March Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop with Sketch Inspiration!

Hello and welcome the March Edition of Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop! This month we have a very cool scrapbook page sketch to inspire you!

So I ordered one of those DNA kits from Ancestry.com a couple of months ago and I recently received my results along with some DNA matches of probable 3rd and 4th cousins.  It was all very interesting so I decided to start a Family Tree on their website.  One thing led to another and before you know it I was about 5 hours into it one evening and was mesmerized by all of the information available on their website.  One of the coolest things that I saw was a scanned copy of my Grandparents wedding license... how awesome is that??!!  As I was deciding what photo to use on my page I ran across this picture of those same Grandparents at their 50th Wedding Anniversary and was excited to use it!  

Of course I'm still using the fabulous Sweet Soiree Embellishment Kit!  It was perfect for adding some fun cake and floral layers to my page.  Since the picture is an old one I really wanted to give the page a subtle vintage background look.  I used Crumb Cake to sponge the edges and used stamped off Crumb Cake and Powder Pink to stamp the new SAB "Eclectic Expressions" images on the background.  I pulled out the awesome Number of Years stamp and Die set for the 50th anniversary title..... I love this set!!!  I also used the Celebrate You Thinlits for the "amazing" over the 50th Anniversary because anyone that makes it to a 50th must be amazing!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Below is our blog roll with all of the other Bloggers listed.. remember you are at Tina Riddle's blog now so just click the next in line.

Blog Roll..

January Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop with Color Inspiration!

Hello and Happy Sunday!  Well today is a very special day ... It's Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop time!  Are you ready for some inspiration??  I was blown away last month and super excited to check out everything this month!

If you've already been hopping, thank you for continuing!  If you started here, please make sure to click the next button at the end of the post to get some fabulous scrapbooking ideas using Stampin' Up! Products!  

I am super excited about this page... first of all I finally sprung for the Large Letter Framelits from Stampin' Up! and I am so so happy that I did!  They are really awesome and will be so helpful with my scrapbooking projects!  Secondly, I was able to use the awesome Celebrate You Thinlits from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog (free with $100 Stampin' Up! purchase)!   This month our challenge is to use Coral, Green and Black.  Luckily the Sweet Soiree Suite, as well as the Sweet Soiree Memories & More Cards from the Sale-a-bration Catalog (free with a $50 Stampin' Up! purchase) uses Old Olive and Calypso Coral!  It's like it was meant to be! :)

I started off with a 12x12" sheet of Basic Black SU Cardstock with a wide strip of the Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper!  I backed both my picture and the large Sweet Soiree Memories and More Card with a mat of Basic Black cardstock.  The tag in the lower right was cut from one of the Memories and More small cards with the Sweet Soiree Dies and backed with a cut from the same die in Basic Black cardstock.  I added a bit of thin old olive ribbon through the hole in the tags.  

I cut the "celebrate" from the Celebrate You Thinlits and the "U" and "S" from the Large Letters Framelits out of both Calypso Coral and Basic Black. I adhered the coral to the black off-setting them just a little down and to the right for a shadow look.  

After journaling on one of the cards, I adhered it to the large card with an off-set mat of another of the smaller cards in an Old Olive floral design.  I added some Glitter Enamel Dots ....my current favorite embellishment!  The stamped flowers from the Cake Soiree Stamp Set were stamped in Calypso Coral Ink on Whisper White Cardstock and cut out with the coordinating Sweet Soiree Dies.    

The die cut flowers were cut from the Sweet Soiree Dies in Calypso Coral and glued onto another piece of Calypso Coral Cardstock.  I fussy cut the backing cardstock and then added some Clear Wink of Stella to the top portion of the diecut.  All of the leaves were cut from the Sweet Soiree Dies in Old Olive Cardstock.  Everything was adhered with Tombow Multi Purpose Glue except for the top flowers in a grouping that were added with a dimensional to raise it above the other flowers.

To finish this page off I added some splatters with the Clear Wink of Stella pen (primarily to the Basic Black area).

The splatters took a while to dry but they really look fabulous and totally worth the wait!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Just click the next button and you'll be at the awesome blog of Dena Albee!  You will be so glad you did!

1. Valérie Perlin
2. Danielle Bennenk
3. Cheryll Miller
4. Jenny Hall
5. Melissa Davies
6. Pam Staples
7. Heike Hülle-Bolze
8. Tina Rackley Riddle -< you are here>
9. Dena Albee
10. Cathy Caines
11. Jerim Dickins
12. Andrea Tracy-Tucker
13. Charlet Mallett
14. Jess Brown

Product List

• Celebrate You Thinlit Dies [146840]
• Big Shot [143263]
• Basic Black 12" X 12" Card Stock [124267]
• Sweet Soirée Specialty Designer Series Paper [145564]
• Sweet Soirée Memories & More Card Pack [147353]
• Glitter Enamel Dots [144200]
• Large Letters Framelits Dies [141712]
• Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897]
• Cake Soiree Clear-Mount Bundle [147627]
• Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925]
• Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Journaling Pens [145480]

SIP #132 Cake Walk with Stampin' Up! Cake Soiree

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a wonderful start!  I had a wonderful weekend visiting with my son and grandson, Beckett!  I hadn't seen him in a few weeks and it was all smiles for me!   My grandchildren have been the light of my life the last few years.  I think the saying goes if I'd know grandchildren were this much fun I'd have had them first!  lol

So since this is of course Tuesday, it's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this one is a Cake Walk!  Really, it is!  

I am in love with the Sweet Soiree Suite from Stampin' Up!  Everything about it is so pretty and there are so many elements and layers to it all.  The last card I made with it was a little wild so I decided to go with something a little more subtle for the cake this time.  What do you think?

I stamped my cake with Versamark Ink onto 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock and then heat embossed it in silver.  The background cardstock is Stampin' Up! Soft Sky and was dry embossed with the Pinewood Planks Dynamic Embossing Folder.  Since I had left everything else pretty monochromatic with the gray, silver, and white I felt that the background needed some color and texture.  The celebrate die cut is from the Celebrate You Thinlits dies that are free with a $100 purchase during Sale-a-bration with Stampin' Up!  I love to have thinlits to add a sentiment to an area that otherwise would have been hard to have one added.  The textured background was ther perfect example of that.  I used the "celebrate" die to cut the word out of Basic Gray Cardstock.  The "you" was from the Amazing You Stamp Set which is also a SAB freebie for a $50 purchase.   I decided added the "you" embossed in Soft Sky onto a small white rectangle would work perfectly within one of the small sections of planks.  When I finished my panel, I backed it in scallop matt of Basic Gray cardstock cut with one of my favorite Mama Elephant dies.  I mounted all of that on a 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Top Folding card base.  To finish this one off I added some Lucy's Little Things Sea Spray Sequin mix.  I knew I needed to add a bit more blue and that sequin mix was perfect for a blue, clear and irridescent mixture.  I ended up added a small Whisper White and Silver Twine bow in the upper left hand corner.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Product List

• Cake Soirée Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145745]
• Sweet Cake Framelits Dies [145617]
• Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]
• Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143708]
• Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121044]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
• Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad [131181]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130]
• Celebrate You Thinlit Dies [146840]
• Amazing You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [147215]
• Big Shot [143263]
• Heat Tool [129053]

Sale-a-bration Kick Off Blog Hop

Hello and Happy New Year!  Do you know what is just as exciting as a New Year, it's a new Stampin' Up! Catalog or in this case Catalogs....because not only will the Occasions Catalog go live on January 3rd, but so will the Sale-a-bration catalog!  Who doesn't love to get free stuff, right?? If you want to be inspired, you will want to check out this fabulous Sale-a-bration Kick Off Blog Hop!  

If you've already been hopping, I thank you so much for continuing!  If you are starting here, please make sure to stop at every blog along the way!  

There are so many fabulous possibilities with this year's Occasions and Sale-a-bration catalog but I decided to feature the fabulous "Celebrate You" Thinlits dies!  They are awesome and they are absolutely FREE with a $100 purchase from Stampin' Up! during Sale-a-bration!  How fabulous is that??  I made two cards featuring them and both are masculine cards.  

I was really inspired by the awesome masculine "True Gentlemen" DSP in the Occasions Catalog!  The colors are so beautiful and the designs are awesome!  These cards were super easy yet pack a great punch with those gorgeous die-cut words!  The Celebrate You thinlits are really amazing!  For the Dad Card on the left side, I first cut out "DAD" from the True Genetlemen DSP with a Large Letters Framelits Dies.  I backed it with a mat of Very Vanilla Cardstock and used the cut out letters as a template to glue the center of the letters back into it with a small amount of Tombow Multipurpose Glue.  I then cut the "Celebrate" word out with the Celebrate You Thinlits Dies in Night of Navy Cardstock.  I used a small amount of Tombow Multipurpose Glue dotted on the back of the word to adhere it.  I added the matted panel onto a Tranquil Tide A2 Cardbase.  I'm totally loving Tranquil Tide now.. it is such an amazing color!  I used a bit of tear tape to adhere two small angled strips of 5/8" Burlap Ribbon to the top left of the card to make a small banner.  Linen Thread was then ran around the top of my card and tied it into a bow ending right at the top of the little Burlap Banner. I used a small drop of more of the liquid adhesive behind the bow and put a small block on it until it was set.    For the second card I used another Tranquil Tide A2 card base and used two different panels of the True Gentlemen DSP to the front.  I cut out all three of the words from the "Celebrate You" Thinlits Dies in both Very Vanilla Cardstock as well as Tranquil Tide Cardstock.   I offset the layers on all three words to add a bit of interest to them.  So simple but really a nice masculine card.

Thank you so very much for stopping by!  Please make sure to check out all of the other inspiration on the hop!  So many lovely creations and ideas await you!

Below is a list of all of the Bloggers on this hop:

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Below is a list of all of the supplies used today:


Product List

• Large Letters Framelits Dies [141712]
• Celebrate You Thinlit Dies [146840]
• True Gentleman Designer Series Paper [145593]
• Tranquil Tide 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144246]
• Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]
• Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100867]
• 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon [141487]
• Linen Thread [104199]
• SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]
• Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]
• Big Shot [143263]