A Coffee for Dad

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Father's Day card. I'm always up for making a card for mom or grandma, but what to make for my day. Thankfully I remembered the versatile Coffee Cafe Stamp Set. This is perfect for making a simple card to celebrate Father's Day.

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners, Coffee Cafe
• Inks: Night of Navy, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
• Cardstock: Wood Textures DSP, Twinkle Twinkle DSP, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla
• Accessories: Crumb Cake Classic Weave Ribbon
• Tools: Coffee Cups, Duet Banner Punch

A Simple Leaf Birthday

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a masculine card. I often turn to blues and greens for masculine cards. For this one, I wanted to play with coloring but keep the color palette within the earth tones. 

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners
• Inks: Always Artichoke, Stampin' Blends (Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler)
• Cardstock: Just Add Color DSP, Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Gold Foil
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Duet Banner Punch

A Card for Dad

Today's card is being featured at my Pattern Paper class this season. I wanted to make a masculine card and the new True Gentleman DSP is perfect! I kept the card simple deciding to focus on layering the fun patterns and finishing off with a simple sentiment. As a last minute addition, I added the metallic doily to add a bit more shine.

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners
• Inks: Night of Navy
• Cardstock: True Gentleman DSP; Very Vanilla; Emerald Envy
• Accessories: Metallic Doilies; Gold Sequins
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Triple Banner Punch

Foil Panel Birthday

Today's card is an awesome CASE from Martha Inchley @ Inch of Creativity. I loved the idea of the layered foil pieces on a clean white base. I changed up the sentiment and shapes, but the rest I kept the same. Such a great colorful card. 

Detail of the shiny foil

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners
• Inks: Berry Burst
• Cardstock: Foil Frenzy DSP; Berry Burst; Soft Sky; Lemon Lime Twist; Tangerine Tango; Whisper White
• Accessories: In Color Bitty Bows
• Tools: Duet Banner Punch

TGIFC119: Riding My Bike

Today's card is playing along with TGIF's Color Challenge. These three colors together just scream summer! I love the combo.

I had so much fun making this simple little card that it's going to be one of the featured cards for August's stamp club meeting. I started with stamping this cute little green and blue bike. I love how the stamp set is designed to be able to layer on different colors. And it comes with a ton of different items to put onto the back of the bike. So versatile! I filled a little basket with a dog and some pretty sunflowers. As a last touch, I added some glitter enamel dots to the centers of the wheels.

• Stamps: Bike Ride; Thoughtful Banners
• Inks: Lemon Lime Twist, Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake
• Cardstock: Eastern Palace DSP, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Whisper White
• Accessories: Enamel Glitter Dots
• Tools: Duet Banner Punch, Build a Bike Framelits

Summer Stripes

Today’s card challenge is a color challenge. When picking colors, I tend to gravitate toward the Brights Collection. For this card, I tried to use more colors from the Subtles Collection.

While I made a few substitutions for a couple of In Colors (Lemon Lime Twist and Sweet Sugarplum), I kept my card on the pastel side. I ended up pulling out the new-to-me set Thought Banners and created my own banner birthday card for a friend. I love how versatile the message can be with this set. There are so many word options! After adding a little punched banner using the coordinate Duet Banner Punch, my card still felt like it was missing something. So I added a cute coordinating ice cream cone to finish it off!

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners; Cool Treats
• Inks: Lemon Lime Twist; Daffodil Delight; Powder Pink; Sweet Sugarplum; Pool Party; Basic Black
• Cardstock: Lemon Lime Twist; Pool Party; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Duet Banner Punch; Frozen Treats Framelits

SSINKCS46: Abstract Crackle

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

I decided to feature the new Color Theory DSP stack. I love this crackle look paper so I made it the focus. I simply picked two complimentary colors and repeated them throughout the simple card. The card gave me a chance to use my new Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set and Duet Banner Punch.

• Stamps: Thoughtful Banners
• Inks: Crushed Curry; Dapper Denim
• Cardstock: Color Theory DSP; Dapper Denim; Crushed Curry; Whisper White
• Accessories:
• Tools: Duet Banners Punch

Sunday Haul #6

A quick stop at Michael's for snail ended with me taking advantage of a 60% off all Recollections stickers and washi tape. This will definitely be a great addition to the kiddos scrapbooks. And the washi tape will be great for my planner.

And my Stampin' Up! preorder arrived! Look at all the fun new goodies I got!

• Pick a Pattern DSP
• 2017-2019 In Color Cardstock
• Lemon Lime Twist Ink
• Powder Pink Ink
• Tranquil Tide Ink
• Berry Burst Ink
• Fresh Fig Ink
• 2017-2019 In Color Markers

• Feathery Friends Stamp Set
• Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set
• Pieces and Patterns Stamp Set
• Brights Markers
• Duet Banner Punch
• Better Together Stamp Set