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Inkup Camp Cards

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I finished my June Camp assignment yesterday. June’s camp will be focusing on stamps that were not recently released. Mom and I have such different tastes in stamps that it is hard to find sets that we both have (so I can do development here in HI and she can host camp in VA). But we did find two sets that met all the criteria – Pick a Petal and Baroque Motifs.

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First up is my Pick a Petal card. The white grommets are available in the Occasions mini catalog, so we definitely needed to use them in June. And I think this card suits the grommet perfectly. The grommets are a bit of a pain, but worth it! She doesn’t have Stem Sayings, but luckily, since I unmount, it will be easy to mail the set to her. I really love the color combo on this one too!

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Next up is my Baroque Motifs card. Mom still has lots of Bella Rose DSP, and the damask print from that pack is a great choice to pair with the Baroque Motifs set. This is another color combo I love – Riding Hood Red and Always Artichoke.

All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Happy Birthday
Stamps: Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings
Ink: Cameo Coral, Not Quite Navy;
Paper: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, White;
Other: scallop border punch, jumbo white grommets;
Cherish
Stamps: Baroque Motifs;
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Always Artichoke;
Paper: Riding Hood Red, White, Always Artichoke;
Other: white Taffeta, clear rhinestone brad;

A Broken Challenge

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My mom issued a challenge to her customers: Create a card to commiserate broken bones, a major operation, stubbed toe, hangnails, or the like. Under the weather cards do not count.

That is a challenge! I don’t have any SU stamps that would really work for that. Thankfully Pick a Petal is on my design todo list for June. Since I had it out, this concept sorta threw itself at me. It is for a broken heart.

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I added some uplifting wording on the inside – though many many other options presented themselves too. I hope I never have to send such a card, but I do like how it turned out!

He Loves You Not
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pick a Petal;
Ink: Black Stazon, Black marker;
Paper: Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Kraft;
Other: scallop border punch;

Spring Poppies

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Time for another challenge over on the PTI forums. This week I decided to do a color challenge, hence the disparity in post title and card image 🙂 See my other options were Pure Moss, Poppy Moss, or Mossy Poppies – none of which made sense and were actually a little scary sounding! Anywho, the challenge is to create a card using Pure Poppy, Spring Moss, and Kraft.

This is the card I created for the challenge. I used the new Green Tea Leaves pattern paper and Tea for Two stamp set. I also used the sketch from a PTI challenge a couple weeks ago.

I added a design to the tea pot using a little ornamental stamp from the Borders & Corners Rectangle set. And I colored the lid and base of the teapot to help finish it off.

Get Well Soon
All supplies PTI unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Tea for Two, Borders & Corners Rectangle;
Ink: Ripe Avocado;
Paper: Kraft, Pure Poppy, Green Tea Leaves DSP, Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Naturals Cream (SU);
Other: Avocado twill, scallop border (SU);

Rockin’ Roses

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Ahhhh, I love it when it works right! I just wish I could have gotten a better photo – this is so much prettier IRL.

This card is for two challenges – both are Tuesday challenges over on SplitCoast. The first challenge is a color challenge (CC218); the second challenge is a Clean and Simple challenge (CAS14).

The colors are so summery and there are a ton of great cards in the gallery already. I was actually a little worried about trying to come up with something unique. But when I started thinking about incorporating the CAS challenge too, then the Roses in Winter set called out to me and I thought I would be safe.

I don’t know why but when I think CAS I think white. I know “white” isn’t necessary for a CAS card, but to me they go hand-in-hand.

The CAS hostess is looking for a summer DT. I am going to apply – and this card is definitely going to be in my list. Wish me luck – there are already a bunch of talented folks that have applied!

Glad We’re Friends
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Roses in Winter, Label Classics, Best Yet;
Ink: Summer Sun, Only Orange, Kiwi Kiss;
Paper: White (PTI), Kiwi Kiss;
Other: dimensionals, pearls (K&Co.);

Floral Bandana

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Today is the technique challenge over on SCS (TLC220). The technique is bandana. This is a cool technique – the only thing you need is a white gel pen for adding accents to your black on color stamping. Easy peasy (well, maybe a tiny time consuming, but worth it). The layout is from a PageMaps sketch (here).

Floral Bandana
Stamps: True Friend (SU);
Ink: Noir (Palette);
Paper: Groovy Guava (SU), Ripe Avocado (PTI);
Other: white gel pen, avocado twill, button, dimensionals, circle punch.

Mother’s Day Cards

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I was a little late getting my cards in the mail, but I’m pretty sure they arrived today. So I feel safe in posting the cards.

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First up is the card I sent to my mom. I recently got some Flower Soft. (Joyclynn sent it to me! Thank you again!) I’ve been wanting to try it, but I think I aimed a little high for my first attempt, lol. I chose a pretty big flower and then stamped it multiple times. The final focal image ended up taking up most of the card. I tried to embellish it, but I only managed a couple little touches. I do like the card, but it isn’t the fabulous card my mom deserves!That’s what I get for letting it sneak up on me.

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This card is for my mother-in-law. My hubby picked the colors and theme. It is a pretty simple card. I did decide I need to get some CTMH paper – they have a color – Bamboo – that is awesome. I have the ink, but for some reason I didn’t get the paper. I remedied that this weekend 🙂

Mother’s Day Flowers
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, sentiment from Women of Life (PTI), Spring Garden;
Ink: Old Olive;
Paper: Old Olive, Olive Prints, White (PTI), Ruby Red, Cameo Coral;
Other: Summer Flower Soft, ruby button, white thread (unknown);
Mother’s Day – Beachy
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Shore Thing, sentiment (TAC);
Ink: Baja Breeze, Desert Sand (CTMH), Certainly Celery, Ocean Tides (PTI);
Paper: Baja Breeze, Kraft, White (PTI);
Other: white grosgrain;

I Feel Special

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My friend Joyclynn (blog) hosted a cool blog candy a few weeks back. I just received my gift and it is fabulous! She covered a cool purse box and filled it with more goodies. The purse is so adorable. It is sturdy and has a magnetic close and leather handle. Joyclynn covered the box with the perfect paper and then added corduroy buttons and rhinestones. Inside, among other things, I found a new Versmark Dazzle pad, flower soft, and yummy PB candy.

Thank you Joyclynn!!

Buttons for Mother

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It is time for a challenge over on the PTI forums. This time I opted for a simple challenge – use buttons. PTI recently began selling buttons that match their colors, can you say *yummy* 😉

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and as usual, I am running behind. This card is for one of 3 women in my life. The one that doesn’t check my blog 😀

This is a very simple card. I cased the sentiment treatment from Gretchen’s card that I found in the PTI gallery. I added buttons, um, because that is the challenge. The background was done with Faux Ribbon – I *love* that set! This turned out pretty good, eh?

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I even did the inside. This one was inspired because I didn’t want the ribbon to feel lonely inside. I try really hard to not have anything from the front be on the inside – ya know, brad prongs, splayed eyelets, and the like. Ribbon, for me, is ok though – because it is pretty 🙂 I continued the background on the inside and added a popped flower too.

Happy Mother’s Day
All supplies PTI unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Women of Life, Faux Ribbon;
Ink: White (SU), Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Spring Moss;
Paper: Spring Moss, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, White;
Other: Sorbet dotted ribbon, Blush ribbons, linen thread, dimensionals;

Congrats

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This card was created for Kristina’s 50th color challenge (check it out). I love the colors in this inspiration. It took me a bit to figure out what I was going to do. I like how the tags flow over the card base. I played with putting the ribbon and flowers on different colors, but I like how it ended – with the same colors all together.

Congrats!
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Schoolbook Serif Alpha;
Ink: White;
Paper: White (PTI), Turquoise CS & Prints, Saffront CS & Prints, Riding Hood Red CS, Candy Lane DSP, Chocolate Chip;
Other: white EP, brown twill, riding hood taffeta, saffron specialty ribbon, turquoise grosgrain, jumbo eyelets, flowers (Prima), brads (Pink Hedgehog);

Doodled Greetings

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This is another card I started for a challenge. This time, a sketch from CPS (CPS110). I knew what I wanted to do with this card from the beginning, I just ended up taking a couple weeks to do some programing before I finished it. I even did the inside on this one 😉

I originally wanted to put some “texting” message in the oval. So I headed over to netlingo to look up some of the latest acronyms. I must say, that I am not looking forward to having my kids start texting!

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Today’s pondering had me trying to figure out which challenges to follow. There are SO MANY challenges out there – and most of them are very good. I think I haven’t been stamping much lately because I am overwhelmed with trying to do them all. I need to pick a few and just look at the others. How did you decide what challenges to do?

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All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Doodle This, Doodle That, Doodle Alphabet, Notepaper background (CHF);
Ink: Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi, Regal rose, Canary (VersaColor), Noir (Palette);
Paper: white (PTI), Regal Rose;
Other: nada