Creation Station Blog Hop - Going Gingham Style!

Welcome to Just Julie B Stampin'! If you're just starting the Creation Station Blog Hop - Welcome!! And if you've hopped here from the fabulous Sara Levin, I hope you enjoyed her awesome creation! This month we are going 'Gingham Style' - and I Love this!! I Love gingham, but it also makes me want to sing and dance to Gangnam style!! ;) 

OK - so back to card making! When I saw all the gingham papers - and fell in love with them... I wasn't so sure that I had to have them just to go with the Butterfly Gala, all part of the suite. So I bought the papers first.

And then... when I saw the Fable Friends stamp set - Aaaaaahhhh - Loved them as partners! I Love the Fable Friends bunny (the Peter Rabbit looking bunny with the gingham papers - Beatrix Potter style!). Buy I had to do something a little different - 

I Love all the animals in the Fable Friends set - the bunny and the ducks, and baby ducks... but this little squirrel guy - he stole my heart! He's just so cute!! I couldn't wait to color him with some Stampin' Blends and put him on a card, Haha!

Look at him a little closer, with the sweet little sailor jacket and hat - so cute, right?! I loved coloring him with the Stampin' Blends - I used Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue, Calypso Coral and Old Olive and a smidge of Mango for the flower center. With more practice, I'm really liking the Stampin' Blends more and more!!  

I added a little "Happy Spring" tag, quickly (and not perfectly) cut from Balmy Blue Cardstock, just to give a nice general saying on the card.

I kept all the other details of the card simple - one layer of Balmy Blue underneath the gingham and just a simple knotted Whisper White Classic Weave Ribbon - all because I wanted to be a 'boy' card for my grandson! I try to visit him often, and usually bring him a little something. So next time I visit, I figured I would add this cute little card to his little gift!

I hope you enjoyed your stop here! And I hope you enjoy your hop to the amazing Denita Wright-Smee! Can't wait to see what she has created! Click the link below to continue on the hop!

    

Denita Wright-Smee

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie B

Creation Station Hop - In All Things Give Thanks!

Howdy, and Welcome to Just Julie B Stampin' - We are 'Giving Thanks' this month with Creation Station! So my take on the theme this month was Thanksgiving in the U.S. - but I decided to go a little alternative with my colors! I Love, Love, Love the Festive Farmhouse Designer Series Papers - so I decided to create around them. - Plaids are SO in right now!!

I made a coordinating card and little Hershey Nugget Treat Holder! And I used the Country Home stamp set because I Love the sayings (well, I do like just about all of it really). 

For the card, I layered the plaid and it's backside on the Early Espresso card base. Then I tied the Mossy Meadow Cotton Twine around (love the softness to that twine!). And for for the focal point, I used the cotton bouquet from the Country Home set, but I didn't want to use a pail or pitcher for the base, so I added the saying below it! - And I did use Early Espresso ink for the stamping, even with Stampin' Blends coloring. I was just careful not to color to heavily! To my surprise, it worked great!

So for the Treat Holder - I used a fun little template I found from The Paper Pixie (from about a year ago)! She's awesome at little treat holders - Click HERE for the You Tube video on how she made this. My favorite thing about it is that you can make the holder (super easy, using the Envelope Punch Board) and cover three Hershey Nuggets - ALL with a 6" x 6" piece of Designer Series Paper! 

I hope you enjoyed your stop by, and thanks for hopping with us - and up next is the fun and fabulous Dena Rekow! Click on the link below to hop on over there!

Dena Rekow

Julie B

Creation Station Hop - Layers of Leaves!

Welcome to Just Julie B Stampin! If you're just starting the hop, or hopping here from Andrea's blog, Welcome! This month we're Layering Leaves - Happy Fall here in the United States! So I got the Falling for Leaves Bundle, and I Love it! The stamp set is so pretty - I love all the details of the largest leaf. And the thinlits are equally as pretty!     

This isn't my usual kind of card - but I got started with the stamped leaf and had so much fun coloring it in with the Stampin' Blends. I used Mango Melody, light and dark, Pumpkin Pie, light and dark, and a little bit of light Cajun Craze. That leaf became my focal point. And then I just added stuff around it that seemed to go... 

My favorite background is Crumb Cake - so I went there! And I used the edgelit dies from the Detailed Leaves Framelits to create the Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake layered edges. Then it seemed that a black layer was needed - so that happened ;) And after the Basic Black Cardstock accent, the Black Cord and stamped "thankful" seemed to be best stamped in black also!   

Again, I really love this stamped leaf - and the Stampin' Blends just make it so beautiful! The leaves in the background add that little bit of somethin' it needs to set it off. But, just a Wow stamp set and thinlits combo, huh?!

I hope you enjoyed your stop by here - and you're in store for some super awesomeness on your next stop with Elizabeth Price!

Elizabeth Price

Thanks for stopping by,


Julie B