flower, leaf, butterfly and a hummingbird, love it.

 

Bloomin' Marvelous



The next card once again uses the Sycamore Street DSP in the background as well as the Sycamore Street Ribbon and the Vine Street Embossing Folder.  I love butterflies and found this card on Pinterest also.  The large butterfly was made with the Elegant Butterfly punch and I love the way the Sycamore DSP colors blend so well together.  The smaller butterfly punch called the Bitty Butterfly just came out in our spring catalog, the cool thing is that it matches the smallest butterfly in the Papillon Potpourri stamp set.

 





Sharing in your Sorrow

I was determined that I was not going to purchase everything in the spring catalog this year.  Well that lasted until I saw my friend, Susan Horr's card that I CASEd below.  I loved the dress so much that I purchased the All Dressed Up Bundle and our Tea Lace Paper Doilies.  It is my favorite color also, Real Red and have to love the Polka Dot Parade DSP.  

All Dressed Up Oh, Hello

I saw this cute baby card on Pintrest and had to make it for my card buffet.  It was so easy to make, the birds are made out of two half hearts.  I used the new Tea for Two DSP out of the spring catalog.



Tweet Baby

I fell in love with this baby card when I found it.  The stacking toy was one of my favorites, wish I had found it before the two grand babies were born.  I used the Natural Composition Specialty paper for the wood and the Color Collection DSP stacks for the rings.

Hello Baby

Hope you enjoyed yourself and join us again next month for our next blog hop.  Now on to talented Marsha's blog.