SIP Challenge #207 - Holidays with Stampin' Up! Perfectly Plaid and Tiny Keepsakes

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are back into the swing of every day life again!  I was off work from Wednesday through Sunday and it was super hard to get up on Monday morning and back to work!  

This week over at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a Holidays theme challenge.  I tried to make some card this year that were a little more clean and simple than what I normally make.  Here's what I came up with using the Perfectly Plaid Bundle and the Tiny Keepsakes Stamp Set.

I used the Tiny Keepsakes stamp set to stamp the little plaid background squares.  They were stamped in Real Red onto Whisper White and then cut out with the stitched squares from the Stitched Shape Dies.  I mounted them on a 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" square card.  I stamped the tree from the Perfectly Plaid stamp set in Shaded Spruce and used the 2 step coordinating stamp to fill in the color of the leaves.  I punched it out with the coordinating punch.  I added some red metallic thread behind the trees with dimensionals and added it to the center of my card.  I stamped the sentiment and cut it into a small rectangle and added it to the bottom of the tree and then finished it off with three green sequins.  So simple but super cute and easy to make!  I've listed the supplies below if interested!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

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SIP #190 - Best of Luck Theme Challenge

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Are you lucky??  Well I've never been a big believer in luck but with St Patrick's Day right around the corner, Stamp, Ink, Paper has a Best of Luck Challenge for you this week!  I was lucky I had a stamp set to use.. lol

And here's what I came up with....

I found an old Avocado Arts Stamp Set called "Hello Spring" that included a Good Luck sentiment as well as a four leaf clover.  I kept it really simple with this one by a simple stamped imagine in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock.  I used Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends to color it in and layered it with Whisper White and GrannyApple Green Cardstock by using some square dies.  I can't tell you the last time I made a card without full panel card layers.  It's a nice change I think.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop - You Are My Anchor

Hello!  I hope you are having a fabulous week!  I'm so happy to join all of the fabulous Stampin' Up! Demonstrator's for this You Are My Anchor Paper Pumpkin Blog Hop!    If you are already a Paper Pumpkin subscriber then I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about!  I think this is my all time favorite PP Kit!  Of course, anything Nautical is my thing! :)  

For some reason Nautical theme cards draws me to shaker cards so I had to throw at least one shaker card into the mix with the help of some window sheets, stitched shape framelits dies, woodgrain DSP and some foam adhesive strips! 

I ran my bone folder over the score line on the 6" x 3" card base and cut the 6" side off a 5 1/4".  I adhered it to the front of a piece of 5 1/4" x 4" Wood Grain DSP that I had first cut a stitched circle out of.  (The Patterned Cardstock covered up the hole so no one is the wiser, right??) I used a smaller stitched circle to cut the larger one into a frame.  Window Sheet was adhered to the inside of the circle frame with Tombow Multipurpose Glue.  I also cut a circle out of one of the envelopes included in the kit so that I could use the blue wave DSP on the inside of the envelope for the back of my shaker.  The lighthouse die cut was glued onto the  blue wave DSP and another window sheet die cut circle was adhered over that.  I added some random clear and blue sequins in the middle (that I had (probably left over from a previous PP kit!).  Some foam adhesive strips were added behind the wood grain frame and then adhered to the light house scene with the sequins to complete my shaker.    I added the anchor at the bottom with the roping through it and next to the sentiment that was stamped in Island Indigo to complete this one.  

Of course, I had to throw a little tone on tone stamping in on the below card.  

I used the smaller stamps from the stamp set to stamp in Sahara Sand on Sahara Sand Cardstock. The large Anchor on the circle was stamped in Island Indigo Ink onto the circle die cut from the kit.  This was a simple but super cute alternative to use the 3 x 3" card opened flat as a DSP accent on your card panel.  I attached the matted front panel with dimensionals onto a Thick Whisper White top folding card base since the cording in the kit is pretty thick.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  The next stop on the hop is Rachel Tessman.  Just click on her name on the below blog roll.

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OSAT May Clean and Simple Blog Hop

 Hello friends!  Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time May Clean and Simple Blog Hop!  If you've already been hopping you should have landed here from the amazing Anna Smith's blog!  If you started with me, you'll want to make sure you hop all the way through and check out all of the fabulous cards and projects!  

Is Clean and Simple your style?  Well it honestly is not mine but I'm beginning to love it more and more.  Of course I always love everyone else's CAS cards... just not always my own!  

I started with an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of Stampin' Up! Bermuda Bay Cardstock scored at 5 1/2" for a top folding card.  My next layer was 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" SU Basic Black Cardstock and the Top Layer was Neenah Crest Solar White 80# cardstock.  The Doily is from the May Fun Stamper's Journey Bloom Box.  The stamp set is called Decorative Doily.  I stamped it in Versamark on Neenah Crest Solar White #80 cardstock and heat embossed it in White.  I used Tim Holtz Peacock Feather Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool to color in the image starting in the middle and working my way out so that it was darker in the center and lighter on the outside edges.  I used the coordinated dies to cut it out and and added it to my white layer and cut off part of the right side.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! Dragonfly Dreams.  It was heat embossed in white onto a thin strip of  SU Basic Black cardstock and adhered onto the doily with a thin strip of foam tape.  I finished it off with three Pretty Pink Posh Onyx Black Sequins.  I really love the simplicity of this one.  

For my gift card holder I used the Little B Gift Card Holder Die set to cut out a piece of 80# Neenah Crest Solar White Cardstock.  I folded the score lines and used FSJ White Liner Tape to adhere the sides.  My Doily was the smallest from the FSJ Decorative Doily Stamp Stamp Set.  I stamped it in Versamark  on more of the 80# Neenah Crest Solar White Cardstock and Heat embossed it in White.  I used Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and an Ink Blender to color in the doily and then cut out with the coordinating dies.  I layered it onto a SU Black Stitched Circle from the Stitched Shape Framelits Dies and then a piece of Bermuda Bay Cardstock cut with the Circle Layering Framelits.  The small banner was dry embossed with "For You" and was part of the Little B's Gift Card Die set. I know it's a little card to see the embossed letters.  They did not photograph very well.. Sorry.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you'll continue on by clicking next.  You'll not want to miss the fabulous blog of Maria Willis! She's a Stampin' Rock Star!

  

Here a complete list of our bloggers in case you've lost your way!

1. Megan Thompson
2. Jessie Holton
3. Melissa Davies
4. Sue Plote 
5. Kelly Acheson
6. Dena Rekow
7. Renee Ondrajka
8. Wynne Grob
9. Elizabeth Jeanne
10. Lisa Altman 
11. Anna Smith
12. Tina Rackley Riddle - That's Me!
13. Maria Willis
14. Rick Adkins
15. Marisa Gunn
16. Pam Staples
17. Jeanna Bohanon
18. Lori Mueller 
19. Justin Krieger
20. Andrea Tracy-Tucker