Party Without Cake?

Sometimes I'm a little slow to figure out my favorite things! But I LOVE two of our 2015 In Colors: Tip Top Taupe and Watermelon Wonder. They are my most-used colors lately. (Keep in mind, I do not share every thing I make on my blog).

I've had the stamp set Party Wishes since the pre-order for the Occasions Catalog, but didn't really figure out how to use it to my liking until recently. Now I LOVE it, especially the sentiment above.  I used Tip Top Taupe Ink to stamp my cake, then cut it out using Paper Snips. I stamped the sentiment onto the image. I used the Tip Top Taupe marker to color all the words except "cake", which is colored using the Watermelon Wonder marker.

140961 Party Wishes $19

140580 1" Watermelon Wonder Satin Ribbon-10 yds. $8 

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From the Heart Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for January 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are showcasing projects using Stampin’ Up! products featuring a theme from any of the following: Valentine’s Day; Thinking of You; Get Well; or Sympathy. All of these themes come “From the Heart.”  We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

First try with "From the Heart Theme"

This is the first card I created with a little different theme than suggested. I still have "hearts" but they relate to a wedding anniversary. I have friends who have a February 14th wedding anniversary! They deserve a special card! In my descriptions, you will see our newest products in italics.

Helpful Tips: 

• I changed up my Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper by using my Blushing Bride Stampin' Write Marker to color in the hearts and dots on the paper.
• I turned the Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper over to the back side to trim and punch it. It's much easier to get the cut perfect.
• The heart image from Bloomin' Love was stamped onto Cherry Cobbler card stock using VersaMark. I heat embossed it using White Stampin' Emboss Powder and hand snipped the heart.
• The banner stamp that says 'anniversary' is from Number of Years stamp set. That means if you own Bloomin' Love and Number of Years stamp sets, you will have TWO banners you can cut out using the Large Number Framelits!

My favorite of the two. Which one do YOU like?

I couldn't stop with one card. This card varies in color, but also in the elements' placement on the card. My background is simpler, but made special with the Happy Heart Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I actually like this card better, but the photo shows the other one better, I think. What do you think? Won't you leave me a comment?

 

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!

1. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
2. Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
3. Jennifer Michalski at Stampin' Serenity
4. Shawn de Oliveira at ShawnStamps
5. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
6. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
7. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
8. Michelle Gleeson at www.StampinMojo.com
9. Shannon Jaramillo at Shannon Kay Paperie
10. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
11. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
12. Debra Simonis at Deb's Stampin' Grounds
13. Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
14. Angela Curry at Kindred Stampers
15. Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
16. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
17. Karen Hallam at Karen's Stampin' Habit!
18. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
19. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
20. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
21. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly's Creative Corner
22. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
23. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
24. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
25. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
26. Peggy Noe at Prettypapercards

 

Boo! For September Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for September! This month we are showing off favorite new products from the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog. We hope you enjoy our projects!

You may just be staring the blog hop or may have come from Jennifer Michalski at Stampin' Serenity, #2 on the Pals Hop. If you get off track any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog to see all of the projects.

Created by Patti MacLeith for September Pals Blog Hop

 

Here are the two items I created. It is VERY hard to pick favorite products. I want them all and I have acquired a lot of them! I chose to make my very first Square Pillow Box for the challenge and I cannot believe how smooth the dies are to use!!

Matchbook Style Gift Card Holder or Treat Holder

Cheer All Year 139839 $25

I made this matchbook style favor from Very Vanilla card stock that is embossed with black spiders from the Cheer All Year stamp set. (Sorry you can't tell from the photo how shiny my spiders are). This project could be a gift card holder or you could insert a small piece of wrapped candy, such as a Ghirardelli Chocolate Square. The "BOO" sentiment is also from Cheer All Year and I used Crystal Effects to make it shiny. It looks like a button, also, because I layered a bunch of 1" circles to give it depth. Just make sure you cut out the circle BEFORE you use Crystal Effects. It won't fit into your punch afterwards. Those teeny pumpkins come from the Square Pillow Box Framelits. There are all kinds of ways to decorate your Square Pillow Box once you easily cut and assembled it.

Square Pillow Box Treat or Gift Holder

"Happy Haunting" is also a sentiment from Cheer All Year. You can see how versatile and diverse this set it. The bat image is inked in Basic Black and stamped onto Tangelo Twist card stock. I fussy cut it using my Paper Snips. It's anchored over the stripes from Typeset Specialty DSP and I threw in some very thin, hand-cut strips that I kinked up by hand. There are Christmas and Thanksgiving sentiments and images as well (see below).

Square Pillow Box Thinlits 139657 $33.00

The next stop is Hop is Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin', #4 on the Pals Hop. Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you next month on the Pals Hop!

PALS HOP LINE-UP:

1. Peggy Noe at prettypapercards.com
2. Jennifer Michalski at Stampin’ Serenity
3. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
5. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
6. Ronna Butt at www.cardstockcastle.com
7. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
8. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
9. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
10. Shawn de Oliveira at ShawnStamps
11. Lisa Pretto at InkBIg Academy Stamps!
12. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
13. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
14. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
15. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits From Dawn
16. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
17. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
18. Sue Becker at www.rnrstamping.com
19. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
20. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
21. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
22. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
23. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!

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