Happy Feburary 29th all you leap year babies ! Do you know any? Wouldn’t that make a cool birthday, you could be 4 or 16, 10 or 40 – sounds rather interesting if you ask me. Which day would you pick to celebrate your birthday on non-leap year years, February 28th or March 1st?

Today’s card features the soon to be retiring 2014-2016 In-Color Ink pads – – Tangelo Twist, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon and Mossy Meadow.  If you don’t have them already you will want to get both the ink pad and refills today while they are still available, don’t forget the card stock as well!

To get started on the card I used the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp set and the 2014-2016 In-Color Ink Pads to create the background on a standard size 4¼” x 5½” card. I used Shimmery White card stock for added sparkle. Next using my Big Shot with the Precision Plate and Magnetic Platform, die cut the largest detailed butterfly from the Butterflies Thinlits Dies in the center of 4¼” x 5½” piece of Shimmery White card stock and adhered the negative space piece to the card base with dimensionals. I stamped once full strength then again for a lighter image, offsetting the full strength images. The sentiment is from Remembering your Birthday in Mossy Meadow – using all five In-Colors. Don’t you just love the effect? Any four colors would work wonderfully.

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Happy Friday, in a few short hours the weekend will begin. I will be working on some project and a special post for Sunday, make sure to stop back them.

Today’s post features the card and bag combo we made this past Sunday, it’s a mashup of a few designs I found on Pinterest.

Let’s start with the bag first, it’ been embossed with the Softly Falling Textured embossing folder foe detail. Next is a band of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper wrapped around, finishing touch is a piece of the new Pool Party Glitter Ribbon, Designer Series Paper, and sentiment stamped in Watermelon Wonder and all three pieces are stapled together and adhered to the bag with Bow Paper Clip.

For the card, started with a Blushing Bride card base, with a piece of Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper used for the mat and to create the hat. Pool Party cut ¼” larger all around creates the mat for the hat. Another piece of Pool Party is adhered to the bottom with glue dots and finished with a bow, entire piece is adhered with dimensionals. Sentiment banner “for You” is stamped in Pool Party on Whisper White and cut with a banner end. New Honeycomb Embellishment has been added at the top of the hat.

Inside of card was stamped with Watermelon Wonder using the Birthday Blooms stamp set, available in both wood or clear stamps:

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Happy Wednesday, as promised here is the another of the cards we made this past Sunday with my Sunday Stampers group. It will have a cute card for any occasion.

Today’s card features the Sale-A-Bration stamp set “Honeycomb Happiness” and coloring on Shimmery White with Aqua Painters. Shimmery White card stock is cool in that it can hold water, so it’s great for water coloring if you don’t have water color paper handy.  The chick was colored with Melon Mambo and a little Crushed Curry on the beak. The base of the card is Bermuda Bay cut to 4 ¼” x 11″ and folded in half for a top folding card. There is a piece of paper from the Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper Stack adhered to the bottom. Next is a mat of Basic Gray, with the Shimmery White piece adhered with liquid glue once the image is dry. Ribbon is adhere on the backside with glue dots, then the entire piece is backed with dimensioanls and adhered to the card. Bow is attached with a glue dot and liquid glue adheres the sequins.  For a little added bling, you could replace the ribbon for a string of the Bermuda Bay sequin trim.

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Happy Friday to you all! Are you looking forward to the weekend, I know I am. Last weekend we have minus degree wind chills and I never left the house, this weekend we could see temperatures in the low 60’s, what a difference seven days can make!

Todays card features the Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set and soon to be retiring 2014-2016 In-Colors.  I haven’t used this stamp set for awhile and thought highlighting the In-Colors just made sense. It’s a nice stamp set,  you can use all the stamps together on card. For my card,  instead of using the butterflies, I added a flower in the center using the new Botanical Builder Framelits Dies from the Occasions Catalog.  Happy Birthday is from the Rose Garden stamp set in the Occasions Catalog, it fit the space nicely.  It was a quick and easy card to put together!

Thank you for stopping by today, have a great day – Craft On!

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Who doesn’t like to save 15%? . . . it’s one of the advantages of purchasing the bundles offered by Stampin’ Up. When you purchase a bundle, it’s a great way to have a stamp set with either matching thinlits, framelits or punch! WooHoo ! ! !

Today I thought I would share a post with you of all the bundles from the 2016 Handmade from the Heart Occasions catalog, guess how many I have? Two of my favorites are “Party with Cake” and “Cups and Kettles”.  Images in this post are made with the Party with Cake Bundle which includes the Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies and Party with Cake Stamp set. I also used the It’s Your Party Designer Series Paper Stack and Mint Macaron 1″ Dotted Lace Trim for the bow.

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How was your Valentine’s Day? Mine was perfect, my husband told me I should spend the day crafting and he took care of making the meals, gotta love this guy!  I was rather crafty making sample cards and deciding what cards will be made next Sunday when my Sunday Stampers meet while watching all the Valentine movies on the Hallmark Channel.

Today features cards made using the Number of Years Bundle. Both cards have Watermelon Wonder card bases and one uses the negative die cut while the other uses the actual die cut images.

For these cards I choose the saying “Look who’s turning 29 again”

Here is a close up of card using the die cut 29. This card features the Shine On Specialty Designer Series Paper and Watermelon Wonder 1″ Dotted Lace Trim.

This card using the negative cut-out space, features 2015-2017 In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack and 1″ Whisper White Satin Ribbon.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope it’s warm where you are, here it’s -4 degrees this morning, only one in this house that likes this weather is our husky Bandit! Here he is walking around the yard enjoying the cold and snow 🙂

Today’s card  features one of my favorite colors, Blackberry Bliss and the Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits Die.  To get started on the card I used the Bloomin’ Heart die and the Blackberry Bliss cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot using the Magnetic Platform and the new Precision Base Plate. Next, I ran the Big Shot Die Brush over the back of the die to loosen and pop out all the little pieces from the cutout, this brush sure makes it a lot easier!  The card base is Thick Whisper White, with a piece of Whisper White that had been run through the Big Shot using the Decorative Dots Embossing folder.  Next layer is a 1″ banner of Silver Glimmer paper, followed by the heart and finished with “I♥U”, from the retired Thinlits Label Card, in Silver Fold paper.

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Shannon at Stampin Up was thinking about how a handmade, handwritten card in the mailbox seemed to be nearly extinct and wanted to do something about it, she posted on Facebook how she would send birthday cards to any friend who asked and the response was overwhelming. To finish off the envelope for each card she carved the #imbringingbirthdaysback stamp – and now a movement has started, let bring birthday’s back.

Today’s card, of course, is a birthday card, in honor of Shannon! 🙂

This card features one of the cups from the Cups & Kettles Framelits and sentiment from the Suite Sayings Stamp set, both from the Occasions catalog. The card base is Bermuda Bay, with a piece of paper from the Have a Cuppa Designer Series Paper Stack, matted on Crushed Curry. Before the piece was adhered to the card base, two pieces of the new Bermuda Bay 1/8″ Stitched Ribbon which is attached with glue dots then the piece adhered to the card base. The cup is die cut using a piece of paper from the same stack and using the Cups & Kettles Framelits. They Say Its Your Birthday was stamped with Basic Black with room for a Melon Mambo heart. This was glued to a Crushed Curry Circle with enough room for some steam waves from the same Framelit set.

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Happy Hump Day, half way to the weekend, next to Friday the best day of the work week.

This year Stampin Up is doing something different during Sale-A-Bration with three items only available until February 15th when they will be retired and replaced with three new items. One of the items, the “Sky Is The Limit” stamp set is one of my favorite items and today’s card features that set.  For a $50 before tax & shipping order this stamp set can be yours as well! Think of the possibilities with this set especially when paired with items from the Going Global Suite from the Occasions catalog.

To make this card, I started first by  stamping the plane from the Sky Is The Limit Stamp set in Memento Black Ink on Very Vanilla and used my paper snips to cut it out, turned out to be a lot easier than expected. Next ran a piece of Sahara Sand through the Big Shot using the World Traveler Textured Impressions Embossing folder, then backed it with Basic Black card stock and adhered to a card base of Sahara Sand. Next, using a Circles Framlit die cut the circle and adhered the plane with dimensionals. Sentiment is stamped in Memento Black on Delightful Dijon with a banner end cut into the right side, this is also adhered with dimensinals.  Once I was done I sat there looking at the card thinking it needed something, so using the new Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush I painted the raised area of the world for a little subtle bling, love how it turned out.

Thank you for stopping by today, hope you liked my card. Have a great day, Craft On!

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