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

I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

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in love with Project Life “Love Story”

I’m single and there is no lovey dovey stuff going on in my life but I wanted to use the “Love Story” PL kit anyway!  My double layout features my little doggie and my daughter and her doggie.  This layout was soooooo easy peasy to put together and has lots of wow factor!  The kit is white, black, gray and silver.  I added one color:  Mint Macaroon.  I think the layouts are gorge with just the pop of color to set off the cards and embellishments included and the final result is that your photos take center stage!

Don’t miss this kit even if you don’t have a wedding you want to capture, the cards and embellishments work for anything or anyone that you love.  And you can use the wedding specific elements to make your next wedding card fast and easy!

I struggle with photographing pocket pages, the shiny and cameras just don’t mix!   I think these pics show how cute these pages are despite the inherent issues with taking pics of pocket pages!  I hope you enjoy as much as I do!  Here are the two layouts….

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Here are some close ups of some of the details:

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

Cathy Casey, Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator www.sugarshackdes... Project Life "Love Story" Stampin' Up

All these pages need now are some sweet journaling and they are done!  I just love the new “You’re So Sweet” set and how the heart in that set worked perfectly with this kit & layout.

Happy memory keeping!

 

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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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I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

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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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I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

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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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I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

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just for you!

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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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Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

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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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So much crafty goodness!!!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 37

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!

I just got home about 15 minutes ago from a fabulous trip to Florida!  I went to see my bestie in Pensacola and we went to Stamping’ Up Leadership in Orlando.  I was gone for two whole amazing weeks filled with friends, fun, laughter, stamping, crafting, laughter….lots and lots of laughter!  My abs hurt from laughing so much 🙂

During my trip we made 53 different projects:  cards, journals, Project Life layouts and albums, valentine ornaments, marquee lights….just to name a few!  It was simply amazing 🙂  All the while we chatted, talked, laughed and cried; it filled my soul with all things good.

Today I am sharing one of our last projects and it was a true collaborative effort.  Usually we are each working on separate projects with lots of community input back and forth, but this project we both worked on together 🙂  It was so much fun to make and reflects our mutual love affair with coffee in general and Starbucks in particular 😉  I hope this inspires you to make something beautiful with your fancy craft-y friends!

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Christmas Gifties

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 36

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!

I know January is already winding down but bear with me for a look back at Christmas 2014 and our blog hop group’s gift exchange.  This year my gift went to Bree.  I made her an ocean themed charm necklace because I know she loves the beach and goes to the Washington coast often with her family.    I hope she loves as much as I do!  I have been selling jewelry at craft shows locally for the last several years and I have finally gotten up my nerve to open up a shop on Etsy too!

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I have been obsessed the last few years with the cute snow globes in jars projects you see all over Pinterest.  This year I finally made some myself that I liked 🙂  I sent this one to Bree:

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Gifts for special people need special wrapping…here is what Bree’s gift looked like before I sealed up the shipping box.  This is Target meets Stamping’ Up and it’s a match made in heaven.  Target had the cutest deer themed goodies this year 🙂

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