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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

July's Card Class

Here are the full views of the cards from my July class!

These are the cards in more detail.

This is inspired by Captain America and is great for a teen boy's birthday. It uses the Circle and Star Framelits. The color combination used is Pacific Point, Real Read, and Whisper White. The stamp sets featured are Gorgeous Grunge and Guy Greetings. The new Washi Label punch is used to cut out the sentiment.

This card features the technique of emboss resist where I used a background stamp from Gorgeous Grunge with VersaMark and white embossing powder. The card base is in Melon Mambo. Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, and Daffodil Delight were sponged and then the ink was wiped off with a paper towel. The sentiment was Teeny Tiny Wishes cut out in the Washi Label punch.

The quarter fold technique used for this card was a new one for me. The Pacific Point and Basic Grey are the featured colors and a new Stampin' Up! paper stack - Pretty Petals creates a nice accent.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July Class - Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek for my July class that is tomorrow......

Stay tuned.....I will be posting the full cards later in the week.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Happy Father's Day

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for June - Father's Day! I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects by the wonderful, Darla, who just happens to be my upline & friend and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop!

My Dad was my inspiration for my projects this month! He loves trees, green, and he likes to read. I incorporated all these into my card and project!

Here is the card I created for Father's Day.....

I used the new in color from Stampin' Up! called Tip Top Taupe as the card base. The background is Mossy Meadow stamped on the same color cardstock and is accented with a little burlapy ribbon. I stamped the Lovely as a Tree image on watercolor paper in Memento Black ink followed by watercoloring in Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso. I wanted the Happy Father's Day a little different than it actually stamps, so after stamping I just cut out the words and adhered with Stampin Dimensionals. I think my Dad will love this card!

The project is always a challenge to come up with every month, but I was inspired by James doing a bookmark gift set last month. I decided to do something similar, but yet different with my own design.

Mine is a set of three bookmarks because my Dad is never ever reading just one book! I wanted to tie the bookmarks into the card, so I used Lovely as a Tree stamps again and I love the "Dad" stamp from the Guy Greetings stamp set. Tip Top Taupe and Mossy Meadow were also used again with an accent of Early Espresso ribbon. There's a sleeve to package the bookmarks that was made out of Whisper White that you can see in the photo below.

Happy Father's Day card, Dad bookmarks & sleeve

I had a lot of fun coming up with the card and bookmarks this month and am looking forward to giving them to my Dad for Father's Day!

The next stop in our blog hop is the very talented Elizabeth!

http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/06/11/osat-fathers-day-masculine-themed-blog-hop

List of materials for the card.....

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List of materials for the bookmarks and sleeve.....

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Elegant Butterfly Birthday Cards

I recently received an Etsy order for some butterfly birthday cards, and they were interested in a variety of colors as they wanted 6 cards. It is amazing to me how much just a color change will make the cards look different and fun! I don't make the same card in different colors enough, but I think this will be a goal going forward. These aren't the greatest photos, but it was dark outside by the time I finished them and needed to get them packaged up.

Here's the basic supplies I used on the cards. The butterflies, base cardstock, and honeycomb are in the colors below. The fern was stamped in Old Olive.

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Monochromatic

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for May - Monochromatic! I hope you enjoyed the marvelous projects by Tina and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop!

This month I struggled a bit for what to do for my card and project. The thought eventually came to mind to make a card and coordinating bookmark for a good friend.

My card is a little different than a normal card this month. It is your normal 4.25"x5.5," but the front has two panels that are 2 1/8"x5.5" and opens in the middle. I embossed the two front panels (Real Red cardstock) with the spring flowers embossing folder by Stampin' Up!. I then used my circle framelits and cut out a piece of Melon Mambo and Whisper White cardstocks. The Melon Mambo is stamped with Real Red ink using the Stampin' Up! Choose Happiness stamp set. I haven't used this stamp set very often, so I thought it would be a great one for the blog hop this month. The Whisper White is stamped with Melon Mambo ink from the same stamp set. These layers are put together and adhered to the card base with dimensionals.

Here is an upclose look at the top layers.

I added a bit of stamping to the inside panel.

To coordinate with this card I made a bookmark.

This bookmark was made using the same Choose Happiness stamp set by Stampin' Up!. Again I stamped on the Melon Mambo layer and the Whisper White layer adding a different sentiment. I used a tag topper punch and Melon Mambo ribbon to finish it off with an elegant touch.

Thanks for visiting and hop on over to Martie's for the next stop in our One Stamp at a Time blog hop!

http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/5/11/osat-blog-hop-monochromatic

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Materials for Bookmark:

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Monday, May 11, 2015

CYCI 69 Sketch Challenge

I'm trying my first Can You Case It challenge and am super excited to do so! I love the Adventure Bound paper from Stampin' Up! as it is great for masculine cards, so I thought I would use it in this card. Here is my card based on the above sketch!

The card base is a normal 4.25"x5.5" size using Whisper White cardstock. The designer paper layer is 4"x5.25" and has a couple small banners on it from the same paper stack. Happy Birthday is from the marvelous Guy Greetings stamp set accented with Island Indigo candy dots on a layer of Basic Gray. This was a lot of fun doing this sketch challenge, and I look forward to doing many more!!

Thursday, April 9, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop Mother's Day

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for April - Mother's Day! I hope you enjoyed Andrea's fantastic projects and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop!

My mom's interests were my inspiration for my card and project. I hope she likes them! Here is the front of my card.

Front of card with flower and you are amazingly amazing

Front of card in details with flower and you are amazingly amazing

This is made with a whisper white card base, matted in blackberry bliss, and then added a layer of painted blooms DSP embossed with the spring flowers folder. The painted petals stamp set was used for the sentiment (embossed in gold) and flowers (blackberry bliss & wild wasabi). A layer of wild wisabi is used to mat the whisper white with the flowers on it. I used our wonderful jute ribbon as a background, but modified it by cutting it on top and bottom and peeling some of the layers away. A couple of these layers were then used to make the bow. I don't stamp the inside very often, but wanted to do so on this card. This sentiment is from my go-to stamp set called Teeny Tiny Wishes! A list of all materials used for both projects is at the bottom of this post.

My mom recently visited while she was on spring break. A favorite place for us to visit is the botanical gardens. We had a beautiful day, and we enjoyed this field of crocus which was my inspiration for my other project.

My next project is framed art inspired by this scene at the botanical gardens.

Here is a more detailed view.

Field of flowers with trees and grass in detail

My project used one of my current favorite Stampin' Up! sets - Sheltering Tree! The tree is early espresso and pink pirouette. The grass is done in wild wasabi with flowers in daffodil delight, perfect plum, and elegant eggplant (with garden green stems). I used my scallop punch to make a template for my clouds and then sponged on the whisper white cardstock in both soft sky and marina mist to create the sky. This is matted with a 5x7 early espresso cardstock in a 5x7 white frame from any store.

Thanks for visiting and hop on over to Debbie's blog for the next stop in our One Stamp at a Time blog hop!

Darla - http://stampinwithdarlaandsisters.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Eva - http://evascardsandthings.evabussom.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Tina - http://tinascropshop.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Elizabeth - http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/04/09/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop/
Andrea - http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop.html
You are here------> Megan - http://meganttstamps.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Debbie - http://www.davdesigns.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Holly - http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mother-day.html
James - http://stampinstud.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-hop.html
Diane - http://stampandembellish.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day/
Maggie - http://www.maggiemadecards.com/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day
Wynn - http://mycraftyside1.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop_9.html
Martie - http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/4/6/april-mothers-day-osat-blog-hop
Justin - http://jkcardsonline.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop/

Supplies for first project......

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Supplies for second project......

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