Stampin' Up! Mother's Day Gift Bags

Good mid-week morning, peeps! I meant to post my projects on Sunday but totally forgot! If you are a mother of humans or fur babies or an auntie, I hope you had a great day. 

So, I gave my daughter and his mother gift bags filled with Ghiardelli AND Hershey's Zero Sugar candy. I followed the instructions by Pootles and they were quick and easy. Here's a look see...

My daughter got the Lily of the Valley one because she loves them. She gave me a hummingbird solar lantern and her mil gave me a hanging basket which real hummingbirds love! My son-in-love gave me a mug and made me a reuben; chicken wings for his mother along with sprosciutto appetizer and individual apple cheesecakes for dessert. He truly could open a restaurant! I have to show you all the pics because you know I am a foodie (if you've been following me)! Here ya go...

Prosciutto w/Pignoli Nuts, Mozzarella Pearls, Peach Slice, Basil and Balsamic Glaze

Grilled Reuben with his homemade Thousand Island Dressing (I could take a bath in it!!)

Apple Crumb Cheesecake

Plant from Debi

Lantern from Kerri

So far I have had two hummingbirds visit the new hanging basket. I'm patiently waiting for the fireflies to appear! My firefly lantern of  15 years bit the dust, unfortunately, but I'm happy with the hummingbird lantern!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	April 2020 My Wonderful Family Paper Pumpkin Kit (ret.)
Card stock & Papers	Hydrangea Hue; Peaceful Pine; Bloom Boutique Specialty DSP; Bubble Bath
Ink	Hydrangea Hue; Peaceful Pine
Accessories	Soft Succulent Ribbon (ret.); unknown white satin ribbon
Tools	Classic Label Punch (ret.); Artistic Dies (ret.); Lily of the Valley Dies

Stampin' Up! Stippled Roses for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

Thank you for stopping here from wherever you came! We have a theme challenge today and here is what I created for our hop...

Let's take a closer look, shall we?

These roses could have come from my outdoor garden, but they came from the Stippled Roses Stamp Set, along with the sentiment. I also have not seen any butterflies outdoors so I need to buy some garden plants that will draw them to my backyard. Any suggestions for Tennessee? I had plenty in Florida!

For the inside...

The sentiment is from the Everyday Details Stamp Set. The list of product used follows the hoppers. If you have any questions, give me a shout out.

Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Akiko. Clicking on the names listed below will take you directly to team members and their projects. I hope you enjoy all the creativity. Thank you for stopping by!

Amy Koenders
Mary Deatherage
Jaimie Babarczy
Karen Finkle - you are here!
Akiko Sudano
Karen Ksenzakovic
Tara Carpenter
Terry Lynn Bright
Carol Buckalew

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stippled Roses; Everyday Details
Card stock & Papers	Flirty Flamingo; Basic White
Ink	Flirty Flamingo; Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Brushed Brass Butterflies; Butterfly Paper Accents
Tools	Stippled Roses Dies; 3D Fern EF; 1 3/4" circle punch; Blending Brush; Dimensionals; Cut & Emboss Machine

Stampin' Up! Monochromatic Mother's Day Card

Good mid-week morning, peeps (or whatever time of day you are looking). This is the card I gave my daughter for Mother's Day. She loves dark blue and although this looks like Night of Navy, it really is the retired Starry Sky cardstock and ink. The stamp sets I used are the current Stippled Roses, the retired Welcoming Window and Oh So Succulent. Let's take a look, shall we?

and the inside...

I used my Stamp N Write Markers to ink up the stamp.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for our Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop.

Project Details—All Products Current SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stippled Roses; Oh So Succulent (retired); Welcoming Window (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Starry Sky (retired); Basic White
Ink	Starry Sky (retired); Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Night of Navy & Gold Glittered 1/2" ribbon
Tools	Layered Florals 3D EF; Stippled Roses Dies; Blending Brush; Blender Pen; Cut & Emboss Machine; Dimensionals; Snips

Stampin' Up! Wild & Sweet Card for the Thursday Happy Inkin' Blog Hop

Thank you for stopping here from wherever you came! We have a theme challenge today and here is what I created for our hop.

I made this for my daughter. She has loved Koalas since she was little and still has her "Wally". I hope she likes her card and I also hope she doesn't look at my blog! She is a fantastic mother and gave me two wonderfully talented grandchildren!!

My card base is Starry Sky (5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/4"). I embossed a piece of Starry Sky cardstock (5 1/2" x 4 1/4") using the soon retiring Twigs & Sprigs 3D EF. I adhered it to the card front with liquid glue.

I stamped the "wally" from the Wild & Sweet Stamp Set on scrap Basic White in Gray Granite. I only wanted to color the leaves with my Light Mossy Meadow Stampin Blends so I did! I stamped the sentiment from Bamboo Beauty (retiring) in Starry Sky ink. I cut out the image with a Deckled Rectangle Die and also used a Deckled Rectangle for the Starry Sky mat. 

Next I cut the shaped Balmy Blue frame with a die from Desert Details (retiring). I adhered the art panel to the frame with liquid glue. Then I adhered the frame to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals. The embellishments are the soon retiring Pearl Basic Jewels. I will miss them!

For the inside...

I stamped the sentiments from Celebrating You Stamp Set (retiring) in Starry Sky and Balmy Blue. I used a die from the Desert Details to cut two borders, one in Starry Sky and one in Balmy Blue...thus the darker blue "dots" when layered on each other. These are her favorite blues and to make it more feminine, I stamped the flower from the Dainty Delight Stamp Set in Gray Granite and only colored the leaves...why? because I could...lol!

I'm entering my card in these challenges:

Tic Tac Toe ~ I went straight across the middle and straight down the middle!

Double Trouble Challenge #136 "Celebrate a Special Lady" and I'm playing with Thing 1 and Thing 3 as my flowers are not the focus on my card so I can't play with Thing 2 unless Suzanne tells me otherwise!

and Make My Monday Challenge #198 - Frame It!

Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Akiko. Clicking on the names listed below will take you directly to team members and their projects. I hope you enjoy all the creativity. Thank you for stopping by!

Amy Koenders

Mary Deatherage
Jaimie Babarczy
Karen Finkle - you are here!
Akiko Sudano
Karen Ksenzakovic
Tara Carpenter
Terry Lynn Bright
Carol Buckalew

Stampin' Up! Wonderful Moments Mother's Day Card

 Welcome to another mid-week in 2021. Mother's Day has passed but not the challenge at Always Fun #213 - Mother's Day Theme. Also, at Watercooler Wednesday WWC315, Marsha has an All Things Feminine Challenge.

I used the retired Wonderful Moments Stamp Set to create my card today and you can't get much more feminine than this...

My card base is Polished Pink and the ribbon is also. The mat is Flirty Flamingo. The colors are really off with my iPhone camera today. I used the Everyday Label punch for the sentiment and mat. I colored three Opal Rounds with my Flirty Flamingo Dark Stampin' Blends but they don't even look the same! I used the Ivory Stampin' Blends for her skin and the dress was a concoction of every Blends that was pink! Her hair was done with the Bronze Stampin' Blends.

The inside is from a past Paper Pumpkin Kit and is stamped in Polished Pink ink.

The recipient is expecting her first baby this month so I was happy I had kept this stamp set!

Thank you for stopping by today and do come back tomorrow for our weekly Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop.

Stampin' Up! Hand-Penned Petals Mother's Day Card

TGIF peeps! Yesterday we had our weekly card group gathering. Meg put together a card kit for us and I just loved it because I didn't order the bundle! 

We CASEd a thank you card by Beth Rush. Here's how mine turned out...

The card base is Mint Macaron. I stamped the flower image from Hand-Penned Petals in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored the flowers and leaves with my Pale Papaya and Mint Macaron Light and Dark Stampin' Blends. Then I cut the image out with the Penned Flowers Dies. The flowery mat and polka dot mat are from the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. (Meg spoiled us by having all the card cuts ready for us. All we had to do was stamp the flower image and  cut it out with the die and color the flowers.) 

Next I wrapped a piece of Pale Papaya 3/8" Open Weave Ribbon around the pre-cut-for-us polka dot piece and tied a bow. Then I adhered that to the flowery mat.

The flower image is adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals. The sentiment is from an old Paper Pumpkin kit, is also adhered with Dimensionals and stamped with Soft Succulent ink. I used the Everyday Label Punch to cut it. I did the sentiment when I returned home as I needed another Mother's Day card.

I have misplaced my Genial Gems that go with the Hand-Penned Suite so I used three of the 2021-2023 In Color Jewels (Soft Succulent) for the flower centers.

The inside...

The sentiment is from the Color and Contour Stamp Set.

I'm thinking I need this bundle and the Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper. However, I promised myself NO MORE DSP!! I know won't be sticking to it but it sounds good on paper!!! I do have the Genial Gems, however...somewhere!

I'm entering my card in the Inspired By Challenge IB173: Celebrate Her (inspired by flowers and Mother's Day theme ... not sure about the sketch!) and  Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper May 2021.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great weekend planned.

Stampin' Up! Pansy Patch Mother's Day Card

 

Welcome to the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop. This week we have a 2021-2023 In-Color Challenge. If this is your first time here, welcome! If not, welcome back!! Either way, you're in for a treat!!!

I am featuring Pansy Patch Stamp Set, Pansy Dies and Pansy Petals DSP on my card today.

You can see that the DSP uses all five colors even though we only had to pick three. I guess I'm an over achiever...lol.

My design was inspired by Sharon Armstrong's Mystery Card from May 3, 2021. Measurements are listed below. 

My card base is Basic White. I cut another piece of Basic White on which I adhered a piece of the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper with a Soft Succulent card stock strip. I dry embossed the white side with one of the EF's from Meadow Moments. I had already stamped the sentiment from Pansy Petals in Polished Pink. I die cut two Soft Succulent leaves and one Evening Evergreen leaf. I adhered them to the embossed/DSP mat with liquid glue. Then I used a Pansy die to cut the Polished Pink Pansy (say that 5 times fast!) from the DSP and adhered it with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Then I adhered that panel to a piece of Evening Evergreen card stock and that to the card base. I polished it off with three Polished Pink (see what I did there!) 2021-2023 In Color Jewels.

On to the inside...plain and simple...

...another sentiment from Pansy Patch stamped in Evening Evergreen and a strip of Pansy Petals DSP.

I'm entering my card at Watercooler Wednesday, Marcia's All Things Feminine WWC315.

The Flower Challenge: #56 Use Your Favorite Flower. When I lived in the Adirondacks, I always had pansies and Johnny Jump Ups in my flower beds. I miss them (yes, the flowers AND the Adirondacks!)

and how many of you remember the song from Alice in Wonderland Flowers All in the Golden Afternoon? Listen to it if you want to refresh your memory of the oh-so-cute and cheerful song. It's been years since I've seen that 1951 film!!

Hope the DT at Try it on Tuesday like the song and the pansies in the video that inspired me!

Thank you for taking a look at my post today. Now, on with the hop! Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Akiko. Clicking on the names listed below will take you directly to team members and their projects. Thank you for hopping with us.

Amy Koenders

Mary Deatherage

Kristi Gray

Jaimie Babarczy

Sue Prather

Karen Finkle – you are here!

Akiko Sudano

Karen Ksenzakovic

Measurements in inches:

Basic White:  5 1/2 x 8 1/2, scored and folded at 4 1/4; 3 3/4 x 5

Evening Evergreen: 4 x 5 1/4

Soft Succulent: 1/2 x 3 3/4

DSP: 2 1/4 x 3 3/4;  5 1/2 x 1/2 (inside)

Stampin' Up! A Wish for Everything Mother's Day Card

My card today is a CASE of a CASE! Thank you Donna Leonard and Su Mohr!  I used sentiments from A Wish for Everything and Happy Thoughts Stamp Sets to create my card.

Using the largest die from the Stitched Rectangles Dies, I cut a stitched mat of Coastal Cabana cardstock. I cut three strips from the Butterfly Bijou Designer Paper, which unfortunately hasn't been available for awhile...it was SO popular! I used a Stitched Rectangles Die, 3/4″ X 2 3/4″. I adhered them to the Coastal Cabana mat with liquid glue. 

In my stash I had the "happy" which is Bermuda Bay and cut with a borrowed die from years ago! The butterflies are cut with the Brilliant Wings Dies, bent with my bone folder and adhered with liquid glue only on the body part.

I used my Stamparatus to get the two separate words lined up from the A Wish for Everything Stamp Set. Believe it or not, that's what took me the longest on the entire card! I stamped it on a scrap of Basic White in Bermuda Bay ink and cut it out with another die from the Stitched Rectangles. I adhered it with Stampin' Dimensionals. Then I adhered the decorated mat to a Basic White cardstock base.

The inside sentiment is from the Happy Thoughts Stamp Set and is stamped in Bermuda Bay ink. I used another piece of Basic White cardstock and matted it on a piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock. I finished it off with a strip of Butterfly Bijou DSP.

I put another piece of a different design from the DSP pack on the envelope flap. Because I am hand delivering this, I put a cut out butterfly on the front of the envelope. I may even add some bling to the front. Do you think I should? OR maybe some Wink of Stella on the butterflies? OR both!!

I'm entering my card at the Little Red Wagon: Challlenge #600 - Hers! and at The Card Concept #154 Happy Mother's Day. I was inspired by the very pale curtains/painted wall in the background and the colors in the floral arrangement. I consider my card clean and simple/layered.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll come back tomorrow for our weekly Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop. It'll be a fun time!

Stampin' Up! Forever Blossoms Mother's Day Card

Good morning, peeps. Yeppers, we have reached mid-week already. Time flies when you're making cards and here's one I made for you today! I thank Ann Schach for her inspiration.

My card base is Basic White with a mat of DSP from the True Love Series. Another pattern is adhered to that. Then I matted the same striped pattern on a Basic Black mat and adhered it to the card front. 

I stamped the image on a piece of Basic White and die cut it. Then I colored it with these Stampin' Blends:

• Light Shaded Spruce
• Light Bermuda Bay
• Dark Pool Party
• Light Magenta Madness
• Dark Rococo Rose

I chose these colors for the Make the Cards Challenge #13.

Make the Cards is partnering with Double Trouble's Challenge #82 - Flowers so I'm playing along with Thing 1, Thing 3 and Thing 2.

The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings (retiring 5/3/21) and is adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals. Measurements are listed below in inches.

I'm entering again at SUOC 273: Use Designer Series Paper and at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper April 2021.

Thank you for stopping by today.

"We have His waves of grace amidst the storms of life."

Dr. David Jeremiah

Measurements:

Basic White: 4 1/4 x 11, scored and folded at 5 1/2, scrap for sentiment

Basic Black: 4 x 5 1/4, 2 1/2 x 5 1/8, scrap for sentiment mat

DSP: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, 3 7/8 x 5 1/8, 2 3/8 x 5 1/8

Stampin' Up! Hydrangea Haven Mother's Day Card for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop. This week we have a sketch challenge. If this is your first time here, welcome! If not, welcome back!!

My card...

The sketch...

I'm entering my card today at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper April 2021 Challenge, along with others listed below.

Ingredients...

• Basic White Thick Cardstock
• Old Olive Cardstock
• Hyrdrangea Hill Designer Series Paper
• Hydrangea Haven Stamp Set
• By the Dock Stamp Set (retiring) (front sentiment)
• The Right Triangle (retiring) (splatters)
• Well Said Stamp Set (retiring) (inside sentiment)
• Gorgeous Grape 3/8" Sheer Ribbon
• Pastel Pearls
• Old Olive Ink Pad
• Gorgeous Grape Ink Pad
• Sponges (retiring)
• Layering Circles Dies
• Detailed Trio Punch

Here's the inside...

I'm entering my card in the Retro Rubber Challenge #155 Rainbow Connection as two of my stamp sets are over a year old and the DSP contains colors of the rainbow.

I'm also entering my card at the Time Out Challenge #184.

Believe it or not, this was not an easy card for me to make. I have a difficult time getting measurements right so I am not even going to add instructions! However, if you hop on over to my teammates' pages, I'm sure you'll find measurements and beautiful cards! Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Akiko. Clicking on the names listed below will take you directly to team members and their projects.

Amy Koenders

Mary Deatherage

Kristi Gray

Jaimie Babarczy

Sue Prather

Karen Finkle – you are here!

Akiko Sudano

Karen Ksenzakovic

To take a look at the retiring products, click here!

Partial Product List

Hydrangea Haven Photopolymer Stamp Set

[154470]

$26.00

Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper

[154570]

$11.50

3/8" (1 Cm) Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon

[154572]

$7.00

Pastel Pearls

[154571]

$6.50

Detailed Trio Punch

[146320]

$20.00

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