Christmas in July

Hello Everyone and welcome to Saturday and another challenge from 'Our Creative Corner'. This week our hostess Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifer's Sweet Designs is challenging us to create a Christmas card/project. Here is my creation~

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Stamps~ Festive Favorites (retired).
Paper~ True Thyme, River Rock, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White.
Ink~ Basic Black, River Rock, Bravo burgundy, Always Artichoke
Accessories~ Gold Brads, True Thyme Stitched Ribbon (retired), Stickles, Snowflake embossing folder.

OCC DT ~ Color Challenge

Hello Everyone, happy Saturday!


It's Saturday and you know what that means. It's time for another challenge from 'Our Creative Corner'. This week our hostess Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifer's Sweet Designs has challenged us with a color challenge. When it comes to summer one of the things Jennifer thinks of is watermelon, so today's challenge is to create a card/project using the colors, Red, Green, White & Black. Here is my Watermelon inspiration.


Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime! If you upload your creation to SCS don't forget to use the keyword OCCC. I can't wait to see what you create for this week's challenge! Oh, don't forget to hop on over to see what the rest of the design team has created this week!

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Stamps~ For All You Do, Sincere Salutations

Paper~ Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red DSP.

Ink~ Real Red, Old Olive, Basic Black.

Accessories~ Scallop border punch, Large Oval punch, Black brads, sponge, Jersey Ribbon originals (retired).

I'm here for YOU!!

Hello everyone, happy Wednesday!!

My card for today was made for Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge 39. When I saw these colors I thought of nature, outdoors, woods. I knew I just had to use my new two-step owl punch for this challenge. Aren't these little owls just the cutest? And they were fun to make too!

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Stamps~ Occasional Quotes (level 3 hostess set).

Paper~ Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Kraft, Whisper White, Woodland Walk DSP.

Ink~ Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake.

Accessories~ Little Leaves Sizzlit, Two-step Owl punch, Modern Label punch, Antique Brads, Square Lattice embossing folder, sponge, Non-SU products ~ Nestibilities, dew drops.

Concord Crush Flower

Hello Everyone! Happy Monday, hope you had a fantastic weekend!


Today's card showcases another paper punch flower that I have had so much fun creating! This flower was created with the small scallop punch (4 punches) and the large scallop punch (1 punch). All 5 punches were stamped on both sides with a specked stamp using Concord Crush ink and then sponged around the edges with Concord Crush. After I stamped each punch, I then crumbled each one to give them a destressed look. I used the large scallop punch as the base and the 4 small punches were each folded in half and then into quarters and centered onto the large scallop punch equally with snail adhesive. To keep the folds in place I took a small piece of linen thread and tacked down each section in the center. To hide the thread I used a summer sun corduroy brad which also served as the center of the flower. Give the paper punch flower a try and let me know what you think!

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Stamps~ Herb Expressions

Paper~ Concord Crush, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Melon Mambo dsp.

Ink~ Concord Crush.

Accessories~ Large scallop & small scallop punches, Little leaves sizzlit, Square Lattice embossing folder, sponge, summer sun corduroy brad, oval nestibilities.

Hello Summer!

Hello Friends, happy Saturday!



Are you ready for another challenge from 'Our Creative Corner'? This week our hostess Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifer's Sweet Designs is challenging us to create a card/project with a beach theme. I don't know what the weather has been where you are but it has been VERY steamy here in Minnesota and one way to cool down is to head for the beach! How about this little cutie? She knows how to cool down on a hot summer day!



Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime! If you upload your creation to SCS don't forget to use the keyword OCCC. I can't wait to see what you create for this week's challenge! Oh, don't forget to hop on over to see what the rest of the design team has created this week!



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Stamps~ Hi & Hello (retired), Beach Babies (retired), Pure Innocence 'Beach Bum'
Paper~ Watercolor paper, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise dsp, Good Morning Sunshine dsp.
Ink~ Tempting Turquoise, Palette Black, Copic Markers
Accessories~ large oval punch, Scallop oval punch, Clear Rhinestone brad, Hooray Designer hardware (retired), Swiss dot embossing folder.

Curtain Call convention swap

Hello everyone, hope your week is going well! Today I would like to share with you the card I made for Stacey's Curtain Call Convention Swap! I was so excited when I saw Stacey was hosting a convention swap, I knew I had to participate.



I first made this card without the paper punch flower, but thought it looked bare and needed something else. Normally I wouldn't have made the flower for a large swap, but this swap was only 15 cards and I thought that was a managable number. Each flower consists of 6-5 petal punches, all 6 punches are spritzed and sponged and 5 punches are crumbled and folded (accordian style) then added to the 6th punch with snail adhesive and a large brad.



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Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, All Holidays

Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Melon Mambo, Whisper White.
Ink~ White Craft, Chocolate Chip
Accessories~ Square Lattice embossing folder, Clear embossing powder, spritzer tool, Curly Label punch, 5 Petal flower punch, small oval punch, Build-a-brad, glue dots, silver brads, sponge.

Inspired by Nature Curtain Call

Hello Friends and welcome to Wednesday!

Today's card is one I made for this week's Curtain Call Color Challenge 38. If you follow my blog on a regular basis you know I LOVE participating in Stacey's Color Challenge as often as time permits. Stacey has been kind enough to showcase some of my work on her blog as one of her top 5, well this past week I was surprised to find that I got the top billing! Yup thats right I got the lead roll over at the Curtain Call! Thanks Stacey for the top billing and for showcasing my card for the Curtain Call Color Challenge 37!

Now, on to this week's Curtain Call Card!! When I first saw these colors I knew I wanted to use one of my all-time favorite sets 'Inspired By Nature'. Regal Rose and Pumpkin Pie are perfect for this pretty cone flower!

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Stamps~ Inspired by Nature

Paper~ Rich Razzelberry cs, Rich Razzelberry DSP, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla.

Ink~ Rich Razzelberry, Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery.

Accessories~ Square Lattice embossing folder, Rich Razzelberry ribbon, Antique Brads (LOVE these brads!), sponge.

Corky For You!

Hello Everyone and welcome to Saturday and another challenge from 'Our Creative Corner'. This week our hostess Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifer's Sweet Designs is challenging us to use cork on our Card/project! I haven't used cork for awhile so I was very excited to see this challenge!


Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime! If you upload your creation to SCS don't forget to use the keyword OCCC. I can't wait to see what you create for this week's challenge! Oh and don't forget to hop on over to see what the rest of the design team has created with cork this week!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Stamps~ Fresh Cuts, Love without End (retired). ♥

Paper~ Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Melon Mambo DSP. ♥

Ink~ White Craft, Chocolate Chip. ♥

Accessories~ Cork sheets, clear embossing powder, jumbo white brads, linen thread, small & large oval punches, hodgepodge hardware (retired), Naturals buttons (retired). ♥

Paper Punch Flowers

Hello Everyone, happy Friday! I am so glad the weekend is finally here, even though it was a short week, I'm always glad to see the weekend roll around (more time to stamp!).

Today card was a fun one to make! I knew I wanted to use the colors from this weeks Curtain Call Color Challenge 37, I also knew I wanted to add one of these fun Paper Punched Flowers!

I was blog surfing and cruising though the Stampin' Up! community website when I came across the cutest paper punched flowers! Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator Jessica Luther, had made the cutest project with six different paper punched flowers! I KNEW I had to give them a try the minute I saw them! There were no specific directions on how to make each of them, but she did list the punches that were used. I printed out a picture of them, then I had to come up with my own design on how to make them.

To make this flower I used the 'Fancy Flower' punch and punched out 5 flowers in Melon mambo. Punching, Spritzing, Sponging, Crumbling, folding then assembled! Look for more fun flowers in the days to come!

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Stamps~ All Holidays
Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise dsp (retired), Barely Banana, Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi
Ink~ Tempting Turquoise

Accessories~ Fancy Flower XL punch, Linen tread, Little Leaves Sizzlits die, sponge, Color Sprizer tool, Latte buttons (retired), Chocolate Chip stitched ribbon (retired).

OCC Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to Saturday (Monday) and another challenge from 'Our Creative Corner'. Apparently I forgot to post this before I went out of town for the 4th of July weekend! To many things going on I guess!!!

This week brings a new month and a new hostess over at 'Our Creative Corner'. This month our hostess is 'Jennifer Meyer' from Jennifer's Sweet Designs and the creator of 'Our Creative Corner'. Jennifer has been a blog friend of mine for a few years now and I just love her sweet designs and creations! Stop on over to her blog and check out what I mean!

This week Jennifer has a fun sketch challenge for us to try. Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime! If you upload your creation to SCS don't forget to use the keyword OCCC. I can't wait to see what you create for this week's challenge! Oh and don't forget to hop on over to see what the rest of the design team has created this week!

Thanks for Stopping By!

Stamps~ Awash with Flowers, Sincere Salutations

Paper~ Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Good Morning DSP (retired)

Ink~ Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Barely Banana (retired)

Accessories~ Silver Brads, Butterfly punch, Large Oval punch, 1" circle punch, 1/4" circle punch, Trio Flower punch (retired).