Happy 20th Rachel!

Today's card was made special for my "baby".  She turned 20 yesterday and I had to make her something right?!  Since I love the new set from Stampin' Up! called Remarkable You I decided to use the water lily for her card (at least I think it's a water lily!).  I wanted lily pads to go with it too so I ended up making a stamp for that using the carving kit that I bought a while ago from Stampin' Up!  I don't believe it's available anymore, but I have to admit it did the trick!  It took a bit of time to carve the stamp out, but I think it was definitely worth it in the end.   My daughter said I carved a new stamp just for her.  Hmm...I don't know if I did it "just" for her because it's for me too! ;)  Hope you like today's card. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Supplies used on this card:

Versa Marker

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Newborn King

Today I have a sparkly card for you!  I was in the mood for lots of shimmer and shine so that's what I did for our next challenge over at 'Tis the Season.  We have a fun color challenge for you and this is what I came up with...

Here are the colors we worked with.  I used Night of Navy, Sahara Sand and Elegant Eggplant.

I have to tell you, it sure is hard to get a good picture when there's a lot of shimmer going on! lol  If you look at this card just right all you see is the shimmer with a little color behind it.  You have to move it around just right to see what's actually stamped.  I used Elegant Eggplant to stamp my scene, inked the whole piece of card stock with VersaMark, poured on heat and stick powder and used my heat gun to melt it.  Then I poured on dazzling diamonds, used my heat gun one more time and it was ready to put on the rest of my card stock.  Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season to check out all the other great Christmas cards using these colors.  We'd love to have you play along too!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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The Wilderness Awaits - Elusive Elk

I have another masculine card for you today inspired by this week's sketch challenge at Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday.  I have to admit I used the sketch rather loosely and didn't do the twist, but the first thing I started out with got wet after I had done all of my sponging and stamping and I was too frustrated to start that over. :(  I decided to just come up with something else and since I never seem to have enough masculine cards I pulled out the new Stampin' Up! set The Wilderness Awaits.

I stamped the elk on watercolor paper using StazOn Black ink.  I extended the rock just a bit more so the mountain top that he is standing on is longer than the actual the stamp and goes to the edge of the card.  Then I colored him in using an aqua painter and Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso inks from Stampin' Up!  I colored the rock under him with Sahara Sand, then Smoky Slate.  The last thing I did was punch out a circle and placed it where I wanted the moon to be, then colored in the sky using Soft Sky ink.

I hope you enjoy today's masculine card.  I love making them as much as all the feminine cards I make. :)  If you get a chance check out all the other great cards HERE made using this week's sketch.  We'd love to have you play along too if you get a chance! :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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The Wilderness Awaits

Today I have a nice Father's Day card for you.  I also made it as a birthday card, but it could be a great masculine card for any occasion too.  It's from the new Stampin' Up! set The Wilderness Awaits.  It was also one of my stamp a stack cards for this month.  It's not difficult to make at all just takes a little time since you do a bit of water coloring.  I always try to make most of the cards pretty simple, but have one card that takes a bit of time. They still keep coming even when some of them are hard, and I'm SO thankful for each of them!  

A pic of both cards together.  I made them just a bit different because I didn't have one solid strip for the background and was too lazy to cut one out of a new sheet of paper so I just took two smaller strips that were already cut and used them instead. :)

Just a close up of each of the cards.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Beautiful Blue Butterfly

I just wanted to get a quick post out showing a cute card I made using a bit of the old with a bit of the new. :)

It's one of the cards I'm having the ladies make for this month's stamp a stacks.  It's a very simple one to make so I know they'll like that! :)

Just a bit of a close up for you to see...

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Holiday Home Happiness

I've been enjoying some warm weather here in Michigan...finally!  So what am I doing making Christmas cards?  Making them for 'Tis the Season's Christmas card challenge blog of course.  This week we have a fun inspiration challenge for you.  I looked at the sketch waaaay back in April and knew what I was going to do.  Then I started working on it and have to admit I did not think it was going to turn out at all.  I started with the red sleigh, brown reindeer and green trees since I embossed them.  I took one look and thought, "That is U G L Y!". lol  Glad I stuck it out because I had fun making this card and seeing it develop into something even better than I imagined it would! :)

This is the inspiration challenge.  Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the rest of the design team's cards because they are so fun!  What will this picture inspire you to make?  We'd love to see it and have you play along!

I had to stick this picture in because it shows a bit of the shimmer I spritzed onto the card after my sponging was done. :)

I hope you had as much fun looking at this card as I did creating it...just a lot less time on your part! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Supplies used on this card:

Sticky Notes
Holiday Home Stamp Set (retired)
Stampin' Write Markers used since I can only list the color groups:
Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake,
Soft Suede, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy & Pacific Point

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Clean and Simple Birthday with 2015-2017 In Colors

Today I have a very clean and simple card for you using this week's sketch from Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday using the new 2015-2017 In colors from Stampin' Up!  I never know if I'm going to like the next set of In Colors when I first see them and that was definitely the case with this group...I was pretty skeptical, but thought I'd better get them out and try them before I judged them too harshly.  Well I ended up really liking them so I can't complain! lol

Here's this week's sketch from Try Stampin' and I love it!  I just really like the sketches we have over there.  They are usually pretty simple, but help me create a lot of cards that I end up loving. :)  Head over to their blog HERE to see all the other great cards by the team's designers and play along with us too.  We'd love to see what you create!

Just a couple more pics to check out...

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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