Posy Butterflies

Today’s card starts my series featuring the new 2019-2021 In Colors. I love them as a set, but wanted to highlight each color on its own. First up is Purple Posy. This light purple pairs nicely with Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape. For my card, I pulled a piece of retired DSP featuring Highland Heather and a piece of new In Color DSP as a background. I then added a nice pearlized doily and stamped and punched butterflies.

• Stamps: Butterfly Gala; Pop of Petals

• Ink: Highland Heather; Purple Posy; Pear Pizzaz

• Cardstock: 2019-2021 In Color DSP; Botanical Butterfly DSP (Retired); Purple Posy; Highland Heather

• Accessories: Pearlized Doilies

• Tools: Butterfly Duet Punch; Stitched Shapes Framelits

Top Ten 2018 Crafts

I had too many great crafts to choose from this past year, but I eventually narrowed it down. In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite craft projects of 2018!

1. Brusho Butterfly — My first big try at Brusho. Love it!

2. A Bevy of Birthday Blooms

3. Week in the Life Album 2018 — Always love this project!

4. 3D Christmas Tree

5. Kaleidoscope of Butterflies - Using a ton of random scraps!

6. Teddy Bear Greetings - Clean and simple baby card

7. Coffee Cups!

8. Poinsettias and Plaid

9. Floral Cup of Happiness

10. Hand Delivered Bouquet

Quilted Thank You

Today’s card is one of those card designs that I’ve been meaning to try out for some time now. I love the look of these quilted cards, but they looked like so much work. Thankfully they aren’t that complicated at all. Cut 8 pieces of DSP 1 1/4” square and two pieces of DSP or solid yardstick 2 5/8” square. From there, all you have to do is glue the pieces on. I used liquid glue so I could play with the placement and tuck pieces in before they got stuck. Easy peasy!

• Stamps: Four You (retired)

• Inks: Blackberry Bliss

• Cardstock: Country Lane DSP; Early Espresso

• Accessories: Gold Faceted Gems

• Tools:

Trio of Ladies

Today’s cards have been sitting half done for months now. I had a whole stack of these unfinished cards and took a Saturday to knock them out. I had the Regal Rose card bases and smaller pieces cut for a previous card, but had sold the stamp set that I used for those cards. SO I improvised with a different stamp set. I stamped three different images from the Hand Delivered Stamp Set and had some fun coloring them.

• Stamps: Hand Delivered

• Inks: Basic Black; lots of colors

• Cardstock: Regal Rose; Daffodil Delight; Whisper White

• Accessories: Candy Dots (retired)

• Tools: Lucky Stars Embossing Folder; Polka Dot Basics Embossing Folder; Stripes Embossing Folder

SWYL CASE #5

Today’s card is one of the Share What You Love CASEs that I featured at my Fall Bingo event. I slightly changed a few things from the example card, but kept it mostly the same. I CASE this beautiful card from Kristi Gray @ Stamping with Kristi.

• Stamps: Love What You Do

• Inks: Mossy Meadow; Rich Razzleberry; Blackberry Bliss

• Cardstock: Share What You Love DSP; Mossy Meadow; Crumb Cake; Whisper White

• Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Velvet Ribbon; Very Vanilla Lace Trim

• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Oval Framelits

A Daisy Thank You

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using a variety of supplies sent to me by another team member. I received this great collection of elements from the wonderful Cathy Autrey!

And from those elements, I wanted to make a simple card that highlighted the stamped image and gorgeous DSP. I layered the pieces and decided to add a sentiment and an embossed piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock to finish out my card. Love how pretty this one ended up being.

• Stamps: Abstract Impressions; Daisy Delight
• Inks: Night of Navy; Daffodil Delight; Pear Pizzaz
• Cardstock: Garden Impressions DSP; Night of Navy; Pear Pizzazz; Daffodil Delight
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Daisy Punch; Leaf Punch; Simple Stripes Embossing Folder

Hand Delivered Bouquet

Today’s card was featured at June's stamp club. I wanted to make a variation of my annual catalog swap cards for my ladies. I switched out the DSP and changed the balloon image. Instead of cutting individual balloons and gluing them on, I stamped the balloon image onto my DSP and then cut out the entire bunch. Easy peasy! From there, I stamped and colored my woman and added a strip of coordinating DSP and ribbon.

• Stamps: Hand Delivered
• Inks: Basic Black; Tranquil Tide; Mint Macaron; Rich Razzleberry
• Cardstock: Share What You Love DSP; Tranquil Tide; Whisper White
• Accessories: Tranquil Tide Ribbon
• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits

Annual Catalog Swaps 2018

Every new catalog, my demo group does a card swap featuring lots of new products. This year's crop of cards is just great! 

Christine Szekeres @ Artful Musings

Monica Van Tassel

Jennifer Stone

Carla Branton @ Copper Pony Stamper

Nicole Flournoy @ Inky Fingers Stamping

Tanya Cabral

Kathy Thisted

Sandra Vargas

Jennifer Blomquist @ Northwest Stamper

Susan Schultz

In Color Thank You

Every new catalog, I always make a collection of cards to show-off the new In Colors. For this year's colors, I chose to use the new In Color DSP stack and the returning Daisy Delight stamp set. It's hard to choose, but I think Lovely Lipstick may be my favorite new In Color, followed closely by Call Me Clover. Not: I did not make a separate card with Pineapple Punch (too light for the sentiment), but I did use is for the Daisy centers.

• Stamps: Daisy Delight
• Inks: Lovely Lipstick, Call Me Clover, Grapefruit Grove, Blueberry Bushel, Pineapple Punch
• Cardstock: Lovely Lipstick, Call Me Clover, Grapefruit Grove, Blueberry Bushel, Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Triple Banner Punch; Daisy Punch

Daisy Quartet

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 Delightful Daisy DSP, ten gold faceted gems, two yards of Old Olive Sheer Ribbon, and two yards of Daffodil Delight Double Stitched Ribbon. 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 the collection of cards from the Bingo ladies!

• Stamps: Daisy Delight; Birthday Blooms; Sunshine & Rainbows
• Inks: Tranquil Tide; Calypso Coral; Night of Navy; Daffodil Delight; Pool Party; Wisteria Wonder
• Cardstock: Delightful Daisy DSP; Calypso Coral; Night of Navy; Old Olive; Pool Party; Whisper White
• Accessories: Gold Faceted Gems; Sheer Old Olive Ribbon; Daffodil Delight Double Stitched Ribbon
• Tools: Daisy Punch