Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Artistically Inked

Artistically Inked made quite the splash when it was introduced. It had coordinating designer series paper that was absolutely beautiful in awesome bright colors. The dies and stamps were easy to create with and could make cards for anything that you needed. Now this set has been scheduled for its retirement but there is still time for a last hurrah!

Cajun Craze is not a color that I tend to gravitate towards. In fact, I have to force myself to use it once in a while. It is a beautiful color for fall but I struggle outside of the leaves. I stamped the larger background across the Crumb Cake layer with Cajun Craze ink. The die cut leaves add the perfect finishing touch.


Monday, April 15, 2024

Lighting the Way

Fireflies have such great memories for me. I remember catching them and collecting them in jars as a child. Then my own children did that too. We always let them go at the end of the night but it was fun to watch them light up and chase them around the yard. I was thinking about this when I created this first card. Isn't it so sweet?


Friday, April 12, 2024

Hope & Prayer

I love when Stampin' Up! has religious stamp sets. They really speak to my heart and I always have to buy them. I will admit to buying a few sets that I didn't love but they had something that I liked.

Hope & Prayer will be retiring at the end of the month so I had to play a little with it. I started this one with thick Basic White cardstock and added a few deckled edged rectangles for layers. The plaid layer is stamped with Sketched Plaid and then I added lines with my Gorgeous Grape marker and a ruler.


Thursday, April 11, 2024

Share a Milkshake Scrapbook Pages

Share a Milkshake is such a cute set but I love ice cream and anything to do with ice cream so I might be bias. I started these pages with Berry Burst as the background.


I used one sheet of designer series paper from the Masterfully Made pack. I cut it so that I had one strip to run along the bottom of the left page and then to fill in the center of the 12 x 24 layout. 


I then accented the pages with some stamped and die cut images, including the greeting with the hexagon punch. The coordinating dies for this set have the dies for the images as well as the spoon and a waffle pattern for a background.


When I am creating scrapbook pages, I like to start with the stamp set I want to use. I then pick out a sketch that I feel I can incorporate that set into easily. Sometimes I then pull out designer series paper or make my own. This helps determine the colors that the layout will take on. Then it's time to get creative. 

You can see what stamps Stampin' Up! has to offer by clicking on the pictures below. You will then be in my online store. Have fun and get creative!

Happy Stampin'!
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

He's All That

He's All That is a masculine set with several images and dies that work well for many men in your life. You may want to take a look at this set before it retires to see if it will work for you and the men in your life. 

I started with Soft Sea Foam for a card base. I added a layer of Night of Navy and Crumb Cake. The Crumb Cake was embossed with the cross hatch embossing folder from the Basic 3 D embossing folders that are an online exclusive. I ran the Crumb Cake ink pad over the top of the embossing to highlight the embossing. The flags behind the main image are part of the coordinating dies for this set. I did cut 6 of the flags out.