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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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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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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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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