GDP #270 - Sketch Challenge: Christmas Blessings

 Hello! I'm going to make my post brief but I had to share the card I made for the Global Design Project challenge this week. This week's challenge is a sketch. Sketches and color challenges are my favorites. Anyway click HERE for the sketch.

I'm working on my christmas cards so this sketch was good to help me come up with some other ideas. 

I'm in LOVE with the Heartwarming DSP so I wanted to use that as the background for my card. I also thought it would be fun to use some of the dies from Forever Flourishing. I cut out several of the leaves with the Festive Felt, Old Olive cardstock and Gold glimmer paper. These were all placed around a gold hoop. I've used these fun hoops way more than I thought I would. They are such a fun touch to the card.

I used the Wrapped in Texture embossing folder on Shimmery white cardstock. This is such a great embossing folder! Grab it now while it's on sale!

The sentiment is from Wrapped in Christmas and it's stamped on Sahara Sand card stock. The finishing touch is some Gold Glimmer dots. Love these as well!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

GDP #267 - Theme Challenge: Hot Drinks

 

Hello! It's a tad dusty over here, haha!! I just haven't had the energy to craft as much as I would have liked plus I'm re-organizing my craft area so that is just a HUGE mess which makes it harder to put a quick card together. But I've been itching to do some crafting so I made some space in the mess and played along with the Global Design Project challenge. After not crafting for a while, I find that the challenges help to get my mojo going.

The challenge this week at Global Design Project is a theme challenge. The theme this week is Hot Drinks. See the challenge HERE. This was perfect since I recently received the Warm Hugs bundle so I wanted to play with that.

So I used the Warm Hugs stamp set along with the Heartwarming Hugs DSP. Love this paper and stamp set. Aren't those little coffee cups so cute!! I plan to add a coffee gift card to the inside of the card. I sure hope whoever receives this enjoys this pretty card! :)

One of my favorite things on this card is the red felt from the Festive Felt pack. And I love the ribbon, which is from the All the Trimmings combo pack. The coordination of the different elements from the different product suites in the catalog is so great! One thing to note is the red gems are retired but could easily be replaced with the Wonderful Gems from the Holiday catalog. (I just don't have those yet).

I hope you enjoy today's card and it puts you in the holiday spirit! Our tree is up already so we are in the spirit!! 

Have a great day!

GDP #253 - Color Challenge

 Hello!! I am a guest stamper over at this week's Global Design Project challenge. Woo hoo! I won last month's challenge so I get the honor of participating with the Design Team on this month's color challenge. Check out the challenge HERE. And what a great color combo it is this week!

These are fun colors this week! They scream bright and summery to me! I decided to go with making a Happy Birthday card. I wanted to use the Playful Alphabet dies to make a card. Here is my creation below.

I stamped the line image from the set in versamark on Bumble Bee cardstock and embossed to get the stripes on Happy. I added that on to a die cut from the Hippo and Friends dies. Then I used the Well Written Dies to cut out birthday in Granny Apple Green.

I stamped the hearts from the Pattern Play stamp set in Granny Apple Green and then cut them out. The background paper is from the Playing with Patterns DSP. I just love those Calypso Coral polka dots. And the finishing touch on the card is the In Color enamel dots. 

How fun are these colors together?? Play along with the Global Design Team this week for a chance to become next month's guest designer!

Have a great day!

GDP #249 - Color Challenge Unicorn!

Update: Thanks to the Global Design Project team for picking my card as a winner this week!! 

Happy Friday! I'm happy to share another card with you this week. That's 2 cards in one week. It's been a while since I've done that! I just had to play with the new Hippo Happiness bundle. The animals is this set are adorable. Of course the first one I chose had to be the unicorn. I decided to play with this week's Global Design Project color challenge. Challenge HERE.

These are really pretty colors together. So I now present my card with these colors!

The card base is the new Misty Moonlight. This is a nice pretty blue color. The unicorn is stamped in Petal Pink (with a touch of Calypso Coral on top......eeek! I had to squeeze in a darker color for the unicorn body).  Behind the unicorn I die cut the squiggles in Pool Party card stock. These cute little things are included in the Hippo and Friends Dies. The white label behind the unicorn is also from that set.

On the Misty Moonlight card stock, I stamped the little star splatter image with versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I stamped one of the sentiments in gray ink on Petal Pink card stock and cut out all of the words.

If you look closely you can see that I used the Misty Moonlight baker's twine and colored the white part of the twine with my Pool Party blend. That's a neat little touch!

And to finish the card I added a few of the Elegant Faceted Gems. These are great gems too. Stampin' Up! really has a bunch of fun new embellishments in the new catalog! Of course I had to get them all and try them out on all of my cards! :)

I hope you enjoyed this cute little unicorn. Have a wonderful weekend!

Global Design Project #232

Happy Saturday!! I have a fun and pretty card to share today. I used some of my quarantined time today to play along with the Global Design Project challenge this week. The challenge this week was to CASE the Designer. Here is the card to CASE this week:

This was such a pretty card to CASE. Now here is my card!

I pretty much CASED the card exactly. I loved all the flowers and bright colors. I took out the Abstract Impressions stamp set which I haven't used all that much lately. I forgot how much I love this set. It's great for making your own DSP.

I stamped the flowers in Petal Pink/Grapefruit Grove and Pool Party/Blueberry Bushel. The leaves are Soft Sea Foam/Granny Apple Green. And I used one of the grass stamps in the set stamped with Pineapple Punch and filled in the white spaces. I stamped it on scrap paper first so the yellow wasn't so bright.

My hand crafted DSP was layered on top of the Peaceful Poppies DSP. I then used another flower image from the set and stamped 3 more flowers that I cut out and layered around the circle.

This was such a fun challenge. I love how bright and cheerful my card came out! I'm definitely going to try this again in some other colors. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

GDP #230 - Magnolia Floral Thank You

Hello! I'm playing along with the Global Design Project challenge this week. This week's challenge is a sketch challenge. This is a great basic sketch. Pop on over to Global Design Project to check out the projects from the design team.

Now here is my submission.

I pulled out the Good Morning Magnolia bundle for this card. This set was one of my early favorites from the annual catalog. It's such a great flower for coloring. I used the Petal Pink and Granny Apple Green Stampin Blends for the flower. After I colored the flower, I die cut it and then cut the leaves so I could rearrange them behind the flower.

I layered the flower on a Terracotta Tile circle. This is my first time using this color and I like how it goes with Petal Pink. The DSP used is the Golden Honey DSP from the SAB catalog. Again, this DSP has some really great bold and basic prints.

The sentiment is from Seriously The Best, which is so fitting. This set really is great. I didn't think I needed it at first but I love having a large script sentiment and then smaller sentiments to go with them.

Oh and one other fun element I used on this card are the leaves from the Magnolia Lane cork embellishments. I tucked them in behind the other leaves for some additional texture to the card. It gives the card a fun pop!

Isn't this a fun challenge??!

Have a great day!

Global Design Project #227 - Let It Grow

Happy Thursday! I'm playing along with the Global Design Project this week. This week's challenge is Let it Grow. So of course I have to use my new favorite set.... the Painted Poppies Bundle. 

I have several thank you cards to make so I have a few cards to share over the next few days with this set. I hope you don't get sick of this set!! :)

I used some of the pretty Peaceful Poppies DSP for the background. I just used the simple green stripe paper to show off the pretty flowers.

The flowers are layered on one of the dies from the Stitched So Sweetly set. Then I ran the Soft Sea Foam paper through the Big Shot with the subtle embossing folder. I did something fun with the leaves on the card below. I used the splatter stamp from the set and stamped it several times with Mossy Meadow and then stamped the leaf image on top and die cut. So it the leaves have a fun splatter look. The leaves on the card above are just stamped with the "blob" image from the set. I'm not sure what the technical name is for that stamp in the set, haha!

For the finishing touches, I added some ribbon from the Magnolia Ribbon combo pack, some basic adhesive sequins, Share What you Love pearls (retired) and wink of stella in the center of the flowers.

Stay tuned for some more flowers over the next few days!!

Have a wonderful day!

Global Design Project #202

Hello! I'm back with another sketch challenge and another post!! This time I'm playing along with the Global Design Project sketch challenge. You can find the challenge HERE.

Another fun sketch challenge. I used one of my new favorites....Good Morning Magnolia bundle. The flower in this set is just to die for. I love coloring it!

I watercolored the flower using an aquapainter and various inks: Flower - Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick; Leaves - Soft Sea Foam, Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana; Stem - Sahara Sand and Early Espresso. Once everything was dry, I added some splatters using my Crumb Cake marker. I really love how you can quickly add color to the flower and it looks so great.

The Coastal Cabana background piece was embossed with the Tin Tile embossing folder. I then used a strip of DSP from the Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP. I also added some gold touches with Gold Glimmer paper and Gold foil sheets.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this flower brightens your day.

Sketch Challenge - Floral Birthday Card

Hello! I hope everyone is staying warm!! It was a brisk -4 this morning which I know is probably warm for some of those in the midwest. Let's hope this is short lived. For today's card, I went with springy colors. Spring can't get here soon enough.

I am playing along with the Global Design Project challenge this week.

For my entry, I used some new products from the Occasions catalog as well as some forgotten about DSP from the annual catalog.

I just got the Well Words bundle and I couldn't wait to use it!! I am in love with those word die cuts. How great is that "happy" font?!? I will definitely be using this bundle all the time!

I wanted to try something fun with the oval. I placed the oval stitched framelit on white cardstock, then I placed the floral die from the Lovely Flowers Edgelits dies on top of the oval framelit. So I ran both through at the same time. My hope was that the floral die would just die cut the center of the oval and it actually worked!! I backed the oval with paper from the Share What you Love DSP. I used another piece of DSP from that pack for the front of the card. I forgot how much I love this paper. There are some fun papers in this pack that have a nice pearlized finish.

If you look closely, I stamped the lace image from Southern Serenade in Soft Sea Foam ink on the Soft Sea Form card stock. I wanted to have a little bit of texture on the cardstock.

I finished the card off with Old Olive linen thread, a Petal Pink blossom element and Petal Pink adhesive backed sequins. I love all of the colors of this card! Petal Pink is one of my new favorite colors from the annual catalog.

Thanks for stopping by. Stay warm!!

GDP172 - Valentine's Kangaroo

Hello! I'm going to have a quick post today but I wanted to share the card I made for this week's Global Design Project challenge. (My other valentine's decor project will be posted in a couple of days.....just need to edit photos). This week's challenge can be found HERE. It's a Case the Designer Challenge. I like these challenges to help get the creative juices flowing.

Here is the card to CASE.

I decided to make a valentin'es card with this challenge. Now I just need to hide the card so my hubby doesn't see it. I'm on top of my game by having a card ready for him already, haha!!

I used the Animal Outing bundle for this card. At first I wanted to use it so I could use the Wild About You sentiment but then I realized that I used that sentiment on the anniversary card I gave him back in October so I wanted to use a different saying. I still decided to go with the animals from the set though. Instead of stamping and coloring them, I went the quick route and die cut the kangaroo and leaves from the Animal Expedition DSP. I don't usually do that but it's fun to change it up once in a while and it's so easy. Definitely helps the card making process.

I also used the new Be Mine Stitched Framelits. I really got these dies for that open heart border die. It's soooo cute! I decided to keep some of the hearts stuck in the die because it looked cool. The larger heart die with the "love you" staying is also from the framelits.

After I layered everything on the All My Love DSP, I added some of the Heart Epoxy Droplets to the card. They give it a fun little touch!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful Thursday!

Global Design Project #161 - Harvest Blessings

Happy Friday!! Fall is in full swing here! Cold temps and leaves falling. I'm still not ready for it but I guess I'll just have to go with it! Ha! Today's card is certainly very fall like. I played along in the Global Design Project challenge this week. I've probably said this before but color challenges are my favorite challenges. Here are the colors for this week:

For my card, I used the Colorful Seasons stamp set, Buffalo Plaid stamp set and Country Home (for the sentiment).

To start I stamped the large leaf in Crushed Curry ink, stamped it off once on scrap paper and then sponged Pumpkin Pie ink on the edges. I love how it came out. It definitely helped to stamp off some of the Crushed Curry color so it wasn't too intense. After I stamped all of the large leaves, I filled up some of the white space with the smaller leaves stamped in Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry. I used the wonderful Buffalo Plaid background stamp to add to the fall look. And I thought I wasn't going to need this stamp! Yeah right!

The sentiment is stamped in Early Espresso on Sahara Sand cardstock. Then I added some gold glimmer leaves that were die cut with the Seasonal Layers thinlits. Love that splash of sparkle!

And as always the final touch is sequins. Can't have a card without sequins. I am surprised that I don't have any ribbon on there. I don't think this card needs any ribbon. It's so pretty as is!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

Global Design Project # 142 - Stitched All Around

Hello! I have a quick Friday post for you. I have been able to get crafty a little bit with some new goodies so I have some stuff to share for the next few days! Yippee!! Today's card is for the Global Design Project Challenge #142. Since it's been so long since I've done cards, I'm doing a bunch of challenges to get back into the swing of things. This challenge was a sketch challenge. Check it out here.

 Here is my card for the challenge. LOTS of new goodies used!!

The first thing I had to use out of all the new stuff was this Gorgeous Grape paper!! Purple is my favorite color and I've been dying for a bright purple like this!! I will try not to go too crazy and use purple all the time! :) I also used the new Brights 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper. This paper is so fun too. I only got the Brights collection for now, but I can see where I'm going to need to get the rest of the color collections.

The fun stamp on the Gorgeous Grape cardstock is from the Gallery Grunge stamp set. I can see that this will probably be a well used set. And can we talk about that die cut where I stamped the sentiment?? Is that not the pretties label die ever!!! Something else I will probably be using a lot of!! I stamped one of the sentiments from Stitched All Around using Lovely Lipstick and Coastal Cabana ink to make an ombre look. I like how the Lovely Lipstick and Coastal Cabana ink blended in the middle to make a little purple color.

Last but not least, I added some of the new Glitter Enamel shapes and some sequins.

I hope you enjoyed today's card!! Stop back soon as I have another 2 cards to share.

Have a great day!