Fun Party Pandas

How about a trio of cute pandas for today? At first, I wasn't drawn to these pandas as my SAB pick, but then I saw all the amazing cards others made. I knew I had to get them. And since then, I have made some great cards. This one is simple, but striking. The pandas are framed by this piece fo fun DSP from the Tutti-Frutti pack. After adding the pandas on, I decided to leave off other embellishments to focus on the paper. 

• Stamps: Party Pandas (SAB)
• Inks: Basic Black; Rich Razzleberry; Sweet Sugarplum; Peekaboo Peach; Calypso Coral; Island Indigo
• Cardstock: Tutti-Frutti DSP; Island Indigo; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Washi Tape Punch (retired)

Petal Garden Layers

I love this great card of layered DSP. I always want to highlight the beautiful patterns of our DSP, but often we mask it under stamps and other pieces. For this card, I kept my stamping to a simple sentiment to showcase the beautiful flowers. 

• Stamps: Suite Sayings
• Inks: Rich Razzleberry
• Cardstock: Petal Garden DSP, Rich Razzleberry, Calypso Coral, Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Lots of Labels Framelits

A Flutter of Butterflies

Today’s card is a quick and easy card that I adore. I simply stamped a bunch of butterflies and added a great sentiment. I would love to repeat this card with different color combinations. 

• Stamps: Watercolor Wings
• Inks: Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach, Sweet Sugarplum, Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist, Basic Black
• Cardstock: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White
• Accessories: Rhinestones
• Tools: 

A Juggling Panda for You!

As soon as I saw the Sale-a-Bration brochure, I had to have the Party Pandas stamp set! It's just so incredibly cute. I decided to play with circles and stripes for the design of the card. I embossed a piece of Whisper White paper with the Polka Dot embossing folder and repeated those dots in the DSP and the die cut shapes. For contrast I chose of piece of striped DSP as a background layer. After stamping and coloring my panda, I added some fun bright sequins. I love how the panda is juggling the sequins. 

• Stamps: Party Pandas
• Inks: Basic Black, Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst
• Cardstock: Picture Perfect Party DSP, Berry Burst, Pool Party, Whisper White
• Accessories: Tutti-Frutti Sequins
• Tools: Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Stitched Shapes Die Cuts, Washi Label Punch (retired)

January 2018 Memory Planner

Basket for You

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Get Well card. The SAB featured Blossoming Basket Stamp Set was the perfect choice. I stamped the basket in Basic Black and set to coloring with various Stampin' Blends. From there I added a hand drawn border to help define my square of white before adhering it to the embossed piece of cardstock. The Calypso Coral Shimmer Ribbon (also SAB item) was the perfect finisher.

• Stamps: Blossoming Basket
• Inks: Basic Black, Stampin' Blends (Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Calypso Coral)
• Cardstock: Calypso Coral, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
• Accessories: Calypso Coral Shimmer Ribbon
• Tools: Basket Weave Embossing Folder

30 Days of Lists: Days 1-10

I've really enjoyed participating in 30 Days of Lists on and off for the past few years. For 2018, the creators offered a season pass getting me all three months of lists (March, September, and December) for a bit of a discount. I jumped at the chance and sign-up. For March's lists, I decided to use the 6x8 PL page protectors, the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, and various stickers and embellishments. My plan is to use the same 6x8 album (a Snap Simple Stories album) to house all three months of 30 Days of Lists, my Week in the Life pages (documenting this week), and possibly December Daily. Here are Days #1-10:

Sparkly Unicorn!

Today's card is such a fun sparkly card! We made this for February's stamp club and I think all the ladies enjoyed making the card. We colored the glimmer paper with Pool Party reinker to create our sky. From there, we die cut the clouds adding a bit of Pool Party to the edges. The unicorns were colored with a mix of old Stampin' Up! Blendibilities and the new Stampin' Up! Blends (we made the card before the rest of my Blends arrived). Love this super sparkly card!

• Stamps: Magical Day; Sunshine and Rainbows
• Inks: Island Indigo; Basic Gray; Daffodil Delight; Pool Party; Stampin' Blends
• Cardstock: Iridescent Glimmer Paper; Daffodil Delight; Pool Party; Whisper White
• Accessories: Rhinestones
• Tools: 

Mermaid Tags

I always make something handmade for the moms' retreat that I plan. For this past retreat (Feb. 22-25), I had little goody bags filled with a cute journal and pen, favorite candy, reusable grocery bag, and fancy decorated cookie. Of course, I had to add some handmade element to the goody bags. So I pulled out my relatively new Magical Day stamp set and picked the mermaid stamp to work with. I stamped 9 mermaids and seahorses and got to coloring with a mix of the old Stampin' Up! Blendabilities and the new Stampin' Up! Blends. I tried to mix up the combinations to create 9 different mermaids. I love coloring and this stamp set is the perfect one to color!

After coloring and die cutting, I added the mermaids and seahorses to pretty purple marble paper tags. Finally I added a simple name banner and a few rhinestones to eat tag. These cute handmade tags were the perfect addition the goody bags. 

Time for Scraps

Today's card is a great example of how to use scraps to create a beautiful card. I took a ton of 1 inch strips from my Dear Lizzy Documented stack and pulled my favorite patterns. From there I just created a scattered pattern on a piece of white cardstock. I finished off the card with a simple sentiment. 

• Stamps: Four You (retired)
• Inks: Melon Mambo
• Cardstock: Melon Mambo; Dear Lizzy Documented DSP
• Accessories:
• Tools: