#TGIFC258 Color Challenge

Happy Friday stampers!  The crew over at TGIF Challenges has a cheerful Color Challenge for you to play along with this week that you are going to LOVE!
I don't know about you, but I could certainly use some bright and cheerful colors, especially after a week of clouds, wind, rain, hail and snow.  I'm beginning to wonder if Mother Nature has been hit by COVID 19 too!

I absolutely love the March Paper Pumpkin kit!  I paired up No Matter the Weather and FREE Spring Splash stamp sets to make a cheerful card to send out to a dear friend during these dreary times.

I always love some fun stripes, so I created a striped background using Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pool Party and Purple Posey.  The adorable Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder was a pretty close match to the floral pattern in the rainboots...how fun is that?!?!  I stamped the boots in Memento and colored the flowers using the same rainbow of colors that I did for the background.  These colors are bound to cheer anyone up!

Supplies Used:
Paper ~ Whisper White, Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pool Party, Purple Posey

Ink ~ Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, VersaMark, Memento, Stampin' Blends:  Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pool Party, Purple Posey

Stamp Sets ~ No Matter the Weather, Spring Splash

Other Supplies ~ Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder, Stitch Shapes Dies, Whisper White Bakers Twine

While we have been keeping busy with school and work from home, we are all missing our friends and family and routines so much!  But I am enjoying my afternoon craft time and not feeling so rushed to get things done.  Even in all the chaos, we are doing our best to find joy in everything we do every day.

I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy!

Happy Stamping!

Ornate Appreciation

Happy Monday friends!  With all of the chaos that surrounds us right now, I have some happiness to share with you today.  Beginning on April 1st, Stamping' Up! will be launching the early release of the beautiful Ornate Gardens Suite, which will be featured in the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog.  The timing of this release could not be more perfect!  The Ornate Thanks stamp set has the BEST sentiments to send words of encouragement and gratitude out to those who need it right now!

Our school district begins our "Distance Learning" program this week and we will be picking up packets from our boys' schools.  These cards will be hand delivered to the staff at their schools as a thank you for all of the hard work they have put in to our kids, even when they aren't in the building.  Staff has spent countless hours preparing packets and Google Classroom sessions for our kids, and will continue to do this for at least the next 6 weeks, possibly longer.

Of course I had to add the Ornate Style stamp set to my collection!  Any stamp set that has images that I can color with my Stampin' Blends is a must have for me!  

And let's talk about this beautiful Ornate Garden Specialty DSP...it is absolutely GORGEOUS!  These flowers...yep, it's DSP that I have colored and fussy cut out to create this beautiful thank you card.  I plan to sit down and color an entire sheet of this DSP while my boys work on their school work.

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Mint Macaron, Whisper White, Ornate Garden Speciality DSP, Vellum

Ink ~ VersaMark, Memento, Stampin' Blends:  Calypso Coral, Mango Melody, Petal Pink, Granny Apple Green, So Saffron, Mint Macaron

Stamp Sets ~ Ornate Style, Ornate Thanks

Other Supplies ~ Gold Embossing Powder

Things are certainly different in our world right now, but rather than focusing on the bad, I am choosing to find the good in everything that we do.  I am using some of my extra time to make more cards to send to our schools and to the teachers that I work directly with.  They are missing our kids so much and need to know just how much they are appreciated.

Happy Stamping!