Simple Sweetness Gift Set

Hip, hip, hooray...it's Friday!  And since there are FIVE Friday's this month, TGIF Challenges has a bonus challenge for us.  This weeks challenge is to create a simple gift set of cards.

The Kraft Note Cards & Envelopes are always something that I have on hand and they happed to be perfect to pair up with the stamps, dies and DSP from the Nature's Sweetness suite.  I wrapped the four cards up with some of the beautiful Pecan Pie Center Strip Ribbon and secured a sweet little tag with a piece of Linen Thread. 

I mixed and matched some different patterns of the Nature's Sweetness DSP for each card and added a different sentiment to each one.

This was a great way to use up some of this beautiful DSP before it officially retires. I have enough to make a few more of these gift sets, which would be the perfect Mother's Day gift!

Now it's your turn!  Create you own simple gift card set and share what you have created with us!

Happy Stamping!

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Thankful Notes of Nature

So many first for 2024!! Today is the first Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge of the year and it is full of so much inspiration!

I am not a fan of snow, especially when it's snow after Christmas!  So I pulled my inspiration from the blueberries as I dream of warm summer days.

Since I don't have any blueberry stamp sets, I pulled the colors from the image into the almond tree branch.  I absolutely love the collage style of stamping that comes with the Notes of Nature and Lovely & Sweet stamp sets.  It's so much fun creating a Night of Navy stamped background with all of the different images.  

The hole-punch and tab dies are so awesome and prefect for adding a little extra something to any project.  A little piece of Azure Afternoon peeking around the edges brought all of the blues together.

Be sure to play along and share what you have been inspired to create!

Happy Stamping!

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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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Flight & Airy - Around the World on Wednesday

Happy Wednesday friends!  It's time for an all new Around the World on Wednesday blog hop and I can't wait for you to see all of the fabulous creations with this months technique...Watercolor Smooshing.  

What is watercolor smooshing you ask?  It's one of the easiest watercolor techniques out there! Starting with your lightest color, smear you ink pad across any of the Clear Blocks (I used the giant F block). Smear any additional colors, lightest to darkest in any random pattern then spritz with a Stampin' Spritzer filled with water.  Next comes the smooshing part...place a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper over the block and smoosh it in the ink.  Easy peasy and so much fun!

The Balmy Blue and Midnight Misty inks smooshed together created a sky-like background that was perfect for these fussy cut birds from the beautiful Flight & Airy DSP that will be available during Sale-A-Bration in January.  I cut the smooshed watercolor using the Countryside Corners Dies to go on a simple Basic White card base.  Sweet and simple...my favorite! Notes of Nature sentiments and a few Tinsel Gems completed the card.

I had fussy cut a few different birds from the Designer Series Paper, so I just had to create a couple more smooshed backgrounds for the birds. I used just Pool Party or the next card with a few splatters, giving it a robin egg look.

Fresh Freesia and Bubble Bath helped to create a pretty background that reminds me of an early morning sunrise. The pretty flowers and birds have me longing for spring, sunshine and warmth.

Click on the Next Blog to see what Lori Wilcox has in store for us! See the complete lineup below in case you get off track!

Happy Stamping!

Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Tricia Butts - US

Bree Renwick - US

Lori Willcox - CA

Cheryl Hamilton - US

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Nature's Sweetness

Hello stampers!  I finally opened my box of new stamps, paper and other fun products and took a short break from Christmas cards for the latest Hand Stamped Sentiments Sketch Challenge.  It was love at first sight when I saw Nature's Sweetness shared during OnStage@Home.  I was so happy it was included in the list of items we were able to order early!

I used the Notes of Nature stamp set to create a collage background on the Pecan Pie circle on the front as well as the Very Vanilla panel peeking from the background.  I love the freestyle stamping that sets like this allow!

The floral image was die cut from the GORGEOUS Nature's Sweetness DSP and colored with Stampin' Blends in shades of Old Olive, Pecan Pie and Petal Pink.  The Lovely & Sweet dies coordinate with some of the images in the DSP, which makes cutting some of the beautiful images super easy!

Do you spy the cute little Cork Rounds?  These may easily be my new favorite embellishments!  A simple "congratulations" sentiment from Lovely & Sweet was just that...lovely and sweet.

I can't wait to create more projects with this suite.  There are endless possibilities!

Happy Stamping!

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