January A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to the January A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop!   I always look forward to this blog hop and all of the fabulous inspiration for each month's Paper Pumpkin kit!  I think this month may have been one of the hardest for me since I loved it so much exactly as designed!    

There were so many aodrable stamps in this month's kit so I decided to do some tone-on-tone stamping with Flirty Flamingo Ink on Flirty Flamingo Cardstock using many of the image stamps.  Those envelops are so adorable!!  I backed my 4" x 5 1/4" tone-on-tone layer with a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" mat of Basic Black cardstock. Those layers were adhered to a top folding card base of Thick Whisper White Cardstock.   I used a piece of one of the card/giftcard holders to cut out a scallop square... that black with the small gold hearts was just so pretty.  I added one of the adhesive backed banners to the scallop square.  I stamped the "Be Mine" sentiment from the stamp set in Rich Razzleberry and then clear embossed it. I added some enamel dots onto the vellum heart so that I could adhere it  by putting a glue dot under the enamel dots. Once I had the heart adhered, I added two more enamel dots to the card front.   I added a small bow with the fabulous ribbon included in the kit to the upper left side of the scallop square to finish off the front of this one.  

I decided to use the front flap to hold my card in a horizontal position so that I could decorate the upper portion of the outside.  I adhered my vellum banner to the top and added the Flirty Flamingo banner over it.  I heat embossed the sentiment "You Make My Heart Happy" from the stamp set in gold onto a small piece of Whisper White Cardstock.  I then used my Lots of Labels Framelits Dies to cut out a small label and adhered it over the banners.  I added three of the Flirty Flamingo enamel dots to the upper portion as well.  

For the inside of my gift card holder I used one of the little scallop cards in the kit and stamped the sentiment "Be Mine" in Basic Black Archival Ink.  I added a Flirty Flamingo die cut heart from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies to the card with a small amount of Tombow glue making sure to center the Be Mine in the middle of the heart.  This left enough room to write a note on the bottom of the card.  I love that the treat/giftcard holder has notches for the beautiful ribbon to the tied.. so cute!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Next up is the fabulously talented Rick Adkins.. just click the next button and you'll be there!

Blog Roll...

Sara Levin

Jenny Hall

Kimberley Morris

Melissa Thomas

Lori Mueller

Kelly Acheson

Maria Willis

Audra Monk

Tina Riddle << That's Me! >>

Rick Adkins

Jennifer Hill

Monika Davis

Carolynn Sander

Melissa Davies

Rachel Tessman

Product List

• Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141416]
• Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397]
• Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]
• Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies [141489]
• Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]

SIP Challenge #57 - Black and White!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a great start!  I'm back over at Stamp, Ink, Paper this week with my Black & White design team card.  I knew this would be a fun challenge but it mostly became just a challenge.. not sure why???  For some reason I struggled this week and constantly wanted to add a pop of color but keeping with the challenge guidelines, I fought off my inner rebel and went with just Black and White!

Here's what I came up with this week!

I LOVE the black and white prints in the Pop Of Pink Specialty DSP so I used those on my Thick Whisper White A2 Card base but I mounted both DSP layers on a thin layer of Basic Black cardstock.  Once again I went with one of new favorite Stamp Sets, Grateful Bunch that coordinates with the Blossom Bunch Punch.  The sentiment, butterflies and flowers are all from this awesome set!  I used my Lots of Labels Framelits Dies to cut out my sentiment and stamped butterflies.  I stamped in Black Archival Ink all of the flowers of Whisper White Cardstock and punched them out and then layered using dimensionals in between the layers.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!   Blessings!  Tina

Product List

• Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]
• Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set [140691]
• Blossom Bunch Punch [140612]
• Pop Of Pink Specialty Designer Series Paper [141648]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272]
• Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]
• SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]
• Big Shot [143263]
• Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]

OSAT Blog Hoppers Thank You

Hello!  Hope you are having a wonderful week!  It's so hard to believe this year is almost over!  All of the Bloggers at One Stamp At a Time want to thank you for hopping along with us this year!  We've had some fantastic hops thanks to some super talented Bloggers and it's been a ton of fun!  If you have already been hopping, well then of course you landed here from my friend and partner in crime, Andrea Tracy-Tucker's blog!  Isn't she super talented??  I love Andrea's work!

Here is my card and project for you, I used some of my favorite sets on these... from Land to Sea, Wetlands, and Traveler.  Yep, if you know me at all, you know I LOVE these stamp sets!

I had a hard time photographing the sponging well enough that you can see the colors that I used.  Here's a close up of the card that is a little better.

For my card I started out with a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of Night of Navy cardstock that was scored at 5 1/2" for a top fold card.  I layered on a skinny layer of Real Red cardstock that measured 4 1/8" x 5 3/8".  My top layer was Whisper White and I started by first stamping the Light House from the From Land to Sea set in Real Red.  Once I had the lighthouse in place, I cut some scrap pieces of cardstock to mask off sections for my rolling seaside hills.  I masked both the curves of the hills as well as the lighthouse itself.  I used Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip for the hills. Once I had the hills the way I wanted them, I masked them off to sponge on the water in Lost Lagoon.  I used a straight piece of cardstock to separate the water from the sky.  Once I had the water sponged, I masked the water and sponged the sky.  I started with some Blushing Bride closest to the water, and then Soft Sky.  I sponged some yellow around the lighthouse to represent the rays of light coming from it. At the top section of the sky and on the sides of the sky, I sponged Night of Navy closest to the edge and some tempting turquoise blended into the Soft Sky.  On the bottom of my scene I stamped some Sea Oats from the Wetlands Set in both Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip.  I then tied a piece of 1/2" Real Red Cotton Ribbon across the bottom and tied it in a knot.  My sentiment from the Happy Notes stamp set was stamped in Red Red Ink on Whisper White cardstock and cut out with the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies.  I also cut a larger Lots of Labels Die in Night of Navy for a mat and glued the sentiment on the mat and then adhered the mat with Dimensionals onto the upper right portion of my card. 

I found an awesome little Lighthouse notepad at Michaels that I thought matched my card so well that I decided to make a cover for it to go along with the card as a gift.  The notepad measured 4 x 8" and was 1/4" thick, so my measurements for the cover were 8 3/4"  x 8 1/4".  I scored the 8 3/4" side on my scoreboard at 4 1/4" and 4 1/2".  I used tear tape to adhere my pad to the interior back panel.  I then ran a piece of 1/4" cotton ribbon in Real Red and adhered it to my cover with tear tape on the front as well as the back of the cover.  My Real Red Panel on the front measured 3 3/4 x 7 3/4".  I positioned it in my scoreboard diagonally and scored every 1/2" for some interest to the cover.  Over the Real Red Panel, I made a port hole by using circles cut with my Little B Circles Dies in both Night of Navy and Red Red.  The Little B Circle Dies are super cool in that they can just cut circles or you can use a separate piece to cut the outer circle as well cut the holes inside the circle.   My ship from Traveler was stamped in Night of Navy on Whisper White Cardstock and punched out with a 2 1/2" Circle Punch.  The ship circle was adhered with multipurpose glue onto the Red Circle, and the Red Circle was adhered with dimensionals onto the Night of Navy circle and then glued with Multipurpose Glue onto the Front of the Notepad Cover.  

Here's a look at the inside of the Notepad...

I hope you've enjoyed my projects.  Next up on this hop is my friend Megan Thompson and I know she'll have something awesome to share with you.. she always does!  Just click the next button!

In case you've lost your way, here is a list of all of our talented Bloggers..

1. Ginger
2. Maggie
3. Elizabeth
4. Martie
5. AJ
6. Raquelle
7. Wynne
8. Marisa
9. Justin
10. Renee
11. Dena
12. Andrea Tucker
13.  Tina Riddle - You are here!
14. Megan Thompson
15. Kim Smith
16.  Lori Mueller 

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non Stampin' Up! Products Used:

Little B Circle Dies (Joann's)

Note Pad (Michaels)

Thanks so very much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina