Masculine Birthday with TSOL

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a card to share with you today using some FUN  The Stamps of Life products!!

I love the newly released Sizzix Happy Birthday Step-Ups Die Set!!

 It creates such fun Birthday cards!!

This time around, I decided to create a masculine card!!

The "make a wish" sentiment is from the wish2make stamp set!

I thought a row of candles along the bottom would be fun...

 SUPER fun!!

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

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Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas: Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments: More Than 1 Fold

Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant Monday Challenge: Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenges: Die Cut

Crafting From the Heart: Anything Goes

Hippity Hop with SS

Happy Monday 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 $10 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:

Hippity Hop
Easter is right around the corner!
My kiddos just LOVE Easter, they love searching for their hidden eggs!!

I used the adorable Taylor the Bunny 'lil Sweetie!! 

Isn't this image cute?!  

I had so much fun coloring it in!

Close-up:

I am so excited for Easter, but can't believe it is almost April already!

I decided I would finish off the inside of my card right away with some of 

Sweet Stamp's cute Easter stamps as well:

I used the Striped Egg and Egg-stra Special Easter sentiment for the inside!

I've been hoarding the papers I used for this card for awhile now and glad I have been as I think they were perfect for this card!!  Just sad that they are gone now!

Have a wonderful day!

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Lilacs with IBS

Happy Sunday Stamping Friends!!

I have a birthday card to share with you today using some Inspired By Stamping products!!

I absolutely love the Spring Lilacs set from IBS!!

Our neighbor has a few really big lilac bushes growing in her yard, by our property line!  I just love the smell of them when they are blooming!!

 Close-up of the beautiful lilac:

Love it!!

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

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Spring Lilacs

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Polka Dots Please with IBS

Good Morning Stamping Friends!!

If you missed out on release week, be sure to check out Inspired By Stamping's new stamps!!
They are amazing!!

I am featured in today's Inspired By Stamping newsletter!

I created this super fun, simple masculine Birthday card:

I love the lines I stamped using the Background Basics Lines!!

I thought it would be fun to add some polka dots as well, but didn't have a stamp I could use.

So why not create my own!!

So I am going to share how I created them!

Collect Your Supplies:

Stamps
Ink
Ruler
Cardstock
Pencil with good new eraser

I started by using my ruler to stamp the lines straight.

I then also used my ruler again to help my "polka dots" straight along the lines.

Dab the eraser top on the ink pad and then on your cardstock as you wish!

Super fun and EASY!!

You can create any kind of designs if you wish!

And to be clear, this is an "odd" shaped card!  I didn't want it to be your traditional rectangle.  So I cut the edges on a slant.

Close up of the lines, "polka dots" and sentiment:

The sentiment is part of the Big Wishes II set!!

So next time you need some polka dots and don't have a stamp....grab your pencil!

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

Happy Stamping!

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Background Basics Lines


Big Wishes II

Frosty the Snowman with GI

Hello Stamping Friends!

 Great Impression Stamps is sponsoring the current challenge at C.R.A.F.T Challenges!

The challenge:
Inspired By A Movie

At first I wasn't sure what I was going to do!
But then the light bulb went off!!

One of my daughter's favorite movies is "Frosty the Snowman"!
And as many of you may know GI has a ton of adorable snowman stamps!!

So here is the fun card I made:

I absolutely love how this card turned out!!
I used the adorable G476 Frosty snowman stamp!!

Along with the C427 Season's Greetings sentiment!!


Here's a close-up of Frosty:

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Have a fabulous Tuesday!!

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IBS March Release Paris Love

Good Morning Stamping Friends!!

It's the last day of releases at Inspired By Stamping!!!!
What an amazing release this month!

Such AWESOME STAMPS!!

Today we are sharing inspiration with the new PARIS LOVE stamp set!
What a beautiful set!!  A must have in my opinion!

 Love the images and the sentiment!!

Also being release today is the free stamp for March and April...
FRIENDS!

Love this set as well!!

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Now for my project.....

 I created this card for my hubby....

Simple, yet so much meaning!

LOVE how it turned out!!

Close-up:

I used my Copics to color in the image, except for the umbrella, which I paper pieced! 

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Now, I have a SUPER fun card using the new FRIENDS set!!

Aren't the colors totally fun?!

I just LOVE how this card turned out!!

Besides the awesome new FRIENDS set, I also used the Diamonds stamp set, to add the polka dots on the white piece of cardstock! 

The lines in the upper left and bottom right were created with one of the stamps from the Background Basics Lines stamp set!!

Sure to put a smile on a Friends face!!

Such a fun stamp set, with so many possibilities!! 

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

Happy Stamping!

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Adorable Louie with GI

Happy Thursday Stamping Friends!

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

I have a fun spring card to share with you today!
I am in LOVE with the new H263 Springtime Louie!
He is so ADORABLE!!!!

And I love all the flowers that surround him!

Check my card out:

What a fun image to color!!

A close-up of Louie:

So SUPER fun!!!

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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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Flower Of The Month: Easter Lily with IBS

Good Morning Stamping Friends!!

It's Release Day 3 at Inspired By Stamping!!!!

I am SUPER excited about the Flower Of The Month: Easter Lily set!!

Lilies are by far one of my favorite flowers!!!

I own over 100 of them in my landscape!! 

One of my favorite varieties of my Garden Lilies are my Stargazers!

So I was slightly inspired by them when coloring in the image!

I just LOVE how it turned out!  Such a beautiful image!  And so very fun to color!!!

I used one of the sentiments in the set for the card as well.

I decided to go with a clean design, as I really want the flowers to show off!!

Here's a close-up:

So beautiful!!!

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

Happy Stamping!

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Challenges:
The Crafter's Cafe: Spring Flowers

Crafty Gals Corner: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
Card Mania: Spring
Crafting From the Heart: Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
Crafty Card Makers: Spring
Love To Scrap: Anything Goes
Monday Morning Challenge: Think Spring

IBS March Release Honey Bee

Good Morning Stamping Friends!!

It's Release Day 2 at Inspired By Stamping!!!!

You're going to love the new HONEY BEE stamp set!
I sure do!

Such beautiful images and great sentiments!!!

I recently got into Project Life! Yes, I know a little behind in times, but I just kept telling myself I can't do it all and don't need to get into something else!

Well after going on a retreat a few weekends ago with some girlfriends and seeing what Project Life was all about, I was hooked!  I am once again in HIGH hopes that someday I will get caught up with the kids albums!! (If only I would stop taking so many pictures!!.....Never mind, that won't happen!!)

So I decided to use the new Honey Bee stamp set to create a layout for my daughter's album:

I absolutely love how it turned out!

My first one!!  Yay!

It was so much fun to use the stamp set to create my own cards!!

I used a mixture of the stamps to create this 6x4 card:

 The "bee-utiful" was computer generated!
The "you" is part of the Spring Bouquet stamp set.

I just love the cute little bee!

I also used the Octagons stamp set to create the yellow stamped octagons in the lower left and top right corners, thought it was a nice added touch!

Another card I created using two stamps from the Honey Bee stamp set!

The title here was again computer generated, but then I used the Honey Bee stamp set to add some images!

This set was so perfect for these pictures!!

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Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Blog for more wonderful inspiration!!

Check out the Inspired By Stamping Store to see all the lovely stamp sets!

So many beautiful sets to choose from!!

Have a lovely day!

Happy Stamping!

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