Enjoy the Happy Adventure

Happy Tuesday and welcome to the first Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge of 2023!  We have a cheerful Color Challenge for you to play along with this week!

The Memories & More Card Packs are perfect for days that you want to make a quick card!  The new Enjoy the Adventure Memories & More Card Pack and coordinating Cards & Envelopes are so much fun!

And it just so happens that two of the Color Challenge colors are part of this pack!  I opted for the Mango Melody and Petal Pink card base, which I ended up cutting down from an A6 to an A2. (Anyone else struggle with the longer card bases like I do?!?) I loved the heart pattern in one of the cards, adding a second Mango Melody patterned card behind it.

I did die-cut a Pool Party Stylish Shapes Circle to go along with the color challenge, but you can easily stick with using only the cards and stickers in the card pack! I loved the Happy For You sticker and die-cut another circle from the YAY! patterned card.  The Pool Party circle was a little lonely on it's own, so I added the cute little flowers to help fill it in.  A few Mango Melody Milky Dots were all that was left to finish off this quick, easy and super cute card!

What will you create with this fun color challenge this week?  I can't wait to see!

Happy Stamping!

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Spec-TACO-lar Birthday ~ Monday Montage

Welcome to our first Monday Montage Blog Hop of 2023! We are exited to share another year of creativity with all of you!

I finally had the chance to ink up the super cute Taco Fiesta stamp set and it did not disappoint!  These little delicious Mexican food favorites are so much fun to color, especially with the Stampin' Blends...my favorites!

Shades of Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Poppy Parade were perfect for all of these tasty dishes.  Isn't the Crumb Cake piñata the cutest too?!? And with a piñata, you need a fun little flag banner, right?  The tiny triangle dies from the Beautiful Shapes dies worked perfectly! Anyone else hungry for some yummy Mexican food now?!?

I played along with this weeks Freshly Made Sketches for the sketch.  The circles were meant for all of these fun images!

Hop along with the rest of the Monday Montage crew to see what fun projects they have in store for you!

Happy Stamping!

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Hoot, Hoot, Hello!

Welcome to the first TGIF Challenges Color Challenge of 2023!  We're so excited to kick off another year of creating!

This month's Color Challenge was meant for the Adorable Owls stamp set, available now in the Sale-a-Bration catalog! 

Using my Water Painters and some Shimmery White Cardstock, I painted a Balmy Blue Background. The Apple Blossoms Dies were too perfect not to use for this adorable little owl! You can still snag these dies from Clearance...don't miss out!

Some Early Espresso tree branches and Polished Pink flowers have me longing for spring days again! The Timber 3D embossing folder added just the right amount of texture and just a bit of bling comes from the 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds.

I hope you'll join along in the colorful fun this week!

Happy Stamping!

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Love You So Much

Now that Christmas and New Years are behind us, I am ready for sunny spring weather and pretty flowers!  Sadly, I know we have a couple more months of wintery weather to come, so I'll have to make do with pretty flowers created in my craft room!

I always love a stamp set with a big sentiment!  The Love For You bundle has a couple of those big sentiments AND dies to cut them out...flowers too!

I stamped So Much Love in Night of Navy and For You in Melon Mambo then pieced them together to say Love You So Much.  It's been a while since I've used Melon Mambo and I forgot how much I love it.  

I was going to go with a Night of Navy card base, but it was too dark.  I had a Bermuda Bay card base left over from another project and it ended up being perfect with the other colors.  

There are lots of great sentiments with the Love For You stamp set that can be used for several different occasions, so plan on seeing more fun cards made with this bundle soon!

Happy Stamping!

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Best Day Party

Happy New Year! I know I'm a day late, but yesterday was a total lazy day that resulted in very little being done.

Today was my last day of winter break, so I did my best to spend most of it in my craft room. (In between taking care of my son's sweet new puppy while he was at work.)

This weeks Global Design Project Party Theme gave me a great excuse to ink up and color the new Best Day stamp set.  This is the cutest stamp set!

I love this fluffy cupcake kitty!  It reminds me of our old gray kitty who was about as fluffy as this one.  I added some fun pops of color using Parakeet Party, Bermuda Bay and Polished Pink, along with a Pool Party cupcake wrapper.  I dusted off my Basic Border dies to create a fun background to match the party hat. So much fun!

I couldn't just color one of these fun images and had to do the Happy Birthday cake too!  I stuck with the same colors for the birthday cake, adding some So Saffron for a yummy vanilla cake.  Some Stylish Shapes circles match up perfectly with the polkadots on the cake!

Can you believe I made two cards without any embellishments?!?  That almost NEVER happens in my crafty adventures.  Sometimes I have to remind myself that all a card needs is stamp, ink and paper.

Wishing you all a wonderful start to the week!  I'll be back with more fun things to share throughout the week...stay tuned!

Happy Stamping!

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