Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge #13

Hi Stamping Friends!  It's Thrusday and that means it's time for another Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge!!  This week we are celebrating an endless summer with this fun surf/pool theme.  Since my hubby is and old surfer at heart (we grew up in SoCal where he surfed every beach he could!) I love this week's theme.  We hope you can play along with us!!

EXTREME SURFBOARD

I love the bright "boy" colors in the photos.  I used Pacific Point (great replacement for Brilliant Blue!), Daffodil Delight (another great change from Yoyo Yellow!), and Pumpkin Pie.  AS you can tell, I'm really lovin' the Color Renovation that SU! did this year.  And they announced that they would be changing the colors around every 5 years or so.  I think that's a smart move on their part.  You have to keep up with the trends!!

I used a sketch from the 2 Sketches 4 You blog.  I'm trying to get a little more creative in my embellishments.  I still haven't got back into my stamping groove yet.  I'm hoping it comes back soon! 

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow.  I'm going to be in a Stampin' Addicts blog hop and they are always the best!!  So many talented ladies over there.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

Stampin' Addicts Summer Blog Hop!!

Hi Stamping Friends!

The Stampin' Addicts Summer Mini blog hop is here!  I'm so excited to be a part of this awesome hop.  I know you will be treated to lots of fabulous stamping goodness from all these talented stampers.  If you've been hopping, then you just came from Trina's cute blog, Stamps and Whiskers.  If you're just joining us, that's O.K.  Just start here and hop on through 'til the end.  If you somehow get lost along the way, just click HERE and there is a list of the blog hop sites, in order.







The new Summer Mini set that I chose is Go, Graduate!  I don't have any graduation sets, and I fell in love with the adorable little owl.

Isn't he just too cute?! 

I found this great sketch at Carrie Gaskin's amazing blog, The Artistic Avenger.   The color inspiration came from the Embellish magazine blog.  It's an old challenge that I never got around to, but I really liked the colors of Real Red, Basic Black, Kraft and Whisper White.

And every graduate needs a little gift.

The Matchbox is the perfect little box to stash a little graduation cash into.  That and maybe some chocolate!  Those are the first two things that are always my wish list.  I'm so glad that Stampin' Up! has so many exclusive dies.  It's always impressive when you can match your card and your gift.

Here's another super cute image from the Go, Graduate! set.

I just think this image is hilarious!  And so true.  Since no one can see your new outift under that gown, then you better find the cutest shoes to wear with it!

The sketch idea came from 2Sketches4You.  This is Kazan's sketch 51.  I flipped the sketch on it's side.  The colors were inspired by the challenge over at Pals Paper Arts, which was to create a monochromatic card using blues.  I had to throw in the little bit of Chocolate Chip on the cowboy boots, just for fun.  I colored this image with my Watercolor Crayons and Blender Pens.  Funny thing, these are the school colors of our local Christian high school, Central Valley Christian.  So this will be perfect for one of the many graduation parties we will be attending.  The joy of being a youth pastor's wife!

And here is one more little gift basket, that would perfect filled with lots of yummy after-graduation candy.

The colors I used are Night of Navy, Brocade Blue and Bashful Blue.  I cut this basket out with the Baskets and Blooms die.  Then I embossed it with the new Square Lattice Impressions Folder, (from the Summer Mini) before I assembled it.  The tag is also cut using the same die.

Well that's it from me!  Next blog in the hop is Dr. Heather at CANDLE WITH TWO ENDS.  She will be treating us to some great projects using the First Day stamp set.

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Happy Stamping!

Finally Vintage!

Hi Stamping Friends!

Well I finally made a vintage style card that I absolutely adore!  I don't know why it's so hard for me to do this style of a paper crafting.  I love the vintage, shabby chic look, but I just can't seem to get it to work for me.  Until today!

I made this card for the Curtain Call color challenge over at Stacey's Stamping Stage.  And I also used the sketch from the 2 Sketches 4 You.  This is Kazan's sketch 49.

This card was so fun to make!  The card base is Kraft.  I stamped the damask image from the Friends 24-7 set with White Craft ink.  I did use my SAMJ to get the placement right.  The sentiment comes from the Wellness Wishes set.  For the butterflies, I first stamped the Kraft cardstock with the Dot, Dot, Dot stamp from the Occasions Mini catalog using Versamark ink.  I love the added depth it gives the butterfly.  The pearls and hat pin are from the Pretties Kit.  I did sponge the edges of everything with a little bit of Soft Suede. 

FRIENDS 24-7  #113218  $25.95

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Happy Stamping!