Tag Archives: embossing techniques

Stamping Sunday – Mainly Monochrome

Welcome to the January 2024 Stamping Sunday Blog Hop! This month, our theme is manly or mainly monochrome cards!!! I love monochrome projects, so that’s what I picked. Additionally, I LOVE blue, so my card focuses on blue tones, including Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, and a little Blueberry Bushel. To see all the designers’ project this month, see the blog roll at the bottom of the post. We are starting… Read More »

Stampin’ Fancy Friday — Sketch Challenge

For this month’s Stampin’ Fancy Friday, all the designers are creating projects using the sketch pictured below. It has lots of layers and geometric shapes. When I first saw it, I immediately thought of the Desert Details Bundle from the JA Mini Catalog. To see all the designers’ projects, keep an eye on the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Facebook and Instagram pages throughout the month. We’d also love to see your projects! Be sure to… Read More »

Sweet Citrus Bundle – Onstage Presentation Part 1

I felt so honored when Stampin’ Up! asked me to pre-record a presentation for its big 3-day OnStage Event in Vienna, Austria held earlier this month! My presentation featured the new Sweet Citrus Bundle, which is included in the upcoming January-June Mini Catalog going live on January 5, 2023. Over the next three days, I’ll be sharing all the projects I created for my presentation. While I wasn’t able to… Read More »

Color Fusers Blog Hop — May 2021

Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for May! This month, we have a beautiful color combination that includes Poppy Parade, Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party and Bumblebee. These colors immediately made me think of lovely, bright Spring flowers!!! I decided to create a Mother’s Day card for my Mother-In-Law using the In Bloom Bundle. This is one of those bundles that has grown on me the more I’ve used it.… Read More »

#TGIFC292 – A Magical Christmas

Happy TGIF! Hope you’re enjoying your long Thanksgiving weekend. For my family, this is the first official day of the Christmas season. It’s when my husband and I drag out all the storage boxes and start decorating. I love rediscovering family treasures. We’ve got a huge collection of ornaments that bring back wonderful memories of vacations, special events, and the kids growing up. To me, it’s the beginning of the… Read More »

Color Fuser Blog Hop – September

Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for September 2020! This month, we have a beautiful color combination of Balmy Blue, Night of Navy, and Melon Mambo! I love blue tones, so this is right up my alley! Bright pink makes me think of flowers, so it was an obvious choice to pick a stamp set with beautiful flowers, such as Prized Peony. I stamped the flowers with Jet Black… Read More »

#TGIFC272 — Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to another TGIF Challenge! This week, we have a sketch challenge!!! I love the faux wrap-around look of this layout! I used the new Prized Peony stamp set for my card! This set is so PRETTY and super fun to color! I actually made it real easy on myself by embossing all the flowers in white. The embossed edges create little barriers for watercoloring, making it super… Read More »

Color Fusers Blog Hop – June 2020

Good Morning! It’s the first Monday of June and that means time for a new Color Fusers Blog Hop!!! This month, we have an absolutely beautiful color combination of Petal Pink, Melon Mambo, and Pool Party. This combination makes me think of warm Summer breezes and colorful flowers. Whether you’re already following along the blog hop or just starting out, be sure to continue on for more inspiration by clicking… Read More »

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop — Tropical Oasis Suite

Hello and welcome to the March Stamping Sunday Blog Hop hosted by Sara Levin. This month’s hop is SO EXCITING, because it features my absolute FAVORITE suite of products — the Tropical Oasis Suite. When I first saw the January to June Mini Catalog, that entire suite was the first item on my order! I love everything about this suite, because I’m a So Cal girl at heart who loves… Read More »

#TGIFC248 – Cover Inspiration

It’s time for a new TGIF Challenge! This week, the challenge is to get inspiration from the cover of either the January to June Mini or Sale-A-Bration Catalogs. I chose the Mini, and you can see the card I picked below. I decided to use the same general layout, but to change the stamp set and colors. I used the Timeless Tropical stamp set and coordinating In The Tropics Dies.… Read More »

#TGIFC242 – Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday! Welcome to a new TGIF Sketch Challenge!!! When I first saw this sketch, I was drawn to the pretty filigree in the background. In fact, the whole sketch looked very elegant to me, so I decided to stick with that theme and create an entire card just using white and gold. I used the Perfect Parcels Dies to cut the filigree from Whisper White cardstock, and then I… Read More »

November 2020 Desktop Calendars

I’m working on wrapping up my 2020 Desktop Calendars! I actually worked ahead and got November finished last month before I took off on vacation. I absolutely LOVE the entire Come To Gather Suite of products on pages 46 to 48 of the Holiday Catalog, so it was an easy choice to feature for this month’s page. These calendars measure 4″ x 6″ and fit in a standard frame. I… Read More »

#TGIFC230 — Perennial Essence

It’s Friday and that means a new TGIF Challenge! The product challenge for this week focuses on either the Mosaic Mood or Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper. You can find both of these gorgeous paper packs on pages 166 and 167 of the Annual Catalog. I hope you can join us for this week’s challenge. Simply create a project, post it on your blog or social media, and then link… Read More »

Gather Together

The new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog has some really amazing products! I’ve just started playing with a lot of them, including the gorgeous Come To Gather Suite on pages 46 to 48. In fact, Stampin’ Through The Catalog Challenge (#STTCchallenge) is also featuring the Gather Together stamp set this week. That means, you can use that hash tag to search on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for lots of inspiration, in… Read More »

#TGIFC228 Color Challenge

It’s TGIF time! This week, TGIF Challenges has a color challenge including Basic Black, Merry Merlot, and Very Vanilla. I have to admit that this color combination stumped me a bit. It really only includes one “color” (Merry Merlot), as the other two are neutrals. In addition, both Basic Black and Merry Merlot are very dark … not a combination I would typically choose. With that in mind, I decided… Read More »

“Snowy” Waterfront

Today, I have one more card featuring the Waterfront stamp set.  I just love this stamp set and can’t stop using it.  There are SO MANY possibilities and I’ve seen such incredible inspiration on social media.  Every time I set it aside, I see something else I’ve just got to try!!! Up until now, I hadn’t used the pine tree stamps to create a mountain scene.  I recently visited my mom… Read More »