Love You More Than Chocolate!

I've been working on some Easter Cards for my 5 beautiful granddaughters today.  I try to come up with 5 different designs.  So far.. I have only 1 that I was happy with.  I ordered some Lil' Inker Designs Stitched Rectangle Mat Dies as well as some cute Lil' Inker's stitched bunnies but I knew I wanted to pair them with a Stampin' Up! sentiment.  After playing around with a few different things I think I found the perfect combination!

What I love about this card is the beautiful new Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper.  It is a beautiful emboss resist DSP and when you sponge on color, the ink wipes right off of the embossed pattern!  This was an Sale-A-Bration Freebie and if there is any left, I'm placing another order by March 31st (end of SAB) so I can have more!  It is one of the coolest products I've played with in a while.  I also LOVE the sentiment "love you more than chocolate" from Stampin' Up! Lovely Amazing You set.  I wanted to slowly scallop punch off the bunny's ear to look like it was being eaten so what an absolutely perfect sentiment!   

Ok, so here is what I don't love...I had a little trouble with my stitched mats and will have to work on my Big Shot sandwich to get those perfect.  The cardstock looks a little wavy and that is because it is!  Hopefully my next try with the stitched rectangles will look a little better.  

Now just four more designs for these little cuties! 

Non SU Products used are: Lil Inker Designs Stitched Rectangle Mats and Lil Inker Designs Stitched Bunnies and Bows Die Set

Here are the Stampin' Up Products I used:

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Blessings!   Tina

OSAT Spring Flowers Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to One Stamp At a Time's Spring Flowers Blog Hop!  After the winter we've had, I can tell you here in Middle Tennesse we are READY for some Spring weather along with Spring Flowers!    I hope you enjoy my Spring Flower inspired card!

My Wild Wasabi Card Base was topped with a layer of Whisper White CS that was

embossed with the Lovely Lace embossing folder.  Another layer of the beautiful new

Painted Blooms DSP  was mounted on more Wild Wasabi with a linen thread bow that

was topped with a white resin  flower from the Artisan Embellishment Kit.  The

sentiment is from  the Painted Petals stamp set  and was stamped in garden green on

whisper white that was again mounted on the Wild Wasabi.  Ok, so back to the bow..

I'm pretty proud of how this  turned out since bow making is NOT my gift! 

 I recently watched a tutorial from fellow OSAT blog hopper, Billie Moan entitled 

Beautiful  Bows.  I can assure you her bows are always stunning!  Although I

realize that my bow is not nearly amazing as her bows are, I really found her

tutorial helpful.  If you'd like to watch her Beautiful Bow tutorial, you can find it

 Here

After adding a few SU Rhinestone Basic Jewels and some Doodlebug Limeade

Sequins, I  called this one done!  I hope you've enjoyed my card and make sure you

 stop by the next Blog on the Hop by either clicking the Next button or following the

 links on the OSAT Blogger List.

OSAT Blog Hoppers:

Eva - http://evascardsandthings.evabussom.com/…/osat-blog-hoppers…
Elizabeth - http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/…/…/spring-flowers-blog-hop/
Debbie - http://www.davdesigns.com/…/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flower…...
Tina - http://tinascropshop.blogspot.com/…/osat-spring-flowers-blo…  you are here
Megan - http://meganttstamps.blogspot.com/…/osat-blog-hoppers-sprin…
James - http://stampinstud.blogspot.com/…/osat-showers-bring-spring…
Holly - http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/…/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-…
Darla and Nancy - http://stampinwithdarlaandsisters.blogspot.com/…/osat-blog-…
Andrea - http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/…/osat-blog-hopp…
Diane - http://stampandembellish.com/…/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flo…
Martie - http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/…/spring-flowers-osat…
Justin - http://jkcardsonline.com/20…/…/osat-spring-flowers-blog-hop/







The Stampin' Up! Products used are:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non-Stampin' Up! Product used:  Doodlebug Limeade Sequins


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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Shine like the Stars in the Universe in Bokeh

Well here I am with yet another Banner Blessings card.  I absolutely LOVE this stamp set!  I used a brand new to me technique today.  I know the Bokeh technique has been around but today was the first time I had tried it and I really had fun creating with it.  I started with a base of whisper white cardstock and sponged in tempting turquoise, soft sky, and so saffron in various areas.  I made a template out of a window sheet that I had cut out the 3 smallest sizes of circle framelits.  I sponged whisper white craft ink into the circles in various sections, going with a lighter touch on the larger circles and heavier on the smaller ones.  I then used a sponge dauber with an even heavier coat of the white craft ink in a few areas.  After allowing the craft ink to dry, I heat embossed the Shine sentiment using Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder.   I added some punched as well as die cut stars from the brushed gold cardstock.   I also added a few gold flat sequins cut from the gold sequin trim.   Easy Peasey and lots of fun!

Here's my card..

If you haven't already tried this technique, I hope you'll try it.!  It really is a lot of fun to make!

Blessings,

Tina

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non Stampin' Up Materials Used:

Little B's Stitched Star Dies

Fun with Watercoloring Backgrounds and Banner Blessings

One of my very favorite of the newer Stampin' Up! Stamp Sets is Banner Blessings.  I am thrilled for my sweet friend Holly Stene because she designed that set.  Any time you can add some of the God's Word to a card, it is a good thing in my thinking and this set is all about that!

The background panel was a watercolor technique that was achieved by putting 3 colors of Stampin' Ink on an acrylic block and then spritzing with water and pushing or smooshing the block down onto watercolor paper.  I also spritzed a little water directly onto the paper after the ink was smooshed onto it.  I then ground up a little sea salt over the background and allowed the dry.  The salt absorbs some of the water and makes a speckled effect on the background. One the background is dry, just brush off the salt.   It is a super fun technique.  I hope you'll try it!

I've also used the Butterfly Basics stamp set, as well as a Vintage Stampin' Up! Set called Of the Earth.

The card base was Coastal Cabama with a layer of Mossy Meadow.  The watercolor background was created using water color paper.   Ink colors used in the smooshing were Mossy Meadow, Tempting Turquoise, and Hello Honey. The flower image was stamped with Stazon Black onto the watercolor paper after the background technique was achieved. The butterflies were stamped with Stazon onto Gold Cardstock The greeting was stamped onto Naturals White Cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  Both the greeting and the watercolored panel were mounted on a layer of Basic Black Cardstock for contrast.

Hope you love the way this card turned out as well as I did.

Blessings,

Tina

CanYouCaseIt on Super Bowl Sunday? Well I'll sure try!

Everyone loves a Challenge Right?  Well today is Super Bowl Sunday and since the game doesn't start until later tonight it seems like this afternoon is a good time to take on CanYouCaseIt's Sunday Challenge.  You can find it here

This week's challenge is a great sketch and I love all of the cards posted by the Design Team so please make sure you check them all out!  Here is the sketch that I am casing:

One of my new favorite Stampin' Up! Stamp Sets is the Butterfly Basics Set and it currently offered as a bundle with the Butterfly Thinlit Dies.  It is an amazing set with great images as well as sentiments.  It really is a must have!  

Here's my card for today using the Butterfly Basics Set as well as the medium butterfly thinlit die:

Now I have a confession to make.  I absolutely love the look of a cut apart sentiment like I used on my card and I've done it many times but for some reason it never occured to me to do it with this sentiment.  A sweet facebook friend Holly Stene had done it on a fabulous card that she made a few days ago and I told her I would definitely need to case it.  Well since she gave me the inspiration, please check out her blog here

I hope you have a wonderful day and can celebrate your pick's win in tonight's game!

Blessings!

Tina

Materials Used today:

Stamp Set: Stampin' Up! Butterfly Basics Stamp Set

Dies: Butterfly Thinlits

Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, and Gold Cardstock

Ink: Stampin' Up! Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, and Soft Sky

"FROM THE HERD" STAMPIN' FUN!

I absolutely fell in love with the new Stampin' Up! set "From the Herd" in the Occasions 2015 Catalog.  There are so many stamps and so many possibilities!  I decided to run with the "just looking in on you.." sentiment from this set and have the herd looking in from the outside.  I cut a window out with a Taylored Expressions "Arch Window" die.  I stamped my herd image and colored the entire image in with my blendabilities but then had to cut off the portion of the image that wouldn't show through the window.  Being frugal and not wanting to waste the rest of the colored in image, I decided to fussy cut the left edge of the image and glue it to the inside of the card.  I really like the way that touch added a little something extra to this card. The little bird was actually in another part of the image but I cut him out and put him on the edge of the window sill.   The "You're How Old?" and "woo-hoo!" sentiments were from the "Just Sayin'" Stampin' Up Set.  I think they were a perfect addition on the card. I used the word bubble framelits to cut out those as well as the "Just looking in on you..." sentiment from this new "From the Herd" set.

This card was special to me as it was for my youngest son's 28th birthday.  Wayne is quite the jokester so I knew that I wanted a humorous card.  He really loved the card I created for him and I hope that you do too!

Used on this card were:

Stampin' Up! From the Herd Stamp Set
Stampin' Up! Just Sayin' Stamp Set
Stampin' Up! Word Bubble Framelits
Stampin' Up! Blendabilities
Stampin' Up! Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack
Stampin' Up! Smokey Slate and Whisper White Cardstock
Stampin' Up! Early Espresso Ink
Memento Black Ink
Stampin' Up! Dimensionals
Taylored Expressions Arched Window Die