Happy Mother's Day!

Hi, Everyone.  It's time for another card for this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch challenge.  I have to admit I fudged just a little on the sketch, but I wanted to make another card using the Hello Doily and Fabulous Florets stamp sets since they're on the retired list and I won't be using them for my classes anymore. :(  Hello Doily is a great background stamp and I've made my share of cards using it.  Fabulous Florets has been one of my favorite flower sets since I LOVE embossing the flower images in white then sponging the flower to give it a unique color.  I've used so many different color combinations with this set.  If you want to see the different cards I've made using this set just click HERE.

The twist for this week's sketch is Mother's Day.  Since I'm way behind on my card making I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to come up with a card for my mother and mother-in-law.  Yup, I usually make them the same card, but always use different colors.  :)  Don't forget to stop by Try Stampin' on Tuesday to see what the other designers made using this sketch and play along with us too.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Hello Doily, Fabulous Florets & retired sentiment

Card Stock:  Island Indigo, Pool Party & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Island Indigo & Pool Party

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Fabulous Florets in the Spring

Today I have another card to show you for the Friday Mashup challenge #155. We have a great challenge for you from Avery this week...

Create a project using the Colors " Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder & Wild Wasabi".

Create a " Shaped card".

Or Mash it up and create a "Shaped Card using the above Colors".

   I really enjoyed creating this card since the colors were great to work with, and I like to occasionally make shaped cards.  It's always simple to do when you have framelits to use. :)   Make sure you stop by the Friday Mashup HERE to check out the other great cards the designers made using this sketch.          

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets, Dictionary & Blooming with Kindness

Card Stock:  Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party,

Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight & Wild Wasabi

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Framelits:  Ovals Collection

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Think Spring with Fabulous Florets

So glad it's Friday!  Does anyone else feel that way?  Today's card is for this week's Friday Mashup challenge from Cindy and is all about spring!  Not sure I know what that is anymore since we've been dealing with SO much snow here in Michigan. I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever come! lol  I do enjoy winter, so I don't think it's bothered me nearly as much as it has most people in this area.  Since we're talking about spring let's see the mashup Cindy has for us...

Create a project that's "Monochromatic".

Create a project with "Flowers".

or Create a "Monochromatic project with Flowers". 

I guess since the picture had pink flowers I went with pink.  I used a set that's been sitting around for a while...Fabulous Florets.  I love this set and will probably never get rid of it even when it retires, which I hope it doesn't for a while!  Make sure you check out all the other great cards from the Friday Mashup design team HERE.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets, Hello Doily & Sweet Essentials

Card Stock:  Strawberry Slush & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Strawberry Slush

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Framelits:  Windows Collection

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Fabulous Florets Birthday

Welcome to Sunday and another Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge.  I've been saying that, or at least something like that for the past two years on my blog every Sunday.  Unfortunately it is going to be my last time saying it.  It has been decided that we are going to stop our weekly Red Hot Stampers sketch challenge blog.  However I do have one last card to show you.  Don't forget to check out what my fellow Red Hot Stampers have made HERE one last time too. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Real Red, Tangrine Tango & Pistachio Pudding

Versa Mark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponged Field Flowers x 2

Today I have a couple of cards to show you, or should I say one card made with two different colors.  Does that even make sense? lol  Anyway, I started with this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday's sketch challenge to make a sympathy card.  Since I also love the colors on this month's Stampin' Celebration challenge I figured I could combine them.  However when I was done with my card I thought it was just too dark for a sympathy card.  Don't get me wrong I LOVE the colors, just wasn't sure if they were right for that kind of card.  So I made it into a thank you card instead, and it's going to a fellow demo.  Hope she likes it. ;)  Since I still needed a sympathy card I figured I could just change up the colors to lighten it up...so that's what I did.  You can see that one at the bottom of this post. :)  Not sure which one I like better...

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

First Card

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Sweet Essentials

Card Stock:  Elegant Eggplant & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Elegant Eggplant, Pacific Point & Pear Pizzazz

Versa Mark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Bigz Die:  Scallop Circle

Framelits:  Circles Collection

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Loving Thoughts

Card Stock:  Blushing Bride & Whisper White

Classic Stamin' Pads:  Blushing Bride, So Saffron & Pistachio Pudding

Versa Mark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Bigz Die:  Scallop Circle

Framelits:  Circles Collection

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Thinking of You Fabulous Florets

Yes, its another sponged Fabulous Florets card.  I was going to use one of my Red Hot Stampers' cards for a stamp a stack that I have tonight and couldn't find it.  I must have given it away and don't remember.  That seems to be my life a lot lately...I don't remember! lol  Anyway, it was one similar to this card, but I did make a few changes to it. :)

On another note, congratulations to Monica C. for winning as my mystery hostess!  I didn't have a lot of orders, but did get enough to give away $25.  :)  I have to start building from somewhere, and if I don't try I won't go anywhere. So here's to a little more success each day.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Curly Cute

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Baja Breeze, Pool Party & Certainly Celery

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Framelits:  Ovals Collection

Shimmer Spray (rubbing alcohol, shimmer paint & certainly celery reinker)

Sponges

Yellow & Green Fabulous Florets

Since I'm having another stamp a stack that my cousin is hosting I thought I'd better get busy planning some cards and that means it's time to look at some sketch challenges. :)  I really loved the Fabulous Florets that I sponged in my previous post and decided to use those same flowers in the same way, but put them into the Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch.  I also wanted to sponge a color combo on the flowers that I haven't done before.  That's when I saw both the Stampin' Celebration and Paper Players challenges.  Stampin' Celebration is all about greens and yellows and the Paper Players lets us play tic-tac-toe.  Of course I chose the green and yellow, then went with the spring and pearls.  After all this work I'm not so sure I'll be doing this as a stamp one of the stamp a stack cards, but I sure enjoyed making it! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Lucky Limeaid & So Saffron

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Embossing Folder:  Honeycomb

Framelits:  Ovals

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Another Fabulous Florets

He is Risen!  Happy Easter Everyone!  

Since it's Sunday that means it's time for another Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge.  I thought about making a few lilies to put on my card since it's Easter, then changed my mind when I remembered how much work they are!  Instead I fell back on one of my trusted flower stamp sets and embossed the flowers in baja breeze and pool party.  What you can't see very well in the picture is the flecks of certainly celery that I have  spritzed on the card, but that's the way the picture turns out sometimes. lol  Don't forget to check out the other cards using this same sketch here over at the Red Hot Stampers blog.  If you're feeling adventurous why not give the sketch a try.  It was nice and simple this week. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Curly Cute

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pool Party, Baja Breeze & Certainly Celery

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Certainly Celery Shimmer Paint

RHSSC #70 - Flowers!

Wow, the first challenge for 2013 and it was definitely the hardest Red Hot sketch challenge for me yet!  Looking at the other ladies' cards you'd think it was no problem for them at all!  Glad I sat down earlier in the week to make this one up instead of waiting until the last day!  This is definitely not the norm for my type of cards, but it think it turned out pretty cute.  However my son's reaction was, "I don't get it!" lol  My daughter thought it was pretty cute.  Well, I wanted to try out something new from the Spring Catalog...making flowers using the Creped Filter Paper.  I used one piece of the creped filter paper over regular card stock on the little flowers and did three sets of that for the big flower using the 2012-2013 In Colors.  Oh, don't forget to check out the other cards using this sketch at the Red Hot Stampers' blog here!  

Love looking at the card from this angle...weird, I know.  But I think it looks so cool! lol

Just a pic a little closer to see the detail on the flowers and brads.  I dabbed the brads in ink then in clear embossing powder and used the heat gun so they kind of matched the color of flower they went with.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry, Summer Starfruit,

Gumball Green & Midnight Muse

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Rich Razzleberry, Summer Starfruit,

Gumball Green & Midnight Muse

Embossing Folder:  Perfect Polka Dots

Punches:  1 1/4" Scallop & Boho Blossoms

Brads:  Neutrals Collection 3/16" 

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Fabulous "Fall" Florets

I saw this card on Splitcoast by Diane and loved the colors and layout!  I thought the orange and green would be perfect colors for fall flowers.  Thanks for the inspiration Diane!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade & Whisper White

Classic Stampin Pads:  Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight & Lucky Limeade

Stampin' Write Marker:  Pumpkin Pie

Versa Mark

Ribbon:  1/8" in Lucky Limeade (retired)

Embossing Folder:  Flower Garden

Punch:  Scallop Trim Border

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Sponges

RHSSC - Forever & Always

Today's Red Hot Stampers' sketch challenge turned into a wedding card.  I was working ahead for the challenge (which I rarely do!) and realized I never made a card for my niece's wedding that I had coming up.  Well, it quickly turned into a card with her wedding colors on it.  I loved how it turned out...and it could be used for a lot of other types of cards too.  To see a few more cards from the Red Hot Stampers sketch challenge click here. I decided to also enter this into the Less Is More challenge also after seeing it goes perfectly with this week's theme...the colors blue and green.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Flourets & Loving Thoughts
Card Stock:  Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Tempting Turquoise & Certainly Celery
Versa Mark
Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White
Embossing Folder:  Stripes
Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Fabulous Florets Sponged Flowers

Sponging demonstration!  That's what I made this card for.  For some crazy reason I volunteered myself to do a demo at my upline's meeting again.  I survived...barely. lol  Actually I love the demo meetings and they've really brought me out of my "way too shy" shell.   I didn't want to do too much thinking (talk about lazy! lol), so I used a couple of colors on flowers that I had made before and used the sketch challenge Less is More for my card's design.

Zoomed in a bit...

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral & Wild Wasabi

Embossing Powder:  White

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Simply Scored Scoring Tool

SSC246

I've been working on this card for a few days hoping I'd get it done in time to enter it into this week's Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge.  I guess trying to start up a web page for someone is more work than I thought! lol  I'm giving it my best shot, but needed to stamp a bit in between to take a break. :)  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Melon Mambo, Coral Calypso & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Melon Mambo, Coral Calypso & Wild Wasabi

Punches:  Word Window,  Modern Label & Scallop Trim Border

Ribbon:  3/8" Taffeta in Whisper White

Stampin' Embossing Powder:  White

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

RHSSC23

Welcome to Sunday and another Red Hot Stamper sketch challenge!  With all the snow we have outside you'd think I would have chosen something more appropriate for winter, but I went for spring instead.  Head on over to the Red Hot Stampers to see a few more creations with this sketch.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Regal Rose, Certainly Celery & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Regal Rose & Certainly Celery

Bigz Die:  Top Note

Embossing Folder:  Stripes

Ribbon:  5/8" Grosgrain in Regal Rose (retired)

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

RHSSC21

It's Sunday, so that means it's time for another Red Hot Stampers sketch challenge.  Go to the blog  here to check out other sketches and play along if you'd like. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Real Red & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Real Red

Embossing Folder:  Vintage Wallpaper

Punches:  Modern Label & Word Window

Embossing Powder:  White

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Fabulous Florets Card Swap

Last week I posted a card that we made at my last stamp a stack, and said I would have a card sometime this week that was inspired from it.  I can finally show you the card...I just had to keep it a secret until the Red Hot Stampers did their card swap. :)    

I added a little more color and layers to this card, and instead of using Old Olive, I used Always Artichoke.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets & Afterthoughts

Card Stock:  Always Artichoke, Rich Razzleberry & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Always Artichoke & Rich Razzleberry

Punch:  Decorative Label

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  Gold 

I used my scoring blade to make the lines on the Rich Razzleberry

Fabulous Florets ~ May Stamp a Stack

I decided to take a little break from blogging for the weekend and am finally back with another card from my May Stamp a Stack.   I really seem to like sponging a background block and stamping something over it lately.  I know sometime next week I'll have another card to show you that I did this technique on...and you'll see that the card is inspired from this card.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Very Vanilla & Rich Razzleberry

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive & River Rock

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  Gold

I used my scoring blade to make lines on the top and bottom of the card

Left Overs Part 4

Today's card is another left over that I finally got around to making!  It was a quick one to come up with because once the base of the card was put together all I had to do was stamp the flower, pour on heat and stick powder, heat it, pour on Dazzling Diamonds and heat again.  Then I sprayed the flower with shimmer paint and sponged the edges with ink.  I did the same with the Happy Birthday oval, added the rhinestones and I was done!

A little closer view of the flower...

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Fabulous Florets

Card Stock:  Old Olive & Whisper White

Classic Stampin Pads :  Old Olive & Rich Razzleberry

Versa Mark

Big Shot Texturz Plates:  Backgrounds 1

Punch:  1 3/4" x 7/8" Oval

Heat and Stick powder with Dazzling Diamonds

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Jewels:  Basic Rhinestones

Fabulous Florets ~ Thank You

Today's card is my first one using the new set Fabulous Florets from the Summer Mini! 

Here's a close up to show some of the shimmer using Heat and Stick powder with Dazzling Diamonds.

 

My daughter likes the diamonds  by the "Thank You".

Most of the time I like to put a little something on the inside of the card.  I can't just have the outside looking nice. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Fabulous Florets & Because I care

Card Stock:  Rich Razzleberry, Wild Wasabi, Daffodil Delight & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Rich Razzleberry, Wild Wasabi & Daffodil Delight  

Versa Mark

Punches:  Decorative Label & Word Window

Big Shot Embossing Folders:  Perfect Polka Dots and Square Lattice

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Jewels:  Basic Rhinestones