Stampin Celebration Inspiration Guest Designer take 3!

Welcome to the Stampin' Celebration Challenge card share!

I still need to keep pinching myself that I was chosen to be a guest designer!  I am so honoured to be a part of such a great group of ladies.

The challenge this week is AWESOME.  I love the feeling that these inspiration pictures give to me - relaxed and summer best describe these photos. I just love this time of year! 

 


Here is the card I made with this inspiration....

I decided to dust off a couple of favourite retired stampsets of mine...Perfectly Preserved and By the Sea Shore - perfect for capturing those awesome inspiration images.

I was going for a 'message in a bottle' sort of card and I thought the images were a perfect way to send a Happy Retirement message.  I used my Teeny Tiny Messages stampset for the sentiment and cut it out using my Bitty Banners Framelits

Some other tools and stampsets I used were...Cannery Framelits, Bitty Banners Framelits, Gorgeous Grunge stampset and World Map stampset.



The colours I chose were Lost Lagoon, Sahara Sand and Very Vanillia.  I also used some Vellum cardstock for my mason jar.  I stamped the image in Lost Lagoon onto the Vellum then waited until my ink dried before I ran it through the Big Shot with the Cannery Framelits.  I cut a second jar using Lost Lagoon cardstock to place behind the Vellum.  I finished things off with some of the new Thick Baker's twine at my sentiment.

 

Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to join us at Stampin' Celebration.  We can't wait to see your creations!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Stampin Clelebration Sketch SC107

Hello and welcome!

I am SO excited to have been chosen to be a designer for the Design team at Stampin' Celebration Challenge blog!  What an honour!

Our challenge this week is a sketch - I just love sketch challenges.  They always help me to expand my card designs.  Here is the sketch that we were working with....

...and here is my card....

If you are just getting to know me and my blog, I have three wonderful boys and all three have birthdays in the second half of June!  So, I wanted to use this sketch to make a great card for my youngest who is turning 7 on the 25th. 

I chose the stampset Sea Street and the classic nautical colours red, white and blue.  I used my circle framelits to create the cut outs for our little sea creatures to pop out from.  The crab and lobster just make me smile. 

I used my Bitty Banner Framelits to cut the banner for my greeting as well as the frame for my greeting.  And, the Happy Birthday has come from my brand new Sprinkles of Life stampset.

Be sure to check out all of the great cards over at Stampin' Celebration and join the fun.  We can't wait to see what you create!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

A Gift for ME!

Hello there!  Happy first day of summer break!  My now six year old woke up extra extra early today....6:15 am!  (I couldn`t wake him up at this time for school if I tried)  and he was yelling It's SUMMER from his bed!  Can you believe it!  What a way to wake up.  My baby just loves his time off from school WAY too much  lol

My post today is an awesome surprise that was given to me this week at my card class.  A beautiful present for ME! 

A wonderful lady, Laurie MacIntosh, has become a good friend because of Stampin'UP! and she made me this thank you gift.  Wait until you see it - WOW!  My pictures won`t do it justice, but I will try.

Laurie made this beautiful box with a cute belly band - I couldn't wait to get it open.

Inside, I found this  beautiful note pad and pen - perfect for all those lists that a mom needs to make.

Here is a close up.  Laurie embossed the whisper white background using perfect poka dots embossing folder and her big shot.  She used the stamp set By the Tide and fussy cut the shell and seahorse and popped them up on dimensionals.  The coral was stamped directly onto the white, before it was embossed and the greeting was a stamp from her collection and punched out with an oval punch.  Don`t forget that new Thick Baker`s Twine.  You can't see it but there is some dazzling details on there as well!  Gorgeous!

Below is the card that she made.  It had a matching envelope that she made using the envelope punch board  - an awesome tool to have!

Isn`t this card beautiful!  The dress and dress form are retired framelits.  The dress is popped up and decorated with By the Tide stampset.  Can you see the little bow made with twine.....there are tiny little sea shells on the ends! 

The thank you greeting comes from Itty Bitty Banners set and matching framelits!

Thank you Laurie for this thoughtful and oh so BEAUTIFUL gift!

Happy Stampin`,

Tammy