Graduation Card

Hello everyone,

I have a quick post for you today!  It is a graduation card that I was commissioned to make!  What an honour!

I was tasked with using the school colours and so pulled out some Cajun Craze, Black and Silver.  I used some retired speciality paper I had kickin' around - I have a bit of a hoarding problem when it comes to beautiful paper.  lol.

I attached the specialty paper using snail under the silver polka dots so the glue wouldn't show through.  

I cut balloons from Basic Black, Basic Grey and Cajun Craze Cardstock using my Balloon Bouquet Punch.  I added some twine and some silver ribbon to create a bouquet of ballons!

The Congrats was created using my Hello You Thinlits and my Big Shot machine.  

I am told the graduate love her card!

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Blogging Friends Blog Hop - Summer time!

Hey there stampers,

Know what today is?  It's time for another blog hop with my blogging friends!  On the first of every month, we do a hop through our blogs and share some wonderful projects with you.  Simply work your way through the list of bloggers at the end of everyone's post or click on the picture labeled 'continue on Blog Hop' also near the end of everyone's post.  I am looking forward to seeing the projects everyone made! 


This month's theme is Summer time.  For me, being July 1st and all, the perfect summer time theme is to celebrate is Canada's birthday!  So, if you are Canadian, happy Canada Day!  If you are hopping over from another country, please allow me to indulge in a little patriotic birthday celebration.....Canada is 149 today! :)

To celebrate, I made a happy Canada day card. For those of you not celebrating Canada's birthday, the techniques I used can be added to any card or scrapbook page.  Here is my card...

Of course, I used our traditional Canadian colours of Real Red and Whisper White and added some Crumb Cake and Black wording to emphasize them.

So, I started with a Crumb Cake card base and then added a layer of Real Red, then Whisper White embossed with the Brick Wall Embossing folder - I just LOVE this folder!  I added some Crumb Cake splatter using the Gorgeous Grunge Stampset for a bit of a graffiti look.   

I used the Leaflets Framelits to make my red maple leaf, the word 'happy' is from the Hello You Thinlits and the word day is stamped right onto the embossed cardstock.  It is the second half of 'birthday' that I coloured using the stampin' write marker instead of stamping it onto the inkpad.

This was a really fun card to make.  Thanks for stopping by.  

Now hop on over to Rick's blog to see what he has created for us!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

1. Crystal Komara
2. Anna Masciovecchio
3. Libby Fens
4. Anne Power
5.  Mary Blocher
6. Danica Ferrante
7. Deborah Smart
8. Jodi Horsley
9. Leanne Johnson
10. Michelle Clark 
11. Mary Ann Rossiter
12. Tammy Gill - You are here!
13. Rick Adkins 

Seize the Birthday with Case this Sketch!

Hey there stampers,

So glad you stopped by today!  It is the last week of summer break here in Southern Ontario - we have been gearing up for school to start next week, but my kids don't even want to hear the word school!  They are calling it the 'S' word....lol

I have a really fun card to share with you today.  I combined two challenges to get some great inspiration!  Seize the Birthday and Cas(E) this Sketch!  I just LOVE when I can do that!  One has given me a theme to work with and the other has given me the layout - perfect! 

The theme over at Seize the Birthday challenge is...

"The Weather"

(Use a weather element on your card and or project.)

 

 And the sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch! is this...

What a fun combo, don't ya think?  Here is what I came up with...

When I thought about using weather, the first thing that came to my mind was using the Sprinkles of Life stampset and coordinating Tree Builder Punch.  The ice cream scoop / cupcake topper also makes the perfect cloud!  Talk about versatile!

I had some left over DSP from last year's Sweet Dreams pack which has little suns on it - way too cute and perfect DSP for this challenge.

Hello You thinlits gave me the word 'happy' and the stampset Celebrate Today for the word 'birthday'.

Hoping you like my card.  Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Teacher Thank you with Case This Sketch

Hi there!

 Today, I wanted to show you a card I made for my regular card class and to use a teacher thank you card.

I hopped on over to Case This Sketch to get an idea for a layout and here is the sketch they had for us....

And, here is the card that I made...

Awesome layout eh?  Perfect opportunity to use my Hello You Thinlits!  I used some retired DSP paper from last year's Halloween pack - love when I can do that.

I wanted to pair the Sahara Sand colours with a bright colour, so I chose Calypso Coral for the 'thanks' and my flower. The flower was made using the Flower Medallion Punch and the matching Petal Potpourri Stampset

Don't forget to add some detail to the inside of your card - always a nice surprise when the inside has a little special touch.

I plan to give this to my almost (he has his birthday tomorrow) 7 year old's teacher.  She is the best grade one teacher he could ask for! 

Looking for some inskpiration for a masculine teacher thank you?  Click here or scroll on down to see my post from yesterday.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Happy Father's Day with Roger's Daytime TV!

Hello there,

Happy Father's Day!  I hope you are enjoying today and celebrating of the wonderful dad's in your life. 

Today, I wanted to show you pictures from my recent Roger's Daytime TV show celebrating Father's Day.

I had SO much fun with Will Nash (host) and his dad and Melanie Case (host) and the other wonderful guests on the show.  We had a fabulous BBQ with ribs and lots of grilled veggies, there was a massage therapist and a golf pro and me with Stampin'UP!  What a great pre-father's day celebration they had - food, fun and a home made card! 

Here are the pictures of the projects that I made as well as the display I had for the show!

 Here is the scrapbook page I made using the Hello You Thinlits and Star Framelits

Three different sized gift bags using the new Gift Bag Punch Board.  We actually made one live of air.
 

Finally, some treat bags of course!
 

Wishing you and yours a Happy Father's Day

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow when I have some VERY exciting news to share with you!

Tammy

Father's Day with Sunday Stamps and Pals Paper Arts

Happy Friday!

I hope your week is going well.  I have another father's day card for you today using two more of the fabulous new products from the new Stampin'UP! Annual Catalogue - don't you just LOVE new stuff to play with?

Can you spot the new tools I used?  Yep, the Brick Wall Embossing folder and the Triple Banner Punch!  I love how this card turned out.

I was lucky enough to have 2 colour challenges to help me decide what colours to use on this Father's Day card.  These 2 challenge blogs are a really great inspiration.  They are...  Sunday Stamps and Pals Paper Arts.

Be sure to stop on over and check out their fabulous creations!

The other wonderful items I used on this card are....Crazy about you Stampset, Gorgeous Grunge Stampset and Hello You Thinlits.

Thank you for joining me.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy