ICS Blog Hop Introducing the 2015-2017 In Colors

Hello and welcome to Inspire, Create, and Share's Blog Hop Introducing the 2015-2017 In Colors!  In case you haven't heard these brand new In Colors are Cucumber Crush, Watermelon Wonder, Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, and Tip Top Taupe.  If you've been hopping along, you should have arrived from the super talented Deb Naylor's Blog.

I am LOVING these new colors!  I keep changing my mind on which is my favorite but right now it appears to be a tie between Watermelon Wonder and Cucumber Crush.  They are both such fresh, fun colors so I those them to focus on for my project this month.

I started with a standard A2 card base of Cucumber Crush.  I added a strip of some of the New Cherry On Top DSP Paper onto left side of my card.  I then cut a 3 x 3 1/2" mat of Cucumber Crush cardstock and layered on more of the Cherry of Top DSP and then a smaller layer of Cucumber Crush.   It has such fun bright colors and matched the Watermelon Wonder and Cumcumber Crush DSP perfectly!  I stamped the ice cream cone base from the new Sprinkles of Life Stamp Set with Tip Top Taupe onto Whisper White cardstock.  I fussy cut it out and glued onto the layered rectangle.  I stamped the ice cream top tone on tone onto Tip Top Taupe as well as the Watermelon Wonder cardstock.  I then punched those out the new Tree Builder Punch.  I adhered the layers of the ice cream tops over the cone.  I then cut out three random width little strips of more of the Cherry On Top DSP and cut banner ends with the new Triple Banner Punch.  I glued those under the right side of the rectangle and then adhered it all with dimentionals onto my card.  I stamped my sentiment with Watermelon Wonder Ink onto Whisper White cardstock and cut out each line seperately at backed it with Cucumber Crush cardstock.  I glued those in a random manner to the far left side of my card. I added a few Pearls and called it done.  I really love how it turned out!

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Blessings,
Tina

You are the Sprinkles on the Cupcake of Life!

Do you know someone that always makes you laugh?  One very good friend certainly fits that description!  Happy Birthday to my good friend Suzy Gray!  I hope you have a friend like that because everybody needs one! :)

I'm sharing the birthday card that I made for her with some of my brand new goodies from my Stampin' Up!  pre-order.  I'm am absolutely LOVING this new Bohemian DSP and coordinating Boho Chic Embossing Folder!

I started with an A2 Rich Razzleberry cardstock base and Layered on a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock that was dry embossed with the new Boho Chic Embossing Folder.  I layered two different patterns of the Bohemian DSP onto Rich Razzleberry cardstock.  I ran some ribbon on the side of the long layer and tied it and adhered it to the card first and then added the square layer.  My cupcake bottom from the Sprinkles of Life Set was stamped onto Very Vanila cardstock and fussy cut.  The top of the cupcake was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Chocolate Chip Cardstock and then punched out with the Tree Builder Punch.  After using my Embossing Buddy on the cupcake top, I stamped the Sprinkles onto it with Versamark and embossed with Crushed Curry Embossing Powder.  I glued the Cupcake top to the base and adhered to the top square DSP layer with dimensionals.  After stamping the sentiment with Blackberry Bliss Ink onto Very Vanilla card stock, I cut it out and used my Hexagon Punch to cut banner ends.  I backed it with more Rich Razzleberry cardstock that I had also cut banner ends on.  I adhered the sentiment banner to the card with dimensionals. I added some yellow sequins from Pretty Pink Posh's Spring Mix sequin assortment.

The inside sentiment is stamped in Blackberry Bliss Ink.  The candle and the sprinkles inside were stamped with Island Indigo Ink.



I thought it turned out super cute.  I have a lot of ideas running through my head for other cards now! I think this Bohemian DSP may be one of my new favs! :)

Here's the Stampin' Up! Products I used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

The Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:  Pretty Pink Posh Spring Mix Sequins, Blue Ribbon from my Stash

Blessings,
Tina