Blog Tour-February 1

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Happy Friday all! Hope you have a great weekend on tap!! For us, there is nothing major on the agenda and I hope to spend plenty of time in the stamp room just for fun!!

As you know, Friday means another Sketch Frenzy Friday and mini tour. Here is my creation of the week

based on this sketch by Angela Walters.

And, I must say, when I first pulled this up today I wasn't excited about it!! LOL!! But, I love what I came up with and now think it's a GREAT sketch!!

I had the stamp and hearts of a different color still on my stamp table from the weekend. I decided hearts from the new embosslit would work for the circles. Card base is Soft Suede with an Early Espresso accent layer behind the Riding Hood Red background. I started by stamping the saying bottom right in Early Espresso. Then, I ran the Riding Hood Red through the Big Shot with the new Hearts folder from the Adorning Accents set. Then, I cut several sets of hearts with the Fashionable Hearts Embosslit. One from Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red & two from Naturals Ivory. I added hearts and shifted them around until I liked the look. Done-clean and simple!!

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Inspired CCMCOCC1

Evening all! Don't fall off your chair but I made a card tonight just for fun!! Not a "have to" stamped one!! Feels good to be back on the creative train!! I've joined the Create with Connie & Mary Occasions Edition so I decided to play with their first weekly challenge. Here is my creation

based on this sketch

I started out thinking hearts and ended up nowhere near that!! I did my Sketch Frenzy card before this one and it is hearts, but that didn't work out for this one. Card base is Early Espresso with a Calypso Coral DSP print for the background. This DSP is the FREE pack you can earn during SAB!! Across the background is a Calypso Coral strip of card stock that was punched with the Lace Ribbon border punch, and a strip of Early Espresso grosgrain ribbon. On the rounded rectangle (?? not sure what to call it) I stamped the flower from Inspired by Nature. It was inked with Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso using sponge daubers. At the bottom is a Scallop Trim Border in Calypso Coral. I added a butterfly near the top, cut with the Beautiful Wings embosslit, also from Calypso Coral. Pearls for the butterfly "body" are the final accent. The saying, from Inspired by Nature, was stamped near the bottom in Early Espresso. 

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Daffodil Mixed Bunch

Card three from the weekend. A very last minute creation and a quick and easy WOW card!!

Concord Crush and Daffodil Delight-love it!! I'm starting to miss Concord Crush already-it's days are numbered :(

Card base is Concord Crush with an accent layer of Daffodil Delight behind a Whisper White background. On that background we stamped the 'thinking if you' from Curly Cute bottom center in Concord Crush. We stamped 3 bold flowers from Mixed Bunch in Daffodil Delight, and 3 centers in Concord Crush. The flowers were punched with the coordinating Blossom punch, and the centers with the 1" circle punch. The centers were attached to the flowers and the flowers to the background with dimensionals. The center flower is set above the two outside ones, and has a yellow brad (Fire Circle set) in the center for extra accent.

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Hostesses earn a Free tote with a workshop total of $150 and a hostess bundle that includes 3 exclusive SAB items (A stamp set, paper & Ribbon/Brad pack!!). See the tote on page 3 of the brochure and the bundle items on page 6 & 7. 

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Be My Valentine!

Card two from Club last weekend. When I was stumped for ideas, I was looking through different cards on the Internet. I came across this one (the first one in her post) by my friend Deb Currier and inspiration struck!! Thanks Deb!! I don't generally like to straight up copy, I prefer to tweak them somehow to make it more mine. Here is what I came up with.

Same basic layout. My card base is Basic Gray with Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry accent layers behind the Whisper White background. Across the center of the white I embossed the hearts from the Adorning Accents Folders set. At the bottom we stamped "Be My Valentine" from the Delightful Dozen set in Basic Gray. I cut two sets of hearts with the new Fashionable Hearts Embosslit, one in Melon Mambo and one in Rich Razzleberry. We used one of each heart in a mix of the two colors. One heart fits perfectly over the heart on the stamp, the others were attached with glue dots above.

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Baja Congratulations!

Club card one from the weekend. The one that almost did me in!! I survived, and the end result was very well received!

Isn't this just beautiful?? Love this new set-Love & Laughter in the Occasions Mini Catalog. My struggle was with the cut and embossed image at the bottom of the card. We have some new products for the Big Shot (yeah!!) but I was having trouble. Granted, it was very last minute and I wasn't very patient!! So, I will be doing some research and playing more with them to get them figured out!! The girls actually just had the embossed image on theirs and it looked just fine.

The new items are Edgelits Dies (see that scallop cut on the bottom of the card front?) and Adorning Accents Embossing Folders (the embossed scallops). The Adorning Accents are not full size folders like we've had before, only about 2" wide. There are 3 images. My scallop die worked just fine on the two samples I did, but it wouldn't work at all well when I tried to cut them for the girls.

Card base is Baja Breeze. Congratulations was stamped in Basic Black above the Embossed Scallop. For the dress, we stamped the image in Baja Breeze on Shimmery White CS and cut it out. We attached a Baja Breeze Pleated Satin ribbon at the bottom edge and a Designer button to the dress. The dress is attached with dimensionals to another rectangle of Shimmery White CS. That is layered onto Baja Breeze and Basic Black and attached to the card base with dimensionals. Pretty quick and easy!!

I will do more later with the Edgelits once I have them perfected. Let me give you a tip though for using the Accents folders. Well this scallop one anyway. Use some temporary adhesive (Dotto) to hold your cardstock to the folder. They want to move around VERY easily!!

Let me know if you have any questions!! 

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