Beautiful Sympathy ~ CCMC568, TGIFC218, PP448

Hi there stampers!  Today's card is for Create With Connie and Mary Case the Catalog challenge #568.  I used a beautiful new set called Beautiful Friendship.  I loved the Pinewood Planks element on the original card and I knew I wanted to use that in my card.  I also kept with the floral theme and pink, except I added yellow so I could play along with the Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe challenge.  I used the diagonal elements of Ribbon, Yellow, and Wood.  I know I've mentioned before how much I love a tic-tac-toe challenge and always try to play along when I can.  

I also incorporated TGIF Challenges sympathy challenge. I used Well Said with the coordinating Well Written dies to comply with the sympathy challenge.  I cut out the "sympathy" three times.... in  Rococo Rose, Crumb Cake, and Daffodil Delight.  I was trying to figure out which color would work best on the card.  After I decided on the Rococo Rose, I then decided to just layer all the words together to "build up" the sympathy die cut for added texture.

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Beautiful Friendship, Well said

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Rococo Rose, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake

Paper: White, Daffodil Delight, Rococo Rose

Accessories: Pinewood Plank EF, Scallop Linen Ribbon, Well Written Die

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Wild Rose Case ~ HSS318, GDP196

Hello there stampers!  Today's card is for the pretty new color challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I used the Case The Designer challenge from Global Design Project to help me along with my design as well.  

Since this set is still pretty new to me, I fussy cut all my flowers and leaves before remembering that it had coordinating dies!  Haha!  I guess I should keep the dies in the case like other stampers do!

Also, the sequins I used on this project are retired in-colors from several years ago.  I think they are Pistachio Pudding and Crisp Cantaloupe.  Remember the others that were "in" that year too.....Strawberry Slush, Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana (which we have back again now).  I think those were my very favorite in-colors ever! 

Anyway, the Pistachio Pudding and Crisp Cantaloupe sequins coordinate nicely with the Mint Macaron and Petal Pink! 

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: A Wild Rose, Beautiful Friendship

Ink: Calypso Coral, Petal Pink, Mint Macaron, Black

Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Mint Macaron DSP

Accessories: Black bakers twine, retired in-color sequins

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Tropical Coral and Poppy ~ CCMC567, PP447

Hello Stampers!  Today's card is for Create with Connie and Mary's new color challenge featuring Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, and Granny Apple Green.  I also used the sketch from The Paper Players #447 to help me along with my design team card.  

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Rococo Wild Rose ~ CCMC566

Hello Stampers!  Today's card is for Create with Connie and Mary's new sketch challenge.  I was able to play with a few of my new goodies like this beautiful To A Wild Rose stamp set, the beautiful new  In Color Rococo Rose, which looks fabulous with Soft Sea Foam by the way, and the coordinating In Color DSP.  

I thought the script DSP and the Tufted embossing folder looked pretty elegant together.  

This card came together in a snap mostly because the flower really packs a punch with all the "texture" incorporated into the stamps themselves.  One flower and a few leaves goes a long way!

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: To A Wild Rose

Ink: Rococo Rose, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake

Paper: Crumb Cake, Soft Sea Foam, White, Rococo Rose DSP

Accessories: Tufted EF, Polka Dot tulle ribbon

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Summer Lemonade ~ HSS317, PP446, FF0036

Hello stampers!  Today's card comes by way of Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch for the month of June.  My card was helped along with inspiration from The Paper Players Summer Beverage challenge, and Festive Friday 4th of July or Summer challenge.  I think nothing says summer more than a nice, ice cold glass of fresh lemonade!  

I started my card off by sponging Pineapple Punch onto my die cut glass.  I masked the rim, leaving it white.  I added the cute little ice cubes fussy cut from embossed white vellum.  I love the striped straw as well, stamped in Poppy Parade.  And then I couldn't resist using the cute little die cut tag stamped with "hi" and tied on with some silver twist bakers twine.  

The DSP is some old, old Poppy Parade from way back when it was an In Color.  The black and white piece is from Tropical Escape.  

Pretty much everything I used on this card is now retired except the Pineapple Punch cardstock!

  

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Coffee Cafe, Happy Hour, Something to Say

Ink: Pineapple Punch, Poppy Parade, Memento 

Paper: Pineapple Punch, White, Poppy Parade DSP, Tropical Escape DSP, Vellum

Accessories: Silver twist bakers twine, Coffee Cups framelits, White EP

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Yellow Free Bird ~ CCMC565, FabFri165, SUOC225

Hello there stampers!  Today's card is for Create with Connie and Mary's latest color challenge featuring Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, and Daffodil Delight.  I was excited to us Free As A Bird from the new Annual Catalog.  I stamped it on watercolor paper and watercolored with my aqua painter and ink pads.  It was so fun!  I cut the scene out using the fabulous new Stitched Nested Labels die and for that reason I'm sharing my card to the Stampin Up Only Challenge 225-die cutting.  I used the fun sketch from Fab Friday 165 to help me create my card as well.

If you look really, really close at the photo below you can see that I sprayed the die cut panel with shimmer spray after it was all watercolored.  I just love the way this looks!  

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Free As A Bird

Ink: Stazon, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Mossy Meadow

Paper: White, Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Watercolor, Gingham DSP

Accessories: Linen Thread, Shimmer Spray, Basket Weave EF

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Happy Place Happy Couple ~ CCMC564, CTCC231

Hi stampers!  Today's card is for Create with Connie and Mary's new sketch challenge.  I'm playing along with Casing The Catty as well.  The challenge there was to case anything in the retiring catalog, so I chose the Waterfront card on page 148.  I tried to use similar colors but used a different layout of course!

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny