2013 Artisan Finalists Blog Hop – Day 9

Posted on August 18, 2013 by kate80132

Welcome to Day 9 of the 2013 Artisan Design Team Finalists Blog Hop! So sad that our hop is almost over! All of the combined talent of these girls is just AH-mazing! I am in awe of the work submitted by the Top 20 finalists! You should have come from the fabulous Bree Renwick’s post to get here and from here you can click on “next” and get to Dani Dziama’s amazing work! If you missed Bree either select the “back” button to get there or go all the way around the hop to get back to her.

This is my last card entry. I actually had a couple more cards I sent in to Stampin’ Up but I’ll share those later.

This card features the Epic Day This and That DSP and Washi Tape. I also used the large image from Layered Labels on its side as a background image. I love how that looks! I inked up one of the images from From My Heart with a marker only inking the border and leaving off the sentiment. I stamped that on some Very Vanilla and used a framelit from the Labels Collection to cut it out. I highlighted the image with the Gold Smooch Ink…love that too! My favorite feature on the card is the tiny balloon from Collage Curios that I gold embossed on to Vellum Cardstock. After I punched it out, I added Gold Lame Smooch Pearlized Ink to the edges and attached it to one of the small Soda Pop Tops. Loved those little guys, so very sad they have retired! This time I painted my doily with Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. As soon as we got the doilies, I have added them to 8 out of 10 projects. Once I tried painting them with the shimmer paint, I couldn’t help but do it every time! Yummmm-O!

I hope you enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it! Happy Funday Sunday! Hopefully your Sunday included some creativity too 🙂

Here are the products I used:

Stamps: Label Love, Layered Labels, Collage Curios, From My Heart

Ink: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, VersaMark

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, White Vellum, Epic Day This and That DSP, Brushed Gold, Very Vanilla

Embellishments: Soda Pop Tops, Boutique Boxes Designer Kit, Calypso Coral Baker’s Twine, White Tea Lace Paper Doilies, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, 5/8″ Crochet Trim, Very Vintage Designer Buttons, Gold Embossing Powder, Epic Day This and That Washi Tape, Gold Lame Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Tools: Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits

To purchase these products go to my online store!

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Make sure you check out all the fabulous projects created by the finalists by going through the hop! Select “back” to see Bree Renwick’s fabulous work and select “next” to get to Dani Dziama’s amazing projects! You do not want to miss a thing!!!

2013 Artisan Finalists Blog Hop – Day 7

Posted on August 16, 2013 by kate80132

Welcome to Day 7 of the 2013 Artisan Design Team Finalists Blog Hop! I can’t believe it is Day 7 already! This has been so much fun! I sure hope you have been enjoying the finalist’s projects, I think they have all been AH-mazing! It is so different to get to enjoy them up close and personal and not be competing with 5000 other excited stampers to see the boards! I love convention but I am getting so much more out of these fabulous creations at home on my own computer screen!

You should have come from the fabulous Bree Renwick’s post to get here and from here you can click on “next” and get to Dani Dziama’s amazing work! If you missed Bree either select the “back” button to get there or go all the way around the hop to get back to her.

This is my fluffy, romantic confection of a card! It features lots of sewing and sponging and pretty 🙂 I used two of my absolute favorite stamp sets that retired with the new catalog: Established Elegance and French Foliage. I probably used the script from French Foliage on nearly every project I made while it was current! Well maybe not every project but lots and lots of them!

Highlights of this card: I lightly stamped some Very Vanilla Cardstock with the Netting Stamp and the script from French Foliage. Then I cut out it out with a framelit from Apothecary Accents. I took that piece of paper and cut it down the middle longwise and that created the top and bottom piece of the card. I stacked that with half of a doily and attached them both to the front of the card with machine stitching. I also stitched together two different patterns of the Two for Tea DSP for the front. I cut a piece of First Edition DSP (another sad, sad retirement loss) with an oval framelit. I colored a small butterfly image from Papillon Potpourri with markers and stamped it on the top center of the First Edition and again on a piece of Very Vanilla. I punched out the image on the Very Vanilla and popped it up over the image on the DSP. Then I punched another butterfly out of vellum and added that and a pearl on top of the stamped butterfly. Lots of pretty dimension! I added a button, pennants, flower trim and a big flower made from the cupcake papers in the Pop-Up Posies Designer Kit. One of the ribbons I used came from the Artisan Embellishments Kit in the Spring Mini….oh.my.word….I just loved that kit and could not get enough of it!!!!

All the vintage-y, flowery, lacy yumminess just makes me feel good! I hope it makes you feel good too and inspires you to make something pretty today!

Here are the products I used:

Stamps: Established Elements, French Foliage, Papillon Potpourri, Netting

Ink: Soft Suede, Island Indigo

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, White Vellum, Tea for Two DSP, First Edition DSP

Embellishments: Pearl Basics Jewels, 5/8″ Crochet Trim, Gold Lame Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink, 5/8″ Flower Trim, Pop-Up Posies Designer Kit, Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Artisan Embellishments Kit, Antique Brads, Subtles Designer Buttons, White Tea Lace Paper Doilies, 1/2″ Very Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint

To purchase these products go to my online store!

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2013 Artisan Finalists Blog Hop – Day 2

Posted on August 11, 2013 by kate80132

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2013 Artisan Design Team Finalists Blog Hop! You should have come from the fabulous Bree Renwick’s post to get here and from here you can click on “next” and get to Dani Dziama’s amazing work! If you missed Bree either select the “back” button to get there or go all the way around the hop to get back to her.

Today I am sharing one of the scrapbook pages I submitted for the Artisan Design Team contest. I love, love, love this page! I love the subjects….my daughter and her beautiful puppy Sawyer….and I love the products I used to create it! This is an 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook page and I used the new member of the neutrals family as my base: Smoky Slate. This color is soooo yummy! I also used a couple of different patterns from Soho Subway Designer Series Paper; it was perfect for this project. Some highlights on the page: I made a “flag” with a wooden skewer and put three flags in Smoky Slate with words from the “Fabulous Phrases” stamp set. I added some ribbon to the flag and slid it under the panel of Early Espresso Core’dinations Cardstock across the bottom. I embossed the Early Espresso panel with the Honeycomb Embossing Folder and distressed it a bit by sanding it and then smearing some Whisper White Craft Ink over the high spots. I included White Tea Paper Doilies again and again, I painted them with shimmer paint. This time I used Frost White Shimmer Paint. Have I mentioned how much I will miss this product???? (sigh) I can’t seem to make any projects these days without using a doily or two! And who would want to? They are beautiful, add just the right final touch to nearly every project and they are sooooo affordable! I embossed “You’re Amazing” from the “You’re Amazing” stamp set in Silver Embossing Powder onto White Vellum Cardstock and then used one of the framelits from the Apothecary Accents Framelits to cut it out. I added the brads from Vintage Trinkets to finish off the piece. I used one of the images from the “Mosaic Madness” stamp set to stamp some subtle highlights on the base cardstock in Whisper White Craft Ink. I love how beautiful this is on the Smoky Slate, the image is delicate and soft at the same time. It makes me swoon a little! Lastly, I made a flower with the corduroy Summer Starfruit button and some punched cardstock. I love that Summer Starfruit button and ribbon pick up the color of my daughter’s sweater!

Here are the products I used:

Stamps: You’re Amazing, Mosaic Madness, Fabulous Phrases

Ink: Early Espresso, Whisper White Craft Ink, VersaMark

Cardstock: Smoky Slate, Brushed Silver, White Vellum, Soho Subway DSP

Embellishments: Summer Starfruit Corduroy Button, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Summer Starfruit 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon, Very Vanilla 1/2″ Seam Binding Ribbon, Vintage Trinkets, White Tea Lace Paper Doilies, Silver Embossing Powder

Tools: Big Shot, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Apothecary Accents Framelits

To purchase these products go to my online store!

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2013 Artisan Finalists Blog Hop – Day 1

Posted on August 10, 2013 by kate80132

Welcome to the 2013 Artisan Design Team Finalists Blog Hop! We will be sharing all the projects that we submitted to Stampin’ Up for the contest over the next ten days. I can’t wait to share all the projects I poured my heart into for this! This is an AH-mazingly talented group of ladies and I know you will be inspired by all the gorgeous projects! You can choose the “next” and “back” buttons below to get to each designer’s post each day.

First off, I have to say that I was humbled and overjoyed to find myself in the company of all these creative souls! What an honor to make the Top 20 in this contest! I will be following all of the 2013 Artisan Design Team’s posts this year, I can’t wait to see what they come up with! I feel especially lucky to have become friends with these girls during the weeks prior to convention when we found ourselves as part of the Top 20! We still chat as we have time and I have truly won some wonderful new crafty friends 🙂

The first project I am sharing is a card featuring some of my favorite products old and new. I was so sad to see the Shimmer Paint retire in May! I just loved that stuff and used it in many ways! On this card, I “painted” full strength Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint on my White Tea Lace Paper Doily and on at least one of my banners…yummy! My button is made with the White Simply Pressed Clay dyed with Calypso Coral Re-Inker. I sponged the dry button with Soft Suede Ink to give it that vintage look. I used the Canvas Creations for the label shape, I cut it out with a framelit from the Labels Collection. Then I stamped it with the Ship’s Log image from “The Open Sea” stamp set and sponged the edges with Soft Suede. Thank goodness that stamp set is still around, I find myself reaching for it often!

Here are the products I used:

Stamps: The Open Sea, Loving Thoughts

Ink: Soft Suede, Baked Brown Sugar, VersaMark

Cardstock: Smoky Slate, Brushed Gold, Epic Day This and That DSP

Embellishments: Canvas Creations, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, Simply Pressed Clay, Calypso Coral Baker’s Twine, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, White Tea Lace Paper Doilies, Gold Embossing Powder

Tools: Big Shot, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Labels Collection Framelits, Buttons & Blossoms Simply Pressed Clay Molds

To purchase these products go to my online store!

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Time to bid farewell to some favorites!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by kate80132

Today is the day that the retiring product list is released! It’s time to say goodbye to some favorite colors, stamps & embellishments. As traumatic as this is every year it is also very exciting to say hello to new goodies! I have seen the new catalog and I am super excited about the fabulous new products coming soon!

If you need re-inkers or more paper in a retiring color or a stamp set you have been thinking about that is going away….don’t delay! The paper, embellishments and ink will go super fast and when its gone, its gone! Some things are on sale and can even be picked up at a discount. Nice!

See the detailed retiring list here.

Now for the eye candy. This card features the Hearts a Flutter Stamp Set and Framelits Dies. I also used Paper Doilies, 1-1/4″ Two Tone Ribbon in Pink Pirouette/Rose Red and Canvas Creations. This card is light and airy and romantic. Who wouldn’t love to receive this on a day they need a nice pick me up? Enjoy!