Time for a Cuppa

Today’s card is a beauty! I saw a card on Pinterest that used an embossed piece of paper as a background layering it on top of a piece of same colored cardstock. I forgot how much I love that look so this is my card recreating the idea. After embossing my piece of Highland Heather cardstock, I added a bit of Gingham Gala DSP to the bottom to create a table of sorts. I set my colored tea cup on that table adding some flowers and tying it together with ribbon. My final touch was to add a few Highland Heather sequins to the centers of the embossed flowers.

• Stamps: Tea Together

• Inks: Crumb Cake; Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends; Old Olive Stampin’ Blends; Mint Macaron Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Gingham Gala DSP; Highland Heather; Whisper White

• Accessories: Gingham Gala Adhesive Backed Sequins; Very Vanilla 1/2” Lace Trim

• Tools: Lace Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Wildlife Love

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to CASE a card from fellow DT member Darla Roberts! After looking at some of her previous cards (so cute by the way!), I stopped on this cute kitty in a pot card.  I loved the simplicity and fun colors of her card. And so I turned to making my own version of her card. Instead of the cat, I pulled out my Foxy Friends stamp set and created my main image. I switched the circles for squares and flipped my orientation. Lastly I kept the Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon because it is my current favorite accessory! 

• Stamps: Foxy Friends

• Inks: Soft Suede, Mint Macaron, Calypso Coral, Berry Burst

• Cardstock: Wood Textures DSP, Berry Burst, Soft Suede, Whisper White

• Accessories: White Polka Dot Tulle

• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits

Dragon at the Keep

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create featuring animals. Surprisingly I have a ton of stamp sets featuring animals, but I chose to go in a slightly different direction. How about a mythical animal?

• Stamps: Magical Day
• Inks: Basic Black; Stampin' Blends
• Cardstock: Myths and Magic DSP; Smoky Slate; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Magical Mates Framelits; Brick Wall Embossing Folder

A Flock of Bird Cards

Today’s cards were half of the featured Make N Takes at my Spring Bingo event. Each Bingo participant received a goody bag with four variously colored cardstock bases, six 6x6 pieces of Naturally Eclectic DSP, two yards of Lemon Lime Twist Ombre Ribbon, a strip of White Accents, and four metallic doilies. From those supplies, the ladies made two cards at the Bingo event leaving plenty of supplies to take home and use later. For inspiration, I made four different cards using the same supplies. 

And here's what all the ladies at Bingo made from the supplies. Love the variety of designs and combinations!

• Stamps: Flying Home, Pieces and Patterns, Party Pandas (retired)
• Inks: Basic Black, Peekaboo Peach, Stampin' Blends, various markers
• Cardstock: Naturally Eclectic DSP, Soft Sky, Emerald Envy, Peekaboo Peach, Night of Navy, Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Doilies, White Accents, Lemon Lime Twist Ombre Ribbon
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Dots Embossing Folder

Spring Jar of Flowers

Today's card is a riot of spring flowers. When I want to make a colorful card, I often turn to the Jar of Love stamp set and coordinating Framelits. I love making floral cards! For this one, I layered a ton of flowers to create my jar of flowers, heat embossed a piece of vellum to create the jar, and added a ton fo fun texture to finish the card. I've been playing with texture lately and love how this card has real texture (ribbon, tinsel, embossed panel) and perceived texture (wood grain dsp). Such a great all occasions card!

• Stamps: Jar of Love
• Inks: Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzlberry, Soft Sky, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz
• Cardstock: Wood Textures DSP, Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White, Vellum
• Accessories: Doilies, Berry Burst Ribbon, Love Mini Tinsel Trim
• Tools: Petal Burst Embossing Folder, Everyday Jars Framelits, White Embossing Powder

Occasions Catalog Swaps

Our demo group does a card swap for each new catalog. I always look forward to the amazing designs I receive in the mail. 

Carla Branton

Susan Schultz

Jennifer Blomquist @ Northwest Stamper

Christine Szekeres @ Artful Musings

Merit Brown @ MB Squared Designs

Pamela Wu @ Stinky Tofu

Shirley Griffith

Stacey Lane @ A Work of Carte

Brusho Bloom

As part of my preorder for the Occasions Catalog, I bought the Brusho Crystal Colour. I've been having fun playing around with them ever since! Today's card was the swap card for my demo group. I stamped the large flower image in black and then applied red and orange Brusho Crystal Colour. I then cut out the blooms. I don't have a decent picture, but I loved how each bloom looked different. From there, I added some DSP and embellishments to create this beautiful card. 

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Basic Black; Brusho Crystals
• Cardstock: Petal Passion DSP; Birthday Memories DSP; Tangerine Tango; Watercolor Paper
• Accessories: Love Mini Tinsel Trim; Doilies
• Tools: 

Emerald and Berry Eclectic

Today's card challenge was to make a card using a borrowed stamp set. The trick was that I only had an hour to borrow and create something! This Oh So Eclectic Bundle was on my short list, but I chose to buy the Bike Ride Bundle and Coffee Cafe Bundles first. Thankfully my friend Sara bought this one and let me borrow during a crafting day. I quickly decided on a green and purple color scheme and pulled papers and inks to match. From there I stamped my images and die cut each one. I also dded more texture by die cutting the piece of DSP. I love this little cut out design! After layering my pieces, I added a piece of coordinating ribbon to complete my card. 

• Stamps: Oh So Eclectic
• Inks: Lemon Lime Twist; Emerald Envy; Berry Burst; Fresh Fig
• Cardstock: Naturally Eclectic DSP; Emerald Envy; Berry Burst; Whisper White
• Accessories: Berry Burst Ribbon
• Tools: Eclectic Layers Thinlits

A Simple Flower

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a quick and easy card. My idea of quick and easy is something can be completed in less than 15 minutes. This card, while it may look complicated, only took 10 minutes to complete. The longest bit was fussy cutting my flower. I really love this simple card!

• Stamps: Feathery Friends
• Inks: Basic Black; Tranquil Tide; Lemon Lime Twist; Berry Burst; Daffodil Delight
• Cardstock: Berry Burst; Daffodil Delight; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Oh My Stars Embossing Folder

SSINKTC45: Black Magic Dragonflies

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card with the featured technique:  

This is such a great technique and I'm surprised that I've never actually used it! For my card, I knew that I wanted to use the Dragonfly Dreams Stamp Set. The dragonfly image gives a great space for coloring fun! I kept my card in the Bright collections by using the wonderful Watercolor Pencils. I kept my card clean by just adding a few layer and a pretty bow.

• Stamps: Dragonfly Dreams; Scenic Sayings (sentiment inside)
• Inks: White Craft Ink
• Cardstock: Melon Mambo; Basic Black; Whisper White
• Accessories: Organza Ribbon
• Tools: Watercolor Pencils