Wow, what a super fun way to play with layers in this week's In{k}spire Me #197 sketch! I can't wait to try it out combined with Create With Connie & Mary #254's tropical color challenge! So, still working through the retiring list, lol, and I came across Snapshot, such a fun stamp to color! I like to pair it with Hip Notes, always - The "Oh Snap!" sentiment is the whole reason I got the set, lol. I know I'm not the only one who buys a set for ONE stamp, I know how you are, too, right? Anyway, a nice bright camera, and a popped up sentiment, because there just aren't that many that fit in that thinlet... Snapshot & Hip Notes Stamp Sets; Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Gold Foil Specialty & Tangelo Twist CS; Tangelo Twist, Bermuda Bay & Gold Encore Inks; Gold Embossing Powder; Label Card Thinlet; Lucky Stars Embossing Folder; In Color Buttons in Tangelo Twist; White Baker's Twine. New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to take home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting!
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Such a pretty inspiration pic at Just Add Ink #261 this week! SU-per Challenges #88 seems perfect to go with it with their flower challenge! For this one, I decided to concentrate on the colors, as well as the botanical elements. I'm so in love with the neutrals combined with Lost Lagoon and Pool Party - so cool and sophisticated. Bloom With Hope seemed a natural choice, and a lovely sympathy offering besides. So pretty. In trying to imagine the circumstances I might give this in, I tried to keep it pretty clean and simple, too... Bloom With Hope Stamp Set; Sahara Sand, Lost Lagoon, Pool Party & Very Vanilla CS; Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, Lost Lagoon & Pool Party Inks; Corner Rounder Punch; Circle Card & Snowflake Card Thinlets; Basic Jewel Jumbo Pearl (retired.) New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to take home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting! Looking forward to this week's ca-UTE sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #185! Let's try it in this week's challenge colors from Nacho Average Challenge #140! One of the retiring sets I think I will miss the most is this one - Regarding Dahlias. Such a beautiful and dramatic focal stamp, so easy to dress up or down - I have LOVED playing with this one! Embossing, coloring, fussing cutting - this one shines for them all, sigh... I tried a fun little color play here, and I think it comes off very fresh and unexpected! Maybe the dahlias need to stay in the guest room for a while, lol... Regarding Dahlias Stamp Set; Lullaby & Birthday Bash Specialty DSP; Baked Brown Sugar, Crisp Cantaloupe, Bermuda Bay & Whisper White CS; Baked Brown Sugar, Bermuda Bay & Crisp Cantaloupe Inks; Pretty Print Embossing Folder; 1 3/8" & 1 1/4" Square (both retired) & Banner Punches; Banners Framelits; Heavy Baker's Twine in Crisp Cantaloupe; Basic Jewel Rhinestones. New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to takle home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting! OK, don't the cookies in this week's Merry Monday #157 pic look yummy?! They make the challenge for this week - embossing - look GOOD! It wound up being maybe a little indistinct, but after looking at those "inspiration cookies," I knew I wanted to use our Bright & Beautiful stamp set, and I wanted to use my Cherry Cobbler embossing powder, too. I decided to combine with some touches of gold - so not exactly cookie-like, but it's where I started from, I swear, lol! I really like this Black-Vanilla-Cherry-Gold combo, have to do this some more... Bright & Beautiful and Christmas Bliss Stamp Sets (both retired); Typeset Specialty DSP; Very Vanilla & Cherry Cobbler CS; Versamark Ink; Cherry Cobbler & Gold Embossing Powder; Stars Framelits; Gold Baker's Twine. New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to takle home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting! Hm, look at that cute little corner detail at this week's Can You Case It #68 - OOooOO! I totally have to find something funky for that! I think I found it in my Well Worded set, lol. I'm still trying to feature some retiring sets - I actually got a hat-trick out this one! It's also nice that I'm on a bit of a man card kick, too - not my usual genre, lol. I'm going to miss this mustache framelit - it's going to have to hover around here in the background with the chickens, I think! Well-Worded, Backgrounds Rule & Skinny Mini Alphabet Stamp Sets (all retiring); Adventure Bound DSP Stack; Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Sahara Sand & Very Vanilla CS; Early Espresso & Cajun Craze Inks; Mustache Framelit; Regals Button in Cajun Craze; Linen Thread. New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to takle home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting! I'm so excited to introduce this month's Pumpkin Challenge - #0515 - Let's Hear It For The Bows! I got to pick this one, and it really fell into place when I saw our latest kit, "Love you A Lot!" Eee! For some reason when I was getting started today, I totally went into a Pumpkin Nostalgia Moment. I think it's because I label all my sets with the names and release dates showing, and I happened to see, April 2013 was the hilarious "Seriously" kit! And seriously, it's a perfect match for THIS set, IMHO! Since I was going all nostalgia, I pulled out my old Many Mustaches single, too - just narrow enough to fit on the little white card layer that comes with Love You A Lot. Yee-Haw came in next because of the mustachios, lol. Sometimes my mind just goes in strange directions, what can I say? Make sure you link your awesome creations over at My Pumpkin Challenge #0515 - with bows on! Paper Pumpkin - Love You A Lot; plus, Seriously (Paper Pumpkin April 2013), Many Mustaches (retired) & Yee-Haw Stamp Sets; Crushed Curry CS; Smoky Slate Ink; Brights Candy Dots in Pacific Point; Lucky Stars Embossing Folder. New Catty Sneak Peek Class! Oh, stampers, it's that most wonderful time of the year again - the time when we get ready for the release of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog! Eeeeee! I am thrilled to announce our next class which will feature all new items from the upcoming catty, and our new set of In Colors, too. I'll also have your new catalogs here for you, so you can get ready for the beautiful awesomeness coming our way starting June 3! Oh my gosh, you are going to love these projects and colors! Class is announced for Thursday, May 14, 630 PM, chez Heroldt, or Saturday, May 16, 3 PM, also chez Heroldt. Class will be $20, and will include projects, snacks and your new catty to takle home with you! RSVP now to make sure I have your materials ready and waiting! LOVE the fun sketch this week at Retro Sketches #163 - the perfect partner for TGIF #1's inaugural color challenge! Yay! So, let's get back to our regularly scheduled program of high-lighting retiring stamp sets. Today, I'm doing a double: Mosaic Madness and Lots of Thanks. The Mosaic suite is SO perfect for featuring a color challenge, and Lots of Thanks has SO many choices in whatever size sentiment you need for the space available. Another match made in heaven! This card ended up being a bit whimsical than is usual for me, I think. The sketch really got me out of my layout blues, lol... Mosaic Madness & Lots of Thanks Stamp Sets; Best Year Ever DSP (SAB 2015); Pool Party, Crushed Curry & Whisper White CS; Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral & Memento Tuxedo Black Inks; Modern Mosaic Embossing Folder; Mosaic & Itty Bitty Punch (retired); Best Year Ever Button in Calypso Coral (SAB 2015); White Baker's Twine. Happy Birthday to ME! Totally making a birthday card today, lol. Luckily, Create With Connie & Mary #353 gives me a good starting place, and SU-per Challenges #87 is along to add a touch of additional elegance! And since it's all about ME today, we're also working with MY favorite color - PURPLE! Or at least, Blackberry Bliss, lol. It was a tiny challenge to squeeze everything in on this one, and still have my background stripes show per the sketch, but I think I managed... So, someone feel free to send me a big purple cake, lol. I'd love it! Big Day Stamp Set (SAB 2015); Gold Soiree Specialty & Park Lane DSP; Whisper White & Blackberry Bliss CS; Encore Gold & Blackberry Bliss Inks; Gold Embossing Powder; Circle Card Thinlets (for the banner.) What a totally cute sketch at this week's Freshly Made Sketches #184 - love that little floating tag up there! Let's see if I can match it with this week's In{k}spire Me #196 Mother or Father's Day challenge! Hm, let's hear it for the boys this time... That of course means that I'll be pulling out the awesome Guy Greetings set - there are so many fun stamps in this one! I feel like I'm just getting started playing with it, lol. This one's for one natty Dad! Guy Greetings Stamp Set; Adventure Bound DSP Pack; Whisper White, Mossy Meadow & Sahara Sand CS; Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand & Basic Gray Inks; Hamburger Box Bigz XL Die (for the tag); Circle Card Thinlet (for the banner); Neutrals Button in Basic Black; Heavy Baker's Twine in Mossy Meadow; Linen Thread. Hm, this week's Merry Monday #256 is pretty specific, lol - use pine cones, greens and the word "Believe." OK! Let me go hunt that up! And you know what? While I'm at it, I think I'll pull in this week's Nacho Average Challenge #139 for my layout - I have a feeling my stamp pickings will be slim, so I'll need all the help I can get! And I LOVE how it came out! Yay! It's such a good feeling, making these Christmas cards all year - and often, it helps me get through the hot weather here a little bit better, too, lol.I found some ancient retired DSP to use, and changed out the green this set originally used for Old Olive. The sketch elements turned out to be just perfect for the stamps and papers I chose... Yay! Ornamental Pine & Good Greetings Stamp Sets (both retired); Festival of Prints DSP Pack (retired); Old Olive, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla & Cherry Cobbler CS; Old Olive, Early Espresso & Cherry Cobbler Inks; Snowflake Card Thinlets; Stylish Stripes Embossing Folder; Basic Jewel Rhinestones. |
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