OSAT September Blog Hop - Designer's Choice

Hello!  Hope you are having a wonderful week!  Since I was off work on Monday, it has been a short work week for me and of course, it doesn't get much better than that!  Well, except for vacation.... I need one of those soon!  I'm so happy that it's time for another One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop!   This is our biggest hop ever and we are so happy to have such talent included in our Hop!  If you've already been hopping along, you should have landed here from the Fabulous Renee's blog! Isn't she amazing!  Since this month's theme is Designer's Choice. and I recently received my Stampin' Up Holiday items, I couldn't resist trying out a some dies and stamps that I hadn't had a chance to play with yet! I have two cards to share with you using some of my new Holiday Catalog goodies!

My first card uses the Sleigh Ride Edgelit Dies and Jingle All the Way Stamp Set for the sentiment and the snow.  On this card I used Stampin' Up! Shimmery White Cardstock for the background.  I embossed the snow with White embossing powder and then sponged on Yellow, Tempting Turquoise, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo and just a touch of Night of Navy.  I used the thick Whisper White cardstock for my Village and Tree Hillside scenes.  I cut an extra Village slope so that I could cut off some of the houses to insert them in other places on my scene.  I used the Home for Christmas sentiment in Island Indigo under the bottom slope.  I mounted my scene on fun foam and then mounted that on a piece 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" Silver Glimmer Paper and that was then adhered to an A2 Bermuda Bay Cardbase.

My second card uses the same Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Jingle All the Way Stamp Set along with the Hearth and Home Framelits for the window die and Hardwood stamp for the background.  My top layer was Smoky Slate Cardstock that was stamped with the Hardwood Stamp with Smoky Slate Ink.  For the background scene inside the window I used the same method as my first card but only used one of the slopes.  Again, I cut two of the tree slopes so that I could cut off trees to add to the one slope that I used in my scene. After adhering the tree slope to the sponged background  I stamped the dog (love love love this dog!!) onto the slope.  I added a few dark brown spots on the dog so it would look more like my beagle! lol I then cut out the scene to fit inside my window die cut.   For the sentiment I used the same sentiment as the first card but stamped it in Island Indigo on Whisper White cardstock and hand cut a sloped banner.  I double scored right past the sentiment so it would fold and used my banner punch to banner cut the ends.  I sponged the edges of the banner in Island Indigo.   The Greenery at the top of the wall over the window is from Little B's Holiday Die Set.  I am really loving these sets and am now officially excited about making my Christmas cards this year!

I hope you enjoyed my cards.  Next up is the incredibly talented Diane Squires blog!  Just click the next button and you'll be there!

Here's the entire list of our talented Hoppers:

1. Eva 
2. Ginger
3. Martie 
4. Elizabeth Jeanne
5. Amanda Bodine 
6. Megan 
7. Wynne 
8. Lori Mueller 
9. Dena Rekow
10. Renee Ondrajka 
11. Tina Riddle - You are Here!
12. Diane Squires 
13. Maria Willis 
14. Raquelle Clifton 
15. Jeanna Bohanon  
16. Terri 
17. Kim Smith 
18. Maggie 
19. Marisa 
20. Holly 
21. Andrea P 
22. Andrea T. 

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used on my two cards:

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Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:
White Fun Foam
Little B's Holiday Dies

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Blessings,
Tina

SIP Challenge #13 Happy Birthday to Taylor

Good Morning!  I hope you enjoyed a nice long weekend like I did.  I absolutely LOVE three day weekends, I really think we should have them more often!  This week at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a fun Birthday Challenge.  This was perfect timing for me because I needed a birthday card for next weekend!  Here's the challenge banner for this week's challenge...

I decided to take this opportunity to make a card for my Granddaughter, Taylor.  Her birthday is September 9th and her party is September 12th in Knoxville.  Taylor is quite a little Diva so when I saw the Unity Stamp Co. Set "Casey (tiny fashionista)" I knew that I would use it for her card.

Products Used:  Crest Solar White 110# Cardstock, Stampin' Up! Bermuda Bay Cardstock, Cherry On Top DSP, Unity Stamp Co. Casey (Tiny Fashionista) Stamp Set,  Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Stampin' Up! Bermuda Bay Ink, Copics, Stampin' Up! Rrhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin' Up! Whisper White 1/2" Seam Binding,  MFT Stitched Ovals, MFT Stitched Banners, Pink Wink of Stella, White Wink of Stella, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, and Stampin' Dimensionals.

Have a Wonderful Week and don't forget to head over to SIP and link up your own card this week!

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

June Paper Pumpkin Alternative Card with Pretty Petals DSP

Hello and Happy Saturday!  I have a three day weekend so I'm pretty pumped!  Right now I should be cleaning and organizing my craft room but I wanted to take a minute to show you a card I made for a friend.  I think it came out so cute and I think she'll love it!  

First of all, I have to tell you that the stamps that came with the June Paper Pumpkin kit were so cute.  I've been trying to think of some other ways to use them and as I was going through the Pretty Petals DSP this morning I noticed that some of the flowers were almost exactly like the Stamps as well as the little diecut flowers.  Score!  So here's what I came up with..

Both the background DSP and the strip of DSP were from the Pretty Petals DSP stack.  I put a small band of Pacific Point DSP on each side of that strip and the card base was Pacific Point as well.  I used the Die Cuts from the June Paper Pumpkin Kit for the flower and the leaves.  They were adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals.   The twine and button in the center of the flower are from that kit as well and I used glue dots to attached the button.   The sentiment.. yep, you guessed it, also from the June PP kit.  Even the inside sentiment and small flowers that I stamped were from it. 

 Here is the inside of my card..

What a super easy and cute card this was to put together.  I love when I can reuse parts from my Paper Pumpkin Kits.  If you aren't currently a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, what are you waiting for?  It is a adorable little package filled with pre-designed projects and comes with stamping spots as well as Stamps that as you can see, you can use for other projects.  I highly recommend it!  It is just $19.95 a month plus tax.  Shipping is included in the price!  If you go to www.mypaperpumpkin.com and use the code HALFOFF, you will receive 50% off your first two kits.  What a deal and it just lasts until September 10th so hurry over to sign up!  

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blesings,
Tina

ICS Blog Hop Introducing the Holiday Catalog

Hello and welcome to September's Inspire, Create & Share Blog Hop introducing the Holiday Catalog!  I have to tell you this year's Holiday Catalog is full of all kinds of wonderful goodies that have made it to my "Must Have" List!   If you've already been hopping, you should have landed here from Claudia Perry's blog.  Claudia is a hard act to follow but I'll do my best! :)

For my card I decided to go with a Thanksgiving/Fall theme with the beautiful Lighthearted Leaves Stamp Set.  This set coordinates with the Leaflet Framelit Dies and has just so many possibilities.

I started with an A2 card base of Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  My top layer was Crumb Cake cardstock and two of the leaf images from Lighthearted Leaves were stamped tone on tone with Crumb Cake Ink.  I also used the Crumb Cake Ink to sponge the edges of that layer.  I heat embossed in White on the Shimmery White Cardstock the same two leaves and used my sponge daubers to apply the various shades of ink on them.  The inks I used were Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Hello Honey, and Pumpkin Pie.  After I had sponged the leaves, I used a paper towel to wipe off any ink film from the white embossing.  I then cut the embossed and sponged leaves out using the Leaflet Framelits and used dimensionals to adhere them onto my card.  The sentiment was stamped used Cajun Craze ink onto watercolor paper that had a watercolor wash of some of the leaf colors.  I used my Lots of Labels Framelit Dies to cut out the sentiment.  I added two Cajun Craze candy dots, one of each side of the label.

I also added a bit of Gold Thread under the leaves and splattered some Gold glitter on to the background as well.

I hope you've enjoyed my card and hop on over to the next stop to check out what the super talented Anna has for you!  Just click the next button and you'll be at her blog!

Here are the products I used on my card:

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Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina

SIP Challenge #12 - Black and White with a Pop of Color

Hello and happy Tuesday!  Not only have we survived Monday, but we have now officially survived August!  It is so hard to believe that it is already the 1st of September!  It has been a super hot summer here in Middle Tennessee so I'm ready for a cooler September!  Well since it is Tuesday, you know what that means!  Another SIP Challenge!  So welcome to Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge #12! This week we have a Color Challenge that I really think is super fun....  Black, White, and a Pop of Color!

For my "Pop of Color" I chose the New 2015-2017 In Color "Watermelon Wonder".  It is one of my new favorites!  I stamped off twice for the background of the butterfly to make it a very pale pinkish red.  I stamped off once on the 2nd step, and stamped direct for step 3 of this beautiful butterfly!

 

I also used some of the new Stampin' Up! Neutral Color Collection Paper Stack paper in Basic Black. I really love the new patterns this year!  In my typical fashion I used part of a lot of Stamp Sets.  The flourish is from "Everything Eleanor" and was heat embossed in White.  The small butterflies are from "Papillion Potpourri" and stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Whisper White cardstock and then punched out with the Bitty Butterfly punch.  I doubled the layers so I could life the wings of the upper layer on all of the butterflies.  The flower is from "Flower Shop" stamp set and punched out with the Pansy Punch.  Last but not least, my pop of color was the large butterfly and is from "Watercolor Wings" stamp set and cut out with the Butterflies Thinlits Die.  Last but not least,  the "hello" sentiment is die cut on Whisper White cardstock with the "Hello You" thinlit dies.  Whew.. that's a lot of stamp sets, dies and punches out!   No wonder I have such a mess when I get done! 

Here are the Stampin' Up Products used:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings!
Tina

Nerdy Bird Back to School CYCI #83

Good evening!   What do you get when you combine a Retired Stampin' Up! Set, Stampin' Up! Dies, Cardstock and Schoolhouse DSP with a Nerdy Bird Unity Stamp?  Well you get my entry in this week's Can You Case It? Back to School Challenge

I love this "Nerdy Bird" Unity Stamp and it was my first time to ink it up!  I used the School House DSP to paper-piece the body of him.  The Books are from the Retired Stampin' Up! Set "Sweet Laughter".

Here's the CYCI Challenge Banner if you'd like to check it out and enter a Back to School Card in it!

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Lighthearted Leaves Spotlight on the Holiday Catalog

I absolutely LOVE the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog!  Today I had a little time to finally play with one of the new sets that I received on my preorder.  I used a couple of techniques and had lots of fun getting inky on this one!

First of all, let me say one thing.. Where has Pumpkin Pie Cardstock been all my life??  I just got my first pack of it today.  Yep.. I've had tons of Stampin' Up! Cardstock colors but never Pumpkin Pie!  It is such a yummy color!  I love Pumpkin anything so I should have known, right?  I mean Pumpkin Spice Latte is my all time favorite Starbucks drink so of course I would love Pumpkin Pie Cardstock. On this card I started with an A2 Yummy Pumpkin Pie Cardstock Card Base and layered in a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Old Olive Cardstock.  My top layer was Whisper White.  For the Masking Technique I used Post-It Notes to Mask the Top and Bottom Portions of the White Layer and stamped with different stamps from the Lighthearted Leaves Stamp Set using Old Olive, Hello Honey, and Cajun Craze.  I used a Pumpkin Pie Marker to color in some of the design on one of the more decorative leaf styles and add some of that yummy color! I stamped the sentiment in the lower right corner in Cajun Craze.   For my larger leaves, I used the Emboss Resist Technique.  I heat embossed in White three of the Lighthearted Leaves onto Shimmery White Cardstock.  I then used my daubers to sponge in Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Hello Honey, and Old Olive Ink onto the Leaves and then cut them out with the new Leaflet Framelits. Let me just say that if you have never sponged on the Shimmery White Cardstock, what are you waiting for??  It goes on so smoothly and has such a luscious shimmer!   I used a paper towel to rub down the white embossing after sponging so that the white wouldn't have ink residue on it.  I tied three of the leaves together with some of the Linen Thread and then popped them up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina