5/15 - Happy Father's Day

This card will catch me up, finally! And I hope to stay on track for the rest of May with a card or scrapbook page a day using NEW SU merchandise! WOO HOO!

This easel card uses two new stamp sets!

The first new stamp set is: The Open Sea (Wood Mount #123030 $26.95, Clear Mount #123032 $18.95, Page 9 of the mini). I have a few more cards to show you with this stamp set! I can't wait to show them to you!

The second new stamp set is: Best Dad Ever (Wood Mount #120399 $18.95, Clear Mount #120681 $14.95, page 13 of the mini). I love this stamp set! I had to get it when I saw it! So I will be making a few more samples with this stamp set since I have a few dads and a hubby that's a dad in my life. I will need cards come June!

This card also used the new Nautical Expedition DSP (122343, $10.95, page 8 of the mini).
You also get a glimpse of the Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine (#123125, $2.95, 25 yards).

I love how this card used a color combination with Early Espresso and Basic Gray. I never would have thought to put those together before but they make a really manly card, don't you think??!

Supplies Used (All SU)
Stamp Sets: The Open Sea and Best Dad Ever, Cardstock: Early Espresso, Basic Gray, Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White, DSP: Nautical Expedition, Ink Colors: Early Espresso and Not Quite Navy, Tools: Crimper, Sponge and Color Spritzer Tool, Embellishments: Eyelets and Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, Punch: Postage Stamp (You will see more of this punch and details on a card in a few days!)

5/14 - Happy Birthday

I will be posting multiple items today. So be sure to check out all of my posts below!

This card uses the Fabulous Florets Stamp Set (Wood Mount #123025, $23.95 USD and Clear Mount #123027, $17.95 USD, page 22-23 of the mini) and the Beyond the Garden DSP (#122342, $10.95 USD, page 23 of mini). Both items can be viewed at this link.

I just love the effect that stamping off does with images! So cute!

I love the layout of this card! I have never though to make a card open quite like this! Genius!!

Supplies Used (All SU)
Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo and Whisper White, Stamp Sets: Fabulous Florets and Teeny Tiny Wishes, DSP: Beyond the Garden, Ink Colors: Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo, Ribbon: Pretty in Pink 3/8" Taffeta, Tool: Petals-a-Plenty Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

PDCC #81

This week at Play Date Cafe, the color challenge is awesome! I loved it from the first glance! Check out Challenge #81.

The purple is more of a Rich Razzelberry but I didn't have any of that. So I went with Concord Crush and I'm very pleased with how my layout turned out! Check it out!

I created this layout at my crop this past Friday night and I just love it! The colors work so well together and they also compliment my picture which has a lot of gray and green in it.

If you can't tell, I'm a little into buttons these days! They go on almost every project of mine and I was so glad to find some buttons that matched my Concord Crush cardstock for this challenge!!

I used a few different greens on this layout and that just happened because I wasn't at home with all of my supplies! I think the picture is matted in Kiwi Kiss (it was in my scrap box), the ribbon is Old Olive and the button is Pear Pizazz. It doesn't look bad, does it?!

Hope you enjoy my layout. It's all about the trike that she got from the Easter Bunny that came to Grandma and Grandpa's house a day early to celebrate. She's such a big girl now!!

Supplies Used - Cardstock (SU): Concord Crush and Kiwi Kiss, DSP (Echo Park), Ribbon (SU) Concord Crush 1/2" Stitched-Poly and Old Olive 3/8" Taffeta, Buttons: Some SU, some random collection, Other Embellishments: White Baker's Twine (SU), Letter Stickers (Echo Park) and Butterfly (Unknown)

5/13 - Strength & Hope

Here's another card sample using new items from the mini!!!

This card uses the new stamp set: Strength & Hope (Wood Mount #118100 $17.95, Clear Mount #123660 $123660, page 27 of the new mini). You can also purchase this stamp set in a digital bundle (#124475, $9.95) which includes the stamp set, DSP, and embellishment pieces! And $2 from every purchase goes to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Details of the set are here also.

Another new item used on this card is the Flower Garden Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (#123113, $7.95, page 24 of the new mini). This embossing folder can also be seen on this card.

I just love the font of this text stamp and the butterfly image! So pretty!

Supplies Used (All Stampin Up)...
Stamp Set: Strength & Hope
Cardstock: Melon Mambo and Whisper White
Ink Color: Melon Mambo
Tool: Flower Garden Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
Punch: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
Embellishment: Jewel - Basic Rhinestone

5/12 - Daffodil Delight

Playing catch-up again! But this time it's not my fault! Blogger was down starting in the afternoon on Thursday, through Friday when I was available to blog and it was kinda annoying to me and my to-do list! Ha ha! So here I am playing catch-up again this weekend!

This card was created by Shelly. She was the host of the wonderful event that I got to attend and make all of these great samples! I love how she used Whisper White as her cardstock base. I hardly ever do that because I always think it will be too boring. But I really like it!! It's elegant!

This card also used the Fabulous Florets stamp set (Wood Mount #123025 $23.95, Clear Mount #123027 $17.95, page 22 and 23 of the new mini). You can see all of the images in this post.

And like the card in this post, Shelly used a Rhinestone Jewel in the middle of her flower and I love the way it turned out!

I will be back today and tomorrow to catch up on the days I've missed and share a few scrapbook pages I created last night at my crop...some are for a few challenges online! Hope you are having a great weekend!

Supplies Used...
Stamp Set: Fabulous Florets
Cardstock: Whisper White and Daffodil Delight
Ink Colors: Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo
Ribbon: 5/8" Satin Ribbon in Daffodil Delight
Embellishment: Jewels - Basic Rhinestone

5/11 - Triple Layer Punch: Blossom Bouquet

Hello again everyone! Hope you all saw my post about the new Design Team I am a part of! If you didn't, you can see it here.

But since the card in the previous post only has the white baker's twine that is from the new mini, I figured that I better show you a card with MORE NEW STUFF too!

Of course you see the Happy Greetings Stamp Set (which you have seen here) and the Beyond the Garden DSP that was in the same post, but I haven't shown you the Triple Layer Punches yet!

For this card we used the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch (#122464, $23.95 USD, page 6 of the new mini). This punch is awesome and so much fun to use! The little lever on the side can be pushed from left to right to get 3 different settings and 3 different punches! For the above card we used the setting all the way to the left and the setting all the way to the right to get our Whisper White flower that we inked in Melon Mambo.

Don't you love it??!! I will have another sample in a few days showing you how to use this punch!

Supplies Used...

Stamp Set: Happy Greetings

Cardstock: Wild Wasabi (textured), Melon Mambo, Whisper White and Old Olive

DSP: Beyond the Garden

Ink Colors: Melon Mambo

Punches: Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer

Color Dare 100...

I am so excited to tell you all that I have been chosen to serve on Color Dare's design team!!! So each week you will see a color challenge from me and I hope you will play along too!

Our colors this week for CD100 are: Rose Red, Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand. I loved this color combo that Riley came up with!

And here is my card! This is actually the card I gave my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day! You are always welcome to add in neutrals with our color combos!

I started this card with a Sahara Sand base and inked the edges with a little Chocolate Chip ink and a sponge. Then I roughed up the edges of a Whisper White piece of cardstock and added a Baja Breeze piece on top, inked with Chocolate Chip ink. Love this effect!

The piece of DSP came from Basic Gray and was perfect because it had Rose Red little swirls on it! I also inked all 4 edges of this piece of paper.

The stamped sentiment came from Papertrey Ink's stamp set: Signature Greetings. Love this set!

I then added 5 buttons (all but one are from Stampin Up...the other is from Papertrey Ink). I love to lace my buttons with Stampin Up's new Baker's Twine! I used the plain white on this card and laced all of the buttons a little differently.

Here is a up-close picture of the distressing and inking of the edges.

I hope you enjoy my card and I hope you go check out the creations of the rest of the new design team. Oh and don't forget to play along with us! You have until the end of the day on Monday to enter your card! Good Luck!

5/10 - Fabulous Florets

And with this post...I'm caught up! Today is the 10th and here is my 10th card to show you all!YAY!

This card was made with a few new items! First, the stamp set: Fabulous Florets (Wood Mount #123025 $23.95, Clear Mount #123027 $17.95, page 22 and 23 of the mini). It seems like a lot of people liked this stamp set from my demo group...so you will see a few more samples using it over the next few days!

The other new item used on this card is the Beyond the Garden DSP (#122342, $10.95 USD, page 23 of the mini). Both of these items are featured on this post too! Click here to check out all of the images in the stamp set and patterns of the paper!

I love how this person stamped one flower on Whisper White cardstock with Melon Mambo ink and the other was stamped on Melon Mambo cardstock with Basic Black ink! Then the rhinestone jewels in the middles...SO CUTE!

Supplies Used...
Stamp Sets: Fabulous Florets and Thank You Kindly
Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Basic Black and Melon Mambo
DSP: Beyond the Garden
Ink Colors: Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo and Basic Black
Tools: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
Embellishment: Jewels - Basic Rhinestone

5/9 - People, Places, Things

Here is another card using the NEW stamp set: Travel Log. You can see all of the details on this stamp set in the below post here.

This card is pretty simple but I love it's color scheme and elements!

This little owl is one of my favorite things about the card!!

Supplies Used...
Stamp Set: Travel Log
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Peach Parfait (textured and smooth), Crumb Cake and Early Espresso
DSP: Peach Parfait from the 6x6 In Color hostess pad
Ink Colors: Peach Parfait and Early Espresso
Punch: Two-Step Owl
Embellishment: 1/8" Taffeta in Early Espresso

5/8 - Travel Log

Here is the card from Sunday. My 8th new sample to show you! This card was created by Diana Ball and she has a lot of other samples made using this stamp set on her blog already this month! You should check it out!

The new stamp set on this card is: Travel Log (Wood Mount #123080 $29.95, Clear Mount #123082 $21.95, page 12 of the mini). When I first saw this stamp set I LOVED it! But I didn't preorder it because I thought I wouldn't use it too much. But Diana has made so many samples with it that aren't even travel related! It's so fun!

She did a lot of embossing on this card and I think the map really does look great embossed! One more card using this stamp set coming today!

Supplies Used...
Stamp Set: Travel Log
Cardstock: Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight

DSP: Brights Paper Stack

Ink Colors: Chocolate Chip

Punches: 2-3/8" Scallop Circle, 1-3/4" Circle, 1/2" Circle, Modern Label, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border

Embellishments: Real Red 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Linen Thread, Vintage Trinkets

Other: Clear Embossing Powder