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Pop of Flamingo Fun!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 71

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

Ohhhh how I love playing with new crafty goodness 🙂  The new cattie is out and although I have not been able to spend as much time crafting the last couple of weeks as I would have liked, I have gotten a few sweet moments to make some cute things.  2016 has been the year of health problems for me and I am just hoping that I have turned a corner now and everything is on an upswing!

Today’s card features another new fave stamp set “Pop of Paradise” …. I’m talking serious cuteness factor!  I can’t get enough of the adorbs Flamingo.  This card flew together really quickly…tee hee!  (do flamingos actually fly??!)  I gold embossed Ms. Flamingo and fussy cut her and the rest of the card is easy layering of the other elements.

Pop of Paradise Stampin' Up

Pop of Paradise Stampin' Up

I hope you have enjoyed our projects this week!

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Fun new toys!!!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 70

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

I have something new & fun today from the new catalog launching in … drum roll … 2 days!!!!

This cute card features a couple of new faves of mine “Swirly Bird” and matching framelits and “Layering Love”.  I heat embossed the sentiment, added some water coloring and stamping.  Then I added a swirly die cut from vellum and the cute birdie 🙂  so fast and lotsa wow factor.

 

 

Lovely Layers Stampin' Up

Lovely Layers Stampin' Up

I hope you have enjoyed our projects this week!

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Saying goodbye to another fave!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 69

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

On our last hop I wrote that the Sunburst Thinlit was retiring…uhhhh bad info on my part!  It’s in the new cattie, yay!!  This sweet set is going away though and it has been one of my faves.

This card features nearly the entire Going Places product suite from the soon to be retired Occasions Catalog.  A piece of Sahara Sand is stamped with an image from Timeless Textures and then embossed with the World Traveler TIEF.  The globe from Going Global is gold embossed on Sahara Sand and cut out with a Circle Thinlit.  The sentiment is gold embossed on Very Vanilla and punched out with the Washi Label Punch.  A 1/4″ piece of Going Places Designer Series Paper is cut into a banner shape.  All pieces are adhered to the card front as shown in the pic, with gold thread, a doily and rhinestones adding additional interest.

Going Global Stampin' Up

Going Global Stampin' Up

I hope you have enjoyed our projects this week!

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Sunburst Fun :)

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 68

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

I have another easy, peasy but packs a wow project for you today!  It’s that time of year when we say goodby to some favorite products to make way for new goodies…I will be sad to see the cute Sunburst Thinlits Die go bye-bye but I am going to use it lot’s before it does!  And of course I am looking forward to new, fun toys!

This card features Whisper White and Daffodil Delight cut out with the Starburst die.  It is easy to offset your images, just line up your paper for each piece about 1/2″ different from each other.  Then you get the shadowing effect from the two layers of cardstock sunbursts.  The sunbursts are attached to each other with dimensionals.  The sentiment is from the Sunburst Sayings Stamp Set that comes in the bundle with the die.  It is stamped on a 1/2″ Whisper White banner in Daffodil Delight (the “To You” doesn’t fit).  It is stamped again on a Whisper White scrap in Archival Black and then punched out with the 1 3/4″ circle punch.  The star is die cut with a small Star Framelit out of Silver Foil paper.  All the pieces are stacked onto a Whisper White base with Silver Thread, Rhinestones and Enamel Dots for bling.

Sunburst Sayings Stampin' Up

Sunburst Sayings Stampin' Up

It’s been snowing for 3 days straight here in Colorado…I know, crazy huh?  It’s May!!!  But that’s springtime in the Rockies, gotta love it!  I needed a little sunburst in my life, I keep thinking if all I think about is spring, it will actually come 🙂

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OnStage 2016! Some pretties from SLC!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 67

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

I just got home from OnStage 2016 in Salt Lake City!  It was soooo much fun!  Lot’s of fantastic inspiration and all my creative cells are on fire and ready to make some pretty things 🙂  It was a great week with friends too, laughing and just enjoying time together.

I didn’t make any swaps this year, I just brought a few cards for downline sisters and friends.  I didn’t have a lot of time before my trip to put anything together so I made this simple project the night before I left for Salt Lake.  It is so simple yet sweet and elegant.  The gold embossed image makes it classy yet easy to put together.

The card features the swirly image gold embossed on the Whisper White card stock base.  “Hello” is die cut from Soft Sky card stock and the hashtag is die cut from Island Indigo.  They are connected with a staple.  Silver thread is swirled behind the die cut images and attached to the card front with glue dots.  The final touch are the rhinestones for extra bling 🙂

Memories in the Making Stampin' Up

Memories in the Making Stampin' Up

My second project is a cute gift bag I made for my BFF and roomie in SLC.  I had a little gift for her and I needed something quick and easy to put it in.  No stamping necessary, I just made a cute little topper to add to the top of a glassine bag.

This project features about 3/4 of a Tea Lace Doilie and a small gold Metallic Foil Doilie stacked on top of each other.  Two small banners are punched out of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper and Pool Party.  A piece of Mint Macaron Dotted Lace Trim is folded accordian style under the mini banners.  These are all stapled in a stack to the doilies.  A bow is tied with doubled Whisper White Baker’s Twine and added.  A Metal Rimmed Pearl is added too.  The whole piece is attached to the top of a Sketched Dots Gift Bag.  This went together in a few short minutes and looks soooo cute and extra special!

Sketched Dots Tag a Bag Gift Bag Stampin' Up

Sketched Dots Tag a Bag Gift Bag Stampin' Up

 

I hope you have enjoyed our projects and I am so happy to share a little bit of OnStage with you!

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Birthday Blooms….redux!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 66

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

Yay for April!!!  I really was sick the ENTIRE month of March and I am finally really, truly feeling better after the worst series of crud(s) I’ve had in years!  It feels so good to be doing a little creating instead of sleeping 🙂

This card features the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set and Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper.  The large flower image is gold embossed on velum and then cut out.  Next a couple of flowers were cut out of the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper.  The cut and embossed flowers are layered on another piece of vellum and stapled or adhered with dimensionals.  The sweet sentiment “enjoyyourday” from You’re So Lovely is stamped on a narrow Whisper White banner in Watermelon Wonder.   The vellum is then attached to the Whisper White base with staples.  Some Perfect White Accents and Rhinestones add the perfect amount of bling to the finished card.

Birthday Blooms Stampin' Up

Birthday Blooms Stampin' Up

I just realized that I have been using this set over and over!  LOL….I think I kinda like it right now and I am so not a “flower” girl!

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dear friend…

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 65

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dara Gloden’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

Well this past week or so I’ve had pneumonia!  Seriously???!??  I have been sick most of March.  I guess I am making up for years of not getting sick…..doing it all up at once.  I am so done with being sick though…..I haven’t done much stamping and I am totes missing it 😦

This card features the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set and Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper.  The large flower image is gold embossed on watercolor paper and then watercolored with Watermelon Wonder, Pool Party, Mossy Meadow & Mint Macaron.  After watercoloring, the image is fussy cut.  The background is one of the polka dot images cut out at 4 x 5 1/4 with a piece of vellum layered on top in the exact same size.  The sentiment is gold embossed on a vellum banner and stapled to the flower image.  Final touches are gold thread, a button and small white baker’s twine bow.

Birthday Blooms Stampin' Up

Birthday Blooms Stampin' Up

I hope you enjoyed my pretty little “hope” for spring to actually spring here 🙂

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(last) summer fun

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 64

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

I’ve had the flu since Thursday…ugh!!  I didn’t feel too crafty this weekend, I spent my whole weekend in bed trying to kick the crud 😦  I made this cute scrapbook page last week memorializing one of our adventures during my road trip with my daughter last summer.  So fast and easy to throw this together 🙂

The page features two different leaf dies from the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies cut in Mossy Meadow and Pear Pizzazz.  These leaves poke out behind the photos that are kinda scattered on the page.  There is a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock that is the same size as the photos that has been embossed with the Woodgrain TIEF carrying the woodland theme.  The sentiment is from Going Global and gold embossed on vellum, then die cut with the large heart from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlets.  The compass from Going Global is stamped in Mossy Meadow on Crumb Cake and die cut with a circle die.  The gold frame around the pic is from the Memories in the Making Project Life Card Collection available for free during Sale-A-Bration!  Don’t miss this cute set of cards, I am loving them right now 🙂  The last touches are some random grungy images from Timeless Textures in Crumb Cake, a tiny gold clothespin and some gold thread twisted in behind the trees and in the leaves.

Botanical Builder Scrapbook Page Stampin' Up

Botanical Builder Scrapbook Page Stampin' Up

I hope you enjoy my little remembrance of last summer and the rest of our hop.  Hopefully you are inspired to make something pretty today….and stay away from this flu if you possible can!!!

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oh, hello

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 63

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dara Gloden’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

It felt very springy here in Colorado today!  I hear we are due for some snow tomorrow but that’s tomorrow and today was gorgeous 🙂  The lovely weather and the hint of spring inspired me to make a card featuring spring blooms today.

This card features several flowers die cut in Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry with the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies.  The card base is Whisper White, next is layered a piece of Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper with a piece of vellum on top.  The super adorbs Bermuda Bay 1/8″ Stitched Ribbon is wrapped around the vellum and DSP and tied with a bow.  A tea lace doily is layered under the ribbon and flowers.  The card is finished with the Oh, Hello sentiment from the Sale-A-Bration set Honeycomb Happiness.  So bright and cheerful and springy 🙂

Botanical Builder Stampin' Up

Botanical Builder Stampin' Up

Marissa and Sawyer

The last pic is of my daughter and her doggie on our hike today….sooo pretty!

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it’s a good day…

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 62

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

Today is an exciting day!  The Denver Broncos are in the Super Bowl and I can barely think about anything else 🙂  I’ve been super nervous about this game since they won the championship!

So today is a good day and I thought this sweet stamp from the Happy Home set was the perfect way to express it.  This card was quick and easy, although I did struggle a bit with the sentiment.  It seemed to be too big for the stamped images but as soon as I cut it up it balanced perfectly with the sweet boy and his dog.  I added a few pops with my embellishments and some vellum clouds from the Sky is the Limit Sale-a-Bration set.

Happy Home Stampin' Up

Happy Home Stampin' Up

Happy Super Bowl!  I hope you enjoyed the game and have a great week 🙂

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