Valentine's Day Custom Cards

 Hello there!

Today in Ontario Canada, we celebrate Family Day!  Usually, my family visits my parents where we have some pond hockey, chili to eat and usually a birthday cake for me.  :)  This year we will be following the COVID protocols and look forward to next year.  

In the mean time, let me share with you the Valentine's Day cards I made for a wonderful couple to give.

The first was a card made to give to their parents.  So cute! used the Retired Grandma's House Stampset, Itty Bitty Christmas Stampset, Stitched So Sweetly, Be Mine Stitched Dies and my favourite Stampin' Blends.  

Next card is a love card.  I used the retired Parisian Dies (I cut out three of them and layered them to really give some dimension) and the Stitched Shapes Dies.💕

My next two cards were made for their daughters so I couldn't resist creating some Valentine's day Gnomes.

Lots of punches and dies on these!  Stitched So Sweetly (of course - can't seem to make a card without these lately), retired Tropical Dies, Pine Tree Punch, Small Oval Punch (nose and feet) and Heart Punch Pack.

And another, same card, different patterns.

Love these cards and love to help people send love to their families. 

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Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Blogging Friends Blog Hop

 

Yah!  It's Friday of a long weekend!  It is labour day here in Ontario and this weekend signifies the end of summer.  I do love fall and all that comes with it, so it is a bitter sweet weekend.

Our blog hop theme for September is the Harvest Moon.  For me, this signifies fall, thanksgiving and all things that I am thankful for.  This year especially, there are many things that I am thankful for.

You see, by day I am a Human Resources Manager, by night a wife, mom and paper crafter!  My day job this year has been extremely busy creating safety plans and processes and implementing procedures that will keep our staff safe.  I couldn't have done it without 4 very special ladies that always jumped in to help every time I asked.  To thank them, I created a little gift bag with some goodies that I will share next week.  But for our blog hop, I want to share the thank you card that I made for them.

The colours I used are Grey Granite, Whisper White and Melon Mambo.

You can see that there is much layering.  I really love the look of multiple layers.  

Here I used Grey Granite for the cardbase, a layer of Whisper White, a layer of Grey Granite DSP, a Stitched Scalloped Grey Granite rectangle and a Whisper White Stitched Label.  Both were cut using the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.  I just love these dies.

The greeting is from So Sentimental.  Those tiny little hearts have been sitting on my craft table for some time, and they are left from the row of small hearts from the Stitched Be Mine Dies. 

Be sure to hop on through the projects made with the harvest moon in mind.

Happy Stampin'

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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Happy Birthday at Grandma's House

Hey there,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  I really did - it was my birthday weekend with my girlfriends!  We ate really great food, had some girl time and stamped.  LOVE my besties so much.

One of the stamps we played with is Grandma's House.  A real sleeper from the annual catalgoue.  Here it is..

Oh my gosh!  The greetings and sentiments are to die for and the sweet images are SO fun to colour.

I decided to join the fun over at Seize the Birthday and share my card I created with this little gem.

What do you think?  I love the bright colours and the spring feeling I get when I look at this card.  We really need it here in Ontario, Saturday was -27 degrees!  It was a good day to stamp.  I started with a Highland Heather cardbase and gingham dsp and chose my other colours that look like spring.  Real Red, Daffodil Delights and Old Olive.

For the 'grass' I used the edgelit from the Stitched be Mine dies.  I love this little finished edge that it creates.

Thank you for joining me today.  Happy stampin'

Tammy

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Love Card with Global Design Project

Hey there,

So glad you could stop by today!  Happy Monday!

I have a fun card to share with you, one to help prepare for Valentine's day.  I thought I would play along with the challenge over at Global Design Project.  They have a super fun sketch as inspiration.

I opted to flip the sketch a little, with my shape on the left and the trim up the edge instead of at the bottom.  I like how it turned out.  The stitched edge was created using one of the dies from the Stitched Be Mine dies.

The heart was also created using the Stitched Be Mine Dies.  The greeting was cut with the Well Said dies.  Some of my all time favourite as they can be used for so many projects!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Happy new year my Stampin' friends!

I hope you were all able to enjoy a wonderful holiday season filled with love, family, friends and good cheer.  I think 2020 is going to be an amazing year and I am so excited to get started!

What better way to start the new year than to have a hop around with my blogging friends.  We have a wonderful theme - Can you Feel the Love tonight!  There are some super cute love products in the new mini catalogue that also goes live today, but I have chosen to focus on some of my favourtie love products in the annual catalouge.  Can you guess which ones?

And here is the card I made.  I just love how it turned out.

I couldn't resist using this super ultra cute pick-up truck and colouring him Real Red with my Stampin' Blends.  I used Basic Grey for the bumper, hub caps, door handle and the running board (the place to put your foot to get in).  I used Basic Black to colour the tires and a tiny bit of Daffodil Delight for the headlight.  Don't forget to stamp it in Memento Ink so your colours don't bleed.  I also stamped my greeting in Memento which came from the Meant to Be Stampset.

I used only one die from the Stitched Be Mine set and that is the cloud of hearts.  I love it!  You can get all of these tiny, but different sized hearts, and wanted to use them to float out of the back to the truck.  I have some Real Red and some Melon Mambo hearts.  I cut the bottoms off of a few of the large ones to give the impression of them being in the back of the truck.  I attached them with glue dots to make quick work of getting them onto my card front.

I didn't wanted to waste the heart cloud outline and so cut out three more in Real Red to create the extra layer on the Whisper White to add interest.  In the end only some of the heart outlines peek out, which I like. 

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Be sure to hop on through and see all of the wonderful creations that were made using the love theme we have for you!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Blogging Friends Blog Hop

 Hi there,

so glad you could stop by for this month's Blogging Friends Blog Hop!  This month's theme is back to school!  Eeek!  I don't even want to think about getting this crew ready for it.  I even almost missed my blog hop this month - August has totally snuk up on me.  lol

My oldest is going into third year university, my second going into grade ten and my youngest will be in grade six.

Each and every year, I know my boys and their teachers all can use some hand sanitizer.  All those germs need some combat.  Decorating and creating holders for hand sanitizers are one of my favourite things to make.

Here is the one I created for the boys and their teachers this year. 

How cute did this turn out?  I just love making strawberry punch art! For these strawberries, I used the Stitched Be Mine dies and cut out a heart in Real Red. I then used the Flourish Dies and cut one of the flowers in Old Olive for the stem.  I love all of the stitching and extra details that these dies have given my strawberry.  A perfect match I think.

Here is the scent of hand sanitizer.

The sanitizer simply slides in and out.  I used the Stitched Labels Dies to create the tag and my greeting is from Flourishing Phrases.  Of course I added a double twine bow to finish it off.

All three lined up ready to be delivered.  

I think these are the perfect start of the year gift for teachers and students.

Be sure to hop on through all of the blogs to see what my friends have created for back to school.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy