Citrus Hello - Around the World on Wednesday

Welcome to the July edition of Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop!

This month we are casing a team member and adding the fun twist of Scrabble to the mix.  I had the honor of casing Teri of Alaska Stamper, who also happens to be an amazing Artisan Design Team member!  It was so great to meet Teri in person last March in Houston.  I hope we get to see each other in person again someday!

We both started with the word Artisan with our scrabble tiles and built from there.  Our tiles are to tell you all a little about ourselves and our love of stamping.  How fun is this?

This is Teri's card that I cased. I love the black and white images with the blue background...it's simply beautiful!

For my card, I swapped out the apples for oranges.  I stamped the oranges in Tuxedo Black Memento and colored in the background with the Boho Blue Stampin' Blends.  I followed the same layout as Teri's beautiful card and stamped a simple little Hello for the sentiment.

Teri happens to be up next in the hop!  Let's jump on over and see what she has to share with us!

See the full lineup below:

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Kelly Taranto - US

Angie McKenzie - US

Chris Smith - US

Bree Renwick - US

Teri West - US

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Peachy Birthday Wishes

Hello friends and happy Thursday!  I am so happy to be one day away from Friday, but I could also use an extra work day to catch up this week.  It has been a crazy start to the school year!  Thank goodness for some creative therapy with this weeks CASE the Designer at Global Design Project.  It was just what I needed!

Peaches are finally ripe enough to pick around here, which inspired me to give some love to the Sweet as a Peach bundle!

I decided to CASE Wilma de Korte's layout using the You're a Peach DSP.  The Balmy Blue stripes make me happy!  I added a strip of the juicy peach pattern of DSP across the middle and topped it off with a sweet peach and Happy Birthday sentiment.

A white twine bow was tucked behind the peach and a few little white die-cut flowers were added for good measure.  Kind of a clean and simple card...I'm loving it!

Even though it has been a super busy week at work, I am happy to report I am back to my early morning, pre-work stamping routine.  I love starting my days this way!  Now if I could just find more time to squeeze in some evening stamp time too...I'll have to work on that!

Happy Stamping!

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A CASE of Sweet Strawberry Birthday Wishes

Hello and happy Sunday!  I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and sneaking in a little creative therapy.  It has been a busy weekend so far, but I did still manage to get some of my own creative therapy and played along with the latest Global Design Project Challenge.  This week is CASE the Designer Janneke de Jong.

I addition to CASEing Janneke, I'm also bringing in a little Krista Frattin of Stampin' Dolce.  The Sweet Strawberry projects she has created this past month have been gorgeous!  

I stamped the sweet strawberry vines in VersaMark and heat embossed them in White.  I added a light layer of Pool Party ink with the amazing new Blending Brushes, along with a few Pool Party Splatters to create the perfect background for a sweet and juicy strawberry.

The strawberry was stamped in Poppy Parade, topped with a Granny Apple Green stem, a few Garden Green leaves and a couple Petal Pink blooms.  Anyone else craving strawberries now?!?!

The sweet strawberry was layered on top of a simple strip of Berry Delightful DSP and topped off with a bold sentiment heat embossed in white on Basic Black.  A few Artistry Blooms sequins in the center of the flowers and this sweet card is complete!

I think we are wrapping up the end of our winter weather and easing into spring.  I can't wait for my own little strawberry patch to be filled with sweet berries again soon!

Happy Stamping!

Like what you see?  Do you want to make this card yourself?  If you live in the United States, I would love to be your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  You can shop for all the products you need in my Online Store.  Thanks so much! 

Products Used:

Pretty Perennials Birthday Bash CASE ~ Global Design Project GDP#278

 

Hello friends! I hope your week has been great so far...we're half way to the weekend.  YAY!!

The amazingly talent group over at Crafty Carrot Collective hosted their 4th Birthday Bash last month and had some great projects using 4 different birthday themed stamp sets.  It was so fun to follow along and even better to have some great ideas to CASE! Today I am sharing my taken on Cindy's Pretty Perennials card, with an added Global Design Project sketch twist.

I love, love, LOVE anything with stripes, so this sketch was right up my alley! I layered stripes in colors of Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz and So Saffron, then got to work layering all of the floral bits and pieces that Cindy used in her project.  I added the Stitched Dies circle, which was embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder, to tie into the GDP sketch.  I love the added texture!

You know by now that I love to fussy cut, so I was oh-so-happy to cut out the heat embossed HAPPY.

Don't you just love the tone on tone Crumb Cake blooms in the background?  I need to remember to use this technique more often!

I'm so happy you stopped by today!  Be sure to check back again soon for another fun Crafty Carrot Collection CASE!

Like what you see?  Do you want to make this card yourself?  If you live in the United States, I would love to be your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  You can shop for all the products you need in my Online Store.  Thanks so much! 

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Birdhouse CASE

Hello stampers!  Happy Friday!!!

 

We made it through another week...yippee!! What are your plans for the weekend?  I'm kicking the weekend off with my monthly stamp club tonight...my favorite time of the month :-)  Saturday is a day full of soccer and basketball and Sunday will be full of stamping and maybe a little football.  (I'll be honest...there will likely be very little football watched by me!)

 

Some days I get a little stumped with my stamping...I know it happens to all of us at some point!  When I'm in a slump, I turn to the catalogs for some inspiration and often times CASE a card that I love.  And that's just what I did today!

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Pool Party, Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Tutti-Frutti Cards & Envelopes

Ink ~ Memento Black, Stampin' Blends, VersaMark, Pool Party

Stamp Sets ~ Flying Home, Wood Words

Other Supplies ~ Whisper White Bakers Twine, White Embossing Powder

 

Aren't those bird houses so cute?!?  And what about that fun preprinted card base?!?!  You can earn that for FREE with a $50 purchase between now and March 31st!  Ask me how!

 

I changed things up a bit from the card that is in the Occasions Catalog on page 41, but that's what CASE'ing is all about.  You can make it exactly the same or you can change it up a little!  Either way, the catalogs are a great source of inspiration whenever you may be in a creative slump!

 

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!  I'm hoping I'll be back again tomorrow with another edition of Simple Saturday stamping :-)

 

Happy Stamping!