Stampin' Up! Happy Place Engagement Card

Happy Saturday, peeps. Have you seen Sharon Armstrong's Million Dollar Sales Stamp Set? It's wonderful! I created this card with it...

The patterned paper on the envelope and front of the card is a digital I printed out by being a patron of Kendra Morgan's Cards. The Basic White panel is embossed with the Sunrise Sailing Hybrid Folder. Before I embossed it, I used the Baby Wipe Technique to color it. Then I stamped the sentiments in Memento Tuxedo Black. Unfortunately, I had my cardstock incorrectly situated in the embossing folder so it ended up being debossed.

For the inside...

I used a piece of paper that has flecks in it from the defunct Office Max. I stamped the sentiment from the retired Love & Happiness Stamp Set in Summer Splash ink and that is also the color of my card base. A small strip of the patterned paper finished off the inside.

Today would have been my 56th anniversary so I don't know what I'll do today but I know it will be something to honor my hubby. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are having a great weekend.

Stampin' Up! Friends of the Ocean for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

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

                                            

                                               

Let's take a closer look at the front and inside, shall we?

 

My card base is Berry Burst card stock and the Designer Series Paper is Friends of the Ocean (available in the Last Chance Products as of the creation of this card!). 

The sand dollar is from the Seaside Wishes Stamp Set and is cut and embossed with the Seaside Wishes Dies and Hybrid Folder. I sponged it with Basic Beige and wished I hadn't. 

The "love you" sentiment is from the Seaside Wishes Stamp Set. "Time to Celebrate" is from the Round We Go Stamp Set as is the "Happy Birthday" inside. They were stamped with Berry Burst and Pumpkin Pie.

For the star fish images inside, I used a stamp from Seaside Wishes. I stamped them in Calypso Coral, Summer Splash, Pumpkin Pie, Lemon Lime Twist and Melon Mambo. 

The fun fold design was inspired by Mary Anne Cowan. There are other videos on You Tube for the fold, but I saw hers first!

Measurements in inches:

Base: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, scored and folded at 4 1/4; cut top left at fold to bottom right corner 

DSP: 4 x 5 1/4; cut from top left corner to bottom right corner

Basic White inside: 4 x 5 1/4

Smaller card: 3 x 8 1/2, scored and folded at 4 1/4

DSP: 2 3/4 x 4

Basic White inside: 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 

Again, thank you for stopping by! 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.

                                                      

 

 

Amy Koenders

Mary Deatherage

Karen Finkle - you are here!

Akiko Sudano

Karen Ksenzakovic

Tara Carpenter

Terry Lynn Bright

Stampin' Up! Unbounded Love Meets Beach Textures Digital

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! My card today has a digital front with a stamped inside. Let's take a look...

My background is a digital image by Iced Images. I bought it with a set of beach themed digitals back in August. 

The "You Rock" is computer generated and I got the idea from my friend, LeAnne Pugliese. As a matter of fact, the entire card was inspired by her! Thank you, LeAnne!!

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 SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love (inside sentiment)
Card stock & Papers	Boho Blue; Soft Sea Foam; Basic White; Beach Textures
Ink	Copper Clay
Accessories	3/4" White Frayed Ribbon (retired); Faux Sea Glass Shapes (retired)
Tools	Deckled Circles (retired); Dimensionals; Liquid Glue

Stampin' Up! Seaside Wishes for Creative Creases Challenge #91 Anything with a Fun Fold

Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #91. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. Here's a snapshot of mine...

So let's take a closer look at the front of my fun fold...

I CASE'd my friend, Alyson Mayo. If you join her Facebook Group, you will have access to all her Fun Fold videos. They are invaluable and she is a wonderful teacher! She calls this one the "Sunflower Envelope Card". I call mine the "Seashell Envelope Card"! Thank you, Alyson! You can find her on FB by searching for "Create with Alyson - Membership" and then request to join her group.

Take a look at the opened card and side view...

I added mats for my triangle pieces, which Alyson didn't do because she used CTMH cardstock and theirs is one color on one side and slightly lighter color on the reverse. SU is solid color. The patterned paper is one I used before here.

A list of products can be found in the chart below.

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team. Be sure to check us out at CCC#91 and we hope to see your entry there!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seaside Wishes; Sea Turtle; Magical Mermaid (ret.); Seaside Bay (ret.)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige; Lost Lagoon; Very Vanilla; Petal Pink; Garden Green; Ice Images Beach Digital Patterned Paper
Ink	Lost Lagoon; Crumb Cake; Soft Sea Foam; Basic Beige
Accessories
Tools	Seaside Bay Dies (ret.)

Stampin' Up! Seaside Wishes Birthday Card for Creative Creases Challenge #89 Anything Goes with a Fun Fold

Welcome to our Anything Goes With a Fun Fold Challenge. If you haven't played at Creative Creases Challenge before, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Challenge #89. We'd love to see your fun fold creation. My fun fold today is one I learned from Alyson Mayo on her Facebook page. Go to FB, search for Create with Alyson - Membership and then request to join the group. In the meantime, take a look see...

Alyson calls this a "triangle front fun fold" and I call it a tongue twister! Thank you, Alyson!! Let's take a closer look at all the angles. I had to use the geode to hold the front down unfortunately.

My Pretty Peacock card base is 11" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4", 5 1/2", 6 3/4". 

The DSP measures 4" x 5 1/4" (2 for front and inside) The diagonal on cardstock is cut from 1" to the upper first score  line. The triangles...you're on your own unless you join Alyson to see her video! The two small strips of DSP measure 1" x 5 1/4".

Thank you for stopping by today and I can't wait to see all the creativity from the team and your entries! Please do join us at CCC#89.

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seaside Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Pretty Peacock; Basic Beige; Thoughtful Designs Specialty Paper; Thoughtful Journey DSP; Ice Images Beach Digital Patterned Paper
Ink	Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Liquid Pearls Opal White
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies; 2" Circle Punch; 1 3/4" Scallop Punch (ret.); Seaside Wishes Dies and Hybrid EF

Stampin' Up! Comforting Thoughts Meets Paradise Palms & By the Dock

Good morning my stamping friends. Today's card is a mixed bag of retired stamp sets and one current. 

The sentiment from Comforting Thoughts is current. The boat from By the Dock and the palm trees from Paradise Palms are both retired. The Ruffled Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder is also retired. The birds from the Adhesive Backed Dragonflies & Birds are current. The inks I used are current...Boho Blue, Bubble Bath, and Lemon Lolly. 

I made this with my card group from Florida last Thursday afternoon! We joined each other via Zoom. I haven't been with them since August 2023 and I miss them. Take a look see at one of the cards I created with the ladies...

So, you've seen mine, now I'll show you the card Sue L. demonstrated. 

We had so much fun figuring out one of the stamp sets she used cuz she couldn't remember. I keep an inventory in Evernote of every stamp set I have ever owned. It was so funny that the boat she used was a set I had given to another woman in our group who had forgotten she had it...lol! She pretended she had sold it...big lol! Miss my cohorts!!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you'll be back tomorrow for our Happy Inkin' Thursday blog hop.

Stampin' Up! Sea Turtle Birthday Card for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

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

Let's take a closer look and I'll tell you more about it!

My card base is Lost Lagoon with a panel of the new Basic Beige. With stamps from the Sea Turtle Photopolymer Stamp Set, I stamped the images with Versa Mark Ink.

I had a scrap of the new Summer Splash cardstock on my desk so I embossed it with the Seaside Wishes Hybrid Embossing Folder. I also had a scrap of the new Petunia Pop cardstock on my desk so I cut the square out with the third largest die from the Stylish Shapes Dies. Can you believe the little strip was a scrap I had saved from another card? So, I employed it here. This is a pretty scrappy card, wouldn't you say?

For the inside I cut all new pieces for the mats. The sentiments on the front and inside are from the Unbounded Love Stamp Set. At the bottom I stamped the bubbles from the Sea Turtle Stamp set in Versa Mark.

Thank you for stopping by! 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.

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

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2417 Theme Challenge

Here is what I created for our theme challenge today...

This is the inspiration for our theme...

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is none other than 

Cut one of the By the Bay Specialty Designer Series Paper to 5" x 3 3/4"

Stamp all the birds in Espresso Ink on the DSP

Stamp the sand and shells in Crumb Cake Ink

Stamp sentiment in Night of Navy Ink

Rough the edges with Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

Adhere to Misty Moonlight panel 5 1/4″ X 4″

Adhere to Crumb Cake card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, scored and folded at 4 1/4″

I'm entering my card at Krafty Chicks Challenge #713 All Occasions.

Don't miss out getting your entries in (limit is 3). Remember the limit per submission for entering challenges is 10, including ours. If you go beyond that, you won't be eligible for the prize. You certainly want to be eligible in this challenge. Why? The prize for our random winner will be a $10 Gift Certificate from Scrapbook.com and who doesn't need more crafting supplies, right? 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you'll check out the Design Team's cards.

Stampin' Up! Season of Chic Sympathy Card for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

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

Let's take a closer look, shall we?

I chose to use Petal Pink, Pool Party and Basic Black. With permission, I threw in some Crumb Cake to make it look more realistic (at least I think so!). It's for a man who lost his beautiful wife awhile ago and I know what it's like to be inundated with cards so I usually wait. It's better to send a card later than not at all. Wouldn't you agree? 

My card is a CASE of Jan Clothier. Thank you, Jan.

I kept the inside really simple...

Clicking on the "next" button will take you to Akiko Sudano. 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
Nel Thames

Project Details—All Products Current SU!
Stamps	Season of Chic
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Petal Pink, Crumb Cake
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black, Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Petal Pink first and second generation
Accessories	Classic Matte Dots (Very Vanilla)
Tools	Chic Dies, Cut & Emboss Machine, Dimensionals, Liquid Glue

Stampin' Up! Oceanfront Anniversary Card 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.

I used both!

My card base is 4 1/4"" x 5 1/2  piece of  Copper Clay. Cardstock I cut a piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock (4" x 5 1/4") and ran it through my embossing machine with the Painted Textures 3D EF BUT only embossing the sides 1" in.  I cut a strip of Copper Clay 2023-2025 In Color DSP  (2 1/2" x 5 1/2"), sponged it with Copper Clay Ink and adhered it to the Very Vanilla piece, folding 1/4" over the top and securing it with Stampin' Seal+...no glue on the rest of it because I turned it into a flip card!

Next I cut a piece of Copper Clay Cardstock using a Scalloped Contours Die.  On another piece of Very Vanilla, I stamped the scene from the Oceanfront Stamp Set and Seaside Bay Stamp Set using Coastal Cabana (ocean), Crumb Cake (sand), Pebbled Path (shells) and Balmy Blue (sky). I cut it out with a Deckled Rectangle Die. I adhered that to the scalloped mat. Then I adhered only the middle section of the mat to the DSP "flap". I stamped the sentiment from the Days to Remember Stamp Set in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it using Copper Embossing Powder. I punched the sentiment out with the Double Oval Punch and the mat with the same punch using Copper Clay Cardstock. I adhered the sentiment to the mat with liquid glue and the left side of the mat to the "flap" with Stampin' Dimensionals.

After this post, I will add birds to the sky but our hop involves only current product and the birds in flight from the High Tide Stamp Set are retired. It did add something to the card, however!

I can't show you the inside because I already wrote in it. But I can tell you what I did. I used the Days to Remember Stamp Set and stamped July 25, 2015 in Copper Clay Ink. Then I printed out a picture of my daughter and her husband's first dance. (They had been sweethearts in junior high and went their own ways until they met again in 2013. They were made for each other!) I made it to fit under the flap and only adhered it with temporary adhesive in case they want to use another photo. I'm happy the 8th anniversary is copper because it worked perfectly for SU's current In Color.

I'm entering my card in the Double D Challenge "The Great Outdoors" and Can You Handle the Pressure "ATG with a Twist of Stars".

That's it for now peeps. 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! Seaside Bay Masculine Card for the Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop

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

So, as you can see, I turned the card on its side because I wanted it to have more of a beach feel.

I have a friend whose birthday is soon approaching and he does like the beach, birds and shells!

I used the Seaside Bay Stamp Set for my images and the Season of Chic Stamp Set for my sentiments. I used the All That Dies for my sentiment oval and banner ends. All the product used is listed below.
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That's it for now peeps. 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	Seaside Bay; Season of Chic
Card stock & Papers	Pretty Peacock; Earthen Elegance DSP
Ink	Pretty Peacock; Crumb Cake; Gray Granite
Accessories	Dimensionals; liquid glue
Tools	All That Dies