Easter Stamp Class Cards

Happy Saturday, stamping friends! Happy April! How's it going where you live? It's RAIN RAIN RAIN here in SE PA!  Hopefully tomorrow we'll see the sun!  Anyway, I thought I'd share the cards we made at my recent stamp camp; I don't usually do camps until July, but I had a great turnout and we had fun!  So here we go:

Two cute little cards featuring stamps from Pretty Pink Posh's Easter Circles and sentiments from SU's Crazy About You.  

This one features a Lil'Inker diecut bunny and some DSP from last year's Heart & Home with a past Paper Pumpkin sentiment!  Looks so pretty in Fresh Freesia!

Finally, a lovely combination of Soft Sky and Blackberry Bliss!  Cross and florals are from the Hold On To Hope bundle; sentiment is from W+9's Spring Blessings. All SU products are retired.

If you have any questions about any of the stamps or products, just shoot me an email; the address is on the right sidebar! Enjoy your day and be blessed! 

CAS Mix It Up Things with Wings

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I stepped a wee bit out of my comfort zone with the CAS Mix it Up challenge for this month:  Things with Wings!

So here we go, although I am not sure if the watercoloring is the "main element"...oh well!:

I had a piece of 3" x 6" Very Vanilla cardstock already scored for another (unused) project, and a piece of watercolor paper already cut to this size, so I thought I'd used them together. I heat-embossed a Tim Holtz butterfly image in black, then added a watercolored background to each one.  I chose blue, green and purple so I could play with the Seize the Birthday challenge:

I used Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue and Highland Heather inks with an aquapainter and just blended them into each other:

I did a bit of speckles with some Highland Heather ink.  The background looked a little blah, so I coated it with some Wink of Stella.....that really jazzed it up a bit!  Too bad you can't see how awesome it looks here!

I added a sentiment from a really old Crafty Secrets bird set, but I thought it was appropriate since it was about wings!

I added a birthday sentiment on the inside and it's added to my stash!

Thanks for visiting today!

The kids went to Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island recently:

It's a pretty amazing place!  Check out that driftwood!  It's hard to imagine how huge these pieces of wood are!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hold on to Hope (ret), For the Birds, Garden Notes (both Crafty Secrets), Butterfly Melange (Tim Holtz)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Purple Posy (ret)
Ink	Versamark, Stazon Black, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dijmensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Aquapainter, Heat Tool, Wink of Stella

So Very Vellum Hold on to Hope

Happy Friday, everyone!  I got some new SAB goodies to play with!  (You can see all the SAB items  here!)  I just love this embossed colored vellum called So Very Vellum....such a beautiful sheen to it and in such pretty colors, and available with a $50 purchase before tax and shipping!  I was just playing around with it and came up with this:

I diecut a cross from the Cross of Hope dies with Silver Foil, and I really liked the intricate look of it  without any of the cuts popping out, so I cut a plain cross to back it and adhered it together.  I also heat-embossed a sentiment from Hold on to Hope in silver embossing powder and diecut it out as well:

I wanted to add a little bit of interest to show beneath the vellum, so I stamped the floral image from the same set in Pool Party on some Whisper White cardstock and layered it on top of a Pool Party card, then layered the vellum on top:

My final embellishments were a little rhinestone in the center of the cross that I colored with a blend, and a little butterfly!  I can't wait to play with the other colors of this beautiful vellum!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hold on to Hope
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party, Silver Foil, So Very Vellum
Ink	Versamark, Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Cross of Hope Dies, Pool Party Blend

Paper Players 391 Tic Tac Toe Wreath

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope you're having a good weekend!  It's been a busy one in the Pugliese household, lots of people coming and going, activities, weddings, luncheons, dinners...phew, it's exhausting, but fun seeing family and friends!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess today with a Tic Tac Toe challenge!  They're always fun:

I have had this little "wreath" poking around on my desk for several days (and I apologize for the photo quality, just couldn't get a good one for some reason); it was made with a couple of dies I was just experimenting with, so I thought I would use it for Joanne's challenge, going down the middle column of diecut, ribbon and circle.  So here we go:

Again, it's pretty CAS because that's just where my brain has been going lately!  I wanted to use a small flower but not one that I would normally choose, so I went for the blossom in Hold on to Hope, stamping it three times in Sweet Sugarplum ink and trimming off the stem after diecutting it:

I had a little scrap of Primrose Petals stitched ribbon that I adhered under the flowers, then mounted it on an embossed panel, added a butterfly diecut from the same set and a few pearls:

I added a Primrose Petals mat and the sentiment from Colorful Seasons, also stamped in Primrose Petals:

I left the inside blank, and I'll add a sentiment when I decide what occasion it's for!  And since this card is pink, has flowers, and has pearls, I am entering it in the TGIF157 challenge, which is also a Tic-Tac-Toe:

So happy you popped in today!  I hope you'll visit the Paper Players blog to see what the others created, and play Tic Tac Toe with us as well!!

We visited Cassidy's school last week for Curriculum Night, which means each second-grade classroom shares an activity related to the topic about which they are learning.  Currently, they're learning about Native Americans and how the western US was settled.  She played a game on the floor, taking her on the Oregon Trail:

Made a wampum bead bracelet:

Panned for gold:

And piloted a keel ship!

We were very impressed with how detailed the projects were, and these were only a few of them!  Hands-on learning!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hold on to Hope, Colorful Seasons
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Primrose Petals (ret)
Ink	Sweet Sugarplum, Primrose Petals (ret)
Accessories	Primrose Petals Ribbon (ret), Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

Hold on to Hope

A quick post today; the weekend was crazy busy; I had two stamp clubs yesterday and a busy week ahead....so not much stamping time!  Our clubs concentrated on using the Blends, so this was a sample I created using the flower from Amazing You and elements from Hold on to Hope:

I used Pool Party and Bermuda Bay Blends on Shimmery White Cardstock, stamping with Basic Gray and Pool Party inks:

I found this Christmas DSP from a couple of years ago and thought it matched nicely!  It's sad that I need sympathy cards but hopefully this will bring some comfort.  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

No Cassidy pix...sorry...but Eden got some treats, and she wasn't sharing!

FMS320 Hold On To Hope

Hi peeps!  Happy Monday to you....I'm here with a card using the Hold On To Hope Bundle and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

This is one of the nicest bundles SU's come out with, in my opinion!  The cross framelits are so pretty and versatile; I combined Powder Pink and Smoky Slate to create a sympathy card; I apologize because the more subtle colors are a little hard to photograph:

I added a little Powder Pink satin bow on top of the cross, and stamped the florals in each of my colors...I think they look nice with the Fresh Florals DSP:

I stamped the verse on the inside in Basic Gray, and stamped the florals behind it in Smoky Slate:

 

It's always a good idea to have some of these cards on hand.  Thanks for popping in today!  

Some more sports activities....I warned you that Wayne was a Philly sports nut!  For Wayne's birthday, Dana bought the family tickets to the Flyers' hockey game on Saturday; I am thinking food and drink was as high on the list as watching the game was!  That sandwich is almost as big as Cassidy!

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Stamp Ink Paper challenge, too!