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CS88 – Cheerful Daisies

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Welcome to Create with Connie and Mary’s Creatively Simple Challenge!  Each month Mary and I will pick a theme.  This month the theme is Welcome!  We will design our cards using this theme of NEW Annual Catalog products!

CHEERFUL DAISIES

I really do like this new Cheerful Daisies Bundle…especially this large floral daisy cluster die!  And I LOVE the new Lemon Lolly color!  So soft and pretty!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Soft Sea Foam cardstock, scored at 4-1/4 and folded.
  • The 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Lemon Lolly cardstock is embossed with the Countryside Blossoms Embossing Folder.
  • A 1/2 x 4-3/4 strip of Soft Sea Foam was stamped with the Cheerful Daisies greeting in Memento Black Ink and added to the front.
  • The large floral image was cut with the Cheerful Daisies Dies from Basic White cardstock.  The centers were colored iwth Daffodil Delight Ink and the leaves with Soft Sea Foam Ink.  It was added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • A trio of Iridescent Rhinestones were added to the background.

 

 

 

Easy peasy!!!  LOVE how it turned out!   Make sure to check out Mary’s Creatively Simple card over on Create with Connie and Mary!

 

 

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Stamps:  Cheerful Daisies
Inks:  Memento Black, Daffodil Delight, Soft Sea Foam
Cardstock:  Basic White, Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly
Accessories:  Cheerful Daisies Dies, Countryside Blossoms 3D Embossing Folder, Iridescent Rhinestones, Adhesives

Ghosts and bats and cats, oh my! The OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION will kick off your Halloween season with sweet and spooky images! Create layers of scary fun with a twisted tree and add cats, bats, a spiderweb, a witch's hat and other accessories to decorate your cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects! Finish with a playful Halloween greeting! We've combined the OH MY FRIGHT BUNDLE and the magical patterns in the FRIGHTFULLY FUN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for FOUR cards and TWO decorated White Gable Box ideas in our OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

The SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE can be used for ANY season! Follow our card journey through Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter using this versatile stamp set and punch! The patterned leaves will add natural detail and texture on your cards and projects, then add one of the simple greetings to finish. We've combined the SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE and the garden neutral patterns in the VALLEY OF BLOOM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...two card ideas from each season...in our SIMPLY LEAVES CARD COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Create wonderful dimensional poinsettias in a variety of sizes with the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE! The dies cut and emboss at the same time for lots of detail and texture.  The coordinating stamp images add fun seasonal greetings, sprigs and other festive touches to your cards and projects. We've combined the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE and the A STITCHED SEASON 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER for a traditional holiday look you'll love! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...FOUR cards and TWO favors in our PRETTY POINSETTIA COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

 

IM278 – Cheerful Daisies

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Welcome back to our Create with Connie and Mary Inspiration Monday challenges.  Look at these yummy flower cookies!

CHEERFUL DAISIES

I went with a more pastel color palette because I wanted to use a few of the new Core Colors…Lemon Lolly, Bubble Bath, and Berry Burst!

Stampin’ Details:

    • The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Thick Basic White cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
    • The 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Pebbled Path cardstock is embossed with the crosshatch pattern in the Basics 3D Embossing Folders.
    • A 1-1/4 x 4 strip of Bright & Beautiful DSP was added across the front.
    • The smaller daisy in Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set was stamped with Berry Burst, Lemon Lolly, Highland Heather and Bubble Bath Inks on Basic White cardstock, then cut with the Cheerful Daisies Dies.  They were assembled on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
    • The greeting was stamped with Pebbled Path Ink on Basic White cardstock, then cut with the Cheerful Daisies label die.  It was added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
    • A trio of yellow Adhesive Backed Solid Gems were added to the background for a little bling!

Isn’t that a pretty bouquet of flowers?  Says spring to me!  OK…check out what Mary did with the Inspiration Monday Challenge over on Create with Connie and Mary!

 

SUPPLIES:
Stamps:  Cheerful Daisies
Inks:  Lemon Lolly, Berry Burst, Highland Heather, Bubble Bath, Pebbled Path
Cardstock:  Basic White, Thick Basic White, Pebbled Path, Bright & Beautiful DSP
Accessories:  Cheerful Daisies Dies, Basics 3D Embossing Folder, Adhesive Backed Solid Gems, Adhesives

Ghosts and bats and cats, oh my! The OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION will kick off your Halloween season with sweet and spooky images! Create layers of scary fun with a twisted tree and add cats, bats, a spiderweb, a witch's hat and other accessories to decorate your cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects! Finish with a playful Halloween greeting! We've combined the OH MY FRIGHT BUNDLE and the magical patterns in the FRIGHTFULLY FUN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for FOUR cards and TWO decorated White Gable Box ideas in our OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

The SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE can be used for ANY season! Follow our card journey through Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter using this versatile stamp set and punch! The patterned leaves will add natural detail and texture on your cards and projects, then add one of the simple greetings to finish. We've combined the SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE and the garden neutral patterns in the VALLEY OF BLOOM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...two card ideas from each season...in our SIMPLY LEAVES CARD COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Create wonderful dimensional poinsettias in a variety of sizes with the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE! The dies cut and emboss at the same time for lots of detail and texture.  The coordinating stamp images add fun seasonal greetings, sprigs and other festive touches to your cards and projects. We've combined the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE and the A STITCHED SEASON 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER for a traditional holiday look you'll love! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...FOUR cards and TWO favors in our PRETTY POINSETTIA COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

 

CCM Saturday Blog Hop – Welcome In Colors

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Welcome back to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop!  This week’s theme is “Welcome In Colors”.  We have a brand new set of FIVE in colors that coordinate so well together!  They also fill in some gaps in our core colors!  Which new In Color will our Design Team feature as their favorite?  I used all FIVE on my card, but I do love the Boho Blue!

CHEERFUL DAISIES

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Boho Blue cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
  • Each of the 2023-25 In Color Designer Paper were cut to 1 x 3 size.
  • The DSP pieces were added to a 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 piece of Basic White cardstock, then added to the base card.
  • The large floral image was cut with the Cheerful Daisies Die from Basic White cardstock and added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • The Cheerful Daisies greeting was stamped with Pebbled Path Ink on Boho Blue cardstock, then added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • Three copper 2023-25 In Color Dots were added to the flower centers.

 

 

Don’t those color go so well together? OK, next up on our blog hop is our Create with Connie and Mary website, then on to creative Mary Brown, or head backwards to see Melissa Davies’ fabulous project and see what everyone did with this challenge!

 

 

 

 

SUPPLIES:
Stamp Sets:  Cheerful Daisies
Inks:  Pebbled Path
C/S:  Basic White, Boho Blue, 2023-25 In Color 6×6 DSP
Accessories:  Cheerful Daisies Dies, 2023-25 In Color Dots, Adhesives

Ghosts and bats and cats, oh my! The OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION will kick off your Halloween season with sweet and spooky images! Create layers of scary fun with a twisted tree and add cats, bats, a spiderweb, a witch's hat and other accessories to decorate your cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects! Finish with a playful Halloween greeting! We've combined the OH MY FRIGHT BUNDLE and the magical patterns in the FRIGHTFULLY FUN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for FOUR cards and TWO decorated White Gable Box ideas in our OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

The SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE can be used for ANY season! Follow our card journey through Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter using this versatile stamp set and punch! The patterned leaves will add natural detail and texture on your cards and projects, then add one of the simple greetings to finish. We've combined the SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE and the garden neutral patterns in the VALLEY OF BLOOM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...two card ideas from each season...in our SIMPLY LEAVES CARD COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Create wonderful dimensional poinsettias in a variety of sizes with the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE! The dies cut and emboss at the same time for lots of detail and texture.  The coordinating stamp images add fun seasonal greetings, sprigs and other festive touches to your cards and projects. We've combined the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE and the A STITCHED SEASON 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER for a traditional holiday look you'll love! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...FOUR cards and TWO favors in our PRETTY POINSETTIA COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

 

 

CCMC764 – Cheerful Daisies

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It’s Thursday and you know that means it is time for a Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.  Another lovely color combination this week to inspire you!

CHEERFUL DAISIES

The Annual Catalog will be available to customers soon!  This is one of my favorites that demos were able to preorder!  I combined it with the Country Gingham…I so wish that DSP was in the new catalog, too!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Thick Basic White, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
  • A 3-3/4 x 5 piece of Country Floral DSP was added to the background.
  • A 1 x 3-3/4 strip of Basic White was stamped with the Cheerful Daisies greeting in Memento Black Ink, then added across the top.
  • The outline of the flowers were cut with the Cheerful Daisies Dies from Petal Pink cardstock and the detail cut from Basic White cardstock.  The centers and sprigs were cut from Metallic Gold Paper.  The leaves from the large die were trimmed and cut from Balmy Blue cardstock.  Everything was assembled on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals and Monoadhesive Glue.
  • A trio of blue Adhesive Backed Solid Gems were added to the background.

 

Such a pretty, soft color combination!  Go check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did with this challenge over on Create with Connie and Mary

Supplies:
Stamps:  Cheerful Daisies
Ink:  Memento Black
Cardstock:  Basic White, Balmy Blue, Petal Pink, Gold Metallic, Country Gingham Designer Paper
Accessories:  Cheerful Daisies Dies, Adhesive Backed Solid Gems, Adhesives

Ghosts and bats and cats, oh my! The OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION will kick off your Halloween season with sweet and spooky images! Create layers of scary fun with a twisted tree and add cats, bats, a spiderweb, a witch's hat and other accessories to decorate your cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects! Finish with a playful Halloween greeting! We've combined the OH MY FRIGHT BUNDLE and the magical patterns in the FRIGHTFULLY FUN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for FOUR cards and TWO decorated White Gable Box ideas in our OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

The SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE can be used for ANY season! Follow our card journey through Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter using this versatile stamp set and punch! The patterned leaves will add natural detail and texture on your cards and projects, then add one of the simple greetings to finish. We've combined the SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE and the garden neutral patterns in the VALLEY OF BLOOM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...two card ideas from each season...in our SIMPLY LEAVES CARD COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Create wonderful dimensional poinsettias in a variety of sizes with the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE! The dies cut and emboss at the same time for lots of detail and texture.  The coordinating stamp images add fun seasonal greetings, sprigs and other festive touches to your cards and projects. We've combined the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE and the A STITCHED SEASON 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER for a traditional holiday look you'll love! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...FOUR cards and TWO favors in our PRETTY POINSETTIA COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Achievers Blog Hop – April 2023

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Our Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip Achievers get together each month for a Blog Hop! I’m blessed with great customers and downline who helped me achieve last year’s Incentive Trip on a Norway Cruise that we will be taking this upcoming May!  I’m joining the top 1% of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators who have earned this reward.  Our blog hop theme this month is ANYTHING CURRENT!

CHEERFUL DAISIES

Demos are able to preorder certain items from the upcoming Annual Catalog!  One of those items is the Cheerful Daisies Stamp set and coordinating Cheerful Daisies Dies!  I’ve also used some of the upcoming In Colors and new Core Colors on here!

Stampin’ Details:

  • The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Copper Clay cardstock, scored at 4-1/4 and folded.
  • The 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Lemon Lolly is stamped with the large outline daisy with Lemon Lolly Ink randomly in the background.
  • A 1/2 x 5-1/4 strip of Copper Clay cardstock was added across the front towards the bottom.
  • A 1-1/2 x 4 piece of Fresh as a Daisy Designer Paper was added to the background towards the left side over the Copper Clay strip.
  • The large floral die from Cheerful Daisies Dies was cut from Basic White cardstock, then colored with Copper Clay and Wild Wheat Stampin’ Blends and Garden Green Marker for the leaves.  Another leaf set was cut with the Dies and colored.  All were added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • The greeting was stamped with Pebbled Path Ink on Basic White and cut with the label in the Cheerful Daisies Dies.  It is added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • Finally, a trio of Adhesive Backed Solid Gems were added to the background.

 

 

I love the flowers in this set.  So pretty!  If you need any supplies to recreate these projects, I’ll be happy to place the order for you in the United States or click here to go to my Online Store!  This month, please use my current Host code for orders under $150. $150 or more, keep the host rewards for yourself!

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OK…you are here at my blog, Connie Babbert, click on the name below mine to continue on the Achievers Blog Hop! Enjoy!


Ghosts and bats and cats, oh my! The OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION will kick off your Halloween season with sweet and spooky images! Create layers of scary fun with a twisted tree and add cats, bats, a spiderweb, a witch's hat and other accessories to decorate your cards, tags, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects! Finish with a playful Halloween greeting! We've combined the OH MY FRIGHT BUNDLE and the magical patterns in the FRIGHTFULLY FUN 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for FOUR cards and TWO decorated White Gable Box ideas in our OH MY FRIGHT COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

The SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE can be used for ANY season! Follow our card journey through Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter using this versatile stamp set and punch! The patterned leaves will add natural detail and texture on your cards and projects, then add one of the simple greetings to finish. We've combined the SIMPLY LEAVES PUNCH BUNDLE and the garden neutral patterns in the VALLEY OF BLOOM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT cards...two card ideas from each season...in our SIMPLY LEAVES CARD COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

Create wonderful dimensional poinsettias in a variety of sizes with the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE! The dies cut and emboss at the same time for lots of detail and texture.  The coordinating stamp images add fun seasonal greetings, sprigs and other festive touches to your cards and projects. We've combined the PRETTY POINSETTIA BUNDLE and the A STITCHED SEASON 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER for a traditional holiday look you'll love! You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX projects...FOUR cards and TWO favors in our PRETTY POINSETTIA COLLECTION!  See more details HERE!

 

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