Thank you International Blog Highlight

 Hello stampers,

Thank you for stopping by today.  I am sharing a card I have made using some free items I have earned and that you can earn too!  Starting January 5th, for every $60 you spend you can earn a free item.  Free is good, right!

I am participating in Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlight challenge with this card!  The theme is 'thank you'.  So I have created a thank you card to join the fun.  We can all use more Thank you cards in our stash - there are so many people we can be thanking during the pandemic and a handmade card is a beautiful way to do it.  

Here is my card!   Can you spot the free items?

If you guessed the Designer Series Paper and the stampset, you guessed right!  LOL

I love this paper and I have been using it a ton!  It is called Flower and Field Designer Series Paper and it has many pretty colours in the patterns.  This helps create many colour combinations using this as your starting point. 

The stampset is called Corner Bouquet.  There are so many ways to use this stampset, today I have coloured it using my Stampin' Write Markers.

If you like my card, I would love to have your vote!  Please stop by Kylie's blog and place your vote.  You can do that by clicking the button below.  ;)  thank you!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Sale A Brate Good Times - Come on!

Hello there,

Happy new year!  Well 2020 is finally over and 2021 is here and let's make it a good one!

With the start of a new month comes a Blog Hop with my Blogging Friends.  I just love to hop on through and see all of the creations this group has to share.  This month there are so many wonderful new things happening in the Stampin'UP! world and the most exciting is Sale-a-bration.  That is the best sale of the year where you earn free stuff!  

So on this hop we are featuring products you can earn for FREE!  Today I am going to share with you two cards I created using the Darling Donkeys stampset.

My first card depicts how we all feel about 2020!  One of these cute little donkeys is kicking up his heels and I positioned him to kick 2020.  I saw versions of this one line and had to put my spin on it.

I used my Stampin' Blends in Basic Grey and Crumb Cake and Petal Pink for his ears.  Then I fussy cut him out and popped him up using dimensionals.  The numbers are from the Playful Alphabet dies.  The Scalloped Stitched Rectangle and the confetti stamp are from the So Sentimental Bundle

I couldn't resist using the Word Wishes Dies to wish my card recipient a happy new year!

For my next card, I wanted to feature another of the Darling Donkeys as well as one of the many Designer Series Papers you can earn for FREE!

This cute little guy I coloured in using the same Stampin' Blends colours, just in reverse and the flower is in Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler.

I wanted to use some Flirty Flamingo ribbon, but didn't have any - Stampin' Blends to the rescue!  I simply coloured my ribbon with my Dark Flirty Flamingo.

Be sure to hop on through all of my friends blogs to see all of the project made with FREE products you can earn.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Coming Home Blog Hop

Hello everyone!

Today I am participating in a Blog Hop with everyone making a project using the Coming Home Suite.

Do you have this one yet?  It is in the holiday catalogue.  These little houses and street scape images can be used for so many different cards.  Follow me.  You could create the obvious Christmas, Halloween, House Warming, Birthday, Retirement, the list goes on.  Getting them with the coordinating dies will save you 10%

Here is the card I created to share with you today.  

And if you get the bundle, you should also get the Designer Series Paper ;)  It is so stinkin' cute!  This was my starting point in creating my card.  There is a large scene pattern in the DSP pack that I wanted to utilize and a simple fancy fold card allowed me to use it effectively.

The card base I used is 4 1/4 x 11, scoring at 5 1/5 to give a long gate style card.  Then I cut the front of the card in half on the short side.  So when you open the card, you have only a narrow card front.  This allows  you to see more of the DSP.

Here is the inside of my card.  It is a piece from the top of the paper.  I thought that the pattern was light enough you could write your message directly onto it.  

Here is a close look of the front of the card.  I used two stitched rectangles as a base for the images.  They are stamped in Memento Ink and coloured with Stampin' Blends.  The greeting is framed using a die from the Hippo Happiness Dies and the greeting itself is from Itty Bitty Crhstimas.

The front of the cardbase is layered using the bottom of the scene pattern of the DSP.  I finished the card off with a bow.

Be sure to hop on through to see all of the wonderful creations that we made using the Coming Home Suite.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Camping Father's Day Card

Hey there,

This week is all about celebrating the dads in our lives.  I wanted to share 2 cards I have created with a camping theme!  I have the great pleasure of creating cards for a couple who ask me to make many cards each month and these cards were created for them to give.

The first card was was all about the campfire!  I used the retired Great Outdoors stampset.  If you have this in your stash, this is a great one to use for the dad who loves to camp. 

I used the campfire and camp chair.  I stamped them in Memento Ink and then coloured them with my blends.  They are framed with the Rectangle Stitched dies.  

My next camping card is created all with die cuts from the Outdoor Adventure Dies.

I just love the little scenes that these little dies create especially the little snow caps for the mountains.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy



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Spring Wedding Card Ideas

Hello there,

Can you believe it is March already?!  Where does the time go!

We have a wonderful blog hop for you this month and the theme will help us get ready for spring!  All creations will be based on spring weddings! 

We had a blizzard here in southern Ontario that kept most everyone house bound for over 24 hours last Friday.  So, a spring theme is a wonderful diversion.  lol.

With spring wedding being the theme, I knew right away I wanted to use the new Timeless Tulips from the Spring 2020 catalogue.

I used a 'new to me' technique on this card.  I absolutely LOVE how this card turned out and it was surprisingly easy.  This technique gives the look of watercolour painting.  I think it is so pretty.

To create these flowers, I stamped the flowers in a light colour ink, I used Daffodil Delight.  I then used 2 different pink sets of Stampin' Blends.  I started with the lightest of the four markers and coloured over all of the yellow, then the next lightest and coloured most of the flower leaving the top of the flower light and then next lightest colour and so on with the darkest of the four colours keeping mostly to the bottom of the follower.  I then used the lightest and blended it all in.  Finally, I used the colour lifter to add some highlights.  

The stems were created in the same way only using two different green colour blend combos.

The greeting is from Dandelion Wishes.  I punched it out using the Story Label Punch, added a Petal Pink stitched circle and a vellum stitched oval.  

Be sure to hop on through and see of the other spring wedding ideas.

Happy stampin'

Tammy

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Something New with The Paper Players

Hello my stampin' friends,

I decided to play around with the theme challenge with the Paper Players today, who have a challenge for something new!  

Have you seen the new Stampin'UP! mini catalogue?  There are SO many new and fun products to get our crafting on!  My card today is made with one of my favourites.   The Painted Poppies Suite!  I just love it.  The designer paper is fabulous!  Each and every patterned paper in the package is beautiful!

I wanted the beautiful paper to be one of the highlights of my card, so used it to fill most of the front.  I cut it out using the Rectangle Stitched Dies to give it a nice finished edge.

The die shapes are also very versatile.  You get both of these labels in one package of dies.  So many possibilities!  The flowers and leaves are also from the same package and coordinate with the stamp set to give some beautiful poppy flowers and leaves. 

 Don't forget to check out all of the creations made with Something New, over at The Paper Players!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

International Blog Highlights

Hello my stampin' friends!

It is time for Kyle Bertucci's Monthly International Blog Highlights.  It is a really fun challenge (so to speak) where Kylie provides a theme and you submit a project and people vote for their favourtie!  The top 10 projects get to participate in an international Blog Hop closer to the end of the month.  I am so excited to be participating this month and I am excited for you to see my project.  

I focused on the Poppies suite in the new Mini catalogue - it is extremely beautiful and full of possibilities!  The theme for the Blog Highlight is Thank you.  I love this theme, because you can't have enough thank you cards in your stash and these beautiful products are perfect for a thank you card!

My focus was on the Painted Poppies bundle and the beautiful DSP that comes in the suite.  I just love every piece of paper in it!

I used my stitched rectangle dies to frame my layers of Pool Party and the DSP.  It adds a nice touch.  The layers that the greeting are on are dies from the bundle as well!  I love having some extra ways to frame a greeting.  

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will vote for me!  You can do that right here.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Ride with Me to Seize the Birthday!

HI there!

Thank you for joining me on this beautiful fall day!  Today is another fabulous day with lots of beautiful colours in the trees.  This is a busy week for me as I am preparing for a very large Christmas card class.  Stay tuned for some pictures later this week!

"For the Kids"Just remember to make it a Birthday theme! 

But first, let's pay along with the birthday challenge over at Seize the Birthday!  It's a kids Birthday theme.  Super fun!

I have been loving the Ride with Me Bundle, most particularly, the stampset.  I just LOVE the old style pick-up truck and all of the little accessories that you can'put' inside the back.  

On this birthday card, I used the balloons - perfect for a kids birthday.  I used bright colours to colour them in.

Although I love using my blends to colour, I decided to use them just to highlight some accents on the truck.  I stamped the truck in Daffodil Delight onto Daffodil Delight cardstock, then I used my blends to accent in a few places. Have you tried using bends on coloured cardstock?  It is a little different in that the colour really soaks in, but I love the subtle effect.  

Be sure to stop on over to Seize the Birthday to see all of the wonderful creations using this theme!

Tammy

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Ride with Me to a Colour Challenge!

Hey there!  So glad you could stop buy today!  

I am going to share a card I made with one of my all time favourite bundles that I used to join the challenge fun over at SUO Challenges.

SUOC 234: Coloring

Its a colouring challenge!  Whop Whop!  The Ride with me Bundle is perfect for a colouring challenge.

Whether you need a birthday card, a Thanksgiving card or a Christmas card, this stampset and bundle have you covered.

The past weekend was Thanksgiving here in Canada and so of course, I used the cute little pumpkins with a Balmy Blue pickup truck for a Thanksgiving card for my sister-in-law - she was hosting the big turkey dinner this year.  I just love how it turned out!  (She really liked it too. )  :)

My first choice in colouring tools are always my Stampin' Blends.  They make me look like a true artist.  You just can't go wrong.  For this card, I used Balmy Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Basic Black and Old Olive (on the tiny leaves).  I framed the harvest pickup truck by cutting it out with the Stitched Rectangle dies.

My card layers are Balmy Blue Card base, a layer of Whisper White and then a layer of Balmy Blue DSP.  The Pickup Truck is on Whisper White and the frame around it is Pumpkin Pie.

From my family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!

Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Hello there,

It is time for another blogging friends blog hop and this time we are highlighting fall products now available!  they can be found in the all new Holiday Catalogue! 

I fell in love with the Come to Gather Suite - I just love all parts of it.  The colours, patterned paper and PUMPKINS!  Who doesn't love some pumpkins to play with?  Did you notice the wooden elements too?  But, what I was really surprised with was the ribbon - I basically bought it because it matched. Well, the pictures just can't do it justice.  It is beautiful!

 

I started with an Early Espresso cardbase, added a Whisper White layer and that beautiful patterned paper.  I wrapped some ribbon around the top two layers before adhering it to the card base.  

I cut a stitched rectangle in Early Espresso and stamped my greeting in Vera Mark Ink and heat embossed using the white embossing powder.  The large pumpkin was stamped in Early Espresso Ink and the smaller ones stamped in Mint Macaroon.  They were popped up with dimensionals and the entire rectange was also attached using dimensionals.  Finally, I finished my card with a big beautiful bow. 

Do you have the new Holiday Catalogue yet?  If you live in Canada and would like one, send me a message and I will get one out to you! 

Be sure to hop all through our friends blogs to see all of the amazing creations using the new holiday products!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy