Grungy Monotone Butterfly

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Oh how I've missed you, Gorgeous Grunge! It's been way too long since I've played with what has to be an all time favorite stamp set, so I've put it right for today's card...

Card: Thick Whisper White
Ink: Peekaboo Peach
Stamp sets: Gorgeous Grunge and Designer Tin of Cards
Tools and embellishments: Bold Butterfly Thinlits, Lots of Labels Framelits and Basic Pearls
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#55 A is for Aperture at Butterfly Challenge
#234-235 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#179 AG at 613 Avenue Create

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Black, White & Elegant with Rose Wonder

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments after my last post, where I explained my plans for this year. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

As I explained in that post, although I'm not creating as many cards as I have done previously, I am still getting some time to create. When I saw the latest challenge over at Can You Case It, Black, White and Elegant OR Fun, I knew that the new Rose Wonder bundle from Stampin' Up! would be perfect for an elegant card. AND it's their 3rd birthday, so I HAD to join in the celebration!

Although I've had a play with the dies from the bundle before, this was the first card I created with the bundle and I'm already hooked! I love it and hope you do too!

Card: Whisper White, Basic Black and Whisper White Glimmer Paper
Ink: Jet Black Memento
Stamp set: Rose Wonder
Tools and Embellishments: Rose Garden thinlits dies, Deco Labels framelits, Petite Petals punch, Crystal Effects and Itty Bitty Accents
Adhesive: Snail and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...

#103 Black, White and Elegant at CYCI
#212 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#295 AAG at Craft Your passion

I'll be back on Friday with another creation. Yep, you get to see me twice this week, so I hope you'll join me then.

Monotone Coffee & Friends

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I've absolutely loved sharing some very different cards created with the retiring Perfect Blend stamp set from Stampin' Up! Today's offering is a monotone one, using another of my favorite In-Colors, Lost Lagoon...

Card: Whisper White and Lost Lagoon
Ink: Lost Lagoon
Stamp set: Perfect Blend
Tools: Bracket Label Punch
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Now's the time regular readers know all too well, when I ask if you have a favorite from the week's creations. Here's a quick reminder of the others. Click on the images to be taken to the post...

I love them all, but if I had to choose, it would be between Tuesday's and Thursday's.

Challenges for today's card...
May Linky at DL.ART
#57 White at CAS on Sunday
AAG at Through The Craft Room Door

All Some of the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back on Sunday with my latest DT creation for 613 Avenue Create, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Kinda Coastal

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Regular readers will know what's coming in today's post, but before you attempt to chose your favorite from this week's Kinda Eclectic cards, I've got another one to show you. This time created with another of Stampin' Up!'s soon to be retiring 2013-2015 In Colors, and one of my favorites, Coastal Cabana, hence the title of today's post...

Card: Coastal Cabana and Whisper White
Ink: Coastal Cabana
Stamp set: Kinda Eclectic
Embellishments: Basic Pearls
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Can you believe I got through a whole week without using one of my all time favorite stamp sets, Gorgeous Grunge? I know. I'm in shock and yep, I kinda miss it! Sorry, I had to get another "kinda..." in here. LOL.

Now for the recap and almost impossible decision. Click on the image to be taken to the post.

I love them all, but if I had to choose a favorite I'd say it's between Wednesday's and Thursday's. Can you choose?

Challenges for today's card...
#28 AAG at Inspiration Destination
AG at Papertake Weekly
#41 AAG at Scribble and Scrap

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Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one! I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

All Natural Four Feathers

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I LOVE feathers and I'm loving all the different creative possibilities with the delightful Four Feathers stamp set from Stampin' Up! If you've missed the designs I've shared with you so far this week, you can see them here, here and here.

For today's card I've embraced the natural feel of the feathers and used a neutral tone and Woodgrain embossing folder. Even the sentiment I've used comes from another nature-themed stamp set, Wetlands...

Card: Crumb Cake and Whisper White
Ink: Crumb Cake
Stamp sets: Four Feathers and Wetlands
Tools: Feathers Framelits (from stamp and die bundle, saving 15%) and Woodgrain EF
Adhesives: Sticky Strip and Stampin' Dimensionals

Cut a panel of Whisper White card slightly smaller than the Crumb Cake folded card base (I cut mine ¼" smaller) and emboss with the Woodgrain EF. Attach to base with Sticky Strip.
Stamp the feather from Four Feathers twice in Crumb Cake ink onto the top right corner of a Whisper White panel. Stamp a third feather onto a scrap of white and cut with the Framelit die.
Stamp the sentiment from Wetlands in Crumb Cake ink onto the lower left corner of the panel. Attach panel to a Crumb Cake panel cut slightly larger (mine is ¼" bigger), with more Sticky Strip and add to the card with more tape.
Attach the third feather with a couple Stampin' Dimensionals.

Challenges...
#12 AG at Crafty Gals Corner

#176 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
AAG at Through The Craft Room Door

All the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Four Feathers creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Monotone Inchie With Moon Lake

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Inchie cards are great for showing just a small section of any design, big or small. For today's card, I've highlighted elements of the two image stamps from the Moon Lake stamp set from Stampin' Up! that I've shared with you in the last couple days. If you missed those, click here and here to see them.

My stamped "inches" are actually 1¼"...

Card: Very Vanilla (base plus snippets) and Crumb Cake (five 1½" squares, one 4" x 1½" piece)
Ink: Crumb Cake
Stamp set: Moon Lake
Tools: Tombow glue and Stampin' Dimensionals

Stamp the tree and lake image from Moon Lake 4 times in Crumb Cake ink onto snippets of Very Vanilla card. Stamp the bird and sentiment in the same color onto another couple snippets.
Trim the tree and bird pieces to 1¼" squares and attach to the Crumb Cake squares using Tombow glue or Stampin' Dimensionals.
Trim the sentiment to 3 3/4" x 1¼" and adhere to the Crumb Cake panel with Tombow glue.
Adhere the tree inchies to the folded Very Vanilla card base and pop the bird onto them using Stampin' Dimensionals.
Add the sentiment to the card below the inchies.

Challenges...
#175 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#168 AAG at Pixies Snippets
#196 AAG at Party Time Tuesdays

All the products I've used for today's creation are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Moon Lake creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Birthday Card With Petal Potpourri

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments! I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Regular readers might recall how much I love creating my own backgrounds and also using the Blendabilities markers from Stampin' Up! Today's card is created using both those techniques, with the new Petal Potpourri stamp set...

Card: Whisper White and Lost Lagoon
Ink: Lost Lagoon and Pool Party
Markers: Coastal Cabana Blendabilities
Stamp sets: Petal Potpourri and Tag Talk
Tools: Flower Medallion and Bracket Label punches

Stamp the flower image from Petal Potpourri randomly onto a panel of Whisper White and once onto a spare piece. Adhere panel to folded card base. Color the additional one with the lightest shade of Coastal Cabana Blendie and punch out.

Stamp the sentiment from Tag Talk on Whisper White and punch out. Punch piece of Lost Lagoon card and layer together.

Attach sentiment and flower to card using Stampin' Dimensionals.

Challenges...

#130 Friend at CASology
#123 AG with a twist at Artistic Inspirations
#129 Birthday for a girl at Brown Sugar

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I'll be back tomorrow with another, very different card using the Petal Potpourri stamp set, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

More monotone

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing is another monotone creation combining the Hostess stamp set Bloom with Hope and Blendabilities markers from Stampin' Up! If you missed yesterday's card in Rich Razzleberry, you can see it here. You can see my other "Blendie" creations here and Bloom with hope here.

For today's card I stamped the largest of the flowers from the set in Lost Lagoon ink on Very Vanilla card, then used the lightest of the Coastal Cabana Blendabilities to color them, before going over the centers with the medium shade.

The sentiment is stamped in Lost Lagoon on more Very Vanilla and then punched with the Scallop Oval Punch and layered with another from Pistachio Pudding card.

The differences between the three colors are so subtle and create a great monotone design. I hope you agree?

Challenges...
AG at Through The Craft Room Door
#98 AG w/ optional at 613 Avenue Create
#63 Monochomatic at Beyond Grey

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Blendie creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x

Glory to the newborn king

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by, I'm honored to have you here! I'm sorry this post is later than usual, but I'm only just out of the studio, having completed an incredible eighty cards today! Yes, you read that right, 80! Sixty of them are those I started yesterday and another, newly designed set of 20. Whew!

The cards I'm sharing with you today are the second set which I created with the Newborn King stamp set from Stampin' Up!'s seasonal catalog. As I mentioned at the end of yesterday's post, where I shared the first set, this design is very different.

For this design I teamed the focal sentiment and the star, carefully placing them onto my clear block so that they would be able to be die cut using the second largest of the Stars Framelits. This first one is stamped in Rich Razzleberry ink on Very Vanilla card. I then cut the die and used the die itself as a template to cut a larger star from Cherry Cobbler card, because the largest star die was to big for the card. I then stamped the star from the Festival of Trees set randomly on the folded Very Vanilla card blank. The focal star is popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals and I've once again added Crystal Effects to add a bit of sparkle.

This one uses Old Olive ink and Lost Lagoon card...

This one is Lost Lagoon ink and Lost Lagoon card...

Cherry Cobbler ink and card...

Just as I did with the set in yesterday's post, I also created the designs on Whisper White card too.

Challenges...
#90 AG at 613 Avenue Create
Christmas Come Early at Crafting When We Can
#37 AG at Crafting From The Heart

I'll be back tomorrow with one of today's completed designs, so please stop back then.

Hugs,
Em x

Starry birthday

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today, please do make yourself at home :)

The card I'm sharing is one of two that are identical and was inspired by my first July 4th themed creation, the Patriotic candy cup I shared with you yesterday (although there's no red used in this one) and also a recent Thank you card.

I've used textured navy card for the mats and stars, and sponged copper ink over the embossing to highlight it and give a distressed look. The embossing folder I've used is a Sizzix one that came as part of the bundle with my BigShot, so unfortunately I can't remember the name, sorry! The design was completed with a gold peel off sentiment.

I'm really hoping that both guys like their cards, and that you do too. I'd love you to leave me a comment :)

Challenges...
#98 Anything Goes/ Patriotic at Artistic Inspirations
#25 Anything Goes at Crafting From The Heart
#78 Anything Goes at 613 Avenue Create
July Anything Goes at Sisters of Craft
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
July Anything Goes at Just Keep On Creating
#1 Anything Goes at Just for Fun

I'll be back later in the week with another patriotic project, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Variation on a theme

Hi everyone,

The card I'm sharing with you today is a variation on my recent theme of butterflies and embossing. You can see a couple of the previous cards HERE and HERE. Today's is, perhaps a little unbelievably, the first stepper card I've created in YEARS! So much so that I had to remind myself how to create it, and in doing so I followed THIS great tutorial from Christina at Flowers, Ribbons and Pearls. Thanks Christina!

I've created it in two subtly different shades of purple, with snippets of the slightly lighter shade used for the smaller panels and the small punched butterflies. The design is completed with a small gold peel off sentiment and I really hope that the recipient loves it as much as I do :)

Challenges I'm hoping to enter...
June Linky @ DL.ART
Snippets Playground Week 129 @ Pixie's Crafty Workshop
#153 Super scraps Saturday @ Hiding In My Craft Room
#9 Monochromatic @ Butterfly Challenge
You Gotta Have Friends @ Simon Says

Hugs,
Em