Monthly Archives: October 2015

Stampin’ Up! Vintage Leaves Meets Seasonal Frame!

Posted on October 3, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good morning, y’all! When you read this, I’ll be on the way to spend a day crafting and carding and playing and eating and (hopefully!!) winning a prize or two! Wish you could all come – I read someone was flying in from San Diego! Yikes! 🙂

Now, today’s card is going to look awfully familiar. That’s cause I used the same sketch challenge as my starting point that I used yesterday. Normally, I wouldn’t do that. But, when I first saw the sketch a couple days back, I actually had two card pictures get into my head. So, I’m doing the one I didn’t do yesterday today. Saturday.

So, this design was also inspired by Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #288. Be sure to go over and check them out!

For this one, I started with Into the Woods DSP as my color scheme launching point. And I used just one TIEF – the Woodland TIEF. For my sentiment, I used a die from the Seasonal Frame Thinlits. And, of course, some Vintage Leaves. You can see it’s going to go in a completely different direction than the All Ye Faithful card. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! All Ye Faithful in Black and Rose Red… Wait. What?!?

Posted on October 2, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good Friday morning, y’all! Wanted to thank all of you who stopped by our Blog Hop yesterday – I surely hope that you had fun and saw some cool projects and got some ideas to use for your future craftiness! 🙂

I had so much fun doing a non-traditional-color Christmas card yesterday that I decided to do it again. This card uses the lovely All Ye Faithful stamp set, a couple of TIEFs – Boughs & Berries and Elegant Dots, and….well, that’s really about it! Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Dove of Peace and Wonderland for the Happy Stampers Team Blog Hop!

Posted on October 1, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Welcome to the first of our new Happy Stampers Weekly Blog Hops! Hope that you’ll join us each week to see what we all have to offer. We have a lot of talented folks in our group and I know that you’re going to be inspired to get crafty with every blog hop you see! 🙂

This week’s blog uses a sketch for inspiration. This is where we started:

Funny story (well, maybe funny – you be the judge. But, pretend to laugh anyway, okay? I have very delicate feelings) – I was less than prepared for this blog hop. I needed to provide a “Shortlink” for my fellow hoppers so they could get their blog posts all set up. And I had to do that early this week. Well, the way to get a shortlink is to make a blog post and save it and schedule it. Easy enough – but the TITLE of the blog post has to stay the same once you make it or the shortlink changes and then everything is chaos. I had to figure out what I was going to make, in order to come up with a title. But on Monday evening I had no clue. So, I thought about it for a while and decided I’d make something with the Dove of Peace stamp and the Wonderland stamp set. I built my title and passed my shortlink on to the other ladies.

I tried to figure out what I was going to do with those two sets and the inspiration sketch. On top of that, I wanted to incorporate pink into the card, to mark Breast Cancer Awareness and in response to our Happy Stampers challenge for October. Hmmm….

And then, I remembered Christmas growing up. My grandparents always had a silvery-flecked, sparkly white-flocked Christmas tree. And it had pink and silver ornaments and lots and lots of that deadly silver “rain” (my favorite part of the tree!!). I always loved those Christmas trees – and going with my grandfather to get that tree every year….well, that’s a pretty special memory for me.

And there it was. White. Pink. Christmas Tree. Take a look-see at how I made Wonderland and Dove of Peace and Pink work for my card!