SIP #135 - All You Need Is Love with My Monthly Hero

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is going great so far!  It's been really hectic for me but I'm always happy to come home from my crazy busy day job and have some relaxing time in my craft room!  Crafting is my happy place!  

So this week over at Stamp, Ink, Paper it's all about Love!  Hope you'll take some time to head over and link up your own love themed card!

I decided to use my Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit from January as it was still sitting in my craft room begging to be unboxed!  lol

I loved the pink shimmery cardstock that was included in the kit.  I decided to use part of it for a front layer with that cool heart die cut out of the middle of it.  Once I die cut the heart I poked out all of the cut out pieces and then added the heart shape back into the piece of cardstock.  I added some Multi Medium Matt adhesive on the back side of it and then added a scrap piece of basic black cardstock to the back of the panel.  My card  base was an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock.  I added a beautiful a 5 1/2  x 4 1/4" piece of SU Petal Passion DSP to the front of the card base... I LOVE the black and white!  I then added my shimmery pink front panel onto the top of the Petal Passion with foam tape.  I heat embossed the sending love sentiment from the MMH kit in white onto a small strip of Basic Black cardstock and added it to the front.  I added three of the sequins from the kit and then topped them with glass seed beads.  I added two additional glass seed beads directly to the card front.  I finished this one off by adding some black and white twine across the top by tying it in a bow and curling the ends.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

January A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to the January A Paper Pumpkin Thing Blog Hop!   I always look forward to this blog hop and all of the fabulous inspiration for each month's Paper Pumpkin kit!  I think this month may have been one of the hardest for me since I loved it so much exactly as designed!    

There were so many aodrable stamps in this month's kit so I decided to do some tone-on-tone stamping with Flirty Flamingo Ink on Flirty Flamingo Cardstock using many of the image stamps.  Those envelops are so adorable!!  I backed my 4" x 5 1/4" tone-on-tone layer with a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" mat of Basic Black cardstock. Those layers were adhered to a top folding card base of Thick Whisper White Cardstock.   I used a piece of one of the card/giftcard holders to cut out a scallop square... that black with the small gold hearts was just so pretty.  I added one of the adhesive backed banners to the scallop square.  I stamped the "Be Mine" sentiment from the stamp set in Rich Razzleberry and then clear embossed it. I added some enamel dots onto the vellum heart so that I could adhere it  by putting a glue dot under the enamel dots. Once I had the heart adhered, I added two more enamel dots to the card front.   I added a small bow with the fabulous ribbon included in the kit to the upper left side of the scallop square to finish off the front of this one.  

I decided to use the front flap to hold my card in a horizontal position so that I could decorate the upper portion of the outside.  I adhered my vellum banner to the top and added the Flirty Flamingo banner over it.  I heat embossed the sentiment "You Make My Heart Happy" from the stamp set in gold onto a small piece of Whisper White Cardstock.  I then used my Lots of Labels Framelits Dies to cut out a small label and adhered it over the banners.  I added three of the Flirty Flamingo enamel dots to the upper portion as well.  

For the inside of my gift card holder I used one of the little scallop cards in the kit and stamped the sentiment "Be Mine" in Basic Black Archival Ink.  I added a Flirty Flamingo die cut heart from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies to the card with a small amount of Tombow glue making sure to center the Be Mine in the middle of the heart.  This left enough room to write a note on the bottom of the card.  I love that the treat/giftcard holder has notches for the beautiful ribbon to the tied.. so cute!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Next up is the fabulously talented Rick Adkins.. just click the next button and you'll be there!

Blog Roll...

Sara Levin

Jenny Hall

Kimberley Morris

Melissa Thomas

Lori Mueller

Kelly Acheson

Maria Willis

Audra Monk

Tina Riddle << That's Me! >>

Rick Adkins

Jennifer Hill

Monika Davis

Carolynn Sander

Melissa Davies

Rachel Tessman

Product List

• Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141416]
• Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397]
• Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]
• Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies [141489]
• Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]

SIP Challenge #134 with Gina K Designs Geo Thanks by Claire Brennan

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  It's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this one is a cool color challenge!  Check these colors out... how fun!!!

I just received my order from Gina K Designs and was super excited to use this Geo Thanks set with the challenge!  Claire Brennan is an amazing designer!  I think I have almost every set she has designed!  Check this one out.. fabulous, right??!!

I was originally drawn to the feather in this awesome set but with this week's color challenge I felt like the hearts would be perfect!  

I was originally going for a Clean and Simple Design but my splatters really got in the way of the "Clean" part!  Oh well.. I still love it.  I used a card base of 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock measuring 11" x 4 1/4" and scored at 5 1/2" for a top folding card.  My stamped panel is Bristol Smooth Cardstock and I stamped the small outlined heart three times in Versafine Black Onyx Ink and then clear embossed them.  I used an Aqua Painter and SU Berry Burst, SU Calypso Coral and Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Distress Ink for the watercoloring.  The splatters are Berry Burst and Calypso Coral and I also used my Aqua Painter to create those.  The sentiment was stamped in Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed.  I added a few SU Glitter Enamel Dots and a heart sequin from a recent Hero Arts kit.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

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]

PCC276 Color Challenge - Two Card Post with Stampin' Up! and Unity

Hello and Happy Hump Day!  Hope your week is going well!  It's been snowing here in Middle Tennessee and has been soooo cold!  We typically don't get much snow here so we don't have the equipment to clean off the roads.  I had gone into work on Tuesday morning and left the office early because I had heard that the road condition was getting bad.  I did really well almost all the way home until I got to my exit and started sliding all over the place.  Thankfully I had left early and there was no one else in the vicinity.  It was pretty scary and I definitely felt blessed that everything came out ok!  Hopefully today will be much better although we aren't expected to warm up around here until the weekend!  I'm thinking I should retire in Florida and enjoy some warmer winters!

So today I'm over with my talented friends at the Paper Craft Crew with a card for a color challenge!

So I made two cards.. I couldn't decide between the two.   My first was with Stampin' Up! Bloomin' Hearts Thinlits dies.

The first card was primarily die cutting.. the only stamping was the sentiment and that was heat embossed.   I kept this one fairly simple!

The second card is with Unity Stamp Co. Huge Possibilities.  

The Elephant was heat embossed in black and watercolored with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.  I just love this elephant!  I also love the coordinating sentiment!  It's nice to have encouraging sentiments in your inventory!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #133 with Concord and 9th, Stuck on You

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you're having a fabulous week!  The weekend was cold here in Middle Tennessee so we pretty much stayed at home all weekend long.  I was actually happy to get out of the house on Monday to go back to work!  We also watched some of the football playoffs and unfortunately one game didn't go as well as we had hoped.  We love our Tennessee Titans anyway! :)

Today over at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a fun sketch challenge for you!  I hope you'll head over and check it out!  My friend Andrea accuses me of sticking too literally with the sketch.. well I didn't this time!  I really went out on a limb with this one!  Here is the sketch...

And here is my card... I am still playing with my new cool Stuck on You stamp set from Concord & 9th and loving this super adorable stamp set! 

Do you know what else I've been playing around with?  The awesome new Brushos powdered watercolor pigments from Stampin' Up!  They are a lot of fun to play with!  I used them to create my window on this card!   I loved that the smaller sentiments would fit in this adorable little sign!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

GIU Blog Hop - Welcome To The Hood!

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I hope today is a wonderful day and full of blessings!  Today I am blessed and honored as a former GIU Gal to be in a Unity Stamp Company blog hop!  How cool is that?  As you'll see you have a chance to win a Unity Prize package just by commenting on this hop!  Even cooler, right?  I'm sure you'll also have some awesome inspiration along the way!

Have you seen Unity's new release?  They have some awesome stamp sets available now.  As soon as I saw their Facebook Live Release Presentation I headed over to purchase a few sets!  One of my favorite new sets has birds.. called Lift Me Up Birdies!  Seeing it reminded me that I hadn't used my Welcome To The Hood stamp set that I purchased a while back so it was time to pull it out!

So if you are a regular follower, you know I have a love of all things shaker.... so I decided to go shaker with this adorable set.  My first instinct was to stamp on white cardstock but I decided to try it on Pool Party since I wanted a blue sky to see if I could manage a light color wash of the birds on colored cardstock.  All of my stamping.. including the sentiment was stamped in Versafine Black Onyx Ink and heat embossed in clear.  The embossing helps to keep the colors inside the images.  Well.. it worked on the colored cardstock and I was super happy!  I used some distress markers scribbled on an acrylic block and an aqua painter to color in the birds.  Since I was coloring on regular cardstock instead of watercolor paper, I was light with the water and that also helped it to dry super quick.  I filled my shaker window with some Lucy's Little Things Sea Spray Sequin mix.  I thought it turned out super sweet and I hope you loved it too!  

Paula Quick Driver
Wynne Cochran Grob
Berina Febin
Helen Gullett
Beth Fiscus  
Kristina Corzatt MacKeen
Tina Rackley Riddle <--- You Are Here!
Pam Stang

  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Blessings, Tina