Heartfelt Thanks with Red Rubber Designs

Hello Stamping Friends!

This week's Inspirational on the Red Rubber Designs Blog is hosted by Mary Anne!

Inspirational #109 Heartfelt Thanks
What a wonderful inspirational!  I believe it is so important to thank those lovely people in our lives!  Even if it is the smallest thing they do!

Recently I had a lovely crafty friend send me a stamp set for no reason, just because she knew I liked it!  She was selling some of her stamps and wanted that particular set to go to a good home!  I had commented I liked it, but knew my husband would probably think I am crazy buying more stamps!  Little did I know, a few days later I found it in my mail box!  What a wonderful surprise!  Thanks so much Iva!!  I really appreciate it!

So I created this heartfelt thank you card with her in mind and sent it to her:

I started off by choosing my colors!

I have really liked black and turquoise lately!

I love the Fabulous Frames set!
I found that the particular frame I used from the set works perfectly with the Spellbinders Labels 4 Dies!!

 The lovely swirls are from the Fancy Curls set!  Another lovely set!!

The Thank You sentiment is from the Savvy Sayings set!

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Be sure to join in, we'd love to see what you create!!

Have a lovely Thursday!!

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Favorite Color(s) with SS

Happy Tuesday Stamping Friends!

There's another wonderful challenge on the Sweet Stamps Blog for you to join in! We'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind!!

You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some 
"sweet" things of your own!!

SweetStamps.com has so many wonderful stamps and other products to choose from!!

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This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is:

Favorite Color(s)

What's your favorite color?

Is it the same color you find yourself using on most of your cards?

For me, my favorite color is YELLOW!

But I don't necessarily find myself using that color on my projects often.  I really like crafting with pinks and purples!! (Which are also my favorite colors!

So that's why I challenged myself for this challenge to use Yellow!  Along with black, as I like those two colors together.

Sympathy cards are not fun to create at all!  Least of my favorites for sure, but I do really like how this card turned out.  Kind of uplifting and soothing I think.

 I love the new Foliage #1 Clear Stamp Set!

It was so much fun to just add the bling to the center of these flowers! 

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Foliage #1 Clear Stamp Set AF4613 With Sympathy Butterscotch ink Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad XL Stackers OVAL Dies Sponge Foam Dots 1/2" Super Sticky Tape

InLinkz.com

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Looking ahead, next week's challenge is:
#159 Spring Flowers

Have a wonderful day!

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Challenges:

Inky Chicks: Black, White and Your Fave Colour

Beautiful Wedding Card with GI

Happy Monday Stamping Friends!

It's my day to post on the Great Impression Stamps Blog!
I have a elegant wedding card to share with you today!!

I used the new Flowered Heart (H250) to stamp on the background a few times.  And embossed them with some pearl embossing powder.
I then stamped one on white paper and embossed with silver embossing powder and fussy cut it out to pop up on the front!

I just love how it turned out.

I used the lovely Beautiful Forever (F43) sentiment as well.
Such a great wedding sentiment.
I masked the sentiment so that I could emboss just the "beautiful" with silver embossing powder.
Love the look!

Such a fun wedding card!

And just another straight on view of the card.  I had a touch time taking a photo of this card with all the shiny silver!!

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Join the GI monthly challenge!  

We'd love to see what you create!

Check out the Great Impressions shop for more wonderful stamps!!

Have a fabulous day!!

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Challenges:

Amusing Challenges: Anything Goes - No Digi's

Sentimental Sunday: Make Your Own Background Paper + Sentiment

Some Birdie Loves U

Happy Saturday!

Today it is once again my turn to post on the Miss Kate Cuttables Blog!!

I am so excited to share my cute card with you today!!!

First off make sure to head over to the Miss Kate Cuttables store to download your Freebie of the Day!

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I absolutely LOVE the Fluffy Bird file!!

So for my card today I decided to use the adorable cut!

The sentiment is computer generated.

Close-up look:

Too cute!  I just adore the fluffy bird!

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A look at the SVG file used:

Fluffy Bird

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Make sure to check out the Miss Kate Cuttables Blog, there is all kinds of wonderful inspiration!

Don't forget to follow Miss Kate on Facebook!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Spring Lilacs with IBS

Hello Stamping Friends!

Happy Friday!

I'm on the Inspired By Stamping Blog today, using one of last month's new stamp sets!!

I am still swooning over the release from last month!
I love flowers, so I am, as always in love with the Spring Lilacs set!

I created a beautiful center step card to share with you today!

Such a beautiful stamp set!


Isn't the paper lovely as well?  I just love the new paper pads offered by IBS!!

The sentiment is from the Big Notes II set.

One last close-up of the lilac stamp:

Can't wait to smell these blooming in my backyard!!  

Once again I am dreaming of spring!!

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Spring Lilacs

Big Notes II

Spring Lilacs Paper Pad

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My card is based off of this IBSIC photo:

Join in, we'd love to see what you create!

Have a wonderful day!

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Challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks: Things with Wings (2 Butterflies)
Creative Knockouts: No Square Cards
Southern Girls Challenge: Bling It, Bling Bling
Divas by Design: Rubber Stamps Only
Penny's Paper-Crafty: Lots of Layers
Cuttin and Stampin Challenges: Spring Is Here
Flourishes Timeless Tuesdays: A Lotta Polka Dots
Papertake Weekly: Lovely Layers

Happy Anniversary with GI

Happy Monday Stamping Friends!

It's my day to post on the Great Impression Stamps Blog!

Today is a special day for me! :)  It's mine and my hubby's anniversary!  We've been together for 13 years! Wow!  And married 7 years now!  Just seems like yesterday he won over my heart!  Time sure flies!

I created this Anniversary card for him:

A simple, yet elegant Anniversary card!

I love the new Dotted Heart Border (E826)!
Why?  Well the second I saw the stamp I knew it was going to be so fun to use to be able to use the hearts as a template to create your own heart "blinged" embellishments!  There is perfect spacing between each dot, for you to add bling to each of them!  No more needing to buy special heart shaped bling!  YAY!

I stamped the smaller heart in this instance just above the left of the Happy Anniversary (E42) sentiment. I then used silver bling, which I added on each dot!  You no longer can see the stamped heart!  And instead just created your own heart shaped bling!
I love it!

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Join the GI monthly challenge!  

We'd love to see what you create!

Check out the Great Impressions shop for more wonderful stamps!!

Have a fabulous day!!

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Challenges:

Crafting When We Can: Bling

The Crazy Challenge: Red and White

Paintings

Happy Valentine's Day 

to all my fellow crafty blog friends!!

I have something a little different to share with you today!

I had seen some fun craft ideas on Pinterest lately. I decided to buy the kiddos some canvases to paint on and create some paintings for decor in the house!  

I always love their artwork!!

My son created this one...

I let him go crazy painting it:

Then I painted the "L" and "E", the handprint is his, then for the "V" the footprint on the left is his and the one on the right is my daughter's!

Fun!!

Here is the one my daughter created:

I helped her outline her hands with red paint to make the heart.

Aren't they fun?!

  My kids had so much fun making them!!

They sure take after their mommy! :)  They love crafting!!

I spent some time with them in my craft room the other night, helping them make Valentine's Day cards! It was so cute!

Have a lovely Valentine's Day!

We have a fun weekend planned with the kids!

Dreaming of Spring Flowers with Red Rubber Designs

Hello Stamping Friends!

This week's Inspirational on the Red Rubber Designs Blog is hosted by Lynda!

Inspirational #107 Dreaming of Spring Flowers
I am totally dreaming about my flowers coming up in spring!
I can't wait!
My other passion is my flowers!!

I had to join in this inspirational!!

For my little gift bag I created I used the Lovely Peony set!
I just LOVE the peony stamp in this set!

Isn't it beautiful?!

I actually only used part of the flower, I will be using the entire peony flower in a card coming up! ;)

I also used the fun Running Stitches set!

I love the faux stitching!

I have always dreamed of being able to stitch on my projects, but I just do not have the patience right now to figure out a sewing machine!!  So this stamps set is perfect!!

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Be sure to join in, we'd love to see what you create!!

Have a lovely Thursday!!

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Love with SS

Happy Tuesday Stamping Friends!

There's another wonderful challenge on the Sweet Stamps Blog for you to join in! We'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind!!

You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some 
"sweet" things of your own!!

SweetStamps.com has so many wonderful stamps and other products to choose from!!

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This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is:

Love

Another great challenge to create a Valentine's Day project, or even a wedding or anniversary card!

For my project today I decided to create a little package for one of my kiddos!  

A door hanger package:

How fun!!

This lovely door hanger is a fun .svg I have from KaDoodle Bug Designs!

I know, which ever one I decide to give it to, will love it!

I love the Heart to Heart Frame! 

So much fun to use to layer!

Best part, there are some candy kisses inside!! :)

I used the Vertical Love sentiment to create this banner!

This was such a fun project to create!!!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Heart to Heart Frame 469	Happy Valentine's Day	Vertical Love	Lovely 6x6
Pearl Lace Die	Labels & Tags Dies 0028	Duchess Rose Shade Dye Ink	Valentine Shades Dye Ink
White Dye Ink Pad for Parchment Crafting	Detail White EP	Parchment Craft Vellum PCV25	Foam Dots
1/2" Super Sticky Tape	2" Super Sticky Tape 55 yards

InLinkz.com

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Looking ahead, next week's challenge is:
#157 Anything Goes

And you can find our current Monthly Technique Challenge
"Kissing" here!

Have a wonderful day!

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Challenges:

Craft My Life: Anything Goes; No Cards

Artistic Inspirations: Anything Goes/Valentine's Day
Creative Cutting Challenge: Love
Kaboodle Doodles: To My Sweetheart
Lexi's Creations: Valentine's Day/Love
Love to Scrap: Who Loves Ya, Baby
Make It Monday: Anything Goes
Oh La La Creations: Use A Heart
Stamp and Create: Love Is In The Air
The Crazy Challenge: Love Is In The Air