Snowman Season - Are you ready?

Hey there my stampin' friends,

I hope you are enjoying some wonderful fall weather where you are!  It has been been beautiful in southern Ontario.  The leaves are spectacular right now.  I just LOVE this time of year.

Even with this beautiful fall weather, I am getting ready for Christmas.  I have started my Christmas card classes and my shopping lists.

The folks over at Case This Sketch!  Have a great sketch to play along with!

I love it!  I wanted to use this super cute Snowman Season Bundle as soon as I saw it in the catalogue.  The whole suite is wonderful!!!  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the specialty designer series paper.  It has glitter build right in.  

The paper is so beautiful, I wanted it to be one of the focal points of my card.  I also love this little snowman who is throwing snow, I wanted to add his hat in there too, like he is throwing that up in the air.  

I framed him with a scalloped circle and coloured him on the edges with the light Pool Party Stampin' Blend  SO cute!

I hope you will pop on over to Cas(e) this Sketch to see all of the great projects people have shared.  

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

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Santa!

Hello there stampers,

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!  We had a great time celebrating with family and friends.  My family is very lucky because we have 2 weeks off of work and school. So we are really enjoying some quality time.

I have so many more christmas cards I could show you, but I will finish with a super cute Santa card featuring the Signs of Santa stampset and the Buffalo Check Background stamp.

These are two of the most popular stampsets in the holiday catalogue!  The coordinating framelits for the Signs of Santa set were sold out weeks ago, but you can see the stampset is still great to use without them.  My background was created the amazing Buffalo Check Background stamp.  Great news - it will be carried over and will continue to be available!

I coloured Santa using my Stampin' Blends!  They really make my colouring look great!  I also added some Wink of Stella on his pom-pom, beard and mustash.

Here is a group of them that I mailed out to friends and family this year.

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Christmas Cookie Exchange Tags!

Hello stampers,

Did you participate in a cookie exchange this year?  I did and I was so very excited to join the fun!  It was wonderful to spend some time with this group of ladies and share some baking and Christmas cheer!

So this papercrafter HAD to make tags for my cookie packages.  I thought if I made them look really pretty, it wouldn't matter as much that they are simple sugar cookies. ;)

So I used some of my old favourite Christmas DSP with a Pool Party base.

The snowflake is from the Snowfall Thinlits collection that was available in November - If you have it you will know how great it is!  I used the Tailored Tag Punch to create the beautiful top and hole for my twine.

These tags can easily be used for gifts as well.

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Happy Retirement

Hi there,

I have a great woodland inspired Happy Retirement card to share with you today.  I used some of my favourite things to create a this card for my neighbour who recently retired after serving our country in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Here is my card....
 

I started with an Early Espresso card base and then layered a Whisper White embossed front.  I used the Woodlands Embossing folder.  My DSP is from the Annual Catalogue called Wood Textures. 

 

 I framed this adorable little Mukoka Chair with the Stitched Circle and then a plain slightly bigger circle.  The Muskoka chair is from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits.

My greeting is from my all time favourite Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Thanks for joining me today.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Blogging Friends Blog Hop

 Hello,

Hope you have had a good February and are ready for all that March will bring!  This month for our Blogging Friends blog Hop we are celebrating Sale-a-Bration!  The most wonderful time of the year - Stampin'UP! style. 

My favourite free Sale-a-Bration item is the Bubbles and Fizz Designer Series Paper.  If you follow my blog, you know that I am addicted to patterned paper.  I tend to hoard my favourites and this is one of them.  There are so many awesome patterns in the pack. This one is Lemon Lime Twist with lots of carbonated bubbles!  Way too cute!!

I knew I wanted to use my Bubble Over Bundle to go with my DSP.  I used my sponges to colour the bottles to make some flavoured pop.
 

My greeting is from my all time favourite stampset, Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Be sure to hop on through and see favourites my blogging friends love from Sale-a-Bration!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Crystal Komara

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher 

Jessica Mink

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter 

Tammy Gill - You are Here

Global Design Project

Hello there,

Glad you stopped by today.  I have a CASE card to share with you.  This one was especially fun as the style is a bit out of my comfort zone, but I love it.  Here is my card...

It is the most recent challenge over at Global Design Project.  The challenge is to CASE the Designer.  The card is fabulous, so I was happy to try to put my spin on it.  Here is the challenge information. 

Isn't it beautiful!  I love the mostly monochromatic colours, the nesting of many shapes and textures and a couple of different types of ribbon!  

 

I knew I wanted to use some hearts in my nesting, along with another shape and a pop of colour.  

I used the Bloomin' Heart Thinlit as my lacy back layer, Stitched Shapes for my pop of colour and the Sweet and Sassy Thinlits for my heart front and center.  

My Happy Anniversary sentiment is from my all time favourite sets, Teeny Tiny Wishes - there is EVERY Occasion captured in this set.  Really a must have.  

 The colours are Basic Grey, Whisper White and Sweet Sugarplum which will be retiring at the end of June!  I will be wanting to use this a ton while I can.  lol

I would love to hear from you!  If you are in Canada and need the new Occastions Catalogue and don't already have a demonstrator, I would love to send you one.  Just leave me a message.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Christmas Quilted Bundle Not Only for Christmas

Hey there,

Do you have the Quilted Christmas Bundle yet?  You MUST get it!  It really isn't just for Christmas.  It is perfect for birthdays too.  

I wanted to join the fun over at Seize the Birthday and use this bundle to participate.

  Our "Toppings" option this time is...

"CIRCLES"

   

I created this card to include with my Christmas Quilted Bunlde class where we made 3 all occasions cards - a few birthday ones of course - and then 4 of the same Chrstimas cards.  It was lots of fun!  

Here is one of the birthday cards....

I love all of the little circles that the Quilted Top Textured Embossing Folder creates - it truly looks like the paper is quilted!  I also love the little pinwheel circles that two of the dies together create. 

The colours I chose are taken directly out of the DSP stack from the Quilted Christmas suite!  So many options for this DSP other than Christmas!

My greeting is from my very favourite stampset, Teeny Tiny Wishes.  There is every greeting you can imagine in this set - a definite MUST have in your collection!

I hope you enjoyed my birthday card inkspiration with all of the circles found in the Christmas Quilted Bundle.  Be sure to stop on by the Seize the Birthday site to see all of the wonderful birthday cards folks have created.  You can never have enough birthday cards in your stash.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights Top Ten Winner

Hi there, I hope your week of off to a great start.

I have a very special post today!  I am SO honoured to be a part of Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights Top Ten Winner Blog Hop!  (Now that is a mouthful.)  Yes, I was selected as one of the top ten for October's Highlight Challenge! Thank you to everyone who voted for me.

The theme for October's challenge was Change, a life change.  It could be wedding, retirement, new baby ect.  It was a fun challenge and you can see my post for the challenge here where I created a wedding card for my sister.  To celebrate, all of the Challenge winners create a second card using the same theme and participate in a blog hop.  The Highlights Top Ten Blog Hop has the same theme.  Sounds like fun right?

Here is the card I created for the hop with the theme Change in mind.

 I created a shower card - could be either a wedding shower or a baby shower and always good to have one in your stash of cards.   I used the new Stampin' Blends to colour the umbrella and the clouds.  This was my first project using the Stampin' Blends and let me tell you, they are so easy to use.  I just love how it turned out!  Helpful hint for the clouds - I used the colour lifter to create the white space in the center, an awesome effect for making clouds. 

My card base is Crumb Cake and the layers are made from Pink Pirouette and Pool Party.  The DSP is taken from the Coffee Break pack.  The blue on this DSP is actually Soft Sky, but pattern is so soft, it looks great next to the other colours.  

Thank you for stopping by today, be sure to hop on through to all of the blogs participating. I can't wait to see all of the projects created!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Fall Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Hello to all my stampin' friends,

So happy you stopped by today.  As you know, today is November 1st, and that means I get to hop around with my Bloggin' Friends for a Thankfull / Fall Blog Hop.

If this is your first time to my blog, you should know that I LOVE fall!  I love the colours that we experience here in Canada, the cool, but not cold temperatures and the holidays that take place - Thanksgiving and Halloween!   Because we have already had our Thanksgiving (we celebrate it in October) I chose to focus on just plain old fall and Stampin'UP has some awesome products will fall in mind.  

My project is made with the wonderful bundle Quilted Christmas!  I just love this bundle and I wanted to show that it can be used for much more than Christmas, although that is fun too! I used Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso and Whisper White to give the feeling of fall.  Here is my card....

This card is a part of my upcoming Christmas Quilted Bundle Card class where we will make 3 all occasions cards (this one I made a get well card) and 4 of the same Christmas cards all using the Christmas Quilted Bundle.  All attendee who purchase the bundle will attend the class for free and one of those lucky people will win a prize of the Quilted Christmas DSP, Embossing Folder and Embellishments.

Crystal Komara 

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Rossiter 

Tammy Gill - You are here

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber 

Nikki Debbie Daigneau

Fall Birthday Something to Celebrate

Hey there,

So glad you stopped by!  I decided to play along with the colour challenge over at The Paper Players as well as the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.  I was looking for some inspiration to create a birthday card for my dad who lives all the way in New Brunswick!  I don't get to see him often, so I always like to make an extra special card to send. 

 

 
Aren't they fun!  I just had to use the colour challenge with some fall thinlits and stamps and the layout is perfect of showcasing some favourite cut outs.  

Here is the card I create with these as my inspiration....

I love the way this sketch allowed for a beautiful frame for this fall picture.  

 

I have to be honest, it was a little hard to just stick to the three colours - so I threw some Whisper White in there to assist.  But I do love how it turned out. 

The Patterned Pumpkins thinlits look fabulous in these colours.  I just can't get enough of this cute chubby cut-out pumpkin!  I see it everywhere!  I love the leafy thinlits in Crushed Curry and Early Espresso, perfectly fall. 

I even added one of the little swirly ques inside and tiny little pumpkin - don't forget to pretty up the inside.  It's a nice surprise for the person receiving it. 

Be sure to stop by and see all of the wonderful creations made with these challenges in mind.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Beach Theme with Colourful Seasons

Hi there my stampin' friends,

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I have a really fun card to share with you!  I wanted to create thank you cards for the swimming instructors that my younger two boys had this summer as well as the Head Life Guard.  My boys just loved their instructors, they had so much fun and learned so much.  SO, a thank you card was definitely in order!

To create these cards, I participated in two challenges this week - Stamp, Ink, Paper has a great beach theme this week and Paper Craft Crew Challenges had an awesome sketch challenge.  I combined them both to create may card. 

Here is the card I created....
 

I just love this little muskoka chair and I think seeing it in red is my favourite.  I framed the muskoka chair with a circle created with my Stitched Shapes Framelits I also used the scalloped thinlit also from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits to create some 'waves'.  I think it is so cute.  

Here is a picture of my two boys at waiting for their lesson.  

Here is everything that is included with the Colourful Seasons Bundle, minus the card of course. :)

 

You can shop in my on-line store here! 

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Blogging Friends Blog Hop

 Hey there stampers,

So glad you could join me for the first of the month Blogging Friends blog hop.  If you haven't been to my blog before, welcome to Canada!  So happy you are here!

This month's blog hop is featuring our favourite retiring products! Let me tell you, I have a lot of favourites retiring.  It was SO hard to choose.

I decided to focus on a couple of items that I will be keeping in my stash for quite sometime.  They are Something for Baby Stampset and Baby's First Framelits. 




A few week's ago I made a baby card for a lady at work.  We had a little pool going where we could sign up for a date and time and gender of the baby.  I guessed a baby boy with an early delivery.  Wrong and wrong.  A beautiful little girl was born but after expected.  So, I get to make another welcome baby card and this time for a girl!  Here is my card...

I used the onsie framelit on the front of the card....

and the stampset on the inside.  I also used the Stitched Thinlits to decorate the front of the card and my greeting is from my favourite, Teeny Tiny Wishes. The verse on the inside of this card is currently reitred and called Cuddles and Kisses.  Another great one to keep in a collection. 

Be sure to stop in and see all of the creations made using upcoming retiring products by clicking on each of the names in the list below or simply click on the picture below.  

Remember if there is a retiring product you would like, don't wait, some items are already sold out.  

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Crystal Komara 

Libby Fens 

Mary Blocher 

Danica Ferrante

Jessica Mink

Jodi Skrip Horsley 

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke 

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa 

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Gill - you are here

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber