Stampin Celebration Challenge August Inspiration Challenge

Hey there!  Glad you stopped by!

We have a great Inspiration challenge this week over at Stampin' Celebration Challenge!

 
What did you see first?  I noticed that big beautiful cake made to look like birch bark.  Second, I noticed the flowers and then the colours .  So with that in mind, I got to work! And here is the card I made... 

The colours I used are Sahara Sand, Early Espresso and Whisper White.  I added some Old Olive for my leaves.

Can you see the flowers on my card?  They are made with tissue paper!  I folded some white tissue paper into layers and punch each one 3 times from those layers.  I lined them up again and then used my Stampin' up mini stapler to hold them together.  The final step is to fluff them up!  I thought this technique helped them to look a lot like the ones in the picture.

The leaves were created using the Festive Flower Builder Punch.  I used the Thoughtful Banner stampset for my greeting and used the coordinating punch for the banner.  I finished things off with a multi layer Baker's Twine bow.

Be sure to join us at Stampin' Celebration Challenge and show us the creations you make using these pictures as inspiration!  This is a 3 week challenge and we are still looking for guest designers!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Stampin Celebration Challenge Time!

Hello stampers!

Welcome back.  We have a wonderful challenge over at Stampin Celebration Challenge this week!  It has fabulous, fun pictures to inspire you.  Here is our challenge inspiration...

 

The first thing I noticed were the colours - bright blues and bold oranges - such a fun combo, don't ya think?  The second thing my eyes ran to, was the orange chevron pattern on what I think is burlap and the third thing that really jumped out at me was the hardwood strips behind the flowers.  

I am so excited to show you the card I created!  Here it is.....

 

I started with a Crumb Cake card base then added a layer of Night of Navy cardstock stamping my Hardwood background stamp using Night of Navy Ink!  I have been wanting to try this in a while - I just LOVED how it turned out!

I wrapped the Night of Navy layer with a strip of my burlap ribbon and then layered a strip of Pumpkin Pie Chevron DSP onto the top of the ribbon.   

My flower was created using Pumpkin Pie Ink on Pumpkin Pie cadstock. I stamped it with the flower from the Crazy about You stampset.  I did this twice and layered my flowers in a staggered sort of way.  My flower center was just a scap of Night of Navy punched with the Petite Petals Punch.  

The greeting I chose is from the set And Many More - a fabulous set that has SO many wonderful greetings - a must have!  It was stamped in Night of Navy onto Curmp Cake cardstock.

I polished my card off with some some twine. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to check out my blog later in the week for the some fall projects I am making for my next appearance on Roger's Daytime!  I am really looking forward to being a part of their show again this year!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Happy 95th!

Hey there Stampers!


I have a really fun card for you today and I can't wait to share it with you, but first I will share with you how I came to create it.


My good friend, Kyla, opened a flower shop about a year ago and she asked me if I would sell my cards in her store!  I was thrilled and of course said yes!  I have been selling my cards there ever since.  A few weeks ago a customer was looking for 2 specialty cards to give to someone who was turning 95, so she gave me a call.  Yah!  I took down all the details and got to work!


I knew that it was a fall birthday, that she wanted '95' on the cards and she just loved all of the other things that I had made - no pressure!  ;)


So here is one of the cards I came up with.....

I wanted to incorporate a little sunflower (the flower of fall in my mind) some wood grain stamping and some wonderful fall colours - that plaid pattern was a great touch too!

I was really pleased with how it all turned out.  My customer loved it too!

Thank you for stopping by!  Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Sunday Stamps Challenge

Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by!  My card today was created using the sketch over at Sunday Stamps Challenge.  It is an awesome sketch!


For my card, I knew I wanted to use one of my 'new to me stamps' but has been in the Occasions Catalgoue that was released in January!  I have been using it like crazy lately and it is great value for the money - you get lots of stamps for the price.... and go a bit further and bundle it with the Butterfly framelits and save 15% off the total!  Who hoo!

The stampset I am talking about is Butterfly Basics.  This flower stamp, is so pretty.  I used my Hardwood background stamp for the wood background.  Curmb Cake ink on Crumb Cake cardstock gives a nice subtle woodgrain, letting the flower be the focus. To get the picket fence look, I just used my paper snips to cut small 'v's' into the top where the heavy lines are.  

  

I am so happy with this greeting in the Butterfly Basics stampset - did you notice?  It just says 'sending wishes your way'.  They can be any kind of wishes....get well, wedding or even birthday -  LOVE it.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Another Teacher Thank you!

Hello!  Glad you stopped by.

I have a really quick post for you today.......another Teacher Thank you card that my kids took to school with them on their last day!  I just love making these cards - they are just so fun!

I finally dusted off my Hardwood stamp and thought it would be a great background for this card.  I stamped it in Baked Brown Sugar onto Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I ran some Real Red cardstock through my BigShot using the retired Cannery framelits for the apples - I am just not done playing with this yet!

My greeting is from Lots of Thanks and I used my favourite punch for greetings - Decorative Label.  I punched an extra one in the Early Espresso to match my card base and cut it in half to make a 'frame' for my greeting so that it stands out even more. 

I did some sponging to soften the look and added some Real Red Ribbon for a finishing touch.  

I hope you enjoyed my card.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy