Top Note Box

Hello Stampers! Hope your week is going well. I'm back today sharing a new creation. Over at the Friday Mashup! the challenge this week is to use a background stamp from the Inspire.Create.Share Annual Catalog. Love our background stamps, such great designs. Do you have a favorite background stamp yet?

Photo Courtesy of Sandy Mathis

Here's your Mashup Challenge: 

• Create a project using a "Background Stamp".
• Create a project with "something 3-D on it".
• or Mash it Up! and create a "project with a 3-D element and a Background Stamp".

Here is how the challenge inspired me. I created a box from our Top Note Bigz Die. I haven't used this die in awhile and every time the new catalog comes I always hope that this die is not on the retirement list. I chose to highlight the Corner Garden background stamp. I embossed it onto Blackberry Bliss card stock with White embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by, until next time!

Below are all the items I used for my creation today:

Top Note Bigz Die

$21.95

Banners Framelits Die

$26.95

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

$4.95

Embossing Buddy

$5.95

Heat Tool

$29.95

Versamark Pad

$7.50

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

$3.95

Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack

$6.95

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$6.95

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

$5.95

Corner Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$13.95

Perfect Pennants Wood Stamp Set

$29.95

Nacho...Wish

Hello Stampers! Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a great start!  Can you believe it is already the month of May?  In another month the new Stampin' Up! Catalog will be live and we'll be able to order so much new stuff! In the meantime, we have a fun new color challenge at Nacho Average Challenges starting today!  Our color challenge includes Gumball Green, an InColor that won't be included in the new catalog! I'm going to miss this color.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time. 

Nacho Butterflies

Hi Stampers! Hope your week is off to an awesome start! We have a fun new sketch for you starting today at Nacho Average Challenges. Come check us out and see all the inspiration from my fellow designers.

Here is my take on the sketch:

Simple card with lots of butterflies! My color combo is Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana and Crisp Cantaloupe. Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time! 

Nacho Watercolor

Happy Tuesday Stampers! Hope your week is off to a great start! We have a fabulous new color challenge for you to try out this week. Hope you play along with us, the Nachos! Can't wait to see what you create!

Below is how I used our color challenge:

Perfect colors for spring! I did a lot of cutting with this card, but it was worth it. Loving the Happy Watercolor stamp set!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time. 

Nacho Hello!

Happy Tuesday Stampers! If you had the day off yesterday for President's Day, hope you enjoyed the day off!

We, the Nachos have a fun new sketch for you this week. We can't wait to see what you create!  If you haven't had a chance to play along with us yet, I invite you to join us. Come check us out here, lots of inspiration from my fellow Nacho Designers.

Here is my take on the sketch, using the stamp sets Perfect Pennants and Gorgeous Grunge. Love all those banners! 

Inks: Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush and Daffodil Delight

Cardstock: Basic Black, Strawberry Slush and Whisper White

Other: Basic Black 3/4 Chevron Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time. 

Friday Mashup on a Wednesday...

Happy Wednesday Stampers! Hope your week is going well.

I have a new creation to share with you today. The Friday Mashup is featuring my favorite color combo right now, and with Valentine's Day around the corner, inspiration hit. Great inspiration from the Design Team.

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

Create a project using the Colors "Coastal Cabana, Real Red & Crumb Cake."

Create a project using "Hearts & Arrows. "

Or Mash it Up and create a project using "the above colors along with Hearts & Arrows."

I decided to Mash it Up and use the color combo and a project using hearts and arrows.  This is what I came up with:

I created a scrapbook page, a traditional one, lol.  Although I need to photograph it better.  If you click on the photo it'll become larger. I used to create scrapbooks before I got into card making and I do miss it. Perhaps I'll start getting back into in it. Now I just need to find a frame for my page. 

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time. 

Wish Big Nachos!

Happy Tuesday Stampers! If you had a three day weekend, hope you wonderful day off yesterday. Did you do any crafting yesterday? I had big plans to create all day long, but I woke up with a sore throat and a big headache, so I just rested.

We have a fun new sketch for you today at Nacho Average Challenges. Hope it inspires you to take  out your stamping tools and create something awesome.

Here is my take on the sketch:

I initially struggled with this one at first but then I decided to keep it simple. The base of my card is Soft Sky card stock. Oh my goodness, what a beautiful soft blue, hence the name right! I layered it with Smoky Slate card stock. I used the Tasteful Trim Bigz die to create my waves, which were cut out in Pool Party. I stamped the splatter in Island Indigo and sponged the sides a bit. The stars (from the Perfect Pennants stamp set) are inked in Crushed Curry and I cut out each one. The Wish Big sentiment is the perfect size for my card.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time.

More Sunday Stamps Pink!

Edited: My card was Narelle's Pick for the Freshly Made Challenge #119! Yay! Thank you Narelle!

Happy Sunday Stampers! Hope your weekend is going well. I'm spending my time creating so I'm having lots of fun!

There's still time for you to join us for our Sunday Stamps color challenge! The deadline is this Friday, January 24, 2014 at 6 pm EST. Thanks to all of you who have played so far, great creations!!

I combined our color challenge with the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for my creation today. Great non-traditional layout and lots of inspiration with this sketch at their blog.

Here is what I created:

The base of my card is Night of Navy and I layered with Strawberry Slush. I used the side of the Kaleidoscope DSP in Strawberry Slush but covered the colored triangles so you wouldn't see them. The Happy Birthday sentiment is embossed in white so that it would stand out more.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your Sunday and until next time!

Follow My Heart...

TGIF Stampers! So glad it's Friday! It's been a long week, work wise but a fun week creative wise. I have a new card to share with you today.  I used the Follow My Heart stamp set and combined it with Perfect Pennants. Love it!

The base of my card is Coastal Cabana, layered with Crumb Cake. Did you know that the Banner Punch, which isn't available until the Sale-a-Bration catty, January 28 coordinates with the mini XOXO banner stamp! Gotta love it when our Stampin' Up! products coordinate so well!

Below are the rest of the images in the Follow My Heart stamp set: 

Thanks for stopping by today! Come back tomorrow as I have swaps from the new Occasions Catalog to share with you. Until next time. 

Make a Nacho Wish!

Happy Tuesday Stampers!  Can it really already be the 14th of January???  WOW! Hope you're having fun! I sure am!

We have a fun new color challenge for you at Nacho Average Challenges. I hope you get a chance to check out my fellow Nacho Designers creations for this challenge. Lots of inspiration!

I decided to make a birthday card, because you can never have enough birthday cards, right! I was inspired to create this card after seeing a similar card in our demonstrator only magazine. Love the design and easy to do. 

Thanks for stopping by today, have a great day!  Until next time. 

Perfect Pennants

Morning Stampers! Hope your week is going well.  This past weekend as I was getting ready for my sideline team meeting with Rhonda Morgan, I was browsing various blog challenges for inspiration on what to create for our team swap.

I came across this great sketch from Karen Giron from The Sweetest Thing/Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge and I wanted to play along. I think this is my first time playing along with her! Thanks Karen for the inspiration.

 Here is my take on the sketch. I love the way it turned out! Lots of layers and texture and the sentiment from Perfect Pennants works great!

I had to create eight duplicate cards, so once I got the design down, it was easy to repeat and go. 

I'll share the swaps I received from my Monday night meeting later this week.

Thanks for stopping by, until next time.