Carrie Stamps

Wonderful Words

Today at Stampin' Royalty our challenge is: WONDERFUL WORDS. 

Make the focus of your project words. 

I chose to use the stamp set Botanicals For You, it was an easy choice really as the main image in the set is an oversized sentiment; "just for you".

A perfect image for the focus of a wonderful words card. 

I stamped "just for you" with Versamark ink on Shimmery White Card stock and embossed it wth Clear powder.  Then using my Aqua painter I painted ink over the top starting with Watermelon Wonder, then Calypso Coral, then Blushing Bride. The embossed words resist the ink, making the image pop against the watercolored ombre background. 

Then of course the fun is in the details.  I embossed a Watermelon Wonder piece of card stock with the Zig Zag embossing folder.

I added the second sentiment and some stamped flowers, both from the Botanicals For You Stamp set. 

For my accessories I knew I needed a bit of bling, so I used a mix of the Metal Rimmed Pearls and a Basic Pearls. The Metal Rimmed Pearls happen to be on SALE right now!  

I tied the card off with a piece of Whisper White Baker's Twine in a cute mini bow.  Now I have another fun card to send for my #imbringingbirthdaysback movement. If you'd like to receive a hand made birthday card from me on your special day send me a message with your birthday and address and I will send you a card! Email me at: [email protected]

Now, take a minute to see what Wonderful Word creations my fellow Stampin' Goddesses have created.  And, we'd love to have you play along with our challenges! 

 

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Monochromatic Easter Cards

Todays cards are for SSINK's Mystery Challenge. 

 

ACTUALLY, they are the cards I made for my kids for Easter, but they were inspired by the #SSINKMC31

The three elements from the challenge I chose are: Monochromatic, Baker's Twine, and Spring. 

I love the Ombre look so I had to make two different color cards, just because it was so much fun. For the yellow card I used So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry card stocks for the fringe.  Making nice even fringe is easy with Fringe Scissors.  To make my chick polka dotted I stamped him on to a piece of Designer Paper from the Cherry On Top paper stack and cut out just his body.  I also stamped the chick on the card then I was able to glue my polka dotted chick on top of the one stamped on the card, so that he had feet. If you love this chick you only have a few days to get him.  He is part of the Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Honeycomb Happiness(#141291).  You can get the set for free with a $50 Stampin' Up! order. But this sale ends 3/31!  If you'd like to shop here is a link to my online store. 

For the little lamb card I used Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink (retired color) and Regal Rose (retired color).  I used the two retired colors because I found the scraps in my scrap drawer and they were the perfect thing. The twine on this card is from a past Paper Pumpkin Kit and went perfectly with the colors.  To tie in the gold thread in the twine I used of my new Bow Clips.  The little lamb was quick and easy, I stamped him right on the card with Archival Basic Black ink and then used the Blushing Bride marker to color in his wool. 

The hardest part of this projects was deciding which girl got which card!  They loved the cards and were the first thing the girls ran to on Easter morning! I hope you had a Happy Easter and were able to spend it with your family.  I was able to spend Easter with my family, but not in the typical way we normally do.  My grandpa is in the hospital with kidney failure.  My mom and I drove a few hours to be there around his bed with my grandma, my aunt, my dad and step mom.  It's a matter of days and this world will be with out this kind, soft spoken cowboy. I left heavy hearted, wishing I could stay longer and cherishing my family even more. Time is fleeting, keep those you love close and make every moment count.  

And do what you love!  If you love paper crafting, we'd love to have you play along with our challenge! 

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Pedal Pusher

It's a color challenge this week at Stampin' Royalty!  

What a versatile collection of colors.  I have been wanting to play with my new Pedal Pushers stamp set, a new Sale-A-Bration stamp set since I got it last month.  So, I decided to use it for this challenge. 

I used six of the images from this set for my card!  What I love about this set is that it is Photopolymer and so when you stamp the bird on the seat of the bike or the basket on the front of the bike you can see RIGHT where to put it and you have great success the first time you stamp it. 

To dress my card up I used some really fun and pretty embellishments! Take a look...

 

 
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4. Tip Top Taupe Dotted Lace Trim - $6.00

You can check out my fellow design team members creation at Stampin' Royalty and you can play along with our challenge! 

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Watercolored Sheltering Tree

It's SSINKspirations challenge day. And this is the inspiration picture.

I was inspired to watercolor my project.  So, I started with a piece of Watercolor paper. Then I had to decided on the perfect blue for the back ground..  I pulled out Lost Lagoon, Marina Mist, Tempting Turquoise and Bermuda Bay.  Looking at all of them side by side it was clear that Tempting Turquoise was the color for this challenge.  I started by squeezing my closed Tempting Turquoise pad, so that some ink would collect on the lid.  It was not quite enough ink an entire background, so I added a few drop of Tempting Turquoise ink from the ink refill to the lid.  When do a watercolor wash background it is  good idea to wet the paper first. So, I used my paint brush with just water to wet the paper then I picked up some of the TT ink from the lid of the pad.  I started at the top of the paper and worked my way to the bottom, using back and forth strokes, painted a wash. The color will get lighter as you go, which was the perfect look for my card. 

 

While the paper was still wet I took the Old Olive stamp pad and using the ink in the lid method I painted in the little patch of grass.  Then I let the paper dry before stamping the tree trunk.  All the stamps I used are from the Sheltering Tree stamp set. I knew that I wanted the tree to have a little more watercolored look. I stamped the tree with Crumb Cake ink and then using my Aqua Painter and Crumb Cake ink painted over the top of the tree, like I was the one painting the tree, softening the lines.  Once that was dry I stamped the "blossom" image with Versamark Ink over the top of the tree and embossed it with Melon Mambo powder (retired).

For the finishing details I stamped the "grass" image in Old Olive ink and watercolored over that with Old Olive ink and my Aquapainter. I did not want to cover up and of the background to add my sentiment, so I stamped it on Vellum with the Archival Basic Black ink. Then I adhered it to my card with a two strategically placed glue dots and then some pink glittered enamel dots to hid the glue dots.  The little bow clip was the perfect cute thing to finish off this card. 

I love the finished result of this card and I know I would not have created this if not for this challenge which is why love being on the SSINK design team, it challenges my creativity and I end up making something like this that I would not have thought of otherwise. We'd love to have you come play along with our challenge too. Click over to todays post to see the other creations by the design team and to link up your creation! 

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Honey Bun Card

I have another Bear Hugs creation to share with you today from the display I made for last weekends Inking Idaho on the Road event. 

There's a lot going on in this card. I used three different heart punches on this card, can you find them? From top to bottom, I used the Hearts Border Punch, the Itty Bitty Heart punch and the Sweetheart Punch. I also used my Big Shot and Little Letters Thinlits to cut the word BUN out.  I have to admit I am not the creative genius that came up with using the honey pot next to the word BUN, I got that idea from another demonstrator, Erica Cerwin.  It's such a cute I idea, I wanted to use it on my card. 

I love all the details on this card, the embossed trees and the simple plaid green designer paper. 

Here's a little Mini Treat Bag to go with this card. 

Can you see how the honey in the pot and the letters BUN look like they are covered with honey?  I used some Crystal Effects to cover these areas and this is the effect you get. 

Thank you for taking time to visit my blog and let me share my creations with you. Please let me know if you have any questions or just leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you. 

You can find the Bear Hugs Bundle and all the products I used to make the projects at my online store, click the shopping cart when you are ready to shop. 

 

 

Owl Corner Book Marks

Today at SSINK our challenge is to create with Punches! 

I naturally tend to make punch art Owls, as you can see here, but it has been a while since I have made an owl project. 

SO, I decided it was time for me to make some new Owls for this challenge!

Let me just tell you how easy these little book marks are, easy enough for my girls to make them.  And to make the base book mark, you do not even need adhesive!  NICE!  

To make them cute only requires four punches and a bit of card stock. 

I thought I'd show you how easy they are to make with a quick video. 

 

Below you can view all the products I used to make these book marks: 

Be sure to check out what the other design team members did with punches at SSINK. 




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Ice-cream Cone Card

This is the picture that inspired todays card. 

I love this stamp set, Honeycomb Happiness! It is one of the current Sale-A-Bration stamp sets.  And that means that you can get this stamp set for free with a $50 Stampin' Up! order.  It just has the cutest images, like that chick!!  

I had to add some frilly lace to this card, because I also loved the dress in the inspirational photo. So, I pulled out my Tip Top Taupe Lace Trim. 

And to give my card a little more of the ice-cream cone feel I embossed the background with the Tiny Triangles embossing folder. 

To color my ice-cream cone, I use the Crushed Curry and Crumb Cake Stamp pad.  I squeezed the pad so the lid touched the pad, collecting ink on the lid.  Then I picked up some of that ink with my blender pen and colored away.  

Now that you have seen my creation be sure to check out what the other Stampin' Goddesses have created for this picture challenge and come play along with us at Stampin' Royatly! 

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Bear Hugs Honey

I'm back today with another project from my Bear Hugs display that I made for my friend Becky Robert's Inking Idaho event. 

This is a quick and simple project with a yummy treat!

For these treat bags I started with the 1" x 8" flat Cellophane Bags.  These bags have a sticky flap at the top to seal the bag shut, nice bonus feature.  You can see them in this picture on the far right. 

I filled my bag with 3 honey sticks and sealed it shut.  

Then I just added some cute stamped and die cut images from the Bear Hugs Bundle. 

All the images are from the Bear Hugs stamp set.  I stamped and embossed each image with clear powder.  For the bears, I did this twice for each bear, so I could have a second set of arms per bear.  Then I was able to cut out the extra arms, flip them and glue them to the back of the bears existing arms.  Doing this I was able to make them longer and have the stamped detail on the back of the arms.  I used my Fast Fuse adhesive to stick it all down.

Thanks for stopping by, I love sharing my creations with you.  If you missed my other samples from my Bear Hugs display you can view them here: 

Yogi Bear Pic-a-Nic basket tag

Baby Bear Flip Card

Stay tuned to my blog this week as I have more Bear Hugs display projects to share with you! 

 

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Pic-A-Nic Basket

This weekend I attended a fun stamping event put on by my friend Becky Roberts. She asked me to stamp a display for the event.  I chose to use the new Bear Hugs stamp set and coordinating Framelits. 

I made several items for the display and I will be sharing them with you this week. 

First up is the Pic-a-nic Basket, as Yogi Bear calls it. 

I die cut a Berry Basket from Crumb Cake card stock and stamped it with the Hardwood Background stamp in Crumb Cake ink.  Before putting the basket together I sponged all the edges with Crumb Cake ink, this just gives the basket more depth and a more realistic look. 

The red "napkin" in the basket is actually an 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece of Real Red card stock that I distressed by crumpling it up repeatedly.  Once it was nice and soft I smoothed it out and used it to line my basket. 

The tag features YOGI BEAR himself!  His hat is from the Bear Hugs set, but the tie is from the Snow Place stamp set. There are several pieces from the Snow Place bundle that will work with the Hear Hugs.  I love that I can use a Christmas/Winter themed set for other things. 

Here are the Bear Hugs and Snow Place Bundles: 

Be sure to stay tuned this week for more of my Bear Hugs display. 

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Baby Bear

The challenge at SSINK today is BABY.  

I choose the Bear Hugs Stamp set for the focus of my card.  I am currently wrapping up a big display created with this stamp set for an upcoming Stamping Event I am attending.  So, I decided to make my baby card with this set and use it for my display as well. 

Of course my favorite part of my little baby bear is his diaper!  

I die cut a little bear shape and cut it to make the basic diaper shape, then I hand cut the two top pieces of the diaper.  I just drew the little pin. 

I left a little room on the inside of my flip card to write a congrats message. 

And I made a gift card holder to go with. 

Here's is the back of the gift card holder. 

I will be sharing more of my Bear Hugs display peaces soon, so check back soon! 

Now, you might want to check out what my fellow designers have created for their baby creation at SSINK. 

Thank you for stopping by! 

1 Green and speckled frog

Today at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging you to GO GREEN! 

That can mean a lot of things; recycle, upcycle, or just use green in a new project!

I chose to use green in a new project.  

Because, I am loving the new Pyramid Pals Thinlit Dies and the coordinating Playful Pals stamp set.  Check out these fun new products: 

The possibilities are endless with these products.  I got these two items for myself and my girls for Christmas.  It's as much for me as it is for my girls to play with.  

As this challenge was to use GREEN, I decided to make a frog.  A green and speckled frog.  I'm not sure if you have heard the Raffi song Five Green and Speckled Frogs, but it was one of my kids favorite songs and one of mine too. 

So of course I had to make a Speckled Frog pyramid box. 

I die cut all my pieces from Cucumber Crush card stock and then stamped them. 

As you can see several of the pieces I stamped with either Cucumber Crush or Real Red and then over the top with Basic Black.  That's just one of the things I love about this set is that it has a solid  and outline image for most all the pieces.  You can use them together or separately.  When you use them together it adds great dimension layering the stamped images. 

I had to get a little creative with the tongue and fly.  The tongue is actually suppose to be a tail.  But I stamped the solid image in red, the detail image in Basic Black and then die cut it with the matching Thinlit.  Then to make it a little more sleek, I trimmed off some of the rounded end.  I also made it a bit shorter as I felt it was too long for this box. 

Now the fly, I am very proud of!  I just looked at the tiny little images in the stamp set and found a solid and outline that I thought would work to make a fly.  I was thrilled with how the little thing turned out.  I did have to fussy cut him, but it was worth it!  I adhered him to the tongue with a rolled up Mini Glue Dot. 

The box opens up in the back, like this.  Fill it with treats and then put a glue dot or two at the top to hold it shut.  Now I need to go make four more of these, so he has friends!  And I will have all FIVE of the Five Green and Speckled Frogs! 

YOU, should join our challenge and GO GREEN!  Click over to Stampin' Royalty to see what my fellow design team members have created and to play along with us!  

You can purchase the Pyramid Pals and Playful Pals set here, as well as all the other items used to make this project. 

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