COLORING DOWN THE LINES WEDNESDAY MEETS MOJO MONDAY!!!

Hello Wednesday! Hello Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hoppers!! We have some fun colors this week. We got the "blues"!!! lol  And I'm posting this with a forecast that has potential tornadoes coming right when this post goes live! Here's hoping the weather people are once again wrong!!! Hope all of you did ok with this wild front moving across the country! It was like summer here today!!! I'll miss it for sure!!!!

Hello if you are here from Carol's lovely blog this week! Helen is on vacation! Be sure to continue onto Lizzy's cool blog!!!!!

Anyway, back to the hop! lol

My card this week:

The inspiration:

The Stampin' Up! colors as seen in MDS:

So this week's card is a non-trad wedding card! I had all ideas for these color, but I needed a wedding card for this week, so that's where I went! Not the norm in cards, but then again this couple is unique too! ;)

Was having troubles coming up with a design, so I went to one of my favorite design challenge sites, Mojo Monday!  Each week they give a different design. Here's this week's: 

I used my good ole' Pleasant Poppies stamp! It was kind of a non-trad flower for this non-trad card!!! The colors are different, but I think they work. I used my Stampin' Write Markers to color them in.

The design in the background looks like DSP, but it's simply 

Flowering Flourishes stamp set. Makes a nice background here!

The sentiment is Something to Say. I like how it has the inside/outside sentiments! 

Embossed the Elegant Eggplant with the Fancy Fan folder, and added some bling (Dazzling Details) because no wedding card would be complete without bling!!!

So hope you enjoyed! Be sure to hop around our little blog hop, and pop over to Mojo Monday & see what others have done with the design!

Congratulations Anna & Paul!!!

Happy Stampin'!!!

INSPIRE, CREATE, SHARE BLOG HOP!

It's the first Wednesday of the month, so it must be time for 

Inspire, Create, Share Blog Hop!!!

 I can't believe a whole month has gone by since the last one! Time sure flies!!

This month our focus is on Black & White-with or without a spot of color!

I went with the spot of color-albeit a little spot!!!

I love how this looks like a little purse! Easy & cute to use!!! I pulled out my Pleasant Poppies stamp!! It's pretty heat embossed in white on the black!!  

I love the new Tiny Triangles Embossing Folder! Cute here!!  The "top" of the purse is cut from one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits.

My "pop" of color is the little flower for the clasp.  It's the little flower in the new Punch Pak! It is a Hello Honey flower! Love this new In-Color! I think it adds just enough!!!

I thought I'd share a picture of some of my friends on this hop!  I, of course, was late to the photo, but here's some of the group!!

This was taken at Inspire, Create, Share-Stampin' Up! Convention 2014! What a great time it was!

So now hop over to Olivia's blog & enjoy! There's a list just below of all the hoppers this week! If you get lost, you can just hop on any one & keep going!!! Enjoy!!!

Happy Stampin'!!!

http://flyingstamper.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://thesimpleandcreativecorner.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://thestampdiva.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop-august.html
http://evascardsandthings.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop-august/
http://stampingtammy.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://stampingwithpearl.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://territerbear.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://stampingrandma.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://www.joniinthespotlightstamping.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html-You are HERE!!!
http://oliviastamps.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://stampinwithdarlaandsisters.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html
http://scrappystampsandink.blogspot.com/2014/08/inspire-create-share-blog-hop.html

CASING THE SKETCH!!

My friends over at Can You Case It? are challenging us with a sketch this week!! Here is the sketch they chose!

And here is the card I made!

I decided to go back to my watercolor roots! I've been having so much fun with my Blendabilities that I just wanted to visit my old friend the Aqua Painter!

I had to remember that watercoloring isn't as "precise" as coloring with the Blendabilities!It's ok to go somewhat outside the lines!!!

This is one of my favorite stamp sets that was new to last year's catalog-Pleasant Poppies!!. It's a single stamp, but nice & large! Gives lots of nice options with the Framelits-this one being the 

Apothocary Accents Framelits!

I had some fun playing with my new In-Colors with this card! And of course a little Honeycomb never hurt anyone! lol

So hop on ovet to Can You Case It? and enjoy all the other great creations that people have come up with!!! Maybe even try your own hand at it!!!

Happy Stampin'!

IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE!!!

So my friends over at the Can You Case It? challenge blog are looking for black & white this week!!! I was beginning my construction for a black/white swap at convention, and found this card! 

This was from last year's convention!!

I'm actually excited to feature this card. I think it's cool! I will admit to a retired embossing folder, but you can use any folder! It wasn't retired last year!! lol

The stamp set is Pleasant Poppies! I just think I'd love to carry this cute little purse somewhere!!!

Hope you like!!! Be sure to pop over to the blog & see what other creations are there! There are some very pretty ones!!!

Happy Stampin!

FRAMELIT FRENZY!

Ok, can I just say I am in LOVE with the framelits! All of them! They really do such a nice job with a super clean cut and sooooo easy to use!!!
So I got this set called Apothecary Accents, but wasn't sure what to do with it! 

Very usable & useful shapes right? Many of the new stamp sets coordinate with this set! I decided to use the biggest one!
I got the very pretty Pleasant Poppies stamp! It's a ginormous size! Very pretty though! So I stamped it & cut it out with the largest framelit in this set!  What do you think?

I used some of the older In-Colors here-specifically Calypso Coral & Pacific Point! I have always loved those 2 colors together! That really cool embossed background, by the way, is the new Chevron embossing folder! Super nice, right??
So anyway, I stamped the image, then lined up the framelit to hit just the tops of the poppies.  I used my blender pens to color them in. Don't know if you can tell, but I used some Dazzling Details to add a little "bling" for fun!!

Now, did you notice the little "holes" around the edge? When I got all the new paper piercing accessories too!!!  The new Stampin' Pierce Mat, Paper-Piercing Tool and Essentrials Paper-Piercing Pack are great tools to add just that special touch! Similar in theory to the old small piercing pack, this one has guides for many of the new (and old) punches & framelits! Perfect & so easy to add that extra lovin' touch!

Boy, I have to find some better lighting for my pictures! Anyway, here are the cool piercing tools! Definitely worth the try!!!!

Next time, my review of the new Stampin' Scrub!!!!

Happy Stampin'!!!