Hi Stampers, today for our hop we have a color challenge.  We had five yummy colors to choose from and my choice from the 5 were Petal Pink, Poppy Parade and Mossy Meadow.  I decided to use the Blossom In Bloom Bundle as it was feeling a tad neglected and it needed some inky love, so it was used for my share today.  I just might try this card in more color combos and see what I come up with.

The color challenge:

Stampin’ Up! Blossom in Blooms:

The recipe:

Card base: Basic White 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: DSP Fine Art Floral 4-1/4 x 5-1/2

Mat: Basic White die cut with the largest Stitched Rectangle Die

Sentiment: Basic White die cut with the small Stitched Rectangle Die

Sentiment mat: Poppy Parade

The details:

• Die cut the background die from the Many Layered Blossom die in Basic White card stock
• Using your Blender Brushes color the die cut piece as follows:
• Leaves: Mossy Meadow
• Flowers: Petal Pink and Poppy Parade
• Die cut the thin outlined detailed die from the Many Layered Blossom die in Basic White card stock
• Adhere your thin outlined die cut to the colored background layered die cut with liquid glue
• Die cut two Poppy Parade small flowers and two coordinating thin Basic White layered dies flowers
• Adhere these two layers together
• Emboss the Basic White Stitched Rectangle Die cut with the Tasteful Textile EF

Putting your card together:

• Adhere your DSP panel to the front of the card
• Adhere you embossed Basic White panel to the front of the card
• Glue your floral die cut flowers to the front embossed panel with Glue Dots

The sentiment:

• Stamp your sentiment from the Blossom in Blooms stamp set onto Basic White card stock with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
• Die cut the sentiment with the Stitched Rectangle Die
• Crop a piece of Poppy Parade cards stock to mat the sentiment
• Adhere the sentiment to the Poppy Parade mat
• Attach to the front of the card with Dimensionals
• Adhere the two small flowers to the front of the card, one by the sentiment and one in the top left side of the floral spray

Finishing details:

•  Add a few Opal Rounds here and there to the front of the card and you are done

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Karen Finkle:

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

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Hi Stampers,  I took a few weeks off when we visited Kentucky.  We are being transferred to the Blue Grass state from the PNW and went back to look for housing.  It was a fun and exciting trip.  We found a house and will now pursue getting our home sold in Vancouver WA for the BIG move in a few months.  I am glad to be back creating and have a card using the Art Gallery Bundle.  Today was a sketch challenge and the Art Gallery set worked out perfectly, I even used the Gilding Flakes to enhance my card.  Have fun on our hop!

The sketch:

Stampin’ Up! Art Gallery:

The recipe:

Card base: Gray Granite 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Basic White Die cut with the largest Stitched Rectangle Die

DSP panels: Fine Art Floral DSP die cut with the 3rd largest Stitched Rectangle Die

Circle: Basic White Stitched Shape Circle Die

Circle mat: Gray Granite die cut with the Layering Circle Die Scallop

The details:

• Stamp your flower image using the two stamps from the Art Gallery Stamp set as follows:
• The large solid flower image stamp in Pumpkin Pie Ink onto Basic White card stock
• Stamp over the Pumpkin Pie image with the layering floral image in Poppy Parade Ink
• Stamp the leaf image in Pretty Peacock ink onto Basic White card stock
• Die cut the flower and leaf with the Floral Gallery Dies

Gilding Flakes:

• Lightly trace your circle die with a pencil onto a piece of Basic White card stock
• Adhere strips of Tear and Tape to the traced circle image
• Peel off the backing of the Tear and Tape to expose the adhesive
• Lay Gilding Flakes on to the adhesive and rub the flakes into the exposed adhesive
• Burnish the Flakes until they are smooth ( I used my fingers then a clean stencil brush)
• Die cut the Gilded piece with your Stitched Shape Circle die

Putting the card together:

• Attach the Basic White mat to  the front of the card base with Stampin Seal
• Adhere your two DSP panels to the White mat, off setting each panel just a bit
• Adhere your gilded circle to the Gray Granite Scalloped circle
• Adhere your matted circle to the front left of the card front with Dimensionals
• Adhere your leaf to the circle with glue dots
• Attach your flower head to the circle with Dimensionals

The sentiment:

• Stamp the sentiment from the Art Gallery stamp set with Black Tuxedo Memento Ink onto Basic White card stock
• Punch the sentiment out with the Classic Label Punch
• Attach the sentiment to the gilded circle with glue dots

Finishing details:

• Add a Fine Art Floral Ribbon bow to the flower stem
• Attach a few Pretty Peacock Butterfly gems to the front of the card and you are done!

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Karen Finkle:

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

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Hi Stampers, I hope Thursday finds you well and full of the hope is spring.  Here in the PNW, the daffodils and popping up and the sunshine is peeking out from behind the clouds just a wee bit more these days.  Todays card reminds me of spring with the soft colors and floral bouquets.  Today was a sketch challenge and I inked up  the Wrapped Bouquet images to create my card.  Enjoy and have fun hopping to see what our talented team created for you today.

The sketch:

Stampin’ Up! Wrapped Bouquet:

The recipe:

Card base: Basic White 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, scored at 4-1/4

Mat: Flirty Flamingo 5-1/4 x 4

DSP panel: In Good Taste 5-1/8 x 3-7/8

Stitched So Sweetly Die panel: Flirty Flamingo (largest die)

Embossed panel: Basic White 3-7/8 x 2-5/8, embossed with the Tasteful Textile EF

Sentiment: Basic White 1/2 x 3-1/8 punched with the Banner Triple Punch

The details:

• Stamp with floral image twice from the Wrapped Bouquet Stamp Set with Old Olive ink onto Basic White cardstock
• Color the image as follows using your Stampin Blends:
• Poppies: Flirty  Flamingo
• Daisey: Daffodil Delight
• Lilac: Highland Heather
• Die Cut the floral image out using the Wrapped Flower Dies
• Die cut additional leaves from the Wrapped Flower Dies in Old Olive, Mossy Meadow and Granny Apple Green card stock
• Die cut 2 sets of the tiny daisy flower from  the Wrapped Flower Dies in Flirty Flamingo card stock
• After the tiny flowers are die cut, sponge the edges with Flirty Flamingo Ink and a Sponge Dauber

Putting the card together:

• Adhere the wood grain panel to the Flirty Flamingo mat and attach to the front of the card with Dimensionals
• Adhere the Basic White embossed panel to the Sweetly Stitched Flirty Flamingo panel
• Attach this to the center of the card front with Dimensionals
• Adhere your two floral bouquet and opposite sides of the embossed panel with Dimensionals

The sentiment:

• Stamp your sentiment in Black Tuxedo Memento Ink using the saying from Itty Bitty Birthdays stamp set
• Adhere the sentiment to the front of the card with Dimemsionls

More detail:

• Tuck in several different die cut leaves under the two bouquets in  the Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Granny Apple Green with Glue Dots
• Glue your tiny Flirty Flamingo die cut flowers to the bouquet with Liquid Glue
• Add  Pearls to the center of each of the die cut flowers and  the a few around the floral bouquets
• Add a double Linen Thread Bow to the left of the sentiment with a Glue Dot and you are finished

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi Stampers, today we have a color challenge that just happens to work great with the Dandy Garden DSP colors.  We could pick at least 3 colors using Bumble Bee, Mossy Meadow, Misty Moonlight, Calypso Coral and Blackberry Bliss.  I ended up making 3 card using so many paper combos but the card I am showcasing today is using Mossy Meadow, Bumble Bee and Calypso Coral.  Thank you to Mary Knabe for the inspiration for my card this week.

The color challenge:

Stampin’ Up! Dandy Garden and Butterfly Brilliance:

The recipe:

Card base: Mossy Meadow 4-1/4 x 11 (cut off 1-3/4 from one end. This will be the extra piece that is placed vertically on the front of the card

Dandy Garden DSP: 2- 4 x 1-5/8

Dandy Garden DSP (coordinating piece) 1-1/2 x 4

Card insert: Basic White 4 x 5-1/4

The details:

• Stamp your butterflies from the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set onto a piece of Basic White card stock using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
• Color in the butterflies as follows:
• Body: Smokey Slate Stampin Blends
• Wings portion closets to the body in Calypso Coral Stampin Blends
• Outside wing portion, Bumble Bee Ink and your Blending Brush.
• (You could do the whole butterfly in Ink and Blending Brushes or your Blends or Stampin Markers  as alternate choices for coloring
• I fussy cut the 2 butterflies out with my paper snips (you could also die cut the butterflies out with the Brilliant Wings Dies)

Putting the card together:

• Score each end of the card front at 1-7/8 (this forms the two flaps)
• Adhere the two DSP panels to the front flaps of the card
• Adhere the coordinating Dandy Garden DSP to the Mossy Meadow panel that you cut from end of the card  (4-1/4 x 1-3/4)
• Attach this vertical panel to the right side of the card front with Dimensionals (only adhering the top portion)

The sentiment:

• Attach your insert inside the card
• Close your card up so you will know the placement of the sentiment
• Any sentiment will do as long as it fits  in the space to the left of the vertical panel
• I used the  sentiment from the Lovely You stamp set in Black Tuxedo Memento Ink

Finishing touches:

• Adhere your two butterflies with glue dots to the vertical panel
• Add a Lady Bug Trinket with a Glue Dot underneath the sentiment
• Add some Wink of Stella to the butterfly wings
• Adhere a Rhinestone to each butterflies head and you are done

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Karen Finkle:

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi Stampers, today for our hop we have a sketch challenge.  In looking at the sketch my thought was, what a great sketch for some DSP.  So in creating this card, I let the paper do all the work.  With just a touch of stamping for the sentiment the paper did everything else to make this card bright, fun and ready to sent in the mail.  It was so fast and easy I made 8 card in a snap.

The sketch:

Stampin’ Up! Snail Mail:

The recipe:

Card base: Bermuda Bay 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Basic White 3-7/8 x 4-7/8

Panel: Real Red: 3-1/2 x 4-1/2

DSP: Snail Mail 3 x 5

The details:

• Adhere your Real Red panel to the Basic White mat with Stampin Seal
• Attach the DSP panel to the matted panel with Stampin Seal
• Wrap a piece of the Blushing Bride Snail Mail Twine Combo Pack twine around the stacked panel
• Attach this panel to the front of the card base with Dimensionals

The sentiment:

•  Stamp your sentiment into Basic White card stock using the phrase from Lovey You in Versamark ink
• Right after you ink with Versamark ink over the top of the Versamark with Bermuda Bay ink
• Sprinkle Clear Embossing Powder over the sentiment and then heat emboss the saying
• Die cut the sentiment  with the Stitched Rectangle Dies (2-7/8 x 7/8)
• Attach the sentiment to the front of the card with Dimensionals

Finishing details:

• Attach a Blushing Bride Twine bow to the left of the sentiment with a glue dot
• Add red, resin heart from the Resin Heart Pack to the right side of the sentiment and you are done

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Karen Finkle:

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi Stampers, today for our hop we have a sketch challenge.  The sketch was the perfect design to use the flowers from  True Love DSP.  I colored in the flowers  using the new Blending Brushes, did some fussy cutting and voila, the card  was done.

The sketch:

Stampin’ Up! True Love DSP Card:

The recipe:

Card base: Basic Black 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, scored at 4-1/4

Back Panel: Whisper White 5-1/4 x 4, embossed with the Tasteful Textile Embossing Folder

DSP panel: True Love 5-1/4 x 2-1/8

The details:

• Color in a cluster of Daisies from the True Love DSP using Calypso Coral Ink and your Blending Brush, keeping the color darker in the center and lighter on the edges
• With your Blending Brush and Daffodil Delight Ink color the tips of some of the petals
• Color in the leaves with Granny Apple Green Stampin Blends
• Fussy cut your flower cluster out with our paper snips

The sentiment:

• My sentiment came for the Many Messages stamp set
• Ink up your sentiment with versamark ink into Black card stock
• Sprinkle White Embossing Powder over the sentiment and then heat emboss with your heat tool
• Die cut the sentiment out with the coordinating Message Die

Putting the card together:

• Adhere your DSP panel to the embossed Whisper White panel
• Wrap a piece of Calypso Coral ribbon from the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack around the card where the two papers meet at the seam
• Attach this panel to the front of the card with Stampin Seal
• Attach your flower cluster to the front of the card with Dimensionals
• Attach your sentiment to the front of the card with Dimensionals

More details:

• Add a Calypso Coral bow to the left of the sentiment
• Add some Gold Glitter Enamel Dots to the front of the card and you are finished

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Karen Finkle:

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi  Stampers, It’s Alternate Monday day.  That means I am sharing a card taken from the blog hop that I participate in each Thursday. I am taking either the sketch or color challenge and making a second card that is close to or similar to the posted card from the hop.  I want to inspire you to get different looks for your card by mixing it up a bit by color and design.  Today I used the same layout, with a twist and changed the colors to give the card an “Alternate” look.

Stampin’ Up! Hydrangea Haven:

The recipe:

Card base: Highland Heather 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Gorgeous Grape 4 x 5-1/4

Top panel: Whisper White 3-7/8 x 5-1/8

DSP backgound: Hydranea Hill 3-7/8 x 3

The details:

making the flower cluster:

• Stamp the small hydrangea cluster image from the Hydrangea Haven stamp set in black Tuxedo Memento Ink onto a piece of Whisper White card stock
• Color in the leaves with your Old Olive Stampin Blends
• Color in the flower with your Highland Heather  Stampin Blends (this is just so a bit of color shows through after you adhere the die cut flowers)
• Die cut the inked and colored flower cluster with the coordinating Hydrangea Die
• Tiny flowers: Die cut a  row of each of the tiny flowers in Misty Moonlight, Soft Sky, Highland Heather and Purple Posy
• Sponge the edges of the tiny hydrangea petals with a  sponge daubler as follows
• Seaside Spray and Misty Moonlight flowers: sponge with your sponge dauber in Misty Moonlight
• Highland Heather and Purple Posy flowers: sponge with your sponge dauber in Highland Heather
• Die cut the outline leaf using the die from the Hydrangea Dies in Old Olive Ink.  Snip the leaves off the stem
• Stamp the solid double leaf image from the Hydrangea Haven stamp set in Old Olive Ink and them die cut the leaves out with the coordinating die
• Curl up the edges of the tiny flower to give them a 3-D look and with liquid glue attach the tiny flowers to the stamped and colored  flower head

Art piece:

• Die cut the Whisper White panel with the die from the Curvy Dies, I cut two from this panel
• Adhere the 3-7/8 x 3 panel of DSP to the back of the pieces of the Curvy Die Whisper White panel (this panel will be longer that the finished 5-1/8 piece
• After the DSP panel is attached trim each end of the Whisper White panel until you have a finished length of 5-1/8  I cut portions off the top and the bottom

The sentiment:

• Ink up your sentiment from the Quite Curvy  stamp set in Black Tuxedo Memento Ink into the top portion of the Whisper White art piece

Putting the card together:

• Glue the art piece to the Gorgeous Grape panel Mat
• Attach this panel to the front of the Highland Heather card front with Dimensionals
• Attach your flower cluster  to the card front, right side of the card with Dimensionals
• Attach your stamped leaves to the left and right side of the flower cluster with a glue dots
• Adhere your Old Olive outlined die cut leaves around the flower cluster with glue dots

Finishing touches:

• Add a Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon bow to the right side of the flower cluster with a Glue Dot
• Adhere some Rhinestones to the center of each small hydrangea petal and a few around the edges of the flower cluster and you are done

Card inspiration:

Here is the card that inspired my “Alternate” look.  My alternate look was all about using the same color palate and changing up the design, enjoy

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi Stampers, today for our blog hop we have a color challenge using at least 3 out of 5 color choices.  The colors we could pick from were, Purple Posy, Highland Heather, Seaside Spray, Misty Moonlight and Old Olive.    When I looked to see what might go with the beautiful combination my selection went right to the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper.  This paper had all the colors in our challenge and because the colors are so gorgeous I might have used more than three, (hehe)

The color challenge:

Stampin’ Up! Hydrangea Haven:

The recipe:

Card base: Highland Heather 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Basic Black 4 x 5-1/4

Art piece: Whisper White 3-7/8 x 5-1/8

Sentiment: Basic Black

The details:

making the flower:

• Die cut the following pieces from the Hydrangea Dies as follows:
• Solid flower and leaf combo: Old Olive Ink
• Outline leaf: Old Olive
• Solid flower (from the solid leaf and flower die) Hydrangea Hill DSP (I die cut only the head of the flower from this die instead of the whole image)
• Tiny flowers: A row of each in Misty Moonlight, Soft Sky, Highland Heather and Purple Posy
• After you die cut all the components, sponge the edges of the die cuts as follows:
• Old olive solid leaf: sponge in Old Olive
• Seaside Spray and Misty Moonlight flowers: sponge with your sponge dauber in Misty Moonlight
• Highland Heather and Purple Posy flowers: sponge with your sponge dauber in Highland Heather
• Glue your DSP flower head to the Old Olive solid flower head (the one that is attached to the leaves
• Attach the leaf outline to the solid stem and leaves
• Curl up the edges of the tiny flower to give them a 3-D look and with liquid glue attach the tiny flowers to the DSP flower head

Art piece:

• With some lightweight tape attach your Whisper White art piece to the back of the Polka Dot Mask, turn your mask over and…
• Use your Stampin’ Up! Blender Brush and lightly blend some Highland Heather Ink on top of the mask, keeping it heavy on the left side of the panel and then gradually fading out as you get toward the center of the art piece.

The sentiment:

• Ink up your sentiment from the All Thing Fabulous stamp set in Versamark Ink onto Basic Black card stock
• Sprinkle with White Embossing Powder, shake off the excess and heat set with your heat tool
• Trim the sentiment down with your paper trimmer

Putting the card together:

• Glue the art piece to the Basic Black Mat
• Attach this panel to the front of the Highland Heather card front with Dimensionals
• Attach your flower to the card front with Dimensionals
• Attach your sentiment with Mini  Dimensionals

Finishing touches:

• Add a Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon bow to the stem of the hydrangea with a Glue Dot
• Adhere some Rhinestones and Pastel Pearls to the front of the card and you are done.

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi Stampers, Today we have a sketch challenge.  Using new products for the first time is so enjoyable.  Today I opened the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set and coordinating Wrapped Flowers Dies to make my card.  This set brought back so many memoires from my childhood.  Our neighbor had a gorgeous flower garden, she would wrap beautiful, colorful bunches of flowers in newspaper and share her bounty with all of us.

Here is the sketch:

Stampin’ Up! Wrapped Bouquet:

The recipe:

Card base: Poppy Parade 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Mat: Whisper White 4 x 5-1/4 embossed with the Tasteful Textile EF

Thin panel: Fine Art Floral 2-1/2 x 4-1/2

3-Die cut: Whisper White Stitched So Sweetly Die cut (3-1/4 x 2)

The details:

• Stamp the floral image from the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set in Old Olive Ink onto a scrap piece of Whisper White card stock
• Color in your flowers with your light and dark Stampin Blends as follows:
• Daisies: Mango Melody
• Poppies: Poppy Parade
• Small flowers: Highland Heather
• Die cut the flower bunch out with the Wrapped Flowers Dies
• Die cut some extra leaves from the  Wrapped Flowers Dies in Old Olive and Mossy Meadow card stock
• Stamp the news print image from the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set in Tuxedo Memento Black ink onto Whisper White card stock
• Die cut the news print image out using the die form Wrapped Flowers Die set
• After you die cut the image out, stamp the other side of the die cut once again with the newsprint image from the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set
• Sponge the edge of the news paper with a touch of soft Suede Ink
• Fold your news paper and tuck your floral bunch down in the newsprint holder and adhere together with a glue dot
• Tuck your extra leaves throughout the bouquet and adhere with glue dots

The sentiment:

• Stamp the “For You” sentiment in Poppy Parade Ink onto a piece of Whisper White card stock using the sentiment from the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set
• Die cut the sentiment out with the coordinating die from the Wrapped Flowers Die set

Putting the card together:

• Adhere your embossed Whisper White panel to the front of the card with Stampin Seal
• Adhere your Fine Art DSP panel to the right side of the Embossed panel
• Glue all three of the Whisper White Stitched So Sweetly Dies together with liquid glue and adhere to the left side of the card front
• Attach your art piece on top of the Whisper White Stitched So Sweetly stacked die cuts with Dimensionals

Finishing details:

• Attach your sentiment to the bouquet with a glue dot
• Adhere a double Linen Thread bow on the top of the sentiment
• Add some Pearls here and there on the front of the card for added detail and you are done!

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what the rest of the team created for you today:

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

Amy Koenders:

Mary Deatherage:

Kristi Gray:

Jaimie Babarczy:

Sue Prather: 

Akiko Sudano: 

Karen Ksenzakovic:

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

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Hi  Stampers, It’s Alternate Monday day.  That means I am sharing a card taken from the blog hop that I participate in each Thursday. I am taking either the sketch or color challenge and making a second card that is close to or similar to the posted card from the hop.  I want to inspire you to get different looks for your card by mixing it up a bit by color and design.  Today I used the same layout, with a twist and changed the colors to give the card an “Alternate” look.

Stampin’ Up! Sweet Strawberry:

The recipe:

Card base: Whisper White 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2

Embossed panel: Whisper White 4-1/4 x 5-1/2

Berry Delightful DSP 4-1/4 x 5-1/2

Sentiment: Basic Black  3/4 x 6 (to be trimmed down later)

3 Extra panels of 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Whisper White card stock (optional)

The details:

• Emboss the  4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Whisper White panel with the Tasteful Textiles EF
• Cut your Berry Delightful panel in two pieces with a diagonal cut about 1/3 from the top (keep the smaller portion for another card)
• After your DSP panel is cut at the diagonal place  this panel on top of an additional piece of  4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Whisper White card stock, glue together and cut the extra part off at the diagonal (again keep this small extra pieces, they wont go to waste)
• Repeat this process 3 times to build up the DSP layer for added dimension to the card  (this part is optional) The card would still be lovely without this extra step
• Stamp the leaf and strawberry outline stamp from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set in Tuxedo Black Ink onto a piece of Whisper White card stock
• Stamp the solid leaf to fill in the image with Granny Apple Green Ink from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set
• Stamp the solid Strawberry to fill in the image with Poppy Parade Ink from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set
• Punch the berry and stem  out with the Strawberry Builder Punch
• Glue the stems to the berries

The sentiment:

• Stamp your sentiment  from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set onto the Basic Black sentiment strip with Versamark Ink
• Sprinkle White Embossing Powder over the image, shake off the extra powder and heat set with your heat gun

Putting the card together:

• Adhere your embossed panel to the front of the card with Stampin Seal
• Attach your stacked diagonal panel to the front of  the card with Stampin Seal
• Adhere your sentiment  to the embossed panel right at the edge of the diagonal cut with Stampin Seal
• Trim off the extra part of the sentiment strip  that hangs over the edges of your card with your paper snip
• Adhere your strawberries to the left side of the card with Dimensionals

Finishing details:

• Sprinkle a few Rhinestones to the front of the card and you are done.

Extra card:

Remember I said to save that extra bit of DSP that was cut off at the diagonal?  Here is another card I made using the leftover cut from the  Berry Delightful DSP. I also used all the extra pieces of Whisper White that were cut off the top of the Whisper White stack from the card above to layer the diagonal panel on this card.

More designs:

Here are a few more designs, all made the same way but using different papers.  I love all the different ways these paper work and coordinate together.  Have fun creating.

Card inspiration:

Here is the card from our Thursday Blog Hop that inspired todays “Alternate” look

Can I help you?

Do you need product to make this card and need a demonstrator? I would be happy to answer any questions or assist you.  You can either click the “shop with me button” which directs you to my online store or click the “contact me” button for further help.  Happy Stamping, Kristi

My Customer loyalty program & my way of saying THANK YOU for choosing me as your Demonstrator.

• Earn a Butterfly for each $50.00 in Stampin’ Up! products that you order through me. (before shipping and tax)  Collect 8 Butterflies and earn  free product valued at $30.00
• Current Butterfly Club members also receive all Stampin’ Up! catalogs for free!
• Butterflies are calculated per order and cannot be combined with other orders made within the same month.

These are the products I used to make my card:

Product List