You make me happy when skies are gray…

Posted on March 31, 2014 by kate80132

You’ll never know how much I love you….please don’t take my sunshine away!

Such a cute song and what a cute stamp! AND another Sale-A-Bration stamp set that is one of my faves! I wanted to use the stamp and the Sale-A-Bration twine for this card and as soon as I made that decision, the card whipped together in no time!

I have been using the Pool Party Twine and the Crisp Cantaloupe Twine lots but I had not yet used the Summer Starfruit so I just had to use it too! This card is so simple, a few cute layers and embellishments and voila! A sweet card for a sweet friend or family member! I also used the Starburst Framelits which I must say, I cannot get enough of! I want to use them for everything!

I hope this quick and easy card has made you happy when skies are gray! We still seem to be having rough weather in some parts of the country this week! Take advantage of the stormy weather to craft your heart out!

You can find the cute things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase! Remember, Sale-A-Bration ends at midnight MST on March 31st….only a little time left to shop!

Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

$4.95

See Ya Later Wood-Mount Stamp Set

$0.00

Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack

$0.00

Starburst Framelits Dies

$26.95

Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons

$5.95

Gorgeous Grunge Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$17.95

Off The Grid

$11.95

Summer Starfruit 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

$6.95

Whisper White 8-1/2X11 Card Stock

$8.50

Pool Party 8-1/2 X 11 Card Stock

$6.95

Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad

$5.95

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Sale-A-Bration Blitz!

Posted on March 31, 2014 by kate80132

Can you believe Sale-A-Bration is nearly over???

I can’t either and I feel I haven’t made nearly enough fun things with the FREEBIES in the Sale-A-Bration catalog! Well I am on a roll now and getting the most out of my Sale-A-Bration products! You have one more day to get a free Sale-A-Bration item with a $50 purchase…this promotion ends at midnight on March 31st!

I have to say that one of the goodies I have loved using the most is the Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I just love the way those raised dots look and I think they are perfect with “sea” themed projects. Here are two fun projects I made using the embossing folder with vellum to give a nice watery look to my cards.

This card features the Hello, Sailor Stamp Set and the High Tide Designer Series Paper. I cut the cute “ship in a bottle” image out of the paper and used that as my focal point. The rest was just super easy layering of a doily, button and baker’s twine, a couple of images from the stamp set and stars punched out of the Silver Foil paper. How I love the foil paper! So darn pretty and there are stars in the High Tide DSP so the whole thing comes together nicely!

My second fishy card features one of my favorite stamp sets that has not seen much ink lately! I used the fish, the sea fan and the script from By the Tide. I just love how this card came out! I gold embossed the fish on Crumb Cake Cardstock and cut them out. I gold embossed the sea fan on the card front. I added a few random script images in Soft Suede. I spritzed the whole thing with Coastal Cabana re-inker mixed with alcohol….yummy! Then I popped my fish and vellum bubbles on to the card front along with some gold foil circles and rhinestones. It is just a beautiful card and the pictures don’t really do it justice! I sure wish you could see it in person 🙂

I sure hope this has inspired you to use not only this embossing folder but your sea themed goodies! I am feeling beachy these days wishing summer would get here!! I’ll take spring but so ready for summertime!

Here are some of the fun products I used on these projects, if you click on the picture it takes you to my online store to purchase for yourself!

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$4.75

White Vellum 8-1/2X11 Card Stock

$6.50

High Tide Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Hello, Sailor

$20.95

Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$0.00

By The Tide Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$19.95

Brights Designer Buttons

$7.95

White Baker’s Twine

$2.95

Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

$4.95

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$4.75

Tea Lace Paper Doilies

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Beautiful Butterflies…

Posted on March 30, 2014 by kate80132

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 16

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 fun, fresh & springy today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I have really been enjoying playing with butterflies this week! I think they make me think about Spring even though can still get pretty wintery in Colorado in March! Today I embossed gold butterflies from the Backyard Basics stamp set on White Vellum….so yummy! I used the matching framelits to cut the images out, easy peasy 🙂 Next I used one of the flower images from the same set and used markers to ink up the flowers, I stamped this image twice onto Whisper White and cut the images out with another framelit from the set. I attached the flowers to the card base with dimensionals, a little offset from each other. I added a little Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the flowers, so sparkly! I also used the Hexagon Hive Thinlit Die and cut that image out of White Vellum. I layered that on top of the flowers.

Time to add my beautiful butterflies! I folded them down the middle, added a rhinestone to each and attached them randomly with glue dots. The finishing touch was a Clear Vintage button with that cute Coastal Cabana twine from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. I fluffed it all up under the button, this twine has lots of strands and looks so cute all fluffy! Can you believe it is FREE!!!! You still have today to get these awesome freebies!

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing today’s pretties as much as I’ve enjoyed making them! I hope you are inspired to make something pretty and springy too now 🙂

Here are the products I used, you can click on the picture to purchase:

Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack

$0.00

Backyard Basics

$17.95

Backyard Basics Framelits Dies

$24.95

Hexagon Hive Thinlits Die

$24.95

Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons

$5.95

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$4.75

White Vellum 8-1/2X11 Card Stock

$6.50

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

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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!

Project Life Stampin’ Up Style

Posted on February 16, 2014 by kate80132

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 13

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 fun today & I know my friends have wonderful goodies too!

I have been pinning Project Life projects on Pinterest like crazy lately and today I just had to try my hand at a PL project Stampin’ Up style 🙂

This page was super easy and fun to make. I used the Rhonna Designs photo app on my phone to edit some of my pics, printed them and then figured out my layout. I used pictures from a running event I participated in last weekend. My pictures didn’t fit exactly in the pockets of my album page….soooo I chopped things up a bit to fit. I love the way this turned out! I think having elements go across pockets made the whole thing come out awesome! And it was super easy to design and throw together! The hardest part was photographing the page! The pockets did not like my camera! I am posting one pic of the whole thing put together and then the individual parts up close so you can see how the puzzle of the page was designed and goes together. I’m also going to keep working on these pictures!!! I’ll try to get better ones 🙂

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!

Banner Fun!

Posted on February 2, 2014 by kate80132

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 12

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 am soooo excited to share our projects with you today, we are all having so much fun with the new Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-a-Bration freebies!

I have a cute banner for you today that is made mostly from the FREE Heartfelt Banner Designer Kit! Yup, you read that correctly…spend $50 on Stampin’ Up product and get this adorns banner kit for FREE!

This was sooooo easy to put together! I used several pieces of the banner kit and added some elements of my own. I actually have enough kit pieces left to make another banner as a gift! I turned my project into a photo banner, I will be able to move photos in and out as I like so that they get off my phone and camera and out into the world!

I hope you are inspired to make a fun banner project, I just love how you can throw anything you want on to them!

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!

It’s raining gold!

Posted on January 19, 2014 by kate80132

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 11

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 am soooo excited to share our projects with you today, we are all having so much fun with the new Occasions Mini Catalog!

As I’ve said over and over…..I am in love with gold and all the fun gold embellishments out there these days! So, true to form my card is full to the brim with gold again this week!

I used Pool Party and Crumb Cake Paper along with Pool Party and Cherry Cobbler Ink. I just love how the Crumb Cake, Pool Party and Cherry Cobbler work together. Pretty much everything else is gold, gold and more gold! I also did some paper piecing, sort of. I cut one of the chevron patterns out of the I Am Me DSP and cut some over chevrons out of brushed gold. I also punched some gold chevrons with the chevron punch. I layered and piled the chevrons and I love the final result. Stamps sets featured are Gorgeous Grunge and Peachy Keen. My final gold accents are the gold sequins and embossed gold splats from Gorgeous Grunge.

I sure hope everything is coming up “gold” for you in 2014 & that I’ve given you a bit of the “gold bug”

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!

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 10

Posted on January 5, 2014 by kate80132

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 can’t wait to see what they have to share this week, you won’t want to miss it!

This week is the launch of the new Occasions Mini product line (for me anyway). I just love, love, love these new products! I (as you know) am obsessed with gold lately and there are many new gold products….soooo gorgeous! I also love the new framelits dies.

Today’s card features the On Film framelits and the Hip Notes stamp set as well as the Retro Fresh Designer Paper. I am participating in a photo project this year called 365 Days of Gratefulness. The pic of my puppy helping me craft was my first pic for the year 🙂 I added it as the centerpiece of the card inside the polaroid framelit. You can’t see the detail on that frame but if you see the little gold camera? Those framelits not only cut out the image but add lots of adorbs detail! Yummmmmy!

I hope you are grateful for many things too as 2014 begins and I hope we have inspired you to include pretty things in your year!

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!

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 9

Posted on December 15, 2013 by kate80132

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 can’t wait to see what they have to share this week, you won’t want to miss it!

One more Christmas card for this post! I finally inked up this cute Christmas Collectibles stamp set. I’m not sure why I waited so long, especially with the matching punch! So easy peasy! Overall this was a fun and simple card, I just can’t get enough of Gold Embossing this season! I think this card has a nice mix of vintage and modern and lots of gold! Yum.yum.yum!

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season and that we have inspired you to make something pretty to celebrate!

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!

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 8

Posted on December 1, 2013 by kate80132

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 can’t wait to see what they have to share this week, you won’t want to miss it!

This week I am sharing the “Believe” banner that I made for my mantel. Unfortunately, by the time I tried to photograph it today, it was really too dark to take pics! But I wanted you to see how pretty it is hanging from the mantel, the rest of the pictures are lit much better and feature the details. Another disclaimer on all the pics, with all the different pieces it was very hard to get pics with everything in focus!

This banner was soooo easy, peasy! I just cut the banner shapes out of burlap and then I stenciled the letters on with the stencils in the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit and white acrylic paint. After that I made bunches of snowflakes with the Festive Flurry stamp set and the Festive Flurry Framelits Dies. I stamped some with Gold Metallic Encore Ink and some were gold embossed. I stamped them on Whisper White and Vellum. A few I just cut with the framelits out of Whisper White and painted with White Frost Shimmer Paint (front the clearance rack). I also gold embossed the deer silhouette from the Remembering Christmas stamp set. I had to cut him out by hand but I think the results were totally worth it!

I hope this inspired you to make something beautiful for your home for the holidays. My decorating will probably be fairly minimal this year. I still have another big craft show in December and will also be out of town some in December….so not much time for decorating!

I do love my deer heads and I just have to share this guy decorated up for the holidays:

I also hope you are enjoying our creative inspiration as much as I am! I continue to be awed by the skill and creativity of my fellow friends on this hop! Be sure to come back every other Monday to see what we have up our sleeves for you!

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!

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 7

Posted on November 17, 2013 by kate80132

Hello friends! Welcome back to Monday Montage! You should have arrived here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, 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 see what they have to share this week, you won’t want to miss it!

Time for Christmas! I really, really love Stampin’ Up’s Pop & Place Christmas Tag & Stamp Bundle. The stamp set is soooo darn cute! It’s a photopolymer set and comes with lots of perfect images for Christmas tags and I know I will get tons of use out of it this season. I thought though, this set offers lots more versatility than just tags and I had to use it for a card!

I also used the Season of Style paper stack for the DSP elements and the yummy Cherry Cobbler 1″ Stitched Edge Grosgrain Ribbon. The only fancy technique I used was to Gold Emboss the Designer Very Vintage Button. I love how this looks and I seem to do it a lot!

I hope you are getting into the holiday swing and crafting lots of beautiful holiday goodies….I know I have been spending a lot of time making pretty things for craft shows and the upcoming holidays.

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!