Easter Card!

Hello everyone,

Happy Easter.  More snow again for us this morning, but a beautiful sunny day.

I have one more Easter card to share with you today.  I used the beautiful Free As A Bird stampset and Itty Bitty Greetings.

I used some soft colours on this card, starting with the DSP.  It is one from my stash, so it is older, bu the colours are pretty.  Mint Macaroon and Very Vanillia.

I coloured the image using Daffodil Delight, Mint Macaroon, Old Olive and Crumb Cake.

May greeting is from Itty Bitty Greetings.  

Happy Easter,

Tammy

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Happy Easter!

Hello everyone,

Happy Thursday!  Well, here in my little town in Ontario Canada, we woke up to white grass! Yep, snow on the ground.  It was gone by lunch time, but, we are slated to get more next week!  I sure hope they are wrong.  It is nice to get out into the yard these days when we are spending so much time at home.  That will just mean more crafting.

Are you ready for Easter?  We are here at the Gill house.  Our Premier (head of Ontario) has announced that the Easter Bunny is an essential service!  Which means that he can still conduct his business of delivering treats and eggs to all of the houses this year.  WHEW!  That was a close one!

So wanted to share some super cute Easter cards that I made with the Easter Bunny in mind.

I thought this also lent to the theme over at The Paper Players!  They have a fun theme of A Day at the Zoo.  I know our Zoo has bunnies, so thought I would play along.  

I used the really cute stampset, Fable Friends.  That bunny is perfect for an Easter Card.  I love colouring him in. 

For my first card, I coloured him in using Basic Grey and his coat in Old Olive.  Flirty Flamingo for his ears.

My second card is exactly the same layout and tools, I just changed the colours to match my DSP.  This one was for a girl so added some pretty paper and colours.  

This bunny was stamped and colour on Very Vanilla and my colours bled a little, but l liked the softness so kept going with it.

These colours are Crumb Cake and Calypso Coral and Flirty Flamingo for her ears.

Loved the way they turned out, one more masculine and one more feminine.  

Be sure to stop on over to The Paper Players and see all of the fun projects made with A Day at the Zoo in mind.

Happy Easter!  Stay healthy and safe,

Tammy

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International Blog Highlights

Hello everyone,

Happy Monday!  How are you doing?  Did you do any crafting over the weekend?  I completed a few cards and happy to share them with you.

The card I want to share today is an entry for the Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlights.  She has this wonderful monthly inspiration challenge that I like to participate in.  The theme this month is Thank you.  There are many things and people to be thankful for right now and I want to share the card I am sending to my team.  I am so very thankful for them.  

I focused on the Over the Moon stampset from the annual catalouge.  It is SO cute and has such nice sentiments for a thank you or pick me up.  Here is the stampset.

I used my Stampin' Blends to colour him in.  The colorus I used are Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Basic Grey, Pool Party and Bronze.  

This super cute cow is framed using the Stitched Shapes Dies and then layered using the Layering Ovals Dies.  

The greeting is also from the Over the Moon set and stamped on a scrap of Whisper White, the one you are always left with when you make the insides of your cards.  All are popped up on dimensionals.

That tiny little heart, is from my scrap pile.  I have a bunch of left over hearts when I cut several of the Stitched Be Mine Dies at valentines,  I knew those little hearts would come in handy.  :)

Part of the Blog Highlights is to vote for five of your favourites.  To vote for your favourite you can do that HERE.  

Thank you for joining me today.

Stay healthy and safe and enjoy some creative outlets.  

Happy stampin'

Tammy

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Blogging Friends Blog Hop!

Hello friends,

I hope you are managing well with all of the changes our daily lives are coping with.

My family and I are doing well.  We like being at home together.  We are keeping busy.   I am making cards and am on a mission to use up my DSP stash.  

But today, it is time for a Blogging Friends Blog Hop.  The theme this month is Baby Come Rockin'.  I had a lot of fun with this!  It has been a long time since I have made a baby card and I forgot how fun they are.

I used some of my favourite things on this card.

There is some super sweet stitching on this card which is perfect for a baby card.  

First, I used the Stitched be Mine dies to add a small scalloped stitched edge on the Whisper White Layer.  Then I used the largest square from Stitched Shapes dies to frame that adorable kangaroo and baby koala.  Finally, I used the Stitched Rectangle dies to frame the greeting.  

The image and greeting is from the Animal Outing stampset.  The images are so cute and perfect for a baby card.  I colour it using my Stampin' Blends, Crumb Cake Combo and Smokey Slate Combo and Flirty Flamingo Combo.  The scalloped Balmy Blue square is the largest of the Scalloped squares in the Layering Square Dies.

The cardstock colours are Balmy Blue and Whisper White.  The ink used Memento Black.

Be sure to hop on through all of my blogging friends links below to see all of the projects made for baby!

Happy stampin'

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!

June 2019 Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Hello there my stampin' friends,

Welcome to the very first blog hop of the new annual catalogue!  I am so very excited to show you the new products I decided to showcase.

I chose to showcase the very first thing I purchased from the new catalogue....Free as a Bird Bundle.  I know there have already been some amazing projects using these two great products, but I am hoping to give you just one more reason to NEED this bundle in your collection!

Here is my card.

I love that this bundle can be used with any of your favourite colour combination and one that I love, Is  Balmy Blue and Crumb Cake!  

I started with a Crumb Cake card base, then a layer of Balmy Blue dry embossed using the Basket Weave and then a layer of Vellum Cardstock. 

I used the Stitcehd Nested Labels Dies to layer 2 different sizes - they are stitched!! and these beauties stitch on both the positive and negative space.  I stamped the images on a scrap of Whisper white using Momento ink which works well with the Stampin' Blends.  

The colours of Stampin' Blends I used was Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Cumb Cake and Daffodil Delight.

Then I fussy cut the images to be able to pop them up onto the Nested Dies.  Before I adhered any of the images, I stamped the greeting using Momento as well as I stamped the bird a second time so that I didn't have to fussy cut his legs and feet!  lol

I added all of the images with dimensionals and adhered the Whisper White Nested Label directly onto the Crumb Cake Label. I wrapped some Braided Linen Trim around the center and poped the whole centerpiece up onto dimesionals.  Finally, I added a bow.

I hope you liked my card.  As I look at it now, I think I could have added some colour to the ground under the blue bird's feet.  I will add it after I type this post. lol

Be sure to hop all around and see what my Blogging Friends have created.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy



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Darling Baby!

Hello everyone,

I thought I would join the fun over at Inspire.Create where they have a fun colour challenge this week.



I couldn't resist using the Fable Friends stampset that will be retiring from the Occasions catalogue to create a baby card!  I used the super cute ducklings and their mom.

I stamped them in Momento Ink and coloured them using my stampin' blends!  I really loved how they turned out.  I cut out the image using the Stitched Rectangles to give it one more detail in the framing of the image.  The others are layers of cards stock starting with a card base of Poppy Parade, Whisper White and some DSP from the Painted Seasons DSP that I have been saving.

The greeting is also from this stampset - can't go wrong with a welcome baby card in your stash.  I stamped it on a Stitched Circle and framed it with a poppy parade scalloped circle cut using the Layering Circle Thinlits. 

Be sure to stop by Inspire.Create to see all of the wonderful creations made with this challenge in mind.  

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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