February Release Party TONIGHT!

Tonight is the night! All week long, the Trendsetters have been giving sneak peeks of the five amazing new stamp sets that will be released. Join us tonight right HERE in the TSG forum for our release party chat! The chat will officially begin at 6 PM Pacific time but feel free to stop in any time during the day to say hello :)

February Release Party TONIGHT!

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LOVE

Happy Friday! Usually today is Kylie's Kards day but she hasn't had time for much stamping this week. Today is a half day at school so I'm sure she will have a card to share tomorrow (after she cleans her room of course ;).

I wanted to share this card that I made the other day with the soon to be released LOVE mini set. I love the simple elegance of it and I added just a touch of bling on the heart.

Make sure you stop by the TSG Blog for all of the Blog Hop Challenge info from this week! You don't want to miss out on your chance of winning the sets being shown off :D

LOVE

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Day or Night / Sentimental Thank You Sneak Peeks!

Sadly, today is the last day of our sneak peeks but the good news is that we are closer to these new sets being released!! If you made your way here from the talented Iwona's Blog, you are on the right track! If not, you may want to head back over to the TSG Blog to find out the details for this hop as well as how you can win the sets being shown off today :)

Torico’s newly-illustrated set “Day Or Night” showcases adorable houses along with several accents and sentiments that enhance each image, and make this home-themed set a must have for any cardmaker!

Day or Night is a 4x8 stamp set that includes a total of 34 of stamps and will sell for $18.



Are you dying for another fabulous set showcasing more beautiful handwriting from our very own Julie Lacey? The wait is over! This sentiment set is yet another versatile and stunning addition that you will be thankful to have!

Sentimental Thank You is a 2x6 stamp set that includes a total of 6 of stamps and will sell for $7.

Thanks for stopping by! Now head on over to Jessie's blog and leave her some love as well :)

Day or Night / Sentimental Thank You Sneak Peeks!

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LOVE / Happy Mail Sneak Peeks!

Hopefully you made your way here from the talented Iwona's Blog but if not, you may want to head over to the TSG Blog for all of the details about these sneak peeks and how you could win the set being shown today!!!

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you will definitely want to invest in this stamp set illustrated by Jessica. These bold-lined images can be used as either the focal point of your creation or used as accents with other love-themed sets.

Love is a 2x6 stamp set that includes a total of 11 of stamps and will sell for $7.

 

Who doesn’t like to receive happy mail? The little girls in this set illustrated by our very own Iwona Palamountain sure do! Whether wishing someone a happy birthday or sending that special friend a pick-me-up, this adorable set will brighten anyone’s day!

Happy Mail is a 3x4 stamp set that includes a total of 7 of stamps and will sell for $7.

Now pop on over to Jessie's blog where I'm sure she's got some pretties to share with you :)

LOVE / Happy Mail Sneak Peeks!

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Back In 10 Sneak Peeks!

 

 Today is the first day of the Blog Hop Challenges! Hopefully you made your way here from the talented Iwona's Blog but if not, you may want to head over to the TSG Blog for all of the details about these sneak peeks and how you could win the set being shown today!!!

We have five brand new stamp sets that will be released Saturday night after the release party chat that are so much fun to play with! All week long, the Trendsetters will be giving you some peeks of different ways they have used these awesome new stamp sets!

The first new stamp set that we are sharing is called Back In 10 and was illustrated by Di Carubia. It is such a cute set featuring adorable bears and bunnies :)

Back In 10 is a 4x6 stamp set that includes a total of 17 of stamps and will sell for $15.

 



Stamps: Back In 10

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake, Momento Toffee

Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla

Accessories: SU Punch, Dimensionals, Colored Pencils, OMS, Ribbon, Button, edge distressor, sponge

Recipe:

* Make card base from Crumb Cake cardstock and stamp sentiment in same ink, offsetting as you go

* Wrap ribbon around card base and adhere on the front, do the same with smaller ribbon.

* Create image panel, sponge with Toffee, distress edges, punch side, stamp image, color and blend.

*Make mat from Early Espresso cardstock. Offset image panel and adhere together. Adhere to card base using dimensionals.

* Adhere button to card using dimensionals.

The next stop on this hop is the lovely Jessie!

Back In 10 Sneak Peeks!

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TSG91 Sketch Challenge

Release week is officially here and we are starting off with a fun sketch! Make sure you stop by the TSG Blog for all the details about this challenge as well as how you can win a TSG gift certificate just by playing along!!

Yesterday my girls and I kidnapped Kelli and we headed up to Corinna's house for a fun day of stamping. I had some high hopes of getting at least a few cards done but unfortunately I learned a very valuable lesson- I simply can't create anything when I'm not at home lol!! I did have lots of fun playing with all of Corinna's toys and I did get some images colored to use on cards so it wasn't a total loss. Plus the girls had a blast with two of their favorite stampers! Kylie got to help make chili with Corinna and Kayla was pretty much physically attached to Kelli the entire time lol!

Since I was having such a tough time creating, Kelli stepped in and whipped out this adorable card using one of the brand new sets (this one is called Back In 10) that will be featured for tomorrow's Blog Hop Challenge sneak peeks! How cute is this card??

 

So I decided to give the whole stamping thing one more shot this morning and even though it felt like it took me forever to create this card, I do like how it turned out. This adorable girl is from a new set called Happy Mail that will be shown off on Wednesday.

Thanks for stopping by today and make sure that you come back all week long for more sneak peeks of all the fabulous stamp sets that will be released this week!!

TSG91 Sketch Challenge

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Love Birds

NOTE: It's been brought to my attention that there is a grammar error on the sentiment that I used on this card. I am aware that the incorrect version of you're was used and it should have been YOUR instead. This problem was fixed before this stamp set was released but apparently I forgot to swap out the wrong sentiment in my own stamp set lol!

Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope that your weekend is off to a great start. I am oh so excited because the girls and I are headed down to Corinna's house for some stamping fun tomorrow! I hear she has lots of toys to play with and I'm looking forward to helping her use them ;)

I wanted to stamp this morning but wasn't in the mood to make a time consuming card so I whipped up this card in about 5 minutes. I love the way that it turned out!

Stamps: Love Birds

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Paper: White cardstock

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, Blending stump, Copic Multiliner

Recipe:

* Create cardbase out of white cardstock

* Stamp images/sentiment

* Color bird with Prismacolor pencils and blend with OMS

* Color in music notes with Copic Multiliner

Love Birds

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Kylie's Kards & FNC

Hooray! It's Friday!!!! Join us right here in the TSG Forum for our weekly Friday Night Chat.

Everyone is welcome and we love to meet new people!

When Kylie found out that this week's TSG Challenge was all about embossing she got so excited! You see, I have never let her emboss anything with my powders and heat gun before and since she now has her very own day on my blog she thought it was about time for me to let her lol!
She got a little carried away with the whole embossing thing and didn't have time to work on the actual cardbase before it was time for her to go to bed ;) I can't blame the girl though, I remember my early embossing days and how magical I thought it all was lol!!

Stamps: Hunny Bunnies

Kylie's Kards & FNC

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SC316

Did you guys see the sweet post that the Trendsetters put together for me on the TSG blog yesterday?? I sure do love these ladies :)

I can't even remember the last time that I was able to participate in a Splitcoast challenge but after doing paper work for two days straight, I was in need of some stamping time! I just happened to get an email that the sketch was posted on SCS so I decided to take a break and play along :)

 

Stamps: Love Birds

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette

Paper: DP- unknown, Early Espresso, White, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Dimensionals, sewing machine, Embossing folder, Stardust gelly roll pen, rhinestones, SU punch, blender pen

Recipe:

*Make card base from Early Espresso card stock

*Emboss Pink Pirouette layer with embossing folder, stitch around edges, mat with white cardstock and adhere to card base

*Cut smaller DP layers, stitch around edges, mat with white and Early Espresso card stock, adhere to card base

*Cut pink DP layer, stamp images, use blender pen to color in the flower heart images, stitch around layer, matt with white and Early Espresso card stock

*Stamp bird image onto watercolor paper with momento tuxedo black, water color with aqua painter and SU ink, cut out adhere to image panel with dimensionals

*Stamp sentiment onto white card stock, punch out with SU punch, sponge first with pink ink and then Early Espresso and adhere to image panel with dimensionals

*Decorate with rhinestones

SC316

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Penguin Love

Here is another card that I found in the "Still need to be posted" file ;)

Stamps: Penguin Love
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Marina Mist
Paper: White, Marina Mist
Accessories: Copic markers, dimensionals, corner rounder

Recipe:
* Make card base from Marina Mist, stamp images in same color ink. Stamp sentiment in Momento black.
* Stamp penguin on white with Momento black, color with Copic markers, cut out and adhere to card base with dimensionals.

Penguin Love

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TSG90: Wet Embossing

This week's TSG Challenge is all about wet embossing! Yesterday I got to spend lots of time with my new baby nephews (twins!) and my oh my.... they are way too sweet!! Needless to say, I've been hit by baby fever so you may notice quite a few baby cards over the next weeks lol!

Stamps: Polka Dot Pals
Ink: VersaMark, Early Espresso, Pear Pizazz, Marina Mist
Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Twine, button, SU punches, dimensionals, SU blender pen, clear embossing powder, embossing folders

Recipe:
* Create card base and emboss with folder, stamp polka dot scallop in VersaMark ink and emboss with clear powder, wrap twine around card base above scalloped image
* Create Sentiment layer by using SU punches to punch Very Vanilla cardstock, stamp image on one and plaid image on the other. Blend the ink from the plaid stamped punch with a blender pen. Emboss both in clear and adhere together before adding a button (tied with twine) to the corner. Adhere to card base.
* Stamp sheep image onto separate piece of Very Vanilla card stock in Early Espresso ink. Stamp plaid filler  image first in versamark then in color ink before stamping onto sheep image. Emboss in clear, cut out and adhere to card base with dimensionals.

TSG90: Wet Embossing

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Kylie's Kards

For some reason I completely spaced that yesterday was supposed to be Kylie's Kard day! I feel horrible because she actually made this card last Sunday especially for this week's TSG color Challenge :)

 

Stamps: Wonderful Winter Wishes

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Poppy Parade, white

Accessories: Colored pencils, ribbon

Kylie's Kards

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Here's a card that I pulled out of my 'unposted' archive :)

Stamps: Cupcake Mix & Match
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Toffee
Paper: White, Black, double sided DP (unknown)
Accessories: Dimensionals, Nestabilities, sponge, Ribbon, buttons, embroidery thread, corner rounder

Recipe:
* Create card base from white cardstock, round corners
* Create larger panel with DP, mat in black, wrap ribbon and embroidery thread around middle
* Use Nestabilities for image panel/mat. Sponge edges with Toffee ink, stamp sentiment and adhere to cardbase.
* Stamp image again onto separate piece of cardstock, color with Prismacolor pencils, blend with OMS, cut out and adhere to image panel with dimensionals.

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Buckets Of Love

The idea for this card popped into my head as soon as I saw Torico's original images for this set! There is a bit of masking involved to create this but it is easy peasy :) The most time consuming part of this entire card was the coloring lol!

Stamps: Buckets Of Love
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Poppyy Parade
Paper: White Cardstock
Accessories: Nestabilities, dimensionals, Prismacolor pencils, OMS, Sticky notes to create image masks, corner rounder.

Recipe:
* Create card base from white cardstock, round corners.
* Create mask for candy image by stamping onto sticky note and cut out. (I used a couple of masks for this card)
* Start by stamping candy image on bottom center of card base, add mask to top of image and stamp candy again on both sides. Continue all the way across the card and once more above to create another 'layer' of candy.
* Color images and blend.
* Cut sentiment panel with Nestabilities, stamp sentiment and adhere to card base with dimensionals.

Buckets Of Love

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Believe In You

Today the girls and I are going to be staying after school for a bit to stamp with a few of the teachers. This will be a first for a couple of them and I think I'm prepared to bring 'em on over to the dark side ;) It's only fitting that the first stamp set that they will use will be the Believe In You.
Here is a card that I made last night using this set. I love all of the different images and sentiments that are included and they are all the perfect size to create quick thank you notes to or from a teacher! One special thing about this card is that beautiful crochet flower that I used on this card. This flower was hand made by Danielle Lounds and given to me (along with some in other colors as well!!) for my birthday back in May. I have been hoarding them this entire time not wanting to part with them and use them on a card but she assured me awhile ago that it was indeed ok (and encouraged) to do so lol!

 

Stamps: Believe In You

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Sahara Sand

Paper: Kraft, Early Espresso, DP (double sided) by The Paper Loft, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Crochet flower (made by Danielle Lounds), twine, dimensionals, nestabilities, button, sponge, Prismacolor pencils, OMS, brads, red line tape

Recipe:

* Create card base out of Kraft cardstock then cut out larger layered panel, add brads to upper corner and adhere to card base with dimensionals.

* Use Nestablitiy to die cut rectangle shape, using die as a frame sponge inside area with Sahara Sand ink

* Stamp image/sentiment, color with Prismacolor pencils and blend with OMS

* Cut strip of DP to the desired width and stamp sentiment in lower corner. Mat with Early Espresso and Very Vanilla cardstock. Wrap twine around adhering to back of panel. Tie button onto flower with twine and adhere to panel with red line tape. Adhere panel to larger layered panel.

* Adhere image panel to card base using dimensionals.

Believe In You

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Love Birds

I hope that you are all enjoying your weekend! I am hoping to get some some stamping done today but wanted to pop in and share this card that I made earlier in the week.

I used the newly released set Love Birds that was illustrated by Torico.

 

Stamps: Love Birds

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky

Paper: White, Black, misc DP

Accessories: SU Border punch, dimensionals, Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, sponge, acetate cloud template, scallop corner punch

Recipe:

* Create card base out of white card stock, punch corners

* Sponge clouds in Soft Sky ink

* Stamp flowers across card base, color & blend

* Create layered panel, stamp sentiment, adhere to card base

* Stamp bird on card base then again on scrap piece of card stock, color, cut out and adhere onto card base using dimensionals

Love Birds

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TSG89- Color Challenge

This week we have a great TSG color challenge for you! Julie has challenged us to use the colors Black, Red, Grey and Pink on our cards and projects.

Here is my sample:

 

Stamps: Buckets Of Love

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride, Versamark

Paper: Blushing Bride, Basic Grey, White, SU DP

Accessories: Nestabilities, Black embossing powder, dimensionals, Aquapainter, Corner rounder

Recipe:

* Create card base out of Blushing Bride Cardstock, round corners

* Emboss DP with embossing folder, sand, round corners and mat with white and grey cardstock

* Use rectangle Nestabilities to cut out rectangle shape from watercolor paper, stamp hearts in Versamark   and emboss in black.

* Use Nestie die to frame the watercolor paper layer and sponge with Blushing Bride, stamp sentiment

* Watercolor hearts using ink pads and Aquapainter

* Stamp pail and hearts on separate piece of watercolor paper in Versamark, emboss with black. Watercolor, cut out and adhere to sentiment panel using dimensionals

* Adhere image panel to grey scallop Nestabilties. Use dimensionals to adhere to card base

TSG89- Color Challenge

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Stampbook Saturday

Here is a sneak peek of the Stampbook Page I made featuring by beautiful nephews that were born earlier this week. Check out the TSG Blog today to see the entire project!

Stampbook Saturday

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Kylie's Kards

Join us tonight right here in the TSG Forum for our Friday Night Chat!

Everyone is welcome and we love to meet new people :)

Back with another post of Kylie's Kards. I know that the holidays are officially over but Kylie just loves the Seasons Greetings set illustrated by Chris Dark! She doesn't care if it's Christmas or not lol!

 

Inside:

Stamps: Seasons Greetings
Ink: Momentio Tuxedo Black
Paper: from Paper Temptress
Accessories: Colored Pencils

Kylie's Kards

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