Sale-a-bration Blog Hop: Elementary Elegance

Welcome to Stampin' Addicts Sale-a-bration blog hop! If you are hopping in order, you have just come from Katherine's blog, My Magical Inky Tour and seen what she did with the Designer Frames Embossing folders! Didn't she do a FABULOUS job? 

If you aren't hopping in order, that's OK! You are welcomed to start anywhere along the hop! The hop is all linked together in a great big circle so starting here is OK!

If you have gotten lost along the way, you can always go HERE to see a list of all the participants and links to each blog.

I chose the stamp set called Elementary Elegance! I have to admit that I LOVED this stamp set in the catalog and then struggled to use it! After I just sat down and started working, it came pretty easy! I think some of my trouble was that I have seen this set used the the fantastically, marvelous Everyday Enchantment DSP and I really wanted to do something different. So I had a self imposed challenge with this set. I am confident that I have succeed  in this challenge! 

For my first project I created a birthday card. I used this card with my club last week and they really enjoyed it!

When you get this stamp set, the inside of the frame has a piece of rubber that you remove so you don't get any extra marks where you don't want them. KEEP THAT PIECE OF RUBBER!!! This card was created with that piece of rubber. I stamped with all the purples that Stampin' Up! sells. I love purple so this was made for me!

My next card I really stepped out on the colors but I LOVE the way this one turned out! Very unusual from what I've seen done with this set! (Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places! :) )

My last project is a Box in a Bag. These have been around for a while but I had never made one before so I thought this was a great time to give it a whirl! It was so much fun, I will be making these again!

I will be posting all the recipes and directions on Monday, so come on back, ya hear! 

Thanks for taking the time to see what I have created. Now you are off to Kim's blog: Stitchin' n Stampin' to see what she has done with this same stamp set! Even more ideas! Yeah! Or you can go to Katherine's blog and see what she created with the Designer Frames embossing folders.

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Bright Mixed Bunch

And once again, I am sharing another swap! This one uses the stamp set Mixed Bunch. I'm LOVING this stamp set! It's hard to tell the colors in this photo. They are Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Calypso Coral. The Tempting Turquoise flowers on the white were stamped and then I used an aqua-painter to bring some of the color into the flower.

Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Calypso Coral

Accessories: Silver brads, 1/16" circle punch, Blossom punch, Tempting Turquoise grosgrain ribbon, aqua-painter.

Come back tomorrow! Stampin' Addicts is having a Sale-a-bration blog hop! YEAH!!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Field Flowers

Here's another one of my swaps that I created. This is pretty simple and would make a great workshop card! Hhmm, I may have to use this for a workshop! Anyone interested in creating this at their workshop? Send me an email or give me a call! There is glitter on the center of each of the flowers but you really can't see that in this picture.

Stamps: Field Flowers

Cardstock: Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White

Ink: Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant

Accessories: Stripes embossing folder, Pool Party ribbon, Small 

oval punch, 2-way glue, Dazzling Diamonds

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Amour

Once again I found myself doing a bunch of swaps! This is one of the cards that I had made for those swaps. This one uses the new Framelits and Edgelits dies for the Big Shot. I LOVED using the Framelits but was really struggling with the Edgelits. I couldn't get a straight cut with them! So frustrating! Then I starting looking online to see what others were doing to get a straight cut, after all, I couldn't be the only one that was struggling, could I? Turns out I wasn't alone! One suggestion was to lay post-it notes over the Edgelit die to hold it in place and it worked perfectly! I am now in love the the Edgelits too!

Stamps: Take it to Heart, Artistic Etchings

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Edgelits, Heart Framelits, Perfect Polka Dots

embossing folder, Neutrals DSP, Pearls, dimensionals, sponge

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Christmas Tree 12x12 Layout

Here's another layout from my Scrap Booking Night from this fall. This layout was inspired from last years catalog. It may look a little putz y but it really wasn't. To make this very easy, Stampin' Up! has a punch that matches this stamp set so cutting out all those ornaments went lickety split!

Here's a close up of the left side of the page. This is the page that was inspired by last year's catalog. I love keeping those "old" catalogs  because there are tons of ideas in them. It's so much fun to use the layout but change colors and/or stamp or to use the colors but change the layout.

And here's the close up of the right side. This page I created on my own.

Stamps: Delightful Decorations Spencerian Alphabet Upper
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Early Espresso
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Melon Mambo scallop ribbon, Lucky Limeade ribbon, Early Espresso bakers twine, ornament punch, Bights and In Color DSP, dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley