Excellent - AAA Birthday #45 is an "anything goes" challenge - great place for me to start, lol! Another set I haven't used nearly enough of is Sweetest Cherries! I really don't understand how that is, when there's such a cute builder punch for it, too! I spent some time stamping up this fun hatched background in Granny Apple Green, and my cherries really pop against it! I also decided to fussy cut the big "sweet" sentiment - I hadn't even used it yet! Anyway, I smiled my way through this whole creation process - cherries are just so happy! Sweetest Cherries Stamp Set; Basic White & Early Espresso CS; Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade & Early Espresso Inks; Cherry Builder Punch; Fine Sparkle Gems; #AAAB45. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot!
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We have a fresh new color challenge for you at this round's Hand Stamped Sentiments #405! I decided to take a sharp turn AWAY from all the holiday merry-making today, lol, and went for something a little tropical! Paradise Palms hasn't gotten any ink for a bit now, and I have NOT used this pretty frond die enough! I kept it fairly CAS, with three simple fronds in our colors, a bright splash for the sentiment, and a few of the new Milky Dots in Petal Pink. Since I don't use pinks too often, I figured this was my chance to break into those! I can't wait to see YOUR projects in these fun colors - meet you at the challenge! Paradise Palms Stamp Set; Basic White, Basic Black, Pool Party, Mango Melody & Petal Pink CS; Memento Tuxedo Black & Mango Melody Inks; Timeworn Type EF; Palms & Layering Circles Dies; Milky Dots; #HSS405. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot! A new month, a new chance to play at this month's NBUS #46! I have quite a few new goodies to choose from, too! I decided to go with the new and awesome Taco Fiesta set today - it needed some ink to get warmed up! I focused on the cute chilis this round, and used the tiny one to make a background pattern, while I gave the bigger one un lindo bigote! (That's a cute mustache, to you, lol!) I floated my pair of hot chilis on a pretty heart, but I think I should have gone up one more size so it would show better, hm... And I snuck in a little sombrero on my sentiment - love it! Taco Fiesta Stamp Set; Celebrate Everything DSP; Basic White, Poppy Parade & Polished Pink CS; Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green & Mango Melody Blends Markers; Sweet & Sassy Dies (retired); #NBUS46. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot! We have a super sweet sketch for you this week at Sunday Stamps #300! I decided to really go wild, and turn the sketch, lol, so I could show off another new bundle, On the Ocean! I paired it up with our retired Waves of the Ocean DSP - so dramatic! I did a high seas kind of background, and did some extra waves with the gorgeous dies in a contrasting color, then floated my sailing ship over it all! All that ocean called for the sentiment I chose, lol, because it looks like a rough sailing day, lol. I can't wait to see YOUR projects for our lovely sketch - meet you there! On the Ocean Stamp Set; Waves of the Ocean DSP (retired); Basic White & Coastal Cabana CS; Early Espresso Ink; Blender Pen (on the hull); On the Ocean & Deckled Rectangles Dies; Milky Dots; #SSC300. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot! This should be fun! If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #176 is kicking off the new year with a new take on the challenges - they'll be all about color for the whole year! We're starting out on RED! This is a fun color idea - I was trying to think when I have ever designed a card that focuses on only one color, and I'm not sure it's happened too often, lol. I riffled through my stack of new stamp sets, and quickly pulled out the amazing Watercolor World. That could look cool in red! Hopefully not too war games, lol, and to cinch the deal I pulled in our new Happy Labels, which you can also get bundled with a new label punch. Which I totally didn't use today, have to remember next time, lol. I heat-embossed the sentiment in White on a Real Red strip, that I made into a little map pointer. I think I have hubby's Valentine Day card ready to go! Watercolor World & Happy Labels Stamp Sets; Real Red DSP; Basic White, Basic Black & Real Red CS; Real Red & Versamark Ink; White EP; Resin Hearts Embellishments (retired); #Cookie176. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot! So excited that I get a chance to play at the Alphabet Blog Challenge - this round, T is for Thank You! What a perfect straight line to break out my new Sweet Citrus bundle, too, lol. Another fun new hybrid set to play with! I didn't do any of the hybrid embossing today, I'm too fascinated by the gorgeous and easy two-step stamping for the citrus, and super easy to cut out with the dies! I did my fruits all in Mango Melody today, full strength on the peels, and then stamped off for the centers. There's even two dies for the leaves, so I don't have to run everything through multiple times, lol. I foresee a lot of juicing in my future! Sweet Citrus Stamp Set; Pear Pizzazz DSP; Basic White & Mango Melody CS; Mango Melody & Pear Pizzazz Inks; Sweet Citrus & Ornate Frames (retired) Dies; Pale Papaya Opal Rounds; #ABCThanks. Birthday Cards Class 2023! Let's start the year off by restocking our birthday card stash, shall we? We'll be making 6 delightful birthday cards with envelopes, all from the new Spring Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Class will provide all materials needed (bring your own fave snips and adhesive!), snacks, drinks and a special gift from me, all for $25! This class can also be FREE with your order of $30 or more! Class is on for Saturday, January 14, at 2 pm! RSVP today to save your spot! I'm so tickled that I found another Christmas challenge to try - I need all the help I can get to restock, lol. Christmas Craft Creations is running a gnome challenge! I LOVE the gnome we can build with the fabulous Gnomes dies that accompanied our Kindest Gnomes set. Even more exciting, the dies are carrying over, to go with a new gnome set in the Spring catty! Together with my build-a-gnome, I matched him up with my favorite sheet from the Storybook Gnomes DSP - love all these trees! I'm actually not convinced that the color for them is listed on the pack - I see our retired Just Jade personally, so I did my hat in that, lol. A simple layout, for a handsome Christmas fellow! Kindest Gnomes Stamp Set; Storybook Gnomes DSP; Basic White, Soft Suede, Soft Sea Foam, Just Jade, Petal Pink & Early Espresso CS; Soft Suede Ink; Whimsical Trees EF; Gnomes & Stylish Shapes Dies; Adhesive-Backed Stars; #CCCGnomes. Just in time, In{k}spire Me #496 has a New Year's challenge for us! I was thrilled to remember that I have a New Year's sentiment in my Handmade Wishes Stamp set! Woo hoo! Always fun when I can use a current set on a challenge, lol, though obviously, I don't mind at all going to my Shelves of Retirement, either! This one seemed a natural to pair with this firework paper in the giant Celebrate Everything pack - both these items retire today to make room for the Spring Mini catty. I have been waiting to use this firework paper since I first got the pack! And our retro-looking Adhesive-Backed Stars look great with it, too! Handmade Wishes Stamp Set; Celebrate Everything DSP; Basic White & Poppy Parade CS; Memento Tuxedo Black & Poppy Parade Inks; Handmade Tag Punch; Poppy Parade Baker's Twine; Adhesive-Backed Stars; #IMC496. With great timing as always, Cardz 4 Guyz #312 is a "winter theme" challenge - fun! For this one, I couldn't resist a return to 2019's Sheltering Tree, I love the seasonal flavor you ca add with the different "dressings" for the tree! I love this sentiment with the winter theme, too, and I added a "thank you" on the inside from Wildflower Path. Such a simple card - only two colors! I had to finish with three tiny snowflake sequins, lol, it IS Winter, after all! Sheltering Tree (retired 2019) & Wildflower Path Stamp Sets; Basic White & Pool Party CS; Soft Suede & Pool Party Inks; Snowflake Sequins; #C4G312. Lol, sneaking into another new-to-me challenge over the holidays! This is AAA #230 - they have a CAS non-traditional Christmas colors challenge going! Looking over these images, I went straight to those pretty purple ornaments! Yes! Bonus - one more chance to play Decorated With Happiness before it retires, too, lol. I did my ornaments in Blackberry Bliss, and lengthened a couple strings with a Stamp-n-Write marker. I filled in with scribbles in three different purples, added a few simple stamped sparkles and finished with the sentiment. I'm all stamp-ink-paper today! Decorated With Happiness Stamp Set; Basic White & Blackberry Bliss CS; Blackberry Bliss, Fresh Freesia, Rich Razzleberry & Highland Heather Inks; Blackberry Bliss Stamp-n-Write Markers; Ornate Frames Dies (retired); #AAA230. |
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