Tranquil Typewriter

Today’s card features the retiring P.S. You’re the Best Stamp Set, Tranquil Textures DSP, Scattered Sequins Embossing Folder, and Tranquil Tide and Fresh Fig In Colors. I seriously love the typewriter stamp set and don’t think I will be selling it after it retires. I need it in my life! For this card, I stamped a few pieces and constructed my own typewriter with simple message. From there, I took the colors and layered some dsp plus an embossed piece of dsp onto my coordinating cardstock. I really love the color combination of Tranquil Tide and Fresh Fig. I will definitely miss these! Thankfully our new Pretty Peacock In Color is similar to Tranquil Tide (although more blue than green). And I still have Blackberry Bliss for a dark purple.

• Stamps: P.S. You’re the Best

• Inks: Fresh Fig; Tranquil Tide

• Cardstock: Tranquil Textures DSP; Soft Sea Foam; Tranquil Tide; Whisper White

• Accessories: Pearlized Doilies; Fresh Fig Ribbon (retired); candy dots (retired)

• Tools: Scattered Sequins Embossing Folder

Polka Dots and Stripes

Today’s card is a CASE from Deb Naylor @ The Flying Stamper. I loved the simplicity of the design added with the color blocking and embossed texture. I just had to make my own. I changed the card only to fit my own supplies, but I had to keep the main elements the same.

• Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday

• Inks: Basic Black

• Cardstock: Calypso Coral; Bermuda Bay; Pool Party; Sahara Sand; Basic Black; Whisper White

• Accessories: Whisper White Satin Ribbon (retired)

• Tools: Polka Dot Basics Embossing Folder; Tailored Tag Punch

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

SSINKCC54: Leaves and Tea

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

I pulled out the colors and pondered the direction of my card. I knew I wanted to use the Making Everyday Bright leaves to decorate and adorn something. I paired the leaves with the Time for Tea stamp set to create a card full of leaves and a cup of tea. I then finished out my card by adding more texture (embossing folder, ribbon) and visual interest.

• Stamps: Timeless Textures; Time for Tea; Making Everyday Bright

• Inks: Highland Heather; Smoky Slate; Crushed Curry; Cajun Craze

• Cardstock: Country Lane DSP; Smoky Slate; Very Vanilla

• Accessories: Very Vanilla Lace Trim

• Tools: Spot of Tea Framelits; Seaside Embossing Folder

CASEing Cheryl

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to CASE a card from fellow Design Team member Cheryl Hamilton! I picked this cute baby kangaroo card to CASE.  I loved the layout and kept most of those elements. But I changed out everything else. I wanted to make a fun autumn card to celebrate the first week of November. My circle framelit doesn’t quite fit, but I love the elements of my main piece. If you look closely, you can see pops of Blackberry Bliss and Mint Macaron to balance out the palette.

• Stamps: Many Blessings

• Inks: Early Espresso; Blackberry Bliss; Mossy Meadow; Old Olive; Mint Macaron; Pumpkin Pie; Crushed Curry; Close to Cocoa (retired); Ruby Red (retired); Really Rust (retired)

• Cardstock: Country Lane DSP; Crushed Curry; Whisper White

• Accessories: Very Vanilla Lace Trim

• Tools: Basket Weave Embossing Folder; Layering Circles Framelits

No Tricks Just Treats

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring Candy and Treats. I wanted to feature the pretty Silver Glitter Ribbon and the fun Spider Trinkets. I played off of the colors in the witch hat DSP to coordinate my ink and cardstock. Simple, fun card.

• Stamps: Spooky Sweets

• Inks: Gorgeous Grape

• Cardstock: Toil and Trouble DSP; Gorgeous Grape; Pumpkin Pie

• Accessories: Black Glitter Organdy Ribbon; Spider Trinkets

• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits; Polka Dot Embossing Folder

Soup and a Card

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card and feature a soup of the day recipe. I love when the weather cools down just enough to enjoy a giant pot of soup. One of my favorite soup recipes is for Sausage, Potato, Spinach soup. It’s a hearty soup with just the right amount of spice for my spicy husband. I took the recipe from Damn Delicious and it really is!

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 pound spicy Italian sausage, casing removed

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 onion, diced

1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon dried basil

1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

5 cups chicken broth

1 bay leaf

1 pound red potatoes, diced

3 cups baby spinach

1/4 cup heavy cream

Directions:

Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add Italian sausage and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the sausage as it cooks; drain excess fat.

Stir in garlic, onion, oregano, basil and red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring frequently, until onions have become translucent, about 2-3 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Stir in chicken broth and bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.

Stir in spinach until it begins to wilt, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in heavy cream until heated through, about 1 minute; season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Serve immediately.

And while I love a good pot of soup, the weather outside also call for the perfect cup of tea. I decided to make a card featuring a great cup of tea! I really fell for the Tea Room Suite in the annual catalog and this is the perfect use of the suite!

• Stamps: Time for Tea

• Inks: Basic Black; Rich Razzleberry; Old Olive; Daffodil Delight

• Cardstock: Tea Room DSP; Coastal Cabana; Blackberry Bliss; Calypso Coral

• Accessories: Tea Room Ribbon Combo

• Tools: Ruffled Embossing Folder; Spot of Tea Framelits

Floral Cup of Happiness

Today’s card was featured at my fall Bingo event. I started with a general idea of a card and started adding tons of texture! I had seen a card featuring stamps floral images surrounding a pretty stitched shape framelit, but I realized that I didn’t have any of the floral stamps that I saw. So I improvised and fussy cut these beautiful shimmery flowers from the Frosted Floral DSP pack. I love the colors and textures on this card so much. If I had to pick, my favorite piece is the Tranquil Tide Velvet Ribbon. So beautiful and must touch!

• Stamps: Time for Tea

• Inks: Blackberry Bliss

• Cardstock: Frosted Floral DSP; Powder Pink; Gray Granite; Whisper White

• Accessories: Tranquil Tide Velvet Ribbon

• Tools: Spot of Tea Framelits; Ruffled Embossing Folder

#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

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