Say farewell to Sale-a-Bration!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 161!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

Oh my goodness we are living in some very scary times!  I don’t know about you but when I get stressed creating something pretty helps me cope.  With this virus locking us all up in our homes I am so very thankful that I have an outlet in my craft room.  I am grateful everyday for my health, my family and my day job and that I can turn to paper and ink when I can’t control anything else in the world!

In honor of the end of Sale-a-Bration I made this pretty card with the Flowering Foils DSP.  It is so pretty and so easy to create with!  For this card, I fussy cut one of the big flowers and sponged color onto it.  I used another new release Sale-a-Bration item, the pretty Vellum Specialty Paper.  It is so soft, pretty and romantic.

Flowering Foils Stampin' UpFlowering Foils Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charlet!

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler

Amour

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 160!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

With everything going on in our world today we all need something beautiful to look at!  I just love the Parisian Beauty Suite and how versatile it is to create with.  I thought it was just the beauty I needed today and I hope it lifts you up also.  With travel out of the question right now, I can pretend to be in the middle of lovely and romantic Paris with this card 🙂

Parisian Beauty Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Cheryl’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Cheryl!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

Beautiful Lily’s

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 158!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

Todays cards feature stamps, dies and paper that are all freebies available in the Sale-a-Bration catalog!  Seriously, these products are so versatile and fun to play with.  The paper is so pretty, it reminds me of a beautiful Monet painting.  I hope you love these as much as I do 🙂

Lovely Lilypad Stampin' Up

Lovely Lilypad Stampin' Up

Lovely Lilypad Stampin' Up

Lovely Lilypad Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charlet!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

Parisian Mini Fun

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 157!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

I have been having so much fun creating with the Parisian Beauty set!  This mni-card purse project was so easy and such a cute outcome.  I made these for a class, three 3×3 cards and a cute purse tote for them.  I combined the Parisian Beauty Suite and Dressed to Impress.  I also thought the gorgeous Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper was perfect to make a Paris style purse.  If you have not gotten any of this paper yet, do not miss out!  It is simply luscious!  and the best part is?  It is free with a $50/order, it is one of the Sale-a-Bration items available now.  I just love it!

The 3×3’s came together quickly.  All three have a Basic Black base and cute images and die cuts from Parisian Beauty, Dressed to Impress and Forever Blossoms.  It is amazing how you can coordinate all of these in projects.  They go together so well 🙂

You can find a tutorial for all of these cards, the purse and 6 full size cards created with the Parisian Beauty and Forever Blossoms Suites here.

Parisian Beauty Stampin' Up

Parisian Beauty Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charlet!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

Colorado Mountain High!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 156!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

When I saw this stamp set in the new Mini Catalog I knew I absolutely had to have it and couldn’t wait to create some fun things with it!  The mountain and tree images are just crying out to be colored with the pigment sprinkles.  The sprinkles create a variegated effect that is so perfect to mimic nature!  To get this fabulous effect, I heat embossed the images in white on watercolor paper.  Then I sprinkled the powder on dry…a little goes a very long way so be judicious in your sprinkling!!  You can always add more powder if you need to once you spritz.  For the mountains I used Gorgeous Grape powder and for the trees I used a combination of Bermuda Bay and Granny Apple Green.  After I spritz with water and have the look I want (remember water activates the color crystals), I usually dry the image with my heat gun.  This tends to burn the crystals slightly and I love how this looks.  The random heated spots get kind of sparkly and they create super dark spots in your scene.  I just love the look of these!  The pigment sprinkles also give the look of a complicated coloring process when in reality the whole thing only takes a few minutes!  Once your images are dry, die cut them with the coordinating dies and voila you have the pieces of a gorgeous card!

I experimented a bit with my sky creating a night sky by sponging Pacific Point (around the moon) and NIght of Navy for the darker portions of the sky.  I added stars with white gel pen and spots of Fine-Tip Glue to adhere Dazzling Diamonds “stars”.  The other sky is watercolor paper that is lightly washed in Balmy Blue.  On both cards I layered die cut mountains or die cut mountains and trees.

I hope you love these as much as I do!  Such a perfect set for a Colorado stamper don’t you think??

Mountain Air Stampin' Up

Mountain Air Stampin' Up

Mountain Air Stampin' Up

Mountain Air Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Cheryl’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Cheryl!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

Lily Pad Love

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 155!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

It’s a new year and that means Sale-a-Bration with Stampin’ Up!  Whoop!  It’s my favorite time of year and it’s a great time to get awesome free goodies with your stampin’ orders.  My card today features two freebies – the Lovely Lily Pad set is free with a $50 order and the coordinating Lily Pad dies are free with a $100 order.  These two items combine everything I love in a stamp set and dies:  the flowers are super fun to color with blends or watercoloring and the dies have some fun cut out dies in addition to the main images.

My card is really very simple to make – easy watercolored flowers and a dry embossed background.  I left the sentiment off, this card is perfect for a sweet hello to a friend, a thank you or a birthday remembrance.

Lovely Lily Pad Stampin' Up

Lovely Lily Pad Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charletl!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

Santa Claus is coming to town!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 154!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

I love, love, love making samplers!  There is something so sweet about creating a bunch of tiny vignettes that all coordinate together 🙂  I can’t seem to stop with these lol.  I am in Las Vegas for work in a training class for the two weeks before Christmas…Santa is struggling a bit being out of town.  The Santa in the sampler is the cutest thing evah!  He is so much fun to color.

Holly Jolly Christmas Stampin' Up

Holly Jolly Christmas Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charletl!

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:
 

Fun new stuff!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 153!!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

I know we just had Thanksgiving and we still have a few weeks before Christmas but I just had to play with new toys today!  I couldn’t resist the new Tropical Oasis Suite coming in January in the new mini catalog.  We have had a LOT of snow already in Colorado and it is a few feet deep still around my house.  I needed a little tropical in my life 🙂  The first card I made is more for the avid stamper, it has a simple beauty to it but it required a little heat embossing and watercoloring.  I think the final result is stunning!  The second card is more for the casual stamper.  It uses the dies that are in the suite and some simple stamping.  The extra layers and die cuts really elevate a quick and easy card.  Isn’t the little guitar/ukelele thing the cutest ever???

Timeless Tropical Stampin' Up

Timeless Tropical Stampin' Up

Timeless Tropical Stampin' Up

Timeless Tropical Stampin' Up

Here’s a little trick I did with the palm trees and the pineapple die cuts.  I stamped both images twice in different colors.  I die cut the images and then trimmed out the top of the trees and the top of the pineapple and popped those up on top of the other die cut with dimensionals.  This gave me extra dimension on the card and I was able to do the stamping with an ink pad instead of coloring the stamps with markers.  I love how it came out!

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charletl!

 

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:
No supplies provided this week since these items are not available yet for sale.  If you want to order these before January 3, 2020 you can sign up as a demonstrator and get these items as part of your sign up kit!  Ask me how!

Trailer Trash Love

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 152!!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

I just got home from OnStage in Las Vegas!  This was a Stampin’ Up event to celebrate the achievements of the last year, see new products coming out in January and mostly to spend time with friends from all over the world!  I went to two extra events before and after the Stampin’ Up official event that were so much fun!  At one of them we swapped table gifts with the girls at our table and everyone made the cutest things!  Part of my table gift was this little trailer.  I saw a trailer made out of the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box die and I just had to make my own!  This one flew to Las Vegas and back with me so it is a little travel worn but no less cute!

Mini Curvy Keepsakes Stampin' Up

Mini Curvy Keepsakes Stampin' Up

Mini Curvy Keepsakes Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charletl!

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies:

I believe!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 151!!!!

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won’t want to miss the amazing prettiness that I know you will find at all the stops along the way!

I am so in love with the Feels Like Frost DSP!  It is so easy to make something elegant and lush with this paper!  This card has about 5 billion layers but I just couldn’t help myself, I had to keep adding stuff lol!  Ultimately this is not a card I would make a bunch of, but one I would make for someone special 🙂

Frosted Frames Stampin' Up

Frosted Frames Stampin' Up

Make sure you go “back” if you missed Bree’s wonderful creation or you can loop on around by hitting the “next” button to get to Charlet’s gorgeous work and the rest of the hop!  Links to all of our fabulous hoppers are listed below 🙂

This way to Charletl!

Back to Bree!!

  1. Amy O’Neill
  2. Breelin Renwick
  3. Cathy Casey – you are here!
  4. Charlet Mallett
  5. Cheryl Curtis
  6. Dani Dziama
  7. Elizabeth Price
  8. Julie Warnick
  9. Melissa Stout
  10. Wendy Weixler
Supplies: