A Leafy Hello Redone

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to CASE a card from one of the Design Team. In fact, we are CASEing me today! For my card, I decided to copy this card from last September. I really love the layout of this card but wanted to update it for current products.  I switched out the DSP from these lovely stripes from the Nature's Poem Pack. I added some coordinating cardstock. I switched out the leaves for vases and the ribbon for some sparkly coordinating ribbon. I really love the design of this card!

• Stamps: Varied Vases
• Inks: Tranquil Tide; Mint Macaron; Petal Pink; Mango Melody; Soft Suede; Crumb Cake; Rich Razzleberry 
• Cardstock: Nature's Poem DSP; Tranquil Tide; Soft Suede; Petal Pink; Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits

A Variety of Vases

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the Varied Vases stamp set from the Annual Catalog. I love how fun this stamp set can be! For this card, I created two shelves of vases to feature. From there, I added a piece of Garden Impressions DSP. Then I focused on filling in the vases with a variety of coordinating colors. Two the vases I actually stamped and cut out from cardstock to add a bit of texture. 

• Stamps: Varied Vases
• Inks: Night of Navy; Calypso Coral; Soft Sea Foam; Shaded Spruce; Melon Mambo; Powder Pink; Daffodil Delight; Crushed Curry
• Cardstock: Garden Impressions DSP; Daffodil Delight; Night of Navy; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: 

Tropical Butterfly

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite DSP.  I always love working with SU's beautiful DSP, but sometimes packs fly under the radar for me until I see them in person. The Tropical Escape pack falls into that category. I liked it, but was lukewarm until it was in my hands and I could flip through the stack. Oh my goodness! This stack has such beautiful patterns! I knew I had to focus on this stack for today's card. I ended up creating a fancy folds card to feature a few of the patterns in the stack. After choosing my patterns, I chose a coordinating sentiment and a die cut a beautiful butterfly. 

Detail of fancy fold:

• Stamps: Better Together
• Inks: Lovely Lipstick
• Cardstock: Tropical Escape DSP; Basic Gray; Granny Apple Green; Whisper White
• Accessories: Pearls
• Tools: Springtime Impressions Thinlits

Birthday Stripes

Today’s card was featured at August's stamp club meeting. I wanted to do a simple birthday card featuring some great DSP. And I came up with this card! I started by cutting and arranging strips of the Broadway Bound DSP. From there I added a few layers and a sentiment. The finishing touch was a heat embossing punched butterfly from the Pop of Petals Stamp Set. 

• Stamps: Better Together; Pop of Petals
• Inks: Lovely Lipstick; Lemon Lime Twist
• Cardstock: Broadway Bound DSP; Lemon Lime Twist; Basic Black
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Gold Embossing Powder

Blended Beautiful Day

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite coloring technique. I go back and forth between technique, but currently I really love coloring with the Stampin' Blends. For my card, I stamped the large flower and sentiment from Beautiful Day and heat embossed them with gold powder. From there I choose a few fun colors and started filling in the flowers. Easy peasy with great results!!

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Versamark; Rich Razzleberry Blends; Calypso Coral Blends; Pink Pirouette Blends
• Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry; Early Espresso; Whisper White
• Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder
• Tools: 

#SSINKCC52: Polka Dot Birthday

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

Color challenges are always so much fun and always stretch my creativity. For this card, I immediately knew I wanted to make a masculine birthday card, but played around with a lot of layers and layouts before deciding on this one. I wanted to keep the card simple but add some kind of dimension. Enter my stash of embossing folders. I love adding texture to cards through embossing folders. I went with Simple Stripes, but contrasted that with the polka dot paper. Love the simplicity of this card!

• Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday
• Inks: Pacific Point; Call Me Clover
• Cardstock: 2018-2020 In Color DSP; Balmy Blue; Pacific Point
• Accessories: Crumb Cake Ribbon
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Stripes Embossing Folder

King of the Birthdays

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using a punch. I have a few images pinned on Pinterest with fun animals you can make with the Fox Builder Punch. I spied a cute little lion and knew I had to pair that creation with the fun Animal Expedition DSP. I kept the card simple, but had fun layering some paper, creating my lion, and adding some gold sequins. 

• Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday
• Inks: Early Espresso
• Cardstock: Animal Expedition DSP; Crushed Curry; Early Espresso; Crumb Cake
• Accessories: Gold Sequins
• Tools: Fox Builder Punch; Layering Circles Framelits

Birthday Balloon Rainbow

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the new In Colors.  I pulled out a great carrying over stamp set and the new colors and pondered my options. I finally decided on a rainbow effect to highlight all of the new In Colors. Such a fun little card to make.

• Stamps: Birthday Wishes for You
• Inks: Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, Call Me Clover, Blueberry Bushel
• Cardstock: Blueberry Bushel, Basic Black, Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Balloon Bouquet Punch

Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

Two weeks ago, I got a little carried away playing with a few of my retiring stamp sets. I wanted to make a few butterflies using the Watercolor Wings stamp set and ended up making over 20... Yeah, didn't see that coming. I took my butterflies and dug through my scrap paper box for coordinating papers. From there, I paired each card with a few embellishments (ribbon, enamel shapes, candy dots, doilies, sequins, etc).

• Stamps: Watercolor Wings
• Inks: Too many to list
• Cardstock: Ditto
• Accessories: Ditto
• Tools: 

CASEing Rebecca

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to CASE our newest Design Team Member Rebecca! In looking through Rebecca's Blog, 101 Projects with Rebecca, I was struck by her great designs and color choices! For today's card, I chose to CASE this Share What You Love card from late April. I took her design and changed out her soft palette for a riot of color! I didn't pay a lot of attention to where I placed my bows and gems resulting in a fun haphazard look. After making my card, I realized that I used the Picture Perfect Birthday Stamp Set for last month's CASE card. Guess it's become my go-to. Love love love it!

• Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday
• Inks: Lemon Lime Twist, Call Me Clover, Rich Razzleberry, Blackberry Bliss, Lovely Lipstick, Flirty Flamingo
• Cardstock: 2018-2020 In Color DSP, Blackberry Bliss, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Whisper White
• Accessories: Clear Faceted Gems
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits