Pawfect Birthday Card!

Hello there,

It has been a while since I have posted, so glad you could join me!  I am getting back into the swing of things and getting fall off to a great start.  I have my three boys ready to head back to school on Tuesday and here in southern Ontario, the leave are just starting to turn those beautiful fall colours.  My favourite!

To help me get back into full swing, I decided to play along with The Paper Players for their sketch challenge this week.  Here it is...

 

I LOVE this!  I decided to pull out some of my favourites to play along.  I used the Dog Builder Punch and Coordinating stampset Happy Tails to create this super cute dog.  With three boys, I can always use a card with a dog on it.  lol

I chose my colours after I decided what DSP to use.  The DSP is an oldy but goodie as they say, one I have been saving (hoarding) and I love it!  My cardbase is Early Espresso, then next layer is Pool Party.

 I stamped my puppy using Early Expresso onto Early Espresso cardstock.  I popped him up using dimensionals and added him to a 2" circle that was cut using my circle punch.

The greeting is from the Ride with Me stampset.  I finished it all off with a bow.  

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Fall Blogging Friends Blog Hop!

 Happy September 1st everyone!

It's blog hop time with my blogging friends.  This month we are sharing projects made using a picture for inspiration!  It is a beautiful fall picture.
 

Beautiful, right?  It makes me want to start my fall decorating!

I was honoured in July to have added 3 new members to my Stampers Inkspired team!  I wanted to make them some thank you gifts and so I used this picture to help.

So, for my blog hop today I have two projects I created for their thank you goodie bag.  

 To start, I purchased some of the new fun fall hand soaps at Bath and Body works - I am a sucker for the pumpkin scents!  lol  So, I just had to decorate them up with some tags.  They are a very similar tag to one you would put on a wine bottle for a hostess gift, just smaller.  These measure 3" x 7" and then scored on the long side at 3".  I then used my 2" circle punch to create the hole for the nozzle to fit through.  

  
One of my all time favourite things to do is punch art and fall is the perfect time!  I just love making pumpkins with my circle and oval punches or framelits.  I cut three of the same size and then sponge each of the edges.  My small circle pumpkin is made using Pumpkin Pie cards stock and ink and my larger pumpkin is made using Very Vanilla cardstock and Sahara Sand Ink.  The stems are a scrap of Old Olive.
 

The base of the tag is made using Early Espresso cardstock and the next layer is the Wood Textures DSP.  The greeting is from the Treehouse Adventure stampset, new in the annual catalogue!  I thought this greeting was fitting for a new demonstrator - what do you think?
 

My next 3D item to share is a hand stanitizer holder that I cased from one of my favourite demonstrators - Eric Cerwin of Pink Buckaroo Designs.  She has a video that shares how she made them and you can find that here.
 

I altered mine slightly and opted out of the peekaboo hole in the front.  The jars are made with the Every Day Jar Framelits and the greeting from the is from the Jar of Love stampset.  The colours I used are Real Red and Old Olive and the 'stem' is a scrap of Early Espresso.  I finished them off with some Twine.
 

I placed some apple scented hand sanitizer inside!  I just LOVE how they turned out. 

The thank you bags were finished off with a pair of papersnips and a giant chocolate bar - can always use some chocolate.  Two of the bags have been delivered and I will be delivering one more next week!  So excited to share this adventure with them.

Now, be sure to hop on through our blog hop to see everyone's creation.  Next up is Rick - I always love to see what he creates.

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Crystal Komara 

Libby Fens 

Mary Blocher 

Jessica Mink

Michelle Clarke 

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter

Tammy Gill - You are here!

Rick Adkins 

Nikki Debbie Daigneau 

Turn Lemons into Oranges?

Happy Monday stampers,

I have a super cute card to share with you today.  I wanted to share it with the folks over at The Paper Players - they have a fun challenge today called Fruits and Veggies!



I wanted to create card using some fun summer like colours and I wanted to use my Lemon Zest stampset for something a little different - how about some grapefruit and oranges!  Here is my card....

I started with a Pumpkin Pie card base, then layered a Melon Mambo and then added a layer of Whisper white.  I stamped my greeting directly onto the Whisper White Melon Mambo.  

I stamped my 'oranges' and 'grapefruits' on a separate piece of Whisper White and punched each one out using the 2" Circle Punch. The lighter and darker of each colour was stamped using first and second generation ink.  So, the darker image was stamped directly after inking up my stamp and then the lighter image was stamped onto a scrap of paper, then onto my Whisper White cardstock, giving a lighter image.  

I attached the two layers and then wrapped my twine.  I attached three of the fruit directly to the Whisper white and then popped the forth up on dimensionals.  

Finally, I added a bow and attached it to the twine with a glue dot.

Thank you for stopping by.  Be sure to visit The Paper Players to see all of the projects that were created using this challenge.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Blogging Friends Blog Hop

 Hello,

Hope you have had a good February and are ready for all that March will bring!  This month for our Blogging Friends blog Hop we are celebrating Sale-a-Bration!  The most wonderful time of the year - Stampin'UP! style. 

My favourite free Sale-a-Bration item is the Bubbles and Fizz Designer Series Paper.  If you follow my blog, you know that I am addicted to patterned paper.  I tend to hoard my favourites and this is one of them.  There are so many awesome patterns in the pack. This one is Lemon Lime Twist with lots of carbonated bubbles!  Way too cute!!

I knew I wanted to use my Bubble Over Bundle to go with my DSP.  I used my sponges to colour the bottles to make some flavoured pop.
 

My greeting is from my all time favourite stampset, Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Be sure to hop on through and see favourites my blogging friends love from Sale-a-Bration!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Crystal Komara

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher 

Jessica Mink

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter 

Tammy Gill - You are Here

Male Card

Hello my stampin' friends,

I have a great, versatile card to share with you today.  One of my regular card class ladies had requested a male inspired birthday card - thank you Bonnie for the request!  

I also saw that the Global Design Project team had a theme challenge for the week looking for male inspired cards.  

Here is my card.  I like how it turned out.  My image is one for a retired set that I just had to keep in my stash.  I just love the antique images in this set.  The colours are Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Basic Grey.  I used the circle punches to frame the image.

I used my most favourite greeting set of all time Teeny Tiny Wishes!  If you don't have this set you MUST get it!  lol Seriously it has a stamp for every occasion.  I chose to make this card a birthday card.  Who doesn't need male birthday cards in their stash?

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Be sure to stop over at Global Design Project to see all of the male inspired cards that have been created.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Blogging Friends Blog Hop October

 

Hello friends,

So glad you stopped by today.  It's the first of the month and so it's time for another Blog Hop with my Blogging Friends!

Our theme this month is fall!  I love this time of year.  The leaves are starting to change and the nights are cooler but still nice in the daytime.  

With fall in mind, I decided to share with you some Halloween treats I made for a craft show I am attending this weekend.  It is a part of an award winning festival called Small Halls Festival - if you are ever in southern Ontario the first weekend in October, you MUST check it out!

Here are a couple of the treats I will be selling at the sale..

I used some new products from the Holiday catalogue as well as some old favourites.  The Cookie Cutter Punch and coordinating stampset is quickly becoming one of my new go to set for fall.  I just love all of the little characters that can be made with this set and the Christmas matching set as well!  My hold steady favourites here are Teeny Tiny Whishes and Georgous Grunge.

Here is another version using ghost chocolates and the skeleton!  I added a tiny little orange heart using the Cookie Cutter punch.

When I saw these gummy fang treats I knew exactly what I was going to use to pretty them up.  I coloured my Dracula using blender pens and my inkpads.

Now you much hop on through the stops.  Next up is Rick - he always has a fabulous project for us.  See you next time.

 

Crystal Komara 

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio 

Libby Fens 

Anne Power

Mary Blocher 

Danica Ferrante 

Deborah Smart

Jessica Mink 

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke 

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa 

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter 

Tammy Gill - You are here!

Rick Adkins 

Lisa Harvey Reber 

Jenny Lane Gauthier

Nautical Challenge

Hey there my stampin' friends,

Welcome to my second post of the day!  If this is your first stop on my blog, be sure to scroll down to participate in a tropical blog hop.

Ok, onto my next topic.....we have a really fun challenge for you this week at Stampin' Celebration Challenge.  A nautical theme!

 
Aren't these picture fabulous?  I love the colours, the anchor and the stripes.

Here is the card I created...

I used Night of Navy, Whisper White and Daffodil Delight to match the colours of the pictures.  I used the Guy Greetings to get my Anchor image as well as my greeting.  The DSP is from the Famous Florals pack and I used my 1 3/4" and 2" circle punch to frame the anchor.  finally, I added a little double bow made from twine.

Hope this card inspires you to participate in our challenge this week.  We are on the look-out for guest designers, so come on and join the fun! So hop on over to Stampin' Celebration Challenge!

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Happy Birthday Starburst

Hey there stampers, 

I hope your week is going well!  I wanted to share a card with you today that I made for my most recent card class. 

I used the colour combination challenge over at the Create with Connie and Mary site for my starting point.  It is always great to have a little help with a starting point. 

 

I have to begin by saying that this combo was definitely a challenge for me.  Not colours I would normally put together, but that's what challenges are for, right?  These colour made me think of spring and sunshine

Here is a picture of my card...

 I really liked how it turned out.  I hope that this burst of sunshine helps bring some warm weather and sunshine here!

Be sure to stop on over to Create with Connie and Mary to see all of the other wonderful creations made with the colour combo!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Valentines Daytime, Roger's TV

Happy Valentine's day!  

I have projects to share with you today from my most recent appearance on Daytime, with Roger's TV.  

But, I have to confess, that I forgot my camera on that day, so a few of my pictures aren't great quality...I took them with my phone. 

I used some really great tools, paper and cardstock to create my projects for the show. I showcased the Love Blossoms DSP stack and lots of different glimmer paper. 

 

 Lovin' the Bloomin' Heart Thinlit!  So beautiful in person.  I made some 4 x4 cards with the heart as the focal point.  I emphasized them with the Wink of Stella pen for some added glitter.  I made some arrows with some sucker sticks and punches.  This is perfect for Valentines, but can you picture is for a wedding card or wedding shower card? 

I also made some cute valentines for the kiddo's using the You're Sublime stampset.  This stampset is SO 'kid-friendly'!  Perfect for the kids to help with some stamping and colouring and these stamps have some 'oh so cute' sayings.  The coloured card base is 2 1/4" and the Whisper White card is 2" once folded.

And here are the insides. 

 I made some candy sleeves with some cute little tags.  There was a quartet of 7-10 year olds on the show that day, so I was sure to give them each one as well as the camera people who are always so friendly and helpful.

My final picture is of the hosts using my display to shoot a commercial for the next day's show.

Be sure to stop back tomorrow to see the 3-D project I made for the show.  

 Happy Valentine's day!

Tammy