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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 48

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I am posting from SLC today!  Woot!  Convention is over but I am staying on a few days to play with my bestie!  Convention was fantastic, really fun and lots of great information!  I am sharing one of my swap cards with you today.  Very easy with lots of wow factor too.  I used the sun from Kinda Eclectic as a background image in Delightful Dijon.  I embossed an image from Friendly Wishes in white on vellum.  I added a die cut piece in Delightful Dijon, added a punched star image in Island Indigo and a deconstructed piece of white jute.  The whole thing came together super fast as everything was attached with some carefully placed staples.

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Friendly Wishes Stampin' Up

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 47

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I love, love, love the new envelope paper!  It is sweet with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlit Dies.  This project was so fast and easy, you could make a bunch for treats for your friends!  I did some simple stamping, added a pop of color to my main theme of Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron with Watermelon Wonder.  I love how these colors go together 🙂  5 minutes and voila I had a super cute finished goodie ready to go!

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... You're So Sweet Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... You're So Sweet Stampin' Up

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 45

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

Oh my…have I mentioned how much I curve Mint Macaron????!?  It is so lovely and screams for tone on tone stamping!  Today’s project could not be any simpler….I used the fantastic new set “Friendly Wishes” embossing the large sentiment in white and then die cutting it.  I toned down the card stock base by layering on vellum.  I stamped the vellum in white craft ink with one of the images from “Bohemian Borders”.  I can already tell this versatile set is going to be a go to for me this year!  I have made several projects featuring it and my head is filled with ways to use it!  If you don’t have it already, it is a must have!  I added a few quick embellishments and this lovely card is ready for someone who needs a quick reminder that you are in their corner no matter what!

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Friendly Wishes Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Friendly Wishes Stampin' Up

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mixing old & new….

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 44

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

Today my card features some new cattle sneak peeks along with some retiring faves.  I used the super adorbs new Project Life set Moments Like These.  I embossed the days of the week on watercolor paper in white embossing powder.  Isn’t this font just swoon-a-liscious?  Yum!  Then I added random water color in Watermelon Wonder, Coastal Cabana and Daffodil Delight.  The effect is so purty 🙂  Next I stamped the phrase “everyday moments” in Watermelon Wonder on vellum, die cut it and stapled it to a Coastal Cabana starburst shape.  This is another fave I am sad to see go!  I just loved these starburst dies!  De-constructed jute, some rhinestones and a watermelon base finished this one off.

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Moments Like These Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Moments Like These Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Moments Like These Stampin' Up

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sad goodbye to coastal cabana…

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 43

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

As always this time of year I am super excited about a new catalog and new goodies but I also seem to have a few faves I struggle to let go of!  This year, in particular, I am so so sad to say goodbye to the retiring In Colors.  I have loved and used them all to pieces and will especially have trouble losing Coastal Cabana and Crisp Cantaloupe from my repertoire.  My stamp club Friday night was a memorial to these two lovely colors and I am sharing those pretties here today.

Two super easy cards.  The Coastal Cabana card features the bokeh technique.  This is soooo easy to do and is such a huge wow factor!  I just love the finished card.  Coastal is prominent from the bokeh background to the lovely twine and arrow.  I also love, love, love the Adventure Awaits set and will be sad to bid it farewell too!

The second card features the Smooches & Snuggles set and the Hi There set.  Hi There is retiring too and I have loved it often during the past year!

Lots of embossing this week….but that’s a good thing right?

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hello love!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 42

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I saw an amazing scrapbook page on Kirsten Kreis’ blog and it inspired this card.  I love the random dots peeking through the vellum layer.  I used the flower center stamp from “Petal Potpourri” for the cute dots.  Super fast and easy card 🙂  I have to say I am going to really miss the “So You” stamp set.  I have been using it on every Project Life layout as well as on my cards.  It just has so many cute things in it!

I de-constructed the jute ribbon again and this time I ombre dyed it with Lost Lagoon re-inker.  Seriously swoon-a-liscious!!!  I can’t get enough of the “Hello You” thinlets either, they seem to grace every project in some way lately 😉

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butterfly happiness!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 41

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I am so excited that the butterfly framelits are available again!  and discounted!  how exciting is that?  I just had to feature them in my card today 🙂  This card is another watercolor beauty that took about 5 minutes to make!  Seriously….so easy!

I cut the large butterfly out of a piece of watercolor paper that I cut at 4.25 x 5.5″.  After it was cut out, I put the whole thing on a paper towel and watercolored with re-inkers and water in four loose quadrants, the background and the butterfly.  I popped the background piece up on a coastal cabana base, after adding my gold foil “hello”, added some de-constructed jute ribbon and a few rhinestones and voila, my card was done!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 40

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog.  I know we have some super cute goodies for you today!

I am clearly obsessed with watercoloring these days!  I just can’t stop playing with the soft affect of watercoloring with our re-inkers.  Today’s project features a lovely watercolored flower as it’s centerpiece.  It was so easy peasy!  I white embossed the Blended Bloom on watercolor paper and painted away.  We did this project in my stamp club on Friday night and every flower was as individual as the artists painting them!  So fun!

The rest of the card features some fun embellishments from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits, the cute pom pom ribbon and ribbon from Sale-A-Bration.  Once the painting was complete, the rest of this sweet card came together in a jiffy!

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good wishes….your way

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 39

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

It is starting to feel a little like spring around here.  My mama’s daffodils are poking their heads through our snow drifts and it has been sunny and warm all weekend 🙂  My project today features soft, springy colors.  I am so in love with the new Lovely Amazing You photopolymer set!  The font makes me seriously swoon!  My card today is simple and easy and features this lovely, amazing set 🙂

I painted some watercolor swooshes in Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky and Crisp Cantaloupe.  I just used a drop of re-inker and my Aqua Painter…so fast and easy!  I white embossed the envelope image from the set on all three colors of paper and cut them out.  I stapled them together randomly and popped them over the swooshes.  On top of that is the sentiment, white embossed on vellum.  The finishing touches were rhinestones, sequins and a bit of string.  My favorite string this week is deconstructed white jute ribbon.  It is so easy to pull apart and I love the texture it adds.  It is so easy to work with, you can pretty much shape it any way you want.

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Needing a little sunshine….

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 38

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 fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I can’t wait to share our beautiful inspiration with you today!

Well the whole country has been dealing with lots of snow the last several weeks and now it is Colorado’s turn.  It has been snowing on and off since Friday and we got quite a bit of the white stuff.  We need the moisture so it’s hard to complain but I sure miss my sunshine!

Today my project is super simple and features some sunny colors!  I am using the Hooray It’s Your Day Simply Created Kit.  This was our “Take & Make” from Leadership and I thought it was the perfect kit to bring in a little sunshine 🙂  I only used a couple of things outside the kit.  One thing I did that was super fun was using silver foil on the wood accent pieces.  I coated them with 2-way glue and let it dry for a bit and then added the foil.  Easy peasy and so much wow factor!

I added silver foil to the mini clothespin too.  I hope this inspires you to make your own simple, sunny project today!

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