Simple Special Moments

 Happy Monday friends!

I love finding peace and comfort in creating cards, especially when they are for a dear friend who recently lost a loved one.  I turned to my favorite, Plentiful Plants for a simple, yet meaningful sympathy card.

I chose two of the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP patterns in Granite Gray, cutting the fern pattern at an angle to add a little something extra.  The brick pattern was perfect for creating a little plant shelf for two potted plants.

I finally inked up the Special Moments stamp set from Sale-A-Bration for the sentiment...simple, yet so perfect.  This stamp set is jam packed full of sentiments for any occasions and can still be earned for FREE through the month of February with a purchase of $100 in product.

Can you believe I made a card without an embossed sentiment OR embellishments?!?  Sometimes all you need are stamps, ink and paper!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have a fantastic week!

Happy Stamping!

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Driving By to Say...

Hello and welcome to the latest Hand Stamped Sentiments Color Challenge!

My first thought was to reach for a floral stamp set when I saw these colors, but then I remember my friends orange VW van and decided the Driving By stamp set would be perfect!

I colored the van Pumpkin Pie (of course), the bug Petal Pink and the car Daffodil Delight.  That cute little yellow car reminds me of a banana colored in yellow!  Since I fussy cut each car, I decided to snip off the gifts and balloons attached and just went with the cars.  

I created a watercolored background with Pool Party and Crumb Cake to create the perfect beach scene.  And what's a beach scene without some palm trees right? 

This cute card is on it's way to my friend Pam with a happy little note...I know she's going to love it!

I hope you'll join us and play along with this weeks Color Challenge!

Happy Stamping!

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Island Vibes Birthday Wishes

Hello and welcome to an all new Monday Montage Blog Hop! We are missing a few participants this time around, but I promise we still have a ton of great projects to share with you!

My mother-in-laws birthday is coming up this week, so I had some fun mixing a few older stamp sets with some new stamp sets.  I was inspired by the Crafty Carrot Collective Birthday Bash Challenge...their challenge was to use the color orange, vellum, ribbon/twine and a birthday sentiment. Here's how it all came together!

I love the big leafy palms from the Sale-a-Bration Island Vibes stamp set.  I stamped a set of palm leaves in each corner of the Basic White cardstock, framing it with a piece of Soft Suede.

Next I added the big hibiscus flower, which was stamped in Calypso Coral, then colored in Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight, then die-cut.  You can't have a hibiscus flower without a pineapple, right???  Using my Stampin' Write Markers, I inked up the pineapple in Evening Evergreen and Crushed Curry and fussy cut it.

And...no surprise...the sentiment was heat embossed in white on Basic Black and fussy cut.  I pieced together sentiments from Biggest Wish and Create with Friends for the perfect sentiment. 

Next up is my friend Cathy Casey...

...or you can hop backwards to my dear friend Wendy Weixler.

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Be Mine Valentine

Welcome to another fabulous TGIF Challenges!  This week have a fun Inspiration Challenge to share with you!

With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, I figured one more card using the Sweet Talk Suite would be perfect for this challenge.  Between the watercolor DSP and stamped images from the Sweet Conversations stamp set, they were meant to be!

I stamped some X's and O's in Petal Pink on a piece of Petal Pink DSP, then added a little layer of the cute conversation hearts DSP.  Next came the die-cut label from Sweet Hearts Dies on Shimmery White, which I watercolored with Pool Party.  A couple X's and O's were stamped in Pool Party too!

I die-cut a row of hearts from the Rose Gold Metallic Specialty Paper, attaching them to the label with a strip of Pool Party Sheer Ribbon and securing it with a white Baker's Twine Bow.

A couple hearts were cut from the DSP to top the tag and the negative's from the hearts dies created the perfect little embellishments.  A simple Happy Valentine's Day sentiment was added and this card was complete!

Do any of you love the little conversation heart candies?  Those sweet treats are one of my sweet tooth weaknesses this time of year!

I hope you'll join in the fun and play along with us this week!

Happy Stamping!

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Make it Monochromatic ~ Control Freaks

Welcome to this months Control Freaks Blog hop!  We are sharing some of our favorite Stampin' Up! colors and some of us are even making monochromatic creations!  You may have arrived from the amazing Melissa Davies of Rubber Funatics or you may just be starting.  Either way, make sure you hop all the way through!

I chose to {kind of} go monochromatic with my creations.  Sometimes I just can't veer away from using black!

 

First up is a Valentine card that is sweet enough to eat!  I used the adorable Sweet Talk DSP, pulling the patterns in shades of Real Red and Petal Pink.  Then I selected some equally adorable candy and hearts in the same colors to fussy cut.  Yes, I know the dies coordinated with some of the hearts the DSP, but fussy cutting is my jam and I don't mind it one bit!

The DSP did most of the talking here...except for the simple Happy Valentine's Day sentiment stamped in Real Red.  I love it when that happens!

Next up is a Pool Party friendly hello.  I LOVE the Friendly Hello DSP and would love to see it make it's way into the next Annual Catalog...a girl can wish, right?!?  I cut a flagged strip of beautiful Pool Party and Basic Black floral DSP, then stamped my own piece of DSP using the Friendly Hello floral images.  The cute little bird was stamped in Memento and just a touch of Pool Party was added to the wings and flowers.

In true Craft-somnia Momma fashion, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in white on Basic Black and fussy cut it...shocker, right?!?!  A few Artistry Blooms sequins were tucked in here and there and that was a wrap for this card!

Next up is the amazing Cindy Elam of Hearts Delights Cards

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!