Ringed with Nature Bundle - The Polly Brown Card!

 Hi There!  I have a fun card that I made with the gorgeous Ringed with Nature Bundle and Rings of Love DSP!  I call this one my Polly Brown Card  because my BFF, Polly, LOVES toadstools!  She remembers drawing them when she was younger and is always drawn to them!  As soon as I saw this bundle and coordinating Sale-a-bration DSP, I knew I needed it!

How fun is this coordinating DSP?  The wood ring was cut from the DSP and embossed with the coordinating embossing folder!  The stems of the mushrooms/toadstools were cut from more of the wood ring DSP.  The top of the mushrooms were cut out in Basic White.  I used a blending brush and Poppy Parade and Sweet Sorbet ink to color them in.  I splattered them with White Paint to add the spots on them.  I also did some splatters with Evening Evergreen Ink.  The cardbase was Parakeet Party with a Evening Evergreen mat for the DSP layer.  The stitched square is from the Stylish Shapes Dies in Parakeet Party and was also matted in Everning Evergreen.  Of course it wouldn't be a Tina card without some twine, ribbon, or in this case Linen Thread.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Honey Bee Bundle is retiring.. how sad!

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I just wanted to pop on and remind all honey bee lovers that this amazing bundle is retiring and no one could me more sad than me!

I'm sharing two cards today that I made with this set recently.

I started out with a So Saffron top folding cardbase measuring 11" x 4 1/4" and scored at 5 1/2".  The top panel is Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I started out by diecutting some full sticky post-it notes with the honey comb die.  I used the sticky diecuts as a stencil to add some so saffron ink with a ink blending brush.  The brushes I use are from Amazon.  If you look up oval makeup brush, you'll find them easily.  They give a super soft ink blended look.  I also stamped three of the smaller honey bees with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto scraps of Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I used So Saffron Blends to quickly color in the stripes.  I stamped the "Thinking of you Sweet Friend" sentiment in the lower right corner and used one of the stitched rectangles dies to cut it out.  I added Basic Black Stitched Rectangle Matt with Multipurpose glue and adhered them to the So Saffron Cardbase with Multipurpose glue as well.  The stamped honey bees were popped up with mini dimensionals and added some wink of stella to the wings.  I added three black sequins from the Peaceful Poppies Sequin Mix to finish this one off.

For this card I alternated  glueing 3/4" strips of Basic Black and Pineapple Punch (retiring) cardstock to a 4 x 5 1/4" peice of Whisper White cardstock with Tombow Multipurpose adhesive.  Once all adhered, I cut out the panel with one of the stitched rectangle dies.  I layered it on a matt of Whisper White Cardstock and adhered it to an 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Basic Black Cardstock, scored at 4 1/4" for an A2 card base.  I used a scrap of basic black cardstock to cut out the honey comb and adhered with just a little multipurpose adhesive.    The sentiment was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Ink onto a scrap of Whisper White Cardstock and cut with one of the smaller of the stitched rectangle dies.  The bee hive was stamped in Pineapple Punch Ink and cut with the coordinating die.  The bee hive was adhered with Multipurpose adhesive onto the front card panel.   The bees were stamped with Memento on Whisper White scraps as well.  I used Daffodil Delight to color in the stripes on the bees.  The bees were popped up with mini dimensionals.  I added three of the Basic Black sequins from the Peaceful Poppies Sequin Mix to finish this one off.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

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SIP #196 Shaker Card Challenge

Hi Friends!  You know how I love a good shaker card and if you do too then head over to Stamp, Ink, Paper this week for our Shaker Card Challenge!

Here's what I came up with......

I combined some Stampin' Up! Rectangle Dies, Stampin' Up! Stamps and Concord & 9th Fabulous Phrases Dies to come up with this  beauty.   Add some window sheet, foam tape, and sequins and there you have it.  This one is really pretty.  The stamp set is Painted Seasons and was one of the freebie bundles from the recent Sale-a-bration promotion that ended a few weeks ago.  The frame was from the coordinating DSP that came in the bundle.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #186 - Product Feature, Vellum with Stampin' Up! Butterfly Gala Bundle

Happy Tuesday or as I like to call it "We survived Monday"!  What a busy, crazy, week it was last week.  I'm hope this week will be a bit better.  

Stamp, Ink, Paper has a product feature challenge this week.  Use Vellum in your card and link it up!  That's a fun challenge I think.  There are so many ways to incorporate Vellum in your project.

I am back with the Butterfly Gala Bundle again... I can't help it.  I  love those butterflies!

I'm a fan of purple and I love the new Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grape Cardstock and Ink so that also turned out to be a product feature for me!   I also love to stamp Tone-On-Tone to make a pretty background.  To emboss the sentiment on the vellum strip in Gorgeous Grape, I first inked up the stamp in Versamark Ink and then inked in the Grape.  I quickly added Clear Embossing Powder.  I let my Heat Tool get really hot before taking it to the vellum to emboss to prevent warping.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  A complete list of products is listed below.  Blessings, Tina

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SIP Challenge #155 Summer Fun and Giveaway!

Hi Friends!  I have some super cool news to share!  Over at Stamp, Ink, Paper this week the top three Picks will get a free stamp Set! It's the Bold and Brushy Uppercase Alphabet!  (Must be in U.S. to win.)  Here's a picture of the cool stamp set to check out!  

There are sooooo many possibilities with this Stamp Set!  I LOVE Concord & 9th!  A matter of fact, I'm using a C&9 Stamp Set for this week's SIP Summer Fun challenge!

I'll tell you that I had a super busy birthday weekend and didn't have time to make a card until Monday night!  I whipped out my Pineapple Perfection Stamp Set and did a little coloring on Bristol Smooth Cardstock with my Zig Clean Color Markers and it was super fast and easy!

Now I don't know if a Pineapple made of flowers seems like fun to you but it does to me so I went for it!  The Zig Clean Color Markers blend so well on Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  If you haven't tried that combination I hope you will!  It really changed my world!  lol

Thanks so much for stopping by this week!  Blessings, Tina