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Around the World Casing!

Welcome to July's Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop.  This month our theme is Case the Team Member who follows you.  Well Sharon follows me and I love her cards.  They are clean and simple with lots of layers, hmmm just like I like to make and choosing one was a hard one but here is the one I chose.

Isn't that a super cute card. one I think I will be copying later exactly how it is, a perfect get well card.  Well, I needed a card for a friend who is moving away, she is sad and happy about moving, you know how that is.  Lots of promise for the future but sad to leave your here and now where everything is known to you. 

For my image I used the From All of Us stamp set singling out the Ostrich because doesn't he just make you smile with his expression. 

 

I used Balmy Blue for the card base and tag  with a touch of Granny Apple Green with some retired ribbon for the bow.

And now off to Sharon's blog and see what she has cased,

And here are the links for the entire hop

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cazz Boylan - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Satomi Wellard

Pia Gephardt - DE

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Emma Goddard - UK

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Wendy Lee - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Anne Marie Hile - US

Brenda Nelson - CA

Tricia Butts - US

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

 

Splish Splash, it's all about water

Welcome to June's Blog hop, this month it's all about water.  With summer just around the corner, water and beaches are high on lots of our minds.  Now I live in the resort community of Christina Lake, BC which besides being one absolutely gorgeous area in the Kootenays surrounded by mountains, we also have the warmest tree lined lake in Canada so our population swells in the summer.  The beach for me is a quick 5 minute walk.  I don't have any "water-lake" themed stamps but I do have Shark Frenzy and since Sharks live in water that is my stamp set I am using today to make a whimsical card.

I have used Balmy Blue, Pacific Point for my blues and added a little pop of colour with Granny Apple Green seaweed and Crushed Curry fish.  

One of the best things about this card is all the bits are cut with the coordinating dies including the waves. Our Gray Granite shark is dressed to impress with a hat and tie.   Well on to our next stop, let's check out what Mo has done for us,

 

 

And here is the list of all of us,

Angie McKenzie  ●  Leonie Stuart  ●  Libby Fens  ●  Karen Henderson

Annette Ball  ●  Tricia Butts  ● Shel Anderson

Elaine de Montmorency  ●  Mo Rootes  ●  Deb Macdowell

 Alejandra Gomez  ●  Satomi Wellard  ●  Ann Krucek  ●  Teri West

Danielle Kassing  ●  Gez Carpenter  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Rebecca-Jo Unwin  ●  Jill Chapman  ●  Susan Simpson

Terry Hamilton  ●  JoAnn Pollock  ●  Rochelle Laird-Smith

It's the June Step it up Hop

Welcome to our June Hop where we are Steppin' It Up.  We start with a basic quick card and add a little for our next card and then a bit more

for our last card.  

I have used the Hey Girlfriend stamp set that was inspired by April Lopez for her Million Sales set and  it is retiring at the end of June insert sad face here) 

My first card is a basic quick and easy card but since I am colouring with our fabulous Stampin' Blends and they bleed through the card stock, I stamped and coloured my  girl on a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of Basic White and attached it to a standard Thick Whisper White card base.  The sentiment is from You are Amazing, love the bold fonts.

My second card adds just two items, a Polished Pink mat and I outlined our girlfriend image with my light Pool Party Blend so that she pops off the background.

For my last card I used the same Polished Pink mat but ran it through my Stampin'Cut & Emboss Machine with the Painted Texture folder to add texture to the mat and then attached it to the card skewed and down  my image panel so more of the mat is exposed.  My girl I stamped, coloured changing up the shirt to just have dots of Polished Pink and then fussy cut her and  popped up on dimensionals and finished with a couple of Artistry Blooms Adhesive backed sequins.  

Three cards using the same colours and images but just a few changes, which one is your favourite?

Now onto Sharon's blog and see what she has created for us.

And if you get lost along the way, here are all the participants.

    

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cazz Boylan - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Satomi Wellard

Pia Gephardt - DE

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Emma Goddard - UK

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Wendy Lee - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Anne Marie Hile - US

Brenda Nelson - CA

Tricia Butts - US

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

 

It's a Fun Fold Hop!

Welcome to our May Blog hop featuring one of my favorite types of cards to make-Fun Fold.  There are so many different types of folds that  you can use and almost all of them are so easy you will wonder why you waited so long to try.

I have used the same pieces of cardstock and changed the orientation and made two very different looking cards.  The pieces I used were

        1   4 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece of cardstock

        1  8 1/2 x 3 1/4 piece of cardstock scored at 4 1/4

        2  3 x 4 pieces of DSP

        1 3 x 4 piece of cardstock

First card is a  birthday card

I used the Hippo Happiness stamp set and dies and the Playing with Playing with Patterns DSP to make this card.  Since Unicorns, Purple and Pinks seem to be a favorite amongst my young ones I thought this was perfect for a four year old.

 

And my next card  using the same sized pieces and Shaded Spruce and the Forever Foliage DSP but still used the Hippo & Friends Dies along with the Forever Flourishing dies and changing  the orientation you get a totally different looking card.

 

Now on to see what Teri has for  us this month, 

 

 

And here is a list of all the hoppers!

 

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Melissa Gifford - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Satomi Wellard

Pia Gephardt - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Tina Zinck - CA

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Wendy Lee - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Brenda Nelson - CA

Tricia Butts - US

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

 

Happy Hopping,

Elaine

 

 

 

Inkspiration Blog Hop

Wow, May already !  I love May, the gardens are starting to come to life, blossoms and early flowers leading the way into summer.  The theme for this month is anything Floral.  We certainly always have lots of choices for flowers in our Stampin' Up! catalogue every year and I have chosen to use the  set Dragonfly Garden.  I do love the fact that it has a coordinating punch for the Dragonfly but I just used the tall flower stamp for my card today.  

I needed a Sympathy card and this set was perfect.  I stamped the flower image with Versamark and heat embossed it with our Silver embossing powder.  The sentiment is from a Paper Pumpkin set and is also heat embossed.  I matted both pieces with our Silver Foil and attached to a  3 1/2 X 6 card base for a mini Slimline card.  

Well onto our wonderful leader, Angie's Blog and let's see what creations she has for us today.

And here is the entire group of hoppers,

Angie McKenzie  ●  Libby Fens  ●  Jo Blackman

Karen Henderson  ●  Jan Musselman  ● Mo Rootes

Terry Hamilton  ●  Tricia Butts  ●  Deb Macdowell

 Leonie Stuart  ●  Narelle Fasulo  ●  Danielle Kassing

Shel Anderson  ●   Teri West  ●  Vicki Milyard

Jill Chapman  ●  Melissa Faust  ●  Rebecca-Jo Unwin

Susan Webster  ●  Gez Carpenter  ●  Susan Simpson

Annette Ball  ●  JoAnn Pollock  ●  Melissa Gifford

Linda Moore  ●  Cheryl Hamilton  ●  Rochelle Laird-Smith

Satomi Wellard  ●  Alejandra Gomez  ●  Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Ann Krucek  ●  Aurélie Fabre  ●  Elaine de Montmorency

Happy Hopping,

 

Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop

Welcome to our April Blog Hop.  This month we have a very different theme, Monochromatic Rainbow and the different time zones are assigned a different colour.  Stampin' Up has such a fabulous range of colours and what a perfect way to highlight them. My time zone was assigned Green.  Did you know that we have  9 colours of Green right now, not including the blueish greens. 

The green colours I chose from were; Granny Apple Green, Just Jade, Mint Macaron, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Seafoam, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow. 

I have used the same basic layout for all my cards, making  a Slimline card and using up some retiring DSP.  My first two cards  I used Forever Greenery DSP pack, pulling my colours from the paper. Mint Macaron and Green Green are my first two colours,

I added a bit of Gold with the sentiment and mat for the sentiment.  My next card uses Shaded Spruce, a wonderful bold colour

I do love this piece of DSP, it is bright and cheerful with the random pattern of dots.  The sentiment is form You're Amazing and again I have heat embossed it and matted it onto our Gold foil. 

My last card uses Just Jade a current In Colour and the retiring Butterfly Gala stamp set.

I used the Flower for All Seasons DSP pack for the DSP and created this very simple card with Basic Black for an accent.

Well, onto Sharon's blog and let's see what colour she has used today

 

And here is the entire list of hoppers

Jan Clothier - NZ

Tatiana Tobin - AU

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Melissa Gifford - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Satomi Wellard

Pia Gephardt - DE

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Mary Brown - US - Special Guest

Connie Babbert - US - Special Guest

Wendy Lee - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Lisa Martz - US - Special Guest

Tricia Butts - US

Wendy Weixler - US - Special Guest

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

 

Happy Hopping,

It’s Inkspirations Hop Time

 

Welcome to our April Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop.  We are a group of crafters from around the world sharing inspirations with you. The theme for this month is Birthdays!. We all need birthday cards and since we have 23 of us participating this month, there will be lots of inspiration to make cards for your family and friends to celebrate their special day.  

I love heat embossing, it was the first technique I learned when I started to stamp and it sold me on stamping.  Thirteen years later, it is still my favourite technique.  I have made three cards all the same but using different colours not only for the card base and images but for the embossing as well.  And since Stampin' Up is just released the Butterfly Bouquet bundle I decided to use that for my cards today.

First up, I think my favourite one, maybe because Purple is my favourite colour!  Gorgeous Grape and Gold embossing with a small mat of Basic Black to really make the image panel pop.

I used the Brilliant Wings die to make a stencil and sponged on some colour and then stamped the Butterfly Brilliance stamp with Versamark then used embossing powder to bring the images to life.  

Next, Coastal Cabana and Copper

and lastly, Magenta Madness and Silver.  This colour combination as the hardest to get a good picture of but the card in person looks amazing.

The sentiment is from Approaching Perfection and I used the Tailored Tag die to punch it out.  And now on to Ann's blog to see her beautiful creations

 

 

If you get lost, here is the complete list 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Leonie Stuart  ●  Alejandra Gomez

 Danielle Kassing  ●  Annette Ball  ●  Kirstie Pattrick

Linda Moore  ● Mo Rootes  ●  Libby Fens

Tricia Butts  ●  Jan Musselman  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Narelle Fasulo  ●  Sandra Mastello  ●  Karen Henderson

  Susan Simpson  ●  Susan Webster  ●  Melissa Faust

JoAnn Pollock  ●  Gez Carpenter  ●  Jo Blackman

Jill Chapman  ●  Rochelle Laird-Smith  ●  Melissa Gifford

Terry Hamilton  ●  Deb Macdowell  ●  Satomi Wellard

Shel Anderson  ●  Elaine de Montmorency  ●  Ann Krucek 

Chris Smith  ●  Cheryl Hamilton  ●  Teri West

March Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop

Welcome to our March hop!  I so look forward to these monthly hops, so much inspiration can be found in the incredible projects done by very talented papercrafters. Our theme this month is 3D.  Personally I think that you can make an ordinary gift spectacular by giving it in fancy packaging. I make a lot of mini bags and boxes and use them to give candy, gift cards, jewellery or even golf balls.  Bags and boxes are so easy to customize their size and then simply decorate for the occasion.  

Today I have a very simple bag made with 12 x 6 piece of Snail Mail DSP , scored at 4", 5 3/4", 9 3/4" and 11 1/2"on the long side and 1 3/4" on the short side.  

For this birthday bag I used the Hey, Birthday Chick stamp set and coordinating dies.

This bag is 4 1/4 inches tall but it can easily be made shorter or taller by changing the size of your paper.  Want a 6" tall bag, start with a 7 3/4 x 12 piece of paper.

 

Now off to see what Sharon has created for us, 

Happy Stamping Hopping!

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Melissa Gifford - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Satomi Wellard

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Wendy Lee - US

Shel Anderson - CA

Chris Smith - US

Anne Marie Hile - US

Brenda Nelson - CA

Tricia Butts - US

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Teri West - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US

 

 

Another fun card

Using the Hey, Birthday Chick set.  First off, I must apologize for the spotty posts.  I have been working so much that my creating time is next to nothing and then I really don't have much creativity left in the tank.  Things will be changing this week at work as I will have help after two months of being solo so hoping that next week my life returns to some form of normal.  This week not sure how much time I will have but I did get two cards done on the weekend and I have a desk full of bits of cards that didn't seem to work so maybe those will come together!

Ok, for today, here we go 

Yes that is Bermuda Bay again,  needing those bright summery colours with our cold, snowy weather.  Again I have used the Old World paper embossing folder, love that heavy texture.  

Happy Stamping,

Hey Birthday Chick and Oh, So Ombre

Happy Monday!  Believe it or not, last week of February and that also means the last week of Sale-a-bration.  I will say that I have loved the papers that Stampin' Up has created this year for Sale-a-bration.  Check out this card using the Oh So Ombre paper

This pack of paper is 6 x 6 and all  48 sheets are Ombre.  One side has this pattern and the other side is plain with the solid colour fading. The colours in the pack are Blackberry Bliss, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay and Rococo Rose.  

For this card I used the Bermuda Bay and our fun Wipe out Chicken from Hey, Birthday Chick and added a few of the Mango Melody Artistry Blooms sequins.  Of course, the chick is stamped with Memento and coloured with my Blends.  I certainly do love this set and hope that you don't get sick of it!  Yes, tomorrow this chick will be back!

Happy Stamping,