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

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!

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 6

Posted on November 3, 2013 by kate80132

I know it’s time to start crafting Thanksgiving and Christmas projects and I have already created a few of those type of projects but I couldn’t resist one more vintage-y unseasonal card. I figured a thank you card fit right in with November and Thanksgiving 🙂

This card features many things I love, love, love! Doilies (check), gold embossing (check), vintage buttons (check), a sparkly butterfly with pearls (check) and the Off the Grid stamp which seems like it might be out of place on this card but adds just the right touch! I actually found the bones of this card on Pinterest and I will have to find it again so I can give credit where credit is due. I’ll update this post as soon as I figure that out! I changed it up quite a bit and I love the final result. I hope this inspires you to make something gorgeous of your own!

I 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 5

Posted on October 20, 2013 by kate80132

“Undefined”…I have to admit when they launched this new line at convention this summer I just didn’t get it. I thought the completed stamps looked a little kindergarten-y and the whole idea didn’t speak to me creatively. But….I decided to order the kit and give it a whirl. I really wanted my very own “glamper” stamp so that is what I made! I have to admit, it was really fun! and I love, love the way my stamp came out! I gave it the Shasta wing and made it look as vintage-y trailer as I could!

Now that I had the glamper, what better colors to use than Tempting Turquoise and Real Red? Perfect! I used the World Map background stamp and stamped it in full strength Tempting Turquoise on a piece of cardstock cut to fit exactly on the right side of the swing card. On top of the World Map image, I stamped “Off the Grid” in Whisper White. Another little trick I did was to use the Chevron Punch on a 1 1/4″ strip of Real Red card stock. I trimmed the front end to match the “V” and I trimmed the back end to fit into the fold of the card. Then I lined up the punched out chevrons to match the strip on the top of the fold. The last little old school technique I used was to mask the trailer and then stamp the “tire tread” image from Gorgeous Grunge under my little trailer. After I added my tire tread, I stamped one of the Gorgeous Grunge splatters on top of the glamper image with Illuminate Ink. I think I put Illuminate splatter on almost every card I make these days!

The whole card is full of symbolism to just hit the road and “get out there”! I can’t wait to have my own little glamper to do just that in! My bestie SIL just got a cute little glamper last weekend and her stove is turquoise. I think I will send this glamper card to her to celebrate her new little home on wheels!

I’m so glad you are back to enjoy our creative inspiration! 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 4

Posted on October 6, 2013 by kate80132

It’s the 7th day of October and today’s post is all about Halloween! A Halloween banner to be exact. I took the Halloween Banner Kit and the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit and added some flair of my own to make this spooky, grungy Boo Banner. I had lots of pieces of both kits left to make other goodies with, I love that the banner kits are so generous! The Build a Banner Simply Created Kit comes with 18 blank canvas paper pennants, 6 of each design as well as all the stencils! And the stencils, oh my love them! There is a stripe, a chevron and a polka dot stencil as well as masks for the center circle for the letters. There is also a complete alphabet! I used the alpha for the “BOO” on my banner although I put all of my letters on circles.

With the stencils I used the sponge method and just sponged ink into the patterns. I love the look that gave. I also used stencil adhesive to ensure that my stencil didn’t move as I sponged the ink on. I grunged up every image with something from Gorgeous Grunge….oh.my.I.heart.that.set! The sky is the limit with this banner kit, you can make yours exactly like the picture or change it up and make it your own. I love and hope you do too!

I’m so glad you are back for week 4 of our Monday Montage! 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 for another big dose of creative inspiration!

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 3

Posted on September 22, 2013 by kate80132

I have had this idea in my brain ever since I saw the Perfect Blend set in the catalog! Combined with Gorgeous Grunge I think I have created the perfect blend between two of my faves: coffee & grunge! Enough with the weird puns … let’s talk about my card 🙂

Pretty simple really, I used Baked Brown Sugar cardstock and ink and Whisper White card stock. I stamped the coffee cup in Baked Brown Sugar ink on Whisper White cardstock and then cut it out. After I cut the coffee cup out, I cut a slit in the “lid” and pushed a Starbucks stopper in. I hot glued the stopper to the back of the cup and had to cut off the bottom of the stopper with wire cutters. The stopper is a little too big for cup but I think it looks super cute! Garden Green ink matches the Starbucks stopper exactly and I used that for the sentiment. The stopper and the hot glue behind the cup give the whole card a lot of dimension, that cup just pops right off the front of the card!

The rest is the big splatter from Gorgeous Grunge in Baked Brown Sugar added full strength and stamped off to the base and some embellishments.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today! It’s been a rough week at work this week and coffee is just about the only thing that has gotten me through it; so it is really fitting that today’s creation features coffee!

I’m so glad you are back for week 3 of our Monday Montage! The last two weeks have been filled with amazing and beautiful creations! So don’t forget to come back every other Monday for another big dose of creative inspiration!

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!