Rainbow Tulip Garden

Happy May! We've had so many fun stamps released so far this year at So Suzy Stamps that we've decided to take a breather and revisit them all. I'll be playing with the March release again, full of pretty flowers and fun sentiments!

I'm enjoying the latest Online Card Class featuring vellum and acetate, so look what I came up with:

A rainbow tulip garden! The entire front panel of the card is vellum which I added a rainbow of dye inks to. Once it was dry(ish) I heat embossed the Tulip Background stamp in white over the top.

A little diecutting and more heat embossing got me the fun strip for the sentiment. I love how pretty the Fancy Happy Birthday looks in gold. There's a matching white strip on the back of the vellum to hide the adhesive.

I left the inside super simple - the Never Grow Up sentiment and Nuvo drops line up with the white cardstock strips so you can't see them when the card is closed.

We do have some new releases today - more Nuvo Drops and a new line of stencils! Woohoo!

Happy Crafting!

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J'Adore les Kitty Cats!

Good morning everyone - I'm blogging about this super-sweet (and swoon-worthy, in my opinion) new stamp over at So Suzy Stamps today:

That's right; kitties in love in a tree!!!

You can find all the details about how I made the card over on the blog!

Happy Crafting, and happy 2015! Be sure to come back tomorrow for the Mountain Plains Crafters & Adornit blog hop!

So Suzy Stamps - Instant Hug

Good morning everyone! I'm blogging over at So Suzy Stamps today about this bright and cheerful card I whipped up to snap me out of my winter blues.

Go read all about it! And if you simply must have the Hero Arts ink pads I used, be sure to swing by the a2z Scrapbooking store and use code JENNIFER15 to take 15% off your purchase.

Happy Crafting!

Supplies Used:
So Suzy Stamps - Peony, Herb 1, and Instant Hug
Hero Arts Shadow Inks in Mint Julep, Soft Vanilla, Soft Apricot, Passion Flower, and Bubble Gum
Versamark Ink, Zing! Platinum embossing powder, Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Clear Sequins

The 12 Days of Cards - Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of my 12 Days of Cards series! Today I started with a stamp I really wanted to use and created my card around it...because who doesn't dream of looking out their window to see Rudolph flying by?

Hey, I still believe! I've got the full start-to-finish video below:

I really like how my night sky and that pop of gold embossing came out.

All right, I'll be back tomorrow with my So Suzy Stamps DT post!

Supplies used:
So Suzy Stamps Reindeer
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 1 Dies
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Ranger Distress Ink Mini Kit #2
Ranger Distress Ink Mini Kit #8
Ranger Distress Ink Mini Kit #12
American Crafts Galaxy White Marker
Recollections Gold Glitter Embossing Powder (available at Michael's)
Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Ranger Glossy Accents
Stickles Christmas Red Glitter Glue
Scor-Pal Scoreboard
3M Scotch Foam Tape (the best!)

I'm linking up to: Simon Says Stamp Monday & Wednesday Challenge - Holiday Cards

Happy Crafting!

Card Book and World Card Making Day

Woohoo, happy World Card Making Day everyone! There are so many fun contests, product releases, and card sketches out there in blog land today; have you been playing along?

I'm here to share my vintage Graphic 45 project for Mountain Plains Crafters today; we're giving away THREE pads of Graphic 45 paper over on our Facebook page. Just 'like' and 'comment' to enter! Believe me, I wish I could win it...

So, I finally finished a card storage book I started, oh, back in March...what, I've been busy! The book measures 6"x6" and is made from folded sheets of the Place in Time paper pad.

Place in Time card book

Pretty cool, huh? The back & front covers are chipboard covered with some paper from the pad, then topped with one of the tags from the embellishment kit. I added some navy ruffle ribbon from Pretty Pink Posh and a scrap of white shimmer ribbon I had laying around. The flower is from May Arts that I added a chocolate pearl to for the center.

Closeup of the tag

Some clear Wink of Stella finished the tag off, along with my handwriting and a Sharpie. ;)

Inside the book are (2) pages for every month, with pockets for keeping cards in. Now when we make things ahead of time, we have somewhere to put them! Each page also has a tag to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, and the like.

March with the tag in the special tag pocket

September with a closeup of the tag for the month

Some ribbons over the binding finish the whole thing off. How about you; how do you keep track of your cards for those special people?

Happy Crafting!

He Put a Ring on It

Hi there everyone! Just stopping by quickly to post a card for the Pretty Pink Posh Cutting Edge blog hop. The theme is die cuts this time and I really wanted to get my current work in progress done, but with my baby sister's wedding last weekend that did not happen. So I finished off one I'd started a while ago; can you tell I had wedding on the brain? ;)

I used the Lawn Fawn photo frame die to make the shaker card and tons of the Sweet Stamp Shop sentiments from multiple sets to create the background paper. Links to everything are below - are you liking the new linky tool??

The diamond was stamped on shimmer paper, then decked out with the white Wink of Stella pen and topped with Glossy Accents.

Pink, green, pale yellow, 4mm clear and silver heart PPP sequins were added in and this card was done.

Happy Crafting!

*Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins	Silver Heart Confetti	Springtime Mix Sequins	say cheese - lawn cuts
Elegant Sentiments	You Had Me At	Stinky Skunk	Princess
Just The Basics	High Five	Hedgehog Kiss	Happy Birthday
Emotions	Easily Distracted	*Hero Arts SHADOW Ink Pad SOFT BLOSSOM Pink AF147	*Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad SOFT VANILLA AF275 2014
*Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad MINT JULEP Mid-Tone 2013 AF246

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Blueprint Birthday Cards and a Winner!

Oh my word, where is the time going?? Between a flurry of work at my day job (seriously, whomever said that summers were slow and laid-back obviously wasn't an engineer) and my baby sister's wedding in just under 2 weeks, I've barely had a moment to myself to craft lately!

I did manage to go play the other night; if you follow me on Instagram and/or Facebook, you may remember I was having fun coloring some of the Tim Holtz blueprint stamps a while back. I didn't have a specific project for them at the time, I just liked the idea of having them ready when I wanted them. Let me tell you, that planning was a great idea! I snagged (6) of the images, sliced them down a bit, and then went to town pairing them up with card bases, patterned paper layers, and embellishments. It was a ton of fun, and in under an hour I had (6) birthday cards ready to go.

Cupcakes with mini sequins

I decided to keep the cards similar but different, so with each set I used different embellishments. On each card I picked a base card & patterned paper that coordinated with my coloring and popped the image up with my foam tape. For the cupcakes, I added some Pretty Pink Posh 4mm clear sequins (swoon!).

Balloons with wooden stars

The balloons I tilted slightly to mimic their flight and added some wooden star embellishments from the Pretty Pink Posh Woodland kit.

Party hats with enamel dots

For the party hats, I tried out my new My Mind's Eye enamel dots; oh my, I might be in love. They're so fun!

I'm giving linking my supplies a try; see the end of the post for a list of what I used!

I promised you a winner as well; from the Mountain Plains Crafters blog hop Lynnette Kaufmann is the winner of the Itty Bitty stamp! Lynnette, you've got an email waiting for you. ;)

One last note - the Die Cut Crazy magazine blog hop starts this Friday, August 15th. You won't want to miss it!

Happy Crafting!

Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps BIRTHDAY BLUEPRINT CMS153	*Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins	Nature Embellishment Kit
My Mind's Eye CHALK STUDIO 2 Enamel Dots CS3020	*Crafter's Companion DARKS 24 SET SPECTRUM NOIR MARKERS 751736	*Crafter's Companion BRIGHTS 24 SET SPECTRUM NOIR MARKERS 751729

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