OSAT Blog Hoppers Thank You

Hello!  Hope you are having a wonderful week!  It's so hard to believe this year is almost over!  All of the Bloggers at One Stamp At a Time want to thank you for hopping along with us this year!  We've had some fantastic hops thanks to some super talented Bloggers and it's been a ton of fun!  If you have already been hopping, well then of course you landed here from my friend and partner in crime, Andrea Tracy-Tucker's blog!  Isn't she super talented??  I love Andrea's work!

Here is my card and project for you, I used some of my favorite sets on these... from Land to Sea, Wetlands, and Traveler.  Yep, if you know me at all, you know I LOVE these stamp sets!

I had a hard time photographing the sponging well enough that you can see the colors that I used.  Here's a close up of the card that is a little better.

For my card I started out with a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of Night of Navy cardstock that was scored at 5 1/2" for a top fold card.  I layered on a skinny layer of Real Red cardstock that measured 4 1/8" x 5 3/8".  My top layer was Whisper White and I started by first stamping the Light House from the From Land to Sea set in Real Red.  Once I had the lighthouse in place, I cut some scrap pieces of cardstock to mask off sections for my rolling seaside hills.  I masked both the curves of the hills as well as the lighthouse itself.  I used Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip for the hills. Once I had the hills the way I wanted them, I masked them off to sponge on the water in Lost Lagoon.  I used a straight piece of cardstock to separate the water from the sky.  Once I had the water sponged, I masked the water and sponged the sky.  I started with some Blushing Bride closest to the water, and then Soft Sky.  I sponged some yellow around the lighthouse to represent the rays of light coming from it. At the top section of the sky and on the sides of the sky, I sponged Night of Navy closest to the edge and some tempting turquoise blended into the Soft Sky.  On the bottom of my scene I stamped some Sea Oats from the Wetlands Set in both Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip.  I then tied a piece of 1/2" Real Red Cotton Ribbon across the bottom and tied it in a knot.  My sentiment from the Happy Notes stamp set was stamped in Red Red Ink on Whisper White cardstock and cut out with the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies.  I also cut a larger Lots of Labels Die in Night of Navy for a mat and glued the sentiment on the mat and then adhered the mat with Dimensionals onto the upper right portion of my card. 

I found an awesome little Lighthouse notepad at Michaels that I thought matched my card so well that I decided to make a cover for it to go along with the card as a gift.  The notepad measured 4 x 8" and was 1/4" thick, so my measurements for the cover were 8 3/4"  x 8 1/4".  I scored the 8 3/4" side on my scoreboard at 4 1/4" and 4 1/2".  I used tear tape to adhere my pad to the interior back panel.  I then ran a piece of 1/4" cotton ribbon in Real Red and adhered it to my cover with tear tape on the front as well as the back of the cover.  My Real Red Panel on the front measured 3 3/4 x 7 3/4".  I positioned it in my scoreboard diagonally and scored every 1/2" for some interest to the cover.  Over the Real Red Panel, I made a port hole by using circles cut with my Little B Circles Dies in both Night of Navy and Red Red.  The Little B Circle Dies are super cool in that they can just cut circles or you can use a separate piece to cut the outer circle as well cut the holes inside the circle.   My ship from Traveler was stamped in Night of Navy on Whisper White Cardstock and punched out with a 2 1/2" Circle Punch.  The ship circle was adhered with multipurpose glue onto the Red Circle, and the Red Circle was adhered with dimensionals onto the Night of Navy circle and then glued with Multipurpose Glue onto the Front of the Notepad Cover.  

Here's a look at the inside of the Notepad...

I hope you've enjoyed my projects.  Next up on this hop is my friend Megan Thompson and I know she'll have something awesome to share with you.. she always does!  Just click the next button!

In case you've lost your way, here is a list of all of our talented Bloggers..

1. Ginger
2. Maggie
3. Elizabeth
4. Martie
5. AJ
6. Raquelle
7. Wynne
8. Marisa
9. Justin
10. Renee
11. Dena
12. Andrea Tucker
13.  Tina Riddle - You are here!
14. Megan Thompson
15. Kim Smith
16.  Lori Mueller 

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used:

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Non Stampin' Up! Products Used:

Little B Circle Dies (Joann's)

Note Pad (Michaels)

Thanks so very much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

OSAT Blog Hop - Happy Father's Day or Masculine Card

Hello and Happy Thursday!  We've almost made it to Friday and that is always a good thing!  Since it's the 2nd Thursday of the month it's time for another One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop.  This month, it's all about Father's Day or Masculine Cards. If you have already been hopping then you should have landed from Kim Smith's Blog.  Kim is new to our Blog Hop but has some amazing work so I hope you left her some love on her page to make her feel welcome!

If you've followed me at all, you are probably not one bit surprised that I pulled out the Traveler stamp set for my masculine card.  It really is my "go to" masculine card set!

  I started with a 11" x 4 1/4" card base in Chocolate Chip.  I scored the front with my MFT stitched rectangles set.  I then cut a layer of Pool Party with a smaller stiched rectangle and dry embossed it in a woodgrain embossing folder.  I cut a piece of watercolor paper and stamped the world map onto it with Stazon Timber Brown Ink.  Once dry, I used my Aqua Markers to watercolor the map in with my Pool Party, Crumb Cake, and Old Olive Ink Pads.  Once I finished my watercoloring, I used a heat tool to dry it and then cut a stitched circle out of the Map.  I then heat embossed the sentiment from the Friendly Wishes Stamp Set with Gold embossing powder on the Map.  I glued my circle onto the lower half of the woodgrain background layer.   I stamped the train on Whisper White cardstock, fussy cut it, and adhered with dimensionals.  In the upper right corner I put a layer of burlap ribbon and a small piece of Chocolate Chip Chevron Ribbon from my huge stash.  I stapled the ribbon to the upper right of the card.  I then threaded a basic gold button with linen thread and adhered it the ribbon with glue dots.

For my second project I made a mini treat bag gift card holder.  I used a large sheet of watercolor paper and stamped the world map on it twice side by side with Stazon Timber Brown ink.  I then watercolored using my aqua painters with the same inks that I used on the map on my card.  I dried the paper off with my heat tool and then cut out the mini treat bag with my die and glued it together.  I glued a piece of burlap ribbon around the bag and stapled on a couple of pieces of Chocolate Chip Chevron ribbon and strand of linen thread to the left side of the burlap.  I heat embossed another of the sentiments from the Friendly Wishes Stamp set in gold.  I cut that out with a small stitched circle die and cut a larger stitched circle in Pool Party.  I glued the sentiment onto the blue circle and then adhered it to the burlap ribbon with glue dots.  I added a few gold Pink Posh sequins because it needed a little something :)  Oh and one of my favorite parts of this little bag is that I used My Paper Pumpkin blue tissue paper for the inside of it!   

I hope you've enjoyed our Blog Hop.  Next up is the super talented Martie Pollard's blog.  You'll love what she has for you, just click the Next button:

Here is a list of all of the Bloggers on the Hop:

Justin Krieger

Andrea Tracy-Tucker

Darla Roberts

Megan Thompson

Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher

Wynne Grob

Debra Vance

Marisa Gunn

Holly Stene

AJ Bodine

Andrea Pancrazio

Maggie Mata

Kim Smith

Tina Riddle - That's Me :)

Martie Pollard

Diane Squires

Lori Mueller

James Weber

Ginger Pelfrey

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products Used:

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Non-Stampin' Up Products:

Pretty Pink Posh Gold Sequins
MFT Stitched Circles
Lil' Inker Stitched Rectangles



Blessings,
Tina

ICS May Blog Hop Celebrate Dad

Well I have some super exciting news!  I was asked by an extremely talented group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators to join their Inspire Create Share Monthly Blog Hop!  I am certainly honored and hope that you'll enjoy my card that is all about Celebrating Dad!

One of my favorite go-to stamp sets is "Traveler".  I just LOVE this stamp set. It is so perfect for masculine cards!  My Father's Day card is for my sweet Husband since I lost my Dad quite a few years ago.  Jeff is a wonderful husband and a great Dad to his two adult children as well as a great Step-Dad to my three adult children.  Together we have 5 granddaughters and to them he is a great Papaw!   The "Traveler" stamp that was perfect for Jeff's Father's Day card was the train stamp.  We both absolutely love trains.  About two years ago, we went through the Smoky Mountains on a train ride that was really so much fun  and we saw some of the most beautiful scenery.  For our next train ride, we plan to take a trip out West that will be a few days on a train.

Here's my card for Jeff and I hope you like the way it turned out as much as I did!

I started with a 4 1/4" x 11" card base, scored at 5 1/2" in Basic Black.  My first layer was  4" x 5 1/4" piece of Smokey Slate.  I stamped the World Map Stamp onto it with Basic Gray Ink and adhered it to the black base. I used my 2 1/2" Circle Punch to punch out a piece of Whisper White card stock and stamped the Train Image from the Traveler Set in the Circle with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  I glued that to a piece of Basic Black that I had cut with one of the Deco Label Framelit dies.  I then stamped the Train again on another piece of Whisper White card stock and fussy cut it and popped up over the image on the circle using Stampin' Dimensionals.  I used my Paper Piercer to punch a hole in each side of the Deco Label Framelit and Used a Candy Dot Brad with Smokey Slate Dots in each of the holes.  I used Stampin' Dimensionals to put the Deco Label Die onto my World Map layer.  I then stamped two of the ticket images twice from the That's The Ticket stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock.  I punched the tickets out with the Ticket Duo Builder Punch.  I cut a thin 4" strip of whisper white and started glueing on the tickets for my ticket border.  I adhered that to the front of my card with Tombo multi-purpose adhesive.  (Both the Ticket Duo Builder Punch and the That's The Ticket stamp set are on the retirement list so if you don't have them, you might want to try to grab them before they are gone!)  Next I ran a piece of Basic Gray twine around the front 3 times, just over the tickets, and tied them in a knot.  I used one of the Silver Basic Metal Buttons and ran the twine through the button and tied it in the front to finish off the my card front.

For the inside of my card I stamped the train just inside the right lower corner of a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" Whisper White card stock.  I then stamped the Happy Father's Day Sentiment from the Crazy About You Stamp Set onto a strip of Whisper White card stock.  I used my Hexagon Punch to cut a banner end on each side.  I backed it with a large piece of Basic Black cut the same way.

Please click the next button and continue on to see what the very talented Sharon Armstrong has in store for you!

Here are the Stampin' Up! products I've used on my card:

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Blessings,  Tina

Traveler Card Set Day

Today I've been working on a few masculine card sets to sell using one of my favorite sets by Stampin' Up! "Traveler".  I love the vintage feel of the images and what man doesn't LOVE trains and ships, right??  My set consists of  a Z-Fold Birthday Card, a Gift Card Holder, a Reflection Technique Card, and a Watercolored Background World Map Card.  I really love them all and I hope you will too!

If you are interested in any of the Stampin' Up! Products used, below is a list.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

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