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Around the World Blog Hop – Monochrome Rainbow

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I’m so excited to be asked to be a Guest Designer for a special edition of “Around the World on Wednesday” Blog Hop.  They have rounded up some of the ORIGINAL “Tour the Freaks” Blog Hoppers to join them for their April Blog Hop featuring a Monochromatic Rainbow!  How fun is that!

 

I was assigned “Blue” for my color and thought it would be perfect for a masculine card.  I can never get too many ideas for them!    I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s A Good Man with Well Suited Designer Paper for today’s Center Fold-Out Easel Card.  I always love making special fold cards!  This card is perfect for the guy in your life…no ribbon, no bling…just stamping and coloring!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Pacific Point cardstock.
  • Two 1-1/4 x 4 pieces of Well Suited Designer Paper were added to each end.
  • A second piece of Pacific Point cardstock is cut to 3 x 8-1/2, then scored at 2-1/8 and 4-1/4.  It was folded as shown and adhere in the center area of the base.
  • A 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 piece of Night of Navy cardstock was adhered on the bottom to the easel portion.
  • The 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 piece of Basic White cardstock was stamped with the image from A Good Man, then colored with Balmy Blue Combo, Night of Navy Combo, Ivory, and Pool Party Combo Stampin’ Blends.
  • The greeting from A Good Man was stamped with Pacific Point Ink in the upper right corner.
  • A 1-3/4 x 2-3/4 piece of Night of Navy cardstock was added to the bottom of the easel with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  (This allows the easel portion to tuck behind it and stay up.)
  • The 1-1/2 x 2-1/2 piece of Basic White cardstock was stamped with the A Good Man greeting and added to the Night of Navy.
  • A little Wink of Stella was added to the water under the chair.

It folds flat so it will easily fit in a regular envelope.

Make sure to follow around the blog hop to see all the Monochromatic Rainbow cards this month!  Next up is Wendy Lee!

Jan Clothier – NZ

Tatiana Tobin – AU

Leonie Stuart – AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU

Cheryll Miller – AU

Melissa Gifford – AU

Danielle Kassing – NL

Satomi Wellard

Pia Gephardt – DE

Ximena Morales – DE

Aurélie Fabre – FR

Annette Ball – CA

Angie McKenzie – US

Mary Brown – US – Special Guest

Connie Babbert – US – Special Guest – YOU ARE HERE!

Wendy Lee – US

Shel Anderson – CA

Chris Smith – US

Lisa Martz – US – Special Guest

Tricia Butts – US

Wendy Weixler – US – Special Guest

Elaine de Montmorency – CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert – US

Teri West – US

Cheryl Hamilton – US

 

Use Stampin' Up!'s CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE to decorate your cards with cornflowers and butterflies plus add a sweet birthday, belated birthday or thank you greeting!  You can even create a card or tag shaped like a coneflower with the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS DIES.  Or, cut a single flower to add to a card front and embellish with die-cut stems, leaves, and butterflies. We've paired the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE with the bright patterns in the CELEBRATORY SIPS 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX card projects...four regular and two fun-fold cards!  See more details HERE!

Stampin' Up! new PEACEFUL GARDEN SUITE of products is a demonstrator only pre-purchase for the Creativity Now Event coming in June.  (It will be available for customers beginning with the September-December Mini Catalog!)  We've focused using the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE to create FOUR cards and TWO fun favors...and added two BONUS cards using the coordinating PEACEFUL DAYS STAMP SET!  That's a total of EIGHT projects in this Collection!  The PEACE ON EARTH STAMP SET includes Christmas sentiments, plus thoughtful sympathy and thinking of you messages useful all year long.  The PEACE ON EARTH DIES have two dove shapes, two sizes of labels, and some greenery pieces to accessorize the greetings.  We've paired the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE with the coordinating PEACEFUL GARDEN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT projects!  See more details HERE!

Create beautiful sailboat scenes with a moving ocean and textured sky using Stampin' Up!'s SUNRISE SAILING STAMP SET, DIES, AND HYBRID EMBOSSING FOLDER!  You can fill your hand-made projects with waves, clouds, seagulls and different sized sailboats.  We are also showcasing FOUR card techniques to use with the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE...we know you'll have a blast making them! Our SUNRISE SAILING COLLECTION has EIGHT new card projects.  We've paired the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE with the THOUGHTFUL JOURNEY 6x6 DESIGNER PAPER for a variety of gorgeous sky and water looks.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...four using special techniques...that will be so fun to teach in your classes or make on your own!  See more details HERE!

Saturday Blog Hop – Masculine

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Happy Saturday! It’s time for another Saturday Blog Hop! Are you HAPPY that we can order from the complete Annual Catalog now?  I am!  The challenge this week is “Masculine” cards.  A Good Man is now my GO TO stamp set for masculine cards (Sailing Home is a close second!)  I love all these sketchy images in this set.  It complements a few summer sketches sets that I’ve kept in my collection!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Night of Navy cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
  • On top the 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Whisper White is stamped in the corners with the speckle stamp from Waterfront (or use marker splatters!) with Crumb Cake Ink.
  • A 1-1/4 x 4 piece of striped Come Sail Away DSP was added across the front.
  • A 2-3/4 x 4 piece of compass Come Sail Away DSP was added to a 3 x 4-1/4 piece of Crumb Cake cardstock.
  • The Night of Navy/Sahara Sand Baker’s Twine was wrapped around twice and tied in a know on the left.  The panel was placed on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • The A Good Man image was stamped with Memento Black Ink on Whisper White cardstock and colored with Pumpkin Pie, Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green and Ivory Stampin’ Blends.  It was cut with the Stitched Shapes Oval and added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • It’s Your Day from A Good Man was stamped with Night of Navy Ink on Whisper White cardstock and cut with the small Stitched Shapes Circle, then added on top.

I shared a card earlier that reminded me of my youngest son holding his daughter.  This one reminds me of my oldest son when we’d go to the beach for Spring Break!  OK, check out the rest of the Design Team Member’s “Masculine” cards this week! Next up is our Create with Connie and Mary website, then on to creative Mary Brown, or head backwards to see Melissa’s fabulous card!

 

 

 

 

 

Use Stampin' Up!'s CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE to decorate your cards with cornflowers and butterflies plus add a sweet birthday, belated birthday or thank you greeting!  You can even create a card or tag shaped like a coneflower with the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS DIES.  Or, cut a single flower to add to a card front and embellish with die-cut stems, leaves, and butterflies. We've paired the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE with the bright patterns in the CELEBRATORY SIPS 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX card projects...four regular and two fun-fold cards!  See more details HERE!

Stampin' Up! new PEACEFUL GARDEN SUITE of products is a demonstrator only pre-purchase for the Creativity Now Event coming in June.  (It will be available for customers beginning with the September-December Mini Catalog!)  We've focused using the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE to create FOUR cards and TWO fun favors...and added two BONUS cards using the coordinating PEACEFUL DAYS STAMP SET!  That's a total of EIGHT projects in this Collection!  The PEACE ON EARTH STAMP SET includes Christmas sentiments, plus thoughtful sympathy and thinking of you messages useful all year long.  The PEACE ON EARTH DIES have two dove shapes, two sizes of labels, and some greenery pieces to accessorize the greetings.  We've paired the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE with the coordinating PEACEFUL GARDEN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT projects!  See more details HERE!

Create beautiful sailboat scenes with a moving ocean and textured sky using Stampin' Up!'s SUNRISE SAILING STAMP SET, DIES, AND HYBRID EMBOSSING FOLDER!  You can fill your hand-made projects with waves, clouds, seagulls and different sized sailboats.  We are also showcasing FOUR card techniques to use with the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE...we know you'll have a blast making them! Our SUNRISE SAILING COLLECTION has EIGHT new card projects.  We've paired the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE with the THOUGHTFUL JOURNEY 6x6 DESIGNER PAPER for a variety of gorgeous sky and water looks.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...four using special techniques...that will be so fun to teach in your classes or make on your own!  See more details HERE!

CCMC562 – A Good Man

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It’s Thursday and time for another Create with Connie and Mary Challenge!  It’s a great sketch this week…I will be using this one over and over again!

I chose to use Stampin’ Up!’s A Good Man stamp set this week.  This image of the man holding a child really moves my heart…it looks like my son and grand-daughter, Quinn!  I’ve seen him hold her like this a lot, even though she is getting SO big now!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Blueberry Bushel cardstock, scored at 4-1/4 and folded.
  • On top is a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Crumb Cake cardstock, embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder.
  • The man/child image from A Good Man stamp set was stamped with Memento Black Ink on a 2-3/8 x 4-1/4 piece of Whisper White, then colored with Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Ivory, Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends.
  • It was layered on a 3-1/8 x 4-1/2 piece of Blueberry Bushel cardstock.
  • A 1/2 x 3-3/4 stripe of In Colors (Blueberry Bushel) striped DSP was added along the left side.
  • A 1″ Circle was punched from Pumpkin Pie cardstock.
  • The greeting from A Good Man was stamped with Memento Black Ink on Crumb Cake and punched with the Classic Label Punch (shortened).  It is popped up on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • I used one of the Blueberry Bushel directional Best Route Enamel Shapes to point at the greeting.

SO moving to me!!!  I love it!  Make sure to check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did this week with the sketch over on Create with Connie and Mary!  So many great ideas!

Use Stampin' Up!'s CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE to decorate your cards with cornflowers and butterflies plus add a sweet birthday, belated birthday or thank you greeting!  You can even create a card or tag shaped like a coneflower with the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS DIES.  Or, cut a single flower to add to a card front and embellish with die-cut stems, leaves, and butterflies. We've paired the CONEFLOWER CELEBRATIONS BUNDLE with the bright patterns in the CELEBRATORY SIPS 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX card projects...four regular and two fun-fold cards!  See more details HERE!

Stampin' Up! new PEACEFUL GARDEN SUITE of products is a demonstrator only pre-purchase for the Creativity Now Event coming in June.  (It will be available for customers beginning with the September-December Mini Catalog!)  We've focused using the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE to create FOUR cards and TWO fun favors...and added two BONUS cards using the coordinating PEACEFUL DAYS STAMP SET!  That's a total of EIGHT projects in this Collection!  The PEACE ON EARTH STAMP SET includes Christmas sentiments, plus thoughtful sympathy and thinking of you messages useful all year long.  The PEACE ON EARTH DIES have two dove shapes, two sizes of labels, and some greenery pieces to accessorize the greetings.  We've paired the PEACE ON EARTH BUNDLE with the coordinating PEACEFUL GARDEN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT projects!  See more details HERE!

Create beautiful sailboat scenes with a moving ocean and textured sky using Stampin' Up!'s SUNRISE SAILING STAMP SET, DIES, AND HYBRID EMBOSSING FOLDER!  You can fill your hand-made projects with waves, clouds, seagulls and different sized sailboats.  We are also showcasing FOUR card techniques to use with the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE...we know you'll have a blast making them! Our SUNRISE SAILING COLLECTION has EIGHT new card projects.  We've paired the SUNRISE SAILING BUNDLE with the THOUGHTFUL JOURNEY 6x6 DESIGNER PAPER for a variety of gorgeous sky and water looks.  You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...four using special techniques...that will be so fun to teach in your classes or make on your own!  See more details HERE!

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