Colour Combo September Blog Hop

It's time to hop along with the Colour Combo September Blog Hop as we explore the challenge of using Mint Macaron, Coastal Cabana and Call Me Clover to create our projects. I love green but I must admit that I have never thought of using these colors together and I am excited to share with you what I came up with. You will be visiting with Stampin' Up! demonstrators from around the world along this blog hop as we share our creative ideas to help inspire you to give these beautiful colors a try in your own creations.

 For my card design today, I chose to use the Capture the Good stamp set (item #150388) from the 2019-2020 Annual Catalog. This amazing stamp set was designed by fellow demonstrator, Tami White, as a reward for earning $1 Million in Career sales. My husband is a photographer, so this stamp was a must have for me. I paired it with the Perennial Birthday stamp set (item # 151240) for the Happy Birthday sentiment to complete the card design.

 To create this monochromatic card design, I chose Call Me Clover cardstock for the card base and added a layer of Mint Macaron cardstock for the matte layer for the focal design. I stamped the camera image from the Capture the Good stamp set with Coastal Cabana Classic ink onto a layer of Whisper White cardstock. To create the background, I stamped the image using Mint Macaron Classic ink and stamping it off once on a scrap piece of paper before stamping it randomly to create the background. 

Using the small heart stamp image from the Meant To Be stamp set (item #148626), I heat embossed the hearts with Silver embossing powder to embellish the background. I also heat embossed the birthday sentiment from the Perennial Birthday stamp set with Silver embossing powder in the bottom right corner.

 The lens was created using the circle dies from the Layering Circles Dies (item #141705) and I die cut the smallest circle from Whisper White cardstock and I heat embossed the sentiment with Silver embossing powder. I layered it onto a larger circle die cut from Call Me Clover cardstock and attached them both to the Mint Macaron Scalloped circle. I attached the circles to the card front so that they covered the stamped image of the lens. To finish off the card, I added a Clear Faceted Gem that I colored using the Dark Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Marker, for a touch of bling. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today. I hope that my card design helps inspire you to try this fun color combination for your own projects. If you live in the U.S. and do not already have a demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you.

Now it's time to visit Bettina's blog and see what she has created this month. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

Bettina

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Tricia Butts
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GSF June Blog Hop Birthday Celebrations

It's time to hop along with the Global Stamping Friends (GSF) June Blog Hop. This month we are celebrating birthdays and sharing our project ideas to help inspire you. After all, we all have a birthday and it is one of the most popular cards that we give to the people we care about. I hope our projects will encourage you to create your own birthday creations for family and friends. 

 My birthday card design features the new Above the Clouds Bundle (item #151135) from the New 2019-2020 Annual Catalog that launched this week. The bundle is made up of the Above the Clouds photopolymer stamp set (item #149404) and Hot Air Balloon Punch (item #149520). When you order both of these products as the bundle, you save 10%. 

 For this card design, I chose Thick Whisper White cardstock for the card base and added a layer of Blueberry Bushel cardstock for the card front. The balloon images in the Above the Clouds stamp set are two step stamps and it makes it easy to color the line images with the solid image stamps. I stamped the line images of the balloons and baskets with Soft Suede Classic ink and stamped the solid images of the balloons using Pineapple Punch Classic ink and Grapefruit Grove Classic ink. For the solid images of the basket, I used Crumb Cake Classic ink. I used the Hot Air Balloon Punch to punch out the stamped images. 

To create the background on the card front, I stamped the row of small balloon line images onto the Blueberry Bushel cardstock with Versamark ink and heat embossed the images with Copper embossing powder. I then attached the Grapefruit Grove Balloon and basket to the card front with Snail Adhesive. I attached the Pineapple Punch balloon and basket using Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up and slightly overlap the other balloon. 

 To create the sentiment, I chose the Perennial Birthday Cling stamp set (item #151240) and heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment using Copper embossing powder. I then punched out the sentiment using the Pretty Label Punch (item #143715). I then stamped the label using the clouds image and Balmy Blue Classic ink, stamping it off once to provide a soft silhouette look to the top and bottom of the label. 

This clean and simple card design is perfect as a masculine birthday card or even for a teenager. I love the bold primary colors from the 2018-2020 In Color Collection and how they all work together. 

I hope that you have enjoyed my card design and I hope that it inspires you to create your own fun birthday cards and explore the new 2019-2020 Annual Catalog. If you live in the U.S. and do not already have a demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you. 

Now it's time to visit Anastasia's blog and see what she has to share with us this month. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog or use the Blog Hop Roll Call List to find your way. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

Anastasia

Blog Hop Roll Call

1. Amanda Farlinger
2. Rachel Macleod
3. Tricia Butts
4. Anastasia Radloff
5. Lisa Henderson
6. Jan Musselman
7. Libby Dyson
8. Amber Thompson
9. Marieke Bart
10. Amanda Bates
11. Lisa Ann Bernard
12. Kimberley Anne Morris

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Tricia Butts
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We Create Masculine Blog Hop

It's time for the We Create Blog Hop and this month we have a Masculine theme. Creating masculine cards can often be challenging, so I hope the ideas we are sharing this month will help inspire you with your own creations for the men in your life.

I chose the new Sea of Textures Bundle from the New 2018-2019 Annual Catalog that goes live today at Noon Mountain Time. This amazing bundle contains the Sea of Textures stamp set and the coordinating Under the Sea Framelits dies and when you purchase them as a bundle, you save 10%.

For this card, I chose a Crumb Cake card base and added a layer of Early Espresso and Coastal Cabana. I embossed the Coastal Cabana cardstock layer with the Seaside Texture Impressions Embossing Folder. The net was die cut from Crumb Cake cardstock and the small fish from Pumpkin Pie cardstock. The seaweed was die cut from scraps of Pear Pizzazz and Tranquil Tide and the coral was die cut from Calypso Coral. 

The sentiment is from the Perennial Birthday stamp set and I heat embossed it with Copper embossing powder onto Very Vanilla cardstock with the Tailored Tag punch and matted it with Early Espresso cardstock punched with the same punch. I then layered it onto a piece of Copper Foil punched out with the Everyday Label punch. 

On the inside of the card, I matted the Very Vanilla cardstock layer onto a piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock and attached to the inside of the card base. Using stamps from the Sea of Textures stamp set, I decorated the Very Vanilla cardstock layer and heat embossed the sentiment with Copper embossing powder.

I really loved using this new bundle for this card and creating a colorful card design with lots of texture. Too often we think of masculine cards as dull and boring, so it was fun to think outside the box and create with bright colors. I hope that this card will encourage you to explore different color combinations for masculine cards.

Now it's time to visit Anastasia's blog and see what she has created for this month's theme. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog. Please let us know what you think about our projects by leaving us a comment. We appreciate your feedback. 

Anastasia

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Tricia Butts

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