Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Something Simple

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We have an awesome new sponsor, Unity Stamp Company!  Unity provided each of the Curtain Call designers with an Itty Bitty stamp set for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Something Simple!  The LEAD of this challenge will receive this package of goodies from Unity Stamp Company!

I worked with the Itty Bitty stamp called Bouquet Bunch of Thanks.  With this stamp being a bit more detailed, I decided to use some very quick watercoloring with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.  I know the challenge was "something simple" but seriously this IS simple to do!!!  I had to throw in some 4mm Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh for good measure!!!  :)

Something Simple Designers

Unity Designer, Stephanie Muzzelin

Amber Kroening

Amy Kolling

Amy Tsuruta

Gayatri Murali

Kim Singdahlsen

Lisa Henke

Marisa Ritzen

Maureen Plut

Monika Davis

Sheri Gilson

Sarah Gough

Stacey Schafer

Tenia Nelson

Tracey McNeely

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Something Simple and play along with us!

{Thanks a bunch}

Stamps:  Bouquet Bunch of Thanks (Unity)

Paper:  Soft Stone (PTI), Watercolor Paper (Tim Holtz)

Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Distress Ink:  Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry (Tim Holtz)

Dies:  Notebook Edge (MFT)

Sequins:  4mm Sparkling Clear (Pretty PinkPosh)

Misc:  Foam Adhesive, Twine (The Twinery)

Thinking about you.....

Quick post today to share a card that I made using the In the Garden Additions stamp set from Whimsy Stamps.  Being from Kansas, one of my favorite flowers is the Sunflower.  So a little sun on this day.....to say I'm thinking about you!!  

I started out die cutting my white panel with an angled panel die and cut a coordinating brown mat with the larger die.  I stamped my entire white panel with the sunflowers and heat embossed a sentiment from Coffee Break onto the brown border.  To finish it up, I've added a few brown sequins from Pretty Pink Posh that can be found in the Nature Mix sequin pack.

Thanks for sharing a part of your day with me!

{thinking about you}

Stamps:  In the Garden Additions, Coffee Break (Whimsy Stamps)

Paper:  Kraft, White, Dark Chocolate (PTI)

Ink:  Papaya (AMuse), Chocolate (Fresh Ink), Versamark

Dies:  Tip Top Dies (PTI)

Sequins:  Nature Mix (Pretty Pink Posh)

Misc:  Foam Adhesive, White EP

Shore do love you!

So have you ever had some unfinished cards left on your desk?  Well, this card has been on my desk for quite a while until I saw the current sketch over at Retro Sketches.

After a bit of altering my pieces and changing some things up, I came up with this card and I love it better than where it was headed!  ha!  Using some Reverse Confetti stamps:  So Stripey and Happy Harbor.  This sketch is perfect for highlighting a particular stamp!!  Then I added in the gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh as accents to tie the design together!

If you'd like to play along, here's the current sketch from Retro Sketches:

{shore do love you}

Stamps:  Happy Harbor, So Stripey (Reverse Confetti)

Paper:  White (PTI)

Pattern Paper:  Down by the Shore (Fancy Pants)

Ink:  Night of Navy (SU), Pure Poppy (PTI), Slate (AMuse)

Dies:  Love Note, Tag Me (Reverse Confetti)

Sequins:  4mm Gold (Pretty Pink Posh)

Misc:  Foam Adhesive

a CASE and Seize the Sketch

Hi friends!  I know it's late but I had to stop and share this card I made using the latest Seize the Sketch.  When I attended the winter CHA in January, I got to meet so many blog friends.  One of them being Lesley Croghan.  We were both Top 5 in the Gallery Idol contest last year and she was so fun to finally meet in person!

Well, this brings me to tonight's post.......I saw a card she made on Instagram and I fell in LOVE, I tell ya!  Serious love.  So much that I had to CASE her card.  Lesley....thank you so much for inspiring me with your gorgeous card!  You can see it HERE or over at the current Seize the Sketch blog post.

Here is my card using all Verve goodness.  Love the Poppy Birthday stamp set and matching dies!  I also used one of my all time favorite dies......the Pennant Trim Die.  Here I've just cut out 4 pennants.....so you can make them as long as you want!  I die cut one and then placed it back in the die sliding it over to just die cut how many I wanted.....this way the "other end" has a finished look too!  The final touch was adding in some sequins from the Pastel Mix by Verve. 

Thanks so much for sharing a part of your day with me!!!

{Celebrate your Day}

Stamps:  Poppy Birthday (Verve)

Paper:  White, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Ripe Avocado (PTI)

Ink:  Ripe Avocado (PTI), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Dies:  Poppy Birhday Dies, Pennant Trim Die (Verve)

Misc:  Sequins (Verve), Embossing Folder (Lifestyle Crafts?)

Say Cheese!

 Hello!!  I'm here with a bittersweet post because it's my LAST post as part of the original NAT DT.  Danielle has expanded her team and it's time for my style to go!  I have really enjoyed this team and am so grateful to Danielle for letting me design with her stamps.  

Did you see the fabulous new release of stamps last week?  If not, scroll back through the posts from last week!

I created my card with the new set called Photo Booth.  I just love all the itty bitty images that are included in this set which are perfectly sized to fit in the photo strip stamp from the set.  But here, I've used the little camera stamp to stamp my own background paper.  Just goes to show how you can use all those smaller images in way that really shows them off!

Since this is my last post, I wanted to share a few of my favorite NAT cards I've made during my term.  Hope you enjoy and have a great summer!!!

Gallery Idol 2014--Round 2

Hi everyone!  I am so excited to share my exciting news........... 

I made the Top 20 in Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2014 card contest!

I'm so excited for this journey again!  You need to check out all of the talent in this years group!  Amazing!

You can see the Paper Crafts post HERE!  You can vote using the link on my side bar!!!

This contest works just like American Idol and we rely on votes to make it to the next round.  Today starts Round 2.  The theme for Round 2 is all about DIECUTS.  

You can check out all the details on the Contest page HERE.

I've used "diecuts" for the focal point, as a frame, and for the sentiment.  This card has LOTS of dimension that was hard to capture with these photos.  

I diecut two Stitched Mats: Rectangles:  one in vellum and one in clear cardstock.   After diecutting all my Stitched Butterflies in various patterns from my FAVORITE 6x6 paper pad this spring, I arranged and adhered them to the vellum.  Adhering some Sparkling Clear sequins to the centers of the butterflies, I let the glue dry on that panel.   With this same stitched rectangle and one size smaller, I diecut a "frame" and backed it with that clear cardstock rectangle panel.  Once the glue was dry, I layered my "frame" over the top of the vellum butterfly panel.  This whole panel was then added with foam adhesive over a silver foil mat.  I was going for a shadowbox idea by using the clear cardstock.

For even more dimension, my sentiment was diecut 5 times with white cardstock and once with silver foil.  After glueing all the diecuts together, the silver foiled sentiment was adhered slightly to the right on my frame.

And there's my version of using DIECUTS!  I hope I've shared enough to sway your vote! 

You can vote......HERE.

Thanks so much for all the FB posts, texts, and emails about my news!  They all meant so much to me! 

{Smile}

Cardstock:  White, Clear, Vellum (PTI), Silver Foil (DCWV)

Pattern Paper:  Hello Sunshine (Lawn Fawn)

Dies:  Stitched Butterflies, Stitched Mats: Rectangles, Smile (Lil' Inker Designs)

Sequins:  4mm Sparkling Clear (Pretty Pink Posh)

Misc:  Foam Adhesive

Sweet Birthday Wishes!

When I saw the CAS(E) this Sketch! challenge come up, I wanted to give it a try.  There are SO many possibilites with this sketch!!

I used some Whimsy Stamps for my "circles" by stamping the candy image from Sweet as Candy across my card panel in various yummy colors.  I wanted a relatively flat one(ish) layer card so I die cut the word Sweet from my stamped panel reserving those teeny tiny little pieces from the word.  Using another diecut word Sweet in pink, I inlaid it onto the panel and glued in all the tiny remaining pieces.  

I certainly hope you all aren't tired of the sequins......because they are my favorite and I can't stop using them!!!  Pretty Pink Posh sequins are the best and I can't wait to get more colors!  

Here is the CAS(E) this Sketch! for the week:

{Sweet birthday wishes}

Stamps:  Sweet as Candy and Sweet as Candy Additions (Whimsy Stamps)

Paper:  White, Raspberry Fizz (PTI)

Ink:  Pool, Fuschia, Red Currant (Fresh Ink), Papaya (AMuse), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Dies:  Sweet word die (Whimsy Stamps)

Sequins: Sparkling Clear 4mm (Pretty Pink Posh)

Misc: