Fabulous-ly Simple Floret!

Here's a super simple thank you card I made today! I was inspired by a card I saw on Stampin' Connection made by LeAnne Pugliese. It kind of reminded me of the sponging I did on one of the cards I've made just recently, but then it's a bit stepped up with an embossed image in the middle.

So, to make this one, you would just want to stamp and emboss your main image first, then you sponge the background.


Pretty cool, huh?!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

A Blushing Floret!

Today I finally got a chance to play along with the Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge. I decided to use the Fabulous Florets set (from the Summer Mini). And I used Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede.

And here's the sketch!

Here's a closer up of the flower - I stamped it onto Very Vanilla and then yep, I cut it out! Then I popped it up with a couple Dimensionals. And the background Scallop Square comes from the Big Shot die Scallop Squares Duo (also in the Summer Mini!).

And here's a close-up of the saying and the brad accents. The saying comes from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set (man, I've gotten my money's worth out of that set!!). And the brads are from the Subtles collection - really they're Pretty in Pink, but they go great with the Blushing Bride Patterned papers!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms today! Don't us all women mom everyone?! I think mom can be a verb right?

So here's the card I made for my mom (Don't look yet, Mom!). She's coming over today and we're having a little BBQ and get together with family. I wish the weather was going to be a little nicer for us to be outside, but oh well, just looking forward to a nice together!

For the card I used the Fabulous Florets in Perfect Plum (inked in Eggplant Envy) and Marina Mist (inked in Pacific Point), and the leaves in Old Olive (inked in Always Artichoke). Lots of hand cut outs, but worth it - I like 'em that way!

The Circle and Scallop Circle were done with the 3" Circle die and the Scallop Circles #2 die for the Big Shot.

The outside saying (from the Full of Life set) could have probably been a good inside saying, but I liked it outside - I wanted that to be the bigger message of the card!

And I even sorta did up the inside! Hope you have a great Mother's Day!

Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

Faux Paint Chip Strip

Today was going to be a stamping day - a fun, nothing-else-priority kind of stamping day! And then... where did the time go?? Not only did I not get any stamping done, I didn't get much of anything else done either!!

So anyway, I decided to show you one more card that we made in class yesterday. I was inspired by Leann Greff, who used strips of cardstock and stamped a detailed image over them. But she used three different colors of cardstock. So when I saw hers, I thought I could put varying shades of one color and make it look like a paint chip strip. You know, like the ones people use from Lowes or Home Depot.

So I put together four 1 1/4" x 3" strips in Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Melon Mambo to create a pink paint chip strip! Then we layered it on black and stamped it with the Fabulous Florets stamps.

It was fun to stamp outline images and not have to color them in!

I think this card gave a Hawaii kind of vibe, what do ya think?


Julie

Lovin' this Sketch and Colors!

When I first started using Stampin' Up! stuff, I was in love with Tempting Turquoise! And then as the colors collections have evolved, I sorta found my new favorites (Baja Breeze :) Yes!). So I haven't really used Tempting Turquoise as much anymore. But when I saw the Color Inspiration at Stamping 411 today - I knew I had to jump back in with one of my old favorites!!


Aren't these colors just refreshing and summer-like?! Love 'em!

Then I went over to Connie and Mary's and found this super-fresh looking new Sketch Challenge. I love a good Sketch! Life's good with a good Sketch!

So then I decided to use the new Fabulous Florets set - it is FABULOUS, huh?! Well, I really like it! I like that the set has some outline images and some solid images too!

And I used one of the new sayings from the new word set Happy Greetings. The hello actually comes from a stamp that has three hellos on it, but I just chopped it for the one I wanted :) And I don't know about you, but whenever there's a new word set - I gotta get it!! You always need new words! And this one has some other awesome ones too.


Well, I was supposed to be doing a million other things, so I better run. But I'm glad I started my day with this card - too fun!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie