Stampin Up, Upline challenge

My upline challenged those of us who were not able to go to the latest SU party.  This is the time of year we get to see the new catalog ahead of customers.  And if you go, you have a lot of fun and come home with a catalog.  The rest of us are having to get by on photos posted of the fun, and on monday the online version of the catalog for now.

So yup, lots of us green this weekend.   My card is for a friend who helped my hubby with some work inside the motorhome, it looks great. So, no fufu as it's a guy card.

The ribbon and the little lace piece at the top are both retired, sorry. Color is Emerald Envy, an incolor.

Banners For You Photopolymer Stamp Set

$27.00

Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies

$27.00

Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper

$11.00

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A card for you. Just Add Ink challenge#354

I love this set!  It's been fun to get back to the items from the main catalog.  If you like this set but don't have it yet, you might want to place that order pretty soon while it's bundle priced. Assuming it carries over, it still will not be bundle priced in the new catalog.  Ditto for any of the bundles in the current catalogs.
There is just so many pieces to this, but stamps and dies, 3 different sizes of jars, plenty of flowers, a metal jar hanger and even a fish, along with several sentiments.

Here is this weeks challenge at Just Add Ink.  Be sure to check out the cards. some really great stuff and a wonderful team.

Jar Of Love Photopolymer Bundle

$52.00

Jar Of Love Photopolymer Stamp Set

$27.00

Everyday Jars Framelits Dies

$33.00

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

$11.00

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FMS#282, Hello heart

Hello cards as well as thinking of you and Just for you cards are really nice to have on hand, they work for so many occasions.  Sometimes I just want to let someone I care about know I haven't forgotten them.

I almost did a floral on this with leaves sticking out, but then I came across my Sunshine Wishes dies.  I have always been intreged by the little butterfly, but hadn't used it. I think it works really cute here.

The Hello is from the Greetings die set, and sorry to say it is retired.  I would really like more greeting die sets.

We are on the downhill side for the 2016/2017 annual catalog, as well as the 2017 Occasions catalog, both retire May 31st.  Excitement is pretty high for the new catalog given the fabulous ones we have been getting so far the past couple years!    Pre order will start on May 2nd, and as soon as your demonstrator gets his/her order you will be able to get your new catalogs.   I place my order on the first day I can order just so I can get those catalogs into the hands of my  customers.

Here is the sketch for this weeks FMS, and take a peek at the teams cards as well.

Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies

$27.00

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

$35.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

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GDP081, Just a simple Easter card

Happy Easter!  We are doing the Global Design Project this week.  It's a color challenge, White, Night of Navy and your choice.  Since I wanted to do Easter I decided on yellow, and I love the Easter saying in Suite Sayings.

My ribbon, Stitched ribbon, is retired in white, but there are still 4 colors to choose from.  It's a great ribbon as the size works for a lot of projects and it's very easy to work with.

And those really little eggs? They die cut all at the same time in a set of 5. I love that, it's so much work to die cut lots of tiny things. 

Go on over to GDP and see what the team did.

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Basket Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Basket Builder Framelits Dies

$31.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Watercolor Pencils

$16.00

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Love those cats. Just Add Ink 353

Now we are going way, way back.  This stamp is at least 15 or more years old.  It's from Paula Best, she is quite the artist, especially with animals.    I don't think she even makes stamps anymore, but does other arts.

The theme for this weeks Just Add Ink is critters, so I dug this out.  See the rest of the team's cards HERE.

It is a pretty simple card, stamped my image and cut out of the Layering Squares, then cut my black from Stitched Shapes square.

Stamped my flourish, used dimentionals to pop up my image, and that is pretty much that. I did add in some little dots for interest.  Colors for this are Pink Pirouette, Wisteria Wonder, Emerald Envy, Basic black.

Thanks for coming by.

Falling Flowers Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

$35.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

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GDP080, Thank you card.

Happy monday morning.    I'm having fun getting back to challenges again.  This morning the GDP challenge pulled me in. We are CASe'ing Louise Sharp.  I know it's easy to think that CASE means to copy, and while it can, most often a challenge wants to see what you can do with the idea.  I think the GDP really wants you to take away what you want from it.  They do say that in the discription.  I love Louise's layout.   I changed it some but not a lot.  I hope you like it. Here is Louise's card.

Now to explain my card. I used a standard A2 card base, 4 1/4x51/2.  I cut mine long ways, and folded at the top.  My second layer is 4 1/8x5 3/8. 
To get this look on my tag layer, I took the smaller rose from the Rose Garden thinlit set and used copy paper to cut it out.   You want a thin paper or plastic so that you are able to get into all the inside edges.

I took my very large round brush, brushed it gently across my ink pad and then over the top of my cut out rose.  You get color transfer very slowely this way and don't get those hard lines.  I continued, until I had the color built up to where I liked it.

I then cut my piece down to the size I liked, rounded the corners, punched a hole in the top and added the linen thread bow.
For the sentiment I wanted the same rounded look, so after stamping my little sentiment I took my 1/2" hole punch, instead of putting the paper in normally I slid it in from the top to get this look on each end.

I also brushed the brush across my pink layer once I had embossed.

Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

$31.00

Weather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

$7.00

Linen Thread

$4.50

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

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Friends Like Us, Just Add Ink challenge 352

I'm trying out a new to me card challenge site, Just Add Ink.  Cute name, loved the colors and was dying to use some new stuff.

I had such a good time with this, love that little kitty, just my style.  I like whimsical cats and ones who show off their personality.  This little guy covers both I think.
Here are the colors, and you can find them HERE

Thanks so much for coming by.

Products: SU, Gorgeous Grunge, Lace doilies, Petite Petals stamps, Petite Petals punch.  Waffle Flower Flora Cat Play stamps.

Celebrate You, FMS280

It has been a little while since I've posted to my blog.  Life has just gotten in the way for awhile. But it was a good thing.  We had good friends stop and stay in their coach.  We spent a lot of time showing them the sights, and just visiting.   Any time left over I needed to recoup, I am far from where I would like to be with my energy and strength yet.

So, this week at FMS the sketch is so open to most anything. I had several ideas in my head, but this is something I haven't done in some time so I went with it as we do have the perfect stamp set for it.

When I first started stamping, way, way back in the dark ages, we used to make our own backgrounds, there was no (gasp) pattern paper.   I choose 2 leaves and one flower for my background, then looked over the colors until I found 3 I liked together.

Here is the sketch for this week:

The leaves have 2 stamps each, one for the base and one for the veins in the leaves. I used the same color for the veins, after I was done stamping all the elements. You could use a darker color, up to you, but I liked the subtle effect here.

I used a bit of black twine for some contrast and a stitched oval framelit for my sentiment.
There is a die set for this as well and I thought about cutting one of two pieces to layer under the sentiment piece, but it seemed busy enough to me.   I generally keep my on the simple side.

I hope you enjoyed, please check out all the cards, they are all wonderful.

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine

$3.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

$35.00

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Oh Happy Day, FMS challenge 278, card 2

I just can't decide which one I like better, this one or yesterdays black and white card.  What do you think?

I just had so much fun with this technique I had to try it  with  different colors.
For this one I used Rich Razzleberry and Sweet Sugarplum with the Blooms and Bliss DSP. Then I had a hard time decided if I liked it better with a white flower or this razzleberry flower.   I really do love the pattern in the DSP a lot!

If you haven't seen the first one, just scroll down after clicking on the header of this blog. That will open it up to all content. Or just go HERE.

Here is the challenge again and you can click on the link to go to FMS.

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Succulent Garden 3/8" Ribbon Combo Pack

$9.00

Thoughtful Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies

$27.00

May Flowers Framelits Dies

$31.00

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