TCC170 Good Luck Journey

Snow day means streaming some shows and playing along with the Card Concept for fun!

How fun is this graphic? If you know me, the bicycle speaks to me!

Stamps: Bike Ride, Occasions Collection, Darkroom Door Enjoy the Ride; Paper: Granny Apple Green, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, New Horizons DSP; Ink: Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Garden Green, Gray Granite, Early Espresso, Versamark; Accessories: Flowers for Every Season Gems, White Embossing Powder, Build a Bike Dies, Die-Cutting Machine, e-cutter, Dimensionals.

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The Stamp Review Crew: Amazing Life

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday.  This week we are stamping with a great celebration set from the Occasions catalog set, Amazing Life.  If you are following the blog hop order, you have just come from the very lovely and talented Sue Plote's blog.  Aren't her projects always beautiful?

With St. Patrick's Day around the corner, I wanted to focus on the four-leaf clover image.

I combined some inspiration from Cindy Schuster and Freshly Made Sketches #374.  The gingham check paper seems good for an Irish card, maybe reminiscent of an Irish kilt.

My daughter has a swimming championship the day before St. Patrick's Day.  Maybe this would be a nice card for her!

Stamps: Amazing Life; Paper: Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Whisper White, Gingham Gala DSP; Ink: Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Basic Black; Accessories: Rhinestone Jewels, Aquapainter, e-cutter, Dimensionals.

ICYMI, here's another card I made with Amazing Life.

Stamps: Amazing Life; Paper: Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Country Lane DSP; Ink: Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Blackberry Bliss, Basic Black; Accessories: Silver Mini Sequin Trim, Braided Linen Trim, Aquapainter, Banner Punch, Tin Tile Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

Hop on over to the fabulous Charlet Mallett to see what fun projects she has put together with this week's set.

 

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6th Annual Hudson Valley Shoebox Swap

This past weekend was the 6th Annual Hudson Valley Shoebox Swap.  Friends don't let friends stamp alone!  I put together some spring flowers for the guests.  I thought the green ones would make a nice St. Patrick's Day treat.

I used Brenda Quintana's quick tutorial on how to put these together.

Paper: Subtles & Regals Collection DSP; Accessories: 1-1/4" Scallop punch, Secret Garden framelits, Spiral Flower die, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

We had lots of elbow room today. What a great day, ladies!

More Love Fest Challenges

I've got a couple more Splitcoaststampers' Love Fest Challenges to share.

LOVEFEST2014J ~ Cute & Fun or Classy & Elegant

I created a cute birthday card for my niece using Freshly Made Sketches #123.  This was a challenge hosted by Paper Smooches, and they offered some free digi stamps for the challenge.  I did attempt to hand-cut these clovers, and they just looked sloppy, so I opted for the e-cutter.

LOVEFEST2014K ~ Lots of Lovely Layers

Lots of layers make me think of telescoping images.  I thought I would play around with some busy DSP.  Once I had the main panel, I had to figure out what to do with it.  I got a little crazy with some stencils, ink, embossing paste, and splatter.

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SUOC65 Going Green!

Morning Everyone, It's Tuesday and time for another Stampin' Up Only challenge.  In honor of the next fun crafting holiday, St. Patrick's Day, we are going green.  Now I just had a great idea to go green by repurposing some supplies for a card, but alas, I thought of it too late.  You can still do that though!

I reused (recycled? going green?) some clover punch art from last year.  We recently said good-bye to our Master's swim coach of many years, and we are going to miss him terribly!  You become very close with others you see three times a week at 6 am!  I made this card for the whole team to sign.

Stamps: Lacy & Lovely, Distressed Dots BG; Paper: Certainly Celery, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Everyday Enchantment DSP; Ink: Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Wisteria Wonder; Accessories: White baker's twine, Eyelet, Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, Bird builder punch, Sponges, Hearts Collection framelits, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

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SUOC40 The Color Green

Today's challenge on Stampin' Up Only Challenges, we are focusing on the color green. Today was my first quilled card. Easy and fun, especially when you have the right tools!

I used Clean&Simple sketch #179.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Garden Green, Whisper White; Ink: Garden Green; Accessories: Quilling tool, Simply Scored, Tombo multipurpose adhesive, Dimensionals.

I've told you before, I've turned my daughter into a decorating monster. As soon as Valentine's was over, she started bugging me for some "Saint Patrick's" decorations.

Me: How we were going to make it?
Little Missy: Just punch some paper with your Saint Patrick's punch, and put them on a string.
Me: We don't have a Saint Patrick's punch.
Little Missy: Oh.

While it was a snow day, and she was napping, i.e. it was quiet, I surprised her by making some St. Patrick's decor for her.

I folded some DSP twice so it was four layers thick, centered the point of a heart from the Hearts Collection framelits on the folded corner, and ran it through the Big Shot. Then I ran a bunch of them through the sewing machine.

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FM48 Punching Out Saint Patrick

So this week at the Friday Mashup, Rita's challenge for us is to create a St. Patrick's Day project with some punches.

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project for "St. Patrick's Day".
2. Or Make a project using "at least 2 Punches".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project for "St. Patrick's day using your Punches".

While I was out commenting on some blogs, I saw a nice punch art clover, and dang it if I could find it again. I did find one again, and I *think* it is this one. Anyway, if it isn't the original, it is certainly one of the best ones I have seen.

I've got some green minty M&M's, so I thought I would combine this with the clover punch art to create a Sweetly Dispensed 3-D container.

The template comes from the January 2012 issue of Paper Crafters Sampler. I love Melanie's templates! And I've got more over the next few weeks I'll be sharing with you.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Everyday Enchantment DSP; Ink: Garden Green, Lucky Limeade, Certainly Celery, Wisteria Wonder; Accessories: Modern Label punch, Large Oval punch, Sponges, Adorning Accents embossing folder, Hearts Collection framelits, Adorning Accents edgelits, Big Shot, Dowel.

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Scrapbook Friday: St. Patrick's Party

Well, I didn't want it to get too far away from St. Patrick's Day before I shared photos of our "St. Patrick's party". We made green sugar cookies and four-leaf clover decorations, put on some Irish, well really Celtic, music and danced... the perfect activities to thrill an almost 4-year-old. So rather than just share, I scrapped them.

There are some beautiful colors over at ColourQ this week, so I started there.

Then I used a 3-photo layout template that comes with My Digital Studio. Once I created one page, I inserted a mirror page for the second of the layout and edited it. The heart punch to four-leaf clover idea came from Theresa Collett-Such over at the My Digital Studio website.

My Digital Studio Elements: Stamps: Presto Patterns; Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Daffodil Delight, Olive Olive Villa pattern; Accessories: Full Heart punch, Rounded Corner punch, Brights Buttons pack.

Project 52 progress: This is week 11 (of the year), and I have made and shared 8 pages so far.

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3-D Thursday: Go Green!

Everyone's Irish on St. Patty's Day! We had some good Irish projects at the CT shoebox swap, which is great since I made almost nothing this year. My daughter has been asking for some "Patrick's Day" decorations, but I haven't had the energy with the other swaps and shoebox projects going on.

These were some Make & Takes designed by Sue Wilgan. How cute is that owl with plaid paper? The clover leaf is die-cut out of chipboard and painted. So cute and easy!

And this was a the shoebox project designed by Sue Webb, filled with curled paper, metallic clover leaves and coins, and St. Patty's ribbon. Thank you, Ladies! You have pleased the little one here!

Looking for more inspiration? Click on my St. Patrick's label for all past projects (there's some cute ones!).

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3-D Thursday, er, I Mean Wednesday

Since I'm not Irish, I don't have a lot of St. Pat's celebrations planned. I know, we're all Irish on March 17th. If I only was going to be in Boston or Philly... Ok, I'll confess, I carry on my mom's tradition of having cabbage, potatoes, and corn beef once a year. Woohoo, kick up your heels, corn beef! I do know a pub in Yonkers that serves a mean Irish coffee! ;)

These little holidays are very happy occasions for Little Missy. She loves having something to look forward to every month, and a day on the calendar to place a special stamp. She wants to dress up in her Tinkerbell outfit for school, since it is green. And St. Patrick's Day is her day for snacks, so some green ones?

I don't have the Owl Punch (gasp!), so I used My Digital Studio and LeAnne's sample to create these dressed up raisin boxes. White raisins are kinda green, right? I moved this project up in the week so I could play along with a few challenges, including the Creative Crew demo challenge on SplitCoastStampers. Yep, goofing off again when I should be creating my DT card.

Stamps: Woodgrain; Paper: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla; Ink: Chocolate Chip; Accessories: 1-3/4" Circle punch, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle punch, My Digital Studio, Coluzzle, Dimensionals.

And how about a couple St. Pat's cards? I didn't make myself any this year, so I'll share one I got in my Occasions mini swap, created by Shermala Austermann. This is a single stamp set in the back of the mini, very cute and perfect for the little Irish occasion.

This little medallion stamp would be perfect for the front of a little favor box, maybe for an Irish dinner. ETA: The background clover leaf is from another cute set, Got Treats.

And here is Sue Wilgan's shoebox project from the CT shoebox swap last weekend, also using the single stamp from the Occasions mini. Ok, so I did make one St. Patty's card, thanks to Sue.

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

I'm not Irish, but it's fun to make seasonal projects. Since I am laying in bed sick, I'll share with you a couple projects from last year.

Here is a card using "inches".

Stamps: Holiday Blitz, Occasions Collection; Paper: Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Spring Fling DSP, Whisper White; Ink: Garden Green; Accessories: ribbon, square punches, Stamp-a-ma-jig.

This is a trifold card. I used Heat 'n Stick powder and Cosmo glitter for the clovers and puffy paint for the foam on the green beer.

Stamps: Cheers to You, Holiday Blitz; Paper: Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa, Spring Fling DSP; Ink: Close to Coca, Garden Green; Accessories: Circle punch, Puffy paint, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, Heat 'n Stick powder, Cosmo glitter.

ETA: I wrote the above post yesterday, and I made it out of bed today (yeah!). I whipped this card together this morning for my father-in-law's 65th birthday. This is a CASE of 'sleepyinseattle' on SCS - love her work!

Since I didn't have all the colors I needed in markers, it was easier to unmount my Occasions stamp from the wood block, trim the little shamrock, and stamp it individually. I did this by adhering the stamp to my acrylic block with double-stick tape and then stamping with my cardstock on top of a mouse pad. Fun!

Stamps: Branch Out, Occasions Collection; Paper: Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip; Ink: Garden Green, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip; Accessories: Sponge, Old Olive taffeta ribbon, Glue dot, Finial Press embossing folder, Big Shot, Stamp-a-ma-jig.

I've got St. Patrick's fever now... here's one more.

Stamps: Sweetheart, Holiday Blitz, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Occasions Collection; Paper: Green Galore, Whisper White, Patterns Pack II DSP; Ink: Green Garden; Accessories: Full Heart punch, Heart treat cups, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, Lollipop stick.

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Leprechaun Bear

A fellow Stampin' Addicts blogger made a Build-a-Bear Leprechaun, and it was just so cute. Heck, I haven't made any St. Patrick's Day projects yet, so in between music class and satisfying the demands of the jelly bean snob (my daughter) who only wanted the green Jelly Bellies from Adams, off I went to CASE.

The basket and necktie are from the new die Beary Hoppy in the Occasions mini. It is a Sizzlits die and very affordable at $5.95. I am sure there is an Easter bear or two in my future!

The original art work was created by Lisa Naples, her blog here. Thanks for inspiring me today!

Stamps: Holiday Blitz; Paper: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Basic Black, Garden Green, Certainly Celery; Ink: Garden Green, Certainly Celery; Accessories: Sponge, Gold embossing powder, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, Small circle punch, Big Shot, and Bear, Beary Essentials, Beary Boy, Beary Hoppy dies.

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