Daffodils for Mother

This week's colors for the Splitcoast Color Challenge are so bright and cheerful - Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Old Olive - they look like the tulips that I got as an Easter gift.  And the dessert is option is spring flowers...so this card came together easily!!




I stamped the tulips twice, cut out the front-most petals, slightly curled them and glued them back. Then I added a dab or Rock Candy distress stickles on the stamen.
 

• Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Spring Tulips, Stampin' Up Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment)
• Paper: Stampin' Up Old Olive, Greenhouse Gala dsp
• Ink: Memento black, copics
• Accessories: Gems colored with Copics, Mandarin Twine from the Twinery, Rock Candy Distress Stickles

FYI: If you have downloaded the Copic charts on my sidebar (matches to

Stampin' Up and Papertrey cardstock), they were revised in February to

reflect better matches using the newest Copic colors!

Wonderful Mother with Scallops

I am getting ready for church cardmaking this week.  We are fairly well set for general cards - birthday, thinking of you, etc.  But I panicked when I realized that we have four occasions coming up for which I had done absolutely nothing - graduation, confirmation, Mother's Day and Father's Day.  So I think you will be seeing a lot of those this week!!

Today's Splitcoast CAS challenge is to use Scallops.  I was thrilled because I had just bookmarked a card over at Stampin' Anne's blog that used the Stampin' Up Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border with the "cross-stitched" accent.  I thought this would all combine for a very simple and sweet Mother's Day card.




I also used the colors from Pals Paper Arts.

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Well-Scripted
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery
• Ink: Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip
• Accessories: Stampin' Up Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, EK Success border punch, Oval and Lacey Nesetabilities, Martha Stewart butterfly trio, Stampin' Up embossing folder and Pretty in Pink gingham, misc gems colored with Copics to coordinate with Chocolate Chip

FYI: If you have downloaded the Copic charts on my sidebar (matches to

Stampin' Up and Papertrey cardstock), they were revised in February to

reflect better matches using the newest Copic colors!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!From my family to yours!
Alleluia!He IS risen!

I took a class!!!

I took a class at Archiver's yesterday.  I NEVER take take classes.  It's not that I know everything.  But in my own craft corner, I am surrounded by all of my favorite things and if I hear about a new technique - I can always find it online somewhere.  But Archiver's has had this display of cards and I just couldn't figure out how it was all done.  They are just lovely!  (FYI - these are not my designs - they from Archiver's.  I made them slightly differently as Archiver's had quite a few more embellies on each one and I didn't want to hide the beautiful techniques.)

Here's the card that sent me running to the class - such beautiful colors!

And there is a subtle sparkle to each of them.

This one uses embossing and Tim Holtz distress stain...

This one uses both of the above techniques - the background is embossed and stain is rubbed over the whole thing - and the butterfly is the same colors as the tulips...




And this one is a quick and simple with the sparkle...



I am sure that I will be using these techniques on future upcoming cards that I create (because, of course, I had to make sure that I had all of the tools and powders to do it!!) and I'll explain it all a little then!

Sweet 'n Sassy April New Release Hop

Welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps April New Release Celebration!  All of the Design Divas are excited to kick things off today with a fun blog hop full of inspiration using the sets that will be available for purchase in the store tonight.  Ready to get started?

You have probably comes from Dina's blog (aren't those Calla Lilies absolutely amazing!)  If you started with me, you might want to head back to the starting point on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog.

This owl has to have the cutest expression that I have ever seen...

The set is called "Owl Be Here" and includes seven fun sentiments!

The second stamp that I got is called "Flower Field".  My original plan was to use the field of flowers behind the owl, which I still think is a great idea but my cards for today didn't quite work that way.  So I took part of the image (the actual image is not quite 4" x 4") and put together these little scenes...

Did you notice the grass on the owl card and the fence on this card?  Another new release item - a very useful set of dies!!

Next on the hop is Melisa.  Have fun!

Here's the full list of Design Divas (and our special April Guest) sharing their creativity with you today:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog

Korin Sutherland

Jessica Fick

Mary Faus

DJ Rants

Dina Kowal

Kim Singdahlsen

Melisa Waldorf 

Monika Davis

Cathy McCauley

Holly McMillen

Kim Schofield

Giovana Smith

Bridget Finlay

Taylor Usry

Make plans to join us tonight over in our member company forums on Splitcoaststampers for our New Release Party!  We'll have full reveals of each fabulous stamp set, fellowship and chatter with friends, fun challenges, and more!  Also.....did you know today is Korin's birthday?!  Isn't that fun?  To celebrate, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps will be giving away a $34 gift certificate to the store.  l you have to do is leave Korin some birthday wishes over on this photo on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Facebook page. 

I used two sketch challenges for my cards:

Mojo Monday

Technostamper

A Very Special Birthday!

I am currently part of an wonderful group of ladies - the Sweet 'n Sassy design team.  A group this wonderful must have an amazing leader - that would be Korin Sutherland - the owner of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  It's Korin's birthday TOMORROW.  We can't celebrate tomorrow - because we already have plans to celebrate the April release (Yeah!! New Stamps!! And another blog hop!!)  Plus, tomorrow would be expected - so we are holding a surprise birthday blog hop TODAY!

You should have come from Makiko's blog.  If you started with me and you want to see more Sweet 'n Sassy birthday fun - head back to Taylor's blog to go all the way!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KORIN!!  It has truly been the highlight of my year getting to know you and all of the wonderful people with which you surround yourself!

I used the basic Sweet 'n Sassy set - Seeing Spots along with a huge variety of buttons, bling, ribbon and string!

Next on the hop is Mary Faus  - enjoy ALL the birthday fun!!

Taylor Usry 

Beate Johns

Bridget Finlay

Holly McMillen

Lydia Fiedler

Chrissy Dickinson

Dina Kowal

Leslie Hanna

Lisa Hjulberg

Kim Schofield

Jessica Fick

Julie Ranae

Monika Davis

Jessica Diedrich

Cathy McCauley

Makiko Jones

Kim Singdahlsen <--You Are Here

Mary Faus

Deb Felts

Lori Craig

Giovana Smith

Kim O'Connell

Wendy Jordan

Julie Smith

Michele Single

Jeanne Streiff

Lee Murphy

And feel free to leave Korin some early birthday love, either on her blog, her Facebook page, or the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Facebook page!

I did get some help on this card from the colourQ color challenge.  It used such sweet pastels - I had to put them together on a card!

Splitcoast Colors with Dessert - Celebrate!!

I am thrilled and honored to be an April guest designer for the color challenge at Splitcoaststampers!

 I absolutely love the colors for this week - Peach Parfait, Lucky Limeade and Pool Party - they are so fresh and so festive.  But...I do have to admit that my first card isn't demonstrating a high degree of creativity.

I had already bookmarked this week's Fall to Layout at Clean & Simple Stamping as a must-do, so when I saw that the dessert option for the color challenge was "borders"...and realized that the Fall To Layout was all about "borders" - it seemed like a perfect fit!!

So I have used someone else's colors and someone else's layout!!  But this card makes me smile!!

• Stamps: Stampin' Up Outlined Occasions
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pool Party CS, Peach Parfait dsp
• Ink: Memento black, copics
• Accessories: Stampin' Up Eyelet Border, Lucky Limeade ribbon and embossing folder, Sweet 'n Sassy Lacey Eyelet Border dies, The Twinery Caribbean Baker's Twine, glue pen and glitter (the confetti on the sentiment)