Nature's Birthday Sweetness

Welcome to the first TGIF Challenges Color Challenge of 2024.  We have the perfect color combo to celebrate the New Year and all of the celebrations to come this year!

I love to build up my birthday card stash at the beginning of the year, so I took this challenge as a fun opportunity to play with one of my favorite suites in the January-April 2024 Mini Catalog.

Nature's Sweetness DSP is full of beautiful patterns with gold mixed in, which was perfect for this challenge.  I heat embossed a Basic Black Deckled Circle as well as the sentiment to bring in some silver, as well as a couple of little Notes of Nature Flowers.

I pulled the gold strands of thread from the Gold & Vanilla Ribbon to tuck behind the  almond tree branch and added a few silver Festive Pearls. Now...who will be the lucky recipient of this card this year?!?

Happy Stamping!

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Bee Mine Honey Bee

 It's the happiest day of the New Year...the January-April 2024 Mini and January-February 2024 Sale-a-Bration catalogs are live and ready to shop!

This Mini is FULL of amazing new products perfect for all of your spring and early summer creative projects, and so much more!

And with every $50 product purchase, you can earn a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!  And there is even MORE!  When you join Stampin' Up! during Sale-a-Bration you get to choose $125 in products for only $99 AND have your choice of the beautiful new Stampin' Glass Matt Studio (retail value $60) for FREE or an additional $30 in FREE product!  I joined during Sale-a-Bration 14 years ago and have loved every single moment of being a demonstrator!  

One of my favorites in the Mini is the Bee Mine Suite!  It has the cutest little bee and coordinating punch, along with several sentiments to show your family and friends how much they mean to you!  And the Bee Mine DSP...it doesn't get any cuter than this!  Take a look at a couple of projects I made with all of these adorable products!

Stay tuned for more adorable projects to come with this suite over the next few months!

Happy Stamping!

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Zany Zoo Thank You

It's the last Friday of 2023 and TGIF Challenges is wrapping up the year with a fun Inspiration Challenge!  There is so much cuteness wrapped up in this cute little inspiration photo...so many creative possibilities!

I mixed some Annual Catalog favorites with some upcoming January-April Mini and Sale-a-Bration Catalog favorites to play along with this challenge.

I used the Perennial Postage dies to create a postage stamp with the super cute Sunny Days DSP, which you can earn for free with a qualifying order during Sale-a-Bration!  The sunshine pattern goes along perfectly with the clouds!

I colored one of my favorite Zany Zoo critters to cruise through the forest with a basket full of Charming {Thank You} Sentiments. 

I love the sweet and simple layout inspired by the latest Freshly Made Sketches...a great way to end the year!

I hope you join along in the fun!

Happy Stamping!

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Softly Planted ~ Monday Montage

 

Today marks the last hop of 2023 for the Monday Montage designers!  Thank you for hopping along with us all year and we hope you'll join us again in January as we hop through 2024!

Thinking of You, Thank You and Just Because cards are always good to have on hand. These pretty sentiments from the Online Exclusive stamp set Softy Said and the soon to be available Planted Paradise stamp set helped to create a pretty trio of cards.

In addition to collecting stamps, ink and paper, I also collect plants.  It was fun to pot a few paper variety of plants!  Gray Granite,  Blueberry Bushel and Copper Clay were the color choices for the pots on the first card, filled with leaves in various shades of green.  Casing the January-April 2024 Mini Catalog, I stamped the cute little circle image in the background..cute, right?!?  

I went for softer shades of Petal Pink and Gray Granite for the next card, along with some more greens and Pebbled Path for the Thinking of You sentiment.  A little texture was added with the Painted Texture and Basics 3D embossing folders.

I went bold and bright for the last card, using Berry Burst for the pot filled with Granny Apple and Lemon Lime Twist leaves.  A Pretty Peacock Heartfelt Hexagon in the background and sentiment compliment the bright colors perfectly!

If you love fussy cutting as much as do, these stamp sets are for you!  There are no coordinating dies, but don't let that stop you!  There are lots of creative opportunities with both of these stamp sets that don't require any fussy cutting!

We have a smaller hop this week as many of the designers are enjoying the holiday season, but I promise you will find inspiration from all of us today!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Happy Stamping!

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Trusty Toolbox

We made it to Friday and y'all know what that means...time for an all new TGIF Challenges.  This week we have a sketch that was perfect for sharing a sneak peek of some new products coming in the January-April 2024 Mini and January-February 2024 Sale-A-Bration catalogs.

Let me introduce you to the Trusty Tools stamp set (Jan-April) and the coordinating Trusty Toolbox DSP (SAB)...

This stamp set and DSP will get a lot of use for all of the guys in my life!  From my dad, husband and sons to father-in-laws and friends, this will be a well loved stamp set!

I created a tool box with the DSP, tucking a few fussy cut tools inside.  The ruler, also from the DSP, filled the other half of the sketch.  The saw blade was the perfect addition to the front of the sketch.  I even brought in the Metal Plate 3D embossing folder from the Annual Catalog.  Products from all of the catalogs are always working together!

Join along in the fun and share your take on the sketch with us!

Happy Stamping!

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