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Selfie Fun Featuring Project Life by SU!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 26

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I am in love with Project Life!  I had been dabbling in PL style layouts using Stampin’ Up products for a while and when SU announced that they were partnering with Becky Higgins and developing their own PL line, I was over the moon!  This week’s project features our PL layout and greeting card that we did in our club on Friday night.  Sooooo much fun and supah easy!

This month we used the “Happiness Is” Card Collection and Accessory Pack.  Gosh there are super cute cards in the set and the accessory pack is chock full of fun embellishments.  I find the hardest thing about any scrapbooking layout is picking the photos, these pictures just jumped out of my phone and onto my page!  Total no brainer 😉

Putting the layout together after picking the photos?  Oh, about 5 minutes….seriously!  PL is that fast and easy!  Gives you lots of time to forever document your favorite memories!  And you can make your layouts as simple or as complicated as you want.  This one was pretty simple but has some nice cute touches too.  The greeting card features one of the PL cards and one of the included embellishments, this is a fast and easy way to throw a cute card together in an instant!

The hardest thing about PL is photographing the results!  Those glare-y pocket pages do not lend themselves to good pictures!!!  Hopefully you can see how cute this page is 🙂

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Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

At the bottom of my post you can find the products I used, just click on the picture to order!

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This one is a contender!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 25

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 Dara Gloden’s blog. I have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

This week I am sharing a card I designed that I almost used as a swap card at convention for one of the organized swaps I was in or for generals.  Ultimately I went another way, but I still love this card!

I am loving the “Remember This” Project Life stamp set and I am using the sentiments in it all the time!  It’s a photopolymer set (another huge benefit in my book!) and I just love the fonts 🙂  I used Life is Good on this card and I know I will be using that particular stamp often!

The card is pretty self explanatory, I used Hello Honey as my main color with pops of Pool Party to set it off.  The results are a quick and fun card with lots of wow factor!

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Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dara Gloden and the rest of the hop!

At the bottom of my post you can find the products I used, just click on the picture to order!

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Convention Fun!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 24

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I just got home from the best week ever:  the 2014 Stampin’ Up Convention!!!!  I had so much fun with my friends old and new and filled my soul up with that friendship and creative inspiration 🙂  It was truly a perfect week.  I have lots to share from convention and today we are all sharing our Monday Montage swap cards.  These cards are fantastic…seriously!  I have been drooling over my set for days now!

I used the cute set “What’s Up?”  I just love this versatile set and I have used every stamp in it on various projects.  It is also a perfect Project Life set, works great for memory keeping.

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Stay tuned for more convention fun over the next few weeks!

Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

At the bottom of my post you can find the products I used, just click on the picture to order!

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Just fabulous!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 23

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

There are a million great projects out there using “Work of Art”.  I have pulled this set to use about a million times myself and the creative muses have just left me flat.  I finally actually made something I like with the set and I couldn’t wait to share it!  What better time that our fabulous blog hop to share my “fabulous work of art”?

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The card is relatively simple, I used the chevron pattern a couple of times colored with markers.  I used Pool Party, Coastal Cabana and Island Indigo.  I used another stamp from the set on the left side.  I cut a banner from vellum and gold embossed the circle from the set on the banner.  I gold embossed the sentiment on vellum also and punched it out with the Label Bracket punch.  The final touches were baker’s twine, a button and rhinestones.  I also used a cute heart from the In-Color sequins.  Oh gosh, that thing is ca-ute!

Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

At the bottom of my post you can find the products I used, just click on the picture to order!

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Gold, gold & more gold!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 22

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 have something super fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I have had so many computer probs lately that I have hardly been posting!  Once again, my photo library is not cooperating….sigh…I hate technical difficulties!  One thing I totally love, as you may have noticed, is GOLD!!!!!  It does not seem to be tarnishing for me one bit 😉  Last weekend I finally got to play with a bunch of goodies from the new catalog and some new rubbah!  Oh how I love new rubbah!  For this card I used one of my many new faves, “A Happy Hooray”.  I just love that feather and the fonts in the sentiments….yum!

I gold embossed the feather on black card stock and cut it out.  I also cut some “feathery” parts out although that’s a little hard to see but it gives the feathers nice dimension.  I gold embossed “thanks” on vellum.  The finishing touches were the beautiful “Back to Black” Designer Series Paper, the Gold Satin Ribbon and some gold splotches stamped with an image from “Gorgeous Grunge”.

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Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

At the bottom of my post you can find the products I used, just click on the picture to order!

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beautiful butterflies

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I’ve been obsessed with butterflies the last few weeks….crafted butterflies anyway!  I pulled out a couple of things I haven’t used in a while:  the Papillon Potpourri stamp set and the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  And look how beautiful they are!  I tried a couple of techniques on this card.  I love how it came out but I have to say, I probably won’t do at least one of these techniques in quite the same way again!

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The first thing I did was use my Hive framelit as a stencil for Gesso.  I slathered Gesso into some, not all of the openings.  I dried the Gesso with my heat gun and then I painted the gessoed octagons with gold encore ink.  The part I would not do again is use the framelit as a stencil!  I cannot get all the dried Gesso off!  Next time, I will make a paper stencil first…much better plan 🙂  I love the look though, very pretty tone on tone look on the Whisper White with a hint of gold sparkle.

Next I added a folded doily on the right side and spritzed the whole card front with Tempting Turquoise re-inker mixed with alcohol.  I slid the fat white banner underneath the spritzed doily and added a sliver of plain white doily underneath the banner on the other side.  I love how this looked!  The spritzed doily is really set off by the plain white banner underneath it.  Tiny little “thanks” sentiment on the bottom of the banner stamped in Tempting Turquoise.

I stamped one of the butterflies from Papillon Potpourri in Versamark on vellum paper.  Then I heat embossed it in gold and punched it out with the butterfly punch.  I made his little feelers out of fluffed up Gold Baker’s Twine and added a huge fluffy baker’s twine accent underneath.  The rest of the butterflies are out of Gold Foil and Whisper White cut with the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  A few rhinestones and sequins finished the card.

I wish you could see how pretty this is in person!  Yummy!  I still love, love gold in all its forms and seem to have to include it on nearly everything I make lately!

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It’s been a long week.  My daughter had surgery on Monday and I just haven’t had a chance to create much this week.  I needed some creative downtime though and this project soothed my soul today.

I hope this inspires you to make something pretty!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

all about love

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 17

Hello friends! Welcome back to our 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 have something funky & fresh today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

Today’s card was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest, I can’t remember exactly what but when I find it again, I’ll give credit where credit is due!  I pulled out one of my fave sets that hasn’t seen ink in a while during a virtual craft night with my friends.  I just love, love, love that balloon image!!!!  With my luck it will be on the retired list, you’ll probably be seeing a bunch more of it from me if it ends up on there!

I used my e-cutter to cut the clouds out of vellum and I embossed the balloon in gold embossing powder on vellum for one image.  The second balloon I stamped on watercolor paper in Soft Suede and then I watercolored it with Coastal Cabana.  I cut the love out of Coastal Cabana with the Expressions Framelit.  I used Naturals Ivory as my base and I spritzed it lightly  with Coastal Cabana re-inker and alcohol mixed.

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I added some cute rhinestones, a button, baker’s twine and sequins to finish off the look!  So easy and pretty 🙂

 I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I enjoyed making it to share!

Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my   friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

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Star Studded Project!

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This cute and fast little card features one of my absolutely favorite My Paper Pumpkin sets.  Are you subscribed to My Paper Pumpkin?  If you aren’t, you are missing out!  I have to say the limited edition stamp sets that come in the My Paper Pumpkin kits are always my favorites, very trendy and so much fun to use!  Go to MyPaperPumpkin.com to sign up for a monthly craft project in a box, always sure to be a fun craft getaway right at your kitchen table!

Okay, back to this cute card!  It was so fast and easy to put together!  I punched a couple of stars and some fun label shapes with the Little Labels Punch Pack.  I cut a piece of Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper in a fun angled shape, layered that with half a strip of Chevron Ribbon and then stacked the stars and label punches on top of that with some twine.  I love the way the quick hit of Cherry Cobbler in one of the labels sets off the whole card.  Quick banner sentiments stamped with the Paper Pumpkin images and some rhinestones….yummy!  I think the whole thing came together in about 8 minutes!


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Did this make you want to make something fast and fun?  I sure hope so!  I would love to see your star studded project!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

Awesome!

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This is one AWESOME card, perfect for an AWESOME friend!  There are lots of fun goodies on this card.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the “awesome” out in Crisp Cantaloupe…isn’t that fun?  I was going to say “awesome” again, but enough already!  I used my Paper Doily Sizzlets to cut out the big doily in Sahara Sand Cardstock.  I don’t use this die enough because it is always seems like so much work to pop all the paper pieces out.  I have a little trick for this die though….sandwich wax paper between the die and your card stock and your die cut paper shape will slip out like buttah!!!

The rest of the little details on this card were fun and easy.  I spritzed the base with Crisp Cantaloupe re-inker mixed with alcohol.  I punched some stars out in Coastal Cabana, Silver Foil, Silver Glitter and Crisp Cantaloupe.  I die cut the arrow out of Silver Foil, added some rhinestones and ribbon and the whole thing came together beautifully!

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I hope you enjoy this card today and it inspires you to make your own fun project!  I just love how all of these goodies came together to make such a cute card!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

So simple, so fun!

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This is a super fun and fast card!  It would be easy to make this one with a couple different color combos and sentiments to stock up for special occasions 🙂

I used the Starburst Framelits and the Starburst Sayings stamp set.  I popped a few quick layers together mixing and matching paper that went with the DSP I used, in this case Kaleidoscope which features lots of fun, bright colors.  I also mixed in some circle die cuts with the starburst die cuts for interest.  I stamped the “world” section of the stamp again in Strawberry Slush and cut the little banner out and popped it up on top.  Finishing touches were a button and some rhinestones.  So fast and easy!

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I hope you enjoyed this card today and it inspired you to make your own fun project!  I think this one has lots of punch for a quick card!

You can find the cute things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!