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Hippity Hoppity

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I know it seems a little late for an Easter card, but I couldn’t post this when I made it as I sent it to my secret sister. Instead of holding on to it for next year, I figure a little whimsy is a good thing 🙂

I had just received the Scrambled Eggs set from Papertrey and had to use it to make a card. I love this set because I’ll be able to add ears to many things, lol.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Hippity Hoppity
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Scrambled Eggs;
Colors: Melon Berry, White, True Black;
Other: Picnic Plaid impression plate, Mat Stack 4 die, Pink Patterns paper, Chartreuse felt, Scrambled Eggs dies; marker (Copic); grass die (MFT);

Flower Swirls & Chocolate

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Another card created for my secret sister. This time I used vertical sentiments from her “like” list.

A couple days before I made this card I saw this cute card by Jennifer Holmes. I loved the layout and had to try it myself. Since the sentiment took up so much real-estate, I also used larger flowers to help balance it all out.

To color the images, I selected 2 colors and used a trio of complementary markers to color each flower ‘layer’.

Thanks for taking a peek!

All the Good Things
Stamps: sentiment (Stampendous); Flower Swirls (Autumn Leaves);
Colors: White (PTI); Baja Breeze (SU);
Other: markers (Copic);

Woohooo

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May is always hectic for me – between Teacher Apprecation & Mother’s Day at the beginning of the month and end of school stuff at the end…I just don’t have a whole lot of time for fun stamping.

I needed to make a RAK card today and decided to pull up a challenge – the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. They’ve changed their format and now they have different challenges every week. This week’s challenge is a color challenge (May21 Cool Shades). I interpreted the colors as light blue, medium blue, yellow-green, and orange.

I thought the “woohoo” sentiment was perfect for what I needed so I created the scene around the owl image. Things just kept jumping into the scene – definitely not my typical CAS style, lol. I love how even though the owl isn’t all that big, because he’s the only orange thing, he pops and draws your eye.

When coloring the owl I chose to do straight color instead of shading and did his feathers in a gradient of oranges.

Woohooo
Stamps: Cubby Chums (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Marina, Bashful, Crumb, Celery (StampinUp); Brown (Memento);
Other: YR12, YR15, YR18, YR23, E44 Markers (Copic); Branch & Wonky Border dies (My Favorite Things); Grass die (Memory Box); Cloud impression plate (my own creation);

Fluffy Happiness

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This is the second card I sent to my secret sister. Her favorite colors are turquoise and lime. I know these aren’t those colors – but they are a similar color scheme.

I heat embossed the dandelion images with white embossing powder onto the pattern paper and then sponged Pear ink around them.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Wishing You Happiness
Stamps: Many Wishes (GinaK);
Colors: Baja Breeze, White, Pear Pizzazz (SU);
Other: Baja pattern paper, Scallop Border punch (SU); White embossing powder;

Friendly Blossoms

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These last few months I’ve been participating in a Secret Sister swap hosted through the SplitCoastStampers site. Now that the round is done, I can post the cards I sent.

On my secret sister’s list of things she liked was dogwood images – so I thought this was a great set to make the first card. I used lots of masking to do the background. I stamped three blossoms onto cream card stock and colored the edges pink.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Friend to Friend
Stamps: Antique Flowers & Butterflies (Hero Arts); Mat Stack 2 Collection (PTI); Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU);
Colors: Kraft, Cream (PTI); Pretty in Pink (SU); Black (Palette);
Other: Mat Stack 2 die (PTI); Pink ribbon (SU);

FYI – Aloha

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It is time for another For Your Inspiration challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> FYI30.

Seriously? How beautiful is this? The orange sky is just amazing! I think it is pretty obvious how I was inspired.

To do my background, I used a technique that Nichole Heady at Papertrey showed us a few weeks ago during a Make-it-Monday tutorial (mim58). I chose to do a partial background instead of covering the whole panel. To soften my edges I went back over them with the colorless blender.

The palm tree stamp is one my hubby picked up for me a couple years ago during one of his trips to Guam. He’s the bestest 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Debbie
Debby
Michelle
Rochelle
Rudlis
Sara
Steph
Sylvia
Vicki

I hope you join us at For Your Inspiration!

A Little About the Challenge: The For Your Inspiration challenge is posted the first and third Thursday of each month; each challenge is open for two weeks. The first challenge of each month has a sponsor – and prize! To play, create a card based on the current challenge photo – however the inspiration hits you! Make sure you tell us in your blog post how you were inspired!

Aloha
Stamps: Palm Tree (Vivid Jungle Designs); Free Spirit Sentiments (Waltzing Mouse Stamps);
Colors: Kraft, White, Black (PTI);
Other: markers (Copic);

Birthday Hop

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Debbie Standard is on the For Your Inspiration design team and she has a special birthday this weekend! The design team wanted to honor her with a birthday blog hop. Please make sure you check out the rest of the team’s blogs for more birthday goodness in honor of Debbie!

Happy Birthday Debbie – hope you have a fabulous day!

Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pretty Peonies;
Colors: Royal Velvet, Winter Wisteria, Melon Berry;
Other: Rhinestones (Hero Arts);

Vintage Mother’s Day

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This card is for my mom. Since she’s a StampinUp demo I always try to make her cards with only SU stuff.

I was so happy that Apothecary Art carried over to the big catalog – I hadn’t had a chance to play with it before now.

I stamped the image in Early Espresso and then watercolored it. Of course, the green leaves got muddy because espresso isn’t waterproof, but I think it adds to the vintage feel.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Wonderful Mother
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Apothecary Art, Delightful Dozen;
Colors: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Naturals Ivory, Early Espresso;
Other: Crumb DSP (Neutrals Patterns Pack), Pearls, Labels Frame die, Square Lattice embossing folder;

Blue Silhouettes

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Another Mother’s Day card. This one is for my step-mother who likes blue.

I actually cased the layout of one of my own cards (Simple Pergamano).

My original plan was to stamp the image twice, but there really wasn’t a good way to do it, so I added the butterfly to take up a bit of the open space.

Mother’s Day
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes (SU); Fillable Frames 4 sentiment (PTI);
Colors: Baja, Chocolate (SU); White (PTI);
Other: Pattern Paper (Memory Box); Decorative Doily Oval die (MFT); Butterfly punch (Martha Stewart); White ribbon (PTI);

Mother’s Day Butterflies

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I was inspired by the latest PTI Make-it-Monday video (mim65) where Dawn showed us how to create a pattern-paper background.

I started with just the Egg Hunt paper pack, but couldn’t get the look I was going for. I decided to pick the flower pattern and find other papers to go along with it.

When it came time for stamping, I tried Summer Sunrise and Orange Zest for the butterflies but neither were right. I pulled out the old Orange Zest and that looked better (but my pad is dry and I wasn’t getting a great impression) – so I tried off-stamping the new Orange and liked what I got.

I had a similar problem with the new Avocado ink. It was too dark for what I wanted here, but off-stamping was almost non-existent (weird…I think I need to try that again). Instead, I pulled out the old ink – and it was perfect. So the flourish is old Avocado and the sentiment is new Avocado. I think the (new) darker ink works better over that pattern.

My final touch was adding orange rhinestones to the butterflies.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Mother’s Day
All supplies PaperTrey unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Butterfly Dreams, Fancy Flourishes; Trendy Greetings (TAC);
Colors: Avocado, Orange Zest, White;
Other: Patterned Paper: Pretty Pastels, Distressed Dots, Egg Hunt; Butterfly die; Flourish die; Rhinestones (Kaiser);