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]

SIP #130 Say No To Christmas with Stampin' Up! Cake Soiree

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a terrific start!  Last weekend was a fabulous weekend for us and I'm looking forward to the end of the work week so I can enjoy an extra long Christmas weekend!  I'll be off work for 4 days in a row!  Woo Hoo!  I just have to get through 3 more work days after today and it's sweet long weekend freedom!  

As usual, Tuesday means another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this week's it's Just Say No to Christmas which basically means.. make anything BUT a Christmas Card!  Well isn't that easy!

Have you ever had a day where everything just goes wrong?? Well that was the type of day I was having when I started playing around with this Cake Soiree Stamp Set and Sweet Soiree Framelits.  First of all.. it's a fabulous stamp and die set.  There are just soooo many possibilities.  I started stamping, coloring, and playing around with it and everything I tried to do just didn't work.  I finally decided to just breathe in, make it a little crazy and love it like that. lol

My background was created on SU watercolor cardstock by pressing some Tim Holtz Distress Inks onto wax paper... I used Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.  After inking the wax paper, I sprayed it with my Distress sprayer and then squished it onto the watercolor paper.  I used my heat tool to dry it.  Once completely dry, I embossed the Best Wishes Sentiment in the upper right hand corner.  I used my Lil' Inker Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the watercolored panel.   The cake was heat embossed in black onto Whisper White Cardstock.  I used the Stampin' Blends to color in the case.  The cake stand was cut out of Gold Foil Cardstock.   The flowers on the top of the cake were stamped in Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo and the leaves in Old Olive.   I added some gold sequin trim in the upper left corner with a stapler and then added a some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Confetti.  I adhered the panel onto another panel of Old Olive Cardstock and then adhered that onto Basic Black panel cut with the Mama Elephant Scallop die from the All Prettied Up Creative Cuts Dies.  All of that was adhered to a top folding Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card base.  Kind of crazy.. a lot going on... but I still like it!   I had tried mounting it just on the Old Olive and then white but it really needed the black to make the colors pop!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Here's a list of the Stampin' Up Products Used:

Product List

• Cake Soiree Clear-Mount Bundle [147627]
• Watercolor Paper [122959]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
• Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
• Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]
• Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [126983]
• Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]
• Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]
• Calypso Coral Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144042]
• Calypso Coral Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144044]
• Old Olive Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144573]
• Old Olive Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144574]
• Daffodil Delight Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144586]
• Daffodil Delight Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144585]
• Pink Pirouette Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144592]
• Pink Pirouette Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144593]
• Heat Tool [129053]
• Embossing Buddy [103083]
• Big Shot [143263]